Some events have MANY “temporary” geocaches hidden at them … caches that are just there for the event day and might not meet the normal approval rules for a “regular” geocache (ie. they might be closer together than 0.10 miles) and they might not be things that would last more than a day (ie. containers that might be real cute but not water resistant; or a container that sets off an alarm when you open the cover, ahh that was my favorite event hide that I placed). Finding these hides is a different “flavor” of fun compared to geocaching and typically involve arriving at the hides with other caching teams and chatting with them … or sometimes it means making believe the cache is someplace it’s not :-). These hides are “different strokes for different folks” … some want to find all of them and fly through the woods (especially if there’s like 40 of them hidden); while others go at it slower, chat more and let the kids find them, which means you might not find them all (the approach my family takes).
Some folks like to play “Finders Tree” too … which means if you have a bunch of people and one person finds the cache, they don’t announce it but walk away from the cache and say finders tree, this tells the group that you found it, but still allows them to find it too. This is how our family typically does “normal” caches (especially when we bring guests); it works at events too, but you need to not drag it out real long, since others might be waiting for there chance at the cache.
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