+RPW Posted September 28, 2004 Posted September 28, 2004 On Oct. 24th (yes, a Sunday) there will be a geo-picnic near Lafayette Indiana. We had to hold it on a Sunday to avoid the Purdue football games but still have it before they close the park for the winter (i.e., close the bathrooms, drain the water pipes, etc.) Ross Hills Gathering Quote
+Joypa Posted September 28, 2004 Posted September 28, 2004 Yeah. We are trying to get some local cachers together and have some fun. I look forward to meeting some of you. Quote
+RPW Posted October 11, 2004 Author Posted October 11, 2004 Bump on this one. Joypa and I are going out next weekend in order set the event up. Hope that the rest of you can make it. Quote
+Team Shydog Posted October 17, 2004 Posted October 17, 2004 We are looking forward to a day at Ross Hills Park with this great group of cachers. Quote
+Torry Posted October 17, 2004 Posted October 17, 2004 Like so many other caching events ... I'll check withthe boss. No promises. There are a lot of caches up there that I can't get to in my big truck during the week. Quote
+RPW Posted October 18, 2004 Author Posted October 18, 2004 Joypa and I went out last weekend and laid out 4 multi-caches of varying length and terrain difficulty. Plus we have one kids' multi-cache. A permanent cache has been placed as well; its coordinates will be published at the event. We've managed to come up with a lot of cool swag. Joypa contributed half and I contributed the other half. While Joypa was showing me what he brought I kept thinking to myself, "gee, I wish I wasn't an organizer because I'd like to get my hands on some of this." and I believe he was thinking the same when I show him my contributed swag. Of course we don't go to geo-picnics simply for the goodies but rather to meet people and have a good time. Which I hope we will do. At the moment the weather looks like typical Indiana fall weather; i.e., anything goes. The schedule is as follows. Noonish to 1 -- lunch (bring your own). 1 to 3:30 Caching! 3:30 to 4: Random drawing for door prizes. Hope to see you there. Quote
+RPW Posted November 4, 2004 Author Posted November 4, 2004 The gathering went very well and we even got our local paper interested enough to run a small article on geocaching. Journal & Courier article Unfortunately they did not mention the picnic. However I hope that the article will generate more interest in geocaching. Quote
+Car54 Posted November 4, 2004 Posted November 4, 2004 (edited) Rick, How cool! I hadn't read the local section of the paper yet, but as soon as I saw your post I looked up the article. For those of you without access to the print article, there's a nice big picture of RPW included with the article. It's a very nice article - good to see some postive press for a change. Maybe someone should start a thread in the main geocaching topics forum with a link to the article. (I'd do it myself, but I am a techno-goof and rarely succeed when I try to post a link. ) Rochelle of Car54 (Apparently I'm also a spelling goof - edited to correct spelling.) Edited November 4, 2004 by Car54 Quote
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