I can’t speak for woodcarverdan, but he is a friend of mine. He became disillusioned with geocaching for a variety of reasons, and has removed himself from the game entirely, except for the caches that he had placed. Some of them have been adopted by other cachers. As far as copying his designs, I believe that Dan got most of his ideas from YouTube videos, especially WVTim’s videos. If you want to get in touch with Dan, try going through Facebook. He has a group called Knives Forged In Fire by Dan Haack his new passion.
As for your event, I have done something similar, though on a smaller scale. Our event was along a 2 mile hiking trail. We placed 8 temporary caches along the trail. We had a dozen GPS units from the local school district, that we loaded with the cache coordinates. Then we sent out groups, mostly families, with the GPS units. We had printed lists with the coordinates for those with their own GPS units. If you can’t get enough GPS units to loan out, you may want to consider a GPS-less method for locating the caches. For example, hang a piece of colored flagging along the trail and give the participants instructions like, “Go north 30 feet from the flag.”
Since you are placing temporary caches, keep it fun for the kids by including SWAG that will appeal to them. I placed temp caches with candy inside for a scouting event recently. If you list the event on GC.com it should get picked up and added to the event list on the WGA website and facebook page.
Happy Saturday to All! Going caching today?<b></b><i></i><u></u>