cool event ideas

[+Weber_and_Sons]

I want to host a geocaching event but I don't have many ideas for one, if you guys have any good ideas for events please leave them here.

[+niraD]

10 minutes ago, Weber_and_Sons said:

I want to host a geocaching event but I don't have many ideas for one, if you guys have any good ideas for events please leave them here.

You don't have to do anything fancy. I've attended events at picnic sites where attendees could bring a picnic or not, and everyone just spent time visiting. Or events at coffee houses or donut shops, where you could patronize the establishment and eat/drink during event, or you could just show up and visit.

[+CacheTeddy]

We have events where you can play table tennis. Of course, people also come along who just want to have a chat. I could also imagine other sports or games being played there.
 

 

[+barefootjeff]

Most of the events I attend are small low-key gatherings where we just hang around chatting and nibbling snacks for an hour or so, but there have been a few of the larger ones organised by Geocaching NSW recently that had maybe six or eight objects hidden around the area, within a few hundred metres of the event. On the morning of the event, their coordinates were added as waypoints on the event page, with a printed list also provided, and each one contained a letter of the alphabet. Once you had all the letters, you then had to unscramble them to form a word to claim a small prize (a chocolate bar or something similar). They were popular and good fun.

[+Smitherington]

My personal favorites are events where food is available.  Outside a restaurant, on a pedestrian street that has an ice cream shop, or in a park where someone brings food.

 

Celebrate National Cookie Day with cookies, National Pie Day with pie, Boston Cream Pie day with Boston Cream Pie, Just all kinds of possibilities.  End/Beginning of year celebration event, Prime Meridian Day, or make up something you want to celebrate.  Most of mine are in a park where we can sit around and chat and eat.

 

Get creative.

 

[+GeoElmo6000]

I usually host an ice cream social each year.  It's easy, people can just pay for themselves (or not), and we just stand around talking about geocaching.  

 

If money is involved try not to get stuck with the bill, I prefer pay-your-own-way events when hosting, I've been stuck shelling out my own money to cover cheap geocachers.

[+Calypso62]

Each year, for International Geocaching Day, I host a tournament event called BattleCache.

It's a knockout competition playing a geocaching version of the popular Battleships game using a pen and paper. Players are paired for competition. The loser is eliminated and the winner continues on to the next round. Players who get knocked out usually continue chatting about our great activity of geocaching while watching the proceedings. Competition continues between winning pairs of players with the last one standing declared the BattleCache Grand Master. I provide tea, coffee and biscuits for refreshment.

I host the event at different park venues each year and it's great fun.

Feel free to host your own BattleCache event if you would like to.

Here is a link to last year's event...... https://coord.info/GCARAEQ

[+cerberus1]

23 hours ago, Weber_and_Sons said:

I want to host a geocaching event but I don't have many ideas for one, if you guys have any good ideas for events please leave them here.

 

We never hosted an event (that schedule thing...), but we've had just as much fun with a simple meet n greet.  Potluck a plus.

[+CAVinoGal]

23 hours ago, Weber_and_Sons said:

I want to host a geocaching event but I don't have many ideas for one, if you guys have any good ideas for events please leave them here.

 

As niraD said, you really don't HAVE to do anything...if you publish it, they will come!  You could do a CITO, show up at a park (preferably one with a few geocaches scattered around!) with trash bags for everyone and pick up litter for an hour or so.  Show up at a park with a box of donuts...hold it at a restaurant/pizza place - let them know ahead of time that you have a group coming.  Turnout can vary - I just had an event and was planning on 10-15 or so, 21 showed up!  But it all worked out.

 

We'll do a "raffle" of sorts, everyone goes home with something.  Host, sometimes others, bring containers, gadgets, SWAG ... and we basically swap stuff!  Sometimes the host will hide a cache nearby and offer it as a FTF for the group, arrange with the reviewer to publish it the next day.  None of this is required at all, though.  Just pick a place and a time and geocachers will show up!

[+Viajero Perdido]

1 hour ago, CAVinoGal said:

you really don't HAVE to do anything

 

You got that right.

• You could host a CITO without trash bags or any other supplies, and people will attend.
• You could host a meet-the-visitors event in a parking aisle of an airport layover hotel, convenient to nobody but the EO, and people will attend.
• You could host a meet-the-visitor event and not even show up yourself (with no excuses), and people will attend.
• You could host events with zero text in the description and a one word title (a popular word, check my profile), and people will attend.

But people do appreciate when you go the extra kilometer.

 

Maybe we're all still recovering from the pandemic operation, and just want to catch up on hanging out with real people again.  

[+ecanderson]

Tossing one your direction...

 

Call it a PLUSONE learning event.

 

The event would stipulate that every attendee is encouraged to bring along someone who has never before found or hidden a geocache.

In advance of the event, you would create half a dozen or so caches of types typical to your area and place them accordingly in the immediate event area (I've used library grounds for this purpose in the past).  You would publish the information on each of them in the event listing itself, providing the standard coordinate size/terrain/difficulty information, along with any hints or other descriptive information that would be helpful.

 

The attendees would program the info (at a minimum, the coordinates) for each of the caches into their handheld or phone, and their PLUSONE would be encouraged, with assistance of the attendee and perhaps hardcopy of the event cache page that has additional details, to try to find these event-only caches.  The attendee would provide basic use instructions for the handheld/phone, turn it over to their PLUSONE, and watch the action! 

 

If you've got half a dozen newbies, be sure to start them all toward a different one of the six you've placed.  If you have as many as 12, you can pair them up into teams of two and do the same.

 

We held an 'after action' meeting where the PLUSONEs had a chance to discuss their experience and raise questions.

 

Edited January 18 by ecanderson