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thanks! 🙂

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Do you have any submissions yet? I gave you a nice plug in an event announcement.

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I think to count, the goal was to get as many individual accounts to log a cache on a single day…. today.

Either everyone is procrastinating logging their find, the log stats aren’t accurate, or not that many people decided to participate…. So far, the stats look like any other Sunday.

Interesting.

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If you really want to conquer one…. Try contacting a cache owner of one of the Wherigos. I found them to be very helpful when I built mine….

However, a word of warning… The programs to set one up can be very confusing, so I’d only attempt it if you’re good with computers and logic. And it’s EXTREMELY time consuming. I spent close to 100 hours working on mine. And after I built it and thought I had a working program, it turned out that it worked on Colorados but not most Oregons. Very frustrating.

But don’t let me scare you. It’s rewarding if it works. And lots of fun for other geocachers to play! 🙂

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I did my part. Found one today only a mile from my house. i’ve been slackin’

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@NYSandy23 wrote:

Can anyone tell me where they got all those cute stamps? I have an event I would like to use a variety of marking devices.

Thanks

I’m pretty sure they were from the Oriental Trading Company

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@kc9gbo wrote:

… The trackable area wasn’t really well marked/closed early (we came back from caching hoping to trade and it was all closed up)

Ah, yes. We had the trackables sitting out at a marked table until we overheard a newbie grab a couple and say, “Hey cool! Free trackables!”

After THAT, we had to have somebody keep it with them at all times, and we didn’t always have enough volunteers for that job.

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@Team Deejay wrote:

Many of the caches are listed as placed by “WBA Chamber”. Now, we all know that no one in the chamber is actually placing or maintaining the caches, so either placing them with the actual placer’s account or adding an “assisted by” to the placed by text would be appreciated. I just like to know who is hiding the caches I find.

Me too. Most of us agree put the “assisted by” on our hidden caches, including myself, LDove, kmhiker, MikMac4, and Mr Greenthumb. So, by process of elimination, if it didn’t include a name, Earth Angel was the wonderful hider.

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@sweetlife wrote:

4) Lackey Attendance (For the size of the event, it is surprising that they were not here)

They were invited as well as numerous vendors. Getting input from event attendees will definitely help the cause for next year!!

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@amita17 wrote:

I heard there was going to be a Wherigo but never saw any information on it. Was it a one-time group thing, or could it be done on your own if you have the right kind of equipment?

Thanks for all the feedback! The Wherigo is permanent and can be done on your own with the right equipment: GC27QDH

There wasn’t any advance notification because I wasn’t sure I would have it ready in time. Luckily, I managed to get it published in time for the event, and I think I posted a note about it. According to the feedback of people who did it, it works great on Garmin Colorados, locks up on some Oregons but not on others, works on Droids if you downloaded from the computer and not your cell. Somebody also did it with a Blackberry and it worked well. Seems like I will have to clean up the programming so that it works for everyone.

There is also a way to play the game on your home computer and that works perfectly.
😀

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I’ve forwarded all the comments so far to the chamber director. Keep them coming. There is a meeting next week to discuss next year’s event, so all comments and suggestions will be taken into consideration.

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@RSplash40 wrote:

In hindsight there was more we both could’ve done, but whats done is done and its time to move forward.

okie dokie. agreed. 😀

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@glorkar wrote:

@thepharmgirl wrote:

The reason we had a 10am deadline for Geo-Golf was that we needed time to enter all the coordinates we received. This deadline was listed on the Event Cache Page for months and it was also in the Booklet. Perhaps next year we could include it on the Geo-Golf form itself. If we had more volunteers, perhaps somebody could enter them as they were handed in. But alas, most volunteers had multiple tasks to do over the weekend.

Just figured with the number of people that showed up, I probably wasn’t the only one who missed that point 🙂

True. Only a little over 100 people played the game.

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@RSplash40 wrote:

Never said it was the majority, but if you want to get snippy about it go ahead… don’t ask questions you don’t want answers to regardless of how much information you get back.

. I’m sure the found log emails are going directly to the bit bucket on a weekend like this.

Hi RSplash40,

I only got snippy because I put a lot of my own time and expense into my caches, so when I hear phrasing such as “the old caches are ALL junk”, it hurts my feelings. Especially since it seemed liked it was secondhand info.

Thank you for the specific example. I know who that belongs to, so I can send along the message.

As for the log emails…. I read each and every one of the logs of my personal caches that I hid for the Ba$h… and I know LDove does too.

I DO appreciate the feedback.

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