SPRING Chippewa Valley Geocaching Event UPDATE

[kent1915]

I just received another 20 cache coordinates from MamaKat, which by the way, are ALL going to be, or are, GC.COM listed.

[kent1915]

Up to 60 caches, all but 5 GC.Com listed/submitted.

[Team Deejay]

Kent, I think everyone really appreciates your work coordinating this event. It is really great that the vast majority of the caches will be listed. Great work and thanks for your efforts! We are definitely going to try to make it up there this year. Last year there was some big event going on when we wanted to travel, so we couldn’t get a campsite or room.

[kent1915]

Thanks! But It could not be done without the “army” of hiders.

[WI_Robin]

Since I had to come up with “alternative” funding for the CITO coins I approached 2 different coin manufacturers about helping me out. Now I will have 2 kinds of CITO coins to give away! 😀 Here is a picture of the first one. It’s from “The Caching Place”. They are also making the Chippewa Valley Geocaching event coins. The little picture at the top is the coins icon. These coins are also availabe for purchase at The Caching Place. Or you can get your free limited edition coins by attending the CITO event!!

Thanks Georgia and crew!!

[PCFrog]

@zuma wrote:

@Lostby7 wrote:

I’ll be there…likely in April…. 😛
I’m hoping all the caches will be in place right away?

Yes, all the caches will appear April 14. Most, but not all, will also be on gc.com. You will be able to download a booklet like last year describing each cache, the given coordintates, etc. It will also be possible to download the coordinates. It will not be possible to do the event caches totally paperless, because of the need to print out the booklet to verify being at the cache, but getting a punch.

zuma

I and my family are staying the night of the 13th at a hotel. (Bing – note to tourism bureau that revenue was generated from the event) Anyhow, if the caches are not listed tell the 14th is there going to be a station at the CITO event to load cache waypoints for those who do not have laptops and wireless connections?

Hopes desperately there will be….

[bnb]

I was just conversing with Jeremy about getting the WGA Eggplant for that purpose. I was assuming most people would have had the coords uploaded already and was just offering my laptop as a backup. It does not contain USB connections, though, so it would be best to bring your own cable if you have that, or anything unusual.

This is the device I’m talking about. If you need something other than what is listed on it, you’ll need to bring it yourself.

Ruth

[kent1915]

All caches will be in place right away. The reviewers have been fantastic and the caches listed will be “released” on 4/14 at midnight. I’m not sure about at the CITO event, but I will have a laptop at CVB with stuff loaded so you could get at it. Unless laptop dies… BYO cables thought. Hope it helps!

[kent1915]

Oh! And for those going almost paperless for this, I submitted to the website yesterday PDB file (for Palm OS), the Pocket PC file, GPX file, Magellan file, etc. So, should have something useable for everyone. Specific question about it, let me know!

[BigStick]

So Kent, to clarify for myself, on the 14th the caches will be listed on the GC site right? Where will the combined GPX file be available at? Will there be a new event cache listed on the 14th that has the downloads or will it be a different location? Thanks.

[kent1915]

Sorry. Yes, the 75 submitted will be “listed” at midnight on the 14th. There will not be another “event cache” listed; however, on the geocachingwisconsin.com webpage, the registration and download area will become available then where you can get the file. Also, the CVB will open at 8 a.m. to register and one of the computers will be in the lobby wiht GSAK program and data available for download/install. You would need to bring your own cables though…

Now, about that GPX/GSAK file, if anyone is familiar with exporting files wiht it to different formats and would like to help debug it, I am starting to have apoplectic fits… drop me an email if you have ideas/willingness to help. The main one I built works, but other versions don’t. Yet…

[Decrepit]

8) Now that tax season is over, it is really slow at work. So, to keep myself busy, I bookmarked the caches for the CVB event so that I could find them faster when logging them. I hope someone else will find the bookmarked list helpful as well.

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