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Now that explains why I couldn’t get a signal in the pavilion and what all that fancy equipment was REALLY for… 😉

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Just adds to the challenge…

Woah, deja vu

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Your welcome!

I don’t claim to be a “photographer” but I do enjoy taking and seeing great photographs that please my eye. Some of those from the event that you took are very good! 🙂

Thanks for sharing…

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Just adds to the challenge…

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I would like to see the ability for a cache owner to set an expiration date on a new cache to change the game around a little bit.

Folks would then be competing for LTF and FTF.

Keep the same stance on “cache permanence” as we do today for new hides but have an additional field (a date and time) that can be entered at the publish of a new cache that allows the owner to start a ticking clock. The clock shows on the cache page in your local time if you visit the page.

This would be especially fun on tough to solve puzzle caches.

The owner would be notified when the cache expires and sent a link to archive the cache or “make the cache permanent” if they so choose.

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Most geocaches have coords that are not really exact anyway… I don’t see any issues with the 20 feet of “cushion” Alex is asking for.

There was a similar thread on the main geocaching forum about “what would you like changed about the website” and I posted (a rare occurrence for me on those threads as it’s usually not a worthwhile endeavor) that I would like the .1 rule to be modified to something lower. There was an immediate rush of negative posts saying quite the opposite. Some wanted it RAISED to .5!!

The main reason I stated this opinion was because it would allow new and creative hides in places that could hold a geocache and still not impact or disrupt another nearby geocache. 528 feet? Why so much??

There were 2 temp caches at the WGA camp-out (I hid one and Brian hid one) that were like 150 feet apart. 2 totally different environments and 2 totally different items being highlighted. You would never stumble on the one searching for the other (unless you are Sagasu or perhaps Marc searching for a puzzle that you don’t know the exact coords for)

Now I am not saying allow 150 feet apart. I am just saying that if you took the limit even down to 350 – 400 feet it would allow more creative hides in certain areas and it would certainly not overcrowd anymore in the crowded areas anyway. Most of those overcrowded areas it wouldn’t matter because if you cover every .1 circle in the park, lowering won’t matter. However, it would allow for an additional hide here and there that could be a great caching experience.

I am all for change that benefits someone. This type of rule change would hurt almost no one and benefit the community as there would be a few more to hunt near home.

Some on the other forum argued “show me a location that you can’t place another cache with the existing .1 rule”… I never replied but I would like to say that you are missing the point of my post if this is your knee-jerk response. It’s not about me “finding a spot for a cache”. It’s about cache owners and hiders being able to hide some additional caches in certain locations and the whole community benefiting from more caches to find. Yeah you might get more lamp skirts and guard rails and garbage cans but you will also get more COTM’s and creative fun containers and challenging puzzles along with those.

Some cache owners know how to slightly bend the rules. For instance, make a puzzle cache that forces you to go to that location you want to bring them to and get some piece of information. If the “view” was so great they will still get the view while getting that bit of info from the plaque there as well. Then just hide the cache somewhere else.

However, this doesn’t necessarily work if you A. You don’t want to publish puzzles. B. The spot you have picked to hide a physical container is so awesome but its 429 feet from a lame guard rail cache owned by someone who’s no longer active on the website.

One great thing we are doing as a group (thanks to Deejay and the helm) is making sure that caches owned by inactive owners and need maintaining eventually go away and make room for others to hide new caches in the area.

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I uploaded many of ours in mine and my wife’s (cheetah girls) logs on the event page on geocaching.com. Uploading twice would be extra work…

Those B&W pictures in the album and on the event page are really nice…

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This was our family’s first campout event and WGA event and we had a blast. Thanks for the great prizes and the breakfast was great. The WGA is a great group of people and I’ve learned it shows in the events most. Even with cold windy weather my family did not mind camping without swimming.

I gave props and recognition to the temp cache hiders in my event log by noting which temps we did and jotting a few memorable notes about them. Please also do so if you enjoyed the temps. Yeah, folks don’t like that they are not “real” and can’t be logged but they were a lot of FUN!! Very creative and a blast to find. I happen to know it was hard work getting these hid and retrieved so thanks to everyone who helped.

I am definitely hooked now for future campouts. Thanks for the good times.

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Congrats on the milestone as well!! Having fun yet??

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My wife and daughter’s – the cheetah girls will be logging the event as their 200th cache. They don’t read these forums but it’s quite an accomplishment for a bunch of “girly girls” who hate going in the woods.

If they could count the temp caches they went well into the 200’s this weekend and even camped in the woods.

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Congrats Neighbor!! Hope you enjoyed the feast afterwards… (that’s the best part of geocaching you know)

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After speaking with others this weekend, I have decided one of the things I would like is to clearly delineate between a multi cache that has something to solve — kinda like a ahem, puzzle (math involving a plaque, math involving a headstone, some sort of offset navigation, etc) versus a multi cache where you find a container with coords to another container. Whether it was a mandate on switching all the multi’s like this to puzzle or whether it would be the ability of categorizing multi’s, that could be debated but some indication for those doing caches in an area would be helpful to many. Especially those who are newer.

I have more but wanted to share this one since it was fresh in my memory banks.

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I actually went through and recoded all of my active caches awhile ago so to those WGA webmasters reading this, please do not get rid of and/or move the current (new) logo file (the one in the upper right) so as to not break my cache pages 😉

I don’t mind that you “fix” the image specified in the provided html but since I went through and modified the image location and name to pull the current one I am not using it anymore..

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Time to pack! Don’t forget the…

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nothing new.. appleton’s been smoke free for how long? it was only a matter of time that wisconsin jumped on board and passed it.

I visited the Phoenix, AZ area more than 11 years ago and even then you couldn’t smoke anywhere except inside your home. My brother in law had to buy smokes while there and had to apply for some permit to buy them and pay money for the permit…

I am neither for or against the principle but I can tell you that some local establishments have benefited from my family’s patronage MORE since going smoke-free.

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