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I guess I would draw a distinction between “required” versus “encouraged”. I attend as many events as I can, especially the local events, but I don’t think it is fair to require someone to attend an event just because they are on the board. Not every event is of interest to every geocacher. That said, events get the “face to face” contact that is often missing in our technologically oriented hobby and would certainly let a board member be more effective in their role.

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In a word, no. A board member cannot effectively serve if he is out of communication with his electors. The forums are the most effective channel we have for communication.

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Seems like a good idea. Any risks associated with this? Would we need to commit to a certain level of sales to the state to participate in this?

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I agree with Zuma on this. This doesn’t seem like a priority to me, but we can always change it if someone designs something great. I would hate to change it just for the change, however.

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I’d like to see the discussion on this issue held back 23 months ago. I’m not against putting together a booth, but I wonder how many of our “new recruits” would be reached through an event like the sports show. Perhaps we would be more effective at a technology fair, a gaming convention, or a senior expo. I’m thinking we might do well to survey our current membership to find out how they could have been reached before they found geocaching and how they actually found out about it. From there, we could decide what venues would be best to recruit new members.

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Well, this really has nothing to do with my candidacy, but I make it a practice to send one of the approvers a GPX every two months of all inactive caches which have been disabled for more than 3 months with no approver or owner activity during that time. (I also filter out the caches which are closed seasonally where the owner has clearly stated when he will reinstate the cache.) This allows the approvers to take action without having to do the legwork of chasing down which caches are highest priority to shutdown.

The first time I did this, there were over 100 caches meeting the criteria. The last list (ran on January 1) was only 35 caches. I think the approvers are doing a good job making progress on this. (So if you got a nastygram from the approvers, you can blame me for bringing your disabled cache to their attention.) A lot of the currently disabled caches are down for winter and hopefully will be back up in the spring. If not, well, they make my list and get flagged to the approvers.

The long disabled caches tend to fall into 3 categories:
1. Owner doesn’t understand that it is his job to archive the cache.
2. Owner isn’t maintaining the cache at all, usually completely out of geocaching, cache might have been disabled by approvers.
3. Owner is somehow too busy to honor the commitment he made when placing the cache. Surprisingly, category 1 is the most common.

Note that I could easily reduce the “grace period” of three months in this list. When I first started this, the number of disabled caches was larger, so I arbitrarily set 3 months because it kept the number manageable for the approvers.

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I don’t see why we couldn’t, but are you referring to being selected as location for a pre-existing event (Midwest Geobash certainly seems doable) or creating a whole new event? I would think it would take a while for any new event to elevate itself to mega status, but if enough people are interested, we could certainly try. Not sure if there is enough demand out there for another regional/national event. On the other hand, if we want to host the MWGB, maybe we should get some volunteers involved with that organization now.

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Two comments: First, I noticed Marc did his usual good job of rehiding the cache 😆

Better yet: The first item on Youtube’s related videos is “When Gorillas Attack!” Maybe thats the one that Brian gets to talk on.

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I wonder what the combined readership of these papers is. (I’m guessing under 10000.) And what percentage of those readers would read an artilcle like this with any interest? Maybe 5% tops?

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and in case you weren’t ALREADY scared enough, here a recent log from a cache just south of the Illinois border…LINK

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Hehe, I guess I need a new calendar! January 13 in case someone couldn’t figure it out.

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Judging from their play against the Packers in the last regular season game, “wandering” seems like the appropriate verb. Certainly less harsh than “looking for a spot to hibernate”….. 😆

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I found it for $108 at Provantage.com + $5 shipping. Can’t vouch for this vendor, however. They just showed up as the cheapest.

I will say that you usually don’t want to buy anything from the Garmin website. To give you an idea, they have a 256M microSD card listed for $64. I picked up a 2GB microSD card from Newegg for $50, and they had a 1GB card for $15.

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I don’t know what your budget is, Lostby, but I got my first palm on ebay for $8 including shipping. I was already a hardcore GSAKer when I got my first Palm, but I did need to buy Cachemate, so my total startup cost was just under $16. After about 1 year of service, it gave up the ghost (still works, but won’t sync with a PC, you can have it if you want), so I broke down and bought a new one (from Palm) for under $100, including a hardshell case.

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@One Paddle Short wrote:

Many people are suggesting that you purchase the City Navigator NT because the maps are smaller and you can load more onto the SD card. So from what I understand is that it is better to get the CD and a bigger SD card than buy the preloaded card.

I’m ready to make the purchase to get autorouting going on my 60CSx. Is there any disadvantage to the Navigator NT? Are the maps smaller because they include less detail or smaller simply because of a different type of file system?

I doubt that you will find many people who have experience with both, since they are supposed to have the same function. According the Garmin website, they are the same except the NTs require a unit which can deal with the compressed files (you own one). When you look at the map previewer, they appear identical as well. The biggest catch would be that you might not be able to use the NT maps on other GPS’s that you might already own.

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