Each year, Trafford Borough Council go to great lengths to
organise a fabulous range of events that, together over a three
week period, make up the ever popular Sale Festival. Now in 2011 we
have the first ever Geocaching Events at the Festival!!
NEW CACHES
Trafford Borough Council have commissioned the placing of 10
NEW CACHES 
to celebrate the Festival in the Sale, Sale Moor
and Ashton upon Mersey areas. These new caches will be released on
Saturday 25th June and are available for experienced cachers and
newcomers to enjoy. They will be normal geocaches that remain in
place after the Festival is over.
INTRODUCTORY EVENING - JUNE
8th
Keen to encourage newcomers to learn more about Geocaching and
get involved in this activity and with the backing of TBC, we're
holding an introductory meeting on Wednesday 8th June at Sale Scout
Hall, 102-104 Marsland Road, Sale, M33 2NN at 7.30-8.30pm. This
meeting is for anyone interested in learning what geocaching is
about and the equipment needed. It will be publicised in the local
press as well as on the Festival website. We'll run this meeting
with temporary hides placed just for the evening that won't be
published as geocaches.
If you'd like to join us to help out, you are more than
welcome! Please come along to the scout hut at 7.30pm.
MAIN EVENT - JUNE
25th
Cache Hunt - Sale Town
Hall, 11am onwards
We'll be running an organised cache hunt for people to try out
geocaching for real by searching for some of those newly published
Festival geocaches. We'll be there to help them get started and to
give support and advice. If you would like to share your enthusiasm
and knowledge with others who are just getting started, please do
come along. It's also a great way to enjoy finding some of the new
caches on the day that they come out in the company of others.
If you'd like to help newcomers find their first ever
caches - they may have no equipment, or just need a little
encouragement - please meet at Sale Town Hall at 11am.
Social Event - Sale
Waterside Pub, 2pm onwards
Following the cache hunt, we'll get together for a regular
geocaching Social Event at the Sale Waterside Pub from 2pm onwards.
As a special treat, we have the pleasure of Deceangi, who
will be holding a Reviewer's Surgery for an hour. So if you have
any burning issues to raise with your local Reviewer, save them
until then! But hey, go easy... he’s a really nice guy!!
Please state in your 'will attend' log if you also intend
to help at the intro evening or the cache hunt walk. Many
thanks.
ABOUT SALE
For further historical information about the area, please see
Sale on
Wikipedia. There are already numerous caches within this area.
Please see the
Bookmark List for details of caches within the Trafford area.
There are many more caches to be found in nearby surrounding areas.
You could spend a very long day caching around here!!
A few ‘Housekeeping’ points ... Parking is available
at Sainsburys but is chargeable on Saturdays up to a maximum of 3
hours. There is also a multi-storey car park close to the event
location. Sale Town Hall and Sale Waterside are opposite Sale
Metrolink Station if you have access to this service. The new
caches are spread throughout the area and will involve a longish
walk around the area or short drives between them. That’s up
to you!
Really looking forward to seeing friends again
and meeting newcomers
jamange