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I've rec'd a request from a 4th Grade teacher for a volunteer geocacher to help her Talented and Gifted class learn about GPS. She has access to 20 GPSRs, but would like a volunteer to help build a full learning experience for them. If you are interested, post a message here so she can read them and respond to you directly. If you have educaching ideas, please post them under the "GPS in Education" forum. We are watching that forum, too. THX!!! SpinWebby

Don't forget Girl Scouting! Great ideas in this forum. I wish I had done some orienteering in Girl Scouts. I'd love to try it out with someone thats more experienced sometime. SpinWebby

As organizer for Great Plains Geocaching, we'd be happy to help you get a group going. Say the word and we can open a dialogue privately. Drop me a line at jgoodenow@spindustry.com and we'll give you a "leg up". SpinWebby

quote:Originally posted by Jeremy Irish: I couldn't give two hoots if someone wants to log an event cache twice. It's their find count and there is no competition here. So if you find a cache at an event, knock yourself out. I gues my question is, what's the point? People at the event seek these things out, so what's wrong with using the event cache page? Okay, I don't have any problem in that case. I guess the real issue is the posting of temporary caches, caches that are posted individually for a short amount of time (undefined as yet, but I have no interest in going down THAT road). I can understand that its just too much to ask admins to have to process those. THX for the clarification. SpinWebby

Yep, Clan wrote me that he had posted the same topic elsewhere... I'll submit and suggest that we all switch over to the other thread started by Clan Ferguson (see CacheCows link above). See you there!!! SpinWebby

I guess I'm wondering what the real problem is. Is it space on the server or admin time? At the GPGeocaching 2002 Cache Bash, my husband and I hid 12 caches for attendees to hunt on June 1st. We allowed attendees to log for each of their finds. Its my understanding that its up to the cache owner to allow or disallow the individual finds. If someone posts a find to one of my caches, I have the option to delete it. So how is that more work for admins? The finds were all logged under the event, not under individual postings for the temp caches. There were a couple of people who didn't want to play that day, but stopped by, so I gave them some of the waypoints. No big deal. If people wanted to hunt the caches after the event, they emailed me and I sent them the waypoints afterwards, but with the warning that we'd be picking up the caches in two weeks. And speaking of padding... if we had posted all those caches as "hides", then our count would be inflated. But we didn't want to. Our reward was seeing lots of people come together and talk about the days activities. So, I don't think that individual postings for temp caches is a good idea at all. The way we did the Spring event was just fine. I'm just not understanding what the problem is with the way it has been. Just post the event general information and leave the find logs up to the cache owner. If the cache owner is allowing an inordinate number of finds for an event, then someone can question that. If people cannot attend an event, so what? If you must, you could allow the cache owner to limit the number of find logs for a geocacher on events. But I really think that we are talking about something thats not broken. Enlighten me, please? I'd like to help, but don't really understand the problem yet. SpinWebby

It seems like there is some question about logging multiple finds on event caches. Although I would like to believe that people come to events for the social activity, I do enjoy offering the multiple finds as a reward for the attendees, one for each of the temporary caches placed just for events. I've heard that this will no longer be allowed. I suppose it could be a horrible rumor, but would like to know if anyone has been denied multiple finds on event caches. SpinWebby

We began forming about a year ago and have had one large event, the Cache Bash in June 2001, a picnic in August and several small treks. We hope to provide services and support to smaller clubs in the Great Plains areas, for building more local clubs and developing new games in yet uninhabited areas. You can find us at www.gpgeocaching.com. Our big 2003 event will be centered around the Lewis and Clark expedition and provide more educational opportunities than last year's event. Everyone is invited to join us in Omaha, date is yet to be determined. SpinWebby

We began forming about a year ago and have had one large event, the Cache Bash in June 2001, a picnic in August and several small treks. We hope to provide services and support to smaller clubs in the Great Plains areas, for building more local clubs and developing new games in yet uninhabited areas. You can find us at www.gpgeocaching.com. Our big 2003 event will be centered around the Lewis and Clark expedition and provide more educational opportunities than last year's event. Everyone is invited to join us in Omaha, date is yet to be determined. SpinWebby

Not being in SD, I saw it on the web. Nicely dramatized piece, but yes, a few bits of misinformation. It wouldn't be "news" without a bit of misunderstanding. http://www.keloland.com/News/EyeonKELOLAND/NewsDetail209.cfm?Id=22,20191 I didn't realize there is a "program" at Big Sioux. Thats especially cool. I'll have to send them a note of thanks! Wish I could convince the park services here to do that. SpinWebby SpinWebby

They've located a geocacher for their story. They'll shoot the interview next week and its scheduled to run October 3rd on KELO TV. So, if you are in that area of SD, please watch for it. Me... I'll have to wait until they post it on their web site, at which time, I'll post a link here if you like. SpinWebby SpinWebby

I've been contacted by a reporter in the Sioux Falls area asking for a volunteer to talk with him about geocaching. I realize you don't have much geocaching there yet, but perhaps some publicity will help get more players there. He contacted me as a representative of Great Plains Geocaching, of which South Dakota is a part. Please let me know if you are interested or can recommend another geocacher there that might want to do this. I can provide statistics and any background material if you like. The reporter is Josh Munce from KELO, which if I remember correctly, is a TV station there. I have his email address, just drop me a line or post here if you are interested. SpinWebby www.gpgeocaching.com SpinWebby

Anyone coming to the Iowa Geocacher's Picnic August 25th? http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.asp?ID=31990 SpinWebby

Squeamish has a reputation for hiding caches in great locations. SpinWebby Talent does what it can, Genius does what it must

Squeamish has a reputation for hiding caches in great locations. SpinWebby Talent does what it can, Genius does what it must

Considering that I had little else to do this evening, I thought I'd read through some logs and see if I could find anything about Buzz. Unfortunately, it looks as if he may have been dropped at the next cache, "Castle Ruins HiddenTreasure", that 4America hit. It had burning in the area. No one has been back there since. Perhaps you could ask someone to go check that site, someone that has been there before and lives close by? Good luck. It sucks to have a TB disappear. SpinWebby Talent does what it can, Genius does what it must

I once called the doctor on a Wednesday to ask about a rash I was developing. She asked if I'd been in the woods, then laughed because apparently there is a doctor's inside joke that most rash calls on Wednesdays following a trip to the park are poison ivy -- at least in our area. I've hidden a cache on an island full of poison ivy, but didn't know it cuz we hid it in February when everything was hibernating for the winter. Most people hunting that cache now find the cache, then take a dip in the water around the island. I think that works well if you get in the water within about five minutes. I read that somewhere.

Well, you can't really compare Minnesota to Iowa by any stretch of the imagination. The land of 10,000 lakes contains only a spattering of plains. On the other hand, most of Iowa is known for its flat terrain and fertile soil. More than 80% of the state was once pure tall grass plains. Check out www.tallgrass.org, www.gpnc.org, or www.greatplains.org. But we are also the Midwest. No skin off my teeth either way. But I think that "Great Plains" better describes the type of geocaching available in Iowa. There just aren't lots of lakes, no "mountains", just rolling hills with an occasional slate rock cliff, and plenty of poison ivy. NE Iowa, like SW Wisconsin is beautiful and doesn't really fit the "Great Plains" description, but as Welch says, does it really matter? They could call it "Purple Petunias Region" and we'd still be participating in the forum provided for Iowa, or Wisconsin, or Minnesota, thanks to Jeremy and all the work he does for us. I'm sure he appreciates any comments on the topic. You can always read and post on the Midwest forum.

Well, you can't really compare Minnesota to Iowa by any stretch of the imagination. The land of 10,000 lakes contains only a spattering of plains. On the other hand, most of Iowa is known for its flat terrain and fertile soil. More than 80% of the state was once pure tall grass plains. Check out www.tallgrass.org, www.gpnc.org, or www.greatplains.org. But we are also the Midwest. No skin off my teeth either way. But I think that "Great Plains" better describes the type of geocaching available in Iowa. There just aren't lots of lakes, no "mountains", just rolling hills with an occasional slate rock cliff, and plenty of poison ivy. NE Iowa, like SW Wisconsin is beautiful and doesn't really fit the "Great Plains" description, but as Welch says, does it really matter? They could call it "Purple Petunias Region" and we'd still be participating in the forum provided for Iowa, or Wisconsin, or Minnesota, thanks to Jeremy and all the work he does for us. I'm sure he appreciates any comments on the topic. You can always read and post on the Midwest forum.

Says who? Not that I totally understand the criteria either, but Iowa is definitely a plains state. I just go with the flow, personally.

I had given up yesterday, haven chased a yellow Jeep Wrangler to the Interstate (GPS wouldn't launch fast enough to catch it ) on Thursday, but yesterday, with family from Florida in the car, we caught one at Panera's in West Des Moines. They were quite perplexed as to why we'd be so excited to see one, they have two in the parking lot near where they work. I'm sending the photos momentarily.

I had given up yesterday, haven chased a yellow Jeep Wrangler to the Interstate (GPS wouldn't launch fast enough to catch it ) on Thursday, but yesterday, with family from Florida in the car, we caught one at Panera's in West Des Moines. They were quite perplexed as to why we'd be so excited to see one, they have two in the parking lot near where they work. I'm sending the photos momentarily.

I've hung around at Marsh enough now that security might think I'm stalking someone. I think I'll try one more time tomorrow morning, but then I'm giving up on that location. Waukee is a small town, I'll start asking around to see if anyone knows the owner.

quote:Originally posted by Team CBX2: We are trying to get a picture of a yellow jeep from all 50 states for cache #GC3FFB. We are making a book for the Wyle E. We are missing logs for Iowa, Nebraska,North Dakota, Any yellow jeeps out there? Thanks TeamCBx2 There is an employee at Marsh in West Des Moines (approx 60th and University) who parks in the back parking lot. Be aware that security may stop you to question you. There are also a couple of them in Waukee, just west of there a few miles. I'd suggest hanging out at McDonalds or the YMCA in Waukee, but you'll probably have better luck at Marsh offices. Just be quick about it if you don't want security to catch up with you. I tried to warn the owner about the geocaching game, cuz I was going to do it myself, but just haven't gotten around to it. There is a very active Jeep club in Des Moines, Iowa, that you might want to contact, too. I'll see if I can find an email address for you. Good Luck!

Joanno has it. They sent me a message over the weekend and the TB is enjoying some company at the moment. THX everyone!!!