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  1. Just curious: How many geocachers does it take to screw in a...uhm...how many out-of-country cachers does it take to make a world wide event? Just curious. Good question. I side with Lapaglia's response though. I think just because an event has a few out of country visitors, it shouldn't be considered an international event. One of my best friends is from Korea. If I invite him to my birthday party, is it automatically "K9's International Birthday Party" I know that's sort of comparing apples and oranges, but I think Lapaglia makes sense...
  2. i like that idea Went to one of the caches he archived a while ago. First he used his normal form letter, just saying that the owner needs to take some action. Then after about a two weeks wait, he posted this. "Having received no response from the owner to my prior note, I now consider this cache to be abandoned. The cache remains in place, however. If another geocacher is interested in maintaining the cache and adopting it, please contact me. Alternatively, I ask that the next visitor please remove this soggy container and then log a "should be archived" note after their "found it" log, so that I will know that it is safe to archive the listing without leaving any geo-litter in place. And, of course, the owner may come forth at any time before that to fix up the cache and maintain this listing. Thanks, Keystone Approver Geocaching.com Volunteer Cache Reviewer" Apparently this worked fine, because a local finder got to it, took out the trash, and it was archievd shortly thereafter..
  3. When Keystone archives caches, he will generally post a note to the extent of "This cache needs archived, but I need a geocacher to go and pick up any geotrash. Once you get it, or confirm that it's not there, please post a Should Be Archived, and I will arvhie it" The system works relatively well, I've helped out on one occasion and I know many people who have helped out for others...
  4. I have been unable to attend the first three because of location. Quite frankly, I can't justify travelling that far just for a caching event. Maybe somewhere in the Mid-Atlantic or New England?
  5. I agree with you wholeheartedly. Aren't events supposed to be about eating good food, meeting people, and maybe doing a little caching? In my humble opinion, if you're setting up 100 temporary caches for an event, than the event is no longer about meeting people, or eating food, it's about trying to find as many caches as possible...
  6. Well, technically, according to the site's guidelines, the answer shouldn't be able to be found on the internet. In fact, I think that's one of the newer rules that the site has about virtuals. I think there are alot of old ones that are grandfathered in though...
  7. This topic seems to be causing much angst, and so I've tried to stay out of it, but I feel it necessary to make one point that I don't think anyone else has made. When you go to an event page, and you press the "Log Your Visit" button you are presented with several different options for your log type. Write Note. Atended. Needs Archived. Will Attend. Only one of those has any weight towards your find count and that is the "Attended" log. I understand that having fifty temporary caches at an event is perfectly within the rules. I also understand that there is no rule against allowing people to log the event for the number of caches they found. But realize that when you're logging 50+ finds on an event, you're not really saying "I Found It" you're saying "I was in attendance" You're logging 50 "Attended" logs to get your find count "accurate" but did you really attend the event 50 times? Anyway, I mean I guess that's taking everything to the very literal sense of the wording on the site, but it makes sense. Then and again, it may just be a moot point. Play the game how you want, and if that means getting a smiley for every single logbook you signed, then do it..
  8. Both the tb owner and cache owner can go to the bug's page and mark it as missing if they believe or know that it is not in the cache it's supposed to be in. Basically, all that does is sort of put it into "limbo" the location shows up as unkown..
  9. Well, a year or so ago, Geocaching.com adopted it's moratorium on Locationless caches. They're allowing the old ones to stay, but they will not approve any new ones. Supposedly, they're going to eventually impliment a new system for making locationless caches work better, but I think I've been hearing that rumor for a year or so now. But yah, they're not approving any new locationless'... Sorry.
  10. My state historical commission has a similar database of all their markers. They have the names, and information found on all of the markers throughout PA. The site also has basic description of locations of the markers, but I know from experience, after trying to find a couple for a cache I was planning that the directions aren't always great. Sometimes, it will be something as vague as "Route 22 outside this town." I think coordinates would be incredibly useful. That being said, I don't see the need for setting it up as a cache. And with GC's "moratorium" on locationless caches, I don't see it likely that you'll get one posted. It is a great idea however. Maybe if you got together with the webmaster of one of the state websites, like this one you could set up a way for people to learn about what you're doing and help out...
  11. I looked at some of the "finders" of the event cache posted above. One of them, who has upwards of 1000 finds has 288 that were event caches. That's 25% of their finds. And those 288 "finds?" They were all logged at one of only three event caches that he attended... Yet another, who had around 4000 finds has 400 or so event caches in their profile. All of those "finds" were logged at one of only four events. Looking at other attendees of that event, I notice patterns very much similar. I guess it's how they "play the game" in their region... I guess it's all about what you get out of the game. But logging between 50-100 finds for an event? I don't care if you found that many temporary caches, that's just going overboard... What do you get out of it? Respect? I dunno...
  12. My good friend Lep recomended some great caches and cachers. I second his suggestion that you should try any of Quest Master's many caches. He hides some of the coolest caches in some of the most random places. If you're interested Southwestern Pennsylvania has our own group on yahoo. Tri-Go is a group of mostly friendly geocachers from many Western Pennsylvania counties. Tri-Go supposedly stands for "Three Rivers Informal Geocaching Organization" (or at least that's what they told me it stands for) We'd love to have you, and I'm sure the guys could recomend even more great caches if you just mention any specific area, like I said, we have members from just about all over in Western PA. Check us Out: Tri-Go on Yahoo! Groups
  13. Now I'm really sad... I missed out on sneek preview of White Jeeps and WAFFLES!?!?!? I wonder what I'll be missing at Geobash??
  14. I think that shirt has been around for a while. It's my opinion however that most of the stuff that Groundspeak sells is equally if not way cooler than that shirt...
  15. Like I said, it's one of those little temporary problems that generally resolve themselves. If it happens again, let it sit for a while, or turn it off and on...
  16. I honestly don't think the the storms cause serious problems with gps reception. I think they do, but not as much as a lot of people think they do. That being said, there have been days where I didn't get GPS reception the whole drive to the cache, and then halfway on the hike to it. That was completely random though. Maybe you were experiencing just some random, unrelated fluke...
  17. I just thought I'd bump this to see if anyone else has anymore suggestions. I'm hoping to at least start the setup this weekend. Right now, all I have is generic white firetacks from walmart, but I'm planning to order some stealth ones from the firetacks website and redo the trail in a month or two...
  18. That's silly. Oh jeez... Now I'm confused.
  19. As long as you're respectful to the enviroment and you try to minimize off-trail hiking, you should be fine. My local Audubon Society actually hosted an orienteering class once, it was pretty cool... They had it set up so you weren't necessarily on trails, but you weren't destroying anything. As long as you have the director's permission you should be fine. I don't know if you've done this, but before you actually hide the caches, you should maybe take him out to the places where you want to hide them, to make sure that there are no possible problems with the location... He might see something that you don't...
  20. Is it possible that it wasn't the cachers fault? So many times, I've heard of micros and even larger caches being dislodged from their hiding places by angry members of the animal comunity (ie. squirrels, chipmunks, racoons)
  21. As a "forum regular" I know this topic has been discussed hundreds of times over the past year or so. In fact, I've probably participated in at least half of the discussions, and I've read all of them. Anyway, for the longest time, I've been looking to set up a "night only" cache using a trail of firetacks reflectors. Finally, I think I've got all my ducks in a row. I've got a box of reflectors from the local Gander Mountain, and I've tested their actual reflectivity. I've got an approximate idea of how close you have to be to see them both with a flashlight, and without. And I finally found an undeveloped piece of public land that doesn't have any rules regarding the time the park actually closes. My question now is how do you actually go about setting it up? Do you do it at night, or do you do it during the day? Should I try and follow pre-existing trails, or can I lead people on a light bushwack? I'm open to any and all suggestions on how to actually go about this.
  22. Lucky Sevens is a cache hidden on the slopes at I don't know how it was hidden, but I know that it is available both during the winter and during the off-season. I'm pretty sure it was placed with permission of resort staff but it had some problems. Sometime after it was hidden, a skier/geocacher went to try and find it. As far as I understand, it's hidden in a place where lots of muggles can potentially see you, the log is pretty self-explanatory: "Great Cache, great location, great booty, poor timing! We were hoping the cache would be more accessible to people on shoes. Once we got there we couldn't just give up the hunt though, and decided to just hike down the slope to the specified coordinates. We got quite a few strange looks from people on the ski lift! After some digging, we did find the stash, fortunately a natural spring in the vicinity made the digging light. We were drawing a crowd, and not wanting to draw ski patrol we took the cache back to the place we were staying to read and swap stuff in private. We took the free ski pass, left the front page of “the onion” newspaper, and a bunch of alpine slide tickets. BUT!! The best part of the story is yet to come! We sent one of our team out to return the cache the following day. When he planted the cache (brown spherical container) some concerned skier, thinking we were planting a bomb, called ski patrol. Within minutes the entire area was roped off, and 8 or 9 ski patrol were on the scene. After about an hour of debate (and yelling) and much ski patrol radio chatter, our dedicated cacher leaped the ski patrol barrier and pulled the cache back out, and dumped its contents for all to see. This quickly diffused the situation, and with a little more nudging the ski patrol allowed us to return the cache to its proper location. We were wondering why we were the first group to get this cache during the ski season, and now we know! "
  23. Our local group has a GeoMoron club. GeoMorons have been known to do some incredibly crazy things. Among others, one group went on a hydrocache at night...
  24. For $30, it sounds like something that could be interesting to try. It's officially on my list, after I get my iPod. I love playing with my FRS radios. This could be really cool to play with... I still don't quite understand how it works. But it almost seems like some kind of ham radio repeater...
  25. It's an interesting concept, I don't see quite how it works though..
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