[Cheesehead Dave]

@Cheese-Wis wrote:

I reviewed the cache in question.

Before it was published, I had an email conversation with the placer related to the coordinates.

It was determined that no guidelines were violated.

It is cache text hyperbole.

To quote that cache’s description,

The coords. on this one are purposly not exact.

There’s a 100 foot diameter circle of potential spots, but with no tree cover, there’s no reason to not have “exact” coordinates. (Beyond the normal GPS error.)

I’m confused…

[Cheesehead Dave]

@cheezehead wrote:

I put all the items in a large zip lock but left the bubbles out thou. Was planning on going up and replacing them after the first freeze as its not to far from my home and would not freeze right away. Any other suggestions for items? And thanks for your replies!

It’s not just the freezing. If the cache gets hot enough and the bubble bottle is upside down in the cache, the heat can make the air in the bottle expand and force the liquid out. I’d definitely keep them in their own separate ziplocs.

[Cheesehead Dave]

@Cache_boppin_BunnyFuFu wrote:

Congrats to those who hit milestones.

Did the Ice Cream survive though??!!

Amazingly enough, in a cooler packed with ice, it survived for a few hours before turning into just “cream”. It helped that we were actually a half-mile out into the lake. Someone reported a ten degree difference in temperature from the mainland to the event. The cool breeze off the lake was perfect. 😀

[Cheesehead Dave]

@Cache_boppin_BunnyFuFu wrote:

Thanks for all the ideas, as I am trying to put together a route out to NY and back.

Remember though… I don’t think you can upload a route of more than 500 miles, so you might have to break that up into smaller routes.

[Cheesehead Dave]

The lighthouse at Eagle Bluff is neat to see. Eagle Tower in Peninsula State Park offers a very scenic view if you don’t mind the eight-story climb…

[Cheesehead Dave]

I put my keychains into caches as as an additional little “calling card” to show I was there. I don’t mind at all if someone wants to take one to add to their collection.

I suppose it would be nice to follow the “even trade” guideline: If you are collecting other people’s signature items, you could come up with one of your own to leave in caches for other people to collect as well.

[Cheesehead Dave]

Yes you can. If you open up the file in a text editor, you’ll see all the Google Earth XML tags. Ignore all the stuff at the top and find the section at the end. If you look at all your KML files in order, you’ll notice that the last coordinate for one file os the same as the first coordinate for the next file.

Copy everything between the tags from the second file (but not the tags themselves) and paste it after all the coordinates in the first file, deleting the duplicate tags I mentioned above.

Open your third file and repeat the process.

Ignore all the other XML tags in the file. When you upload them to GC.com, they are all ignored except for the name of the route, but you can change that after the upload.

Clear as mud?

[Cheesehead Dave]

I don’t know about the reviewers, but it’s been helpful to be as the perfect place to keep track of all my waypoints where I don’t have to worry about losing them.

[Cheesehead Dave]

@Decrepit wrote:

Can you guarantee it won’t rain? 🙁

You know… Earlier in the week they were calling for upper eighties and dry. Currently in downtown Racine it’s mid-70s and raining. It’s supposed to clear up by early afternoon and the event is on no matter what, anyway.

[Cheesehead Dave]

I like the idea of only keeping a separate “rescued” tally here at wi-gc. The only case where I think it would be appropriate to log a find is if the rescuer had not previously found the cache to be rescued, they actually find a loggable cache (not the tattered remnants of the logbook or a few animal-chewed McToys), and maybe a picture of the cache is posted to verify the removal.

It’s not even a matter of what the “find nazis” think. Logically, if you go out to rescue a cache and it’s not there, there’s no logical justification to how you can call that a “find”.

It might be nice to have some incremental incentives as well… Rescue five caches, get a WGA bumper sticker. Rescue ten and get a t-shirt, etc.

[Cheesehead Dave]

@OuttaHand wrote:

I might add one “fun” thing that might make someone more likely to help out if cache retrieval of an abandoned cache is needed. Make a cache page that people can log for the retrieval of dead caches. Allow the person who retrieves the dead cache to not only log the cache they’re retrieving (if they haven’t previously), but also allow the person to claim a smiley for retrieving it by logging on the imaginary cache that they’ve picked it up.

I’m thinking of a cache similar to the Travel Bug Graveyard where you can permanently deposit missing TB’s. It would have to be set up as an Event Cache, or similar.

How about something along the lines of what MiGo has set up?

[Cheesehead Dave]

Congrats on the kilocache!

[Cheesehead Dave]

I always read all my mesages. What I wish is that if the finder goes back and attaches a picture to a log, that the hider would get a notification as well. Unless you go and review the logs on the actual cache page, you’d never know about that.

[Cheesehead Dave]

Dang… Team Deejay took my answer…

I agree about the “two kinds of series” theory, although I suppose it’s mostly because I have created three different series which might fall under the second type.

If someone created a “Great Parks of Wisconsin Series” with a cache in several parks around the state, I’d sy that would fall under the first category as they are all really just individual caches that have “GPoW” attached to their name. If one of those caches was pretty cool, I might vote for just that individual cache for COTM, but probably not the entire series.

I don’t think there should be any restrictions placed on nominations. If someone nominates a series and people vote for it, it must be either something that people want, or the people that are against series aren’t coming out in enough numbers to nominate/vote for non-series caches.

[Cheesehead Dave]

@lonesumdove wrote:

…Finally found it where I would not have expected it – I think it will be discovered by noncachers there…

Yup… On last night’s news, Vince said it had been stolen. He hasn’t decided if it will be rehidden or if that’s it until August.

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