Southern Minnesota Get Together August 14, 2004 Event Cache

Southeren Minnesota Get Together
Riverbend Nature Center, Faribault
Saturday, August 14,2004 from 9am to 3pm
-Rain or Shine-
Driving directions, click HERE
Lower Parking Lot: N 44° 16.608 W 093° 14.490
Amateur Radio: 146.790- PL100.0Hz. I'm WØNKA
PRINT TRAIL MAP

---

---

Thanks for coming!

This gathering is at the Riverbend Nature Center in Faribault Minnesota. Located along the beautiful Straight River. This is a wonderful area with forests, waterfall, plains and prairie, river and a pond. You will definitely see some wildlife here. We will be by the Trailside Center on the Oak trail. Please read the rules. I promised the director that everyone would be familiar with what is to be expected. Thank You.

Everyone is welcome to attend all or just part of the event - feel free to bring family and friends. Please Post a note saying you are coming. Place this on your watchlist also.

What you need to bring.....

• Your own lunch plus a dish to share, can be dessert, salad, hot dish, whatever you like.
• Your own soft drinks.
• Plates, cups and utensils.
• Come prepared for "changing" weather
• Bring along paper and pencil to log your finds and to keep notes for yourself.
• Lots of Mosquito Spray
• There will be a voluntary donation bucket to benefit this nature center.

---

Schedule for the day...

Prior to 9:00 am: If you are hiding a temporary cache of your own, please do so and get the coordinates to me before 10am. Feel free to hide several. Have fun with them!

10:00 - 12:00: Hunt for the various individual temporary caches throughout the park. And/or go out in town and get the ones there.

12:00 - 1:00: Lunch, socializing, playing.

1:00: Group Photo near the Picnic area. PLEASE plan your caching and lunch activities to be here for this.

1:00 - 3:00: Hunting for individual temporary caches throughout the park or out in town.

after 3:00: all temporary caches must be retrieved. And reported back to me.

---

7/13/04-- I Met with Mr Blackmer today and there are only 2 things:
1. There will be no alcohol allowed in the Nature Center. Sorry. I tried.
2. In this area lives an endangered species that is ONLY native to Minnesota. The Minnesota Dwarf Trout Lily is a forest wildflower found in Rice and Goodhue Counties, Minnesota. Because it is known only from this small area the dwarf trout lily is considered a Minnesota "endemic" - i.e. a species that grows in Minnesota and nowhere else on earth.
They are very serious about this. We are to avoid the TROUT LILLY TRAIL. Along the trail is fine. But not more than 50 ft off the trail.

See you there! Shane (TwentySeven)