HERE IT IS – THE ‘WRITE YOUR WILL IN ADVANCE CONTEST’ by The X-Treme GPS Team!

‘WRITE YOUR WILL IN ADVANCE’ CONTEST’ – The starting instructions are found in the exclusive vigps.com cache named:

‘THE BEAST IS UNLEASHED CACHE’

By The X-Treme GPS Team

IMPORTANT NOTE: This cache contains the starting instructions for the “Write Your Will In Advance Contest”.

Please take ONE COPY per team.

Cache also contains an original ‘Kazoo’, and new CD’S by Enya, The Go Team, Juliette and the Licks, Coldplay, Madonna and Blue Rodeo’s Greatest Hits. PLUS $20.00 for the first finder!

Please log your find under the heading ‘The Beast Is Unleashed’ on the forum page of vigps.com.

Here’s how to get to ‘The Beast Is Unleashed’ cache:

Go to Spectacle Park. Walk down the main trail until you get to the lake. On your right, and just beside the lakes edge, you’ll find a sign that says CVRD No lifeguard on duty, swim at your own risk. The sign has blue/green letters on a white background.

Determine the UTM of this sign. From this sign, proceed 182.0702 meters True west; then from here, proceed 2040.8265 meters True north. You will find ‘The Beast Is Unleashed Cache’ here, by a small stump. We’ve covered the cache with two large pieces of tree bark. Please re hide exactly as found.

At a future date, The X-Treme GPS Team may put these instructions on vigps.com, but until then, to see what you’re in for, you’ll have to make the trek. If we have any updates during this contest they will appear on vigps.com.

This is a very x-citing contest…..

THE GLOBETROTTER CONTEST

This contest begins October 1^st, 2005.

It is available on VIGPS.COM (Vancouver Island GPS), located in Victoria, on Vancouver Island in the Province of British Columbia, Canada.

THE GLOBETROTTER CONTEST is open to all Geocaching.com members worldwide.

If there are any changes or clarifying information re this contest, The Team will advise on vigps.com home page.

This contest will terminate on, or before, December 31, 2005 at 6:00 PM.

The Team will pay $50.00 US per day until this contest is won by a valid declared winner. (I.E. if a team/individual completes this contest, for example, on October 30^th, 2005, they will win $1500.00 US – if a team/individual completes this contest on December 31^st, 2005, they will receive $4600.00 US funds.)

If there is no winner by the closing date and time, the contest will officially end without a declared winner, and no payout.

Contestants MUST COMPLETE ALL QUESTIONS in order to qualify – no exceptions. The first individual/team to submit all the correct answers will be declared the winner, so this is a race to the finish – you’d better hustle, you wouldn’t want another team/individual to beat you by just a day or so! After you have completed all questions/answers, please post on vigps.com and email TheTeam@shaw.ca.

You will be given 8 cache locations around the world. You must choose any 6 of these cache locations (your choice as to which ones).

The Waypoints of these 8 caches are as follows:

1) GC2D20

2) GCHF14

3) GCPHHN

4) GCHV9W

5) GC2423

6) GCB357

7) GCJQGW

8) GCKKV3

You are to get to a final cache location that is:

1) 17577.533139 km from GC2D20

2) 18846.417516 km from GCHF14

3) 9730.670349 km from GCPHHN

4) 7224.944483 km from GCHV9W

5) 17498.986008 km from GC2423

6) 13210.820155 km from GCB357

7) 15570.734035 km from GCJQGW

8) 15832.160327 km from GCKKV3

You can go to 6 of the 8 locations yourself, plus the final location, OR, you can use operatives. BUT the ‘operative’ MUST BE ANOTHER CACHER OTHER THAN THE CACHER OR CACHERS TEAM OR FAMILY MEMBER WHO ACTUALLY PLACED THE CACHE. Also, that cacher or operative must have been a member of Geocaching.com BEFORE October 1^st, 2005.

If more than one individual or team attempts this contest, they must NOT WORK WITH ANOTHER TEAM THAT THEY KNOW, OR ARE ASSOCIATED WITH, IN THEIR HOME TERRITORY.

You must submit the team names of your ‘operative’ (i.e. the cacher you will use as an operative in a distant location), AND state that cacher or cachers team name on VIGPS.COM. Once you have done this, this ‘distant’ cacher cannot be used by any other contestants.

You must give reports on VIGPS.COM of your progress with each ‘move’ you make so others following this contest can see the progress of the various teams participating in this contest.

Pictures will be required at all 6 starting locations you choose, including:

A) A photo of the cache of you or your operative showing a piece of paper with the current date on it, and their Geocaching.com team or User name.

B) A photo of your, or your operatives GPS at the site, showing the PDOP and estimated accuracy on it’s position (Lat/Long) page. This position must be in WGS 84 map datum.

C) 4 photos of the surrounding countryside around the cache, and more photos if so desired.

D) Photos of the FINAL location, with the same requirements as above.

THERE WILL ONLY BE ONE WINNING TEAM OR INDIVIDUAL…

That team/individual will be the first to complete all the requirements accurately.

You must make your own financial arrangements with various operatives, and you are responsible for your own safety and well being.

Teams/individuals attempting this contest should set up their own forum page on VIGPS.COM to log their progress. If your operatives have any queries, they must email you directly; if you, in turn, need a clarification, you may email TheTeam@shaw.ca

In the event a cache is missing, you or your operative must show your GPS in the ‘active’ mode at the location of the cache, showing the GPS unit receiving satellites, and showing PDOP and accuracy figures. ‘Stored’ or ‘fake’ waypoints will not be accepted. Photoshop or faked photographs will lead to disqualification.

The Team will want to see full disclosure of information – we want the vigps.com site to

capture ‘the excitement’ for all readers.

Post pictures of remote locations as you get them.

The Team will be monitoring this contest and vigps.com for compliance.

Good luck to all.

X-Treme GPS Team

The Team

Here it is! Go get ’em!

BATTLE ON THE BEACH CONTEST
Saturday, September 3rd, 2005

What follows below is information for a curved line that extends across Gyro Park Beach. The line extends through the following 16 UTM positions (all in WGS 84).

We’ve buried 8 ‘moonbombs’ (magnetic survey locators) along this curved line; +/- approximately 5 meters on either side of it.

‘The Team’ will pay $50.00 Cdn. cash each to the finder of each moonbomb. Please

REMOVE the moonbomb after locating it, and take it with you.

You must report your winning numbers to TheTeam@shaw.ca no later than Monday, the 5th of September, 2005 at 6:00 PM.

Here are the positions this curved line runs through:

1) 478719 5367303

2) 478668 5367346

3) 478629 5367366

4) 478547 5367385

5) 478509 5367390

6) 478336 5367344

7) 478149 5367251

8) 478094 5367213

9) 478012 5367129

10) 477981 5367094

11) 477931 5367029

12) 477870 5366885

13) 477864 5366846

14) 477863 5366820

15) 477864 5366795

16) 477882 5366724

GOOD LUCK TO ALL PARTICIPANTS, HAVE FUN!

The Team

You are to locate…
You are to locate a man made object and describe what it is.

A) This object is 98.454669 miles away from a buried steel bar with two tags attached at 10U 367602/5478369.

B) It is also 135.496596 kilometers away from two GPS tags at 10U 383232/5461559.

C) It is also 94.433307 miles away from two GPS tags at 10U 372161/5473777.

D) It is also 74.028757 miles away from a GPS tag at 10U 406299/5459922.

All UTMS in WGS 84.

You can use as many starting points as you want to locate this man made object, but you must identify the tag numbers at the locations you choose.

The object you are about to locate is within an area bounded by 10U 479980/5375080, 10U 465965/5375896, 10U 467124/5359912 and 10U 483650/5360589!

The first individuals, or team to report the required tag numbers and the man made object will receive $500.00 Cdn. Email your answers to TheTeam@shaw.ca.

You are responsible for your own safety.

This contest ends September 30, 2005 at 6:00PM

Have fun, and good luck!

The Team