Creation Celebration: Designing Earthcaches

This event is being placed in conjunction with the Groundspeak Cache Carnival Celebration. This event is different from other events you may have attended as it is designed to instruct attendees on how to design an informative and unique Earthcache. The CO* of this event will provide a lesson plan on how to design, submit, and publish ECs! This event will follow the outline below and hopefully at the end you will be more informed on the process to create an Earthcache!

• Who: Any and all Geocachers 
• What: An informative Presentation on Earthcache creation
• Where: Heritage Coffee House
• When: 1645-1800 on 08 APR 19
• Why: To inspire the creation of more Earthcaches in our geologically unique town!

Planned Topics

The topics that will be included in this presentation include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Selecting a unique and appropriate Geological Feature
  • Including a segment on what features aren't allowed and why!
• Building a lesson plan
  • ​Why a captivating description is helpful!
• Obtaining Permission
  • Sometimes this is more difficult than you think!
• Crafting appropriate logging tasks
  • Provide an opportunity to showcase learning
  • Site Specific
• Common Pitfalls in the Reviewer Process
• Earthcaching Stories!
• Answering Questions!

I look forward to seeing you there! In order to help tailor this presentation please let me know ahead of time if you have any specific questions you'd like me to address about any and everything Earthcaching related. If you are currently working on an Earthcache or if you have an idea for one, bring it with you and we'll discuss it!

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_{*My qualifications: I am an avid Earthcacher and currently own 22 ECs in 10 states/territories as well as one in Canada and one in Antarctica. I have completed more than 135 ECs since I started caching in 2012.}