2nd Annual COG Spring Fling Event Cache
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2nd Annual COG Spring Fling
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Saturday, May 13, 2006
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Welcome everyone to this year's Re-Fling!
WHEN LOGGING YOUR
"WILL ATTEND" LOGS, PLEASE INDICATE HOW MANY ADULTS AND CHILDREN
WILL BE ATTENDING!
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Event Poster Board (Page
Updated 05/04/2006)
- 14 day weather trend indicates that event day will be partly
cloudy and 10 degrees Celcius! yay! Weather Network Website
- Day's Agenda Updated to include "Juicepig's Geo-Golf"
Details Below
- This year's Spring Fling event has been chosen as the starting
point for the "Premier Geocoin Race"! Details
below.
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When: Saturday May 13th , 2006 - 9:00AM until
5:00PM
Where: Scanlon Creek Conservation Area -
Bradford, Ontario
Who: Geocachers, their familes (kids too!),
dogs
What: Picnic style get-together, Geocaching
activities and much more!
Cost: Park
admission is $1 per person.
PLEASE NOTE: This will be collected by the Spring Fling
Registration Co-ordinators at the pavillion and NOT at the
Gate!
Voluntary donations go a long way to helping cover the costs of
having an event of this size. Of course donations are not
mandatory, however, we welcome and are sincerely greatful for any
contributions that anyone is able to make!
Donate Using
PayPal!
Last year we took donations in advance of
the event through PayPal to help cover many of the up-front costs
of the event. This was particularily helpful for the little things
that seemed to pile up through the event planning
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About Scanlon
Creek Conservation Area
In September, 1823 Mark Scanlon and his wife Ann
immigrated to Canada from County Carlow, Ireland and acquired
approximately 1, 000 acres from the Upper Canada Land Company. In
1826 Mark Scanlon and his wife’s uncle John Thorpe built a grist
mill on what became known as Scanlon Creek. Mark Scanlon later
built two sawmills on Scanlon Creek, the first in 1832.
Today, a trail system runs throughout the
conservation area, providing hikers with a chance to explore 282
hectares of woodlands and meadows. In the spring, wildflowers and
migrating birds are plentiful, and the fall colours are
spectacular. During summer months picnicking, or fishing in the
four hectare reservoir make Scanlon a great place to spend a few
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Day's
Agenda
- Registration: 9:00AM
- Juicepig's Geogolf 10:00AM
- Team Woods BBQ: 11:30AM until 2:00PM
- "Closest to the Pin" deadline: 2:30PM
- "Ticket" redemption Deadline: 3:00PM
- Prizes/Closing: 5:00PM
Details subject to change without
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The Day's
Activities
- Juicepig's "Scanlon Passport Office"
and "Watershed Passport Office" Letterbox
series should be a series to behold
- Juicepig is also on the hook for some fantastic Geo-Golfing for
those of you with "Projection-Capable" GPS units.
- Earthquake and Swifteroo have the obligitory "Poker
Run" cache in store with a twist
- Danoshimano is on-board with his "Wren Nest" Cache. Sure to be
a popular sequel to last year's "Animal Hunt".
- TOMTEC will be on hand also with what you can expect will be a
devious ploy.
- the "Closest to the Pin" event for this year
takes on a radically different shape. (Annie it will be hard to
defend your crown this year!!)
- Make sure to touch up on your "Awareness" skills as they will
be called upon throughout the entire day.
- MORE TO COME!!
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Fine COG
Fare
Team Woods has generously offered to man the
BBQ's again this year for us. Last year we were treated to some
fine quality fare from the Grill which was met with praise from
all who took part. We won't be making any changes to the price
of food this year which is as follows:
Hamburger: $2.00
Hot Dog: $1.50
Pop/Water: $1.00
The (not so) fine
print:
All proceeds recieved in regards to the BBQ will
be put back into the cost of hosting the event. In the event of a
surplus, all remaining proceeds will be put back into a fund for
the next event.
Look what people had to say about
last year's fare!
"Even the cooks did a superb job, great
burgers!" -JDandDD
"And the burgers were top-notch" -Permakay
"Great burgers to do the rest while we
stayed still" -Amazon Annie
"Flipping burgers by Team Woods was a huge success."
-Isquba&Nawty
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Possible
Accomodations
Campgrounds:
Hotels/Motels:
- Newmarket Inn
18667
Yonge Street
Newmarket, Ontario
Canada
- Bradford Motel
Bradford, ON
Tel: (905) 775-6661
- Comfort Motel
Bradford, ON
Tel: (905) 775-2034
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Breaking News!
It has just been confirmed that t his
year's Spring Fling event will be the starting point for the
Premier Geocoin Race!
See The Premier Geocoin
Race Website for information on how to enter a geocoin into the
race. res2100 will be distributing the geocoins
that are entered to other geocachers throughout the event to
start their journey. Please help the geocoins along by moving
them to other geocaches in a timely
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Day's Activities
What else would you expect from a caching picnic! We will have
no less than 4 or 5 caching activities for everyone to enjoy.
- Of course we will also have the famous Danoshimano involved
with "Wren Nest" as the exicting sequel to last year's Animal
Hunt.
- Look forward to a "Closest To The Pin" event like you have
never experienced before
- Team Woods is back providing cookout duties as they did for
last year's event. Things seemed to work well so I don't expect
much difference (Except maybe more helpers!)
- Make sure to touch up on your "Lake Simcoe" knowledge. You may
just encounter a trivia challenge in that regard!
- Also be prepared to find all of the existing Geocaches at
Scanlon Creek if you have not already!
- New to the area? Find a list of nearest caches Here
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Contact Us
- WHEN LOGGING YOUR "WILL ATTEND" LOGS, PLEASE
INDICATE HOW MANY ADULTS AND CHILDREN WILL BE
ATTENDING!
- Do you have questions about the area? About the event? Are you
interested in helping out with the event? Contact the Central
Ontario Geocachers Spring Fling
Crew
- Also visit our website for further details and updates in
our area!
- We welcome any ideas you might have and also welcome donations
in the form of prize giveaways or ANYTHING else for that
matter!
- Swifteroo and the Central Ontario
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