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    Event Cache Question

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    Hi,

     

    I'll be making my annual pilgrimage to Las Vegas either the 1st or 2nd week in April (I am a teacher, and that's my spring break)...my sister and I meet up each year, share a room/suite, gamble a bit, drink a bit too much, sleep late...and last year I added some caching to the mix...

     

    I had a great time last year, got to visit some cool places, had one day with caches found in 3 states (NV, CA, & AZ), and this year, as I began to make my plans, a bizarre thought occurred to me...

     

    I would like to host a geocaching event during my stay in Las Vegas

     

    I love hosting events in my part of NY, really enjoy the geo-stories, love meeting other geocachers, and think it would be cool to do it in another part of the country...

     

    I checked, and it doesn't seem to be in violation of any of the guidelines, it's not really a vacation cache (as there is no physical maintenance needed), and it would be a new thing for me and for the LV-area cachers...

     

    I think that some public place like a starbucks or casino restaurant/buffet/bar or the pool area at the Tropicana (my current planned base-camp for my 2007 trip) - provided I make arrangements with the management to permit a group into the pool area for a couple of hours...

     

    What do you think? {{{about the idea, not about Las Vegas in general, or the Tropicana in particular please}}}

     

    Jamie - NFA

    Micro-Haters Unite?

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted · Edited by NFA

    I am curious about the community's thoughts on events created solely to express a personal, or perhaps local, agenda, as oppossed to the broader political agenda.

     

    http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...6f-492574aef8d3

     

    and

     

    http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...18-6691c9cb915d

     

    seem to have been created only as a slap at those of us who like micros.

     

    The TRIGO forums are rife with anti-micro rhetoric, which is fine - as a local forum they can adopt whatever style and attitude they desire... but should that invective be promoted beyond their forums?

     

    Are Groundspeak-listed events with no purpose but making their disdain for others public really a good thing?

     

    Ed

     

    They meet the guidelines for hosting an event...more than that, they're funny...

     

    If you don't like micros, don't hunt them...if you don't like events that make gentle fun of micros, don't attend them...

     

    I think that they were created as a humorous slap at lame micros, not as a slap at the geocachers who like micros...there's a difference...

     

    The OP has, by starting and continuing this thread, exposed these 2 humorous events to a much broader audience than they would have otherwise been seen by...at first, I assumed that it was a thread designed as a PR device, but subsequent posts have convinced me otherwise...

     

    Jamie - NFA

    Following up on the EarthCache issue.

    in Waymarking Archives (Read-Only)

    Posted

    EarthCaches are in the process of being returned to geocaching.com. Within the next month all EarthCache submissions will be submitted via geocaching.com. In the meantime we ask developers to wait till this is announced on this page and not submit via Waymarking.com.

     

    Many thanks.

    EarthCache Team

     

    I have an earthcache in the works, and will likely wait until they come back to gc.com once things are sorted out...

     

    Jamie - NFA

    Mega Event Question

    in Website

    Posted

    Hi,

     

    I don't know if this has already been suggested, but would it be possible for Mega Events to get a broader notification range than regualr events...like 200-300 miles, or maybe a one-time notification for each mega event within 1500 miles...

     

    Thanks, and sorry if this question highlights either my stupidity or laziness... ;)

     

    Jamie - NFA

    Muggle comments.. "So.. you coming from the Mars or what?"

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted · Edited by NFA

    I had an overzealous forest ranger who is famous/infamous locally for not being a fan of geocaching come over and tell me that I was not allowed to use my GPS inside the Adirondack Park...I told him that I was a local geocacher and had hid numerous geocaches with DEC permission...he had a "wait...this isn't a parachute" moment, seemed to have an internal debate over getting angry with me, and then left... ;)

     

    Jamie - NFA

    Help needed!

    in Teaching K-7

    Posted

    Well...we went out yesterday in a light rain with 12 students and a couple of teachers...all of them novices...and everyone had an awesome time...

     

    I set up 4 separate course on a looping trail (A ,B, C, and D) with 5 waypoints for each group. Each group had a GPS (preloaded with their waypoints) and a sheet with waypoint hints and space to color in a box for each container they visited. The containers all had different colored crayons, so that groups could prove that they had found them. 2 groups started at one end of the loop, and 2 groups started at the other end. The caches were staggered enough that while we occasionally saw other groups, we weren't in site of them the whole time, and so that any given kid can come and participate in this activity 4 times without ever looking for the same container.

     

    Besides the 5 waypoints for containers that each group had programmed into their GPS, everyone had our meeting location and 3 bonus caches near our pickup point...this was great as a safety device, and as a motivator to get them back to the pick-up area in time for our bus-ride home. 2 of the bonus caches were simple containers with crayons (like the other containers) to prove that it had been found...the 3rd cache was an actual geocache, filled with trade-items and a logbook for students to sign...so that they could get a feel for what a real geocache was like...

     

    Out of 23 caches, our groups found 22...not bad for a bunch of 11 year-olds...

     

    Now that I have the system worked out, and the documents all generated and tested, I'm excited to reproduce and share this activity!!!

     

    Jamie - NFA

    need help with geocaching/orienteering

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    Hi,

     

    I'm working on a cache with an orienteering component as one or two middle stages of a multi, and need some help...

     

    I assume that it is possible to mark waypoints with my GPS and place them on a map for use in orienteering...I would like to print/laminate a bunch of copies of this map and leave it in one stage of my multi, so that geocachers would then have to switch gears, and use the map and a compass to find the next couple of stages, before finding the coordinates for the final stage of the cache...

     

    Can someone give me a slap upside of the head, and point me towards the software/site/explanation of how to do this easily (if such a thing exists)...

     

    Thanks,

     

    Jamie

    New cache word

    in How do I...?

    Posted

    LSSGNL (low sattillite signal) a abbreviation used by the placer of a cache to let the seeker know to look farther away from 0.00ft than normal.

     

    I've the acronym for years, but in NNY it means:

     

    Left Something Silly, Grabbed Nothing, Logged

     

    :laughing:

     

    Jamie - NFA

    Suspicious item in cache

    in How do I...?

    Posted

    I would trade them out, and chuck them...they may simply be bubbles, but even if they are, those bubble containers can leak and mess up a cache...I'd take them out, because that's what I'd want someone to do with one of my caches...

     

    Jamie - NFA

    Approving own waymark

    in Getting Started with Waymarking (Read-Only)

    Posted

    Hi,

     

    In the categories in which I'm an owner or officer, I've approved my waymarks numerous times...I don't have a problem with this as I know that my submissions meet the waymark category criteria...

     

    I've noticed that some officers in categories that I'm a member have included a pledge in their comments section to the effect that they will never approve their own waymarks...why?

     

    I would like to hear from the community about their feelings about approving your own waymarks...

     

    my feeling is that so long as the waymark category does not state that I shouldn't approve my own waymarks, and I am meeting any other stated criteria, there shouldn't be a problem...

     

    What say you?

     

    Jamie - NFA

    "WORST" weather conditions challenge!

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted · Edited by NFA

    26 degrees below zero for a FTF!

     

    My pen didn't work, I broke the ziplock bag that the log was in, my exposed bits were blue, it was a blast!!!

     

    My first day ever of geocaching, it snowed 7 inches, and I fell through thin ice on a pond during my last hunt...

     

    I once tipped over while canoeing to a cache during a light snow...

     

    Another time I paddled to a cache during such a hard rain, that my canoe almost swamped due to the 3-4 inches of water sloshing around in the bottom...

     

    Another time, I was caching in Moab, UT at the end of July, and spent an hour in 115 degree sun looking for a cache...I only stopped when I started getting dizzy...

     

    wait...I'm a lunatic...I need to develop better judgement about when to head out caching...please...send help!!!

     

    Jamie - NFA

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