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Ya’ll are doing great, we have been watching all the post, everything that is said helps to make it better for next year…………. JOE

The main page half way down ............... JOE

Be there done that, its Toooooooo Cool …………… JOE And MOPAR would give you the grand tour, a nice and easy or a full blown run for the GOLD

fly46 said “Oh, yeah, thanks, too, for sucking the fun out of the only thing I've done for myself since I moved to this state. How do you think the owners of the Dalmatians caches felt after your posts, you think it sucked some of the fun out for them. They are very sweet folks and kind people and had an Ice Chest full of cold water for everyone on the cache run that night if fact you stop and talked with them at there house it was your 100 cache of the cache run, and this is the way you repay them. Esspea and Jaypee were at GW2 helping out, the event was NOT a club activity just me and my friends putting on an event, I have no official standing with the local club so you would be welcomed I am sure. But when one of my close friends gets bashed on the forums, by someone that talks more than they cache well, you are darn tootem I am going to say something ………. JOE

sbell111 said “Personally, I think intentionally misrating a cache makes the problem worse, not better. On one hand you say that there is a cache for every cacher, yet you then misrate your caches thereby making it more difficult for people to search for caches they like. “ If you noticed I did this for a reason and think everyone else saw this if they read the cache page on the first line said it all. fly46 said “You hit the nail on the head... Cache N Dash was a strict numbers game and people out for numbers didn't want to spend the time getting ammo boxes in the woods. (Although ask southpaw about my rant somewhere around hour 13. He finally took me into the woods at about 10pm so I could find a 'real' cache) “ and “As for the Dalmation caches... If I ever do another one, I think very well that I might scream. As you can see with some of my logs, I got a little tired with chasing spotted dogs.... I started shouting out different dog breeds as we jumped out of the car.. There's a Chiuhauah (sic), a mini pin, etc... All silly little dogs... No collies or dobermans or labradors... Then instead of re-breading the dogs, I started naming them. It's not even that it was another micro... It's just that after about 30 of them, you start hoping for more original names.” I think you have been living in Nashville for a couple of months now and the only caches you have found are the ones at the event and the cache run and were taken to everyone and don’t think you even had a gps with you and yet you complain about the caches in the area, you need to get out more and see what’s out there. drat19 said “We're going to have to agree to disagree on this, Joe.” We always have, and this is why we are still friends and would enjoy eating supper with you again………….. JOE

Last time I looked around this was a site where individuals could hide a cache like they wanted to find and that’s what’s sooooooooo cool about this game. If you have problem with that I am sorry for you narrow minded view of a great sport that was meant for everyone to be able to play the way they liked. I have quite a few caches hidden and over 30 were not hunted this past weekend simply because no one wanted to. I can live with that and they are a lot harder to find than a light pole and take a little more time and some folks can’t hunt them at all. There will always be a place for easy and hard caches but don’t try to call a cache that’s not up to your personal standards lame, even by the logs above someone had fun finding it and someone also had fun hiding the cache. The difference between all the logs above just shows the different types of cache hunter there are out there wanting to have fun. If you go to a cache and you can see the location from the truck, drive on if you don’t like it. READ the cache pages before you go caching, you know simple stuff. I placed a very simple cache one week before Geo-Woodstock but rated it a five / five only a mile away from the event, wanted to see how many cachers read the cache pages before coming to Nashville only six of the 14 finds on the cache were from out of towners little did they know it was really a one / one and a half if they had read the cache page. So a easy cache that close to where an event was held is testimony that we are not reading cache pages anymore just loading coordinates, stuffing pages into their PDA and leaving the house to hunt, no wonder so many people are upset, they don’t want to take the time to look at where they are going anymore they expect pocket query and the like to sort it all out for them. Queen of Tennessee Plantations Before going to an area you have never been to before doing a little reading it not hard to figure out the ones you do not like to hunt………….. JOE Cool RK and KA

WOW that looks like a few caches we found last weekend, and hope to find a few more in an area where “ALL” caches placed are welcomed by the geocaching community, unlike some areas that like to preach from the high place they are standing on. What someone else calls lame may be the only kind of caches someone else can hunt. There are caches for everyone if you don‘t like the style drive on by………… JOE

I am never free but can be had Heee Heee , any weekend with enough notice, and I just posted to the Geo-Woodstock thread with the numbers………….. JOe

“”Second Annual Geo-Woodstock “” “The Numbers” ( sometimes it is all about the numbers ) RECORDS: 7,642 logged caches in Nashville for the weekend and still logging, will update later 240 caches in a straight 24 hour period, from 10:00 AM July the 4th till 10:00AM July the 5th by carleenp and The Leprechauns with me at the wheel and Scoot The Frog navigating, its always cool to ride with the frog!!!!!!!!! 600 to 700 caches found by two cachers for the week ( seven days ) ( they are still logging ) will update later and give there names 451 Travel Bugs on a cache page and they are still logging, will up date later 53 geocachers found more than 100 caches in less than 12 hours on the Wagon Train cache runs 218 people ate Free Catfish at an event The fun had by all that attended “PRICELESS” Fun Numbers: 236 people attended the Meet and Greet 13 people fell into the creek while finding Get You Feet Wet cache and 3 kids jumped in on a pleasant July day wimseyguy won the GPS’r from Magellan on the poker run and he won the pie eating contest, but only he and I were playing, and we didn’t want to share. No one left without a door prize after the poker run Six stitches were needed to a newbee cacher on there very first cache at the event and we all got to watch, GeoGyn was the on call doctor for the event Southpaw won the pool $$$ for being closes to the number being logged 235 trade items that were placed in the poker run caches, after the event there were 9 items left total, but that’s why they were there. The only event I know of that had sponsorship from all three of the major players Garmin Magellan , and the Groundspeak store “BIG THANKS GUYS AND GALLS” The Wagon Train Cache Runs led by: r0b 137 caches X 10 people in the train NashvilleJoe caches 113 X 12 people in the train Southpaw caches 140 X 6 people in the train AbbysGrammy caches 100 X 11 people in the train Mosestron, and GrannyLani caches 185 x 6 people in the train Monkeybrad caches 205 X 6 people in the train Other Cool Stuff: For our Good Park officials and ourselves pictures were taken before the geocaching stampede of the eleven poker run caches sites and after the event was over while taking them out and will be done one more time after 30 days to see if any permanent damage was done to the areas leading to and from the caches to know if they regain there life for future events like this where a lot of people would make a geo-trail in one day. Will let you know later. We are in the process of selecting a site for next years “Third Annual Geo-Woodstock” All areas in the US will be considered, if your area would like to co-host the event post it here, with why it should be in your area and what kind of physical support you have.

Geocaching and Golf have a lot in common there are so many ways to play each Golf has regular and Speed Golf and many others Geocaching has regular and Speed Geocaching and many others When the day is over you either played Golf or Geocached The secret to doing this kind of cache run is all in the planning and knowing the area, we drove by over a 100 caches that were within 250 feet from where you could park, we never even stopped , a local like myself that had been to many of them knew which ones to drive by , no time wasted. They both signed the logs just like they would have done doing regular caching, no stickers, but stickers are cool , they did not have any. I drove the route we were going to take every Saturday before the event four five weeks to know which roads were closed and the best and fastest way to get to eat cache always obeying traffic laws except the last one Heee Heee For all the nay-sayers I will extend an invitation to anyone in CA that has never been here before ( virgin territory ) to do the same for you. You can guess and calculate all you want but unless you do it you will never know. That is if you don’t mind a smoker and me driving slow………………. JOE I will be posting to the regular forums in the thread there today with all the numbers, we think you will be surprised

It was really only 240, I was there, and yes it beat the old world record of 238 caching in a straight 24 hour period ………… JOE

Please be patience, folks are still logging when all the numbers are in we will gladly give all the details, and as far as the unbelievers go there is nothing I could say to make them feel like they are not the losers for not attending and having a great time enjoying the fellowship of other geocachers. ………….. JOE

My most memorable benchmark find ever, but would never dig down and disturb the bottle. Details for Benchmark: GC2163 This has been my Avatar Image ................ JOE

Please, Please no more moving caches even in a state or city, we had to go get one out of a local park here in Nashville that someone placed. Our parks require a permit for hiding caches and that’s cool we all understand that live in the area or so we thought. The first thing a moving cache owner does is update the coordinates and the date to put it at the top of the page as to get out on Thursday in the notifications. Our parks get the same notifications that we do. It makes it us all look bad on geocaching when this happens . Please, Please NO MORE ………… JOE

Food and fellowship are always winners………….. JOE

The holiday date also let a whole bunch of folks attend, we are actively working on next year, date and place if you like, someone start a thread about what date is agreeable to all and that’s when we will have it, but lets be real here that’s not going to happen. There is no way to satisfy everyone , but we do try…………………. JOE

I have not posted anything yet was waiting to get all the numbers in on: Record for Travel Bugs at an event Record for most caches logged in a city in one weekend Record for most finds in a straight 24 hour period ( old record was 238 NEW record 242 ) Record for how much fun you can have and still not go to jail Record for how many pies wimseyguy can eat at one setting and BTW he won the grand prize on the poker run that he has to pick up in Oklahoma City ( long story ) Records of a lot more stuff, should be posting by the weekend And YES there was singing, there was a moving cache there that you has to sing a few bars from a USA patriotic song to log it. And if I am not mistaken the “ Leprechauns “ had the best voice which is not surprising he seems to have one of the best voices on the forums and was a pleasure to meet him and gruval at his feet, being the true word assassin of the english language that I am ……… JOE

I am very proud to say that I am from Nashville where a geocacher can hide any type of cache that will be welcomed by the geocaching community …………… JOE nuf said, at least from me

drat19 , said :...you know that you and I agree on almost everything on these forums (seriously), so I'm going to take that quote above with what I think is the proper grain of salt...that you might throw ONE OR TWO "lame" caches out there - and not BLANKET your area with 50 or 100 (can you spell "Dalmatian"???) (That's a non-so-veiled reference to a certain metro area elsewhere in the USA pretty far east of your position in Idaho, RK!). Those Dalmatian were logged over one thousand times this past weekend and you have even found a few of them, so get off your high horse, and play the way you want to and stop bashing Nashville……………… JOE

Every cache that I have hidden is lame to someone, and every lame cache that I have found does not necessarily mean it was lame , only lame to me. Every cache that has been hidden by someone had fun either finding it or placing it, So in my humble opinion they are all lame or fun, or whether the glass is half full or half empty …………… JOE

I don’t think it’s a good idea, and I am always looking for a way to find two at once, but this ain’t the way and do agree with TEAM 360 wow did I said I agreed with Team 360, yep guess I did…………… JOE

Insp Gadget , I have no idea saw that on your sig line and had to post…….. JOE

Insp Gadget said: “And just praytell how do you know where he lives???????????? “ Don’t know but you live in : Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada JOE

Hey, 360 you did a great thing by placing the Original Stash Tribute Plaque, that was far out man, I been reading the forums for a pretty good while and you are always stirring the pot when you don’t get you way . This is not a flame, plain facts. You did a geocide and archived all your caches then came back and asked for them to be unaarchived and they did that. You don’t log you finds as found, and they seem to use this for checking vacation caches and that’s cool to I guess, so you have to expect it to be harder to do anything with your past track record. You don’t play the game like most do, and man there ain’t nothing wrong with that either but you are always butten your head the wall. You are not gonna win against City Hall, you are not looking at the big picture as they are. You only see you…………… JOE

I looked in the Q & A for Travelbugs section and emailed honey Chile and asked if she knew but she didn’t and suggested that I post it here. What is the record for the most bugs on a cache page at one time this cache Second Annual Geo-Woodstock has a 144 bugs in it right now and is climbing every day, does anyone know, and yes I know its not about the numbers but someone posted it was a record but I could not confirm it. Thanks in advance for your help………… JOE