A Charity Event

Posted on October 6, 2004 in Appeals and Goodwill Geocaching

This is an idea that one moderator at Geocaching.com found just a little too “off the definition” for comfort. So I am proposing it here and if others think they want to run with it independently of Geocaching.com/Groundspeak.com, let us talk about how we might.

You pick a popular location (e.g. Newport Pier, Venice Beach for Californios). Announce that on a given day at a certain block of time, you will be within 10 to 100 yards of the geocache location. Then you ask for sponsors, say $0.25 to $1.00 for every person who finds you. To demonstrate that they did, you ask that they have their picture taken with you and post it to the cache log.

I am thinking about organizing such an event as a benefit for a favorite charity such as Amnesty International or the Red Cross. Perhaps we could declare a weekend when several of us will do it, each of us choosing our own favorite charity. Then cachers could run around catching as many of us as they can.

Geocaching.com would be ideal for such an exercise. As I said, one moderator shivered because it couldn’t be fit into current definitions of what constitute a geocache or an event. (Yes, that type.) I’m not sure how it could be pursued independently without geocaching’s help. I don’t think the issue here is evil intent, but at this point, the narrowness of one moderator who may be moved to a broader view with compassion and courage.

What do others think? Any advice from my loyal base of readers?