[GeoStL] Re: MOGA 2008 Ideas and Concerns...
- From: "Laura Million" <lmillio@xxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 08:25:03 -0500
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Hey, Joel, anything here on the east side we can think of for MOGA 2008? Too
bad SIUE wouldn't cooperate. We could use the old MRF site and would have
plenty of forest for new caches. Maybe as a professor you have more pull
than a lowly staff person ;-)
Has MOGA visited Rend Lake or Lake Shelbyville? Too far??
Laura Million
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Subject: [GeoStL] Re: MOGA 2008 Ideas and Concerns...
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We could attach a gps to a pumpkin and see if it will track the
altitude.....
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Tim,
I wondered about that. I was thinking I could bring my potato cannon or we
could even have a pumpkin chunkin' contest.
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> A cannon competition? Talk about fat fingers:) Should have been: A canoe
> competition. I guess we could make a cannon competition, we can shoot the
> competitors out of a cannon and who ever lands nearest the cache will win!
> Who wants to go first?
>
>
> Sorry
> Tim
>
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> You bring up some good questions that we need to look at.
>
> We would love to hold MOGA 2008 at a State Park but like Rich said the
> insurance is a killer. If enough people wrote to JC and complained about
> all
> of the revenue that is being lost in the state parks because of there
> insurance requirements then they might start changing there policy's.
>
> I wonder if one of the private campgrounds that Jen mentioned would be
> interested and what they would require. Another private campground would
> be
> Garrison's. We could even set up a cannon caching competition. I think
> that
> might be worth looking into. What about MDC areas do they allow events
> without an insurance policy?
>
>
> Just my 2 cents worth.
> Tim
>
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> [mailto:geocaching-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Rogers
> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 8:37 PM
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> During the awards ceremony at MOGA this year Mike
> alluded to MOGA 2008. He said one of the ideas of its
> location could be in St. Louis proper, being held at a
> few parks simultaneously.
>
> While in theory, it may be a neat place to have it, I
> have some concerns about a few things:
>
> 1. To have MOGA at more than one main location could
> be a logistical nightmare. I haven't been in the
> planning process for any of these events, granted, but
> trying to set up events and activites in more than one
> park could be a pain.
>
> 2. How could we have any park to ourselves for the
> most part? Forest Park, one of the biggest, has the
> zoo, the Jewel Box, the museum and other attractions.
> I'm not saying an event couldn't be held there, for
> example, but the muggle quotient and gawkers would be
> high.
>
> 3. How many caches could you feasibly place in any of
> the parks? I know Forest Park is big and that would
> hold many, but to have enough for events you'd have to
> utilize many parks...not all of which are close by.
> This leads to...
>
> 4. If you were to use different parks for caches in
> the events, people should not have to drive to other
> areas as part of the competition. The last thing
> anyone needs are a bunch of cachers working against
> the clock and facing St. Louis traffic. That could be
> the recipe for accidents, and no one wants that.
>
> 5. Many people, including some of our friends from
> Minnestota, don't like the idea of urban caching for
> MOGA. I'm sure there are a few places with some hills
> in the area, but for the most part, the St. Louis area
> cannot compete with the Mark Twain Lakes, Meramecs and
> Hawns as far as topography. I'm sad to say that some
> people from Minnesota on their message boards and even
> some I spoke to at this past MOGA personally have
> questioned whether they'd even attend an "urban" MOGA.
>
> 6. Costs. I am not sure about camping facilities in
> the St. Louis area, but hotels there are not nearly as
> cheap as what we had at this past MOGA. This could
> turn some away. Some prefer camping to hotels
> anyway...I don't know how this could or would play
> out.
>
> That's about enough of the concerns...so how about
> some ideas?
>
> 1. Why not have the next MOGA in a previously-used
> spot? Meramec is a beautiful place and so is Hawn...is
> there something against using an old area in lieu of a
> new area?
>
> 2. Have you thought of using an area in the Ozarks?
> Lake of the Ozarks? Or, perhaps, in the St. Francois
> area in Sam A. Baker State park?
>
> 3. Perhaps a poll could be set up to vote on
> locations...
>
> Well, I have more ideas, but I am having writer's
> block so I might post more later. I just wanted to
> shoot this out to y'all.
>
> Thanks again for a great MOGA 2007!
>
> -Michael
>
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