Expert Geocachers' Badge Event Cache
C Major and C Minor: It's time to archive the cache. Please claim your travel bugs. Thanks for coming and for all the nice log entries. It was nice to meet you all. I hope to see you again.
C Major
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Saturday, August 12, 2006
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This is an event cache on Fort Ord. Just show up. We'll provide the neccessary training, the fun, and the burgers and hotdogs.
PLEASE INDICATE A SIDE ITEM OR A DESSERT OR A DRINK THAT YOU CAN BRING WITH YOU.
If you can't bring anything with you; come anyway. We'll share.
ALSO, PLEASE ADVISE IF YOU CAN BRING A TREBUCHET.
Welcome to the Expert Geocachers' Badge competition. EGB doesn't stand for Everybody's Geocacheing Badge. Only a small fraction of Cachers ever earn this badge. That's primarily because only a small fraction of all the cachers in the world will attend this event cache.
But don't despair. We'll provide you with world-class training and the best equipment that the Geocacheing Army has to offer.
To earn the Expert Geocachers' Badge, you must get a first-time-go at each of the following stations:
Station 1: Map Reading
Station 2: Land Navigation
Station 3: Call for and Adjust Indirect Fire (Water Balloon Fight Using a Trebuchet)
Station 4: Employ Hand Grenades (Hand Propelled Water Balloons)
Station 5: Move under Direct Fire (Avoiding Water Balloons)
Station 6: LOGPAC Refueling Operations (BBQ)
Station 7: Transmit and Recieve a Message over a Secure Network (Shooting the Breeze)
Station 8: Exchange Challenge and Password (Displaying and Trading Coins/SigItems/Etc.)
Station 9: Administer First Aid (Application of NuTech)
Station 10: Obtain Human Intelligence (Try to Get Others to Leak Clues about the Locations of their Caches)
Special Instructions:
-Patrols report to the listed coordinates no later than 0800 hours.
-Patrols may consist of an individual cacher or a team of cachers.
-Each patrol must bring at least one compass.
-Map Reading Training will begin promptly at 0800 hours.
-Each patrol will be issued a military topographic map (scale 1:50,000), a protractor, and the 10-digit grid coordinates to 6 not-yet-published caches.
-At 0900, patrols will be released simultaneously to conduct GPS-less land navigation.
-Patrols may travel by personally-owned-vehicle.
-Patrols will look for not-yet-posted caches with markers above them.
-Patrols will sign the log books of the caches that they find, just like normal.
-Patrols will also stamp their patrol log with the unique stamp attached to the marker above the cache.
-The patrol that reports back to the event location no later than 1100 hours with the most stamps in their patrol log (i.e. the most finds) wins the competition.
-Patrols reporting after 1100 hours cannot win the competition.
-In the event of a tie, the fastest patrol among those with the most finds wins.
General Instructions:
-There are no losers in the Geocacheing Army. Everybody gets an EGB.
-Shananagins, bruhahas, Water Balloon Fights (for the "kids"), and BBQ activities begin at 1100 hours.
-The event ends at 1400 hours or when the beer is gone, whichever happens later.
Safety Briefing:
-Don't speed on post or else your decendants will be cursed for 10 generations.
-Don't operate a cell phone while driving. This is illegal on Fort Ord as of 01 JUL 06.
-If you drive a motorcycle on Fort Ord, you must wear protective clothing over your entire body, to include a helmet.
-Kids are more than weclome.
-Pets must be kept on leashes.
-Kids who don't bite don't require leashes.
-Each patrol must assign at least one designated driver.
-If you get poison oak, you must agree to hold harmless the United States Army, the President of the United States, Groundspeak, C Major, Monkeynuts16 and Tigger31314.
-Don't use sandpaper to remove poison oak.
-Don't spill hot coffee on yourself.
-Swim with a battle budy.
-Don't drink while operating a moterized watercraft.
First Rock!
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