Come join us for two fun filled days of geocaching and a geocachers meet and greet.
The second annual New York Capital District geocachers picnic will be held on Sept 18 and 19th
at John Boyd Thacher State Park. We have rented the Paint Mine pavilion for both days. Many of us are camping at Thompson Lake
State campground 3 miles away. Parking
at Thatcher Park is $6.00 per vehicle.
Sorry guys but that money is put to good use maintaining this fabulous
park. If you camp at Thompson Lake
State campground you can park at
Thacher for free with your receipt from Thompson.
Lunch
on Saturday and Sunday will be a potluck lunch so bring a plate to share. All other meals you are on your own. As the event draws closer I’ll post a list
of who is bringing what.
There are already a few caches in the park with plans to have more in time for the
picnic. We will also have gps and
geocaching games of all types for young and old alike. There will be special night caches set up at
Thompson Lake so bring your flashlights.
Saturday evening we will have a bonfire at Thompson Lake Campground,
bring your own lawn chairs.
I will post
events here as plans firm up and a time schedule
here.
If you post a note or email me or Foxgloves with what you are
bringing for the potluck dinner Foxgloves will
post it here To view a map of the campsite listing who is on which
site click here compliments of Jeannine.
Make camping reservations at Thompson Lake State Campground
($13.00 per
night) through
Reserve America .
Both maps below will require Adobe
Acrobat Reader to view. You can also
right click on the link then click 'save target as' to save it to your hard
drive. These maps are both prepared and
offered to you by Timpat.
Arial view of area with trails and caches.
Topo map of area with trails and caches.
View a list of our
friends who generously donated to our event.
For
further information visit the Albany area geocaching forum at
www.geocachingny.org
