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@BakRdz wrote:
Another one to throw in the mix. Put it on different colors to show options.
Text looks small here, but on a shirt it would be legible.
This reminds me of the “Life Is Good” design http://www.lifeisgood.com/
But they don’t have a geocaching shirt. They should.
The WGA should buy them – stencil the logo on the side and camp paint them then sell them for $10 a piece or something. That would be a good moneymaker. Make a challenge out of them across the state. Find all 960 of them and go for the final. In the meantime, Zuma can store them in his garage – actually – set up “distributors” who are WGA members across the state who can divvy them out and collect the $. Can we have a ammo can painting event?
One, one more stipulation – the cans all have to be skirt lifters.
Wow, Cool! Congrats, OPS and MM! I’ve only done the first half of that one. Great to see another Wausau cache on the COTM list!
LOL! Awesome.
One of the funnest puzzles I’ve done lately was “Rings” – GC11FD6. There were many reasons I liked it.
1) It looked different but not impossible
2) It was easy enough for my wife and I to work on together and we arrived at the solution together. (I don’t mean anything bad by that, she just doesn’t like the word games and math/science/physics/deciphering stuff)
3) It was a more “tangible” puzzle – something to get your hands on (similar to another puzzle cache I liked that deserves recognition but I fear that it may actually serve to be a spoiler so I won’t mention it)
4) The time it took to solve was maybe 10 minutes, not hours and hours.
5) There were multiple things to try and avenues to pursue but not to lengthy dead ends.
6) Once solved you see just how simple it is 🙂 Yet cleverly disguised as complex.
7) The description clearly describes what the puzzle is.I mention those things as reasons in general why someone might enjoy a puzzle cache but not intending to sound like they are the only reasons.
Orientation aside, I like the back of BakRdz suggestion. It looks like the back of a coin. It sounds to me like some of Heli’s concern is that on some designs it’s hard to tell the difference between the front and the back. On a round or square coin it’s not a big deal if you can’t tell the difference but on a shaped coin, if you can’t tell the front from the back by the shape (i.e. geographically challenged people) then you should be able to tell from the design. BakRdz suggestion does that very well (assuming there’s more than “snow” on the front 😉 ).
While I’m not concerned about accommodating the geographically challenged, I do think it’s a good idea to distinguish the back from the front. BakRdz backside (relax, I mean the coin) does that very well. It’s clean, clear, and functional. The orientation doesn’t matter so much to me (in fact I prefer “proper” orientation if you know what I mean by that).
Having said that, my favorite of the recent coins is 2007 – the gold one with the compass and state on one side and the hayward fish, cana lighthouse, etc on the back. That one is really cool! However it’s a very different design – there’s alot of texture and detail. The cow is very simple and neat and they are both good designs (except I don’t like what was chosen as “spots” on the cow – should have been more geocaching related)
Anyway… there’s 2 useless cents and about 2 minutes of your life you’ll never get back. Still thinking about this and will try to submit something.
Look for a hair sample stuck to the exposed tape and run a DNA analysis to see if it is saquachian in origin.
Lets’ do it, OPS! I’m in.
Um, that is weird. It is displaying correctly now. Yay!
Allright!
02/28/2010 at 9:49 pm in reply to: No bluffin’ Rick found a bear of a cache, climbing to #1900 #1923463Matt, he wasn’t cheating on you, you know! ;-P Don’t get jealous! 🙂
Thanks, Rick! It was a pleasure to be out there with you!
Regardless of cache type, and knowing that there’s no hard and fast rules to resolve this issue, I think it boils down to 2 very simple concepts:
Cache Owners: Do your best to design a cache that is interesting and fun for people to find, remembering that it is primarily a family activity. Be clear about your intentions and be willing to give grace at times when those intentions are not met, realizing there are overriding circumstances that keep with the spirit of the game (to find caches and have fun). Also realize that there is a place in the game for the ultra complicated and ultra rugged terrain cache (including puzzles) but everything in moderation. The same could be said of the other extreme, however, it’s clear there is a better place in the sport for the lower end of the spectrum. (To accommodate children (primarily difficulty) and the handicapped (primarily terrain))
Cache Finders: Do your best to find the cache according to the way the hider intended it. Don’t try to take shortcuts to find the cache that they clearly didn’t intend you to take. Hide the cache exactly as found unless it was clearly tampered with by an animal or something. Don’t share secrets about the hide or puzzle solve unless you know personally that the owner does not mind. Collaboration is part of the game and part of the fun but make sure your collaboration is honest and that you could look the owner in the eye in good conscience after logging a find.
I’m grateful for the people who have shown me grace as I’ve done some things that I found out or realized later was bad etiquette (if not just plain stupid). The personal conflicts that type of thing causes are NOT worth the smiley.
I think with the principles of respect in place as stated earlier in the thread, we still leave room for people to have flexibility to play the game according to the aspect that they most enjoy (finding, solving, hunting, socializing, etc) But before we lash out because we feel we’ve been disrespected, it’s better to exercise grace first for the spirit of the game and the community. There will ALWAYS be the lazy person, the guy who destroys GZ like a bull in a china shop, the shortcutter, the number crazed, the… “cheater” (based on each one’s personal definition of that word) but we still have a game. We could let those people ruin the game or move on. I guess it’s up to us to do our best not to be “that guy”.
The best thing about this sport is it’s variety. There are SO many aspects to enjoy (or ignore). Some people really get excited about jeeps, other have no idea what that even is. Some about the planning, others the actual finding, others the stats, or maybe the solving, or hiding, coin collecting, historical and geographical research, spending time outdoors with the family, seeing new places, trading swag, or even just the grass roots of hunting and finding. Each one in this thread has made contributions to a variety of these areas and the game would not be as rich as it is without that diversity.
We have to be careful though that we don’t let the thing that excites us become the defining aspect for those around us. Because we enjoy doing it that way doesn’t mean the next person does and be willing to exercise grace in that area – especially when we realize the aspect we enjoy is to an extreme end of the bell curve. The more extreme we become, the more grace we must be willing to show (because less and less of the population will fall in line with that aspect).
The conflict enters in when people feel slighted or cheated because of the actions of another cacher. My guess is that most of these incidents are usually a misunderstanding and that’s where grace comes in to play. Of course, if we approach the sport with an attitude of mutual respect, it will only become greater with more quality and more fun.
Have I screwed up in many of these areas? You bet! Have I mastered all of them and become everyone’s favorite geocacher – absolutely not! But I share these ideas as principles I will dedicate myself to working on for the sake of the game and everyone else’s fun. And if others want to join me, that’s fantastic. I’ll probably still tick someone off along the way but I will do my best to make that minimal.
I guess if we all followed this practice we wouldn’t have to talk as much about rules and restrictions. Let’s all cut each other some slack and remember what’s important here – each other.
And by all means, if I tick you off, PLEASE TELL ME! Because if I don’t know, I can’t do it better the next time. I would much rather be called to the carpet than have someone hold a grudge and ruin their experience as well.
@seldom|seen wrote:
Looking more and more like I will have to add this one to the to do pile, along with “Marsh to the Philippine Islands”
Let me know when you do either of those. I wouldn’t mind tagging along.
“Get outdoors” huh? It’s catchy 😀 I like it!
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