GC1DDP6 GeoGolf - In the Rough
Type: Traditional | Size: Small | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: Chewys @ | Hide Date: 21/06/2008 | Status: Archived
Country: Canada | State: Manitoba
Coordinates: N49° 55.871 W97° 01.400 | Last updated: 10/06/2026 | Fav points: 0
         

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GeoGolf - To play golf just roll the die in the cache and log the color or number. These will later translate into a score. Details to follow on a possible 19th hole event with some prizes.

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Welcome to the Winnipeg GeoGolf Tournament!

Geocaching and Golfing have a lot in common, especially the way I golf. Think about it.

• You spend a lot of time skulking around bushes and trees looking for (a geocache or a golf ball)
• Both sports gets you out of the house and wandering/driving around the outdoors
• You can (cache or play a round) alone, with strangers you met (caching or on the course) or with friends
• You can regale others with tales of your (caching or golfing) adventures
• Quite often while (caching or golfing) you find golf balls

But with Geocaching:

• There are NO green fees (unless you WANT to give me money)
• You only “play” the same cache twice to watch/torment someone else during their struggle to find what you have already found
• You can play during the winter
• A high-end GPSr is still cheaper than high-end golf clubs
• And the participation of the GLOBAL GEOCACHING COMMUNITY makes this fun WORLD WIDE!

So, I invite you to play 9 (maybe 18 soon) GeoGolf Caches with me! Caches will range in difficulty and type. I invite you to keep score. Prizes may be awarded (hey, I just gave you 9 - maybe 18? caches, I am not made of money!) to the best score.

How do you score?

Well, like golf, this is an “on your honour” system. Each cache location has a numbered or coloured die. Roll the die and log the colour or number. At a later date we will randomly select numbers to correlate to the color at the hole and viola, you have a score. Before the 19th Hole Event (in September or October) all GeoGolf caches must be completed in order to determine the tournament winner. All caches will remain active for all future finders, just not part of the tournament. That should give you ample time to tour the city and pickup the caches. Of course you can do them all within one day if you like! But no bonus points! Any GeoGolf caches not completed by tournament end date will result in an automatic 10 points added to your score. So you are better off finding the cache!

Congratulations to GG+J on the FTF !

01/08/2010 By Kabutroid
Shoot, I didn't even realize that this cache had an ulterior motive of sorts going on. Had I known that the dice in the cache container had some kind of meaning, I would have given them a roll and recorded the results. As it turns out, I hadn't read the cache description prior to logging the cache right now. Of course, given this cache was placed in 2008, I get the feeling that it's highly unlikely that the contest is still running .

But that aside... on with the cache itself... the primary focus of this hobby (I still refuse to call it a sport ). After having made a surprisingly fast find at the nearby New Years Surprise cache, I decided to head over to this one to somewhat 'cover the bottom part of the park'. Since I had planned to do some biking through the park, I looked around for any other paved paths after leaving the last cache, thinking that there might be at least packed trails or something trailing through the park.

No such luck... looks like it's long grass for me all the way on this one. I suppose I could have biked up to the top of the really big hill and followed the packed path that goes around the top of it... but that was all the way over there . Also, I wanted to avoid biking on the road, because drivers in Winnipeg are completely insane when it comes to sharing the road with a bicycle. Thus... the grass it was. I actually made surprisingly good time, and didn't get too tired out on the way to the cache. Finally reaching the coordinates (after passing both a frisbee golf course and a... model plane flying area or something), I hopped off my bike and set about looking for the cache. I quickly determined that there could be a pretty large number of places that a cache could hide around here.

Much like with my other cache finds in this park, the area was thankfully completely deserted, and I could do my hunting in absolute peace. Doing a quick circle around the area, I guessed that the cache wouldn't be hidden in a 'typical' manner for this type of location. I couldn't be certain obviously, but somehow I just had that hunch. Let's see how wrong the hunch can steer me this time . After all, I had a hunch in regards to resolving an earlier DNF, and although I eventually DID find it, my hunch had completely steered me in the wrong direction.

This time however, it looks like the luck I had from that earlier DNF was still riding strong, and it took me only a few moments to spot the cache out of the corner of my eye. SUCCESS! I was hoping that I wouldn't have to plunge my hands through the absolutely vast number of spider webs that seemed to be around ground zero... and thankfully, I was able to avoid every one of them . A quick poke through the contents, and I left a signature chainmail ball. I replaced it slightly better, since when I had found it the method of attaching it to its hiding spot was... offset, so to speak. Probably due to wind. In either case, I replaced it less offset and hopefully nice and firmly. When I stepped back, I was glad to see that the hiding job seemed to do the trick quite nicely.

So thanks for giving me a destination to bike to and thus some nice exercise biking through the park. I've really got to spend more time in this place adventuring around it in the near future .

Took: Nothing
Left: Logbook entry and chainmail ball