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  1. Well, I understand your points, but... I *looked* at the Alaska Mint web page back when this thread started. Yes, they produce some nive looking coins, but those are *their* designs, not your design. (I guess, anyway.) As for the Washington State 2005 geocoin, you must have missed something. Several different mock-ups were shown very early on. (This was true with the previous coin as well.) Local cachers then commented on the ideas, and later an on-line vote was taken. (No misplaced ballots here, or multiple ballots given to a single cacher. Nor were votes cast by any dead cachers, or by those who are barred by law from voting on this topic.) (Reference the latest Washington State Governor's election for more information.) The point simply being that everyone could make suggestions. If a suggestion came from Florida, well, it might get ignored, but if it was a good idea it might get adopted. At *this* point, though, the WA state coin is undergoing "final touches". It is my understanding that the mock-ups were not of sufficient detail for the mint to use them. As was learned with the previous coin, there are certain considerations that must be taken into account when producing the final image. Please, take my comments as constructive, not as critical. If someone out there has a phobia of Moose, and you put Moose on the coins, they might not want to buy any after all. (My concern with Moose is that I wouldn't want to eat one.) By the way, thanks for your previous answer. It helps to know where you are in the process. As far as there being better design review in face-to-face meetings... well, I don't know that I would agree with that statement. Perhaps some people are just more comfortable doing things that way, and that's fine. On the other hand, one advantage of doing this this way is that you don't have any outside "interference" with *your* design process. Alaska is a sizable chunk of real estate, and I would be surprised if all of the geocachers in Alaska live close together.
  2. I've been reading this thread since it began, and perhaps I missed something, but I'm a bit puzzled as to what exactly is going on. My background in this area only goes back to the creation of the 2004 Washington State Geocoin, so perhaps I'm just a novice here. Anyway for the WA coin we had two threads: one where we discussed the design of the coin, and a second which was created specifically to provide information on how to order. Orders were not, to my knowledge, taken from the forums, but many people did post notes saying that they had ordered some number of the coins. So when this thread started the stated purpose was to find out if there was any interest. My observation is that there is quite a lot of interest in an Alaskan Geocoin. However, most of the posts that I've seen have been "orders" for so many "standard" coins and so many silver coins. Although some general pricing information has come out, I haven't seen any indication that anyone is actually ready to take orders at this point. (It is possible, of course, that I missed such a note.) Furthermore I haven't seen so much as a preliminary design. Do folks not even care about the appearance of the coins? (If true, what an opportunity I have. I'll make a "Seattle Geocoin". I'll start taking orders tomorrow! Next week I'll start on a Bellevue coin, and then...) This isn't to say that I'm not interested, but I would like to know what it looks like. I mean, if it seems really ugly to me I *might* order one just to say I have one, but... I really liked the Idaho Geocoin, and ordered several of those. So my questions are: when will you post a preliminary design, and are you really ready to take orders?
  3. I wonder if something changed regarding passwords in the past week or so. A few days ago I found that my password was not working in the forums, though I had just logged in on the geocaching.com web site. The error message I got from the forums mentioned that passwords were case-sensitive. Yeah, I knew that. I was entering my password with the correct case -- unless my keyboard is broken. So after a while I tried my password without changing the case... and it worked! Huh? So moments ago I could not log in to the geocaching.com web site with my password. After a few attempts I tried the "modified" password from the forums, and find that my geocaching.com password is NOT what it used to be. Can someone please tell me what is going on?
  4. Let's all congratulate blindleader. He has now surpassed 1200 cache finds!
  5. (Theme from Jaws playing in the background...) I wonder what we should expect come May 18th....
  6. I ran into Blindleader this morning, and he mentioned as we parted that he had a set number of caches that he wished to find today. (Oh, actually it was yesterday.) This naturally aroused my curiousity, and now I see that he has all but found 1200 caches. Perhaps later today!
  7. I read the logs. I'm touched. I mean by the logs. Best wishes to both of you!
  8. ralann wrote: I'll attest to that truth!
  9. Hmm. When The Navigatorz started this thread I couldn't think of any memorable caches, but then maybe my memory isn't all that great. Recently, however, I went back to Spokane for my niece's wedding, and I remembered some very beautiful areas that I had visited there. On July 25, 2004 I went with a group of cachers on the "Valhalla" hike: nearly 9 miles of trail in the Steven's Pass area. Jeremy took along his video camera, and produced a wonderful movie about it. I'm not in it very much -- if at all. I was too slow most of the time, and I started early after lunch so as to not slow folks down too much. I would liked to have done more of these cache hikes, but only managed to get to the one last year. On August 9, 2004 I found the "Sea/Land" cache. That had a wondeful hike to get up to the cache. (I say it "had" about the hike, because there was a lot of home construction being done on the NorthWest face of the hill.) Here is my log for Sea/Land. On August 11, 2004 I found the "Semi-Summit" cache (GC15DA). I took 17 photographs out there, but forgot to upload them until now. An absolutely beautiful place! Here is my log for the Semi-Summit cache. Later that day I found "Another View of Deep Creek" (GCG109) There I only took 8 pictures. This is just on the opposite side of the creek from Semi-Summit. Here is my log for "Another View of Deep Creek" It was hot over there in Spokane, and I must have been in a bit of heat delirium -- I was always doing these hikes in the heat of the day! On the "wet" side of the mountains, probably the most memorable cache hunt was for the Moun10Bike Maze Multicache, which I did with KC0GRN (from Minnesota) and his girlfriend. That was a *long* hunt, but quite enjoyable. It is also one of the very few cache hunts I have been on with another geocacher. I had another "memorable" hunt in late October, but that was for different reasons. There were also several caches that I wished I could have found, but, alas many have gone the way of all flesh. Others I dared not try on my own. In addition there were some memorable event caches. There was the WSGA meeting on my youngest daughter's birthday. ohjoy! was very thoughtful and announced this to those assembled, we all sang Happy Birthday to her, and ohjoy! even gave her a present! For that I am extremely grateful. It was great to meet those of you who I have met, and there are still others I would like to meet. Here's wishing for a great year for all of us -- especially for those of us who haven't had much of a good year so far!
  10. Thanks, Bull Moose. The link helped. It has a kid-friendly icon on the page.
  11. Well, the multi-pathing is the problem I ran into searching for Trails.com. I had some *very* good readings (estimated accuracy, that is) at several locations which were "close" to the cache, but which were all quite far apart. The point is that a novice geocacher might well expect the GPSr to have "the truth" when it very well might not. The "map" of the caches might well be a good "hint" for these folks -- though perhaps you might not want to "give away" the data immediately. Just my 1/2 cent.
  12. GEMs, My first thought regarding the sky photo you posted is: I'm not sure that it helps all that much. It's not like you can tell which building is which. In addition having attempted to cache downtown before (trails.com) I'm sure just about *any* help you give these folks would be *very* useful. You didn't say how "bad" the reads were that you took. Did you double check, or use more than one type of GPSr? Maybe you already covered this, and I just missed it. Sorry if that's the case. -NBJPoppa
  13. Um... Would this Event be "kid friendly"? I just wonder, given the "under" comments. I don't think "lusty" tales (or tails for that matter) would be appropriate for youngsters. But perhaps I am just "out of it" enough to not know what is *really* being referred to in the previous posts.
  14. Allanon wrote: Totemlake responded with: I agree, too.
  15. Re the Intellectual Property discussion of "the bean"... Some thoughts have occurred to me. Why is a using a "mirror" "intellectual property"? Show the "artist" who created "the bean" be sued by the likes of "The Barnum and Bailey (sp) Circus"? After all, there are plenty of warped mirrors out there. In fact many people go to the store to buy a warped mirror. (It magnifies the image.) Second, how "intellectual" is it to intimidate people. Didn't we use to call those folks gangsters? It sounds like a variation of the "protection" racket -- only this time the artist seems to have bamboozled the city's officials. Third, re: the images of the Cypress tree on the 17 Mile Drive... The area really is (or used to be anyway) quite beautiful. I was there maybe 25 years ago. Back then Pebble Beach was a gated community, and I can't imagine that that has changed. As such I suppose that all of the land there could be considered to be private property, but I don't know how this relates to copyright. Is the argument now that all of those famoius photographs by Ansel Adams of National Parks are now in the "public domain" because he took pictures of "public property?" Have any "supermodels" copyrighted themselves? Last I knew the copyright of a photograph belongs to the photographer. I presume the "copyright" of a sculpture belongs to the sculptor, but a photograph is not a sculpture. I suppose this gets into an "iffy" area. I know that for the past few years the House Manager comes out before the play begins and announces that photographs of the play is not permitted by the "guild". I've heard similar statements at other kinds of performances. I understand the concern in the movie theaters as I've heard that some people will produce pirate movies by filming the show, but a lot of this seems to have been taken to an extreme. I certainly hope this kind of thinking does not apply to geocaches! Hey, I invented that kind of hide! If you want to use it, you'll have to pay my licensing fee. Fork up, or I'll sue you! Argh!
  16. Here's a thought. Why not put both volcano images on the coin. One on each face. 25 years ago, ... and still active. My 1/2 cent.
  17. Aw, come on Nolenator, you know we love ya!
  18. Re: lucyandrickie's comments: As others have suggested, the larger plume from the 1980 eruption might be nicer. On the other hand, one could use the smaller plume along with a bit more text. I wouldn't suggest "still smokin' 25 years later", but perhaps "still active 25 years later". Just a thought.
  19. MarcusArelius, Perhaps you can help here. I liked the suggestion from Phil and Cathy: It's all his fault! But, well, a stick figure? I'm sure that you can improve on that. Perhaps you can tweak your previous image to include the kite, and insert that image instead of the stick figure? In case you've forgotten, allow me refresh your memory... As you command... Rev2
  20. Yuck! What have you been eating? Worms? (That's the most pleasant thing I can imagine!) I await your reply with bated breath.
  21. That sounds right. I guess the surrounding vegetation has changed. I've wanted to go see this bike ever since I first saw the photo.
  22. Re the bike in the tree: I saw a similar picture a few years back. Apparently someone left the bike leaning against the tree -- for years. The tree grew around the bike and lifted it up several feet into the air. This looks like a different bike -- but maybe the foliage is different is all. My recollection is that the "other" picture was taken on one of the islands out in Puget Sound. Do you (or anyone) know where this bike is?
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