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Red Deers 5th Annual Meet and Greet Event Cache

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Hidden : Sunday, August 21, 2011
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

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MEET & GREET 2011

Location: Kiwanis Picnic Shelter (Located next to Bower Ponds in Great Cheif Park) 4707 Fountain Drive.
Date: August 21th 2011
Time: potluck at 12 pm - Games and prizes until 5 pm

Potluck Meal

Food: Catering by Remi's Catering and Bottled water is provided Red Deer Geocachers & Nika05
Please bring a small food item for the potluck, snack or refreshment item to share.


Area Description

The Kiwanis picnic shelter is close to playgrounds, walking trails and a nine hole pitch and putt golf course, with open fire pits and firewood available & Washrooms. Pets and alcohol are prohibited inside the shleter along with public gatherings between 11:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. Access to Kiwanis Picnic Shelter is north or south on Taylor Drive, turn west on Kerry Wood drive, go south on Fountain Drive and follow the signs.

Pets are welcome in the park with a leash, but are not allowed inside the shelter - (City Bylaw)

Come and go as you like, you are encouraged to bring trading items, stories from your hunts or come and relax or play a few games.

Please log your visit as "will attend" on the cache page if your able to attend,
So we can have a good idea how many people will be present.

We are in need of volunteers to help runs games, registration tables, food setup etc.. please let us know if you able to help out.


Games

Geocoin Poker: Love Geocoins? Love Poker? Join us for a round of texas holdem Poker, your buy in is 1 geocoin - trackable on geocaching.com. 3rd place gets their coin back, 2nd gets 25% of the pot and Winner take 75% of the pot.

Ammo Can Stuffing: See how fast and nimble you are, you need to load a ammo can with swag, logbook, pencils, without damaging or dropping anything. The winner from each round will battle it out for the top spot. Prize the Ammo can full of swag to take home.

More Games to be anouced...


Grand Prizes

To Be Annouced!

All kinds of Geocoins, Pathtags, Swag,

We will be raffling off these prizes, get your tickets at the registration table, All Proceeds go towards Red Deer Geocachers Events and Prizes.

$2.00 each, or 3 for $5.00 Winner MUST be present to claim their prize.



Travel Bug Adventure Race 2011/2012

Pending on feedback from geocachers, and entries the TB race may or may not be taking place this year, If you want to be apart of it, let me know and if there is enough interest I will host and maintain the records for another year :)

How it works: bring an unactivated Travel Bug DogTag or Travel Slug to the event along with your racing item, That is all that you need to do in order to be in the race, all Travel bugs will be activated at the same time and dropped off into the same cache at the same time. from here the race is on Each racer can collect all sorts of points along the way. Next year at the next Red Deer Geo Event the owner of the racer with the most points will win the grand prize. (Race Destination yet to be determined)

Do you want to race? here is what to do:

  1. Buy a Hitchhiker (Travel Bug Dog Tag, or Travel Slug)
  2. Bring it along with a Item to attach the tag with , this will be your racer.
  3. Submit your racer along with your entry fee
  4. Once told to by race offical activate your bug and watch it earn points

Entry Fee is $10.00 per Racer, or $20.00 buys you your entry fee + a Travel Bug Dog Tag , Geocachers are welcome to race more than 1 bug, but are only entitled to win 1 of the prizes (1 Owner can not take home first and second place) all funds collected will be used towards prizes for the winners of the race.

Prizes from the 2010/2011 Race will be awarded at this event, after dinner.

RULES:
  1. Racers are not allowed to move any other racing TB
  2. Racers are not allowed to move their own TB.
  3. Racers are not allowed to post photographs other racing TB (for points)
  4. Photographs must show the TB in the image
  5. Photographs can not show the tracking number
  6. Under NO circumstance can a TB be mailed or courier during the race.
  7. Penalty of 1000 points for any voilations

POINTS: To be Determined

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