Intro to Geocaching at Big Cypress Park
Posted by cgeek on 14-September-2007 at 10:44AM
Hosted by Titansfan & Salamander60
An Introduction to Geocaching event will be held at the Big Cypress State Park on September 29, 2007. During the event, geocachers will explain our sport and escort non-geocachers to the geocaches placed within the park. The the event will be made public in two area newspapers. The event will begin at 10 am sharp.
Coordinates are near the entrance of the park. This 330-acre natural area lies in the floodplain of the Middle Fork of the Obion River in West Tennessee. Visitors to the 330-acre Big Cypress Tree State Park in the natural area will find a clean and peaceful park where they can relax and enjoy nature. Having a picnic in the picnic shelter is a popular activity. A variety of plant life ranging from native wild flowers to native trees may be seen here. Examples are showy evening primrose, Black-eyed Susans, yellow poplar, bald cypress, and dogwood. Wildlife seen at Big Cypress includes bluebirds, doves, hawks, owls, deer, squirrels, butterflies, bats, and many others.
The park is named for the national champion bald cypress tree that once lived on the park. The tree was the largest bald cypress in the U.S.A. and the largest tree of any species east of the Mississippi River. The tree's diameter was 13 feet and its circumference was 40 feet. The tree lived to be 1,350 years old before lightning struck and killed the tree in 1976. The lightning knocked the top out of the tree and the tree smoldered for two weeks. The tree is no longer standing at this time and cannot be seen from the two mile long bottomland trail that once led visitors to a place where the tree could be observed. The trail itself is now closed.
An Introduction to Geocaching event will be held at the Big Cypress State Park on September 29, 2007. During the event, geocachers will explain our sport and escort non-geocachers to the geocaches placed within the park. The the event will be made public in two area newspapers. The event will begin at 10 am sharp.
Coordinates are near the entrance of the park. This 330-acre natural area lies in the floodplain of the Middle Fork of the Obion River in West Tennessee. Visitors to the 330-acre Big Cypress Tree State Park in the natural area will find a clean and peaceful park where they can relax and enjoy nature. Having a picnic in the picnic shelter is a popular activity. A variety of plant life ranging from native wild flowers to native trees may be seen here. Examples are showy evening primrose, Black-eyed Susans, yellow poplar, bald cypress, and dogwood. Wildlife seen at Big Cypress includes bluebirds, doves, hawks, owls, deer, squirrels, butterflies, bats, and many others.
The park is named for the national champion bald cypress tree that once lived on the park. The tree was the largest bald cypress in the U.S.A. and the largest tree of any species east of the Mississippi River. The tree's diameter was 13 feet and its circumference was 40 feet. The tree lived to be 1,350 years old before lightning struck and killed the tree in 1976. The lightning knocked the top out of the tree and the tree smoldered for two weeks. The tree is no longer standing at this time and cannot be seen from the two mile long bottomland trail that once led visitors to a place where the tree could be observed. The trail itself is now closed.
Geocaching At Munford Celebrate
Posted by cgeek on 14-August-2007 at 6:57PM
Hosted by 76Stinger
Geocaching in West Tennessee and all over the World is rapidly growing and becoming a favorite activity for families. It is with that in mind that I am planning this event on September 15th to help introduce Geocaching to new cachers and the public alike.Make your plans for Saturday, Sept. 15th and join the Celebration in Munford.
Each year in September, the city of Munford, TN has a celebration where the entire city center is blocked off and vendors are allowed to set up booths for a large variety of wares and services. The link to this "celebration" is still being updated for 2007. I have had several booths in the past for my business but this year I decided to bring my new passion for Geocaching to my community. I have obtained an information booth at which I will hand out pamphlets, flyers, and have a drawings for items donated by sponsors. There will be displays of cache containers and coins and travel bugs for cachers to discover and the public to view. Along with members of GOWT, Geocachers of West Tennessee, or any other cacher who would like to participate, we plan to show some videos and also demonstrate our “obsessions” via a couple of caches we will place for newcomers to find. We will provide “guides” for the public and show them our hobby. These temporary caches have been approved by the City Council and Mayor of Munford, Dwayne Cole, and will be what I think a way to pique public interest.
Munford Celebrate is a large crowd pleaser and draws literally thousands of families to Munford, TN for a day filled with games, displays, food, and music. I have attended since moving to Munford in 1986 and it is without a doubt a day of fun and as the name suggests, Celebration. I have spoken to cachers in 4 surrounding states and hope to have at least 100 or more cachers attend. The booth as I mentioned will be a focal point for the cachers to “login”, enjoy the festivities, and search for approximately 15 caches within a small radius of Munford. Maps and coords will be provided to anyone interested. It will also be a place for members of the “muggle community” to discover Geocaching and get hopefully become hooked on our hobby. I believe by giving the public some basic information about Geocaching, we can attract new members and further our sport.
For the past 21 years, Celebrate Munford has sponsored the Munford Arts & Crafts Fair in September. The fair is a day-long event that is held in the downtown area of Munford and features vending areas for local artists to sell and show off their works. It also features two entertainment stages, one featuring gospel music and the other with a multitude of talent in areas of music and dance. At the end of the day, it is a tradition for the Award Winning Munford High School cougar Band, The Pride, to march into the city center and give a small concert.
Prizes for drawings and give-aways and sponsorship acceptances are coming in daily. I will keep this site updated as new sponsors come on board. See the cache page for a list of companies that have either made or pledged to sponsor the event with gifts and/or gift certificates.
Geocaching in West Tennessee and all over the World is rapidly growing and becoming a favorite activity for families. It is with that in mind that I am planning this event on September 15th to help introduce Geocaching to new cachers and the public alike.Make your plans for Saturday, Sept. 15th and join the Celebration in Munford.
Each year in September, the city of Munford, TN has a celebration where the entire city center is blocked off and vendors are allowed to set up booths for a large variety of wares and services. The link to this "celebration" is still being updated for 2007. I have had several booths in the past for my business but this year I decided to bring my new passion for Geocaching to my community. I have obtained an information booth at which I will hand out pamphlets, flyers, and have a drawings for items donated by sponsors. There will be displays of cache containers and coins and travel bugs for cachers to discover and the public to view. Along with members of GOWT, Geocachers of West Tennessee, or any other cacher who would like to participate, we plan to show some videos and also demonstrate our “obsessions” via a couple of caches we will place for newcomers to find. We will provide “guides” for the public and show them our hobby. These temporary caches have been approved by the City Council and Mayor of Munford, Dwayne Cole, and will be what I think a way to pique public interest.
Munford Celebrate is a large crowd pleaser and draws literally thousands of families to Munford, TN for a day filled with games, displays, food, and music. I have attended since moving to Munford in 1986 and it is without a doubt a day of fun and as the name suggests, Celebration. I have spoken to cachers in 4 surrounding states and hope to have at least 100 or more cachers attend. The booth as I mentioned will be a focal point for the cachers to “login”, enjoy the festivities, and search for approximately 15 caches within a small radius of Munford. Maps and coords will be provided to anyone interested. It will also be a place for members of the “muggle community” to discover Geocaching and get hopefully become hooked on our hobby. I believe by giving the public some basic information about Geocaching, we can attract new members and further our sport.
For the past 21 years, Celebrate Munford has sponsored the Munford Arts & Crafts Fair in September. The fair is a day-long event that is held in the downtown area of Munford and features vending areas for local artists to sell and show off their works. It also features two entertainment stages, one featuring gospel music and the other with a multitude of talent in areas of music and dance. At the end of the day, it is a tradition for the Award Winning Munford High School cougar Band, The Pride, to march into the city center and give a small concert.
Prizes for drawings and give-aways and sponsorship acceptances are coming in daily. I will keep this site updated as new sponsors come on board. See the cache page for a list of companies that have either made or pledged to sponsor the event with gifts and/or gift certificates.
The Perseid Meteor Shower
Posted by cgeek on 26-July-2007 at 8:00PM
Hosted by minismiths and 76Stinger
This is an Event where cachers from several Geocaching Groups can get together and share stories about Caches Found, Did Not Find, Will Not Find, and enjoy a outerspace event. Watch for new cache posting prior to the event.
Let's get together and talk about new cache plans.
This event will kick off at 8:00 pm on the 12th of August and continue through the night until the showers are over or everyone has fallen asleep.
I ask that everyone that attends this event please bring folding chairs, snacks, and beverages. I will work on supplying some of the items. Bug spray might be a good idea as well. See below for what to expect to see at this event.
Got a calendar? Circle this date: Sunday, August 12th. Next to the circle write "all night" and "Meteors!" Attach the above to your refrigerator in plain view so you won't miss the 2007 Perseid meteor shower. "It's going to be a great show," says Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office at the Marshall Space Flight Center. "The Moon is new on August 12th--which means no moonlight, dark skies and plenty of meteors." How many? Cooke estimates one or two Perseids per minute at the shower's peak. The source of the shower is Comet Swift-Tuttle. Although the comet is nowhere near Earth, the comet's tail does intersect Earth's orbit. We glide through it every year in August. Tiny bits of comet dust hit Earth's atmosphere traveling 132,000 mph. At that speed, even a smidgen of dust makes a vivid streak of light--a meteor--when it disintegrates.
Because Swift-Tuttle's meteors fly out of the constellation Perseus, they are called "Perseids." Note: In the narrative that follows, all times are local. For instance, 9:00 pm means 9:00 pm in your time zone, where you live. The show begins between 9:00 and 10:00 pm on Sunday, August 12th, when Perseus rises in the northeast. This is the time to look for Perseid Earthgrazers--meteors that approach from the horizon and skim the atmosphere overhead like a stone skipping the surface of a pond. "Earthgrazers are long, slow and colorful; they are among the most beautiful of meteors," says Cooke. He cautions that an hour of watching may net only a few of these--"at most"--but seeing even one makes the long night worthwhile. As the night unfolds, Perseus climbs higher and the meteor rate will increase many-fold. "By 2 am on Monday morning, August 13th, dozens of Perseids may be flitting across the sky every hour." The crescendo comes before dawn when rates could exceed a meteor a minute. For maximum effect, Cooke advises, "get away from city lights." The brightest Perseids can be seen from cities, he allows, but the greater flurry of faint, delicate meteors is visible only from the countryside.
Scouts, this is a good time to go camping. And there's a bonus: Mars. In the constellation Taurus, just below Perseus, Mars shines like a bright red star. Many of the Perseids you see on August 12th and 13th will flit right past it. Instead of following the meteor, you may find you have a hard time taking your eyes off Mars. There's something bewitching about it, maybe the red color or perhaps the fact that it doesn't twinkle like a true star. You stare at Mars and it stares right back. Earth and Mars are converging for a close encounter in December 2007. NASA is taking advantage by launching a new mission to Mars--the Phoenix Lander. Phoenix will touch down on an arctic plain where it can dig into the ground and investigate layers of soil and ice, searching for, among other things, a habitable zone for primitive microbes. The launch window opens on August 3rd, so by the time the Perseids arrive Phoenix may be hurtling toward the Red Planet. Landing: late Spring 2008. It's something to think about at four in the morning, with Mars rising in the east, meteors flitting across the sky, and a summer breeze rustling the legs of your pajamas. Maybe you should go circle your calendar again.
This is an Event where cachers from several Geocaching Groups can get together and share stories about Caches Found, Did Not Find, Will Not Find, and enjoy a outerspace event. Watch for new cache posting prior to the event.
Let's get together and talk about new cache plans.
This event will kick off at 8:00 pm on the 12th of August and continue through the night until the showers are over or everyone has fallen asleep.
I ask that everyone that attends this event please bring folding chairs, snacks, and beverages. I will work on supplying some of the items. Bug spray might be a good idea as well. See below for what to expect to see at this event.
Got a calendar? Circle this date: Sunday, August 12th. Next to the circle write "all night" and "Meteors!" Attach the above to your refrigerator in plain view so you won't miss the 2007 Perseid meteor shower. "It's going to be a great show," says Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office at the Marshall Space Flight Center. "The Moon is new on August 12th--which means no moonlight, dark skies and plenty of meteors." How many? Cooke estimates one or two Perseids per minute at the shower's peak. The source of the shower is Comet Swift-Tuttle. Although the comet is nowhere near Earth, the comet's tail does intersect Earth's orbit. We glide through it every year in August. Tiny bits of comet dust hit Earth's atmosphere traveling 132,000 mph. At that speed, even a smidgen of dust makes a vivid streak of light--a meteor--when it disintegrates.
Because Swift-Tuttle's meteors fly out of the constellation Perseus, they are called "Perseids." Note: In the narrative that follows, all times are local. For instance, 9:00 pm means 9:00 pm in your time zone, where you live. The show begins between 9:00 and 10:00 pm on Sunday, August 12th, when Perseus rises in the northeast. This is the time to look for Perseid Earthgrazers--meteors that approach from the horizon and skim the atmosphere overhead like a stone skipping the surface of a pond. "Earthgrazers are long, slow and colorful; they are among the most beautiful of meteors," says Cooke. He cautions that an hour of watching may net only a few of these--"at most"--but seeing even one makes the long night worthwhile. As the night unfolds, Perseus climbs higher and the meteor rate will increase many-fold. "By 2 am on Monday morning, August 13th, dozens of Perseids may be flitting across the sky every hour." The crescendo comes before dawn when rates could exceed a meteor a minute. For maximum effect, Cooke advises, "get away from city lights." The brightest Perseids can be seen from cities, he allows, but the greater flurry of faint, delicate meteors is visible only from the countryside.
Scouts, this is a good time to go camping. And there's a bonus: Mars. In the constellation Taurus, just below Perseus, Mars shines like a bright red star. Many of the Perseids you see on August 12th and 13th will flit right past it. Instead of following the meteor, you may find you have a hard time taking your eyes off Mars. There's something bewitching about it, maybe the red color or perhaps the fact that it doesn't twinkle like a true star. You stare at Mars and it stares right back. Earth and Mars are converging for a close encounter in December 2007. NASA is taking advantage by launching a new mission to Mars--the Phoenix Lander. Phoenix will touch down on an arctic plain where it can dig into the ground and investigate layers of soil and ice, searching for, among other things, a habitable zone for primitive microbes. The launch window opens on August 3rd, so by the time the Perseids arrive Phoenix may be hurtling toward the Red Planet. Landing: late Spring 2008. It's something to think about at four in the morning, with Mars rising in the east, meteors flitting across the sky, and a summer breeze rustling the legs of your pajamas. Maybe you should go circle your calendar again.
Pcsenn's 1K Event
Posted by cgeek on 21-June-2007 at 7:58PM
Hosted by Prontopup
GC13MPN.
Another GOWT member reaches his 1K milestone! Join us at Ryan's Steak House in Dyersburg, Tennessee, at 1:30 pm on July 7. The buffet lunch will be available for anyone interested! Come help us celebrate Pcsenn's accomplishment. He will receive his golden ammo can so be sure to bring some swag along with gifts or signature items. Also, if you have any door prizes bring those as they will be appreciated! We will see everyone on Saturday, July 7th!
GC13MPN.
Another GOWT member reaches his 1K milestone! Join us at Ryan's Steak House in Dyersburg, Tennessee, at 1:30 pm on July 7. The buffet lunch will be available for anyone interested! Come help us celebrate Pcsenn's accomplishment. He will receive his golden ammo can so be sure to bring some swag along with gifts or signature items. Also, if you have any door prizes bring those as they will be appreciated! We will see everyone on Saturday, July 7th!
7/7/07 GOWT Breakfast/Meet & Greet
Posted by cgeek on 21-June-2007 at 7:54PM
Hosted by Chibongo
GC12R0K
Come join us for breakfast on 7/7/07 at 7! We can sit and chat over breakfast and then head out to do a little caching. It will be a good opportunity for our newer cachers to put names with faces. Hope to see you there!
GC12R0K
Come join us for breakfast on 7/7/07 at 7! We can sit and chat over breakfast and then head out to do a little caching. It will be a good opportunity for our newer cachers to put names with faces. Hope to see you there!
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