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How did this turn into a Wisconsin/cheese thread? :D:cry:

 

Might have something to do with the cheesy nature of many of the posters!! :)

 

Myself included!

 

It wouldn't hurt so much if it weren't so danged true!!

 

So..... we've made a couple of changes on the Spring Fling event page. The time frames for games and announcments have changed a little.

 

We've got a lot going on and the fabulous event crew have it handled. There are lots of kids activities this time and the GPSr game is going to be more challenging than ever.

 

It's looking like we'll have a huge turn out and we're keeping our fingers crossed that everyone can show up.

 

"It's like an elephant on skates. You can't stop it and you can't get out of it's way."

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How did this turn into a Wisconsin/cheese thread? :D:cry:

 

Don't blame me, I just remarked I might need back-up. :)

 

If I knew there were so many people into Wisconsin cheese, I'd have had my father-in-law ship me some fresh stuff for the Fling right from the factory.

Next time.

 

You got 2 weeks.......

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How did this turn into a Wisconsin/cheese thread? <_<:P

 

Don't blame me, I just remarked I might need back-up. :P

 

If I knew there were so many people into Wisconsin cheese, I'd have had my father-in-law ship me some fresh stuff for the Fling right from the factory.

Next time.

 

You got 2 weeks.......

 

You know, that's what my wife said. With the semester coming to a close, time just seems compressed to me.

I'll give pa-in-law a call tonight and send him on a mission.

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How did this turn into a Wisconsin/cheese thread? B):P

 

Don't blame me, I just remarked I might need back-up. :)

 

If I knew there were so many people into Wisconsin cheese, I'd have had my father-in-law ship me some fresh stuff for the Fling right from the factory.

Next time.

 

You got 2 weeks.......

 

You know, that's what my wife said. With the semester coming to a close, time just seems compressed to me.

I'll give pa-in-law a call tonight and send him on a mission.

 

<_<:P:P

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OK Kiddies ! Here is what the Kids Center Is Looking Like:

Attached are a few photos of the board that the kids will be looking for when they arrive at the Watermans Club. Obviously a cant miss! <_< It is Bright! :mad: This as well as the kids table, is the central nervous system of the kids games. It is, as of right now, going to be located directly behind the table for the kids to sign up at for the GPS Toss, The Scavenger Hunt, as well as a M&M guess. The table located in front of this board is where the kids will want to sign up for any of the games. As mentioned on the Fling Listing, the times for the GPS Toss are as follows: 11:30, 12:30, and 1:30. The 1:30 toss will be on an as needed basis. The Scavenger Hunt will run from the begining of the Fling at 11:00 am until the end. No start times for the Hunt, just walk up to the table whenever the child wants, get issued a card (pictured below) and go find the containers. Turn them in upon completion and recieve a ribbon (also pictured below).

Also included is a seperate board that is for the "Toss Top Three". The top three finishers will be listed here once they are recognized at the prize awarding. It will be a place for the top three finishers to show off their name and gloat if they wish :mad:

The picture on the right shows the three sections of the Kids Center Board. The left being a list that the kids can refer to, to see how they did in comparison to others that participated in the GPS Toss. The right being a running list of who has completed the Scavenger Hunt. The middle section will be where, after the winner is announced, the kids can see how their guess measured up against the other kids in the M&M guess contest.

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The Scavenger Hunt sheet is pictured below. The sheet has a column on the left of stickers that the kid is to locate, and then place it in the blank column on the right. Once all stickers have been located and placed on the sheet, they will then turn the sheet into the Kids Center table and will be given a " I Did It!" Ribbon to wear, showing they found all 10 containers.

 

The Scavenger Hunt Sheet that the kids will have to complete, as well as The Ribbon:

 

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Two weeks from today is the big day. The GPS Accuracy Game Team

assisted Chuck our surveyor and a surveyor friend Ron in setting GZs at the Waterman Club field. Actually we just said where we wanted them and they are doing all the work. This may be your only chance to get

this accurate coordinates in a GPS Accuracy Game. It will be interesting to how see how well the new top consumer level GPSs do. CU in a couple of weeks. Dick, W7WT

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Roy are you going to be at the Spring Fling? It would be an honor to have you.

I would finally meet Roy from Illinois. Hope you can make it.

 

Dick, W7WT

 

Well if there are going to be two Illinois transplants there, I better try to get my wife to come along so I'm not the only cheesehead.

 

Roy is from Illinois too? I'm a East Alton/Woodriver transplant myself. If the St. Helens hike doesn't come off I hope to be there.

 

Well I hope you make it. It was nice meeting you at the last Spring Fling. BTW is that

Woo Driver, Illinois or Wood River. Illinois. I never knew for sure. CU on the 22nd. Dick, W7WT

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In conversation last night with my lovely bride, she shocked me by saying that the Fling sounds like a gas and she'd love to come with me. This is the first time she's ever mentioned caching in the same breath with "fun". I'm not sure what's going on, but am not going to look this gift in the mouth. I guess add two more to the Pasha party, as our youngest will be coming along as well.

 

I'm still sorta woozy from the surprise. Hopefully a malt beverage will help me recover.

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Glad to hear that Mrs. Pasha will be there!!! Look forward to meeting her. I am sure after the Fling that she will constantly be having those two words in the same sentence :D She will have a great time I am sure, and little Pasha will surely have a great time as well.

I could use one of those malt beverages that you speak of, right about now and look forward to the night we guys can partake of one <_<

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I just noticed that Tina of the Snow Dogs has indicated she will be back. She is the all time Champion and the only cacher to be closer than one foot from GZ at any of The GPS Accuracy Games. She was 11 and 1/4 inches at last year's Spring Fling. Wonder if any one can beat her record. It could be you. Dick, W7WT

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I give up before I even start! ;)

 

I'll just be happy to be there. ;):D

 

And we will be happy to see you. Don't tell anyone, but being lucky

is the major factor in getting a close distance to GZ.

 

I wasnt so lucky last year but it was fun!

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I give up before I even start! ;)

 

I'll just be happy to be there. :D:huh:

 

And we will be happy to see you. Don't tell anyone, but being lucky

is the major factor in getting a close distance to GZ.

 

Where was Luck at the last contests? It sure wasnt with me! ;):huh:

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By saying so, I will certainly be jinxed, but it could be me. I got this BT338 today and am sitting here in my basement (where my 60C cannot lock a single satellite) with the little gadget locked onto 9 sats with a ~13ft horizontal EPE. I'm viewing my position on my Treo with Mapopolis and experimenting with navigation via Cachemate and a couple other things. It's almost shocking how well it sees those birds and hangs onto them.

 

Not that it'll help when the time comes.

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By saying so, I will certainly be jinxed, but it could be me. I got this BT338 today and am sitting here in my basement (where my 60C cannot lock a single satellite) with the little gadget locked onto 9 sats with a ~13ft horizontal EPE. I'm viewing my position on my Treo with Mapopolis and experimenting with navigation via Cachemate and a couple other things. It's almost shocking how well it sees those birds and hangs onto them.

 

Not that it'll help when the time comes.

That sounds like a doozy of a gadget! I meant to ask you if you recieved that,while on the phone earlier. Sounds like a good investment. Cant wait (as I am sure you are) to see it in action.

I think Dick releases certain sattelite eating ghosts at the accuracy contests ;) , so maybe your new gadget will avert them ;) , and help us all!

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Won't be long before you find out. Chuck has sent the coordinates for all the sites. Looks like they are in degrees, minutes & seconds. Guess I had better convert them. That would be a dirty trick to post them that way. I will convert them with an online converter and not trust my calculations. They go out so far, they must be accurate down to a

few mm. Dick, W7WT

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Thanks Tim, I will do that to confirm what I got when I used Fuzzy Magic's

conversion in the FAQ section. They seem to be correct and also rounded it off for use in our GPSs.

 

I also confirmed the coordinates with JeEeP.com which is easier to use.

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Well the pressure's on, so I trotted out to REI last night and done bought me one of those fancy new Garmin 60CSx units so's I can enter this contest. I'd been limping along for the past year on a broken Garmin V with no antenna (for use in the car) and a Magellan SporTrak Color (never did figure out how to use it right).

 

That's right, we gots us an REI in Pittsburgh now. Lotsa Starbucks too. To complete the copycat process, they should tear down the baseball stadium and build a scale model of Mt. Rainier out of the rubble. It's not like there's a major league team that needs to use it.

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That's right, we gots us an REI in Pittsburgh now. Lotsa Starbucks too. To complete the copycat process, they should tear down the baseball stadium and build a scale model of Mt. Rainier out of the rubble. It's not like there's a major league team that needs to use it.

 

Seattle and Pittsburgh are pretty much the same in that respect!!!!!

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OK then. PNC Park can stay, along with its minor league team, to keep the parallel to Safeco field and its occupants. And, of course, it's no coincidence that the best two teams in football are from the "parallel cities."

 

We will need to build Mt. Rainier out of the torn-down steel mills and piles of slag. Heck, for that we don't need to stop with a scale model.

 

Returning on topic... I will be flying to Seattle exactly one week from right now! I will be staying downtown. What is the driving time in Saturday traffic from downtown to the Spring Fling, assuming that (1) I don't attend the CITO Event first, and (2) I don't stop to find any caches on the way (yeah right)?

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The commute from Seattle to Port Orchard, is just shy of 60 miles, and on a Saturday, I would alot about an hour or so. I make the commute quite a bit, and in weekmorning traffic, i can sometimes make it in an hour and 15 minutes up towards an Hour and a half.. Tack onto that time I gave you, another 10 minutes or so, to get off of Highway 16 here in Port Orchard, and through town to the Watermans club.

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Criminal Apr 3 2006, 02:09 PM Post #79

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It looks like I will be unable to attend, and will be unavailable until after 6pm. If there’s any interest in meeting for a beer in Tacoma after the Fling, let me know and I’ll organize an Unofficial Post-Fling Beer Consumption Splinter Group Event (UPFBCSGE).

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Sometimes geocaching is like getting a double nipple titty twister

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I might be persuaded to make that event. :lol:

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The commute from Seattle to Port Orchard, is just shy of 60 miles, and on a Saturday, I would alot about an hour or so. I make the commute quite a bit, and in weekmorning traffic, i can sometimes make it in an hour and 15 minutes up towards an Hour and a half.. Tack onto that time I gave you, another 10 minutes or so, to get off of Highway 16 here in Port Orchard, and through town to the Watermans club.

Don't you have to go on the ferry?

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The commute from Seattle to Port Orchard, is just shy of 60 miles, and on a Saturday, I would alot about an hour or so. I make the commute quite a bit, and in weekmorning traffic, i can sometimes make it in an hour and 15 minutes up towards an Hour and a half.. Tack onto that time I gave you, another 10 minutes or so, to get off of Highway 16 here in Port Orchard, and through town to the Watermans club.

Don't you have to go on the ferry?

 

Nope, you can get over here via the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. Or you could take the Seattle-Bremerton ferry or the Faunleroy/Southworth Ferry.

On a weekday, I'd ferry, but on Saturday, though, the bridge is usually clear enough where we do that.

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The commute from Seattle to Port Orchard, is just shy of 60 miles, and on a Saturday, I would alot about an hour or so. I make the commute quite a bit, and in weekmorning traffic, i can sometimes make it in an hour and 15 minutes up towards an Hour and a half.. Tack onto that time I gave you, another 10 minutes or so, to get off of Highway 16 here in Port Orchard, and through town to the Watermans club.

Don't you have to go on the ferry?

No, you can drive around through Tacoma. But since Lep is from out of town, I'd definitely suggest the ferry trip.

 

Having said that, the time is roughly the same. The ferry takes almost an hour as well, but you aren't driving! Once you get to the other side, it's a short 15-20 minute drive to the Event place.

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I mentioned the driving option, with the anticipation that caching along the way to the Fling would probably happen. But you are correct, being out of town, the ferry would be something great for them. There is even Bull Mooses Ferry Cache II-Bremerton-Seattle (GCVD0) that they could do on the way back to Seattle.

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No, you can drive around through Tacoma. But since Lep is from out of town, I'd definitely suggest the ferry trip.

 

Having said that, the time is roughly the same. The ferry takes almost an hour as well, but you aren't driving! Once you get to the other side, it's a short 15-20 minute drive to the Event place.

 

Is that suggestion because of the experince of the ferry ride or because the drive is that difficult?

I was planning to just use MapSend Direct Route to get me there.

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On a Saturday, the drive wouldnt be bad at all,pending any roadwork. When my family comes from out of state to vist, they enjoy the experience of the ferry ride, especially if it is nice wether. You get a good shot at both the Cascade (to the East) and the Olympic (to the west) mountain ranges. IMHO

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No, you can drive around through Tacoma. But since Lep is from out of town, I'd definitely suggest the ferry trip.

 

Having said that, the time is roughly the same. The ferry takes almost an hour as well, but you aren't driving! Once you get to the other side, it's a short 15-20 minute drive to the Event place.

 

Is that suggestion because of the experince of the ferry ride or because the drive is that difficult?

I was planning to just use MapSend Direct Route to get me there.

The experience!

 

And as Hawk said, the views on a nice day are fantastic. He only mentions the ranges, but there is also the view of Rainier to the south and if it's a very clear day, Baker to the north may be visible.

 

The drive around is not hard at all (although the road south between Southcenter and Tacoma will jar your fillings lose (at least it feels like that in my Explorer)... :lol:

 

It just depends on what you want to do and see.

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It looks like I will be unable to attend, and will be unavailable until after 6pm. If there’s any interest in meeting for a beer in Tacoma after the Fling, let me know and I’ll organize an Unofficial Post-Fling Beer Consumption Splinter Group Event (UPFBCSGE).

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Today's Cacher Magazine

Go as much with the river as not...

 

Sometimes geocaching is like getting a double nipple titty twister

It can hurt like hell and you’re still having a dadgum good time

Criminal

 

I might be persuaded to make that event. :lol:

 

You were automatically obligated… B)

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Criminal - beer = good. I could be persuaded to join y'all in a cold beer-type beverage :ph34r:

 

But that reads:

 

Criminal - (minus) beer =(equals) good.

 

In my experience

 

Criminal +(PLUS) beer = Better

May I add, with no disrespect to Criminal,

Most anything+beer=Better, that is all dependant on the beer though!

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Here is an Aerial Layout of the Fling Site (Watermans Club), general layout of contest sites as well as the two parking options. I hope this satisfies anyones curiosity ;) Thanks Pasha for the assistance with the photo.

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Here is an Aerial Layout of the Fling Site (Watermans Club), general layout of contest sites as well as the two parking options. I hope this satisfies anyones curiosity :P Thanks Pasha for the assistance with the photo.

Nice pic Hawk. So - are the squares accurately placed?

 

It's very tempting to place my flag based on the pic instead of my GPS.

 

After all - if the Bat and I could get FTF on Projection by using Spoiler picture #2 and skipping WP#1 & 2 - I should be able to find GZ with a pic - right? ;)

 

Maybe we need to start a new category. :P

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Here is an Aerial Layout of the Fling Site (Watermans Club), general layout of contest sites as well as the two parking options. I hope this satisfies anyones curiosity :P Thanks Pasha for the assistance with the photo.

Nice pic Hawk. So - are the squares accurately placed?

 

It's very tempting to place my flag based on the pic instead of my GPS.

 

After all - if the Bat and I could get FTF on Projection by using Spoiler picture #2 and skipping WP#1 & 2 - I should be able to find GZ with a pic - right? ;)

 

Maybe we need to start a new category. :P

 

Of course the squares are accurately placed. They are not at ground zero but you can see it from there.

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Here is an Aerial Layout of the Fling Site (Watermans Club), general layout of contest sites as well as the two parking options. I hope this satisfies anyones curiosity :D Thanks Pasha for the assistance with the photo.

Nice pic Hawk. So - are the squares accurately placed?

 

It's very tempting to place my flag based on the pic instead of my GPS.

 

After all - if the Bat and I could get FTF on Projection by using Spoiler picture #2 and skipping WP#1 & 2 - I should be able to find GZ with a pic - right? :D

 

Maybe we need to start a new category. :D

Thanks Belleterre! The little squares are as said, a general layout.The whole point of posting this photo was to give everyone a birds eye view of the Fling location and where the accuracy contests will be held, as well as where to park. I suggest you use the photo to find ground zero as a beta test for the rest of us :D

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Just to bring everyone up to date on how the elevation

part of the game will work.

 

To participate in the elevation estimation you must sign up

for the Expert Site. You will be issued a small card with the

same number as your flag. Take this with you.

 

The standard platform will not be near the Expert Site but

will be to the east of the gate and about ten feet away from

the fence. You may have your elevation reading on your

GPS recorded either before or after you plant your flag at

the Expert Site.

 

Give your numbered card to the crew member at the

elevation site and place your GPS either vertical or

Horizontal on the top of the standard platform. We will

only record what your GPS says the elevation is in feet,

or feet plus tenths of a foot, NOT what you think it is. You

can only use a GPS. We will not record altimeters etc.

If your GPS gives elevation in other than feet, you must

be prepared to convert it to feet. We will not have time

to convert for you.

 

Chuck is the only crew member that knows what the

actual elevation is and will give that to me along with the

winner after we close down.

 

The winner will be announced at the end of the awards

program. You must be present to receive the $30 award

or it will go to the runner up.

 

If your GPS has a barometer, be sure you know how to

calibrate it before you arrive. We will not help you.

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