San Francisco Treasure Hunts

My first «treasure» scavenger hunt! We had an off site meeting and one of the activities was this! I have to say, I was skeptical that I would be helpful at all cuz I stink at thinking fast. But the questions and clues were not too hard and we had a great time trying to figure it out!
We had ours in the presidio so we did a gooood amount of walking. I’d say we did pretty well since we won 2^nd place! (First place had a Presidio resident so that’s not fair.)
They even had prizes for the top 5 teams so hey! Even better, who doesn’t love some sort of prize?!
Would totally recommend it for companies to have as an event for teams to bond and hey it was good exercise too!

The hunt was great! We had a lot of fun. It worked just as well for the participants from across the country as it did for the natives. A great team building event!

Bring your «A» game because I am taking you down.
Think you’re ready for the Amazing Race? Try San Francisco Treasure Hunts first and see if you even last the 4 hours.
It’s important to pick the right team– someone who’s good in sleuthing, someone with common sense, someone with a sense of direction, and lastly if not most important, someone who is not dead weight. Just kidding. This is just like the military. No one is left behind. That is, if your team mate has your back. Now who really has your back? You’ll find out here!
San Francisco Treasure Hunts offers treasure hunts all over San Francisco for groups, corporate team building, and those who just want to do something different. It’s a great way to use your noggin, get to know someone you weren’t exactly friends with, build solidarity, and find out more about the City. Even those native to San Francisco will discover something new.
The treasure hunt I participated in was the Embarcadero/​FiDi/​Chinatown/​North Beach and Telegraph Hill course. Hill, did I say hill? Hello! This is San Francisco. Yea there were hills, hills and stairs, bums to dodge, cops on bikes, and oh yea red lighting in broad daylight via Broadway if you know what I mean.
The clues are tough, clever, and catchy. Sometimes they come with pictures and sometimes they come with rhymes. If you’re smart (like moi) you can easily figure out the locations. Then its on for the wild goose chase. And like magic I became the psycho competetive gal that I am on off peak hours. We ran, huffed n puffed all over the city. No bathroom breaks, no food breaks, and no resting. We even hid behind a few cars from one of the opposing teams. I confess, I did stop and get smoothies from a Chinese woman. We were in Chinatown and they were just too good to pass up. Might I add, it was a hot day in the City. Fog? What fog? Who said the Bay is foggy? Of course there was no fog on this day to cool us down on our treasure hunt. Go figure.
My team ended with second place. There was one District Manager on the other team who was slightly more seasoned and competetive than I was. The other team was well… slacking and out of breath.
San Francisco Treasure Hunts was an experience I will never forget. It was an awesome team building day and hats off to my boss who kept it a secret for a week. We didn’t even know what we were doing until the guide met us in Embarcadero. It’s a good thing we were told to wear our kicks because we were literally thrown into the City searching for monuments, plaques, buildings and more. The hunt is built for all ages and on foot (no cheating with cars, cable cars, or taxis!) but if I had my way, I would have thrown the following:
–Drive a stick shift up a hill and parralel park it on the hill in between two cars that will box you in and take a picture.
–Swim to Alcatraz, grab some flag, and swim back to Aquatic Park.
–Bike across the Golden Gate Bridge, grab some flag, and bike back.
–Down 2 gallons of clam chowder and eat the bread bowl that it came in.
–Kayak around AT&T Park and catch a baseball.
–Go through Lombard on roller blades and live to tell about it.
Maybe I’ve just been watching too many episodes of Amazing Race or maybe my application for reality tv has been rejected one too many times but if San Francisco Treasure Hunts provides a great start, why not push it a little further? It could be fun, right?