The Maryland Geocaching Society

The MGS Nation's Capital Scottish Rite Meet & Greet
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=ff16ea0b-b3b1-4f97-a370-bef0af49c2c7
Our Washington, DC event is finally listed!!!

Everyone is welcome to join us on November 1 for this special event.
This is a great opportunity for cachers from all over to join us in Washington, D.C. to share and exchange ideas, and talk about caching. The event will take place in the rear of the building.

10:00 - Event sign-in and announcements.

11:00 - Dr. Brent Morris, renowned author and expert will lecture on Codes and Ciphers. This should be of great interest to all our puzzle cachers! Many of you may have seen Dr. Morris on the Discovery & History channels TV specials.

We are also waiting confirmation on several other special guest so stay tuned

10:30, 11:30 & 12:30 - Building Tours
This is a remarkable building and I think everyone will enjoy the architecture and history of this building! We would like to thank the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry for the use of this beautiful building for the event.

1:00 - Door prize drawings!


Parking is limited so please car pool or take Metro. The event is a few blocks from either the Dupont Circle or U Street/Cardozza Metro Stations.

Please RSVP with a Will Attend on the cache page. We hope you all will join us for this special event!

Thanks again to everyone who has assisted us with this project and will all the Masonic hides!

I am so bummed. I really doubt that I will have a PMR hired and trained prior to the 1st! I want to go. This sounds like so much fun and even if I jumped in the truck after work, I'd never get there before it was over. Do you think anyone would notice if I closed the post office?

Terri

There is no way that Jo would let us miss this event we will be there.

We have extended an invitation to several geo swag & coin vendors to set-up a display at the event. I am pleased to report that CH Quality Coins will be a vendor at the event. As other vendors come on board, I will post it here.

At least one person will be flying in from Seattle (aka Groundspeak Headquarters) to attend. This is going to be exciting.

Yep, a meeting was held with Groundspeak earlier this week and they will be sending staff to the event
Very exciting!

I saw Shauna's will attend pop up in my mailbox yesterday and wondered thought the name looked familiar from the Groundspeak logs I get from time to time. Wow, this is really going to be some event; makes me wonder what that 'huge' project is to get attention from the top...

Me Too

Just to give everyone a quick update...

The Core met with the Scottish Rite yesterday to go over the logistics for the event. We think everyone will enjoy this special venue.

Staff from Groundspeak will be in attendance and we hope to have 2 to 4 geo swag vendors. To date, we have CH Quality coins confirmed.

If you plan on attending, please RSVP on the event page. This will help the Scottish Rite with planning & preparing for the event.

The main event will be held in the parking area behind the building. They will have a large tent set-up but we will need to provide 2 or 3 pop-ups. Please let us know if you have a pop-up you are willing to lend for the event. The Scottish Rite is providing all the basic necessities, folding tables, chairs, trash cans, security, etc...

The event will begin at 10:00 with annoucements. Maybe even a surprise or two
The Scottish Rite is also working on a very special trackable geocoin for the event!

Tours will begin at 10:30. You will need to get in-line at the main entrance and they will take groups of 25 to 30 every 15 minutes or as needed. The Scottish Rite have planned to have plenty of tour guides available.

Dr. Morris will give his presentation at 11:00. Depending on the weather, it may be held under the tent or inside the building. We have received requests from cachers all over the east coast asking that his session be taped and played via the internet. The Scottish Rite is making arrangments to have the session recorded.

At 1:00 we will have special door prize drawings.
LPYankeeFan will also coordinate a cache run that will leave from the temple shortly after the door prize give-away. If you are interested in organizing a cache run, let us know.

We will have bottled water and light snacks available at the event.

We could use a few helpers at the sign-in table, refreshment booth and clean-up. If you are interested in lending a hand, please post here.

We hope everyone will be able to join us for this special event!

I can help with the sign-up, refreshments, clean-up or whatever.

Thanks to the MGS officers who are working on this endeavor, it has been a lot of work behind the scenes with the event, the caches, and the projects beyond.

This is stacking up to be a stellar event. I would be glad to help at the sign-in table, refreshment booth or clean-up.

You know you can count us in for whatever help you need.

I'll be available to help. Do you need us there any earlier than 10?

We would really enjoy the opportunity to help out.

Thanks to All who have voiced support for our efforts on November 1st. This is going to be a special day and we appreciated the help so much.

We still need a few helping hands with the event. If you are able to assist, please post here. Thanks!

Event Set-up
Tent, tables, chairs, etc…

8:30 - Calvertcachers, Snurt, Additional help needed.
9:00 - Jpatton, The Bocco’s,


Sign-in/Name Tag Booth
10:00 - 11:00 - Travelers on a Whim - Misty & Patrick
11:00 - 12:00 - Coupleocachers - Beau & Jo
12:00 - 1:00 - Trainbug - Charlie


Refreshment Booth
Set-up - Woody, WWCD
10:00 - 11:00 - WWCD- Fran, The Bocco’s,
11:00 - 12:00
12:00 - 1:00

MGS Coin Sales booth
Woody

Clean-up
1:00 - 2:00

Cache Run
National Mall - LPYankeefan
Wherigo - Jpatton, Anyone else able to lead a group with the Wherigo?

This Is It Cachers & Friends, an opportunity to assist with the The Big Event. We appreciated so much those who have offered to help; we need more though.

The photo-ops here should be awesome; pray for pristine weather. And bring those cameras!

I'll help if you give me a ride Snurt.

I'm an early riser and can be there early also.