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A little cheesehead eraser.
It’s gotta be the shirts. Congrats!
Congrats! I think I’ve lost all hope of catching up to you. I think only a little Folkster could help me now…
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Originally posted by Linus4Cache:
You guys crack me up! Silly me for thinking the smiles on your faces were due to the company you were keeping! And the Twizzlers you were eating!
Actually, I think it was one too many double-stuffed Oreos…
Congrats on #800!
And not only that, they want you to advertise for them for free! It’s one thing if there were a referrer link in there similar to what Amazon has where you get a percentage of each sale. This is just a plain URL to their site.
Looks like a good spot to click the Delete button…
The only reason I would like the coordinates ahead of time is what was mentioned before: I could print out my own topo maps ahead of time and get a general idea of what route I’m going to take throughout the day. As long as some sort of map is distributed at the event, I could live without them ahead of time.
Remember: even if you get the coordinates early, until you stop at the registration table, you won’t have your little book to stamp your finds in, so going out at 5 am or the night before would be impossible. Also, you would have coordinates and names only, but not the hints. If a warning was put in place that there are no guarantees that any particular will be in place until 9 am Saturday morning, that would also discourage the earlybirds.
I would say don’t “pre-drop” the bug in the picnic cache. If you still have it Saturday, leave it at the picnic, then when you get home and log the event cache, drop it then so the bug history reflects that it was at the picnic. Then the person who picked it up can “grab” it from the picnic cache page.
The secured location is a great idea. I know some people don’t mind it, but I was disturbed at the last breakfast event where people were writing down TB tag numbers, but not taking the bugs, then when they got home, they grabbed the bugs from the event cache, then dropped them back in. They even grabbed them from the cachers who actually took the bugs with them. Hopefully this will cut back on that, as well as help to prevent bugs from going AWOL.
If you use Spinner on multiple GPX files, it will eliminate duplicates.
Also, if you make the (well worth the money) upgrade to ExpertGPS, you can also draw in your approximate route by hand, then search for caches within XX miles of the route. That can help to shrink the list down to only those you might actually stop and find on the way without driving a great distance.
Pictures can be seen here…
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Originally posted by jthorson:
The pictures need to be scanned and posted. Not so much so we have the complete story but as proof that the Cheeseheads have actually found ‘A River Runs Through It’. I think this is one of the signs of the apocalypse mentioned in the Bible.
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It was fun. I plan on scanning in the pictures and posting them as soon as I can.
I guess the trick was having a five-year-old along to help…
[This message has been edited by Cheesehead Dave (edited 08-08-2004).]
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Originally posted by kbraband:
Originally posted by Cathunter:
It should also be noted that when a cache is first approved, the map on ther cache page will be a rudimentary one. Within a day or two, there will likely be a better looking map in place.
Really? This is news to me.
Try this: Take one of your caches that has a nice looking map and edit it. After you save it, the map will have changed to the “cheapo” one that appears when a cache is first approved. After awhile, the map will update back to the better quality one.
Hmm… I should come along and have him take pictures of me and the rest of the Cheeseheads not finding “A River Runs Through It”… 😛
I could be talked into it, unless you’ve already had a volunteer.
Thanks! Bong was like that commercial where the guy sticks his arm in the box full of mosquitos to test his bug spray, except it was my whole body. Thank goodness for 100% DEET. I only got one bite even though there was this constant grey humming cloud around me.
I also probably pulled more ticks off me here than all my previous caches combined.
On to 500!
Look by the guns. The roll I bought was intended for wrapping your rifle and was in the gun accessory section.
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Originally posted by bnb:
I don’t want to be a pill, but I sure hope that two months of inactivity won’t be seen as leaving the sport. For me, sometimes real life interferes with geocaching, as much as I’d like it not to.
Even still, if you aren’t even responding to emails, what other conclusion can one come to? Even if I was taking a few months off, if I got an email about one of my caches, I’d at least send off a response saying “Go ahead and let someone take care of it” or “I’ll go pick it up” or “I’m still here, I’ll go fix the cache as soon as I can” or “I’m unable to to anything about it, do whatever you want.”
The Gander Mountain cache was like this, and someone was ready to adopt it, as the owner didn’t seem to be active anymore, when he popped in with a message saying that he’d go out and fix the cache. At least we got a response from him. With no word from Van Go, I’d rightfully assume they’re gone.
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