Saturday, June 4 ,
2011
Pocahontas State
Park
Algonquian
Ecology Camp Dining Hall
11:00am until
whenever
Parking fee of $5 for
day visitors on Saturday
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4th Annual Cache Container
Contest !
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50/50 Raffle
!
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Silent Auction
!
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Turkey Shoot
!
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Geo-BINGO
!
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Door Prizes
!
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Games and Puzzles
!
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Kids’ Craft
!
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New Caches,
with FREE Waypoint Loading !
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Ammo Can
toss !
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Speed Cache
Packing !
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and lotsa
other fun things !
Once again, the CVGA crew is headed south of the
river to celebrate geocaching within the beautiful confines of
Pocahontas State Park.
We will reserve shelters for Saturday, June 4,
2011 to hold the seventh annual Richmond Rally geocaching event.
It's another chance to put a face to all those names you see in the
logs or on the forums and meet some new folks as well! We've got
the shelter until sunset and plan to kick things off at around
11:00am.
Bring some geo-cash for the
raffle, silent auction, and various fun games you may want to
participate in! Who knows, you might just win a great prize PLUS
bragging rights!
PARKING
INFORMATION
The parking fee is $5 per car for day
visitors on Saturday. Parking is included (for 2 vehicles) with
camping fees. Parking fees are required anytime you park a car at
Pocahontas State Park - whether you go into the main park area or
not. There are a couple of drop boxes in the larger parking areas
or you can pick up a parking pass at the main entrance.
The State of Virginia has various annual and
lifetime passes that frequent visitors may be
interested in. Also, Friends of Pocahontas State Park volunteers
can earn a yearly parking pass with volunteer hours.
CAMPING
INFORMATION
Camping is available, make reservations thru the park's
website on your own - tell them you are geocaching, and they will
try to group you with other cachers. We have reserved the
Appamatack cabins, which sleep 28 total, and are located near the
Dining Hall. Cost for cabins is $10 a person; email icefrog
for more info. The cabins will be first come, first serve, so
try to decide early if you are interested.
WAYPOINT
LOADING
There will be several laptops to load waypoints centered
around the event into your GPS receivers! This will save you a lot
of time since there are going to be several new caches activated
just in time for this event, and this way you won't have to input
all the coordinates yourself. We'll have all the gear needed to
load Garmin and Magellan GPSr's.If you use another brand of GPS
receiver, you can bring your interface cable and a device driver
disc and
we'll do our best to help you. We'll be loading the closest 200
caches (10 mile radius around the Rally), give or take a few, so
make sure there's room for these in your GPS or plan on deleting
your waypoints before we load your unit.
SWIMMING
INFORMATION
Pocahontas State Park's Pool and Aquatic Recreation Center
is open from 10:00am to 7:00pm on both Saturday and Sunday. Cachers
who are camping enjoy one day of free swimming for each night of
overnight camping.
MUSEUM
INFORMATION
Both the Civilian Conservation Corps Museum and the Nature
Center will be open on Saturday during the event. Feel free to drop
by and learn a little bit more about the young men who lived here
while they developed the Swift Creek Recreation Area in the 1930s
and the creatures who live here today!