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very cool that you are asking for help…and that you got a volunteer so quickly! We sometimes forget all the work you guys do to keep up w/ everyone! You do an awesome job…now my job is to make you work harder, right? Let me know it I can help.
~LinusA couple of months ago Tishman and I went to a Chicagoland caching event. A breakfast. The only cache there was the event itself, the rest was simply for the fellowship aspect (and the door prizes…yippee!). They did however hand out lists of area caches which were released by Groundspeak that morning as permanents (to give those at the breakfast the chance for the first to find). There were also other are caches on the list. Now, that is how they chose to set up their event. One event log…the rest permanents.
As people started heading out for the day we began talking to one person about joining up…before we knew it, there were four cars gathered around ours and we had a team of cachers.
One of those people came to the event at New Glarus last month (along w/ another we met after that). One had been to an event like that…The Mother Of All Breakfasts…the other had not. Both were equally impressed by the cache hunts for the event. I had to explain to both of them how to log their cache finds. They were very happy to get the #’s.
So while we may do things differently than others at events, they are our events, right? As with any cache it is to the owners discretion how the cache may be logged.
My question is this: If after an event, a temporary cache is made permanent and is given it’s own page do we log it again if we return and sign the logbook? (Just a little something else to ponder…)
Wow! I would love to be able to log my own caches…that would take my #’s up another… well…3…LOLOLOL! (just kidding…that is just silly…although I did log caches when I had walked w/ the owner during the placement)
And I have been known to push the wrong buttons once or twice in my lifetime. If you doubt this just ask my sister…Lucy, you’ll back me up on that, right?
Hey I’m all sorts of funny today. Must be from 4 days of caching in a row.
[This message has been edited by Linus4Cache (edited 08-16-2004).]
Boy, you just have to watch that Team Badger every minute of the day don’t you? You just never know what kind of trouble they’re going to stir up! Oh, wait! I’m part of Team Badger! Uhmmm…nevermind…LOL!
Okay, so I guess I didn’t understand how this was done. Silly me I kept updating the note I posted originally instead of posting new ones. So these are the states that need to be added to my list: IA, KY, FL, GA, SO
Thanks Jeff!
I think everyone should know that she is not asking $100…she wants $150! I was the first person who was planning to buy it…even for the $150 (though it can be gotten for that in the stores now…just thought I’d help her get rid of it). I drove in to Milwaukee to pick it up and she wasn’t there…a complete lack of communication! Strangely enough she called me about 30 minutes after I got home (to Beloit) telling me that she didn’t know I’d be there. Hmmm…so we planned to “make the exchange” (her choice of words…not mine) via my daughter, as I was leaving town the next day. My daughter called her and got no reply. So after a series of misses, I put it on the back burner…there were other, more important, things happening.
Anyhow, today she e-mailed me and told me she was “holding the GPS” for me…funny. How can that be if she sent word on the 10th that it was for sale again?…
I have had occasion when I came across a cache that had been missing for months but no one bothered to show it as such so…blah! I wasted time there! In fact, there was one that we did on our way home from the Dells where the final was missing. I e-mailed the owner to tell that we had trouble locating it, and asked that he check on the cache and let me know the status so I could get it on the next trip up. I never heard from him but saw last night that at the time, it was in fact gone, and the container has since been replaced…WHILE WE WERE IN THE DELLS. Had I known this, I would have returned to get it.
Now…while I do agree w/ the whole logging of no finds, I also feel it to be the responsibility of a cache owner to go and check on a cache that has been logged with a problem, or ask someone else to. At the very least post a note until such time as they are able to do so. And how hard is it to reply to someone who specifically requests a reply? In this case I never logged it because I was waiting for the owner to reply, but Lucy logged a no find for the team.
Last week I went to a cache with the intent to repair, or replace it. I saw the log of trouble, knew I didn’t have the cache yet, so I went on a mission! Found it, fixed it and e-mailed the owner that all was well again. I know that if it were my cache I would appreciate all the help I could get.
I have gotten notes about my leg of CTF and each time I’ve gone to make sure it’s still there, then sent a note to the one who had the problem. They usually return for the find once they know it is indeed there.
My point in all of this? Don’t complain about a no find if you don’t want others to know you didn’t find it! No find, no log, no sympathy from me!
~Linus
WAY TO GO…500! Congrats on racing me to 600…LOL! Keep it up but don’t make me work to hard to stay ahead of you!
~LinusCongrats! Better watch out or you could get hooked on this sport!
~LinusCongrats! Better watch out or you could get hooked on this sport!!!
~LinusCongrats!
Thanks for the notes kids! It’s such a pleasure to be a part of this sport! I am in awe of so many of the people I have met and the locations I have visited since I started this game of “hike and seek.”
It was great that Lucy and I walked through another milestone together! We were on vacation together…she actually hit 500 5 caches sooner than I did. Too bad TravellingFlyboy and Tishman weren’t with us!
Thanks again and as always…Happy Caching!
~LinusCongrats on hitting 500! Lots of time and effort go into this sport so it’s nice to hear when someone hits a big one! Of course each one completed is a big one! Happy Caching on the way to 600 and always!
~LinusGreat photo you guys! Glad everything went well! So was there a GPSR involved in latter events of the day? And who got to do the hootie hoo dance? See you soon!
~Linus[This message has been edited by Linus4Cache (edited 08-09-2004).]
I am personally very happy that things are the same as when I left town! I was gone for a couple of weeks and haven’t logged my cache finds…so…you take all the time you need Jonathan. Oh, and congrats on your new House of Brew house…
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