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I’ll be tucked inside my house. Now that the white craphas arrived, I doubt I’ll be driving anywhere now. I think my caching days are over till summer.
@gotta run wrote:
@AstroD-Team wrote:
It would be neat to get something together to show off some historic areas of Green Bay though.
I can only code so fast….
Well if you are intereted in some areas and things…I have about 45 locations in and around Green Bay. 😯 😀
@gotta run wrote:
@AstroD-Team wrote:
It would be neat to get something together to show off some historic areas of Green Bay though.
I can only code so fast….
Well if you are intereted in some areas and things…I have about 45 locations in and around Green Bay. 😯 😀
@gotta run wrote:
@-cheeto- wrote:
sounds fun in a dorky kind of way just like geocaching.
What do you mean? You wander around staring at a little screen, press buttons pretending to interact with invisible people, pretending to pick up nonexistent items, and completing imaginary tasks. Then you go sign a slip of paper in a piece of Tupperware in a bush somewhere. Nothing dorky about it. Now please excuse me because I have a comic book convention to get to before the Star Trek marathon starts.
I’d almost think your making fun of us Sci Fi geeks. We’re not all dorks. LOL
I would love to try a Wherigo, but am not rich enough to afford the equipment. Programming sounds absolutely nightmarish. It would be neat to get something together to show off some historic areas of Green Bay though.
Congrats on 1K!! I look forward to meting you in/at the Great Northwoods in a month or so!
@gotta run wrote:
Yup, I’ll get it started somehow. The Cubmaster is a geocacher here too (Ike80), I’m just a lowly Den Leader, maybe we can get the Den to join in the fun…
Den Leaders are important!! I was one for my son’s Tiger, Wolf and Webelos days. (I was Cubmaster during his Bear Year – yikes). Thankfully with Boys Scouts, I’m functioning as a Troop Committee member and a district wide Astronomy Merit Badge Counselor.
I know several in Jacob’s troop hve done geocaching – but not very actively. This project might get them more involved.
Let me know how it goes if you take the den out. It could be lots of fun!!
Jacob will benefit from this as a scouter and geocacher. I know he is interested in helping out. And Kyle who was at the meeting last night is a cacher from GB area and a scouter as well.
Gotta Run – I have one of the Scouting TBs for you to grab and move along (after Mark gets them all activated). We’ll have to make arrangements for you to get it if you’re interested.
The meeting was insightful if anything. Mark, who is heading up the program, really has no experience with geocaching. So we have given him a lot of good information and is going to rely on us for help.
He is going to create a BSA council geocaching account to activate the TBs (I got one for you to release btw) and set up caches. It sounds like he is going to rely on us to go out, hide and maintain the caches if we are willing. Sounds like the BSA will supply all the cache materials as well (no micros here!)
There will 17 hidden. 12 of those called Cache to Eagle, will be based on the Scout law and will but at or near Eagle Scout projects within the council. (A list is being compiled of scout projects and then the selection process begins – proximity to other caches, equal representation around the district and permission being granted). Cachers completing all 12 of the Cache to Eagle series will receive a special patch while supplies last. The other 5 caches are tenatively being placed at the gates of the Boy Scout camps withing the district and possibly at the Council headquaters in Appleton. (this will allow public access and still be within the scouting theme – and there should be no caches within these areas).
Inside all these caches will be cards and information on scouting. One of these cards, if filled out completely, and mailed in, will give geocachers a chance to enter the monthly drawing for a special trackable geocoin that was made just for this endeavor.
It still sounds a bit too commerical, but it does sound like they do have groundspeak support and blessing. When things advance to the next stage, we will get an email notice.
I think with the active cachers who have volunteered to be involved in the process, there will be some nice well-stocked caches being placed for cachers to come and find. I think the targeted roll out will be spring 2010. I mentioned taking some extra time to do this right instead of just throwing caches out there just to get this going.
That’s my take on the meeting and what was discussed.
CONGRATS ON 1000!!
We’re honored you chose our favorite cache to make the big milestone on!
@marc_54140 wrote:
@AstroD-Team wrote:
Seriously…what’s the point to this?? I think its absolutely stupid.
Did you not just go hunting around Milwaukee for 100 caches in a 10 x 10 grid? 😯
Completely different than what you are proposing..and what Mutherson has done. At least the battleship series were spread out, in parks or along trails for the most part and have something worthwhile in the end.
Outlining counties using culverts, telephone poles, utility boxes…yup still stupid.
I can’t wait to go back and sink the fleet! And hit (even if they are a miss) all the rest out there!
It was a long day, but good food, good laughs, and scoring finds on almost all the caches we searched for made up for the miles.
Seriously…what’s the point to this?? I think its absolutely stupid.
@RSplash40 wrote:
Just a suggestion from a techie who has had to be the long arm of the law so to speak on email systems. Ask the parents if they have a charter account or other isp that provides a bunch of email accounts as part of their monthly payment.
If so ask the parents to set up the account name, password, etc and have them be the filter on those accounts so they know everything thats going on. Suggest to them that they pick a non-cute name that can’t easily be tied to a youngster. As well, don’t use their name in part or whole, specially if they are common names (like andy smith, or dave johnson) as those are easily figured out and constantly spammed.
Its not that their kids aren’t trustworthy but there is good reason not to expose them to things that can randomly show up in email.
–Mike
Our son’s email is the same as hubby’s email addy. We get to see all his emails first and then pass on only those we want him to see.
Certainly good advice to put out there!
We’ve run into this many times with our son Duck. I offered him a way to the ‘backdoor’ logging, but he alawys said No. He felt it was cheating. So we got him his own premium membership as a birthday present this past year. Makes life much easier for all of us – he can log all finds, I can run seperate PQs so I know what caches he may need in an area that we’ve already found, and he now has a “cool” profile page with all his stats like mom and dad.
@TyeDyeSkyGuy wrote:
@AstroD-Team wrote:
If you are cheering for the opposing team, while surrounded by Packer fans, bring lots of Corn Nuts to share. They’ll hate you a little bit less. Especially if your team happens to win! 🙂 🙂
Be in your seats before the game starts! The fly overs are COOL!! (The jets approach from the north end).
Not sure where you are going to park, but street side parking in Green Bay right near the stadium fill up about 3 hours before the game. (We live on one of those streets – we know!) Parking on lawns near the stadium runs from $5 to $25.00. And several streets around the stadium convert to one way streets after the game to get traffic out of the area faster.
Have a great time!!! Stay warm!!!
Any parking suggestions?
we don’t charge for use of our driveway we just require a minimum of 24 hour notice…..we live four blocks from Lambeau.
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