Umbrella Event ~ 1st Day of Spring Event Cache

*PLEASE READ THE WHOLE EVENT PAGE SO YOU DON'T MISS ANY INFORMATION.* Sunday, March 20th 2016 ~ All Geocachers are Welcome. Come by and join us in a walk through the Sculpture Garden to celebrate the First Day of Spring! This is a Mt.Shasta Cachers Event so remember to wear your Activated Members Button to be entered in the Members Only Raffle.

This is a simple 1 hour get together where we will take a stroll through the Sculpture Park with our Umbrellas. The Event will be held Rain or Shine. So Don't Forget To Bring Your Umbrella! I will have a couple extras with me if you don't have one. At the end of our stroll we will take a group photo. Rain or Shine! Cross your fingers the weather isn't too bad though. 

*THERE IS A CLUE ON THIS PAGE. IT IS FOR A GAME. THE GAME IS OPTIONAL. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO PLAY. IF YOU WANT TO PLAY THE GAME AT THE EVENT YOU WILL NEED TO BRING SOMETHING SPECIAL. IF YOU KNOW WHAT EXTRA THING YOU WILL NEED AT THE EVENT YOU WILL HAVE THE CHANCE TO WIN 1 OF 3 UNACTIVATED TRACKABLES. IF YOU FIND THE CLUE THAT IS IN PLAIN SIGHT ON THIS PAGE. YOU MIGHT NOT WANT TO SHARE IT. (...or do you?) THIS GAME WILL ALSO HAVE AN IMPORTANT LESSON FOR GEOCACHERS. YOU WILL FIND OUT MORE AT THE EVENT.* Good Luck!

 Begining: 12:30 pm meet at Coordinates, get Name Tags and Sign the Log Book.

 Middle: 1:00 pm with a Group Photo in front of a Sculpture to be Determined by the Sun's Position and the Weather. Then the Mt.Shasta Cachers Members Only Drawing.

 End: 1:30 pm we will part ways. Happy Spring! 

What is an Equinoxe?  The Equinoxe is the time or date (twice each year) at which the sun crosses the celestial equator. (The celestial equator is the imaginary line in the sky above the Earth’s equator.) when day and night are of equal length (about September 22 and March 20). 
 

F.Y.I. The Equinoxe is not entirely an equal Day and Night. On the equinoxes the Sun shines directly on the equator and the length of day and night is almost equal, but not quite. 
 

Hipparchus of Rhodes? Hipparchus, a Greek astronomer and mathematician, discovered the precession of the equinoxes, he calculated the length of the year to within 6 1/2 minutes. He also compiled the first known star catalog, and made an early formulation of trigonometry.
 

Fun Fact: For our area in Redding, CA, the actual time that Spring starts is 9:30 PM PDT on Saturday, March 19, 2016 and the Universal Coordinated Time Zone is 4:30 AM UTC on Sunday, March 20, 2016