Today, Aidan, Gwen, Tomer, Carla, and I participated in the Tailspin GeoRally.
This was a geocaching event that featured 20 teams of cachers trying to find a series of caches placed especially for the event. The rally started in Confederation Park in North Burnaby. Cars left the staging area every five minutes from 8:45am onwards, and our start time was 9:25am (Team 9). At the start, you were given the guidelines for the event and the coordinates for the first cache. Caching teams alternated between starting at waypoint number 1 and waypoint number 6. Teams that were on the first track had green passports and teams on the second track had yellow passports. At each waypoint, teams found the coordinates to the next waypoint (perhaps after solving a puzzle) as well as a stamp for their passport. You had to collect all the stamps or incur a 45 minute penalty. Additionally we were given a baggie with hints for each waypoint, each stapled shut. If teams opened any hint, they incurred a 15 minute penalty for each hint opened. The goal was to cross the finish line with the shortest time. We weren’t given any details about the caches, but we were told that one of the caches was ‘manned’. We joked a little about that (a man cache? huh?) and it came out that the cache was actually ‘boy-ed’ since the children of one of the organizers would be running the waypoint.
