[-cheeto-]

We worked with Jay when placing many of the permanent caches in the park prior to a past WGA camp-out event at the park.

My High Cliff caches get way more visits than any of my other caches which speaks volumes to geocaching in state parks.

It’s great to hear that he is monitoring the environment of all of the caches.

A million thanks to your friend! 😀

[-cheeto-]

@smashing ground wrote:

collectible would be your trackable that is still in circulation and discoverable,
and non would be for not circulated and in your personal collection only.

I believe it’s actually more the reverse…

The designator of collectible allows the coin to be moved to a “collection” which will remove the coin from your inventory when you are logging a cache so you don’t continue to see many coins if you are the type of cacher that has a collection of activated geocoins. Note: marking it collectible also allows other cachers to add your coin to their collection which I find strange.

To get Groundspeak’s explanation of this feature, you may want to reference:

http://support.groundspeak.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=250

Personally, I don’t use it for my geocoin collection because if you do it’s a pain to move the coins into an event listing.

[-cheeto-]

@labrat_wr wrote:

WHAT!?! nobody said golfballs yet??? 😯 😆 🙄

I figured everyone collected those…

[-cheeto-]

@Walkingadventure wrote:

GC hosted cache rating system and personal notes…

… by rating system you were referring to terrain/difficulty rating system when submitting a new cache replacing the external “clayjar” system.

I thought for a second that we finally got an actual cacher rating system of caches. 😉

[-cheeto-]

I collect personalized things. Wooden nickels are the prize of my collection. I trade for whatever I have on hand at the time.

I should take a picture of my collection someday and post it…

[-cheeto-]

@JimandLinda wrote:

Do we get 1 vote per month or one vote per zone per month (as long as we have found it)?

One per month, per zone.

[-cheeto-]

@gotta run wrote:

Got ours in the mail today and these are really quite nice. I think our kids enjoyed last year’s “cow” design more, but from my standpoint I prefer these. Very classy. Now the question is if I should release one or not.

Always the moral dilemma. 😉

[-cheeto-]

And keep in mind it doesn’t capture ALL who view your cache page information. For instance, pocket queries can retrieve cache details without showing that the user visited the page.

However it’s fairly reliable. 😀

[-cheeto-]

@CodeJunkie wrote:

Thanks for all the congrats and the challenges that the owners of these 800 caches have provided. It’s been a fun run so far with a unique and quirky milestone mission to get a unique icon for each milestone.

The plan? Well many people are asking me about this knowing that I’m running out of available icons. The current plan is to continue through #1000 but I may stop at #900. Currently I have the following remaining types (traditional, webcam, mega-event, lost and found). I’m writing off the mega and lost/found leaving me the webcam and traditional. I currently have a target for the traditional “Geocaching Tenth Anniversary Challenge” GC25R1Z as I’ve been fortunate to stumble across enough caches to meet the requirement and that would make a good milestone. This along with the available webcams aren’t near me so both are going to involved a trip of some kind.

So what’s next? We’ll just have to see, but I will definately continue the trend for at least the next milestone (#900), but after that it’s a total unknown.

Definately some great caches along the way that I’ve done and I’m looking to continue the puzzle streak more than anything with keeping the average of 1/3 of my first 1000 finds being the big blue ?. In this case, maybe a good puzzle would be a fitting #1000.

First, Congrats!! Saw your milestone note in the Wherigo cache when I logged it after you.

Second, don’t forget the Ape Cache! 😉

[-cheeto-]

@cheezehead wrote:

Sorry, Cache Bach was after Barnes Bash.

Yep, I looked at the time line on the shirts and they were done being printed on August 5th in Milwaukee. We were shooting for them in time for the Cache Ba$h and the vendor exceeded our expectations and has since on subsequent orders. I don’t think it was physically possible to get them completed any sooner or get a supply of them to Barnes.

We kicked off the project to produce this shirt on July 8th. At that time it was just a suggestion made during a picnic committee discussion. It blossomed from a simple idea to over 200 shirts being produced for sale. To put that into perspective, we only produced about 20 Geo-Picnic event T-shirts this year.

I understand your frustration with the lack of an online sale for the shirts. We’ll do what we can to make sure that they are offered for sale at WGA events around all the regions of the state.

[-cheeto-]

Some additional info on the shirts in case anyone missed the announcement posts..

Initial announcement showing the shirt design:
http://wi-geocaching.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=11409&start=0

The design is inspired by the coin design to tie them together and was created by WGA member BakRdz, the same artist as the coin.

We began selling these at the West Bend Cache Ba$h event.

They were also sold at the Geo-Picnic event at Roche-A-Cri:
http://wi-geocaching.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=10755&start=75

[-cheeto-]

@Mister Greenthumb wrote:

Everything was great EXCEPT what happened to grills ready round #2?The fire was almost out, no more charcoal and we were the only ones eating in the pavilion after the raffle. I’m guessing it was a cut and paste typo error that didn’t get edited out?

Zuma had the grill ready around 5 when the raffle was going. I grilled my brats at that time. I think the snafu may have been that the prize portion took so long and was at the same time?

[-cheeto-]

FYI – I also think that the page says “after August 19th” and it was published on September 19th.

[-cheeto-]

I like rule #5:

If you have found every eligable cache on any page previous to 8/19/2010, then you will be given credit for that page.

Emphasis on the word every 😉

I don’t know a lot about how many caches are on each Delorme page. Are there pages where a cacher would be able to take advantage of rule #5 easily? Or is it sort of a tongue-in-cheek kind of rule?

I would assume pages by me would have several hundred caches and many are puzzles so this rule would probably not be advantageous for those types of pages.

Speaking of puzzles, I always wondered about puzzles where the bogus coords were on 1 page of the delorme and the final on another. Which is counted?

[-cheeto-]

Thanks to everyone who stopped out and helped cleanup the park this Saturday.

We had just over 50 people attend and help out which is a wonderful turn-out for a CITO.

Great job everyone!

Image Gallery from the event:
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/gallery.aspx?guid=96467f6b-3f9b-4817-87ba-f71bfedf6fcf

Mark your calendars for our next WGA CITO event – On Oct 16th we will again be cleaning our adopted section of Hwy 10 in NE Wisconsin. Look for an event page to be published soon.

[Author]

Posts