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The first thing in hosting an event is to think what would work for you. Then you can start to think what would work for others… Daytime? Evening? Outdoors? Indoors? Meet&Greet? Instructional? Games? Long? Short? Lots of food? Just snacks? Bring/buy your own? As far as new caches go, you don’t have to put out any unless you want to; people who come to your event can find ones that are already in the area, or they can find them on their way to/from the event.
We don’t mind traveling distances to events as long as the roads are good and they don’t involve much night driving, unless we plan to stay overnight. Other cachers have other preferences. Smaller events don’t often attract large crowds, so it may be a way to have all of your caching neighbors get to know each other a bit more. Larger established events draw people from all over… but often at the expense of getting the chance to talk to everyone who comes.
Check out the events calendar on the home page (and others) on this WGA website. Choose a day for your event when it appears that not much else is going on, at least in your area. Or put on an event when a lot is going on (like CITOS or souvenir events), but nothing in your area. People will come to those, but they may not stay as long as at a regular event. As for Sundays, Amita17, you would have to know the cachers in your area. Definitely stay away from church time in the morning (and evenings for some), but afternoons might draw some people… unless there is a Packers game and there are no TVs at your event site! 😉
Another thing to do for an event is to see if your area has some kind of festival or other things that people might want to do if they came to your area at a certain time of year, and then have a small event that highlights/complements the town activity. That way cachers can get to know what else there is to do in the area, and they might keep coming back.
Most of all, prepare well, but prepare for any result. If things change for you or there appears to be no interest in your event as the day gets closer (many people wait to make their plans), you can always cancel… but sometimes sitting around chatting with just a handful of people can be just as fun. Non-events are happening all the time when cachers run into each other or make plans to go caching together. One thing nice about geocaching: You always have something to talk about!
KFH! How ironic it is that I find you on here. I was looking at your “Thread Stealin’ Babies” puzzle just about 30 seconds ago. I might be up in Madison tomorrow to find it…
Did you have any problems solving that puzzle now that the old TS posts are all gone?
A celebrity was at the LCG event today… even better than a lackey:
We dressed for 60s and got 40s with hard white stuff falling out of the sky that bounces on the pavement.
graupel
People go for a full year… 365 or 366 days in a row. (Our longest streak is 13.) Easier to do in urban or other cache-rich areas.
Believe it or not, I haven’t touched my camera in that amount of time either! (But I do know where it is.)
No tracks if we get there first.
Any ideas? GC5MA46 At least it mentions cheese
I have the final coords figured out, but see what you can do with this… Never heard of it before.
I suppose I should find my receiver before going to the event tomorrow. Haven’t seen it since last month. Then again, I know how to get to the event location without it.
We found this cache with ZB a few years ago: GCX7FT It’s north of Hayward in the Barnes area. And Becca, that Arkansas tree referenced in the link you provided was right across the road from my aunt and uncle’s place.
What’s the weather like in Oregon today, Noonan? 😈
At least it is 4 degrees warmer than yesterday morning.
Craphas is falling in Sandland.
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