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Very interesting reading everyone’s take on the Cache Bash. I think it has been a great even these past six years, but I also think that it will lose its’ luster without new and fresh ideas and hides. Personally, I like the clusters of hides in a nice area….a park where you can get out and hike. I think more challenging hides are fun. A lot of these cache bash caches will be more fun to come back and do at a leisurely pace without 1000 of your dearest caching friends handing you the container as you walk up. But that’s part of what happens with the Cache Bash and there is no way you are going to avoid that.
West Bend certainly does have a high saturation of caches – I do not think anyone would argue with that. Does it have a high saturation of quality caches? No…not really. There are a lot of park and grabs – but again, that means there is something for everyone and for everyone’s caching style. It would be nice if the cache owners of the area would care enough about their existing caches to do cache maintenance prior to the West Bend Cache Ba$h. That just seems like common sense to me. But apparently not.
I loved that we have CO’s like Dr. Doolittle and Goldie Diggers involved who care enough to do event site cache maintenance and even moving cache ba$h caches to allow nature to recover from having 1000+ cachers trample her.
I do not think those involved on the committee should win prizes. It is not that I do not value their time and effort…I just agree with BQ – it’s all about appearances….to me it seems tacky.
I like more post-ba$h event options – even though I did not attend either this year. I liked that there that was a BBQ option right at Regner. Great idea!
If the West Bend Cache Ba$h hopes to stand the test of time, then they must infuse new and fresh ideas each and every year and they must cater to those coming from outside of the WB community. The reality is that this event bring a TON of money into West Bend. I cannot even begin to imagine how much – hotels, gas, food, ice cream, custard, batteries at Walgreens/WalMart….
I love themes – do a theme for next year….I think theme helps a CO develop more creative and challenging caches.
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Welcome!
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Pretty sure I signed a log of log sheets after you! Congrats on 5000.
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I love themes. A pirate theme or a James Bond theme would be fabulous! I thought the caches this year, for the most part, were well done. I, like everyone else, love the groupings. It is great to be able to park the geomobile and spend an hour and sometimes more, hiking an area and doing the caches there.
The one complaint I do have is on one of the Goonie caches. First of all, I think it was listed as a traditional and it was not a traditional. It was an offset. While I certainly like and appreciate the variety, this particular offset had you going so many paces in the direction of the arrow. That is all fine and well if the arrow is permanently pointed in the right direction. Unfortunately, by the time we arrived (about 4:20 p.m.), the arrow was not pointed in the correct direction so it was very frustrating trying to figure out which direction was correct. A cache like that needs to be categorized correctly and also the directional arrow needs to be permanently pointing in the correct direction.
Other than that – Dr. Doolittle hides were by far my favorite, followed closely by Goldie Diggers and then probably the Goonies. The bike path was nice also. Well done everyone. Loved socializing. I did the Bingo card for the first time this year and had fun with that as I would ask Cachers I met on the trail.
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@beccaday wrote:
I had a great time! I didn’t find too many caches but the ones I did find were awesome! I really don’t care for all of the dangerous caches on the side of the road but that’s a personal preference. I was really impressed by the event, I appreciated the variety of hides, as people all play the game differently.
One suggestion that I’d really like to pass on to the committee is that it would really be nice if there were a cache or two hidden at Regner every year that was new to the event. I helped out with the 101 class and several of the new cachers were disappointed that they couldn’t go out and find a real geocache that they could find for the event that they could get a stamp in their booklet for. It makes sense, they didn’t want to go far for their first one. The only new cache at Regner was a puzzle cache and the description wasn’t even in the book for them to solve.
Becca – good point. However, the puzzle cache that was at Regner was a simple puzzle solve and it would be great to have something like that in the future as it provides a good introduction to puzzle caches.
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1500 without me
Did you climb a tree
What did you see
Oh golly gee
What a milestone
You’re on the throne
You’re the best
Now you can rest!Congrats Debby. Seems like just yesterday we were doing #1000 in Bonduel.
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@CodeJunkie wrote:
@CodeJunkie wrote:
I think it dilutes the whole concept of souvenirs unless they’re going to group them or something on the stats page for this. It irritates me to the point I don’t want to cache because I don’t want them in my list. It ranks right up there with the “challenge” idea they had a while ago which was just plain silly.
ARGGGGHHH!!! So I’m a hypocrite. I found a cache at lunch time today.
What can I say…I was dropping something off at the post office out by the mall and there was a cache nearby that I had not found…so yes…I did found it and got my souvenir!
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@labrat_wr wrote:
would it help to change your distance preference on your GC account to Metric?
That is exactly what I was thinking and it is simple enough to do. Depending on your GPS type, you should be able to change it on there also. I was recently in Canada and changed my GPS to show Km instead of miles.
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@Gram and Gramps wrote:
Gram and I are looking at an international trip late this fall. As part of the preliminary planning we are looking at caches. One particular challenge has caught our eye, but I’m having trouble assembling the needed data.
We are asked to list a find in each of many concentric rings of distance, starting at our home base, in 10 kilometer jumps. The catagories are 10-20 km, 20-30 km, 30-40 km, etc. all the way out to about 600 km.
There’s got to be an easier way to mine this data than manually scrolling through lotsa geocaching.com pages! Hopefully some of you well versed in techy solutions will be able to offer us a step-by-step tutorial. I’ve toured some of the various knowledge bases and forum archives and have not found much.
Thanks a lot. cYa, Grandpa Jim
What is the GC number of the challenge cache?
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Nice and congratulations – but my question is was there really moonlight in Escanaba?
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@labrat_wr wrote:
Rats.. I even went out and bought a Rubix cube just to solve Gordian Knot. Now I may never get to log it.
Best wishes Peach! hope you can get some of these adopted.
Someone had better adopt this one, because like labrat – I just got my hands on a rubix cube also for the sole purpose of trying to solve this puzzle.
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@Sloughfoot wrote:
We have watched the LCG from the sidelines for years and have enjoyed the year end party, so when we just did a cache that hadn’t been found for over a year we thought good time to play the game. I cant get the rules to come up using either IE or Firefox but apparently the cache we found isn’t on the list anyway GC2NBY4 *Puckaway Tuckaway!!* Any ideas why it isn’t on the list and how can I find the rules?
Looks like the present Lonely list included anything that had not been found prior to and including July 20, 2012. So Puckaway Tuckaway just Snuckaway from the July/August list and of course, since you found it now, it won’t make any new Lonely list soon – which is good, right? 🙂 Solved that one way back and still have not fetched the final. Isn’t this the one where CJ paid a snowmobile driver to give him a ride there?
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I am on linkedin – use it for professional – placing foreign exchange students and staying connected.
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Nice work! I have done many of your hides! And you have found MANY hides. Congratulations!
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Nice work Kim and John. Looks like a fabulous earth cache and a double milestone also! Well done and congrats!
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