Ok so Sammy bearnotes and I have been talking about organizing a bearnotes scavenger hunt. It wouldn't be like your typical frat scavenger hutns...the items you would have to find would be unique, humerous, and...uh...entertaining I guess. We'd give out prizes (if we can find a way to pay for it) like "Go Roman" t-shirts and things of that sort. My question is...would you actually participate if we did this?
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Bearnotes.com Scavenger Hunt!
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Check out http://www.geocaching.com. You're damn right I'd participate. :-P
I once hiked three miles up a mountain in 112 degree heat, just to find a small container full of dollar store crap.alien8ed wrote:Ok that geocaching thing looks interesting.
Broke into a park once at night to do the same, ended up adopting a stray puppy who found me there.
Once drove 150 miles to a cache, got there around midnight, poked around in the dark and couldn't find one, so I slept in my car until daylight, then found it. All that just to be the first one to find it.
Haven't done much caching since moving to Missouri, although I've been thinking about planting a few micros around campus.
If anyone wants to go geocaching on a weekend or something, I'll be happy to tag along.
As far as a club goes though, I'm just stretched too thin as it is. Between work, school, family and other commitments, I've been averaging two hours sleep all this week.
There is a Missouri Geocachers Assocation at http://www.mogeo.com although I'm not active with them. Before I moved here I was averaging about 100 finds a week. I haven't logged a single find in months.
As far as a club goes though, I'm just stretched too thin as it is. Between work, school, family and other commitments, I've been averaging two hours sleep all this week.
There is a Missouri Geocachers Assocation at http://www.mogeo.com although I'm not active with them. Before I moved here I was averaging about 100 finds a week. I haven't logged a single find in months.
Yeah I know what you mean about being stretched for time!!! We'll see how it goes. I thought combining it with Urban Exploration would be fantastic. Hide things in places people aren't supposed to go. Abandon buildings...drainage tunnles...the steam tunnels here at SMS, churches thigns like that. Then it's really like a treasure hunt!!!!!
What is the coolest thing you've ever found?
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What is the coolest thing you've ever found?
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Then you're encouraging people to break the law, i.e. criminal trespass, burglary, etc. Geocaching.com has specific rules about this type of behavior.alien8ed wrote:Hide things in places people aren't supposed to go.
Caching is fun, but they should always be placed in a public area. Parks, street signs, public buildings, etc. There's a ton of places to hide things. I've taken miniature altoids containers and used velcro or magnets to attach them to the underside of newspaper boxes, vending machines, etc.
In the second cache I ever located, I found a USB drive. It's either that or the puppy that I found by accident.alien8ed wrote:What is the coolest thing you've ever found?
A friend of mine took his wife on vacation to Hawaii, and while he was there found every cache on the big island. What a great way to tour the place.
Most of the time the hunt is the fun part. GPS units will get you so close, but then it's the skill of finding the cache containers. I found one in a hospital garden, attached to the underside of a rock in a small pool filled with rocks. Took me two visits and an entire afternoon.
The other fun adventure, at least when I lived in Arizona, is to hike the mountains in search of caches. Usually it's not possible to hit more than two or three a day, but hiking up there in search of a cache is a great motivation to climb and get some exercise.
I still have a few out there, being maintained by friends. One of them is a waterproof microcontainer submerged in a river and hung by fishing line. Only 1/5th of the people who look for it find it.
About that breaking the law thing...yeah I realize that. And that's not entirely true...but most of the time it is. Oh well...it happens 
The whole thing sounds pretty interesting...but I don't know if I want to buy a GPS unit. You know what else would be neat is to do the same sort of thing (on a local basis) without the GPS systems but just using cryptic clues of somesort...I guess that's kind of what a Scavenger Hunt is...oh well...it'd be fun.
So anyone else on here willing to participate?
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The whole thing sounds pretty interesting...but I don't know if I want to buy a GPS unit. You know what else would be neat is to do the same sort of thing (on a local basis) without the GPS systems but just using cryptic clues of somesort...I guess that's kind of what a Scavenger Hunt is...oh well...it'd be fun.
So anyone else on here willing to participate?
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