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If you find out where a cache is and decide not to get your self up and out to the actual location then who is not getting the most out of the game. Also, if you report a FIND without actualy going to the place, then what does that say about you? I have been to a few virtual caches where I knew before hand where the virtual cache was and even what informatin the person who posted it was looking for. But I went. The fun for me is the journey, not the ends. Of course others have other reasons for playing. Some are into the game simply to rack up numbers, some are in it for bragging rights, others for the prizes. Whatever your reason, please dont piss on those who are into it for the jounrey, for the fun of getting out and going places. That would not be a good thing. -tom ---------------------------- TeamWSMF@wsmf.org

quote:Originally posted by Mopar: .... ClayJar's just been building up STeam on a new project he's working on. You mean fighting off the Great Nameless Hordes of the North?- He should pop up now that the truce is on for the weekend. -tom ---------------------------- TeamWSMF@wsmf.org

quote:Originally posted by Mopar: .... ClayJar's just been building up STeam on a new project he's working on. You mean fighting off the Great Nameless Hordes of the North?- He should pop up now that the truce is on for the weekend. -tom ---------------------------- TeamWSMF@wsmf.org

One of the cooler aspects of the game is that it is only a few days old:)- Scout, the guy who set up the inital rules, is great about opening up the floor for potential rules variants and including new tech into the game. Its a work in proress that is a hoot to be a part of. The concept of the mapboard is great. Since the Degrees part is basiclay stripped out of the equation everyone in the game regradless of geographical location is in the same 60 sqaure mile playing field with spaces only 1 square mile big. You find yourself battling for a piece of ground with teammates in Boston and Enland against a motley bunch from Texas and Hawai. You plan moves based on enemy intel, figuring out who it is that is encroaching on your spaces and where you can repostion the flags in a sqaure so that in thier geographical location it would be inaccesable. Like I said the game is unfolding before our eyes and the startegy of playin is being discovered with each new turn. I will be vastly amused to see what MInute War mutates into 6 months from now:)- I can see differnt variants to suit the pace of just about any player. -tom W122N45 Division of the Great Nameless Hordes of the North ---------------------------- TeamWSMF@wsmf.org

One of the cooler aspects of the game is that it is only a few days old- Scout, the guy who set up the inital rules, is great about opening up the floor for potential rules variants and including new tech into the game. Its a work in proress that is a hoot to be a part of. The concept of the mapboard is great. Since the Degrees part is basiclay stripped out of the equation everyone in the game regradless of geographical location is in the same 60 sqaure mile playing field with spaces only 1 square mile big. You find yourself battling for a piece of ground with teammates in Boston and Enland against a motley bunch from Texas and Hawai. You plan moves based on enemy intel, figuring out who it is that is encroaching on your spaces and where you can repostion the flags in a sqaure so that in thier geographical location it would be inaccesable. Like I said the game is unfolding before our eyes and the startegy of playin is being discovered with each new turn. I will be vastly amused to see what MInute War mutates into 6 months from now- I can see differnt variants to suit the pace of just about any player. -tom W122N45 Division of the Great Nameless Hordes of the North ---------------------------- TeamWSMF@wsmf.org

I just joined the Nameless Northen Horde See ya folks on the fields of honor. -tom ---------------------------- TeamWSMF@wsmf.org

I posted this up in the general section forum but would like to know if any of the local flora and forna are involved in this.... At first glance it seems a fun idea. http://MinuteWar.org "MinuteWar is a game of territorial conquest using the real world as the playing field and GPS receivers for navigation. Every player in the world uses his own local map, but all the maps are combined so that all players compete against everyone else at the same time no matter where they live. The maps are divided into squares. Each square is one minute of longitude wide and one minute of latitude tall. Each square contains a virtual flag. Visit the exact spot where the flag is located to capture the flag and control the square. Capture other players' flags by visiting the same spot they did, on their map or yours. Whoever controls the most territory when the game ends, wins. The battle to capture these flags and hold these squares is MinuteWar. Your first flag is in a neighborhood near you. Join and play! " ---------------------------- TeamWSMF@wsmf.org

I just stumbled on this web site. I have not joined in and am curious to hear if anyone here has done so and what they think. http://MinuteWar.org "MinuteWar is a game of territorial conquest using the real world as the playing field and GPS receivers for navigation. Every player in the world uses his own local map, but all the maps are combined so that all players compete against everyone else at the same time no matter where they live. The maps are divided into squares. Each square is one minute of longitude wide and one minute of latitude tall. Each square contains a virtual flag. Visit the exact spot where the flag is located to capture the flag and control the square. Capture other players' flags by visiting the same spot they did, on their map or yours. Whoever controls the most territory when the game ends, wins. The battle to capture these flags and hold these squares is MinuteWar. Your first flag is in a neighborhood near you. Join and play! " ---------------------------- TeamWSMF@wsmf.org

My kid is 7 and in a just a few weeks has 5 caches under her belt. 2 of those she found mostly with her own gps skill and an early jedi training regime. Get that reporter back:)- ---------------------------- TeamWSMF@wsmf.org

My kid is 7 and in a just a few weeks has 5 caches under her belt. 2 of those she found mostly with her own gps skill and an early jedi training regime. Get that reporter back- ---------------------------- TeamWSMF@wsmf.org

I wonder just how many Higgins's there are in the Pac NW geocaching? -tom higgins of team wsmf. ---------------------------- TeamWSMF@wsmf.org

Avantgo would love it if all the end users fell over themselves adopting IT as the one way to get web info on the palm. Then they turn around and charge the content providers because folks are using Avantgo to clip thier pages to thier palms. SO what do you think the content providers will do? Either turn around and charge money or find better ways for thier users to get the data...but if the avergage user of the site is convienced they cant use anything but Avantgo ..well its a freaking mess. Think of it as the AOLization of net-palm web clipping. If we support open non charged solutions then we get around all that. If I were Jeremy I would NOT be looking to fork over money to Avantgo simply becuase folks wont use another app to clip geocaching.com. I would be looking at ways to make the data avilable in a way that would not tax the system nor incur any further maintence costs, in time or money, on geocaching.com. An offical set of mirrors of the db set up just to be mined seems the best solution. This is nothing new, many communities have done and are doing it. But as its been said before, this is Jeremy's site. We can offer up all the adivce we want but its his choice to make. Ive been in the same postion on site I have run in the past. -tom ---------------------------- TeamWSMF@wsmf.org

A logical offshoot poll to the pregers one... As a soon to be owner of a newborn Id like to hear just how young your youngest little geocacaher was. ---------------------------- TeamWSMF@wsmf.org

Back last March or April I was doing my normal morning scan of informational web sites when I saw mention of geocaching. I dont remember where but it pointed me here. When I read the site I thought "Very cool idea, I need me one of them gps things". I posted it to a few mailing lists, talked about it with a friend or two and then got caught up in a few other projects. Fast forward to Novemeber. Several folks I know are talking about the cool places they have been too using thier GPS and a web site called geocaching.com The light goes on over my head "Oh yeah, I forgot about that" It wasnt until late January of this year that I finaly, finaly, got a little yellow eTrex. -tom ---------------------------- TeamWSMF@wsmf.org

TeamWSMF has done a few instance of CacheCleanup. In one cache we found an empty Smirnof Ice Bottle, in another some of the bark got into the inside, in another there was some scraps. AS a rule we try to leave the cache not only richer but cleaner than we found it. -tom ---------------------------- TeamWSMF@wsmf.org

It will definetly test to see which caches are well hidden and which are not. If you are part f a clean up and you do find a cache, try to save it. SOGC (save oregon geo caches) -tom ---------------------------- TeamWSMF@wsmf.org

It will definetly test to see which caches are well hidden and which are not. If you are part f a clean up and you do find a cache, try to save it. SOGC (save oregon geo caches) -tom ---------------------------- TeamWSMF@wsmf.org

quote: Sidenote: Looks like we have a Rock fan amoung us. Can you smell ...what Oregon....is cooking. Actualy Im more of a Mankind Terry Funk sort of guy, and these days that means watching the product with one eye closed. Oh for the days when Paul E was on his game. But thats a very very side note:)-- Bang Bang....have a nice day -tom ---------------------------- TeamWSMF@wsmf.org

quote: Sidenote: Looks like we have a Rock fan amoung us. Can you smell ...what Oregon....is cooking. Actualy Im more of a Mankind Terry Funk sort of guy, and these days that means watching the product with one eye closed. Oh for the days when Paul E was on his game. But thats a very very side note-- Bang Bang....have a nice day -tom ---------------------------- TeamWSMF@wsmf.org

Dawn, my wife and fellow TeamWSMF memeber, is about 5 months along. We started eocaching about a month ago and have hit 12 caches. The toughest was the Four Corners cache. Im pacing things so that we have a few easy ones close by so she can do near the end of her pregnant days. I am half thinking of putting a cache in the delivey room so that she can find it when things are slowing down during labor. "Ok honey, now push...and breath...and 10 feet to the left you should find a nurse tree with a peace sign fir growing out of it.." Either that or I find out where she is delivering, grab the lat/long, and post an Event cache. "took the baby, left a happy meal barney figurine" Somehow I think when she reads this I should be running very fast and very far. -tom ---------------------------- TeamWSMF@wsmf.org

The dank smell is the fertile soil of a healthy ecosystem, or its the unwashed patchouli doused wannbehippies as they spange thier way across the city. The first is the reason why the bounty of this state is so treasured the second is easily fixed with the often mentioned rain or in dire situations a legaly owned handgun. "Bang Bang..Outa my way hippie" The smell of southern Calis congested malaise born of ego soaked single driver cramed "free" ways and worn like a shower of Channel number five on the zombie sheeple who buy and sell thier dreams for small desires is a horse of an entrly differnt stank. -tom ---------------------------- TeamWSMF@wsmf.org

I moved here from NYC nearly a half decade ago. I have never been back to the city of my birth. I still consider myself a born and raised New Yorker, thats not going to change, but I am now and probably will be for he rest of my life an Oregonian. Now as to those who complain about the rain, the trees, the snow, the woods and all the rest, there is an easy solution to your problems. Its called taking all your belongings, shinning them up all nice and pretty, folding them up like a USGS map and sticking them right up your candy arses. Oregon is such a great place to live BECAUSE of the rain, the musk, the stank and the bother. It would not be as green, as fertile or as amazingly bountiful if it were not so. If it does not rain here as much as it needs to we get a freaking draught and a plauge of forest fires. Oh yea, its so much better to have an even skin cancer tan than to have enough water to meet the needs of a vibrant ecosystem. If you want some sanitizied, mowed over , enviromentaly safe, climaticlay secure haven to peacefully live out your sheeple years then there is a place for you, its called mid to southern California and your welcome to it. Thats the one thing that the New Yorker in me and the Oregonian in me have in common, we loath the bleached bright vapidity of the Californicated- Now dont get me wrong, the lack of good bagels here is a pain and the limited concert offerings (both classical and modern) are often a drag, but if I want those things I know where to go. But all in all I dig living in the bounty of Oregon with an attitude forged in the fires of New York. Its the best of all worlds- Just my 2cents -tom ---------------------------- TeamWSMF@wsmf.org

I moved here from NYC nearly a half decade ago. I have never been back to the city of my birth. I still consider myself a born and raised New Yorker, thats not going to change, but I am now and probably will be for he rest of my life an Oregonian. Now as to those who complain about the rain, the trees, the snow, the woods and all the rest, there is an easy solution to your problems. Its called taking all your belongings, shinning them up all nice and pretty, folding them up like a USGS map and sticking them right up your candy arses. Oregon is such a great place to live BECAUSE of the rain, the musk, the stank and the bother. It would not be as green, as fertile or as amazingly bountiful if it were not so. If it does not rain here as much as it needs to we get a freaking draught and a plauge of forest fires. Oh yea, its so much better to have an even skin cancer tan than to have enough water to meet the needs of a vibrant ecosystem. If you want some sanitizied, mowed over , enviromentaly safe, climaticlay secure haven to peacefully live out your sheeple years then there is a place for you, its called mid to southern California and your welcome to it. Thats the one thing that the New Yorker in me and the Oregonian in me have in common, we loath the bleached bright vapidity of the Californicated:)- Now dont get me wrong, the lack of good bagels here is a pain and the limited concert offerings (both classical and modern) are often a drag, but if I want those things I know where to go. But all in all I dig living in the bounty of Oregon with an attitude forged in the fires of New York. Its the best of all worlds:)- Just my 2cents -tom ---------------------------- TeamWSMF@wsmf.org

quote:Originally posted by ApK: Those are fine, but my point is, I LIKE chachkie caches! (May we make that the official name now?) It's FUN to find a hidden prize! And, sure, if I find an item I musthave while out buying cache prizes, I'll get an extra, as some one mentioned, but that's not the same as FINDING it, have the stories and the memories attached to a physical item. I agree with ya. The chachkies we have found bring back great memeories. THe QSL and LEtterboxing types can be done in conjuction with chachkies, I dont see any reason to make all caches be of just ONE type. This way more than one type of geocacher can go away from a cache both leaving and taking the type they want. Im not saying ALL caches should be this sort of Everything to Everyone cache either, that would make folks a tad testy in setting up a cache. Its just..well...dealers choice- choices are good. -tom ---------------------------- TeamWSMF@wsmf.org

quote:Originally posted by ApK: Those are fine, but my point is, I LIKE chachkie caches! (May we make that the official name now?) It's FUN to find a hidden prize! And, sure, if I find an item I musthave while out buying cache prizes, I'll get an extra, as some one mentioned, but that's not the same as FINDING it, have the stories and the memories attached to a physical item. I agree with ya. The chachkies we have found bring back great memeories. THe QSL and LEtterboxing types can be done in conjuction with chachkies, I dont see any reason to make all caches be of just ONE type. This way more than one type of geocacher can go away from a cache both leaving and taking the type they want. Im not saying ALL caches should be this sort of Everything to Everyone cache either, that would make folks a tad testy in setting up a cache. Its just..well...dealers choice:)- choices are good. -tom ---------------------------- TeamWSMF@wsmf.org