Yikes, it's almost that time again, Elachee GPS Summer School. Here's a link to last year's discussion, which has a link to the previous year's, which has a link to the previous year's, which... oh you get the drill.

Anyway, the date is June 5th, which is a Thursday. I'll hide some temporary caches the weekend before, and take off a vacation day to work with the middle school kids on the 5th.

I would expect attendance to be small - a half dozen maybe, though there may be more. I'd enjoy and appreciate any help that's available.

Thanks,

~erik~

Me thinks I can swap my Friday day off for that Thursday. I'll let you know after I check.

Got it on my calendar. Let me know if you need any help putting out the caches.

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Got it on my calendar. Let me know if you need any help putting out the caches.

Thanks muchly. I'll probably go out the Sunday afternoon before, if you're interested and not busy. Probably do the same loop as last time to the suspension bridge and back again. That seemed to be a nice walk.

~erik~

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The 13 yr old Gee! twins are registered for that camp now. Thanks for the tip!

We'll be sure to hide them in the same cache.

~erik~

Bump!

Mertat and I hid the caches Sunday. Let me know if you can participate and I'll send you a file with the waypoints to download into your GPS.

Thanks!

~erik~

Got the file and I'm ready to have a great time! Told my boss I have to have the day off to be at my house for a visit from the electrician. SHHH..... Don't tell!

Well, it was another great GPS Summer School by erik. No snakes this year but there was a great group of kids and geomuse, izzy~bel and I helped out. Since there wasn’t an event for this, I thought I’d post a few pictures here:

Class Time:


Getting ready to start:


Last minute instructions:


The Find:

My thanks again to those who helped out. I'm sorry that I couldn't make it an "event cache" as in prior years, but the geocaching.com commercial guidelines have been tightened up recently. As the kids pay to attend it does border on being commercial (even though they pay a not-for-profit organization) so I didn't want to put the cache reviewer in an uncomfortable position of having to decline to publish the listing.

So, sorry for no smiley, but enjoy the limited edition Groundspeak Volunteer geocoin!

~erik~

Izzy~bel and I did receive smileys, just a different kind. Thanks for the coin. It was a nice surprise. We spent the rest of the day recuperating poolside. It was a fun morning and the kids were all great.