Spring Time Trials and Lunch Event Cache
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Spring Time Trials and Lunch
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Saturday, April 10, 2004
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Time Trials/get together and free lunch. Menu currently includes roast chicken, vegetables, mashed potatoes, gravy. Also incuded are sodas and juices. A time trail will be conducted in conjunction with this event for those interested in participating.
Starting location is my house, which will serve as base station for this event. Lunch will be available throughout the day.
Time trials details:
Somewhere shrouded in the mists of time (late February) a number of special caches were hidden on the backroads of West Tennessee, somewhere between S Tipton, NW Fayette and NE Shelby counties.
On Saturday April 10th teams will seek out and return with a token from each of these caches. Points will be awarded based on shortest time overall to find the caches and number of caches found. Teams or individuals with the first and second lowest point score totals will win invaluable cool stuff (okay, actually Groundspeak online gift certificates). One prize per team. How you divvy it up is up to you. First team crossing the start line promptly at 10 am.
Sign up individually or in teams of up to 4 people. Entry fee is $5 per person or $10 per team, to help offset expenses. Children ride free. All participants must register in advance by contacting SausageDad although you can bring your entry fee the day of. This is necessary so I can guesstimate how much food I need to prepare, and plan details of the Time Trials. Please register early and indicate who/how many in your team.
What’s provided: the caches, junk food snacks, soft drinks, juices and a home-cooked lunch.
This is a rain or shine event. Tornado date (god forbid) will be Saturday April 24th.
PRIZES:
1st Prize - $50 total in Groundspeak Online Gift Certificates
2nd Prize - $25 total Groundspeak Online Gift Certificates
3rd+ Prizes – A hearty handshake and a slap on the back
RULES
1. No speeding. A] It’s dangerous. B] The police around here are vigilant and look like bushes, you WILL get caught.
2. NO ALCOHOL.
3. All participants must register in advance by contacting SausageDad (rsmith@midsouth.rr.com) although you can bring your entry fee the day of. This is necessary so I can guesstimate how much food I need to prepare, and plan details of the Time Trials. Please register early and indicate who/how many in your team.
4. Teams must work independently of each other. If you come onto a cache location and another team is there, you can either go on to the next cache and return later, or wait a respectable (read: considerable) distance away until the party ahead moves on. No “playing through”.
5. Caches must be replaced as close to where they were originally found as possible, in as much of an “as original” state as possible (no making it harder for the following teams). If you must move the cache slightly or cover it differently use your best judgement to duplicate as close as possible the original setting and conditions.
6. Each team will begin from my living room/den at N 35° 20.285 W 89° 37.239 (WGS84). Teams will be dispatched at 15 minute intervals, with start and end times recorded.
7. Each team must return to co-ords above for lunch/rest break any time after finding their first cache and before finding their last. Teams will be grounded for 30 minutes from time of check in during an enforced lunch/rest period. Each team will be credited -300 points toward their score to offset lunch/rest and travel time.
8. Each team will be required to check in once every hour via cell phone while traveling. Numbers to contact will be distributed along with the cache co-ordinates.
9. If you find any trash in the search areas please bring it out with you.
10. HAVE FUN
SCORING
+5 points for every minute of time used.
+300 point penalty for failing to observe lunch/rest rule.
-100 points for each cache found.
-300 points for resting/lunch.
-400 points for finding all the caches.
LOWEST SCORE WINS
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