The writing contest ended last week and I’ve been hard at work reading all the entries to let winners know they’re in (or not.) And I am OVER THE MOON to share that there were 51 entries! Geocachers – you ROCK.
If you submitted, look for an email tomorrow (4/17/15) about the results!
And remember, the book will be released the end of May at Geowoodstock!
Wow! The support and responses from “Why I Quit Geocaching” has been… wow! I had no idea. It makes me sad that so many cachers experienced some of the negativity I did but the outpouring of support is just — wow!
And I have to say, I wrote that blog post at 1 am when I just couldn’t sleep with all this running through my head. I even debated about posting it but decided that I would be better to be completely honest with everything.
Which is why I’m honestly asking for help for funds for Geocaching GPS. I’ve started a Kickstarter campaign to raise $850 to cover JUST the costs of producing the book for the contributors. Here’s my math:
I wasn’t able to join any Pi Day fun since I’m RIGHT in the middle of selling my house but I wanted to share some of the best events from Facebook!
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New Frontier Books is sponsoring a writing contest JUST for geocachers! The book will be released at Geowoodstock XIII in May.
The book is titled: “Geocaching GPS: Great Personal Stories of Romance, Adventure, & Connection”
Here are the details:
You can find more details here.
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It’s amazing what the Google Machine can share…
I found these OTHER games you can play with a GPS. I’m kinda liking “Shutterspot”
Updated February 2017
Back when I was organizing my big multi-day geocaching event, I decided that one of the games I would offer would be a poker run. It seemed easy and straightforward. I based it off the AJACS event we attended in 2010.
Here’s a link if you’re wondering What is a geocaching poker run?
Overall, the event went well, but I have some additional ideas and suggestions if you’re thinking of hosting a poker run event of your own.
I did a 50/50 pot with a $5 per player ante. The overall winner got 50% of the pot. The other 50% went to offset event costs. We had about 40 people at the event but not everyone participated. Some people were turned off that it would “cost” money but I just kept stressing that the event itself was free and the poker run was optional.
We played with 5 decks and every time a geocacher would ante up, I would assign them to a deck A-E. I went in order figuring that it would be more fair to have 3 players per deck than to have 5 players on Deck A, 5 on Deck B, and 2 on Deck C.
There are 52 cards in a deck and 5 caches of cards placed. So that means 10 choices per cache or a maximum of 10 players per deck.
I finally have my geocaching event, “100 Years of Statehood: Arizona’s Centennial Event” published on geocaching.com. You can find it at GC30K47
I’m still working out a few details like what type of geocaching games we’ll play, but I was at a point where I could post it to geocaching.com and start getting registrations!
The event is being held in Memory Park in Chino Valley. In fact, I’m off to the Town Council meeting in just a few minutes to ask the council to refund the fees we paid to rent the park for the three days. Chino Valley Parks & Rec have been hugely helpful in planning this. They’re letting us camp (not something they usually do) and are arranging so the restrooms at the park will be available throughout the weekend for cachers.
I’m so lucky to have such a great community of geocaching friends who read my blog and subscribe to my newsletter! Thank you so much for all you do.
But, speaking of the wonderful “tribe” I have, I hope you don’t get too frustrated or bored with me because I am working on a series of event-planning posts. I’ll be the first to admit that this is the first major geocaching event we’ve hosted so any and all feedback is greatly appreciated!
Even though geocaching is a great game in and of itself, there are other “games” that can be played alongside. I’m really interested in this right now since ESP Boss & I are in charge of planning a geocaching event for Arizona’s Centennial Celebration in September.
We’re hosting a 3-day event and will be placing 25-30 new caches. Of course, there will be FTF prizes, prizes for finding the MOST new geocaches, and maybe the most miles logged in a single day of caches.
This will be a sanctioned event by the Yavapai County Centennial committee as part of the centennial celebration. And part of what the committee has been charged with (and by extension US) is to get people out exploring Yavapai County.
Personally, I’m looking for a mix of socializing and caching!
Another idea that we’ve been kicking around is to have a secondary game or games that could be played for prizes as well.
I was originally thinking of having a Poker Run but in my research, I’ve come across some other games like:
Diving into CITO
And you can get friendly with YOUR local geocaching heroes!
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