Sea to Sea Trail Geocaching Challenge

Hi everyone, Kristen here. Great to meet many of you at REI a few weeks back. Challenge Update: All 25 caches are now out along the Sea to Sea Trail! If you'd like to receive a special e-mail at midnight on June 6 and get all the GPS coordinates and lots of extra info direct to your computer for June 7's kickoff, then sign up at http://www.seatoseatrail.org/index.cfm/Subscribe. The coordinates will also be released at midnight June 6 at http://www.seatoseatrail.org/index.cfm/Geocaching and on geocaching.com - under the name 'Sea to Sea Trail Geocaching Challenge' (ie. not Kiwi Kacher). Happy hunting and good luck!

Hi everyone, Kristen here. Great to meet many of you at REI a few weeks back. Challenge Update: All 25 caches are now out along the Sea to Sea Trail! If you'd like to receive a special e-mail at midnight on June 6 and get all the GPS coordinates and lots of extra info direct to your computer for June 7's kickoff, then sign up at http://www.seatoseatrail.org/index.cfm/Subscribe. The coordinates will also be released at midnight June 6 at http://www.seatoseatrail.org/index.cfm/Geocaching and on geocaching.com - under the name 'Sea to Sea Trail Geocaching Challenge' (ie. not Kiwi Kacher). Happy hunting and good luck!

Hello to everyone in San Diego from a new geocacher, and one hoping to locally encourage the game. I'm with the San Diego Sea to Sea Trail Foundation - helping to build a 140-mile multi-use trail from the Pacific to the Salton Sea - you can read more about it all at www.seatoseatrail.org. To help celebrate National Trails Day on June 7, we're launching a Geocaching Challenge, with 25 caches hidden along the Trail. Each cache will have great prizes and voucher prizes, including DeepOutdoors fleeces and day packs, two Magellan GPSs and lots of other goodies from Magellan and geocaching.com. To pre-launch the Geocaching Challenge, and a chance to all meet up and discuss geocaching and GPSs, we're hosting a Geocaching & GPS Clinic at REI on May 21 at 7pm. Everyone who attends the clinic will receive a free DeepOutdoors T-shirt, REI carabiner and Magellan info sheet. Check out http://seatoseatrail.org/index.cfm/Geocaching for more details. Hope to see you all there!

Thanks for all your advice, folks! It's very much appreciated. We'd like to hold the event annually, thus there's good opportunities for incorporating many of your suggestions - especially opening the event somehow to non-San Diego residents. cheers Kristen

Hi folks, I'm with the San Diego Sea to Sea Trail Foundation (www.seatoseatrail.org) - we're helping to build a 140-mile multi-use Trail that runs from the Pacific Ocean to the Salton Sea, CA - the Trail's about 85% complete. We're keen to host a geocaching competition along the entire length of the Trail to help promote not only the Trail but our environmental education efforts and, of course, geocaching. We have a sponsor who's agreed to donate 25 great prizes (so we thought 25 caches) - each cache having a raffle ticket to return to the Foundation for entry into the prize draw. We'd also like to add more goodies to the cache so that not only just one person benefits from finding it. We'd also like to keep the caches going far beyond the end of the competition. My query - has anyone organized a similar competition and do you have any ideas or advice to make this one a real winner. I'd appreciate any feedback! cheers Kristen