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GrnMtn

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  1. My wife always sighs but my 4 and 6 year olds are very enthusiastic. But sometimes I think they would be just as happy to take something out of my bag of stuff to trade and skip the hike in the woods so it is hard to say.
  2. My wife always sighs but my 4 and 6 year olds are very enthusiastic. But sometimes I think they would be just as happy to take something out of my bag of stuff to trade and skip the hike in the woods so it is hard to say.
  3. Sent off a money order today. Let me know if it isn't the right amount for 20 chips. Thanks again for all the work! Bryant (aka GrnMtn)
  4. Any color is fine but, if it works, the best combo for me would be 10 green and 10 blue. Crusso - maybe instead of shipping them, we can all get together for a poker game and see who walks away with the most!
  5. Surely, we can't expect a newbie to jump in the deep end. Let them experience caching for a while and then make a decision. Well said. My vote would be to always have the site be free with voluntary contribution. And I also agree we shouldn't judge someone ability to contribute. But I find it really hard not to respond to 'membership is too expensive' posts. I will work on it though because, as someone mentioned, we have discussed this enough.
  6. I think it is unfair for any of us to attempt to make a financial decision for anyone else. To me, right now, the member fee is not much. But there have been times in my life that it would have seemed very high (even the $3 monthly fee). I think this is generally a good philosphy. In this case, I want to add a small, 'yes but...' The very nature of this game involves a $200-$400 GPS and a $500-$???? computer. Hiking is free. If someone is trying to decide between a $3.00 contribution to geocaching.com and eating, maybe its time to sell the gps unit and just go hiking. Also, the entire sport would be almost impossible without this site which is 1) high quality 2) heavily used and therefore increasing expensive. I think the current system is a pretty good compromise. Free, a voluntary system that provides small perks for people who contribute and a contribution scale that starts at $3.00. As I get ready to place my first few caches, I am leaning toward making them member only for the first couple of months, mostly because I want to put something fairly nice into them for the first person to find it. But I would rather not have such a thing plundered. Recently, someone in my area put a new gps unit (!) in for the first finder and it was gone when by the time the first person to log an entry go there. As long as they are opened up after the first few logs, I don't understand the negative tone about members only caches. Thoughts and further education appreciated.
  7. There is also: http://www.rubberstampman.com/wg/wg.htm as an option
  8. In some way, Ranger Roger and KGB are talking about different levels of the issue. KGB says "Hey - it's our park and we shouldn't have to get a permit" whereas I hear Ranger Roger saying "opinions aside, if we are not careful, we WILL need a permit or worse, we will just get told 'no' more and more often." Conceptually, it is our park. In reality, it is the ranger's park. I think rangers, as a group, are pretty good people who are trying to make a really diverse group of users happy. Like hunters and mountain bikers, we stand the risk of having the vast majority suffer because of a couple of jerks. But I really appreciate reminders like this one from RR. Another aspect of good cache placement should be 'Can people get to your cache without causing damage that will make Geocaching look bad'.
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