We will be starting off with a social gathering and a BBQ picnic
with burgers and hot dogs. The main course and associated fixin's
will be provided, but please bring your favorite picnic side dish
to share with the group. To be sure that we do sufficient grocery
shopping, please RSVP with a "Will Attend" log entry on this cache
listing. Include in your log how many people will be in your party
and what type of side dish you'll be bringing (so that we don't end
up with 20 bags of tater chips and no beans or salad). Please bring
your own favorite beverage, but Please, NO Alcohol!
GeocacheAlaska! will have their merchandise store on site so you
can help support the organization's Geocaching advocacy mission
through purchase of unique and custom GeoCoins, custom items from GxProxy, or even
some official GroundSpeak gear!
The picnic pavilion is
adjacent to the brand new playground facility, so please bring your
kids along! 
New cachers are welcome and encouraged to attend. We'll have
many experienced cachers who will be more than happy to show you
the ropes!
Following the picnic and social time, we are going to play my
devious little daycaching game again this year. It was a great
success at the 2009 Picnic (we had to skip it last year). There
will be a couple dozen daycaches hidden within the area of Soldotna
Creek Park. It's all within very easy walking distance of the
picnic, so everyone can play. The just of the game involves forming
small teams of cachers who will be given a list of the all the
daycaches and the game rules. On the "GO" signal, everyone heads
out to find as many daycaches as possible during a timed
cache-n-dash. As you find each cache, there will be a number of
cards inside with various point values. The FTF gets the most
points and each subsequent finder gets fewer points. Everyone must
be back at the pavilion by the predetermined ending time. At the
end, we will tally up the points and the team with the most points
will be declared victorious. Naturally, there are some unique
twists to the playing of the game, but you'll find out those secret
details along with everyone else at the picnic. It's not quite as
straight-forward as it seems. ;-)
Hey, did I mention prizes? Of course there will be prizes! We'll
reward the best caching teams and there are going to be various FTF
prizes in some of the caches as well!
Don't forget that we are having our festivities on the bank of
the World Renowned Kenai River! Bring your fishing pole as the
salmon will be running and there are hundreds of feet of riverfront
boardwalk!
See You
There!!!