[GeoStL] Re: Park Palooza at the arch
- From: Yvonne Von Der Ahe <yvda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 22:21:01 -0700 (PDT)
Wish I could have been there to help today, but the Danforth Plant Science
Center had their 10th Birthday Party and one of the activities was a table
for Beekeeping in St. Louis which I had volunteed to help with. We had a
demonstration hive and various honeys from the St. Louis area for tasting. It
was very well attended with tons of questions about bees and beekeeping. the
good weather had lots of people out.
--- On Sun, 9/28/08, Jim Greene <jimsgreene@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Jim Greene <jimsgreene@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [GeoStL] Re: Park Palooza at the arch
To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sunday, September 28, 2008, 11:15 PM
Thanks Rich & Paul for the pictures. I had a great time there today, it was a
lot of fun, and I think we should get some new cachers out of it all. I took
several family groups out who were really excited about it, maybe they'll be
back. The kids were a lot of fun, one kid grabbed a GPS and ran down the hill
way past the first cache and was going for the lake.
I have the SLAGA gps' and downloaded the course tracks for 3 of them. They
each had about 4.5 miles on them.
Like I said, it was a lot of fun, but MikeinMo, javapgmr, the Quailman2,
LFranks & Denmother, TheMadChef & I (plus a little help from RGS today), were
pretty well non-stop, a few more helpers each day would've been nice, and all
10 gps' were in constant use. I really think this is something we should do
next year if at all possible. It was a lot busier than the Busch Wildlife Expo.
Jim
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 10:59 PM, GC-RGS <gc-rgs@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I don't know where the picnic pictures are, but here's some from the Park
Palooza at the arch this weekend.
http://tinyurl.com/45ds2l
Thanks to everyone who spent a day to help out at the arch. We had 2 full days
of talking and demo'ing geocaching. Our tent was one of the busiest on the arch
grounds with almost 800 visitors and a top of 90 in an hour period on Sunday.
The NPS provided us with carrying bags, shirts, trinkets, lunch, and cold water
through the 2 days, and just about anything else we needed.
The park ranger, Sue Ford, was assigned to our venue primarily to answer park
questions or give directions to the visitors. It turned out that she is a
cacher and goes by the name of Topodog, so she was a great help filling in
helping Charlotte and talking with the crowd since only 4 of us were there on
Saturday and out with a group most of the day.
This was a pilot program and the first time it was done within the National
Park Service. They hope to have this event at the Arch again next year if they
get funding. After that they hope start this event at other National parks
throughout the country. We have already been invited back for next year.
Rich
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Jim Greene
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