Join us for a potluck picnic lunch featuring BBQ burgers and hotdogs provided by GeocacheAlaska! and cooked up by grill-master SSO JOAT on Saturday, July 11th. Please bring a picnic-ready side dish to share with the crowd, as well as your own favorite beverages. Please, no alcoholic beverages as this is a family activity in a public park.
Please RSVP with a "Will Attend" log stating how many adults and how many children will be in your party as soon as you can. Also state what side dish you will be bringing. When planning your side dish, please consider that we will have at least 60 people attending! We encourage everyone to Bring Your Own Beverages!
This year's picnic is back where it all started at the Soldotna Creek Park, which is located on the Kenai River in the middle of Soldotna. We have reserved the Picnic Pavilion adjacent to the Playground for the entire day. There have been a lot of capital improvements to this park over the last couple years with a new band stage (there is a music festival starting at 6PM after our picnic event), two new pavilions, a VFW memorial, and new trails through the open area of the park. Of course that all means more areas to hide Daycaches.
Plan to spend the whole day as we'll have plenty of fun-filled activity in store. JOAT's been brainstorming some new twists to his daycache challenge, which will still involve a team-based race to find as many daycaches as possible while working against the clock. There are some special new games in store for this year. It is going to be the funnest ~2 hours of team geocaching possible. Bring your GPS and appropriate outdoor clothing to engage in a rapid-fire multi-cache hunt!
Be forewarned!!! Everyone gets to log a single "attended" log to this event. We don't allow multiple logs to account for daycache finds up here in Alaska. No stat padding is allowed! Also, there is no attending requirements for this event. You may show up for just the social time, just the lunch, or just the games and still log the event as attended. New cachers and muggles who are interested in finding out what geocaching is all about are also welcome to attend. Coupling up with some experienced cachers for the daycaching games is a great way to learn some new geocaching skills!
Visit with Board members from GeocacheAlaska! to learn first hand what your state-wide geocaching organization is doing to promote our fun hobby throughout the state. The official GeocacheAlaska! merchandise store will be on site throughout the event. You can pick up some cool GeocacheAlaska! trackables, pathtags, and other geocaching items. It is the sale of these fundraiser items that allows the club to pay for events such as this. For 7 years running, there is still no admission fee to this event. But we would love to have you help out by joining GeocacheAlaska! as a Sourdough member and pick up some merchandise from our store.
Tentative Schedule of Events:
(Subject to change at any time, including on the fly during the event)
- 10:00 AM - Setup
- 11:00 AM - Social Hour & GeoBingo Activity
- NOON - BBQ Picnic Lunch
- 1:00 PM - Kids CITO Challenge and Ice Breaker Activities
- 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM - JOAT's Daycaching Challenge!
- 3:30 PM - Awards and Door Prizes
- 4:00 PM - Site Cleanup
Check this page periodically for updates. If you are willing to volunteer to assist SSO JOAT in setup or assisting with managing activities during the event, please send a message through his geocaching.com profile.
For those coming from afar, don't forget to plug away at some of the area puzzles before you come down. After all, this is the Puzzle Capital of Alaska and you'll even have access to the creator of many of those puzzles so you can try and coerce a hint or two.