There will be food (if you bring it yourself) --- charcoal and
grill will be furnished for Saturday noon. We'll provide a
limited amount of finger food throughout the afternoon; bring some
along to share if you like. The picnic shelter at Gull Point
holds 100 and has electricity. The historic Gull Point Lodge is
nearby along with a campground (RV + tent, over 100 spaces) and
swimming beach.
Events will be planned for Saturday, September 10, with several
GeoContests and ---- PRIZES ----. We will anticipate
people arriving between 9 and 10 at the shelter. During the
morning, we've set up a dozen or so temporary geocaches in the Gull
Point SP (a 2-3 mile level hiking loop) that will be used for a
contest. Link to the HTML
pages or download the
GPX file. Seekers can go individually or team up as they
want. We'll gather back at the shelter around noon for lunch.
Saidcache is bringing along a bunch of travel bugs to pass
out.
In the afternoon, there will be two virtual cache contests
--- one at Arnolds Park amusement park. Link to the HTML
pages or download the
GPX file. There is no admission charge unless you want
to take some rides. This is the last weekend for the season for the
park. The second virtual cache contest for the afternoon involves
looking at a specific type of common target in the Lakes area --
all within less than 10 miles. Seekers can go individually or team
up ---- or just hang around Gull Point for conversation. There
are also many permanent geocaches in the area of all types --
puzzles, small camos, evil blinkies, and .... yes, even a few
regulars in mosquito infested swamps. Those can keep you occupied
the rest of the weekend. For those interested in the puzzle
caches in the area, several require research before arriving
(Elementally, Boji Brain, and Milford Creek); a couple can only be
solved on site (the Perfect Tree and Mattock Granger); and the rest
(Ease and Candy Corn).... well....
For those staying overnight, there are many other campgrounds
nearby in addition to that at Gull Point, both state park and
private. Since the tourist horde thins out considerably after Labor
Day, there will also be many cabin and motel accomodations
available within a few miles --- email me if you want
recommendations.
Post a note here if you plan to come or have any questions. Put
this site on your watchlist to get updates automatically.
All are welcome: IA, MN or wherever; experienced, novice, or
just interested.
At GeoBoji, I'll have my laptop running GSAK which can
download all the waypoints through a serial port to Garmin and
Magellon GPSrs. It can also burn the data onto CD to transfer to
your laptop if you have any other methodology. I'll also have
hardcopy printouts for those wanting to tranfer waypoints
manually.
