We still plan on coming, but probably wouldn’t have if there weren’t 6 permanent caches to look for in the park. We now won’t plan on looking for any of the temporary hides unless there is some incentive to do so such as prizes or the like . What disappoints us the most is the timing of all of these events. All of this should have been thought out sooner before people had their plans made for the campout. We’ll probably learn to live with it in the future, but it will be harder to convince us to come to a WGA event. The main thing about the sport is finding caches and we have so many places we want to visit when searching that we’ll never get to them all. In the year and a half that we’ve been geocaching we have been to 9 events and met a lot of new friends, so we do also enjoy the social part of the game. Some of the events had temporary hides and some had permanent hides so we’re not dead set on an event having temps. The burden is now on the board and the WGA as a whole to provide some new incentive to geocachers like us to want to attend WGA events. I really hope that we’ll want to attend and also that the end can come now to hard feelings and the fence mending can begin.

Isn’t being outside with nature, and caching with friends reward enough? Do we really need to be paid for doing something we all love?

I need no incentive to come spend time with friends and hunt some caches. I see no difference in logging one attended log for finding 10 temporary caches. This is no different than when we log one find for finding 10 stages of a multi-cache.

My family and I had a wonderful time at Wildcat Mountain last fall. It was our first WGA event, and only one to date. I personally fell in love with that part of the state. If it wasn’t for the event, we would have never had a reason to go out there. In all honesty, without the temps, we never would have bothered going out there.
A 7-8 hour round trip drive to an area just to drive around for another 30 miles to find ten caches doesn’t cut it for us. It is nice to be able to walk around for 3 hours to find 20 or 30 caches. You get to see so much more up close than you can while driving. I know of at least one person in here who has had an accident while caching.
The membership voted for this change, and I can live with that. The unfortunate thing is, we were looking forward to other WGA events, but will now have to reconsider. Especially with the price of gas. An event in a cache rich area close to home is one thing. A 3 or 4 hour drive to an area with more driving once you get there, I don’t think so. Have fun at the events. I will be patiently waiting for a WGA event to come to my part of the state. Of course there is the possibility of one near by when we are on vacation.

“The WGA asks that this event be logged only once. The practice of multiple logging of temp caches is no longer condoned by the WGA or considered to be a good practice by much of the geocaching community.”

This statement actually seems a bit ambiguous. Are temp logs “NOT allowed” or are they merely “not CONDONED”? There is a difference.

If they are “NOT allowed”, will they be deleted if logged? If they are “not CONDONDED”, can you really delete something you don’t actually have a firm stand on?

Sounds like rhetoric.

No problem with this. The BOD, as the “owner” of this cache event, can decide what to do with it regarding logging. No different than it always was. If people come to a WGA event and log multiple “attended” for each cache, they’ll still be able to–because gc.com hasn’t put a simple “if-then” edit in the system to disallow it–and the WGA as the owner of the event can decide whether and how to monitor the logs.