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Just a small clarification.

It is called WherPiGo not WherePiGo.

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Congratulations Marc on the BIG milestone. It must be nice leaving the overly crowded 1K room and now party with the big boys in the 10K lounge. Congrats!

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SOLD.

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NOOO. Don’t give up. We love WhereIGos and would love to see this one as part of the Cache Ba$h!

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A bookmarked list would be great too. It is easy to make a PQ off a bookmark list. Thanks again!!

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Sounds great!! Thank you so much for your (and others) work on the bash!!

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Can anyone verify which type of caches are or aren’t going to be at the bash? Or is that under lock and key?

Water Cahes – CHECK
Night Caches – CHECK
WhereiGo – ?
Earth – ?
Puzzle – ?
Multi – ?

Just trying to figure out what equipment to bring or not bring. General numbers would help too. Can you tell I am getting a little excited over this?

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Green Bay area…what I call my reign (or circle) of terror. I haven’t cached in a while, but my numbers still look pretty good. I am only really obsessed about my 5 mile radius. Here are my numbers after 5 miles you see it goes up very quickly.

1 mile – 0 unfound (13 total)
2 miles – 0 unfound (63 total)
3 miles – 8 unfound (131 total)
4 miles – 11 unfound (181 total)
5 miles – 19 unfound (237 total)
10 mile – 83 unfound (427 total)

Being a math person, I love all of these stats!! Also within my 5 MILE RADIUS. I only have one puzzle cache unfound (not unsolved, it’s solved)

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@labrat_wr wrote:

Funny thing, If you go to the Cache Bash Expecting to win a door prize, You might be in this for the wrong reasons.

I wouldn’t say I am in it for the wrong reasons, but I think that prizes are something that brings people in. Or else, why would it be part of the name of the publicized event. The $1000 Cache Ba$$$h, just saying. Definitely not my major reason for going, but a reward is a reward.

As previously stated by pharmgirl, there was much discussion over that. And this is why there are committees, they can do the leg work, make the descions. And I support their descion, just maybe not agree with it. But the reasoning was explained every well.

I will be happy to get my 5 tickets this year. I didn’t win anything last year, but maybe this is the year. I was just stating my opinion.

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@thepharmgirl wrote:

@LDove wrote:

I would like to add, that last year Anne posted odds on winning with actually less tickets someplace. I don’t have time to search for it right now, but be assured your odds of winning are actually greater with us doing it this way. 😀

Actually, Laurell, I’m pretty sure my calculations were flawed. 😳 And it was based on the average cacher instead of the 50-cache super-cacher. But in any case, it will be a fun weekend regardless. 😀

Pharmgirl is right on, if you found all fifty caches last year, you had better odds of winning then if you get only five even though the number of tickets is small. If most people get five tickets this year, it will be like everyone finding fifty caches last year, which didn’t happen. I just wanted to speak my peace. Whatever you guys do will be great! I love the cache bash. Thanks for all of the work you put into hosting the event.

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Are there plans for “bonus” caches this year? For example, water caches, night caches, and the like?

I enjoy the new format this year, however, not thrilled with only getting 5 tickets when I find all fifty again. 🙁 (my only complaint) Keep up the great work!!

Again, my personal plug is to try and have as many stamps in the caches as you can, I think to much “word sharing” went on last year. Ok, I will get off my soap box. I LOVE THIS EVENT!

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Glad this thread is offically kidnapped!

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Go Team Go!! Lift your Magellen high and say “Explore This!”

…then retreat back realizing that our orange backlit screens only can lead so far, and that the rubber will come off some buttons, and the screen will scratch.

NO MATTER. GO TEAM!

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@sweetlife wrote:

I would guess they were using a Magellan and really thought they were in Arkansas that’s about the accuracy of those things.

Ouch! I guess I may be the only one fighting for Team Magellan. My orginal Magellan eXplorist 210 that I bought for $99 over three years ago, has found me over 1300 caches and all 53 caches this summer at the Cache Ba$h. And saved me hundreds of dollars. No mechanical problems, and a low number of DNFs. The GPS doesn’t find the cache.

I am guessing they were using a Garmin and ran out of gas money or were distracted by the color screen. Or were frustrated using all of the bells and whistles.

Go Team!!

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I do a bunch of caching alone, and this could be very handy. Thanks for pointing me to it!

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