I know it's months away but in theory events should be submitted 3 months beforehand which means end of September/early October for this one - and it would be good to get ideas in the pot.

I propose December 30th as the date, or December the 27th/28th - the one date I cannot attend is 29th; sisters birthday. 30th may be too late for some. Please suggest more dates too! Could run into a Twinew instead?

Location I propose is The Farmers Arms (http://farmersarmsguitingpower.com/) in Guiting Power; with more than plenty of potential to develop a a series for the pre-event walk. It has a free-to-book function room which can hold up to 40 people; and skittle alley available within it. Open all year round. Parking in the village hall, if the pub car park fills up too quickly. Suggest more locations please!

I would love to help organise again, so if you all want me to I am happy to sort out many activities for the event including Secret Santa; Guess where the cache is. And of course the awards for the CWSBC and handing out new bikes for next year. I doubt I will be able to set the caches on the walk though; maybe some cache 'n' dashes for those who don't want to do the walk? Obviously we can talk about other things/ who wants to enquire with the chosen venue.

Only just to start getting basic ideas going; would love to have a "proper" CacheWalker to round (or start) the year off, with a group walk and all.

IN the village hall? 

LOL, perhaps he meant at the village hall

Hard to think of Snow being here in Spain right now  but yes, I do think that it could be an issue should it repeat as it did in the run up to Twinew at the end of December 2010. Otherwise The Farmers Arms is the perfect venue... Another ideas for a location with good potential for a group walk and near to an A-Road to get to in bad weather?

Now to decide on 28th or 30th as the date, unless anyone else has other ideas?

I'm with Walk Tall, 30th is best for me.

30th it is then?

foraging 5: There have been two CacheWalker events held in the New Inn, the first being the first ever CacheWalker bash, Twixmas 2007 - I believe, by reading logs, it was a good venue, with good food. The only problem I can find with The New Inn, Willersy is that the area is already filled up with caches and I'm not sure if there's potential for a new series/walk in the area... We could meet somewhere else for the walk, but that's not as convenient and if there is snow then we have the same problem on finding another close area with A-Road access. Or just risk it with Farmers Arms, or another location?

Its not going to snow

Cross toes and fingers 

... If you want, I can contact the pub?

Either way.It will be good to get the ball rolling.