- First, some administrivia - I'm not receiving posts to the list, so I'm having to remember to look at the archives. I've tried unsetting vacation, in case that was the problem, but it doesn't appear to be. If anyone wants to help diagnose this, please contact me. Next, a little related to this, in that yes, I'd love to do food sometime in the area, but again, not getting messages to the list, so if anyone wants to do this, contact me directly. Third, I'm not commuting from St Charles - we bought a house in St John at the start of the year. ANd now, the real reason for this... I've talked to the Student Activities organizer, and got a bit of a better understanding of what I think I would like to do. We will be limiting the total group to 30 people. 20 students and 10 adults. We would try and have each group be 6 people, 2 adults, of which one would be SLAGA and one TJ, and one male and one female. and 4 students. It's entirely possible we won't get 20 students (as that is 25% of the student population!) On the assumption that I can get appropriate staff coverage (and I think I can), we could get by with just 4 SLAGA people (as I'll count myself in that group, being familiar with geocaching), though the gender mix might need to be tweaked. We'd also at minimum need a total of 4 GPSrs (in addition to mine), though additional ones would also be useful, I'm sure. Now, I've not been to a Geocaching 101 event, but I'm guessing this is likely to be the best way to handle it. Many of the students will have laptops, but they are Mac laptops. I too now have a mac laptop, and I have not yet investigated how to get my yellow eTrex to connect to the MacBook I have (anyone have experience with this who can give me advice?) We will also have some Mac desktops available that I can install software on if need be. So, one saturday, we'd teach the students what geocaching is (there are classrooms available at the school - let me know what facilities whoever might need...) Then, afterwards we'd go out to wherever we decide we're going to go. Each group shoudl try and do the same set of caches, but in a different order, I guess. It would be preferred if the caches were within walking distnace of each other, to keep driving to a minimum. Can someone give me an idea how much the "talk" part is likely to take? One thing that does occur to me is that is may be possible to arrange it so that we have the talk in the morning, then do a lunch at the school (which I might be able to arrange as free, but no guarentees yet... Need to talk to people), and then in the afternoon go out to do the actual group hunts. Lastly is when to do it. Looking at the calendar, and knowing we don't want the weather to be too bad... it looks like possible near-ish dates would be sept 23 or October 28. the Sept 23rd date might be a little soon to get things organized. Because of weather preferences that were expressed to me, I'm guessing if we can't do it by October 28, then it may have to wait until the spring. I'd prefer to get it done this side of the new year if possible. I'm going to try to remember to check on the archive site, but can't guarentee it... Comments, suggestions, etc welcome. Timothy **************************************** For List Info or To make _ANY_ changes, including unsubscribing from this list, click -----> //www.freelists.org/list/geocaching Missouri Caches Scheduled to be Archived http://tinyurl.com/87cqw