Nova Adoptions

[koz]

just heard from baja clan that joeculuthu moved out of the area w/o placing his caches up for adoption or archiving them...evidently, they're starting to deteriorate...not sure we can adopt w/o his permission but here's a link that might help: http://www.geocaching.com/adopt .... figure if those of us in the nova area all pitch in, we might be able to take these over w/o too much burden on anyone...thanks for your help!...p.s. to forum moderator...please let us know if/how we can be adoptees w/o joecalutha submitting requests

[+NetworkCacher]

I'm game to adopt a few. The new process with the adopt page is pretty smooth.

[+Mopar]

please let us know if/how we can be adoptees w/o joecalutha submitting requests

Just read this post Keystone made yesterday in another thread.

 

Personally, I'm generally dead set against forced adoption of an active cacher's geocache. If he doesn't voluntarily adopt them out, then that's the end of it. (PS: You'll have better luck contacting him if you spell it "JoeCthulhu")

If his caches aren't being maintained, then either be a nice guy and just fix them up, or be less of a nice guy and post a "Should Be Archived" log, and offer to pick up the geotrash.

Edited December 2, 2005 by Mopar

[koz]

OK...HEARD FROM SCott, so if you're willing and able to adopt, please let him know:

 

"Please! I would love it if local cachers adopted my caches. I would

hate to see them all go by the wayside, and appreciate all the

maintenance help to date. In additional to you'all:

 

ArtWeld offered to adopt my Fountainhead Caches.

BeachBuddies and pstar also offered to adopt various caches.

 

As far as I'm concerned, all my non-virtual caches in NoVA are available

for adoption, and would love it if someone out there would manage the

adoption process.

 

I'm glad folks out there still remember me.

 

Scott aka JoeCthulhu"

[koz]

baja clan just sent me list of his caches:

 

List of JoeCthulhu NOVA caches (excludes virtuals and disabled):

GCM357

GCJM3B

GCJM30

GCJM39

GCJM33

GCJM2V

GCJM3F

GCJM2C

GCJM3H

GCJM3N

GCJ823

GCHTV0

GCHTV1

GCHTTW

GCHTTY

GCHTJ1

GCHTJ4

GCGD1X

GCE576

GCE56D

GCE56F

GCE571

GCE56E

GCCA03

GCC9FE

GCCA05

GCAC9B

GCA140

[koz]

little more info from baja clan:

 

When I found out he was moving, I offered to adopt some of his

caches, but I wasn't specific as to which ones. I also made the

offer before he moved/during his move. He seemed interested, but

then I never heard back from him a second time. I think this was

more due to the nature of moving than lack of interest on his part.

He was good about answering questions I had when I first moved here.

 

I will email him again and note that several of his caches have been

in need of maintenance for a while, but they seem to have resolved

themselves for the most part. I will also note that several of us

have been unofficially watching his caches and are willing to

formally adopt them for him if he is interested.

 

Ken, which ones are you interested in? I was thinking that the Burke

Park caches might be nice for Team RJJO to adopt (if they are

interested--I haven't discussed with them), at least the ones on the

west side of the lake closer to parking. They would be easy for them

to maintain even with the little ones in tow. I watch the ones in

Fountainhead and have just added the ones in Leesylvania to my

watchlist. Rufnredy and I plan to do some of the Fountainhead caches

in the next month or two, so I will try to bring repair/replacements

as needed. They really aren't that close to me by the time I drive

all the way around the reservoir, though, so I don't know if I would

be interested in officially adopting them, although I would hate to

see them go away. There is a cacher near me named H2OJunky who has a

kayak and might be interested in adopting the Fountainhead caches

that are near the water.

 

Koz are you interested in adopting any of these caches? I thought

Donbert or TeamWeathergirl might take the ones in Newington and

perhaps FlyingMoose might take the Scotts Run ones and maybe Tysons?

Just some thoughts. If you let me know your thoughts, I can include

them in the email to JoeCthulhu.

 

Koz, did you post this discussion to the NE forums? If not, perhaps

you should wait. I think it is a local matter that we can deal with

on our own. If VA Reviewer sees a potential problem, he might do

something drastic before we have a chance to.

 

Just my 2¢.....

 

Amanda

 

On Dec 1, 2005, at 19:26, K. Moss wrote:

 

> I pulled a list of all of JoeCthulhu's caches in the area. Here

> are the waypoints. There are several near me (in Burke) that I

> wouldn't mind adopting. Is anyone in contact with him, it looks

> like he has visited the cache page recently?

>

> List of JoeCthulhu NOVA caches (excludes virtuals and disabled):

> GCM357 The Tyson's Ghost

> GCJM3B Dessert

> GCJM30 Breakfast

> GCJM39 Dinner

> GCJM33 Lunch

> GCJM2V Tiny Bubbles

> GCJM3F JoeCthulhu's Birthday Micro

> GCJM2C Rock Me Baby

> GCJM3H Candyheads

> GCJM3N JoeCThulhu's 40th Birthday Cache

> GCJ823 Dora the Explorer II (puzzle cache)

> GCHTV0 Spongebob's New Digs

> GCHTV1 Piggyback

> GCHTTW AF&R

> GCHTTY Bookcrossing Bounty 2

> GCHTJ1 Batteries Beneath the Batteries

> GCHTJ4 Lee Legacy

> GCGD1X NOVA WG$ X-CHG

> GCE576 Luck O' the Irish

> GCE56D Welcome to Virginia, Now Go Home!

> GCE56F Gamer's Stash

> GCE571 Spike's New Digs

> GCE56E Mind Your Own Business

> GCCA03 Not So Mellow Yellow

> GCC9FE Farfax County VA Watch Exchange II

> GCCA05 Scotts Run Mystery Cache

> GCAC9B I am the God of Leaky Caches and Soggy Log Books

> GCA140 Spider-Man's Newington Adventure

 

 

 

 

 

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Edited December 2, 2005 by koz

[+JoeCthulhu]

Thank you to everyone. Earlier I offered for adoption all of my physical geocaches in NoVA.

 

I'm sorry this process took so long, I just got done with finals. I was an idiot and took 18 credit hours of upper division business courses at Arizona State, on top of having two kids, and a part time job, so time has been a commodity lately. I'm no spring chicken, so it took it's toll on me.

 

If your ever out in my neck of the woods (Phoenix, AZ), please look me up.