MnGCA

JT

This years fall event will be held at the Army Corps of Engineers- Gull Lake Recreation Area, MN

http://www.mvp.usace.army.mil/recreation/default.asp?pageid=65

BBQ at Noon on Sat 10-8 with the General meeting at 1300. Other activities TBD.

They are open year round and offer camping but do not allow reservations after September 30th. There are hiking trails with scenic overlooks, nature trails, an Aboriginal Burial Mounds area, shelters, etc.

Driving distances:

214mi Rochester
152mi Apple Valley
128mi Minneapolis
121mi Willmar
113mi Duluth
63mi St. Cloud

Average temps for mid October:

57/34

At this point... Save the date... further information fourthcoming.

-JT
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Marsha and Silent Bob · Past MnGCA President Joined: 02 Sep 2003 Posts: 6261

Pictures from Gull Lake Recreation Area (hosted by Silent Bob) are here: http://gallery.lazylightning.org/gc-20050612
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KC0GRN · Past MnGCA Board Joined: 22 Feb 2004 Posts: 1424

I used to live up near that area, nice choice!

TwentySeven · Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2005 12:46 pm Post subject:

WOO HOO!

I have that weekend off. Dunno about MN Army Nattional Guards tho.... I don't have the schedule for the next fiscal year. If I do have to drill. I will be at Camp Ripley! So, you will see me anyway! Wink

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Marsha and Silent Bob · Past MnGCA President Joined: 02 Sep 2003 Posts: 6261

Please also note that if you are not interested in camping there are quite a few hotels in the area (~7 miles as the crow flies) along with various restaurants for those of you lazy campers that don't want to cook Wink

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Pear Head · Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2005 3:54 pm Post subject:

At this point I plan on attending!

RubberToes · Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2005 4:48 pm Post subject:

I'm very partial to this neck of the woods. It's on my schedule.

King Boreas · Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2005 1:03 am Post subject:

do they got bugs up there?

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Marsha and Silent Bob · Past MnGCA President Joined: 02 Sep 2003 Posts: 6261

The event has been approved and a tentative schedule along with some general information has been posted to the cache page here.

Hope to see everyone there Smile

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Marsha and Silent Bob · Past MnGCA President Joined: 02 Sep 2003 Posts: 6261

Oneied Cooky and I are going to be doing lunch again for those of you interested in a free and hot meal!

Menu:

Chips, drinks (water, pop, and coffee), and BBQ pork sandwiches!

I will be updating the cache page as soon as geocaching.com gets back up and is functional Smile

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Marsha and Silent Bob · Past MnGCA President Joined: 02 Sep 2003 Posts: 6261

If you are coming to the event and haven't yet notified me if you plan on getting free food then please do so (you can either send me a PM through the forum or contact me via geocaching.com).

I have added links for the attractions list and GPX to the cache page. You can also see them here:

http://www.mngca.org/fall-event/attractions.html
http://www.mngca.org/fall-event/fallevent.gpx

You'll want to save the GPX as it's likely that it won't open to a GPX file in your browser.

If you are interested in donating food or door prizes please let me (or the rest of the Board know): http://www.mngca.org/board-contact.php

Hope to see you at Gull Lake!
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Marsha and Silent Bob · Past MnGCA President Joined: 02 Sep 2003 Posts: 6261

Both the meeting minutes and an event writeup have been posted to the main page for your viewing pleasure.

I received some photos from JT that I plan to post as well. Thanks JT!
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