Halloween Hoopla

We are in the Minneapolis area this weekend for some geocaching, to see OFD, and to get a college football fix. I am reporting on the first reason. I am not attending the football game; too cold, too wet, I don't have to.

Once we decided we would be hanging around SD for a couple more months, we added another geocaching event to our calendar; the Halloween Hoopla XI. This year the event reached MEGA status, meaning 500+ geocachers preregistered for the event. Since this is their 11th year for the event, it is well organized and a great caching opportunity.

The forecast for the weekend earlier in the week was for sunshine and 50-60º. I, unfortunately, took that as the forecast. It wasn't. We woke up to rain hitting the hotel window. No rain coats. No rain boots. No umbrellas. A quick stop at a Walgreens gave us 'elcheapo' rain ponchos. (They had to pull the display from the back room. Winter mittens and stocking caps are more the 'norm' for Oct. 31st.)

The rain was less intense about 10:00, so we headed to the park and joined those brave enough to come out in the duck weather.

the Halloween Hoopla banner

some fellow geocachers

the log book 

AND

 the design of the T-shirts & geocoins

Cooler Crew hosts the event

costumes were encouraged

few adults came in costumes

these little folks did

checking out the trackables table

a trackable is a tagged object that moves from 

geocache to geocache, and event to event

I have a trackable traveling in Canada, one in 

Australia, another in Germany, and a couple in the US

usually trackables are small items, allowing them to

fit into small containers, like peanut butter jars

this one is 36" high and 18" wide

it only travels to events

the skies were overcast

a light mist continued to fall

we found one cache, without falling and 

breaking any limbs, and decided to call it a day

my t-shirt &

our geocoins

We'll try again next year...maybe...