[Ray]

We have some commitments for the summer, but few. We will do our best to support your efforts any way we can.

[Ray]

From the few events we have been to, it seems to me that it is characteristic to have some back up of cachers at each cache placed. More difficult caches will accumulate more cachers until a find is made. This seems to be due in part to the concentration of cachers at the event. Other than an event, where will we encounter cacher density approaching one per acre with a cache density of one per five acres or less?

We have come to these events for the social interaction with other geocachers that we can rarely enjoy in our normal hunts. The price we pay for that socialization is that our finds will not be private. We will share them and frequently forfeit any associated challenge to the hunt. The mother ship/satellite concept seems to be a viable compromise. Perhaps the ratios of caches to mother ship or of mother ships to cachers may need to be tweaked. And, perhaps this thought has been well represented in this thread to this point. Another thought is that perhaps a more realistic mix of cache types at an event would help as well. Multicaches, puzzle caches and even a virtual or two would make the mix at an event more representative of the real world of caches. The multi’s and puzzles may even help with crowd control. Number of caches per geocaching team is another factor that we might look at.

All the talk of controlling traffic flow may be something we DON’T want to do. We come to these events because we want the social interaction. Do we want to control or eliminate this?

tb

[This message has been edited by Trudy & the beast (edited 05-24-2003).]

[Ray]

quote:

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Originally posted by RangerBoy:
Yeah what’s the deal with that? I’ve gone to a few cache’s to get a bug only to find them gone and yet the page proclaims them to still be there. Do people take them and not understand they are different from the usual trinkets you swap?

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Unfortunately that is the case. We just visited and retrieved [virtual] a lost bug from Grandad Bluff. We have several others that seem to be moving, often rather slowly. Sometimes you may need to just be patient.

[Ray]

Actually, I think we have a greater need for bug hotels. But, having our own bug cemetery isn’t a bad idea. While we are at it why not a bug first aid station of our own as well: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.asp?ID=47378

I do want to add one caveat. After a few weeks of no activity, we went to check on one of our bugs and found it was MIA at the last logged cache. A few months later it showed up in another cache. One can be hasty in proclaiming a bug dead

[Ray]

BTW GnS logged more than 30 caches for the weekend and we know that B&S hung out with them all weekend. They even caravaned from the southshore to the park together. We know who you are B&S come on out of the closet and post those finds.

[Ray]

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Originally posted by Cheesehead Dave:
I didn’t meet up with GnS until afterwards, so belated congrats to you!

I did, however, bear witness to another team who collected their 200th at some point on Saturday!

I’ll leave it to T&TB to figure out who…

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We know who… gc.com user id 51033.
they havn’t logged anything for the weekend yet and their previous total is actually quite a stretch to reach 200. 173 logged to now means that they had to find 27 in one or two days to get there. If you don’t know how to use a user id, try this: http://www.geocaching.com/profile/default.asp?A=51033

[Ray]

Another alternative that may be more consistant with the objective would be to have more satelites; would ten batons taking cachers to each of ten satelites resolved the problems?

[Ray]

quote:

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Originally posted by Trudy & the beast:
Saturday
May 31
N 43°02.170
W 86°56.240
Miss Katie’s Diner
1900 W. Clybourn St
Milwaukee

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Lets make the L/L
N 43°02.170
W 87°56.210
Then we will not need boats.

[Ray]

Saturday
May 31
N 43°02.170
W 86°56.240
Miss Katie’s Diner
1900 W. Clybourn St
Milwaukee

[Ray]

Ron is #21 to achieve this mark, Geoffnsara will belogging their 200th [found Friday] soon to become #22 in Wisconsin.

[Ray]

Trudy was awestruck by your prophetic message, the beast got a bit misty too.

We are going to save this message for future use; as for cachers that need encouragement when a bug moves too slowly or dissapears.

tb

[Ray]

Alas, I don’t see BatamiC on the attendee list for the campout. We may need to wait until we see him on the trails to give him that much deserved pat on the back.
tb

[Ray]

If it’s a Travel bug, Trudy will grab it. let’s hope she doesn’t hear about this.

[Ray]

BTDT, but I am sure the grand children would enjoy it.

[Ray]

You can reach them through their gc.com profile page: http://www.geocaching.com/profile/default.asp?A=10813

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