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Just a heads up for you all. We figure that everyone will need to get this on their calendars pretty early. This will be a great event worth any effort you can put toward making it for a day or two.
July 15th – 17th 2005
Harrison Lake State Park in Fayette,Ohio.When making your travel plans, please take into account reserving a site at Harrison Lake. Below is a map of the park. The area bordered in green is where we plan to base the GeoHQ. Once we have a home base reserved, we’ll have a site # for reference. You can reserve a site 6 months in advance of your arrival. If you are planning to show up on the 15th of July, you can register on January 15th.
On Saturday, July 16th, we will have a picnic pavillion of some sort for a massive Geocacher party. Details are being worked out. If you’d like to offer something as an idea or even as something to lead/provide, please email myself or Trippy with details.
It may be a good idea to invite your DNR officials to the weekend. Ohio DNR is a huge supporter of our sport. It would be great to have an opportunity to get state officials together to compare notes especially in a Pro-Caching atmosphere. We are almost 100% confident that ONDR folks will be there with us for a lot of the weekend.
We haven’t mentioned what areas are invited to this event. The primary target for the event is the Eastern Mid-West, or Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and Missouri. The site was chosen to be within a 6 hour drive for the largest population of cachers in this area. We anticipate participation from areas like Erie and Pittsburgh, PA, Canada, and several eXtreme cachers for whom a 8 to 10 hour drive or a flight is not a big deal.
It looks like fun. One concern from my viewpoint: the park appears to be quite small for such a large gathering. According to the map, it’s about 1/2 square mile in size, if that.
[This message has been edited by kbraband (edited 12-01-2004).]
I was looking at the size issue too… 150 campsites in .5 square mile? I guess if there are caches they should be very small.
Has anyone attended one of these Midwest Regional campouts before? I’d be interested in hearing stories (both good and bad) from your experience. Thanks, Tami
I’d be interested in hearing about it too. Anything camping appeals to me, so I’m game to go if anyone else makes plans to attend too.
Bec
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