Come to Mankato for an opportunity to meet a few of your fellow
geocachers for a day of new geoadventures, camaraderie, exercise,
and some good old fashion fun. The caches will be placed in a few
of our favorite city parks and along the biking/walking trails of
Mankato and Lower North Mankato.
Caches
There have been 15 permanent and 15 temporary caches placed for
this event. The permanent caches will be available on
geocaching.com after 4:00PM on the day of the event.
While the emphasis of this GeoFest is biking and hiking, you will
be able to drive and park near the cache locations. Since these
caches are not P&Gs, a short walk will be required to retrieve
the cache.
Door Prizes
The door prizes will be awarded at the social hour/dinner hour
after the geofest concludes approximately 4:30. Final coordinates
will be part of the registration packet. You must be present to
win.
Registration/Staging Area
Registration starts at 8:00 at the Coffee Hag which are the
coordinates provided for this GeoFest. The caching event will run
from 9:00AM - 3:00PM. The rules, a cache log sheet, hard copies of
the coordinates, and a map showing the general location of the
cache placements will be provided to participants during
registration.
A laptop computer will also be available for downloading GPX and
LOC of the files to your GPSr or USB thumb drive. The files will
also be available at www.vikingradio.org/OTAK2010/
after 9:00AM
Hotels
A block of reduced rate rooms have been set aside at The Hilton
Garden Inn and the Mankato City Center. Mention OTAK 2010 or the
Mankato GeoFest to get the discount.
Please leave a note if you plan on
attending including the number in your party. We also ask that you
log a find after you attend our event.