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sandlanders 9 years, 12 months ago.
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Martha Stewarting the Medallion
Finished Medallion ready to be placed. Inserted a magnet so it was ready for anything.
Got a tow warning on my vehicle as I bushwhacked off the road to place it right before the event.
Perfect place to hide the Medallion. The only “Corrugated Canal” along the walking trail system. I walked many miles until I hit the eureka moment. I should have hid it then but still went on for more miles just in case I found a better spot.All in all I think it was a great success.
We had a great prize and raslas found it before the final hint was given.
Prize was an ammo can, shirt, lanyard, and patch.
I kept hiding the medallion low key ahead of of the event because it was our first time attempting this even though I had it planned out pretty good I wasn’t sure how it would go. Now that the experiment was done it is ready to be part of our events in the future if we decide to do it again.
I thought the hints worked well from relatively broad and kept narrowing it down.
Main change to make it better, We need to also post hints each hour as announcement on the event page so geocachers will get emails of each hint. It will help with the hunt and when we are in areas of poor signal.
Hiding the coins or chips for redemption with Peter / Labrat was good. We need to advertise it ahead of time as we announce the event so more people know what to look for. Wood coins are a great way to do it.
Now we know and can keep honing our skills each year.
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What if we cache with a GPS and not a smart phone?
Here’s a photo of the medallion finder, Lois of raslas, raking in the prize goodies:
What if we cache with a GPS and not a smart phone?
which I could not imagine any other way.
There is no good way other than posting them at the event center for that. Maybe a Mega phone or we could have a runner looking for cachers to update them of each hours hint. You just have to use your geosense to find it
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Just thought of it. We must get a WGA Blimp scrolling the hints. Well enough fun back to work.
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Yeh, I cannot think of a way to reach everyone. I did mention to a couple people they could call us for the hourly hints but some may not have service…
We could skip doing a medallion game and just do the tokens.
Following the signals from space.
if we do not try new things, we do not learn what works well.
in the “old days” we used the walkie talkies on a predetermined channel to communicate (circa 2007).
Disclaimer : Always answering to a higher power.
We typically don’t play any of the side games at the events ourselves, other than the bingo one sometimes. Somehow we didn’t notice this one was going on, but we wouldn’t have played, anyway. That said….it’s great that the event committees are trying to think of new and different things. Some will work great. Some might need refining. All you can do it try them out.
And I remember the walkie-talkie days. Using those was almost a game unto itself!
When I did the medallion hunt a couple of years ago at an event, I wrote each clue on a 8×11 paper and taped each one up at the main location of the event when it was time to reveal it… old school, but worked. Kept people coming back to the main gathering area.
Maybe we could have people write their cell numbers down if they wanted to get the hourly hints via text? That wouldn’t help with all people.
Not all who wander are lost. -J.R.R. Tolkien
Really, this is a choice everyone can make and you guys shouldn’t have to do a lot of extra work. If we’d known this game was taking place and if it had been important to us to play, we would have done whatever was required of us to participate. If that meant cutting caching or socializing short in order to return for the hints, that’s what would need to be done. I think dmnrec’s idea of posting them throughout the day to encourage players to return is a good one. It helps with the “social” aspect that is supposed to be the point of events.
Actually, they were posted at the registration table on index cards for all to see. But maybe we could have made it just a little more visible. Next time. 🙂
Not all who wander are lost. -J.R.R. Tolkien
I know it was always a lot of work to do, but I missed the booklet that has been handed out at some past events. Yes, the schedule was on the cache page, and yes, it was posted in the shelter, but when we had one of those, I would carry it with me wherever we went during the day of the event, and I would refer to it often.
And it was always nice to get something when we registered. The medallion stuff and the tokens in the caches were the “surprise” things, I guess, but I was somewhat in the dark about them all day because there wasn’t a big deal made of it when we registered, and there were no big posters drawing our attention to them. I did see the little cards on the registration table with the clues, but I think that was because I was standing right next to WA when he was getting ready to add the photo clue to the set.
I knew about the games, but like Birdin’, we preferred to cache and chat and see the waterfalls while we were at the event, so I’m not complaining about how things were set up. However, there may have been those who did want to play but may have not been fully aware of how things were meant to go. We do not use a smart phone for caching or for communication, so if we were to play something like this, we would prefer to see big posters at the shelter, and it would be up to us to return to get the information, or maybe have a teammate stationed there who could relay the new information to us when it came out.
Having been in caching only half the time it has been around, we’re not exactly old-school diehards, but we certainly don’t go for the numbers or the new technology taking over the game. We haven’t been able to do a WhereIGo or a Chirp cache without help from others who are equipped to handle these, and I would hate to see the WGA “assume” everyone wants and has newer technology to the exclusion of, or at least rendering to second-class status, those who do not.
We all need to put ourselves in the positions of new cachers who come to our events. We were new once. We didn’t know anyone to talk to, but we received a warm welcome and a bag of goodies (booklet, etc.) when we registered. Lately we have just been signing our name when we show up and left to make our own fun, which is easy for us, but again, think of yourselves as newbies or at least cachers new to the WGA events.
And back to Team Northwoods’ thread about the medallion game, I think TN should be put in charge of anything that requires shiny stuff and glitter in the future… 😉 The BOD as a whole can make the resolutions and work out the details on that.
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