Not able to
commit to 24 hours of caching?
Not able to hide a cache?
Not a lot of experience?
Not in town on May 1st?
No worries!
Read on, and see how you can share in the fun no
matter what level of involvement you are able to offer!
We look forward to bumping into you!
There
are three stages to the CAR event:
1) Hide
2) Seek
3) Meet and Vote
The
official CCARS11 website is at this address (copy and paste into
your browser address bar):
http:/www.ccar.calgarycachers.net
The newly named Cache and Release SPRING 2011 (CCARS11) event will
be held on April 30th and May 1st, 2011! Cache and Release is a
multi-day geocaching event with two goals:
a) Encourage geocache hiders, like you, to hide your best cache
ever, and thus raise the quality of geocaches in the Calgary
area,
b) Create a fun-filled 24-hour geocaching finding frenzy for people
like you! Anyone can participate in Calgary Cache and Release
Spring 2011 and to be honest, the more - the merrier! We hope to
see you at some time during the weekend!
Check out the photographs
from previous CCAR events.
Scheduled events
The weekend will be packed with geocaching fun! The following
events give some anchor points to the days, but feel free to set
your own schedule!
• Launch Event - Saturday 30th April, 2011 - GC2P2GB - Munroe Park
We'll start off on the right foot with a CITO event on
International CITO Weekend quickly followed by a CCARS11 rendezvous
to give everyone their supplies for the next 24 hours! This is a
great time to finalise your car-pool arrangements, meet your fellow
seekers and get our GPS receivers readied!
• Midnight event - GC2P2FX -
Saturday 30th April, 2011- 12:00-midnight to Sunday 1st May, 2011
c.1:30am
Twelve hours after hitting the road, it's time to pull over and
take a break! Want to know who else is still out there at this
crazy hour? Need to take on some energy? This is the only place to
be at midnight on this wild night!
• Wrap-up event - Sunday 1st May, 2011 - GC2P2G4 - 12-noon - THIS EVENT!!
Twenty-four hours later and it's time to park that CCaR car and
cosy on in with your fellow road-weary hunters!
Head on down 17th Avenue S.W. East of Crowchild Trail and turn
South on 19th Street to 1919 - 19 Street S.W. Find a place to park
on the street nearby, come in to the 18th Calgary Scout Hall and
take a seat. Snacks, Food, and drinks will be purchasable at the
event however no alcoholic beverages are permitted or
purchasable.
Please indicate in your "will attend" log how
many people will be in your party, so there will be enough grub for
you!. (see pricing details below)
The hall is family-friendly and young children are encouraged to
attend.
So, purchase your grub tickets on the way in, grab something
refreshing to drink and once you find your way to a table, Scouts
will serve you a plate of food. Fill out your voting card and sit
back and share your mostly true lies from the highways and byways!
You are encouraged to move around the room and share stories! Bring
photo cards from your camera to share photos. Awards will be given
out at an appropriate moment.
Food is $12.00 per person suggested donation, less for kids, at
your discretion (half size pays half, of course). This includes
Drinks, Popcorn snacks, Beef on a Bun with all the trimmings and a
surprise yummy desert.(note if you need an alternative, note in
your log or a pm to Hedgehog's Spoon, and we'll try and
accommodate)
Please log your intention to come by Noon on Saturday of the
event so we can put an extra "pea in the pot" for you!,
If you would like to place a cache - THANK YOU. The incredible
caches that are placed for these events, for the enjoyment of the
others, make these events most memorable! Hiders are requested to
hide no more than one geocache per category for a maximum possible
number of hides of five. (You are not required to hide a geocache
in all categories if you do not wish to) and each geocache may only
be entered into a single category.
Cache Effect requires you to have submitted your cache page by
April 21st, 2011 (puzzle caches) or April 25th, 2011 (all other
cache types). This allows enough time for a proper review before
release on April 25th (puzzle caches) or April 28th, 2011 (all
other cache types). If you submit your cache page after this date,
we cannot guarantee that your cache will enter in the
CCARS11.
During the rally, finders will be compiling notes on all the
geocaches that they find. We will encourage finders to carry these
sheets with them so that when it is time to cast their votes at the
wrap-up event, they will have aide-memoires to guide them.
General:
1. No micros are allowed for this event, except for the "Micro"
category. For this category there are additional restrictions on
the container. Some of the most enjoyable caches we have found have
been well designed micros. For this event, all cache sizes refer to
the outer dimensions of the container. And the outer-most layer of
the container should be labelled with, at least, the word
"GEOCACHE".
2. For the CCARS11 event we do not allow caches hidden in evergreen
trees.
3. Give your cache a name of your choosing, and use "CCARS11" as
the last seven characters in the name so that we can create a
pocket query for our use for the event.
4. Please submit your puzzle caches to our reviewer, Cache Effect,
in time for publishing on April 25th, 2011, and all other geocaches
in time for publishing on April 28th, 2011. The earlier deadline
for puzzle caches is to allow finders more time, in advance of the
actual rally, to solve the puzzles themselves (but not to find the
containers). All puzzles should be solvable in about 30-minutes by
the average geocacher.
5. Use the following (copy and paste) description on your cache
page: This cache has been placed for the CCARS11 event, held April
30-May 1, 2011. This cache was released to the public on either
April 25th* or April 28th, 2011. (*Earlier release date for puzzle
caches) The cache should not be located prior to 12-noon, Saturday
30th April, 2011. The caches for the CCAR event are released early
so that the geocaching community has an opportunity to plan their
routes prior to the event start.
6. Use the following (copy and paste) for the reviewer note to
Cache Effect: Please hold this cache and release it with the other
caches at 6:00 pm on April 28th, 2011 (or 6:00pm on April 25th,
2011 for puzzle caches).
7. Use the provided category icon (see the "category icons" page)
to mark your cache in the category of your choice.
8. Please design your caches, place them (with most excellent
coordinates, please), and submit them to Geocaching.com prior to
April 25th. Having them ready to go further in advance of this date
will be appreciated since we don't want to have Cache Effect
inundated with caches at the last moment.
9. Caches can be placed a maximum of 40 km from downtown Calgary
(coordinates N51 02.658 W114 03.786).
10. There will be bragging rights for the best cache in each class.
Each individual cache can be entered in only one category.
Categories:
Micro
Cache container must be a “micro” in size. Cache may
not be hidden in a tree. Please ensure the log book is sized
appropriately for a rally-style event Voters will judge cache on
the creativity of the hider.
Not at posted coordinates
Final cache container must be at least a “small” in
size. Cache must be a multi or unknown (puzzle or night cache)
type. Voters will be looking for creativity at all stages/waypoints
of a physical cache as well as on the cache listing page.
Monty Python
Cache must be at least a "small" in size. Cache should be themed to
"Monty Python" - either one of the films, or a TV sketch, or a
character or actor. There's plenty of reference material on the
Internet and there's lots out there "in your general
direction"!
Holiday
Cache must represent a major celebrated holiday: Easter, Christmas,
Hallowe’en, Thanksgiving, Boxing Day, New Years, Good Friday,
St. Valentine’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day, May Day, Canada
Day, Remembrance Day, and so on.
In plain sight
Cache must be completely exposed, i.e., the container itself must
be visible to the naked eye. Voters will be looking for clever
camouflage to make the container blend in with its surroundings.
Cache must be at least "Regular" in size.
Intrigued? Unsure or have questions? Send us a message or visit our
website for all the details and for links to our facebook pages. We
look forward to seeing you sometime during the 24 hours that is
Cache and Release!
Gentlemen
(and Ladies) - Start your engines!
