Date/Time
Date(s) - 09/25/2021
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
GC Code: GC8ZCVN
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Here in Oregon Wisconsin we’ll have you go on a virtual Oregon Trail, and since poker was such a popular game in the old west you’ll be trying to make your best poker hand. There will be seven landmarks along the way:
- Independence, MO (Starting point),
- Alcove Springs, KS
- Fort Kearny, NE
- Chimney Rock, NE
- Independence Rock, WY
- Three Island Crossing, ID
- Oregon City, OR (endpoint )
At each landmark will be a container with envelopes, and each envelope will have a playing card. Take one envelope from each landmark – DO NOT OPEN THE ENVELOPE. After collecting an envelope from all seven landmarks return back to home base. In order to to put the kibosh on wild west poker tricks like card trading, all envelopes must be opened after returning to home base and having the envelopes verified. From your seven cards make the best five card poker hand you can. All poker hands must be in by 2:45, at which time the cacher with the best poker hand will win an unactivated geocoin. Prizes for second and third best poker hands will also be awarded. Cachers must be present to win.
As a side game – as pioneers were traversing the Oregon Trail they had to hunt game for food. There will be a set of coordinates and a white flag given to all participants. Write your caching name on the flag, and then plant your flag at your GPS ground zero. The flag closest to our spot is the mighty hunter who bagged the shot and got to eat along the trail – or in this case wins a prize. All flags must be placed by 2:45. If there are several flags all ‘closest’ we may have to draw a winner from them.
Meet, greet, have fun, but above all stay safe!