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firennice

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  1. Well Groundspeak seem to want to sit on the fence and the response from a 'Community Relations Specialist' was that this is an etiquette issue. It is OK to hunt PMO caches, but the cache owner is able to delete the log if they wish.

    Yes, I agree that it's an etiquette issue, but the conclusion was off.

     

    Really, there are a lot of cache owners out there that don't realize that them deleting someone's log could get their caches deleted in return. It's better to play nice.

     

    besides... he does not realize that your premium membership may have ended yesterday, or a week ago.

  2. Does anyone know what the GC number is for the first cache placed? Looking at Oregon the oldest I see is GC12, but that was placed on 5-12-00 nine days later. I am guessing that it is archived and I will need some help figuring it out.

     

    Original Stash Tribute Plaque Cache

     

    Don't leave any TBs there. It's well known by muggles and the TBs will be gone in a flash. Have fun!

     

    Thats the 2003 replacement cache at the original site, but not the original cache.

  3. Personally...

    The Waymarking site needs a makeover. A search like GC would be nice. The ability to downloaad PQ's of my favorite catigories and go find them would be great.

    I would not mind the return of Virtuals, if the standards were high enough, but then who decides. Allow everything and we end up with Waymarking on GC.com. A reviewer in Nevada may allow a lot of things where one in Iowa may not. Too subjective. Get around that, and have them not on every house, rock, walmart, etc. Perferably fix the Waymarking site so you can have fun with it, and get rid of Walmarts, Wendy's and useless items.

  4. Any word on them getting the site up and running?

     

    I called today about an order and had no luck getting through.

     

    A quote from Aaron on the 12th " we are getting ready to get the website back up, hopefully, by the end of next week". So hopefully just a few more days. In the mean while you can email him through his Profile . I know he is very anxious to get everything back up and going.

    If there is anything any of us distributors can do, let us know. I know Dale & Barb are on here a little more and can help you out also.

    Just awkward timing. Our BSA council here in Utah started selling the coins last Friday. They turned out fantastic (thanks guys). The downside is about 1/2 of them are being bought by non cachers. So it is hard to explain the server down, and how they work. We made some fliers to explain how they work, but they are not much help yet. Here is the fantastic job..

     

    Two thumbs up on their work and quality. I loved the copper one so i threw that pic in.

     

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  5. Hi firennice here...

     

    I designed the coin and got it put together for our Council (Coins and Pins made them for us). We will be selling them at the service center (not the National BSA store) in Orem, Vernal, Richfield, Moab?, Cedar City, St. George and another i cannot remember. Though if you are traveling you might want to call ahead. They should be available in Orem by Monday, at at the other locations in the following week.

     

    Silver will only be available to a few as gifts (Governer, Council President, etc), and as prizes in our Get in the Game geocaches. We will put caches out and when you find them you will email a photo and your name and address to qualify for the coin drawing every month (8-10 coins).

     

    The Bronze and Copper will be up for sale in the service centers at $10+tax so about $10.70. I had not got a personal setup to get them out, but I can start working on it.

     

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  6. I am assuming it will be trackable...

     

    Pull the 10 years of Geocaching from the back.. replace with Trackable on Geocaching.com and you need a spot of the #'s

     

    That has to be there as well. I forgot on a coin I was working on and was reminded.

  7. I felt this deserved its own thread.

     

    The new Earthcache guidelines state that a photo with a person in it cannot be required.

     

    I have to say that this is a HORRIBLE idea, and a step in the wrong direction for eartcaching. I totally agree that there should be a series of answers to log a cache. However at some point those answers get out into the community, then anyone and everyone can log the earthcache from wherever they are.

     

    The only way to prevent someone from logging while they are sitting in a couch 12000 miles away is by asking for both. If I cannot do that as an earthcache owner, like the people that are fighting off bogus loggers on V Virtuals you have tied my hands, and opened the door for problems down the road.

     

    Please, please, please, allow me to require a photo so I can quickly and easily prove if someone is cheating.

  8. I personally think the idea of going to different States/Countries are inherently unfair in the Masters program. Cachers from large states/countries (Texas, Alaska, some western states, and in some countries) are at a distinct disadvantage. Not to mention smaller areas cut off (Hawii, Pacific Islands). Yet others have travel restrictions that make travel out of their country impossible, or difficult. A cacher in the eastern US could do this on a Sunday drive, while others would spend thousands of dollars to accomplish the same goal.

     

    It would be better served to have levels for caches found, (up the numbers), rather then the traveling to other countries, states.

    I'm from Texas and yet have managed to find Earthcaches in 14 different states and 3 foreign countries. Yeah, it wasn't easy (or cheap), so point taken. How about a recognition for finding at least one of each of the 20 different categories of Earthcaches? There's already a Challenge Geocache for accomplishing this!

     

    It is possible, (obviously) but its just not fair around the world.

  9. I personally think the idea of going to different States/Countries are inherently unfair in the Masters program. Cachers from large states/countries (Texas, Alaska, some western states, and in some countries) are at a distinct disadvantage. Not to mention smaller areas cut off (Hawii, Pacific Islands). Yet others have travel restrictions that make travel out of their country impossible, or difficult. A cacher in the eastern US could do this on a Sunday drive, while others would spend thousands of dollars to accomplish the same goal.

     

    It would be better served to have levels for caches found, (up the numbers), rather then the traveling to other countries, states.

  10. In regards to revisiting caches for TBs, I wouldn't mind you revisiting for leaving TB's, however if you wanted to take one I would want you to drop one. It would get annoying if a local cacher kept cleaning out my hotel.

    It may be your hotel but they are not your bugs. Most people that own trackables prefer that they move and not sit in a hotel.

    I agree 100% ... I want my bugs to move.

     

    If the cache was disabled by the owner for maintenance, I might move one or two bugs, but not place one, If a reviewer disabled it, I may clean it out because it looks like it may go away. Move them all. Yet it really depends on the situation.

     

    There used to be only a few TB hotels, now there are 100 within 20 miles, everyone wants one, or two. They allways seem to get raided.

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