+pstar Posted September 21, 2004 Share Posted September 21, 2004 My company is sending about 30 of us Geocaching on Friday. We've signed up with Playtime and we'll be caching in DC. I'm really looking forward to this. For one, it's caching on company time, and you really can't beat getting paid to cache. Anyone else done this? Not sure if these are real caches that you can claim as finds on gc.com. I'll let you know how it goes... BTW, I'm leaving my buck knife at home this time. Apparently, they're illegal in the District. Found this out while caching at the Washington Monument with Team NoVa12 in our quest for Blood & Guts back in January. Security had fun with us... Quote Link to comment
+JoeCthulhu Posted September 23, 2004 Share Posted September 23, 2004 No you can't claim the finds on geocaching.com. I helped playtime out last year at an event up in Maryland. I had a good time, they paid me $50 + a beer after the corporate guys went home. You might let them know you're an experienced geocacher before everything gets going. Quote Link to comment
+pstar Posted September 26, 2004 Author Share Posted September 26, 2004 We had a great time. Playtime created 18 virts for us to find during the course of two 1.5 hour sessions. (I personally prefer physical caches but these are hard to place in DC. I believe they have a course in Maryland with physical caches.) We competed in teams of 5 to score the most points (caches were ranked by difficulty and/or distance from base) but we also had a combined goal to get all 18 so we had to work as a corporate team to accomplish this. It was a beautiful day for caching and we walked, and at times ran, from the Lincoln Memorial to the the other end of the mall, stopping at nearly everything in between. Several virts were indoors so the security checks slowed us down a bit. Playtime equipped us with GPSrs, digital cameras and pocket PCs that held the virt questions. To score a find, every member of the team had to be in the picture at the cache location so we couldn’t split up or leave anyone behind. One of the prizes was for most creative picture and we came back with some pretty funny ones. It was nice to meet bigkid (aka John Chen) and his team. They did a great job and the event was a huge success. At the end we gathered at Buffalo Billiards for beer and pool and discussed the highlights. I guess that sort of makes this an event cache! (Ooops, that’s a different thread!) Quote Link to comment
+GLM Posted October 7, 2004 Share Posted October 7, 2004 BTW, I'm leaving my buck knife at home this time. Apparently, they're illegal in the District. Found this out while caching at the Washington Monument with Team NoVa12 in our quest for Blood & Guts back in January. Security had fun with us... Ah yes.....Remember that day well. Wasn't sure whether we were going to wind up in jail or not. Gary Quote Link to comment
+robert Posted October 7, 2004 Share Posted October 7, 2004 No you can't claim the finds on geocaching.com. I helped playtime out last year at an event up in Maryland. I had a good time, they paid me $50 + a beer after the corporate guys went home. You might let them know you're an experienced geocacher before everything gets going. I second that. JoeC and I did it together and it was quite a good time. Good to see the VA and MD guys coming together. Quote Link to comment
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