SirKarp
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stop #67 The Lost Treasure of Baron Rodolfo Modulo, hasn't been found since 2020, though it was DNF'ed this year. C/O hasn't logged into the site since 2017.
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on our way to silverdale did a little of the route,
GC8ae66 Thunderbird and Chop-ter the parking lots were closed the furthest lot at for the beans was open.
GC8gvqe Happy Happy Harry was a DNF for us and GZ was pretty trashy.
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It would be nice to have a final... concerns I have is a number of caches are on or near electrical boxes will these left on the route or not. Geocaching has asked for caches around electrical to be temp disabled because of the recent sabotage. Yes they are most concerned about transfer stations BUT I did a electrical box once the night before the CM came through and next morning NO one found it, on the way back to the hotel after dinner I found the box was, well shredded, I assume by searchers.
Travis has been late getting a final out but he was always good about posting what we have is what about earlier drafts, so travelers on Friday coming for the event were aware... alas a few have asked about a final and it's been crickets. Some of us will be unable to attend the Friday event to get any new info and have to rely on what is posted to have the most updated info. I get this is a major undertaking and so happy someone took it on but communications is important when so many might be traveling from afar to undertake this event.
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Stopped by the last one on the list on our way into town today as we knew there were limited hours the cache was available and found a note that the museum is closed until Jan 2nd.
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Noticed that stop #38 GCRFGM Hooters was archived on 3-8-18
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On 12/14/2017 at 11:36 AM, travisl said:
"A Cache For Payton" involves beach driving. The high tide might turn this into a walk. We'll see when we get there.
Cache machinists need to be extremely careful of this cache. Not only does it involve a beach drive but it also may require crossing a small stream in your car on the beach. Also there are a few private roads that do not lead to the beach or the cache. One must drive the beach from the Roosevelt conservation beach approach. Also this stretch of the beach doubles as the Copalis Beach runway. How often planes are landed on the beach I have no idea, but I thought you should know about these things.
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Interesting thank you for pointing that thread out to me. Make sense as to why I don't see it in the guidelines then. I believe it will be a fun area to visit and since it appears you have read the event page you know at least a little bit of our story and I'm sure you can see why we want to visit.
Thanks,
SirKarp
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I'm really not sure what to say. I had never heard of the rule that Rufusclupea quotes. In fact I went and read the event guidelines and I could not find that quote or anything to that effect, so Rufusclupea if your still following this thread I'd be curious to know where the quote comes from. As I'm from the Seattle are not to far from where the annual going ape event is held I wondered how so many folks got away with their vacation events around the ape event. It's not uncommon here for there to be a few events leading up to the APE event hosted by out of towners. I don't know perhaps I missed something in guidelines but I'm happy it has been published.
Thanks,
SirKarp
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Well we will see what happens. In my area I have seen these sort of events published so we'll hope it goes though. I've got a spot picked so we'll see. Thanks!
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Thanks for the post and suggestion. It's funny here in Washington state the subforums arent exactly hopping anymore but they are still active. The good news is on the mean time since my post my caching partner did a little research and I contacted a couple of cachers, than own caches in the area and one of them made several suggestions. So I have list of restaurants to call tomorrow and we'll see what happens.
Thanks again
Sirkarp
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Hi there, We will be visiting Salem Massachusetts during the first week in October, we are coming from Washington state and thought that it would be fun to hold an event preferably in Salem or very close by. We'd love to meet some local cachers, share stories and swap TB's from across the country, but in order to do that we need to have good place to hold an event, and hopefully there will be a few folks able to make recommendations. I'm not sure what the weather typically is in Salem during early October, but we'd be open to a restaurant or a park. We will also be there during the week, so some place we can hold the event later in the day like late afternoon when folks could come after work, would be best. l At one point we thought we had a place but that didn't work out. So I'm open to ideas.
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Oh my now that's hot!
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Also I know this was posted on Facebook but for those that don't facebook it's going to be quite hot, in the low 90's Saturday and Sunday.
It's not looking like the low 90s any more.
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I have the Bookmark and the files available for the Beaverton Cache Machine II FINAL available here
I won't be attending this one, so everyone have fun.
Terrible Ts
Thank you so much for helping out. It's too bad you are not able to be there. We will have fun in spite of that.
Yes, it not said often enough. Thank you Travisl for putting these events together time and time again and Terrible Ts for the bookmark which makes it so much easier. Also I know this was posted on Facebook but for those that don't facebook it's going to be quite hot, in the low 90's Saturday and Sunday. Looking forward to it as always!
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#78 on the final route is accessible from outside the cemetery, but the CO has asked for it to be done during daylight hours only.
I'm the C/O of the cache I think your talking about, it's actually stop #77 and to clarify it's Spirit Quest Home of Piece. There were several reasons for the daylight hours only restriction in the beginning, and I have kept it on mainly to keep people from looking for it at odd hours, like 2AM in the morning, or accidently going inside the cemetery when they shouldn't. Keeping in mind during the summer dark can be as late 9PM or even later. I think since the cache is accessible from the sidewalk on the street outside the cemetery that it is just fine for folks on the cache machine to look for the cache in the early evening, even if it is after dark. I have posted a note on the cache page as well to that affect. However please don't assume that is ok at my other spirit quest cemetery caches in the area such as Mountain View and Old Pioneer. Those are inside the cemeteries and should never be looked for after dark ever, which is why they were removed from the CM because of the time the CM would get there. But for SQ Home of Piece it's totally fine to look for it in the early evening hours.
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SirKarp
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I just so happened to have a conversation with the hotel I'm staying at today and she mentioned that the hotel is fully booked because the central Washington Fair opens on Friday the 23rd. So if nothing less be prepared for a busy town, and fair traffic.
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If you need something more economical their sister Hotel Oxford Inn is right next door http://www.oxfordinnyakima.com/
The Oxford inn is older hotel and has fewer amenities than the newer one the Oxford Suites.
Nice! That's where I'd already booked, and it's right next to the start and end points of the route. I found that if I went through TripAdvisor's link to http://www.oxfordinnyakima.com/lnr-1374864815.php , which inserts promo code TAWEB, I could get the price down to $94.50 before taxes. A few places on 1st Street were cheaper, in the $79 range, but not as highly reviewed.
If someone else books this way, could you let me know if you receive a confirmation e-mail? I never received one, so I'm a little concerned that the reservation didn't go through.
Travis, I have never used the tripadvisor link, but I have booked on the oxford website many times in the past and I always received an E-mail confirmation. If it's not hiding in your spam folder I'd call the hotel. Since the tripadvisor sends you to the oxford website they should be able to see it at the hotel if it went though.
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After unfortunately having to miss the June CM, we will definitely be there for this one! Actually I've been looking forward to this one since last year.
For anyone looking for a hotel in the area there are two that I would recommend.
We'll be staying at the Oxford Suites which is right off of I-90 and the river http://www.oxfordsuitesyakima.com/
If you need something more economical their sister Hotel Oxford Inn is right next door http://www.oxfordinnyakima.com/
The Oxford inn is older hotel and has fewer amenities than the newer one the Oxford Suites.
Looking forward to seeing you all there!
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Instead I'm left feeling like I have had a portion of this cache taken away from me and like I have got the short end of the stick.
You did get the short end of the stick in this case. Along with the other owners who have been working on challenge caches but didn't get them submitted by the deadline. But, GS has made their stance and there will be no exceptions. So, the choice now is to either publish it as a different cache type, archive the listing and move on or wait out the year and see if it still meets the guidelines for challenge caches. I imagine it's a pretty hollow feeling when all that work and preparation kind of goes up in smoke.
Thank you, I appreciate the fact that you can see that, it seems like few do. I don't know what I will do with the cache at this point, it would seem like such a waste to archive it. And to publish it as a different cache type seems like a huge compromise.
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I've only completed a few challenge caches, but those that I did compete I went after because I found them to be interesting and fun. I didn't really realize that there was a problem with the challenge caches, however in looking though the posts here and can quite clearly see that there is problem. Especially when you get into stuff like power trails of Challenge caches I get how that's a problem. Now what I'm here to voice my opinion about is the way the moratorium has been handled. I can understand not wanting to give a lot of advanced notice, because that could lead to reviewers being flooded with low quality challenge caches that they would have to wade though, and that is not fair to them. I totally get that. However, what about those of use that have been planning, refining and creating a really good quality challenge cache submissions. I have been working on putting together a challenge cache for a about year now. I've gained permission for the cache, I've put together the cache page. There are a number of carefully chosen waypoints. I don't want to give away to much of it, but compass bearings have been taken and distances measured and history researched for the cache page. This was no simple task to put together. I've discussed the cache with a reviewer less than a month ago and this person checked it over to make sure that I was within the guidelines and even logged a reviewer note on the cache page. With that log I can prove the time line at least. I made sure my location for the container was ok. Not knowing about the Moratorium I enabled the cache for review on the morning of 4-22-15. Of course moments after that, I learned about the moratorium. I explained my efforts to the reviewer and was told that they were told that there would be no exceptions, if the cache wasn't in the reviewer queue by noon on the 21st it was not able to be published and that's a hard a fast rule regardless of anything else.
Again I understand why it was handled the way it was, if more advance notice was given the reviewers would have been flooded with folks that just wanted to get them out. But what about me, I'm sure there are a few other folks in my boat too. I have countless hours over the course of a year setting this cache up, trying to make sure that it is good high quality challenge cache and for what. I find that all my efforts on this one will be for nothing. I really think that there should be some latitude for those of us who were trying to put in the effort, can prove our timeline, and have tried to do the right thing and make a challenge cache that the caching community could enjoy. If I had just whipped it out without regard to creating a well put together cache that I am proud to own, it would be up and running today, but I tried to be the best that I can be, do the right thing and in the end I am feel like I have been punished for it and left with a lot of wasted work, time and effort. It's really unfortunate that the 4-21-15 at noon rule is hard and fast with no exceptions to someone in my situation.
Thank you for reading about my point of view,
SirKarp
That sounds like a great cache, and one that would be enjoyable to many finders. Why not skip the challenge limit on who can log the find, and publish it as you would any other cache?
I really think it is great cache, but the whole idea was that getting to find this unique cache would be the reward to meeting the challenge criteria, which myself I have met many times over. You wouldn't be able to meet it's goal in one day but it's not particularly hard either. I didn't want it to be really hard, but I did want it to be a reward so to speak. Yes, I could publish it as open to everyone, but again the basis of this was to be a mild challenge and after all the work I have done I'd really like to see it published in the form I intended it to be. Instead I'm left feeling like I have had a portion of this cache taken away from me and like I have got the short end of the stick.
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I've only completed a few challenge caches, but those that I did compete I went after because I found them to be interesting and fun. I didn't really realize that there was a problem with the challenge caches, however in looking though the posts here and can quite clearly see that there is problem. Especially when you get into stuff like power trails of Challenge caches I get how that's a problem. Now what I'm here to voice my opinion about is the way the moratorium has been handled. I can understand not wanting to give a lot of advanced notice, because that could lead to reviewers being flooded with low quality challenge caches that they would have to wade though, and that is not fair to them. I totally get that. However, what about those of use that have been planning, refining and creating a really good quality challenge cache submissions. I have been working on putting together a challenge cache for a about year now. I've gained permission for the cache, I've put together the cache page. There are a number of carefully chosen waypoints. I don't want to give away to much of it, but compass bearings have been taken and distances measured and history researched for the cache page. This was no simple task to put together. I've discussed the cache with a reviewer less than a month ago and this person checked it over to make sure that I was within the guidelines and even logged a reviewer note on the cache page. With that log I can prove the time line at least. I made sure my location for the container was ok. Not knowing about the Moratorium I enabled the cache for review on the morning of 4-22-15. Of course moments after that, I learned about the moratorium. I explained my efforts to the reviewer and was told that they were told that there would be no exceptions, if the cache wasn't in the reviewer queue by noon on the 21st it was not able to be published and that's a hard a fast rule regardless of anything else.
Again I understand why it was handled the way it was, if more advance notice was given the reviewers would have been flooded with folks that just wanted to get them out. But what about me, I'm sure there are a few other folks in my boat too. I have countless hours over the course of a year setting this cache up, trying to make sure that it is good high quality challenge cache and for what. I find that all my efforts on this one will be for nothing. I really think that there should be some latitude for those of us who were trying to put in the effort, can prove our timeline, and have tried to do the right thing and make a challenge cache that the caching community could enjoy. If I had just whipped it out without regard to creating a well put together cache that I am proud to own, it would be up and running today, but I tried to be the best that I can be, do the right thing and in the end I am feel like I have been punished for it and left with a lot of wasted work, time and effort. It's really unfortunate that the 4-21-15 at noon rule is hard and fast with no exceptions to someone in my situation.
Thank you for reading about my point of view,
SirKarp
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WOOOO HOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
After having some kind of nasty stuff happen this week (Not at all geocaching related), I've been feeling down. But this has renewed my faith, that there is good in man kind and that there are folks out there that really do want to make things right for the rest of us. My basic member friend says that she can us the old search too again and is VERY happy about it as well.
Thank you to the folks at G/S that have brought back the old search. We complained and you listened. Thanks!
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Thanks for getting the finals up, we are set here now and I'm sure others are glad to see it too.
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Using the draft 2 bookmark list and route will be a very good alternative. I don't expect any major changes, and when I post the final, I'll make an extra effort to point out any changes that I do make.
Travis, Just wanted to say thanks for validating this idea.
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Chehalis/Centralia Cache Machine II
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# 83 Phoney Heights GC27VDN Has one DNF and one needs repair, C/O hasn't logged in since 2017.
I hope you don't think I'm being picky, I'm just letting ya know about a few possible issues we are seeing.