5         Funding.

5.1        Revision History

17 Feb 20:    First draft released for PDT review.

5.2        Funding the Field Trip.

To ensure a safe and successful field trip, supplies and equipment will be necessary. This means that there will be costs associated with attending the Goat Island field trip. Financing this field trip will be based on three principles:

  1. Every individual cache hunter will need to cover their own costs to go on the field trip and to get to and from Goat Island.
  2. With between 20 and 50 cache hunters going, there will be plenty of opportunities for people to partner up to share costs and find economies of scale (e.g. carpooling, splitting the cost of a boat or canoe, splitting a hotel room, borrowing equipment from another, etc.). If you find that you may not be able to attend due to funding,
  3. While donations are not required to join us on the field trip, we will graciously accept them. Donations can be in the form of money, extra supplies, loaning equipment for others to use, or volunteering time to help make the event a success.

Examples of donations that will help make the field trip a success:

  • Donating a few dollars to cover gas for a ride in a boat to/from Goat Island.
  • Buying one or two extra jugs of drinking water for the base camp for others to use.
  • Letting others use your camp stove to heat up lunch.
  • Loaning an extra kayak or canoe to someone who doesn’t have one.
  • Volunteering to host a CITO or event cache associated with the field trip.
  • Volunteering for a shift at base camp or a boat landing to protect people’s gear.
  • Offering to car pool people to and from the boat landings to reduce the number of cars that need to be parked.