[rogheff]

Maybe make these business cards into stickers and apply them to the insides of geocaches or put them on logbooks. They’re sure to be seen by non members.

[rogheff]

I see you folks hit some of my caches in the Twin Cities area. Congrats on the milestone.

[rogheff]

I welcome you as well. Check your local Boy Scout Council. There may be a geocaching themed Venture Crew in Madison.

[rogheff]

Gotta put in a plug for my favorite Wisconsin State Park – Amnicon Falls

[rogheff]

I’ll be there, don’t know if I signed the “Official Ice Cream On The Lake”
ledger sheet.

[rogheff]

@greyhounder wrote:

@rogheff wrote:

@Timberline Echoes wrote:

WE have seen signs under “No trespassing” signs with the GEocaching logo and then encrypted the message “Except Geocachers”

HTH
TE

I like this idea, but you better pass this through Groundspeak – they’re rather…shall we say… “protective” of their logo. I had to sign a legal document to carve the GC logo on walking sticks for folks.

Just so nobody gets into trouble – but I do like the encrypted idea.

Non-commercial use

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Acceptable non-commercial uses of the Groundspeak Geocaching Logo:

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We are also willing to make allowances for those of you who have creative ideas and want to do something fun for your friends and fellow Geocachers. The Groundspeak Geocaching Logo may be used only on non-commercial items. These items may include, but are not limited to shirts, hats, coins, logbooks, stickers and cache containers. Additionally, the Groundspeak Geocaching logo may not be modified in any way. If the lifetime use of the design is less than 25 units, you may consider permission automatically granted. These items may not, under any circumstance, be sold. For larger numbers of items, please request permission by sending an email to [email protected].

Excellent – thank you Greyhounder. Looks like you’re good to go!

[rogheff]

@Timberline Echoes wrote:

WE have seen signs under “No trespassing” signs with the GEocaching logo and then encrypted the message “Except Geocachers”

HTH
TE

I like this idea, but you better pass this through Groundspeak – they’re rather…shall we say… “protective” of their logo. I had to sign a legal document to carve the GC logo on walking sticks for folks.

Just so nobody gets into trouble – but I do like the encrypted idea.

[rogheff]

It may be on the other side of the state – you never know. ‘Ol Rogheff gets all over the Midwest on a regular basis.

[rogheff]

@Team Deejay wrote:

Ya know, I remember someone who used to have this webpage which espoused the idea that you should measure coordinates by approaching your new cache from 8 different directions on 3 different days and then averaging the 24 values. For some reason, I can’t quite remember who it was who made this suggestion, but I remember thinking it was a pretty good idea. I actually used that for my “Get Your Free Maps Here” cache with my etrex, as well as most of my other caches. I wonder whatever happened to that guy…

You know I used to have something like that on my Groundspeak profile page when I first started. That is basically what I did in the beginning – you know back when my coords were consistantly waaaaay off. Go figure.

I still do try to average the coords as much as possible, but never over several days. I do walk a hundred feet or so in several differant directions, then record and average the coords.

Thanks for everyone’s comments. I think I’ll place this cache, but will mention on the cache page (not that anyone reads the cache pages) that it was placed with this particular GPSr so be prepared to hunt.

This cache that I’m thinking of placing will be the most complicated, most expensive cache I’ve ever placed. It won’t be a micro either. I can’t come back to cachign after a six month absence and place a pill bottle in the crotch of a tree, now can I? 😈

[rogheff]

I’ve got one with 14,000 miles currently in Germany. A “caching without borders” geocoin with 10,000 miles recently went missing.

[rogheff]

If a cache is in the trees, then averaging doesn’t matter much if you have a GPSr with poor reception in the trees. You’ll get the average of the satelites your GPSr can pick up on the fringe of the tree canopy.

In the past, I’ve averaged several times, then looked at the satelite images to see where they show it. That has, again – in the past – given me “kinda, sorta accurate” coords.

[rogheff]

I think the only multi I logged seperately was the “?” cache by the Cheeseheads. Seems to me you had to log it in order to proceed to the next step.

To each his own.

[rogheff]

Well doggone it, now you’ve got me all curious. I’ll have to test this theory. I have an old Garmin that I’ll mount to a hiking stick just to see how well it’ll handle the abuse.

[rogheff]

I’d be concerned about the damage that may be done to your GPSr from all the jarring and pounding on the ground. I know the bottom of a wooden hiking staff gets beaten up pretty fast, I’d worry about those shock waves terminating on the GPSr.

Not to mention that in my personal experience, a hiking stick falls to the ground (or rocks, or concrete) when propped against a tree on a regular basis. How many of those falls can a GPSr survive?

[rogheff]

Thanks Dave, I just don’t want to have someone change their plans because of one silly little wet piece of paper.

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