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Huff…huff…hufff…I can’t keep up! 8)
At this pace they’ll out-pace everyone by June for all-time!
On the Left Side of the Road...I’d be willing to bet that similar stories could be told by other cache owners and not just in this list. By and large most active cachers do a pretty good job of staying on top of stuff.
It is frustrating to see cache owners (even if they’re out of the game…kinda/sorta/maybe/who knows?) let their caches malinger through months of DNFs and needs maintenance logs until they are eventually force-archived. But that’s another topic.
On the Left Side of the Road...MG’s post got me thinking so I pulled our stats too. 97 owner maintenance logs in the last 12 months on ~ 200 caches.
On the Left Side of the Road...@jerrys dad wrote:
I also forgot we forgot the dollars for the person in the DNR to purchase the items (researching the items, getting bids, receiving the items, sending them to us.) Somebody to make the announcement (their time and effort) The time of the coordinator at each state park and the person updating all the web pages for the DNR .
I don’t know the answer to this for sure, but since the Get Outdoors program itself is a DNR program, and the DNR is actively looking for partnerships, I would think (?) that they would have the expectation to make some resource committments on their end to make those partnerships work.
On the Left Side of the Road...@shrek & fiona wrote:
how about how many caches does that top hider keep up out of the ones they put out
Well that’s a little insulting. We maintain all of ours regularly and my experience is that the people on this list do as well, even the top hider. I believe he has a car full of bison tubes ready to repair and replace as needed.
On the Left Side of the Road...@redwingrr wrote:
The one thing I don’t like has already been pointed out. – The statement that most geocaches are placed a significant distance from parking is simply untrue. It’s a point that would be important to many of the folks attracted to this program. We would look bad early in anyone’s investigation of the sport if they’re expecting this. Truthful statements can be made about this series of caches being a given minimum distance from parking and I’d suggest sticking with that.
This is true for geocaching in general, but since this is part of the “Program Goals” section, I read this as being in the context of geocaches in the program. That thought is carried through in the sentence that follows.
Perhaps that could have been a bit more explicit, but I don’t feel it’s misleading because the caches being placed in the program will certainly meet this criteria, which is the point of the proposal.
On the Left Side of the Road...@Team Black-Cat wrote:
The coordinates of geocaches are freely available to the public via the website geocaching.com.
I know that this might be a minor point, but geocaching.com isn’t the only website that lists geocaches.
The idea being that the ones in the state program are/will be. It was more to emphasize the “free” part than where they are.
@Team Black-Cat wrote:
Most geocaches are placed a significant distance from the nearest parking
This is misleading at best…
Other than those two nit-picky things, this looks very good! I’m interested in why the 22 month lifetime was chosen.
It’s defensible…in my business we call it creative license… 😉
On the Left Side of the Road...@huffinpuffin2 wrote:
@gotta run wrote:
The guidelines do not specify this and I am aware of some that go many miles, even in your neck of the woods.
We aren’t aware of any here, but must not have run into them yet. Are they Amazing?
They’ll have you seeing Red.
On the Left Side of the Road...@huffinpuffin2 wrote:
Twisted Question: Is there a maximum distance allowable between stages of a multi?? E.g. 1 Mile? 10 Miles? 100 Miles?
The guidelines do not specify this and I am aware of some that go many miles, even in your neck of the woods.
On the Left Side of the Road...This has been an interesting thread to follow. I wasn’t going to wade in, but it’s a slow morning…
It is a natural instinct of the human spirit to want to reach out to those in need, whether it’s grounded in our personal or religious beliefs, or simply in the innate understanding that all of us have in what is moral. We are social and interconnected beings that arose from the same source, regardless of what you believe that source is. Seeing others in distress fires a spark across that network to act, just as touching a hot coal fires a message across your body’s own network to react.
At the same time, the cynicism regarding this situation is understandable. While the event was not preventable, much of the devastation should have been. Freedom and opportunity is what builds strong societies, and money pouring into Haiti will create neither of those. It is also frustrating to see the United States continually called on to be the world’s savior when disasters strike on one hand, yet hear complaints about our efforts on the other—and to see no other countries offer assistance when disaster strikes within our own borders. It is also frustrating to know that some people will always want a handout, not a hand-up, and to see that adding more money simply adds fuel to the belief of entitlement.
So ultimately, you have to do what quiets that little voice in your head. There is no single right course of action. For me, I don’t believe that the negative reality I described above should stop me from reaching out in various ways, which I will not detail here, even though I know full well that at least some of the hard-earned money I contribute is being lost to graft and corruption, or simply wasted on those who lack any sense of personal initiative. For me, it’s the price of being human.
On the Left Side of the Road...It sounds like everyone there had a good time. The event was too far away for us to justify a day trip, family schedules being what they are, but we appreciated winning a door prize in absentia.
On the Left Side of the Road...198 active…
On the Left Side of the Road...Da wife wanted a new cell phone and wanted a smartphone with all the bells and whistles, so I upgraded as well. I found it so useless that I took it back and downgraded to my no-camera, no-nothing phone that just makes calls. Even though we have her phone along when we cache as a family, we have never used it for any field activity. So put me in the low-tech luddite group.
On the Left Side of the Road...@One Paddle Short wrote:
@gotta run wrote:
Maybe neither will win.
I agree, putting them both up for the same month makes this quite likely.
So then nominate them another month! Geesh.
On the Left Side of the Road...@One Paddle Short wrote:
In my perfect world Eagle Source would win for January and Wet Maze for February. But, at least they’ll both be on the nomination bookmark no matter what happens. Note that I fully support Wet Maze as a COTM, I just wish it was nominated next month so I could vote for it. 🙁
Maybe neither will win. There’s also nothing to stop caches that do not win from being nominated again in a subsequent month.
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