DS GPS challenge
Posted: 26 Feb 2007 10:00
Hey all,
Just put 125 miles on the DRZ this Saturday driving the backroads south of Wichita. Nothing too challenging since I was by myself.
My plan is to put together a GPS route where I give you the first coordinates here on this website and you would bike to that point and find the hidden laminated card with the next coordinates listed and drive to that point and repeat to the end. I plan on not giving you any advice on how to get to the next point, that will be part of the fun/challenge. You can travel dirt or highway or anyway you think will get you there. I don't want to make it too difficult to ride from point to point or find the card with the coordinates this first time so everyone can try this and enjoy regardless of skill level and bike. Not going to put these on any private property except for maybe my own. I have a few coordinates located in parks, on bridges, and backroad ditches.
I think this is going to take me a few more weekends to put together if the weather cooperates. I'd like to get a few more points in. Then I'm going to have to travel the whole thing again to put the cards in the hiding spots. I will probably list some points with an alternative point if I feel one of them is in risk of being found by the general public and removed or if I had to hide it really well and you give up you can try the alternate point that is within a couple hundred yards of the first point.
Something that might be fun is when you finish you could log back into this site and let us know how many miles it took you to complete so we can see who ran it in the most/least miles.
Another Idea I wanted to throw out there is possibly list a clockwise and a counter clock wise route on the cards so if you wanted to run in separate groupes you could go opposite directions and see if you ever meet each other during the ride or see who finishes first (safely of course) if I put the final point at an area that the first group could relax afterwards and comfortably wait for the second group.
Depending on the final length of the route I may put a shortcut option in. Let me know what you think of this too.
Geocaching has a form of this kind of thing but I've always seen it done where you travel by foot from point to point in a park or something. Oh, and I don't plan on having an actual cache at the end with cheap toys in it unless the majority insists on something.
Mike
Just put 125 miles on the DRZ this Saturday driving the backroads south of Wichita. Nothing too challenging since I was by myself.
My plan is to put together a GPS route where I give you the first coordinates here on this website and you would bike to that point and find the hidden laminated card with the next coordinates listed and drive to that point and repeat to the end. I plan on not giving you any advice on how to get to the next point, that will be part of the fun/challenge. You can travel dirt or highway or anyway you think will get you there. I don't want to make it too difficult to ride from point to point or find the card with the coordinates this first time so everyone can try this and enjoy regardless of skill level and bike. Not going to put these on any private property except for maybe my own. I have a few coordinates located in parks, on bridges, and backroad ditches.
I think this is going to take me a few more weekends to put together if the weather cooperates. I'd like to get a few more points in. Then I'm going to have to travel the whole thing again to put the cards in the hiding spots. I will probably list some points with an alternative point if I feel one of them is in risk of being found by the general public and removed or if I had to hide it really well and you give up you can try the alternate point that is within a couple hundred yards of the first point.
Something that might be fun is when you finish you could log back into this site and let us know how many miles it took you to complete so we can see who ran it in the most/least miles.
Another Idea I wanted to throw out there is possibly list a clockwise and a counter clock wise route on the cards so if you wanted to run in separate groupes you could go opposite directions and see if you ever meet each other during the ride or see who finishes first (safely of course) if I put the final point at an area that the first group could relax afterwards and comfortably wait for the second group.
Depending on the final length of the route I may put a shortcut option in. Let me know what you think of this too.
Geocaching has a form of this kind of thing but I've always seen it done where you travel by foot from point to point in a park or something. Oh, and I don't plan on having an actual cache at the end with cheap toys in it unless the majority insists on something.
Mike
this is a great idea!