Thank goodness it's over.
Saturday began in a frenzy of moving 3 truck loads of Halloween items to King of Halloween's place. After unloading the haul we setup registration tables and photo back drop. Around 12:45 our first arrivals rolled in and we started registration. Over the next couple of hours we registered roughly 40 groups of cachers. Our final tally of attendees was about 125 and we kept our 5 states that we had last year without gaining any more. After registration we had them sign the Cache Slash Fest pumpkin, name tags and move on over the the photo area. 
At appoximatey 1:30pm we explained what we were going to do with the Murder Mystery Cache and gave them their coords. for the caches. We were going to start the bon fire at 4pm but the Murder Mystery solutions were due at 6pm. We had cachers stroll in starting around 4:30ish and continued until after 6pm. After the majority of people got their bellys full we started the prize drawings. 
This lasted way too long and by the time it was over, it was dark and we were struggling to read the numbers on the prizes. When we got all the prizes handed out it was time to goto the Night Cache. At the night cache Gary drove them out to Red Hill and the start of the trail head. The started down the path and followed small tack reflectors in the trees down the path. When they got to the cache area they found George Caches body. On their way out we had 3 scare stations set up and a video camera with night shot at my station. After the Night Cache alot of the attendees left to continue caching but some returned with us to the event and enjoyed a compliation slideshow of the last 2 years.
The cachers all left at around 9:30pm and I was exhausted from all the work that it took to get this event together. All in all it went somewhat smoothly. One coord of the 8 caches was off by about 300 ft and we had a few prizes that were handed out wrong that screwed up the count but other than that and running around like a chicken with my head cut off it was worth it. I think next year we are going to scale back a little so that we can enjoy it and not be soon busy. We have gotten nothing but goood reviews so far from our fellow cachers and we hope that everyone had a good time.
As for now....Time to take a nap......ZZZZzzzzzzz.
1 comment:
Wow, you had a lot of stuff goin' on during the event; it gets better and better. Still bummed we couldn't make it.
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