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Originally posted by AstroD-Team:
Where do we go for help?

AstroD-Team

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I can feel your pain ~ tb

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Originally posted by marc_54140:
http://wi-geocaching.com/photo_album2//00000229/thmb_dollarfrontcolor216x91.GIF

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Ahah! The Where’s Miata? game has begun…

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These new Miata’s look good enough to become legal tender. Are they available yet?

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I had signed-up using an AOL account that I have since closed. JS doesn’t seem to know the difference. Immagine, sending spam to the dead letter office. I’ll bet their bit bucket is full.

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All of these caches are within a quarter mile of the parking area mentioned in this news item.

It might be best to search these in a group and leave a couple of alert souls to watch the cars.

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The story is told here: http://wi-geocaching.com/forums/Forum8/HTML/000169.html

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Thank you Opossum (may I call you Pogo?) for pointing out that my post could verry easily be taken very literaly while my intent was more tongue-in-cheek. My point is to be more proactive… “Let’s get our act together,” let’s do what we can to abate this problem.

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There are a lot of directions one might point fingers in this situation. Retailers sould obliterate the markings on these before stocking them on their shelves. Cachers should obliterate the markings before placing the caches. Cachers should seek permission before placing the cache. Approvers should insist on verification of permission. Bomb squads should be aware that not all packages labled “explosives” are a hazard (what terrorist will mark his bombs?).

We have seen this situation in the past and will see it again in the future. This is a good opportunity to create “much ado about nothing”. We as cachers need to be more aware of outsiders perceptions of us and our activities. We need to seek permission, educate emergency responders, remove external markings on cache containers and mark them with a point of contact. Let’s get our act together folks. ~tb

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There have been a lot of good comments here. I hope that my remarks will be as well received. Let’s not lose sight of the fact that the first cache was placed by a cacher that had no finds. We have seen some excellent caches placed by newbies and I would not want to say that anyone must have this many finds before they place one. Each of us comes to this game with different ideas and ideals. We need the opportunity to see how these fit the wishes of the community. The only restriction that would be reasonable in my view, would be to place no more caches than you can maintain, and maintain all that you place. ~tb

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Whew! we are just finishing up a week end road trip that adds 4 states to our count: ND, SD, NE, KS

[This message has been edited by Trudy & the beast (edited 06-18-2005).]

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I thought I would give it a try, but gave up when I couldn’t find Miata. ~tb

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Big thumbs up!

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As posted on GC.COM

You folks don’t see me here much any more. These forums are taken OT way too quickly without resolving any issues presented.

Getting back to the issues at hand ~

100 or more cache logs at one event? – show me
The cachers pointed out have 100 event logs, but this is for a total of five events, take another look at their profile, page one lists only one of those events.

Logging temporary caches? This is an issue that has no resolution.
One of the cachers at the WGA event in question logged 65 caches for 20+ hours of caching at the event; cachers were on the trails Friday evening, all day Saturday, Saturday night and early Sunday morning. The park is over 1000 acres in size and boasts over 17 miles of hiking trails. There were about a half dozen caches available Friday, about fifty temporary caches available Saturday and about a dozen more available Saturday night. We used the entire park for the event, which was open to all comers. We frequently see cachers from Illinois, Michigan, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri and occasionally Texas at our Wisconsin events. The quality of the caches at these events rivals the permanent caches we have seen in the 14 states we have cached in.

Some cachers logged every temp they found, some went home with only a count of one event attended. It was their choice. I would prefer to see only permanent caches in our game; I would prefer to see only ammo boxes, only unique locations, and only short walks on level terrain. These are my preferences. But, not all caches fit my preferences. I play the game as it is laid before me and create caches as I like to see them. Please correct me if I am critical of how others play this game, I would do nothing to take their fun from them.

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I wouldn’t give up the opportunity to cache and make snow angels too. I just need to go with friends so I will have help getting back to my feet (Thanks Tim & Carol).

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Originally posted by rpaske:
As I sit in the North Woods, along side Lake Wissota, I am wondering about this idea. There are few caches in this nick of the woods – but, there are plenty of ticks! That is another thought.
I would rather visit a park or an off the beaten path than just go geocaching and look at stop signs for magnetic containers, under lighting posts in a shopping center parking lot, or a magnetic case stuck on some metal object.
Who said that the journey is worth more than the geocache?

[This message has been edited by rpaske (edited 05-28-2005).]

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I have given this some thought as well.. I fonnd a magnetic on a parking lot light pole and placed one as well. I haven’t placed one on a guard rail yet. I suspect that the flora, fauna, terraine and view are pretty much the same in most parking lots and along most guard rails. But, parks and woods offer a fascinating variety. I can’t seem to get enough of it. If you have seen one parking lot, you have seen them all. So I guess it is back to nature for me.

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