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  1. The Cascade Pacific Council has released their BSA 2010 Travel Bugs™ out to the wild. Each bug highlights an area of scouting and shows off our 100th Anniversary Council Shoulder Patch. Make sure you log them so we can watch them travel.
  2. The Cascade Pacific Council has released their BSA 2010 Travel Bugs™ out to the wild. Each bug highlights an area of scouting and shows off our 100th Anniversary Council Shoulder Patch. Make sure you log them so we can watch them travel.
  3. If you find yourself in NW Oregon and SW Washington we hope you will take some time and go out geocaching for our Treasures of Scouting. We currently have 15 caches to find with more being planned and hidden every week. For latest Cascade Pacific Council geocaching information please visit our website. Watch for an announcement about our soon to be published... Cache To Eagle series.
  4. For the CPCBSA I have assembled a small group of volunteers for the Get In The Game! activities that we have planned. I contacted several geocaching groups to find volunteers to fill our sub-committee of the 100th Anniversary Committee. For large large area you are going to need help. http://www.cpcbsa.org/activities/100_years/geocache.html
  5. Additionally, within a single multi-cache or mystery/puzzle cache, there is no minimum required distance between physical elements. I read it slightly different when you add the next line.... Although I have never placed a Multicache. I was hoping to place a single multicache with 12 additional waypoints and a starting and ending point. I wanted to have a cache container at each waypoint, 14 total. Is that not possible? I thought we would only have to worry about proximity on the start and end points. The other twelve would fall into the additional waypoints and have no required distance between physical elements. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
  6. This has been a huge problem so far. 1.) You could make it a Private cache and have some sort of handout at the council. 2.) Or I think you could make it a Multi where you visit each location and then end up at a final cache. I think only the start and end of a multi needs to worry about proximity. We may go with the Multicache idea if I am correct about proximity for the Cache to Eagle program. It has been hard enough to hide Treasures of Scouting without having to move them due to Multicache segment. This has been great fun so far, and I hope is measured as a success for my council at the end of 2010
  7. The Cascade Pacific Council has started rolling out their "Treasures of Scouting" geocaches as of October 16. Feel free to search for treasures of scouting on geocaching.com. We have a large area to cover in our council, so we are planning to hide 15 to 20 caches. We are still deciding on what items we want to send out for the Pillars of Scouting Travel Bugs. The Cache to Eagle program is still in development as we research what projects to highlight. We are getting great responses from the logs and will be having our first monthly drawing for the official Get In The Game geocoin very soon. The cards for the drawing are starting to come in. We have even received a card from a cacher on the other side of the country (Maine). Apparently he was in town and saw our cache here on geocaching.com. Allan Campbell CPCBSA Get In The Game!
  8. We held our last Summer activity on August 24, 2009 to finish up our Summertime Pack Activity Award. We laid out 8 Geocaches at Hallinan Elementary School and had a "Get in the Game" Geocache evening. We started the evening out by going over the rules of Geocaching, how to work the GPS units, how to treat the cache. We explained how the game started in the Oregon City area by an engineer who posted the coordinates of his first cache on a usenet group about GPS units. After 10 minutes of talking and questions we set off. The boys then teamed up into groups of three and set out on the course to find at least one of eight caches. Each cache had a "password" to record to earn a Geocaching segment for their uniforms. Once the cache was logged they set off on another cache hunt. Each boy had the chance to lead the team by using the GPS unit to take them to the approximate area of the cache. They then spent time "treasure hunting" for the cache. The boys were quick to pick up on things like sticks do not pile up in a group all facing the same direction. Trampled vegetation may lead to an area of heavy use or a hidden cache. It was a fun evening to introduce the boys to GPS units and the game of Geocaching. We spent 10 minutes on the how things work and over an hour hunting caches. The boys had a good time and we had a great parent turn out too. The boys learned a little about the 100th Anniversary celebration and the upcoming fun things we have planned for the BSA 100th Anniversary. You can work in Cache In Trash Out, Leave No Trace, Buddy System (hug a tree) There are plenty of activities for all Cub Ranks. Just about anything you wanted to teach can be added to a geocaching night. I want to do a song cache night where each cache has a different cub scout song to learn. How about Bobcat caches with the 8 points for their Bobcat badge... Motto, Sign, etc... Ask if your council has a Get in the Game! committee for the 100th anniversary. Several councils are using geocaching for membership drives and alumni events.
  9. Thanks guys.. that makes more sense now. To recap.... enter additional waypoints to the listing; just like you would enter a parking lot or something of interest that would have addition coordinates. Then after approval you can edit them to remove them. That makes sense now. Thanks for the help.
  10. That is my question... the reviewer left this reviewers log post. So I am trying to find the waypoint tool to test two or more sets of coordinates. I do not know what or where it is... I was hoping you guys would know.
  11. Thanks for the info. When I look at the cache creation page and put in new coordinates I just need to tell the reviewer in my note that it is a test. That seems to waste their time. The waypoint tool seems to be the way to go to self check your coordinates... if i could find it Is it common for reviewers to have to keep rechecking coordinates for a cache until it falls into the safe zone?
  12. One of the reviewers suggested I use the Waypoint tool to check for caches around a possible new cache. I have had two rejected this week for being to close. The first I should have know I was too close. The second one I checked the map on geocaching.com for caches nearby and found what looked to be an empty small park. Go out, choose site, hide cache.... reject notice, my new location is within 100 feet of a puzzle or multi. It does not show up on map. I really do not want to waste the reviewers time with bad caches.... how do you go about checking for 516 feet around your proposed spot? Can you leave a link for the Waypoint tool Thanks
  13. Is anyone else having problems with the View in Google Earth Feature? It was working fine for me a few days ago... today nothing but parsing errors. Any ideas or suggestions?
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