MnGCA

[merkman]

Don sent this to me and a light bulb went off in my head.
Maybe a chance for a new geocaching competition.

[msteffel]

There are already things like Orienteering (http://www.mnoc.org/), Adventure Racing (http://marseries.com) and (when it was here) the Urban Challenge. All of those are time based, but the big difference is all of those are done with OUT a GPS and are instead done with map and compass. So one option would be do do the same thing, just with GPSs.

Of course for those mentioned above the participants are trying to find obvious orange and white markers that has a punch (or some other device) to prove that you were there. For geocaching I spend more time looking for the caches that you confounding people hide once I'm at the coordinates than the time it takes for me to get there

So if you want something more timed based, that could easily be done but if you want to use a different aspect (maybe the route or something like that) it would take a bit more out of the box thinking. Anyway, just thinking out loud.

One side note: If people people upload info, it is just data and could be manipulated (not that I think anyone would, just that it's a possibility). Of course when at an event and downloaded directly from the GPS that would lessen the chance of that, but if it's something that people upload...