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Great Smoky Mountains Scavenger Hunt
March 24, 2012
Gather your friends, family or co-workers and create a team for the 5th annual Great Smoky Mountains Scavenger Hunt!
The hunt ranges over most of the park, using roads and official trails to access particular areas. Some questions require research to answer. As it is illegal to remove items from the park, one digital camera with a flash memory card will be required per team.
Questions are awarded point values based on level of difficulty. The team with the most points may get prizes, but everybody wins! You can have as many people on your team as you like, provided all fit into one vehicle.
One registration form per team must be completed and submitted to Tremont no later than 5 p.m. on Monday, March 19th. Health waivers for each team member are due by Thursday, March 22nd.
The event will take place over a 24-hour period with teams receiving their hunt questions via e-mail by 4:30 p.m. on Friday, March 23rd and are due back at Tremont no later than 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 24th with your answers. A light dinner will be served while tallying takes place. This event is limited to 200 participants so register early!
Cost per team: $50.
Please complete the following forms and return along with your $50 registration fee to Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont, 9275 Tremont Rd., Townsend, TN 37882.
Call 865-448-6709 or email mail@gsmit.org with questions.
Registration Form Event Waiver
Rules:
- Each team must submit their registration form and their entry fee of $50 to Tremont before Monday, March 19 at 5 p.m.
- Tremont must receive a signed event waiver for every member of your team before 4 p.m. on Thursday, March 22nd, or we will not email you the hunt questions and will consider your team not participating. You can mail, fax, email or drop off these waivers to our office any time before March 22nd at 4 p.m.
- Youths ages 16 and 17 may enter the Scavenger Hunt, but they must have written permission from their parents before they can begin the Hunt.
- All children under the age of 16 must be accompanied by an adult.
- Tremont will send each team captain an e-mail confirming that the entry fee and information has been received.
- All individuals must obey local, state, federal and GSMNP rules and regulations at all times.
- Only official trails and sanctioned locations will be used. Please stay on trail!
- No items will be cached in any part of the park EXCEPT on the Tremont campus.
- No questions or tasks require participants to gather materials from the park or make a destructive impact on park resources in any way.
- All wildlife interactions will be overseen by Tremont staff or trained volunteers.
- Any team that fails to check in by the March 24th 4:30 p.m. cut off time will have 20 points deducted from their score per minute they are late.
- Teams are allowed to use one digital camera that uses a single removable memory flash card. No cell phone or non-flash memory card type cameras may be used. Tremont will not provide the camera. Memory card should be blank except for Scavenger Hunt pictures to help facilitate the grading. 20 points will be deducted from the team score for cards that are not blank.
- The above stated flash card must be turned in along with your score sheet by 4:30 p.m. on March 24th to be judged. These memory cards will be returned to the players after the judging is concluded.
- All photos taken during the event become the property of Tremont.
- There is no mandatory check-in at Tremont this year, but we will be available beginning at 8AM March 24th at the Tremont Visitor Center. Stop by to say hello and Gary may be able to give you a few helpful tips for the hunt (wink wink).
- Above all other rules listed above, please do not interfere with any other park guests. Treat others as you wish to be treated.