Saturday, July 19, 2008

How to skirt the rules

Whenever possible, I enjoy "educating" my fellow geocachers on some of the do's and dont's of creating event caches.

Today's example of a "don't" is : cache hunting on da Cumberland by JoGPS (GC1E2PN)

Here is an excerpt from the guidelines in regards to event caches:
In addition, an event cache should not be set up for the sole purpose of drawing together cachers for an organized hunt of another cache or caches. Such group hunts are best organized using the forums or an email distribution list.
JoGPS tries to skirt this part of the guideline by beginning his event description with a run-on sentence:
We will meet up at Shoney's for a little eat and greet at 8:00 AM 110 Interstate Dr, Nashville, TN then go to da boat dock in Shelby Park at 9:00 AM for a fun day of hunting caches by water, this is not a regular event but an adventure
The first part of the description implies an "eat and greet" - which is what a lot of geocaching events are. Where he bumbles it is in the name of the event "cache hunting on da Cumberland". This implies that the event is centered around a cache hunt, which violates the above quoted section of the guidelines.

3 comments:

Titansfan said...

Are you bringing a boat?

Mackheath said...

LOL! You bet, man!

Titansfan said...

I didn't make the trip, how was the event and float down the river?