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5th Annual Southeast Iowa October Cache Fest Event Cache

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Hidden : Saturday, October 20, 2012
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   not chosen (not chosen)

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Sponsored by Friends of Lake Wapello

The posted coordinates will lead you to the restaurant/lodge where you will register and have the caches loaded to your GPS.

There will be 8-10 new permanent caches and approximately 100 temp caches placed. There will be 9 + park and grab night caches. Please bring your cables. Registration will make you eligible for prize drawings later in the day. This building is handicap accessible and will be open all day as an event headquarters.
8:30am Registration & cache loading, 3:30pm Prize drawings at the restaurant.
There are approximately 200 caches in the Ottumwa/Wapello County area.

The restaurant will be open this year. Besides their full menu weekend specials will be:
Saturday Breakfast - Breakfast Burrito and drink $5.00
Saturday Lunch - Pulled Pork Sandwich, potato salad or chips, dessert, and drink $7.50
Sunday Breakfast - Scrambled Eggs, bacon, toast, and drink $6.00

The concession area also has
Firewood $4.00 bundle
Ice $2.00 small - $4.50 large
Boat rental and live bait also available

Here is the 2011 video. (visit link) courtesy of JeePSer

We will also be bringing back the Kids Treasure Trail. There will be trail type night caches placed and park & grabs.

Lake Wapello features 14 cabins and 80 campsites, 42 with electricity.

Campsites and cabins may be reserved by going to Reserve Iowa (visit link)

Other weekend events:
GCQYNJ Monkey Says! 10/19 at 5:00pm (visit link)
GC3NEPV The Start to a GREAT Weekend 10/19 at 6:30pm (visit link)
CITO at 5th Annual Southeast Iowa Cache Fest 10/20 at 4:30pm (visit link)
Dogs on Point 10/20 at 6:00pm (visit link)
The Ending of Another Great Weekend 10/21 at 7:30am (visit link)

Prize list:
6 X baseball caps - courtesy of the Wack'os
wooden bird house - courtesy of the Wack'os
set of 3 lanyard key rings - courtesy of the Wack'os
3 Ready to place caches courtesy of digger9
3 X 2012 Lackey Geocoin's - Courtesy of Geocaching.com
Stuffed Signal The Frog - Courtesy of Geocaching.com
Idiot's guide to Geocaching book - Courtesy of Geocaching.com
OpenCaching Tshirt, Cap, and Lanyard courtesy Sunrise5
3 X Germ Grenade's courtesy of TFF's
Fully stocked ammo can courtesy of welch and CCWelch
2 Hi-Intensity Flashlights courtesy of Durango Dale and P
2 X XL T-Shirts courtesy of GPS City
2 X L T-Shirts courtesy of GPS City
2 X S T-Shirts courtesy of GPS City
1 - 5 pack small log books W Geocaching stickers
Pathtag courtesy of Drives Cache Closet
Texas size Bison Tube courtesy of Drives Cache Closet
Beach Safe Cache container courtesy of Drives Cache Closet
3 X Pen Caches courtesy of Drives Cache Closet
2 X cone shaped preform caches courtesy of Drives Cache Closet
1 Lanyard courtesy of The Cache Station
2 X Path Tag key rings courtesy of The Cache Station
1 Track able Rubber check for 1,ooo,ooo smilies courtesy of The Cache Station
1 Rubber wrist band courtesy of The Cache Station
1 Cache Station key ring courtesy of The Cache Station
1 Cache Station nylon backpack courtesy of The Cache Station
2 X $15.00 gift certs courtesy of Landsharkz
GPS courtesy of Opencaching.com
Iowa Geocoin
MOGA Competition Geocoin
Ace Geocacher Geocoin
2009 WACkOSAGO Geocoin
Ammo can & 5 camo'd L&L containers courtesy of redsoxfan65
Lia Sophia jewelry
Unactivated Geocoin, Unactivated Geo-tag, and 10 assorted Pathtags courtesy of lagrac
Fully stocked ammo can courtesy of Team Zinger
3 bison tubes courtesy of dlr1451
Pumpkin geocoin courtesy of dlr1451
Ohio geocoin courtesy of dlr1451
Fully stocked ammo can courtesy of 67yardbird


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