[StarWarsGuy]

who were the winners?

[StarWarsGuy]

it’s all comming up so fast..

looking forward to a fun weekend..

see you all very soon! 😀

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any word on the winning design yet?

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I love these design processes. I went throgh this with a coin and the end product was great.

I love the 10 with the original logo in it. this is not an entry but could be a cool combo of ideas.

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[StarWarsGuy]

here we go.

I would love to see a state shaped coin with a simple front. Back side filled with geocaching icons. here is my entry.

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I am guilty of everything and anything..

I have hid:

stop sign
guard rail
lamp post
park bench
parking meter(I am proud of that one. lol)
dead end diamond
sign post
my front yard
another cachers front yard(haha got you Tomk.)

but I am a container guy too. some times the location has nothing to offer but the container is a gem.

lightsaber
owl
three blind mice
18 inch Ray Charles
elephant head
frozen han solo
darth vaders Tie-figher
lunch box
3 foot key
Troll

I also had a seed cache at one point. large cache that spit 35 micros out of it.

all caches big or small..common or not add to the game.

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[StarWarsGuy]

here is another one of those geocaching “evolution” things.

caches are hid and marked very clearly “park and grabs” you put the coords in and goto ground zero and you find the cache exactly as published right where it should be. That is how geocaching started.

then parks got filled….bike paths got filled… caches were being muggles becuase they were easy to find. then caches got smaller and smaller and smaller. Then you weren’t hiding from muggles..you were trying to “Stump” geocachers.

you see s park bench hide.. then a lamp post… then a sign. New hiding places open up and you see many similar hides.

many bike trails have caches every 529 ft. many parks have park bench hides. Many shoping ceters have lamp posts.

If you know where you are going.. you know what to expect.

I did the p&g series but only a couple at a time. Then I hiked a couple days. then a few more p&g. It’s how I felt on the day.

“Power Trails” are all over it you need many caches at a time.

it was really nice to go to ground zero and the cache is right there. Been a long time. Too many easy ones is no fun and Too many “hahah gotcha hides” is no fun either. I balance my own activtiy to keep it all fresh to me.

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and the winners are????

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it is working now.. Just goto the gallery and highlight the stars under the pictures you like.

[StarWarsGuy]

how do we vote on the contest. I can find the photos but do not see a ranking system on the phots.

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[StarWarsGuy]

@gotta run wrote:

Here are some scenarios for challenges that don’t appear to be prohibited by the rules:

Go to these coordinates and look in this particular spot. The spot happens to be the final location of a puzzle cache.
Go to these coordinates and take a picture. The location is the final location of a mega-stage multicache.
Go to these coordinates and do a particular action. The action has the effect of revealing a particularly challenging hide.

As far as I can tell none of those meet the reasons a cache could be flagged, yet I could see they would all be possible based on past behaviors and actions by cache vandals.

this is what has to be tweeked. how do people cache in washington dc? I cant see being allowed to hide an ammo can. Challanges would be great for that area.

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So what you’re saying is that if I spend 20+ hours solving a very interesting and challenging puzzle that teaches me lots of cool things and I get a set of actual coordinates at the end and go find the cache that just happens to be in the middle of a swamp that it shouldn’t count towards my smiley? I totally disagree

why would you spend all the time when there are guard rail and lamp post hides for the same little smiley?

mysterys and mulit’s are just a different way to play it you want to.

challanges are a different way to play if you want to.

heck.. Trackables should count as a “bouns find” but only if you do them as intended. If you find a trackable in a cache and move it to a cache you should get a bounus smile. That would get people to move them rather that find them and keep them. People love their smiles.

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@CodeJunkie wrote:

@StarWarsGuy wrote:

they should only count regular caches in peoples totals. all else is just fun side notes to actual goecaching.

So what you’re saying is that when I hunt a 12 stage multi over a 4.5 mile course that could have been 12 individual caches it shouldn’t count towards my smiley? I totally disagree.

So what you’re saying is that if I spend 20+ hours solving a very interesting and challenging puzzle that teaches me lots of cool things and I get a set of actual coordinates at the end and go find the cache that just happens to be in the middle of a swamp that it shouldn’t count towards my smiley? I totally disagree.

If there’s a container and you find it and sign the log it should count.

You might be able to persuade me with events, virtuals, earthcaches, challenges, etc. but if I find a container and sign the log I don’t really see what the difference is compared to just a plain traditional.

I was just throwing out another viewpoint.

people say these things are no good and they will not do them so they should not count.

some people really like them

I dont do mysterys or multi’s.. Not my cup of tea, but I was trying to show the silliiness of the statement.

“I dont like them.. I wont do them. They shouldnt count for anybody”

If I drove to Oregon to snap a picture of me canoing and drove home to log it. that is also a lot of effort. more than figuring out a math problem.

this is a great challange to plan to do.

(I think the quality of the challanges have to improve. they will get tweeked in time and get on to what they were intended to be)

anything that requires you to do somthing else other than plug in coors and find a container is just an attempt to enhance the geocaching experience.

challanges are new and they are working out the bugs. give it time and maybe it will replace virtuals that some people really enjoyed.

I also like when I stumble on a bechmark, but I dont actively hunt them. some people wont hunt them becaues they dont count. the feeling is.. if they dont count then what the point?

what ever gets you out there.

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you just have to think of these as…

trackables
benchmarks
mystery caches
multi’s

they are all not caches but if you like them…do them…

if you dont.. dont.

it is a good change up. I have done a couple and that will probably be it.

its a different game and some will really like them. some wont.

as far as counting? who cares? my count is what I have done and choose not to do. It is my journey and I pick my path.

they should only count regular caches in peoples totals. all else is just fun side notes to actual goecaching.

glad challanges got their own special counter.

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gotta love this group shot.

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