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Hidden : Saturday, February 22, 2020
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22 February 2020, 08:00 - 18:00

MiGO Winter Social 2020 -  February 21 - 23, 2020

Exploring New Places

Main Event on Saturday, Feb. 22

Location: Grace Harbor Church, 811 Gorham LN, Kalamazoo, MI 

In addition to logging your Will Attend, here is a link to
Register for Dinner and a Swag Bag
The Registration page has hotel information on it also. 

Advance registration is required for dinner & a swag bag.   Registration closes Feb 16th at midnight.

Friday Night events

  • “Treasure” the movie - Friday Night, 7:00PM  at the Church, $2 per person, Kids 12 & under free.

  • GC8HC82 Geocachers Escape! at Clock-N-Lock - $30/person YOU MUST PRE-REGISTER on MiGO Website to enter the rooms.

  • Brewery event at Latitude 42, 6101 W Main, Kalamazoo (social gathering for adults, not a Geocaching event) - 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm  

Saturday - THE MAIN EVENT

8-10 a.m.

  • Pancake Breakfast - Suggested donation of $5/person
  • Auction Item Drop-off (drop-off items up to 2:00pm)
  • Grace Harbor Church

1:00 - 3:00

  • Carnival Games for Raffle, Silent Auction open for bids
  • Collecting/tabulating points from Cacher Card Rally game
  • Seminars - 
    • Cachetur.no by Merlin1392
    • Puzzles Q&A by Roman Twins
    • Spicing Up Your Cache Page by OnABoat

1:00 - 4:00

  • Gadget Cache Builders Competition. Judging by event attendees  2:00 - 4:00
  • Raffle drawings, Silent Auction

4:00 - 5:00

  • Business meeting - Silver Coin Awards, Monthly Geo-Challenge prizes

5:00 - 6:00

  • $15 Registration per person required for Dinner, Extagz, MiGO Field Notebook/decrypter, and additional swag items)
  • Register for Dinner and a Swag Bag Here
  • Dinner consists of Baked Potato / Taco / Salad bar with all the fixin's! Lemonade, Ice Tea, & Coffee
  • You may also bring your own meal.

6:00 - 9:00PM

  • Family Games - Bring your board games to play with other attendees.

7:30PM

  • Kalamazoo Concert Band - FREE CONCERT - Chanery Auditorium, 714 S. Westnedge Ave. Kalamazoo, MI

Sunday

8 - 9:00 am  GC8GFPJ - WS2020 - Coffee Send Off  Come for coffee and a donut before you head home or take it with you.

 

Weekend Details

A set of new geocaches will publish on Friday afternoon for people arriving in town this day. 10 Traditionals with a code for a Puzzle Cache Final. (#11).

AND a series of new geocaches (15) to publish on Saturday morning. The cache containers will contain sealed envelopes of cacher stat cards. Cachers playing the game will collect a number of sealed cards to bring back to the main event and get a total points score from the cards. All cards must be turned in by 3:00 pm. 

Auction and Raffle donation items will also be received at the church starting at 8:00 a.m. and go throughout the morning.

The MiGO board is working on getting a raffle license so we can offer some great raffle prizes.

Carnival Games will be open for play to win (raffle tickets) from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm

CARNIVAL GAMES:

Ring Toss - Spinning Wheel - Duck Pond

Bean Bag Toss - Bucket Bonanza - Balloon Pop

Corn Hole - Frog Flip - Plinko - Hole-in-One

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