Hi,
I have been contacted for having a geocaching demonstration at the Boy Scout Winteree event again this year. Their goal is to encourage Cub Scouts to become Boy Scouts.
No experience necessary 🙂
Event is Saturday Feb 6th, 2010 from 8:30am until 11:30am or noon.
(generally only extremely bad weather cancels it)
Helpers should be there by 8.
Location: Badger Prairie Park, Verona, WI
N 42 59.906 W 089 30.819 is a good reference point to get to the park.
Dress for being outside the entire time, bring your own non-alcoholic beverages. This is also a canned food drive for the scouts, so you may bring a donation if you desire, though it is not required for helpers.
We would hide several caches a couple weeks prior to the event.
I would like to do the hides on Jan 23rd weather permitting.
There is a cache in the park you can do during the hiding or before/after the event.
During the event, groups of the scouts rotate through various events. At our station we would explain geocaching, show them some examples of cache containers and then go out in small groups to find the ones we hid.
In past years it has been very cold, and sometimes snowy, so be prepared for that. The more GPSr units and volunteers we can get the better they can get an idea what geocaching is about. We should have about a dozen GPSr units that are being loaned to the event, but good to bring your own that you are familiar with, and to show the other options available to the scouts.
This isn’t a full fledged teaching event, it is just to show the scouts, leaders, and families what geocaching is. No experience required, just an ability to show someone how to hunt for (and hopefully find ;)) a geocache.
Please contact me if you have questions about or would like to assist with this event. (this is NOT a GC event cache)
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Thank you,
Mike
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