Land Ops Adventure Trip - Feb 25, 2012

LAND OPS ADVENTURE TRIP

February 25-26, 2012

Location: Exact Rendezvous and Base Camp to be announced prior to the trip.

CURRENT FORECAST for Feb 25 (reported Feb 18):
Mostly Sunny High 65 F and Low 36 F

Weather Policy: Land Ops operates in all weather. Adverse weather simply ads to the challenge.

Land Ops promises a true adventure into the unknown this February with our sixth deep inland adventure. All vehicle makes and models welcome.
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EXPERIENCED MEMBERS: For those who have participated on previous Land Ops adventures you will be challenged with new and exciting navigating exercises including Extreme Night Ops. You may also be called upon to coach and guide new participants.

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FIRST TIME PARTICIPANTS: You are in for a real treat. Your adventure will NOT be forgotten. This is an expedition style trip with unique navigation and radio missions while exploring the deep inland interior of California. You'll be teamed up with friendly and capable organizers and play an important role in completing mission objectives. Most first time participants become functional on the first operational exercise.

Ops Plan

• Practice Caches - GPS Training & Adjustments
• Buried Treasure
• Geotactical Relay
• Extreme Night Ops
• Capture the Flag

Prizes for finding caches is part of the Land Ops fun! Prizes for this trip to be announced.

Overview
Land Ops will once again be conducting off road exploration combined with navigation and radio communication games. The driving is NOT considered extreme. However, we are conducting an extreme night operation that will require a special briefing and precautions in order to execute the operation safely and successfully. You do not have to have a radio to participate. Participants who simply want to run with a team as a spotter or navigator is just fine.

During this operation participants will form two primary adventure teams. Some of the operations will call for both teams to work together to accomplish a larger mission. Other operations will have the two teams competing for prizes. Each team will consist of one or more of the following strengths;

Experienced drivers Navigators Radio operators Vehicle recovery Spotters Most new members learn to navigate quickly using a GPS device. We will make sure you know how to operator your GPS and are on the same datum as the rest of the team.

Spotters assist in finding geocache containers once you have arrived at the target location. They also help to maintain visual contact between multiple teams during exercises.

Four wheel drive IS NOT REQUIRED, but highly recommended. Trails are expected to be easy to moderate.

Extreme Night Ops

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During this event we will be conducting an exercise called Extreme Night Ops. The word extreme does NOT refer to the trail conditions, but rather to the psychological and emotion aspects of the op itself as well as the obvious challenge of completing the exercise at night. The aspect of NIGHT will bring your experience of exploring the unknown to an entirely different level. The exercise is considered to be more "spooky" than anything else. Members have been known to abort and return to base after only a few miles. To give new members confidence to conduct this exercise you will be joined to form capable teams and Land Ops will be in an over-watch position during the operation. The security of the team and Land Ops in over-watch should give you the confidence to do something very few people would ever do on their own, navigate through remote and unfamiliar territory at night.

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Get out there! Run with Land Ops.