13 May 2006, noon to ???, in Tombstone, Arizona Territory...
"The Town Too Tough To Die", and "The Last Place On Earth"...This
ain't no ordinary event, this is a GEO-PARTY!
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS: Attendance credit does not require you to
be here for the entire duration or any particular part of the
event. We encourage you to see Tombstone and grab some local caches
while you are here too. Please drop us an email if you know you
will only be here for a part of the event.
12 Noon – 2 PM Lunch
2 - 4 Deuce / Aerobus rides
4 – 6 Happy Hour(s), hors de oeuvres
6 – 7 Dinner
7ish - ??? Live Music, Campfire
Meals will be simple yard grilling picnic fare: burgers,
bratwursts, hotdogs, whole chicken pieces, and side items.
This first year's event will be a simple, meet & greet.
We're hoping to plan it out, with more advanced notice, next year
and schedule it a little earlier in the season. We know that it
takes a year for a lot of us to put together a long distance trip.
This first one is sort of a heads-up and warm up for a real
full-blown shindig with lots of festivities next year.
The idea for this 1st Annual Combat Geocacher’s Event started out
as just a get-together reunion for Pumpkin Man (Visit Profile) and Greeny’s Ghost (Visit Profile), who became caching friends
in AZ a while back, and who both cached Iraq over the past
year-plus. Then we thought, why not invite some of their other
caching friends too. From there it has evolved into an official
event. Cochise County hasn’t had an event in a while and
Tombstone has never had one.
We're not going to have a whole lot of the typical cache event
hoopla at this one, just a kicked back and relaxing meet-and-greet
sort of thing. We'll have the Slither and Crawl Inn compound setup
open-house style. Children are always welcome here but we won't
have any kid specific activities planned this time. We'll have a
fair amount of snacks and beverages on hand, and a big grill fired
up, but if you plan to stay a while you might bring some food and
beverages to contribute to the communal effort. Extra lawn chairs
will be appreciated too. There are a lot of caches, historic sites,
and other attractions around Tombstone as well so coming-and-going
is perfectly acceptable. There will be a managed travel bug
exchange station. If you have a bug in our queue, don't worry, we
love bugs and will record who goes with who. There will be a
static-display of some war trophies, souvenirs, and gear from Iraq
and other combat zones.
-Veteran Combat Cachers, their friends, families and special
guests, are invited to come early (FRI night) and stay late (MON,
AM)… for nightly campfires and or saloon hopping, and daily (early
AM) GPS hunts for Bloody Mary ingredients. Some lodging on-site
remains and there is tent space.
ALL GUESTS:
-The wearing of camouflage is encouraged. Funny clothes will be
laughed at.
-Alcohol is NOT prohibited; there will be free beer, wine, and
cocktails available at our ‘Cache Inn’ bar. We will accept
donations of additional stock. Our friend Cody, the Brewmaster from
Helldorado Brewing Company, and lead singer of Rhombus, Tombstone's
Original Rock... is setting up a keg of Tombstone Amber Ale and
will mingle with us some too.
-Desert safari rides MIGHT be given in our 1953, M211, desert
camouflaged Army Deuce-And-A-Half truck,,, provided a sober and
unoccupied driver is available. Also available for tour rides is a
genuine 1973, Ft Huachuca surplus Checker Aerobus Army Staff Car
used by Generals Millz and Moterz. Even if we don’t move them you
can play on them and take pictures and stuff.
-Guns are allowed (they’re still legal here), but leave ammo in
your vehicle and expect a safety/clearing point.
-We commissioned a new mural on the VIP Cacher’s Cottage,
designed by Team Mule Ears and painted by our friend John Ludwig
(see picture above).
-Get your picture taken with Johnny Ringo in a 19th century
borderland cantina.
-A gift will be invented for performance of the best
stupid-human-trick (extra points for injuries), e.g. best PLF
(Parachute Landing Fall) from the roof.
-We will open up our wireless network to the public and we will
have a guest terminal or two available. We'll hook up our
multi-media projector to one of the PCs and put the desktop up on
the big screen to make caching discussions, map demos, and war
stories easier to share. Please fell free to bring CDs or
thumbsticks of your favorite funny videos, pictures, or
whatever.
-Sample smoking from a genuine hookah (tobacco only).
-We have good trail access right from our grounds for quads,
mountainbiking, etc.
-Those who RSVP on line will get special name plates; anybody
that just shows up will get duct tape and sharpie if they can pass
the gauntlet.
-Dogs: We love dogs and our dogs love people, but they do not love
other people's dogs. As much as Melissa and I would love to meet
your dogs, please don't bring them.
-Sometime after 4 we will have live music: acoustic guitar and
powerful vocals by our friend Ritchie Rhinehardt.
*We are not militia or minutemen; we are politically
ambidextrous. If you are offended by the nature of this event well
then right on! This is for two men who have devoted a career to
preserving life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. (The gender
reference here is to Pumpkin Man and Greeny's Ghost, both are men.
We acknowledge that women also fight and contribute. This is not a
chauvinistic, macho event, ALL geocachers are welcome. Team
Scrawlinn is 50% woman and all the better because of it... we
certainly hope ladies will be attending too)
NEXT YEAR:
If you can’t make it this year but might be interested in attending
a bigger weekend-long event next year… let us know and we’ll start
a mailing list. Next year we plan to have:
-a parade down Allen (main) street that all attending cachers can
join in (you will have to, to get attendance credit)
-A social and dance with the theme ‘We Met On The Net’
-Retrieve caches guarded by paint-ball-gun wielding
sentinels.
-(…more to come)