+ThePuddles Posted January 18, 2003 Share Posted January 18, 2003 Being a newcomer to the geocacher scene please accept my apologies if this already happens! I've had an idea for a top days entertainment. Five or six completely new caches are hidden on a Saturday night and co-ordinates for these given out at a starting position on a Sunday morning. Each cache contains parts of a co-ordinate for the finishing post (Eg; a pub!). You have to visit each cache to obtain the full 'finishing post' co-ordinate. The winners being the first to the finishing post. Sort of like a treasure hunt but with a geocache twist. Do people already do this? I was thinking of organising one for when the weather gets a little better? PS: I live in Dorset. How many cachers are from this area? And would you attend? Quote Link to comment
Ben Pid Posted January 18, 2003 Share Posted January 18, 2003 Sounds like fun to me. Similar to past events and think its probs ben done before, would attend though. Pid -------------------------------------------------------- One ring to rule them all, One ring to find them, One ring to bring them all and in the Darkness bind them! www.buckscaching.co.uk Quote Link to comment
+Pharisee Posted January 19, 2003 Share Posted January 19, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Fil1976:The winners being the first to the finishing post. I could be wrong, but I don't think 'Mr Plod' would be best pleased with a load of geogachers 'racing' on the pulic highways. You could stipulate that it must be done on foot, I suppose but the you'd have to handicap the younger members of our fraternity. For example making sure Dan & Pid each carry one of Hornet's ammo boxes full of sand John Quote Link to comment
+Huga Posted January 19, 2003 Share Posted January 19, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Pharisee: For example making sure Dan & Pid each carry one of Hornet's ammo boxes full of sand Can we not just do this anyway? I'll bring a camera! -- **Mother is the name of God on the lips of all children** Quote Link to comment
+ThePuddles Posted January 19, 2003 Author Share Posted January 19, 2003 I think you'd have to stipulate that keeping within speed limits is a must! But hold that thought of the sand and ammo boxes! Maybe instead of just giving away the co-ordinates to the finishing post we could maybe make it a little more difficult with Aneka Rice style treasure-hunt clues! That way the younger ones may find it harder, whereas the older, wiser geocachers could answer the questions in no time at all. Or maybe we just stick to the sand and ammo boxes !!! ------------- "I'm really looking forward to finding some geo-cash. Where can I spend it?" - My wife. Bless. Quote Link to comment
+Team Minim Posted January 19, 2003 Share Posted January 19, 2003 The Great Yorkshire Cache hunt was a similar days fun, Chris & Dylan organised it, so they can fill you in on their technique. Shares in Tupperware? Be a Geocacher! Quote Link to comment
+jeremyp Posted January 20, 2003 Share Posted January 20, 2003 The activity at the first Winchester Cachers Meet was a similar Treasure Hunt. The clues were virtual caches throughout Winchester and there were questions to answer for points (and what do points mean?). The whole thing was designed to be done on foot. We made two mistakes 1. there were too many questions - it took three hours or more to complete. 2. the finishing post was at a view point overlooking Winchester. I had the idea that I would be able to watch the cachers running around like headless chickens whilst swigging cold beers from an ice box. Unfortunately, it was a bitterly cold and wet day and it was suggested by several participants as well as Tim & June (who supplied the prize) that a pub as the finishing post would have been a much better idea. I have to say, I was forced to agree with them. If you're going to do an on foot based hunt, fastest round would be an appropriate method of finding a winner, but if it is to be a car based hunt, you should use lowest mileage as the criteria (you don't want to encourage Colin McCraes on public roads). Also, you need to stagger the start times. With the Paul Blitz hunt yesterday, it was easy to spot the caches due to the number of people crowded round typing coords into their GPS receivers. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching Quote Link to comment
+Huga Posted January 20, 2003 Share Posted January 20, 2003 I think (although I could be wrong), that any form of racing on public roads, even if the speed limits are adhered to, is illegal. Hence arranging a first-back cache with cars would be on dodgy ground, even if stipulating maxmimum speeds. Lowest mileage could work...or just an on-foor job (although that discriminates against those that can't jog or run) -- **Mother is the name of God on the lips of all children** Quote Link to comment
+jeremyp Posted January 20, 2003 Share Posted January 20, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Huga: Lowest mileage could work...or just an on-foor job (although that discriminates against those that can't jog or run) I don't think I've met any geocachers that can jog or run ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching Quote Link to comment
chuffer Posted January 20, 2003 Share Posted January 20, 2003 Please don't under estimate the amount of time and work needed to organise an event of this type. The 2002 Great Yorkshire Cache Hunt took several months planning and many many man-hours (man-days) to crganise and resulted in me having a touch of "geocaching burnout". At the end of the event there was no doubt everyone enjoyed it, but, there was some concern, on my part anyway, that the amount of effort required to organise it was possibly too great compared to the number of participants. The format, for those who did not attend, was ... There were 28ish caches all varying in difficulty and accessibilty. The caches were awarded a score based on these factors. There was no way all the caches could be completed within the rough time limit given to participants and therefore they had to choose which caches to do prior to setting off. They could choose to do lots of easy ones or a handful of hard ones and both would score the same. It worked fairly well and and made it more of a hunt than a race. There were several problems, (organiser with dodgy gps for instance ) but most were overcome fairly easily. We did find that there was probably a limit to the number of participants that could enter, due to the fact that it was necessary to stagger the start at 10min intervals. This meant we could only set off 6-10 teams per hour. Chris Quote Link to comment
+ThePuddles Posted January 20, 2003 Author Share Posted January 20, 2003 Thanks for the tips guys. I'd probably agree now that first one back is probably a bad idea. I like the sound of point scoring with multiple caches but would probably take far too long to organise, and based on Chuffers experience I certainly don't want to experience caching burnout. Having never planned an event like this all your tips, ideas and thoughts from previous events are very gratefully received. Looks like I'm going to have think really hard about this.. (Which could be a problem...) ------------- "I'm really looking forward to finding some geo-cash. Where can I spend it?" - My wife. Bless. Quote Link to comment
+Molinnis Posted January 21, 2003 Share Posted January 21, 2003 We had a meet down here in Cornwall just before Xmas organised by Nawtcher and Crazy Eddie. They sorted out ten virtual locations with questions to answer to give the co-ordinates for a final cache box which also then had the co-ordinates to a nearby Pub. To solve the problem of everyone following each other, we were all sent to a different location for our first clue but after that one we could the rest in any order we liked. This worked well as we only saw two other teams (Out of eight)before we all met up at the pub. Hope this may help Mike Quote Link to comment
+ThePuddles Posted January 21, 2003 Author Share Posted January 21, 2003 That does help a lot, thanks Mike. A walking treasure-hunt may far better than a driving one. And with the lovely countryside here in Briantspuddle I'm sure it'll work well. Thanks again. ------------- "I'm really looking forward to finding some geo-cash. Where can I spend it?" - My wife. Bless. Quote Link to comment
Team Tate Posted January 21, 2003 Share Posted January 21, 2003 We have been approached by a fellow cacher (who shall remain nameless at present!) about doing another Fox Hunt. We had great fun doing it last year and as far as we know no speed limits were broken - well not by us anyway , and I'm sure that people would be up for another one. Now got to speak nicely to The Cat about borrowing some equipment....... Sarah Team Tate Remember - if it's moving, it's not dead... Quote Link to comment
+jeremyp Posted January 22, 2003 Share Posted January 22, 2003 el10t and I are going to do an experiment with a mobile phone, laptop and some clever software to see if that is a practical and affordable alternative. When I say affordable I mean on the assumption that you already own all of the above equipment. We'll let you know how it goes. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching Quote Link to comment
el10t Posted January 22, 2003 Share Posted January 22, 2003 Sarah - I think after the last one you or Bob said you would like to have a go at chasing the fox rather than being it for the next event. I am quite happy to volunteer to be the fox if this is the case. Rich mobilis in mobili Quote Link to comment
Team Tate Posted January 22, 2003 Share Posted January 22, 2003 DJH has offered to be the Fox too. We do want to do it again, but do want to have a go at being chasers next time! So I suppose that everyone can fight amongst themselves over this one whilst we sit back & wait for the chase! I suppose it depends on who can get the technology sorted out and I know DJH would like a hand with that side of things, so perhaps you could get together? Sarah Team Tate Remember - if it's moving, it's not dead... Quote Link to comment
el10t Posted January 22, 2003 Share Posted January 22, 2003 Thanks Sarah - as mentioned above, jeremyp and I have some ideas on technology so I'll contact djh (if he's not already reading this) to discuss. Rich mobilis in mobili Quote Link to comment
+Teasel Posted January 23, 2003 Share Posted January 23, 2003 Just to let people know, I've been working on something which will track Mark's fox from my PC and automatically update a web page with its progress round the country. Such a feature would be a useful addition to laptop/mobile systems too (though probably implemented in a friendlier way than I'm forced to!) Quote Link to comment
+Nia Posted January 24, 2003 Share Posted January 24, 2003 I have been thinking about a treasure hunt for a while, and having read all the posts here, I would be happy to organise one that would work like this. Start and finish at a pub. All on foot Points per cache and time taken Most points wins Caches can be done in any order Number off caches to be a third the number off participants Set off every five minutes All the data will be in a printout, and as a download from easyGPS on a laptop. (I need to make sure various leads are available, as we only have one for a eTrex) You will only get this data at your start time. This would be set in the ‘New Forest’ and take place in April or September. Comments please: Tech-no notice Quote Link to comment
MCL Posted January 24, 2003 Share Posted January 24, 2003 ...I thought someone else said there was a problem with placing caches in the New Forest? No trees were harmed during the production of this posting, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.... Quote Link to comment
+Nia Posted January 24, 2003 Share Posted January 24, 2003 quote:Originally posted by MCL:...I thought someone else said there was a problem with placing caches in the New Forest? No trees were harmed during the production of this posting, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.... Only in rabbit holes, as far as we know Tech-no notice Quote Link to comment
+Chris n Maria Posted January 24, 2003 Share Posted January 24, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Nia: This would be set in the ‘New Forest’ and take place in April or September. Comments please: Tech-no notice Could it be september so as not to clash with our cache bash...please? Bear rescues a speciality! London & UK Geocaching Resources: http://www.sheps.clara.net Quote Link to comment
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