[jerrys dad]

@furfool wrote:

From what I had seen on the news last night, Brent should be thinking that he should have stayed retired.

One for four and some bad throws, good luck Brett!

The game is on the NFL Network. Last night and replayed today.

[jerrys dad]

@Decrepit wrote:

@LDove wrote:

With an upcoming postbash meeting, I am going to suggest the following and would appreciate your thoughts and comments.

Since there were several e-mails to me personally about the ticket drawing, some complaints from cachers about being pushed out of the way, caches literally thrown on the ground because someone was in too much of a hurry to put it back, etc.. I came up with an idea.

Still shoot for 50 caches but – no more cache tickets. No more stamp cards.

Instead, each ADULT CACHER will receive 1 or 2 tickets at the start of the day when they register at Cache Central or possibly be eligible when they register on time. All prizes, will be eligible for the drawing. Treasure box will be kids prizes only, adult gifts rather than going into the treasure box will go into the main drawing.

This will accomplish several things. No more lines at 4:30 to check cards, no worries about people cheating or racing around causing problems, no concerns about stamps, stickers, code words. If people who are disabled feel they can’t get a more difficult cache, it is not unfair to them to not get a ticket. Everyone has a chance. Get as many caches as you want or don’t want to and set your own personal goals for the day and reward yourself with your own achievement.

I’m all for this!

Me Too! With little children and if my wife comes, somebody with arthritis, there would be less pressure to find all and a better chance of winning. Also she wouldn’t feel bad to quit in the middle and have us take her back to the hotel.

[jerrys dad]

10 weeks down 28 too go!

[jerrys dad]

@sandlanders wrote:

Congratulations on #600, jerrys dad! And congrats also to Jerry for helping you find quite a few of those.

Thank you all, and yes Jerry was there for most of them. I even got him to school late once going after a FTF!

[jerrys dad]

I got my nuvi 200 for $108 from Wally World and it works great!

[jerrys dad]

@Jeremy wrote:

@Decrepit wrote:

@Jeremy wrote:

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

I’ve got a 60csx and the caches were downloaded the night before at the meet and greet event. Mine didn’t have the 09 codes either.

There was a rogue “guy in the hall” downloading stuff on Friday night. We can’t be responsible for anything that guy was doing… apparently (from what we can deduce) he was using smart names and also giving people the cache information from 2008? While this person was trying to be helpful, it really just caused more confusion and we had to “fix” (redownload) a number of people on Saturday morning.

Mine was downloaded Saturday marning!

[jerrys dad]

@Jeremy wrote:

@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.

I have a garmin legend and did not get any of the 900 numbers either. this made it hard to find which cache I was going for. Lucky for me I had Elfdoctors caching with me and he could look those things up. I don’t think his had it either. On the other hand my GPX file from geocaching.com did have them on my nuvi. I actually cached with my nuvi as a hand held zoomed way in most of the day.

[jerrys dad]

@thepharmgirl wrote:

Thoughts…

“You can please some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time.”

@marc_54140 wrote:

…Have more activities to do at the park. A second bingo card with Team Names, perhaps a 3rd with faces. Selected cachers have an item to turn over if someone introduces themselves. A Team bingo card – which team has completed the most objectives. Etc ….
Weigh the socializing with the caching – give lots of tickets for that as well.

Would anyone OPPOSE giving out more tickets for the socializing aspect?
Does anyone have additional ideas for park activities throughout the day?

Any other comments, concerns, suggestions?? The event itself.. the caches…anything. Things you liked? Keep all comments coming. Not everyone will agree on everything, but the comments are all very useful, and the committee is keeping a close eye on this thread!!

For me, the socializing is while we are actually doing the caching, not while in the park. We came up for a geocaching event, socializing at a geocac, for me geocaching at a geocaching event should count more than socializing at a geocaching event. We defiantly would not be involved in any extra socializing events to gain more raffle tickets, Jerry would not have the patience and isn’t that what the pre and post bash events were for. As a matter of fact I might come but not concern myself with the new ones, and the raffle, other than to get numbers. To make socializing as important as actually finding caches would lessen the experience for us. I hope I am not offending anyone but that is my opinion.

[jerrys dad]

@LDove wrote:

😳 😳 😳 Yep, my cache – I know it suks – it is a very special cache – a very crappy cache and, well, I LIKE IT THAT WAY OK! 😯 😳 🙄 Keep those stories coming – I have to have something to entertain me in my boring life… 😆

And I thank you for the cache! It was one. Elfdoctors, Northern Lightz and myself. all had on our list to do while at the bash. I hope the log was enjoyable for you and what you were looking for!

It has turned out to be very entertaining for me watching this thread.

[jerrys dad]

@Lostby7 wrote:

@Mister Greenthumb wrote:

I too would like to see the elimination of $$$ prizes and maybe an increase in the amount of prizes such as gift cards from merchants.

Last year at Chocolate fest my team won first place and a boatload of gift cards and such for local merchants. I used exactly zilch from those prizes. None of my team members nor I live near there and had little use for those items. That said I do believe that the other team members may have used one of the items and left the rest in local caches for others to have….I think tangible prizes are much better than gift cards when you are away from home with limited time. A large event like this draws people from further away and the usefulness of gift cards would be minimal at best. The event wraps up late in the day and stores are closing at that time and lots of folks would not be around the next day. $100 rolls up nicely in one’s pocket.

But lets say you add some WGA t-shirts, some TB dogtags, a couple of WGA geocoins from last year, etc… Add some extra little prizes so more people can win something. I know personally I would be willing to pay a $10 or $20 entry fee per team too help offset the cost of those extra prizes. I didn’t feel like it was woth my time to run all over West Bend just for those with such a small chance of winning something.

[jerrys dad]

@Joey_Skywalker wrote:

I heard some guy went nuts at the cache bash and started ramming cars. Is that true?

Can I assume you read My log for Pu, what a stinker! You did read the cache page first, right?

[jerrys dad]

@ecorangers wrote:

Thanks for all the suggestions everyone and keep them coming 😀
I was surprised at the number of cachers that forgo the 09 series and hit the 08 series and/or other caches.

We were one of those that did not concentrate on the ’09 series. It was not important for us, since we thought our chances of actually winning something, was too small with so many people there. Maybe next year you could get cachers / businesses to donate smaller items for the raffle on top of the money.

[jerrys dad]

I went for overall numbers. If there was an event cache close by, we went for it. We ended up with 18 and one DNF of one, 0917 Stick”y”. Overall I ended up with 69 for the day.

[jerrys dad]

@Todd300 wrote:

Looks like the canoe stayed afloat.

Afloat yes, dry no, Jerry splashed!

[jerrys dad]

Finnally done with the canoe, YES!

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