[Jeremy]

Check out the Announcements forum for the Turkey Shoot and PJ Contest winners…

[Jeremy]

@kansas64 wrote:

The one thing our group had a complaint with was the fact the map had the 900 numbers you used for the caches on it, bu the cache download did not have those numbers in the download. It kept us searching thru a booklet that had both items together. Can we please get the GC# or the GSAK Smart Names on the map instead

How did you download the caches? And what type of GPS units were you using?

If you got the caches downloaded at the event, then you should have seen the 09xx numbers in your GPS. Similarly the GPX file available in advance from the westbendgeocaching.com site also used the 09xx numbers for the waypoint code. If you created your own Pocket Query and got the information from geocaching.com then you could have had trouble getting the 09xx codes… but that was never the recommended way to go.

We do realize that we have some work to do to make the GPX files we create more “friendly” for the Oregon/Colorado folks… there was a bit of confusion created by the way the caches showed up in these units.

[Jeremy]

@bnb wrote:

I know most thoughts are currently on the Cash Bash, but is anyone considering camping at Lake Wissota for the picnic?

Coincidentally, I may have reserved the best group site at Wissota for the weekend. It is only for the cool people though. Contact me if you think you are cool enough to be in our little clique.

[Jeremy]

@Lostby7 wrote:

Also….are the caches to apear first at the Friday night or first online?

There will be a GPX file available for download off the web on Friday. It will contain ONLY the Cache Ba$h caches and associated waypoints. An announcement will be made on the cache page when you can download it.

Alternatively, we can download to your GPS or give you the raw GPX file at the event Friday night.

I would not assume you’ll be able to get the cache information off geocaching.com at a reasonable time Friday evening / night…

[Jeremy]

Looks OK… it appears the site was cleaned up, so I added it back to the Quick Links box.

[Jeremy]

@-cheeto- wrote:

Jeremy – my family can help with the item: Beginning Geocaching Workshop, Take Beginners To Caches In Park on Saturday morning.

I can’t guarantee that we can “be there by 6 to help setup” but we will be there to help out with the hands on portion of the workshop if you will forgive our “tardiness” 🙂

Thanks for volunteering Shane.

Those that want to help with the workshop should to be near the bandstand area at Regner Park (where the WGA informational table will be set up) around 9:30am. We’ll organize groups and take the new geocachers out as soon as the “classroom” part of the training is over, which will be somewhere between 9:30 and 10.

[Jeremy]

@Mathman wrote:

There is a really neat one near Maine and I think there is a cache associated with it. I don’t recall the name offhand. Alaska also has many, but it isn’t safe to walk out there as the mudflats are dangerous to walk on.

The Bay of Fundy (east of Maine… in Canada) has perhaps the greatest tidal range in the world. There was a tide related (Earth?)cache in a national park… I’d get you the GC number but geocaching.com is giving me a runtime error.

[Jeremy]

C’mon, nobody else wants to get up at the crack of dawn and help with the pancake breakfast? Let me sweeten the deal… a free breakfast for anyone who helps out for the entire morning. (Warning: You may be yelled at or slightly abused by our pancake chefs if you decide to help with the cooking. :))

We could also use geocachers to help guide newbies to practice caches in Regner Park following the training class on Saturday. We could have 40+ people in the class, so we really need a lot of help at about 9:30 to 10 am on Saturday morning. I know finding the 50 new caches is what everybody will be focused on during the day Saturday, but please consider taking time out and giving back to the sport by showing the ropes those who are just starting out.

[Jeremy]

@zuma wrote:

I know we dont have any of the committee members in here yet, and just the board members, but I want to get the discussion going

Ralph, FYI this is the public Geo-Picnic forum… 🙂

[Jeremy]

Joey, take a look at this photo album on the WGA site:

Cache Ba$h 2008 Photo Album

We will create an album to hold pictures from this year’s event as well.

Also, a number of pictures were uploaded to last years event cache listing on geocaching.com (GC1AW6D).

[Jeremy]

I have updated the list with new volunteers.

We could definitely use more volunteers on Sunday morning as well as help taking new geocachers out following the class Saturday morning. Most of the other tasks are covered pretty well.

Thanks to everyone who has committed to helping thus far!

[Jeremy]

@GR8 EYES wrote:

I’ll be glad 😆 to help with the downloading on Friday night and Saturday morning. 😳 I like meeting everyone, and working with you, 😉 Jeremy.

Thanks for volunteering again “Renee”. 😉

[Jeremy]

@amita17 wrote:

I didn’t sign anything…was I supposed to? I posted a will attend on the event page, and when I contacted the chamber of commerce, they said I was registered.

You will have to sign and submit a disclaimer form at the event before they will give you the event materials (booklet, bag, stamp card). You can save a bit of time by printing out and filling in the disclaimer form ahead of time. It is available for download here:

http://www.westbendgeocaching.com/2009Waiver.pdf

[Jeremy]

And here is the related discussion in the Groundspeak forums:

http://forums.groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=228118

Multiple people have already tried contacting the owner without success. Based on the information from Google, it appears that multiple or even all the websites hosted by this provider have been hacked… so it is not specifically a cacherstats.com problem.

It is probably best to avoid this one until the owner can address the problem. For now, I have removed the link from the Quick Links box on the WGA site.

[Jeremy]

@Mrs TBC wrote:

Curious about something, I have never been to an event (or any other “social” gathering for that matter) that requires signing a disclaimer. What’s up with that? 😯

Every WGA event requires that participants sign a disclaimer. Because our events are typically more than a simple social gathering… i.e. we encourage seeking temporary and permanent geocaches… the disclaimer is to protect the WGA and event organizers from lawsuits in the event you get injured looking for the caches.

The disclaimer used at the Cache Ba$h is based on the WGA disclaimer. The disclaimer text was examined and improved by a lawyer last year at the West Bend Chamber’s expense, and now the WGA uses this more airtight wording at its events too.

Disclaimers would be unnecessary in a world without lawyers… at least without the ambulance-chasing, con man type lawyers.

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