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GCAK! is working hard to promote Geocaching in Alaska! Please join us today!
Join us for a potluck picnic lunch featuring BBQ burgers and hotdogs provided by GeocacheAlaska! Inc. and cooked up by grill-master SSO JOAT on Saturday, August 9th, at Kenai Municipal Park from 10:30AM until about 3PM. We will be at the North end of the park at Pavilion #2 next to the Playgrounds. Please bring a picnic-ready side dish to share with the crowd, as well as your own favorite beverages. No alcoholic beverages as this is a family activity in a public park and our site rental does not allow for any alcohol to be served or consumed.
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 typically have about 30 people attending! Everyone needs to Bring Your Own Beverages!
Plan to spend the whole day as we'll have plenty of fun-filled activity in store. There will be a running of JOAT's daycache challenge, which involves a team-based race to find as many daycaches as possible while working against the clock. You are welcome to form up teams in advance, but we will assist with forming up the teams for those who come alone or with just a couple people. Bring appropriate outdoor clothing to engage in a rapid-fire multi-cache hunt through the woods! And we're going to use pre-loaded Garmin GPS units again this year, so you won't even need to bring your GPS unit.
There are 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. Eaters and spectators are welcome. 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 game is a great way to learn some new geocaching skills!
Tentative Schedule of Events:
(Subject to change at any time, including on the fly during the event)
- 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM - Setup, Social Hour, & Food Prep
- 11:30 PM to 12:30 PM - BBQ Picnic Lunch
- 12:30 PM to 1:00 PM - Group Photo & Daycache Challenge Prep
- 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM - JOAT's Daycaching Challenge!
- 2:30 PM to 2:45 PM - Awards and Door Prizes
- 2:45 PM to 3:00 PM - Site Cleanup
Make sure you plan to hit the Cache Odyssey GeoTour cache at the Kenai Visitor Center on your way in or out from the Picnic site.
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 original Puzzle Capital of Alaska and you'll even have access to the creator of many of those puzzles, who will be freely sharing detailed solve hints this year. Note that SSO JOAT is planning a puzzle cache refresh for the Kenai to be rolled out in 2026. The majority of his puzzles have not been logged in many years, so he's planning to put most of them to rest and place a bunch of new hides. If you haven't found them yet, this will be the last year!