crs98
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It just seems like there has been a rash of TBs and coins that just go missing in the area and I was wondering why this would happen and if there was any thing that could be done.
Sorry for the late log on this topic, but I was perusing the obituary to see if this topic had been discussed.
This is a real problem in the Seattle area. I've launched 51 bugs and/or coins over the past two years and 17 of them are now listed as unknown location and a few others may very well be missing. Of the 17 that are missing, well over half of them disappeared from caches in Seattle before they had a chance to leave the area.
Many of the cachers I know in Seattle are no longer putting out trackables locally because there doesn't seem to be much point -- they last a cache or two and then are getting collected.
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Maybe the servers are just still loaded with other tasks following the update, but I haven't seen a PQ that should have been generated last night yet. It's usually generated by about 5am at the latest and it's now 7am with no PQ yet. I don't have the email and it's not available for download either.
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I happen to have a new mystery cache that is located close enough to HQ that it qualified for a Souvenir. I found this out when I posted a note for it last night. Should one qualify for a Souvenir just by posting a note?
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I haven't looked through the last week's worth of notes, but this hadn't been reported as of then and it's been bugging me. Every time I log a find on a trackable, the log inserts a copy of the coordinates where it was found on the user confirmation page. It doesn't display this in the logs, just the one spot where you confirm what you just entered. I'm not quite tech savvy enough to add a screen capture here since it's on my local PC not a link (which is what the tool above seems to want), but I'm happy to email it in or add it if somebody tells me how...
I use Firefox 3.5.7.
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PLUS, the drive alone is at least 4 1/2 hours for most around here and then, we'd need to switch gears to drive another 2 hours to Edmonds. As hydnsek stated - Thank You for the alert-
P.S. Couldn't YOU change your date and you did say you'd like to make it an event SO, you'd need a certain period to cement the date
It's possible to change the date, and I will if there is sufficient interest and the date doesn't work for most people who are interested and we can find another date that would. At least one other person has responded to me directly that the date doesn't work for her either.
I am starting with the assumption that weekends work best since many (including myself) work and would have a difficult time doing it on a non-weekend. I'm out of town the previous weekend on business, so that would be out for me. I am booked on the 19th, but could do it Saturday the 26th if that works better. I really don't want this to get too much later into the year because the rain can easily start coming down and turn this into a full fledged five-star cache again.
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Ordinarily, I'd be interested, but like a lot of others, I'll be at the Tri-Cities Cache Machine. Bummer, but good luck - hope you find it!
As the cache machine is officially the day before and the event isn't till 2pm, you could make it back if you really wanted to. Having said that, I know most people who go to the cache machine won't be back to this side of the mountains till later in the day.
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Good Hope, Good Luck is a 5-star terrain cache hidden in a small pond in Edmonds, WA. It's rated as a 5-star terrain cache because during most times of the year it requires a boat to access the cache. In dry years, however, the pond dries up enough to allow people to wade a bit and slide through the muck to reach the cache site without a boat. That's convenient because the pond doesn't have any access to a boat launch--you have to carry one in to the pond to try that approach.
As 2009 has been one of the hotter and drier summers in some time, I'm hoping that it will be more accessible later this fall. Rather than just trudge through the mud myself, I'm hoping to entice others to join me in the attempt. I've somewhat arbitrarily picked Sunday, Sept. 20th at 2pm as the date for trying this (mostly because that date isn't already booked with other commitments for me). I've chatted with the CO (Joe and the JAE Family) and he plans to be there to laugh at all of us who attempt to get to the cache through the muck.
I had thought about organizing an event cache in support of this attempt, but a careful reading of the Geocaching.com guidelines indicates that this activity isn't what an event cache is supposed to be; they suggest organizing such a hunt in the forums (hence this post). Depending on the interest, I may decide to organize a post-hunt dinner that would be an event cache. I'd even allow sufficient time to allow people to go home and change clothes before heading into the restaurant.
If you're interested, please write a note on the web page or email me about your interest. Also let me know if a post-hunt event would interest you.
--crs98
Block Party: 08/20/2011
in Groundspeak Block Party
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Those with dogs might be interested in swinging by my nearby Doggie Bowl cache, http://coord.info/GC1NKDN.