Digitizer

We conducted an Easter Egg "Scramble" in the Pocatello, Idaho area for several years. What made it the most fun is that each egg held a clue (as well as a trinket for the kids) to the ultimate prize: the Easter Basket (first finder gets to keep it and eat the contents). It was lots of fun to watch the cachers running around town to find the eggs. The difficulty of the concealment and the clues could be customized to the geocacher level. Unfortunately, we moved last year so I can't do it this year but am looking forward to doing it again locally next year. The luncheon meeting afterward allowed us to meet other cachers and share stories. Here's a notice of this event cache that we used last year: The Third Annual Pocatello Easter Egg Cache Scramble will take place on Saturday March 26th, 2005. This year there will be 2 levels of Easter-egg hunt -- the regular level and a masters level (considerably more challenging for advanced geocachers). For each level, six Easter-egg caches and one Easter basket cache will be hidden for one day only in the Pocatello area. The object of the scramble is to find all of the six hidden Easter egg caches and the Easter Basket cache. Each of the six colorful plastic eggs is about 3”x 2” inches in size and may initially contain three small trinket prizes. When you find an egg you may take one of the prizes inside (leaving an exchange prize is not necessary). Once the prizes are gone --- they are gone. Each egg cache may also contain a coordinate clue for the Easter Basket cache. The first finder of the Easter Basket cache may take it. A login cache will remain at the site to mark where the cache was. All finders (each team member) should login to the Easter Basket site cache whether the basket is still there or not (see below). Please login. Please leave each egg cache as you found it. The Lat/Long coordinates for each of the eggs and for each of the two difficulty levels will be posted below (on this web page) at precisely 0915 hrs MST on the day of the Scramble and you may hunt the caches in any order. This should give everyone an even start opportunity and optimize your chances to find a prize before they are gone. For persons visiting from out-of-town: the Marshall Public Library (N 42° 51.628 W 112° 27.159) has computers with internet access and they open at 0900 on Saturdays. The egg coordinates will also be available on paper at 0915 at 42o 52.413 and 112o 22.334. This is a one-day only event. The egg caches will be removed on Monday. If you participated in the Scramble at one level and wish to find the caches at the other level, you have the opportunity to do so until the caches are removed on Monday. If you would like to discuss your geocaching adventures and meet other geocachers, we'll be meeting at 3-4:00 pm at Elmer's Restaurant in Pocatello (42o 51.631 112o 26.198) that day for coffee and talk. There will be a limited number of baked-clay commemorative tokens available to mark the event. They will be given to the teams who have successfully found all of the eggs (at any level) in this year's multicache event. We will also draw, from the names on the basket cache login lists, a winner of an official Geocaching Coin that has been generously donated by Renegade Knight. You must be present to win. In the interest of fair play (to give all cachers an equal chance), I am asking that each team stay together for the duration of the hunt (except as may be stated otherwise by instructions found in an egg cache). Please do not split up to search for several caches simultaneously. That just wouldn't be fair. Thank you. Here they are - the egg coordinates! For the Regular scramble: 42o 51.575 112o 25.304 42o 48.337 112o 22.323 42o 52.013 112o 24.689 42o 54.568 112o 26.323 42o 51.169 112o 24.750 42o 52.048 112o 25.228 For the Masters' scramble: (0 and 1 are zero and one) hao k1.m00 11bo as.1hp hao kc.0mi 11bo a1.wh1 hao gk.1de 11bo ae.pag hao gk.c1k 11bo ae.mwx hao kg.cjp No kids - No dogs. 11bo d0.hek hao ka.cgz 11bo bg.k1w Good Luck and Have Fun!

We may have a problem here in Pocatello (Idaho). Someone is moving caches. I was informaed today that one of my caches has been moved and all that was left behind was a film canister with a new location noted on the enclosed note. Unfortunately the cache was not found at the new location; it was a public location and the cache may have been taken from there. Have others encountered this problem and has anyone successfully resolved it? Given that we publish cache locations so that other honest geocachers can enjoy the hunt, we also, by doing so, enable dishonest persons to remove the caches. This could be a real problem.

Should caches be allowed to be placed where only accessible by paying an admission price?

Caught it - but I don't know about going there. One might be A$%-Blaster food. Although it might be interesting if one were to go to the coords and provide picture of what's really there.

Ok - I'm new so I don't get what you're talking about. Don't you just put the cache under a convenient rock and that's it? Give me an example of a clever hiding idea.

It seems to have been down for a couple of days now - Mapquest is an alternative though I certainly prefer Topozone.

Just a note regarding NG Topo! program - we've had several instances where the wrong datum was used a the 24K level with resultant 200' E/W errors. Reported these to Topo! and they were corrected quickly. We only worked with Idaho/Oregon maps so can't speak for other areas.

There is no "beef" here --- the idea was simply to have an easter egg hunt using the cache/gps concept. Given that "temporary" (per the FAQ page) caches are allowed, I didn't think that it would be a problem. I do now understand that this would entail a lot more work from the admin and , for that reason, they would not encourage it. That's fine. As it turns out, my idea was like that at the "The Easter Bunny has a Garmin" event of 3/29/03 in AZ except without the necessity of hosting a meeting of the geocachers. I'll keep the comments in mind should I want to host a meeting event. Thanks.

Why are temporary caches not allowed? I do not see a problem with temporary caches if the dates of the cache are posted on the cache page. Personally, I was trying to organize an Easter egg hunt one-day cache when this topic came up. Please give me some guidance here. thanks. [This message was edited by Digitizer on March 27, 2003 at 11:01 AM.]