This past Saturday, I participated in WWFM 2011.
WWFM – World Wide Flash Mobs – A fun and friendly way to promote geocaching around the world. Thousands of geocachers at dozens of coordinated events spanning the globe, gathering at the same time.
Those brilliant people over at geocaching.com realized that not only do geocachers like to find and hide geocaches, they also like to get together with OTHER cachers and share stories of the hunt.
BBQ at an Event Cache.
In order to make it easier for you to meet other geocachers in your area (short of lurking at the most popular caches and popping out of the bushes for a chat) is to attend a geocaching event.
Geocaching.com calls these (drum roll please!)
When we went to the AJACS geocaching event, we were introduced to a “Poker Run”. Now, never having DONE a poker run before I was really interested to see how this event would happen.
Frankly, I’m no good a poker. Just ask my grandma. (Shown below in her EatStayPlay.com apron!) Every Thanksgiving, the family gathers at her house. And after the turkey is consumed and the left overs put away, Nana proceeds to whip my you-know-what in poker.
Can you tell this is her favorite apron?
I’m terrible at it!
So the idea of playing geocaching poker… Well, I figured I might as well give it a shot.
I had figured that you’d go to some caches (5 maybe?) and pick a card to make a hand. But what I just couldn’t figure out what how that would be FAIR. I mean, wouldn’t the first person to each cache just get to choose cards that would make a Royal whatever-you-call-it?
Boy! Was I ever wrong!
Just what IS a #Geocaching Poker run? Click To TweetHere’s how the poker run we participated in happened:
In this case, we needed to provide a quality trade item. The winner of the poker run was going to win a fully-stocked ammo can cache ready to hide.
(I contributed a first-aid kit)
The fantastic coordinators from AJACS hid 5 caches around camp. So, all we had to do was visit each cache.
Guest Author: Pony Express Trail
Geocaching via the Pony Express Trail
By Steve Allen aka MO PIRATE
By now, I believe most folks know about the worldwide treasure hunting game called geocaching.
Using a GPS receiver and the satellites that transmit the signals to them, geocachers can get a “fix” on the location of over 1.3 million hidden containers around the world.
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