Welcome to Geocaching - Almondell Event Cache
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Welcome to Geocaching - Almondell
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Sunday, September 4, 2011
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An open day to show others the fun of geocaching around Almondell Country Park.
When we first approached the rangers at Beecraigs Park about running a night event in December 2010 they couldn't have been more helpful and didn't laugh us back home with our tails between our legs. And then when snow stopped play for that event they helped out with advice on how we could re-plan the walk a few months later, around the worst of the weather damage.
It's at their request we're holding an introduction to geocaching open day, encourage people to come along and give it a try in Almondell Country Park.
The open afternoon will kick off at 1pm and running through until about 5pm. Hopefully we will have some warm sunshine for a walk through the woods and around the park.
The format for the afternoon will be very relaxed, with an information table about geocaching, set up near the visitor centre.
There will be some temporary, muggle friendly, non-loggable caches hidden around the park for the afternoon. It is anticipated that some experienced cachers can take the interested muggles (or less experienced cachers) around these in small groups and explain to them how geocaching works. In these dummy caches we will have wooden animal parts which the muggles can gather and make into a small animal, similar to the squirrel, badger and owl ones used at other events in the past.
We might even manage to find space in the park to place another couple of real caches which would go live the evening before the event.
We have no idea how many muggles will turn up and want to give caching a go during the afternoon. However support from local cachers, no matter how experienced, would be appreciated; we were all newbies once.
As a "reward" for coming along to help, and at Hobgoblin junior's request, we will be having a small barbecue after the event. We will supply charcoal for the fire. And we will cook some burgers and buns for everyone. Please feel free to bring your own food to cook and any extra to share, if you like.
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