Moun10Bike

I have never met Donman007, and I don't know the story behind what caused him to pull his caches and delete all of his logs, but I know that geocaching in Washington is poorer for it. Seth!, Kodak's4 and I made a trip to Wenatchee a couple of weekends ago and had a fantastic time geocaching, in large part due to Don's great caches. Don, if you're reading this, please reconsider! Each of your caches that I have seen has been placed and described with great care and passion. Moun10Bike's Geocaching Pages

I have never met Donman007, and I don't know the story behind what caused him to pull his caches and delete all of his logs, but I know that geocaching in Washington is poorer for it. Seth!, Kodak's4 and I made a trip to Wenatchee a couple of weekends ago and had a fantastic time geocaching, in large part due to Don's great caches. Don, if you're reading this, please reconsider! Each of your caches that I have seen has been placed and described with great care and passion. Moun10Bike's Geocaching Pages

Yes, PLEASE fix this! Keeping the caches sorted by date lets one keep tabs on where caches are popping up around the area, and is critical for me in maintaining up-to-date cache maps on my web page. Moun10Bike's Geocaching Pages

I have unarchived the cache, so no harm done. But in Jeremy's defense, there's a good chance I would have done the same thing if I had been the one to review the archival request. The admins receive dozens of archival notices each week, and it is a judgment call as to which ones should indeed be archived. Emailing the owner every time is simply not practical. This one had some warnings signs that there was trouble --a string of no finds on a cache with a low difficulty rating, a long passage of time from the last find, and no notes in the logs from the hider assuring people that the cache was still there (and letting the admins know that he had checked on it). On the other hand, the hider is a known, active cacher. So, please accept our apologies and let us know if you experience any other instances where we were a little quick on the "archive" trigger. Moun10Bike's Geocaching Pages

California seems to have the same problem as Washington, though. I sure hope this gets rectified soon -- the recent list is what I use to keep my personal cache maps up-to-date! Moun10Bike's Geocaching Pages

Thanks, Duke, for making the call to the State Parks Department! It sounds like Cheesy may be nothing more than a troll. I wonder if the Manchester caches have actually been removed or not. I would love to be involved in organizing a geocaching club to represent our interests in the state. This incident, even if it is the case of a troll at work, indicates to me that we need to be ready for the inevitable time when we do run into accessibility issues. I like Wander Lost's idea of discussing organization of an official club at this weekend's big Geocacher Roundup. I will be unable to make the event, but count me in on helping to get things rolling. Moun10Bike's Geocaching Pages

A workaround is to add "&start=25" to the end of the URL in your browser. This will show you the data on the second page. Add 25 to the number after the equal sign for each additional page that you wish to view. Moun10Bike's Geocaching Pages

You know, the more that I read cheesy's logs, the less that I believe he (or she) is really a Manchester State Park ranger. What led me to say that he appears to be is the "Any cache placed at Manchester State Park will be removed by Park Rangers" line. However, I would expect a ranger to provide a real name and contact info. Hopefully we'll know soon whether or not an official representative has truly removed the caches. Moun10Bike's Geocaching Pages

I would argue that the cache does not meet all guidelines for locationless caches. One of the guidelines is: Locationless caches must be novel, meaning of interest to someone else. Something you'd expect to find in coffee table book format. After a given race site is logged, is there any real interest among other geocachers in seeking out those coordinates and visiting the spot for the explicit reason of seeing the site of a race? I personally don't think so, and for that reason I can't see mountain bike race sites ever becoming the subject of a coffee table book, documentary, etc. Moun10Bike's Geocaching Pages

I would argue that the cache does not meet all guidelines for locationless caches. One of the guidelines is: Locationless caches must be novel, meaning of interest to someone else. Something you'd expect to find in coffee table book format. After a given race site is logged, is there any real interest among other geocachers in seeking out those coordinates and visiting the spot for the explicit reason of seeing the site of a race? I personally don't think so, and for that reason I can't see mountain bike race sites ever becoming the subject of a coffee table book, documentary, etc. Moun10Bike's Geocaching Pages

It’s happened elsewhere in the country, and I was worried that it might happen here. Now it appears that it has. A Washington state park has apparently sent a ranger out to remove geocaches located within park borders. Not only that, but the ranger who posted that he removed the caches in question has blamed geocachers for destroying the surrounding area "due to digging, trampling and tearing up vegetation." The caches that have been removed are: Manchester Mines Missing in Manchester I’m starting to seriously think that we need to form a geocaching club in the state. Without an organized, recognized & respected political voice representing our hobby, we risk losing more and more public land for geocaching. Moun10Bike's Geocaching Pages

I've edited the link above (looks like it changed slightly on the site). In case that doesn't work, try this one: http://tinylink.com/?Z8wfvLpfqZ Moun10Bike's Geocaching Pages

Whoops, Markwell beat me to it (I should kick people out of office when I'm responding so that I can type a little more quickly!)! I should have known to leave this topic to our resident historian! Moun10Bike's Geocaching Pages

Whoops, Markwell beat me to it (I should kick people out of office when I'm responding so that I can type a little more quickly!)! I should have known to leave this topic to our resident historian! Moun10Bike's Geocaching Pages

There's a reason that Mr. Ulmer is not mentioned by name in the credits -- he sort of went off the deep end, threatened to attack any geocachers he met, and in general turned against the game he started. Some of that descent into lunacy can be seen in archived threads in the old forums: http://forums.Groundspeak.com/ubb/Archives/Archive-000001/HTML/20010611-11-000023.html http://forums.Groundspeak.com/ubb/Archives/Archive-000001/HTML/20010611-11-000021.html http://forums.Groundspeak.com/ubb/Archives/Archive-000001/HTML/20010611-2-000337.html His legacy still lives on in the sport, of course, as well as in Makaio's "Un-Original Stash," which is located at the site of Mr. Ulmer's original stash. Moun10Bike's Geocaching Pages

The longest a cache has sat in my area that I know of is Hadley Falls at 395 days. Equatorial Divine in Kenya sat for 622 days before being found! Moun10Bike's Geocaching Pages

I have several caches up in the mountains of northern Idaho, and in addition to requiring hikes, they are a ways away from a population center and sit under snow for much of the year. My Mount Roothaan Cache sat for 316 days between finds, while my challenging Cache Hunt cache sat for 302 days before the first find. Moun10Bike's Geocaching Pages

I've corrected it now. Moun10Bike's Geocaching Pages

The company that I use for my coins is D & R Military Specialties. They have a web site at http://www.militaryspecialties.com, but unfortunately don't give their price breakdown there. The person I have dealt with is Rick (the "R" of D & R), and he is very good with answering any questions you may have. He already knows that I have given the okay for any geocachers to use my reverse face die, so just tell him that you are a geocacher and have spoken to me about using it. By the way, does anyone know what is necessary for the "Delete Message..." option to work? While correcting a typo in this post, I accidentally double posted. I am unable to delete either version. I keep getting a message saying I can't delete a messge that has replies, yet as of the moment I am writing this, there are no replies. Moun10Bike's Geocaching Pages [This message was edited by Moun10Bike on August 13, 2002 at 03:04 PM.]

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It depends a bit on what kind of coin you design. Most places charge a one-time die fee for each face of the coin; a fee for the coins that is based on size, material and number ordered; fees for any extras like color and number stamping; and finally shipping. My coins are about $4-5 each when ordering 100 at a time, but without color and numbering would be closer to $2.50 each. That cost would drop if I ordered in larger quantities (100 is the minumum order with my minter). My die fees were $70 per face. Moun10Bike's Geocaching Pages

Hey, niskibum -- you'll be famous in Amarillo now, too! http://www.amarillonet.com/ns-search/stories/080302/usn_itsbound.shtml?NS-search-set=/3d5d9/aaaa093905d9600&NS-doc-offset=0& Moun10Bike's Geocaching Pages [This message was edited by Moun10Bike on August 16, 2002 at 05:19 PM.]

Wow! It's cool to see a story out of my hometown get picked up by a paper so far away. You can read the full article here. Moun10Bike's Geocaching Pages

Dan's stats page uses the the list of recent logs to generate stats. Rather than checking each account on the web site for the latest find and hide counts each time it updates, it just runs periodic scans of the recent posts. For this reason, the stats page sees no activity for K9flyball after July, and thus leaves the find count for that account name at a steady number. Meanwhile, it sees what looks like a "new" account -- Team Golden -- starting to log finds in July, assigns it zero finds to begin with, and increments that count with each find that shows up after then. This is why, if you check, you'll see little errors here and there between the "real" stats and those shown on Dan's pages -- account names change, logs scroll off the bottom of the Recently Found List before the stats page can see them, etc. Overall, though, it does a great job while not impacting the site servers significantly. If it was designed to pull the current stats for every account each time it updated, it would be a huge server hit. Dan is very responsive toward correcting errors, so I would expect to see your stats corrected momentarily! Moun10Bike's Geocaching Pages

The admins have their own private forum for discussing cache submissions that might be problematic, and generally any regionally-specific restrictions or issues come to light there. I guess I wonder how would we determine when it was "deemed necessary" to consult with regional geocachers on a given submission. If a cemetery (or other restricted area, like a "secret" archaeological site) did not show up on the maps the admins use when approving caches, then there would be no indication that local geocachers needed to be called in for consultation. You soon head down the road of having a committee approving each and every cache, which as you can imagine would get unwieldy very quickly. Like Team 5-oh! said, I think that we already have some solutions in place to correct mistakes made by non-local admins. You can email an admin or post a thread in the forums to call attention to possibly problematic cache, or you can post a "Cache Should Be Archived" log on the cache page (those logs get emailed to the admins). I would just hate to see this game become drowned in bureaucracy. Moun10Bike's Geocaching Pages