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MavEtJu
Joined: 07 January 15 9:15 pm Posts: 432 Location: Caringbah GCA Found: 486 GCA Hidden: 543
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 Car or bicycle rally
Greetings,
After listening to the Geogearheads podcast this weekend I was wondering if there have been any geocaching rallies (car, bicycle, walk) in Australia and how it was experienced. Anybody?
Edwin
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14 August 16 8:17 pm |
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Laighside Legends
10000 or more caches found
Joined: 05 October 10 10:20 pm Posts: 1029 Location: Yorke Peninsula, South Australia GCA Found: 288 GCA Hidden: 29
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 Re: Car or bicycle rally
There was one in Adelaide years ago (2011 era I think). It was only a short one but it was a fun event and well received. The organisers put a lot of effort into it though.
One of the event ideas in the back of my mind has been combining this with "puzzle solving to find the next WP"...
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15 August 16 12:31 am |
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Just a cacher
Joined: 03 July 10 3:01 am Posts: 580 Location: Northside, Canberra, Australia GCA Found: 1981 GCA Hidden: 29  
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 Re: Car or bicycle rally
They do one at the June long weekend in S.A., I believe. Have done for years.
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15 August 16 9:16 am |
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caughtatwork
Joined: 17 May 04 12:11 pm Posts: 15099 Location: Melbourne GCA Found: 1058 GCA Hidden: 298  
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 Re: Car or bicycle rally
I have looked at these before but the public liability insurance is a killer, so avoided doing anything with the idea. I'd love to do one, a hundred km or so around an area, finding specific caches, getting the points, choosing which ones to get next to maximise results. They sound like a great activity.
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15 August 16 10:34 am |
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MavEtJu
Joined: 07 January 15 9:15 pm Posts: 432 Location: Caringbah GCA Found: 486 GCA Hidden: 543
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 Re: Car or bicycle rally
Oh nice, do you have some documentation on it like a website or so?
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15 August 16 10:58 am |
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Happy Chappies
2000 or more caches found
Joined: 04 July 09 12:18 am Posts: 506 Location: Box Hill GCA Found: 49 GCA Hidden: 4
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 Re: Car or bicycle rally
Melbourne folks run one: https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC5 ... shine-2015I attended the 2015 one - Good fun. Didn't make it too competitive but was a nice day around the hills with the family, bumping into people, etc. Well worth it.
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15 August 16 2:43 pm |
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Richary
6000 or more caches found
Joined: 04 February 04 10:55 pm Posts: 4092 Location: Waitara, Sydney GCA Found: 1354 GCA Hidden: 24  
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 Re: Car or bicycle rally
I know calypso62 has run a couple in Sydney.
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15 August 16 6:58 pm |
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Laighside Legends
10000 or more caches found
Joined: 05 October 10 10:20 pm Posts: 1029 Location: Yorke Peninsula, South Australia GCA Found: 288 GCA Hidden: 29
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 Re: Car or bicycle rally
June LWE is competitive caching - not really a car rally. At the start of the day you get 100(ish) caches (in a GPX file) and you've got 6 hours to find as many as you can (in any order - hence planning the right route is critical). Each cache is assigned a number of points (depending on how hard it is to find) and whoever has found the most points wins. (source: I was part of the winning team 2 months ago)
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15 August 16 9:42 pm |
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caughtatwork
Joined: 17 May 04 12:11 pm Posts: 15099 Location: Melbourne GCA Found: 1058 GCA Hidden: 298  
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 Re: Car or bicycle rally
How do you stop people speeding and doing other illegal things in your name?
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16 August 16 1:38 pm |
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MavEtJu
Joined: 07 January 15 9:15 pm Posts: 432 Location: Caringbah GCA Found: 486 GCA Hidden: 543
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 Re: Car or bicycle rally
I just saw the facebook page, very impressive! ( https://www.facebook.com/JunelongWeekend/ for the rest) Edwin
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16 August 16 2:35 pm |
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Laighside Legends
10000 or more caches found
Joined: 05 October 10 10:20 pm Posts: 1029 Location: Yorke Peninsula, South Australia GCA Found: 288 GCA Hidden: 29
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 Re: Car or bicycle rally
It is a problem (along with cheating). Getting a traffic infringement is an instant disqualification. (and there are un-marked police cars around the area) Caches that are deemed to be in places that encourage illegal activity (trespass, dodgy parking, ect.) are removed from the GPX file before the game begins. And the way the points are allocated means you can't win just by driving fast. Been able to run though forests/national parks (and other places you can't drive) is important. Puzzle solving is also quite important. But despite that, cheating does happen. Although it is usually in the form of colluding with other players, prior knowledge of game caches, bribing the organisers, ect. as appose to things that are illegal.
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16 August 16 6:55 pm |
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CraigRat
850 or more found!!!
Joined: 23 August 04 3:17 pm Posts: 6795 Location: Launceston, TAS GCA Found: 158 GCA Hidden: 44
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 Re: Car or bicycle rally
When I've done it elsewhere we signed a disclaimer saying we would abide by all road rules and were participating as individuals. Don't know how that stacks up legally, but it was understood by all parties.
We also had a minimum time penalty at several locations, finishing '1st' actually wasn't something to target, getting accurate answers was.
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16 August 16 7:09 pm |
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The Morris
7000 or more caches found
Joined: 08 November 05 10:38 pm Posts: 168 Location: Bendigo GCA Found: 597 GCA Hidden: 92 
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 Re: Car or bicycle rally
The ones we have participated in have been based on mileage. They take your speedo reading and anything over the measured course loses you points. It has been very successful at slowing people down
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16 August 16 8:44 pm |
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