This event will be held simultaneously (in a separate
room) with a public geocaching seminar sponsored by the Plainfield
public library. Bring your GPSr (and a spare one if you have it),
meet old geocaching buddies and some brand spanking new inductees,
have some lunch (I’m buying), share photos and war stories and
check out some of the local caches. Any geocachers who would like
to help with the seminar are invited to contact me.
The seminar, designed for new cachers, will be open to
the public but with limited and advance registration. It will
include one hour of instruction in the computer lab (registering on
the website, researching caches, etc.) followed by lunch at the
event (optional) and some practical field demonstration searching
for existing caches.
The event will be held in a library facility equipped
with numerous computers and audio visual equipment for sharing your
caching experiences, and will include a picnic style lunch (did I
mention, I'm buying). For event participants, it is not necessary
to attend the seminar, but seminar participants are invited to
attend the event.
More details coming
soon.
**Update,
6-06-06**
Please be aware
that the computer lab portion
of the formal seminar
is separate from the event itself and
requires separate registration
for a limited number of participants.
To register for the seminar you must provide your information
directly to the Plainfield library. There is a limit of one person
per family for this part of the program. This is because the first
hour of the seminar will be conducted in a computer lab with
limited space. This portion of the program will be devoted to the
computer aspects of geocaching from registering a username on
geocaching.com to searching for nearest geocaches and using site
tools such as maps. It is designed for
people who do not already have a geocaching account.
Click here to register for the free computer
seminar.
This first part of the seminar will not include a discussion of
GPS usage and searching techniques, but the second hour, in the
field, will be, and any guests of the registered participants are
welcome to attend.
In other words, only one person per family can attend the
computer lab, but everyone is invited to the field test where there
will be several temporary caches for practice. Although you will
not be able to count these temporary caches as a find on GC.com,
there will be some goodies in them for those who find them.
The Event
I am pleased to announce that TheAlabamaRambler,
captain of the caching team claiming (with considerable debate) the
recent 24-hour world record of 312 finds, will be assisting me with
the seminar and attending the event.
The event rooms will be open at 10:00 AM with lunch at 11:00 AM.
There will be a drawing at high noon for some prizes to be
announced (one of them will be a 50 cal ammo can stocked with a
logbook and swag). I will also be giving away a gently used copy of
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Geocaching and a copy of
Geocaching: Hike And Seek With Your GPS. If anyone would
like to donate prizes for the drawing, please contact me.
I am working on having a laptop in the event room to project
images, so get your slideshows updated and share them. It would be
nice to have a GPS guru on hand with several styles of GPSrs for
basic instruction and questions. If anyone fits this description
and wants to help, please contact me.
Flutterbutter and myself will provide free lunch with
hotdogs, potato salad, baked beans and cole slaw. We will have
water and iced tea available. You are welcome to bring any pitch in
dishes or non alcoholic beverages you want, but please post as a
note on this cache page what you may bring.
The actual event will be closed at 2:00 PM, but there are dozens
of pleasant caches in and around Plainfield and the surrounding
area. We invite you to explore our neck of the woods.
I have promised to show TAR some cool Indiana caches on the
following Sunday, July 16, so there is some potential for a
group caching experience, probably around Morgan-Monroe and
Yellowwood state forests. Anyone who might like to participate in
this extra-curricular activity should contact me.