Hunt & Munch (Edinburgh) Event Cache

G:UK cache rating

When:

Saturday 3rd May 2008

Where:

The Tanners at Juniper Green, at the above co-ordinates.
The event will be held in the conservatory at the rear of the pub.
Children are welcome.

The car park is to the rear of the Tanners Public House. Entrance is tight, so if you have a large vehicle you may have to park it out front where there are spaces for up to 3 vehicles.
There is also nearby on street parking. If you are not using your car for the treasure hunt, it is requested for you to use the on street parking. This will stop any chance of a gridlock in the car park.

Time:

1:30 p.m. until around 7 p.m.

Details:

Teams will be going out on a 2 ish hour car treasure hunt. Followed by an early evening meal around 5.30pm to 6pm. Details and full instructions on the day re format of 'treasure hunt' when you arrive.

Teams:

I would advise teams of 4-5 people by car.
If you wish to form a team please let me know by email giving me your ‘team’ name, cachers names, number of people in your team and whether you intend to eat or not.
For cachers wishing to combine with other cachers either organise between you and let me know or alternatively let me know and I can 'pair' you up.

Please note: That I am hoping that this will be an extremely popular event. So it is on a first come first served basis. I am limiting the number of cars to 15 teams on the road, so please organise teams if possible before contacting me (full cars please).

Due to limited numbers, I will be allocating places to teams who are staying for the meal, those who do not intend to eat may find that I do not allocate a place for them.

I would prefer no on the day entries. All teams must be notified to me by 5pm Friday 2nd May, however if you turn up, I will try to accommodate you. - Subject to availability.

Clues:

The basic format will be that you will be setting out looking for GPS co-ordinates, and answering questions.
I may have a few other surprises up my sleeve.

Prizes:

In order to cut down on my costs, It would be appreciated if every team could bring an item suitable to put in a cache box (around £2 per person or 1 prize around £8 - £10 per car). These will then be given out as prizes.

Co-ordinates:

On the day I will provide instructions, questions and full co-ordinates. You do not have to do any pre work before the day.
However, if you wish to save time at midnight on Friday 2nd May, I shall create a full list of all the waypoints you will need on the treasure hunt on this cache page, so these can be downloaded (or typed into your GPS) on Saturday morning.
By using these I will allow you to program your GPS, but under no circumstances must you use any of the data to pre-plan any route, before you arrive at the pub.

This service is just to allow you to update your GPS, to avoid having to manually type in the co-ords when you receive them at 2pm. PLEASE DO NOT CHEAT!!

What do you need:

• Car full of petrol
• 2 x GPS per car (no mapping software)
• Road Map
• NO satnavs or equivalent
• Brightly coloured lipstick! (One per team)
• Prizes (see above!)
• Means to take a digital picture
• A writing implement

Maps:

You will require either of the following maps for the day –
Ordnance Survey Landranger 65 & 66
Ordnance Survey Explorer 344 & 350
Combination of OS Landranger 65 & Explorer 350
Any map that covers the area from the following grids – NT08 62, NT08 78, NT22 78, NT22 62

Menu:

Starters

Soup of the Day – £3.00
Breaded Mushrooms – £3.50
Garlic Bread – £3.00
Haggis Fritters – £3.50

Main Dishes

Homemade Steak Pie served with peas & French fries – £6.90
Golden Scampi served with peas & French fries – £6.95
Chefs’ Lasagne served with salad & French fries – £6.90
Gammon Steak served with salad & French fries – £6.95
Broccoli Cheese Bake served with salad & French fries – £6.95

Children’s menu is available on request. Please order food before leaving to do the hunt.

PLEASE NOTE: If you are attending the CITO in the morning, then a packed lunch is strongly advised. The meal will be served after 5:30pm and you may not have time to order a meal before the event starts!

Important Instructions:

As cache/event setter I cannot accept any responsibility for any problems encountered during the day, including motoring accidents, speeding etc etc.

It is entirely your responsibility if you take part in the event.

By setting out to this event, the driver is responsible for any third party action that may arise during the day. I as organiser am not responsible for any actions by yourself at all.

See notes below re driver

The route could be 40+ miles so please ensure you have a full tank of petrol as there are not many petrol stations on route.

It might be advisable to bring a paper road map (includes minor roads) and have at least two GPS's in the car.

Please note that Pocket PC's / In car Navigation software etc etc with memory map will be banned on the day!
Map software on GPS's will also be banned.

Although there is no way I can enforce these rules, please abide by them and make it a fair 'competition'.

Full rules and instructions will be given on the day. First vehicle to depart by 2pm so please be prompt!

Driver:

The Driver has to apply to all UK driving laws and therefore as such take no part in the treasure hunt (looking at GPS, reading maps, making decisions etc. He/she can take instructions from passengers as to which direction to drive in).

He/she must be in full control of the vehicle and even though the event is time based all speeding laws must be followed, and obviously drive slower if the conditions require.

Co-ordinates must be passed if the road conditions or traffic does not allow safe stopping.

It is the driver’s complete responsibility for the event and his/her passengers.

Driving faster than you would for an 'average' day out in the countryside is the driver’s responsibility, and I suggest for this event that it should not happen.

Edinburgh Geocoin:

The Edinburgh Geocoin will be available for sale at this event by Firth of Forth. For further details please visit this forum thread.

Attendance:

Due to the CITO event being held before this, to be able to log an attendance at this event, you must either take part in the treasure hunt, or be in the pub during the prize giving.
Anyone who stops for a short while after the CITO and then leaves will not be allowed to log an attendance or find at this event.

The table below shows the information that I require before the event.

Keep an eye on this listing, as changes may be made, I will post a note on here each time I make any significant changes.

Many thanks to harrogate hunters for allowing me to copy their extremely popular event.

Note:

To be within the law for mobile treasure hunts, this event comes under the category of ‘Navigational Scatter Events’.

Featuring on Friday the 1st August an event cache organised by the GeoX Forum Members.

They came from the North