** UPDATE! ** The meeting has been moved to Boron.

Now that the Route 66/NASA weekend events in Barstow are over, we should start looking at planning for more events during the remainder of the year now. High Desert Geocachers have had on average 2 or more events per year the last three years going strong and that number is on the increase!  I would like to see a medium size events for every quarter of the year on an average in the region to keep things lively in addition to what we have agreed upon at the last meeting:   HDGC general meetings will become monthly meetings hosted by different cachers each time who volunteer at previous meetings to host the next one coming, on a rotational basis so everyone who wants to gets a chance to host the meetings.  The next HDGC general meeting is already set.  WindyMatters has volunteered to host it and has chosen a venue in Victorville Boron.  The event page posting for it will be online soon.

Here are some things coming up that need help!

In the next few weeks:

• Mojave Mega Triangles Mystery Event: There needs to be volunteers to help do a publicity stunt soon for the mystery event. It will entail simply placing a triangle of caches across all of southern california every 5 to 10 miles apart near major interstates starting from the I-215/I-15 Interchange as the eastern corner and the other corners being at as least as far south as Orange County and as far west as Los Angeles. Each cache will have some mysterious references to aspects of the actual Triangles event caches or drive-byes (some will help like clues, some will just be distractions) and possibly an artifact useful for the Mystery event. Anyone wanting to help plan and execute this needs to talk to me, 5150Joker or WindyMatters as we are the trio currently planning the Mystery event itself. I will be reposting the Novus Ordo Seclorum event soon up here to work on getting that done on a day that will be chosen at the event.

Update!

: The prepublicity stunt was pulled off successfully thanks to all who got involved. The result was The SoCal Mega-Triangle Series. There is an article for that also here on high desert geocachers to explain the series and how it ties into the Mysteries of the Mojave Mega Triangles event.

Spring and Summer 2010:

• Camping in the HD: We previously had the idea for a camping trip last year but it never got planned. Right now my hands are a bit full right now to also be planning that but this idea was put out before and I think it should be resuscitated when the summer begins as a fun way for HDGC to get to know each other better and if we hold one in the neighboring mountains, to beat the heat!

• CITO: We recently had two CITOs in the past year in Hesperia. Now there has been discussion privately of a Cache-In Trash-Out event coming up in Victorville set for some time this year.. I will leave that for the event planner herself to make the public announcement once it’s a for sure thing.

Fall and start of Winter 2010::

• 5150Joker and I are planning a burial ceremony event (yet unnamed) on this coming Halloween for all the lost trackables.  The idea came from the graveyard cache I “buried” some of my muggled travel bugs in (look it up in my profile/trackables).  I think an event mocking a funeral where everyone brings pictures of their beloved TBs that have passed on could be a lot of fun, I just need some help finding a suitable venue for the ceremony and a place to leave a cache at the end with the photos and maybe a plaque (will actually be a cache hidden in it) so people can come from anywhere to bury their missing and muggled bugs on site (virtual dropping them in).  Also anyone with funerary experience could definitely help me to craft the proceedings to be more authentic…  Well, if you’re gonna do it, do it all the way!  :)  Anyone volunteer to play synthesizer for the music during the service?

Any volunteers to help plan these or scheme up other new events for this summer and fall, please make yourselves and your ideas known. New event hosts are encouraged to step up and sponsor your first event!  Being an event host is not only a responsibility, but it’s also a rewarding experience. As always, for those planning their own events–and I extend this offer to our neighbors in the IE to the south as well–I am willing to help do HTML coding and graphics for any local event pages or cache series to spruce them up. For those wanting to learn how to do it themselves, I am posting a special purpose event just to teach HTML soon–the first of which will be taught here in Victorville somewhere once a more spacious venue than my house can be found that doesn’t require a $1,000,000 liability insurance plan, buffet menu minimums, or other things that co$t too much in order to use the space…

-KG6EAR

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