2nd Annual Chapman Fall Camp-O-Rama and 1K Party
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Friday, October 7, 2011
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This is a laid back weekend camping event at Chapman State Park in Warren County, PA to give you an opportunity to spend a weekend with other cachers, see beautiful fall foliage, honor your fellow cachers that have attained 1K milestones and find those elusive caches in the area.
We would like to thank Chapman State Park for generously allowing us to use the pavilion!
Camping reservations can be made at www.dcnr.state.pa.us/stateparks. Please note: Even if you are not camping, you are welcome to come and participate in all or part of the weekend!
The tentative event schedule looks like this:
Friday October 7th
3-7 pm Arrival and set-up camp
7:30 PM - 10:00 PM Campfire Meet & Greet - event-central will be located near the cabins and yurts (just listen - you'll hear us!)
Saturday October 8th
9:00 AM- 3:00 PM Caching on your own in the local area.
There are lots of good caches close to Chapman State Park, Warren, and in the Allegheny National Forest. UPDATE: We will be hiding several event caches - coordinates can be picked up Saturday morning at 10am at site 7 (near the cabins and yurts). We will also try to have a night cache (or two) in place by Saturday night. Those coordinates will be given out at the end of the milestone picnic.
3:30-6:30 PM Milestone Celebration Picnic (see below)
Sunday October 9th
10:00 AM to 12:00 PM = CITO to leave Chapman State Park in better condition than when we arrived to highlight our committment to the sport. The CITO activity qualifies as a separate event. We hope you will join us for the fun.
Milestone Celebration Picnic
Here is your chance to honor a fellow geocacher who has attained a milestone of 1000 finds or more. You nominate your friend, prepare a golden ammo can, and you can offer a few well chosen words or a caching story about your Geo-friend at the picnic. Golden Ammo cans will be placed on display at Pavilion #4 and well wishers will have a chance to sign the logs or help stuff the ammo cans with a few suitable trinkets for the honorees. Please bring a dish to pass for this picnic and post a note letting us know what you are bringing and how many are in your party. If you would care to honor someone, just post a log containing their caching name and who will honor them, or if you want to keep it a surprise email GEOCATZ! directly. Then prepare a golden ammo can complete with a logbook and a couple trinkets for them. The rest of us will try to help fill up the ammo can and sign the logbooks with some good wishes for continued good caching.
GEOCATZ! will be honoring rclizmom
MountainBikerGal will be honoring PaDude
Who's bringing what:
Rockton Raiders - burgers, chuckwagon beans, Krispy Kreme brownies, drinks, coffee, styrofoam cups
GEOCATZ! - hot dogs, condiments, potato salad, stuffed hot peppers, cheese slices, pop, paper products
WaterfordPinPoints - salad
Geobeerer - buns
Kcepenn - plasticware and chips
Jeanshawh - salad and a dessert
Gunner4 - dump cake and macaroni salad
Mountain Biker Gal - 5 bean kielbasi casserole and cookies
Bert1080 - Broccoli & cheese soup and Texas caviar
Toowiners - zucchini bread
Happy*campers - geo grape salad and stuffed jalapenos
rclizmom - cheesy potatoes and cookies
UPDATE:
Chapman State Park is having some Fall Fest Activities planned for this same weekend. The park Naturalist is going to place a temporary night cache for us for Friday night. She is also going to put together a little caching game for Saturday using the activity stations. Here is the schedule of Chapman State Park Fall Fest activities:
Friday 6:30 - 8:30pm "Geocaching at Night" (at the Amphitheater)
Saturday 10:00am - 2:00pm "Apple cider and Donut making": (beach building); "Historical display", "Garbage can corn", "Pumpkin decorating contest" (judging will begin @ 1:00pm)
2:00 - 4:00pm "Wild mushrooms" (amphitheater)
Sunday 1:00 - 3:00pm "Chapman Canoe Tour" at the mooring area. Pre-registration is REQUIRED as canoes are limited. Reservations can be made by calling the park office at (814) 723-0250 by Saturday 10/8.
Join us for a fun-filled weekend as we celebrate the fall festival of leaves. All activities are free and open to the public.
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