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Good Luck all.. It was a fun season..
Ricktroop... Thanks for running this one...
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PICKS IN-
Ashallond: 1/06 (hmmm, interesting!!!)
seekerfamily: 1/06 (OH! my,my!!!)
teamhaynes:
ticktickticktickticktick.......
sent my pick via pm...
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I will vote B. I like the color and the rainbow
Thanks.
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All went as planned and I hit my goal of 2000 finds on December 30, 2009 with just one day left as a buffer. And yesterday I received the mission coin and a special gift coin from kini_ont!!! I will try and take a picture tomorrow morning of both coins and post it up here. We went out today and added a few more caches to the count (33 finds) to start on my goal of 3000 finds by the end of 2010. I will dip the mission coin into my 2000th find cache and then await word from the next milestoner...
So, who's gonna be next???
Congratulations on 2000.... I don't think I will be next, but my goal is to hit 1000 (currently 800) by my birthday in March... this would be my 2nd anniversary of entering the hobby
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Just a thought... If you made each coin identical you could do something like they do with the fallen hero's geocoin. Each coin is preactivated and dedicated to a certain fallen hero. When you buy one, you essentially take possession, but it still is owned by a fallen heros account, allowing it to always remain as memorial to the specific fallen hero.
Here is s link to one of the coins http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?id=1716159
If you did something like this each coin could be identical which would keep the cost down, each icon would be the same (again keeping cost down) but you could continue to customize each page as a unique memorial. You could even adopt them to the purchasers
BTW... I haven't designed or minted any coins so my experience is limited... I just like the idea of this project and would like to see a way that as many cachers as possible could obtain one of these coins, especially since so many have a tie to the military in some way or another
I am sure many others will have great ideas to add, but I do look forward to seeing your coin produced
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Is there any way you could do more than 52 but make the message of each coin focus on the 52 that were lost... Something with the number 52 on the coin itself?
I am asking because you state the goal is education yet only 52 coins wouldn't really get around to many people.
It would lower expenses if the run was higher and give more opportunity to people to participate in this kind of memorial.
Thanks
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The lucky winners are:
opalsns
nils-Olov
scificollector
velrahkoon
I wish I could give at least 3 more coins to people with answers I liked, but I have only these 4 now and I promised to be selected by random events out of my control
However, I hope that I can send some little gifts in the future to people that did very good work in this cointest.
Thanks to all participants and I hope to have more cointests in the future
Congrats to the winners.. Thanks for the cointest
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Any picks yet. Philly is a 4 point underdog (can't mention that other team in this house)
No picks yet. I originally said to post picks here, but if the three contestants all would like to build up the suspense (and keep from being 'Priced is Right-ed'
) they can PM me their picks, I'll acknowledge that I got 'em here, then post the picks here as close to game time as I can. (or I won't post them and someone will get a surprise package!)I will pick either way but would prefer to send you the pick (PM or email)
I like the idea of the PM or Email as well.
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I found a grandfather caches bookmark... grandfather caches
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Thanks, that link helps a lot - sort of. There is only one grandfather cache in Arizona, about an hour away. Not far by commuter standards, but with the 6 year old geocacher (the one who got me into this) and the one year old in tow, it becomes a bit of a logistical feat. Not to mention the fact that the cache entails a trek through open desert. Sounds like just the kind of way we like to spend a morning! I'll post whether we end up making it all the way out there or end up depositing it at a site closer to the goal. Thanks Maineiac for your handy sleuthing, and BRoKeN W for the link.
Another option is to try getting it directly into the hands of another player that can make the trek for sure. It could be fun finding the right person.
There is more than one in airzona... I ran a pocket query based on the center of arizona and here are the 4 digit active grandfather caches. There are some in utah, colorado, new mexico, and califonia and dependeng on where you are they might be closer
Try GC7B, GCED, GC57, GCFE, GC7E these are all in arizona and active according the query I ran
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Looks like it's a 3 way battle. (jets are up 37-0 right now)
ESPN says the game on the 9th is the DAL-PHI match, 8 pm. Eastern from Jerryworld!
A rematch eh???? I doubt it will have the same score
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If it's just two I'm all for us both winning.
Not my game but I like the idea
Breaking out the Sawzall
, you want the right half or the left??? 
A new type of puzzle coin
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The first attempt at a tiebreaker will be:
1-THE JANUARY 9, 2010 NFC WILD-CARD GAME.
Winning pick will have the CORRECT WINNING TEAM & be closest to TOTAL POINTS (winner+loser).
2-If still a tie, closest to Winning Team's actual score.
3-If still a tie, closest to Losing Team's actual score.
Haven't seen the Saturday game posted (Philly at Dallas or Green Bay at Arizona) on line yet, but in deference to Team Haynes, please don't start posting picks until midnite Eastern so we can see if his Jets make it a three way and he can have a shot in case of duplicate score picks....
Thanks, I appreciate it... It will be fun..
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If it's just two I'm all for us both winning.
Oh... it will be 3
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and for a while I was worried for the longest time SF was only up 1 without the ball. Congrats to seeker (if you are philly phan)
Good luck to those who have NY and Den.
I would be worried if I picked denver today.. Already down by 7 and with all of the McDrama.. I am a lifelong Bronco fan and don't think I will watch today
Looks like Denver lost... Now if NJ can win
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I don't know about the 1300 so I'll let someone else respond.
Re: the Venture HC, doesn't it have proximity alerts? See if you can set proximity alerts for caches. That way it will beep at you whenever you are getting near one.
That's not to talk you out of the Nuvi, but it's an option you could consider even if you get the Nuvi for car nav.
...ken...
Thanks for the reminder on proximity alerts. I haven't really played with them.... I ended up not buying the 1300 and the sale is over... What I am looking for is essentially a good car gps that show local geocaches as well. Something that I could load a bunch of grab and gos (yes I admit I like lame urban micros) without getting the handheld out.
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and for a while I was worried for the longest time SF was only up 1 without the ball. Congrats to seeker (if you are philly phan)
Good luck to those who have NY and Den.
I would be worried if I picked denver today.. Already down by 7 and with all of the McDrama.. I am a lifelong Bronco fan and don't think I will watch today
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this is so cool. a coin that tennessee jed adopted over to me back in 2008 that then went missing soon after has recently re-appeared. where it went or what it was doing during its missing year i do not know. but im glad it back in play
By a fairly new cacher no less. Congrats...
We need to start a resurrection thread with all of the lost but found travelers
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Like this
They can be tricky to find especially when hanging in a bush or tree
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Well, it looks like everyone is riding on San Francisco, Denver, and The J-E-T-S Jets Jets Jets!
Should be interesting to watch today. (here's hoping for a jets and Bronco loss.)
Totally agree. GO KC and the Bengals.
2 way tie is enough
Congrats Ash... looks like you got to at least a tiebreaker with SF's win... Seeker are you philly phan? if so congrats as well
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Okay....
my resolutions for the new year (and feel free to hold me to them)
1. Lose weight (of course)
2. To be a better Husband
3. To be a better Father
4. Balance, Balance, Balance... avoid turning my hobbies into obsessions (geocoins, geocaching, fantasy football, etc
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to get my 800th find
Wow!! Congrats on 800!!
Thanks
Congrats on 800!!
I think I would contact the coin owners first and see what they want done with their coins, I know I would want mine sent to me to sit in my collection. If you don't hear from them in a couple of weeks then send them back out.
I contacted the coin owner and she was delighted to see it back in action... She wants it to be put back into circulation...
Funny thing about this coin.. It went missing despite one of those hitch hiker companion dog tags attached to it...Coin was drilled and Don't Keep Me/Please Move me tags was attached...
I guess those don't even work to keep people from holding onto them... But nice to see it moving after 2 years of missing
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Okay Folks, I mainly geocache with a garmin venture hc and love it... I currently don't have an auto based gps and found I could pick up the 1300 for under a hundred with some credits I have and a current sale.
So my question.. Is this a workable GPS for loading up those wonderful roadside grab and go caches.. I recently took a trip out to Kansas to grab GC30 mingo and on the way I grabbed several just off the road caches.
It was a pain trying to track them on the venture so I was thinking about using something like the 1300 to load them into so I see them as I came up on them.
Will geocaches show up on the map like they do on the venture? Is there a way to have the 1300 alert you to nearby caches?
Thanks, any feedback would be helpful
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to get my 800th find
Wow!! Congrats on 800!!
Thanks
COINTEST: Survival football
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And I am in the situation of hoping for points