Took the family up to the Ga. Geocachers Association September 09' Meeting GC1WCGQ this past Saturday. This meeting was a bit out of our normal caching territory so it was really cool to meet cachers outside of our normal circle. Many others from our area attended as well so it was great to hang with them too. The host had a cool idea for a Event Cache (no smiley credit but still fun). They hung a paper plate on the shelter that simply said, Find the Coords, Find the Ammo Can. That was it. It was up to the attendees to figure out where the coords were and then act on them. It turns out the coords were embroidered in the hats of the host and his associate. The cache was located a nice .22 mi hike away from the shelter around a small cove in the lake. Before we left to make the find I asked one of the guys with the coord hats if there was time to make the find before the door prize drawing. He said there was and we headed out. Apparently he was a bit off. ;) We went with a local friend, had a nice hike and got the find.
As we returned and were walking up the path back to the shelter, I hear them calling out ticket numbers. 183........183...(CRAP! I start digging in my pocket for my ticket to check the number while picking up the pace)......Last call for 183...(frantically digging for the ticket now and walking faster)...going once......going twice.......(found the ticket and it was indeed 183)... HERE!!! We got back just in the nic of time. There were only 3 prizes left to choose from so I chose the small packet from DragonFly Dreams and it had 3 path tags in it. Quite a nice addition to my growing geocaching treasure collection.
We finished up the meeting by chatting with some local cachers and just sharing stories and cache experiences. All in all it was a great afternoon spent with friends and family.