Geocaching Skills Day (Auckland) Event Cache
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Geocaching Skills Day (Auckland)
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Sunday, April 29, 2007
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Tramper Ted & Sp8sm8 present:
GEOCACHING SKILLS DAY
SHAKESPEAR LODGE,
Sunday 29 April 2007
PROGRAMME
0930 – 1000 Registration.
Put your name down under the GPSr model you own on the sheets provided. ready for the first activity.
Choose Workshop Sessions (one in each time frame) on sheets provided. Workshop sessions have been graded Basic/Intermediate/Advanced to cope with all levels.
Contribute to venue hire ($2 per adult suggested).
1000 – 1015 Welcome & split into groups for first activity.
1015 – 1100 How to Drive your GPSr. Work in a small group with an experienced cacher to understand more about how the darned thing works or take your knowledge to the next step. We don’t claim to make you an expert, just point you in the right direction!
1100 – 1130 Workshop Session 1
Search Techniques (Basic) Sp8sm8
Solving Puzzles (Intermediate) St Ouens
HTML Cache pages/submitting (Advanced) KiwiGary
1130 – 1200 Workshop Session 2
Hiding a cache (Basic) Zork
Camo (Intermediate) Glyn
Cache Maths (Advanced) M@
1200 – 1300 Lunch – bring a picnic
1300 – 1330 Coin Collection & Travel Bugs (Basic) The Pud
Mapping programs, GSAK & Software tools (Intermediate) Tramper Ted
Paperless Caching (Advanced) Nordy
1330 – 1400 Forum – Discuss those controversial issues, ask those burning questions.
1400 – 1500 Event Cache
1500 – 1600 Awards/Spot Prizes & Socialising
If you are from further afield, please consider carpooling.
The listed co-ordinates are for the entrance to the Regional Park. You'll need to find your way to YMCA Shakespear Lodge - plenty of parking up the drive.
There will be kitchen facilities available, just bring your own picnic lunch and choice of drinks. There will be a small fee for use of the Lodge - the more people that come the less the fee!!!
Plenty of space for the kids to play, have a swim (brrr), plus the area has 3 or 4 caches to find if you haven't already.
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