tictoctom

So, haven't geocached in a while, but I work for a civil engineering/surveying firm in Phoenix and we are having a company picnic in Mesa in a couple of months. I've been asked to help develop a "team building" activity. Since we do GPS surveys, I was thinking... GEOCACHE! I'd like to do a multi-clue logic puzzle, teambuilding type cache (and after the picnic would log it on the site for everyone to try). Does anyone have any good puzzles that I could modify for this particular cache? Anyone tried this (company event) before and have input on what went wrong? Help! Reply here or email me at: tictoctom@yahoo.com. Thanks in advance for all of the excellent suggestions.

Just read the article at lunch at work and immediately came here! I can't believe that a "reporter" would print such an article (FRONT PAGE TOO!) without including any quotes or information from Geocachers... just from some cranky people who seem to be trying to keep people AWAY from our natural and historical resources. I would think that these "stewards" would be proud to share these archaeological sites with the rest of us. But alas, is doesn't seem to be so. It is also unfortunate that this "reporter" (and I will keep that term in quotes since it applies so very loosely) didn't even seem to bother to do any research connected with this article. When I logged on to geocaching.com today the FIRST thing I noticed was the large "Cache in, Trash out" notice on the front page of the site. Hmm... yes, sounds like a site for a bunch of vandals. How very frustrating to have your state's most popular newspaper depicting you as a vandal, trespasser, and criminal on the front page of the paper. It seems that this Shelly Rasmussen called up the paper and got her side of the story told and that the reporter wasn't intellegent enough or thoughtful enough to recognize that there are two sides to every story. Now that I'm done venting, I'd like to personally encourage all of the Arizona geocachers that see this to write a coherent, non-ranting letter to the Arizona Republic, christina Leonard (the author), and heck... maybe even this Shelly woman decrying your outrage at such a slanderous piece of "journalism". Last side note (I swear): Doesn't it make you wonder about all those other articles you read in the paper? Journalism slanted? NEVER!