This Presidents' Day, your mission is

[History-Cacher]

We're getting ready for the 4th Annual Presidents Day Geocaching Tour.

 

Join us for some historical and geocaching fun.

 

Even if you are not in our area, log a historical geocache on Presidents Day and report it at out

site at

http://www.historycaching.us

 

We had a great turnout yesterday. I look forward to reports from other around the country on their Presidents Day geocaching

activities.

 

See group picture at the link.

 

3rd Annual President Day Geocaching Tour

 

My link

3rd Annual Presidents Day Geocaching Tour

 

Looks like you had a slash too many in your link -- fixed it in the quote. For anyone else who has web filters like ours that block goo.gl, here's the direct link to the event. Hope it goes well.

 

We intend to find some caches around Harry Truman's favorite vacation spots in Key West. And if all goes well with our meeting, we will have some earthcaches coming out that are presidentally themed. Well, sort of.

 

(I was tempted to rename the link to the "3rd Annual Washington's Birthday Geocaching Tour, for the record. But I think we've had that conversation before, so there's no need to have it again.)

 

Great, thanks for the tip. So Google shortener is not the preferred one. Too bad as it as great analytics.

 

Will you be setting up your Presidents Day Geocaching Tour as an event?

 

Here is the page I set up from my blog which makes a better landing page in my opinion.3rd Annual Presidents Day Geocaching Tour

 

Wow did you see the replies from a couple years ago on Presidential themed geocaches, it would be great if we could get an update on them.

 

-RKO

[+Ambrosia]

Not many presidential things here in Washington State. Closest cache is one that I've already found, called "George, Washington". And that cache is not about the president, it's about the town.

[+cerberus1]

Noticed that your tour event is a geocaching.com event.

The historycaching.us site also includes "reporting" caches from opencaching and terracaching.

- Guess I'm kinda surprised geocaching.com's okay with it's link here.

[+NYPaddleCacher]

Not many presidential things here in Washington State. Closest cache is one that I've already found, called "George, Washington". And that cache is not about the president, it's about the town.

 

Not many presidential things in February if you don't live in the U.S. either.

[History-Cacher]

Here's the code to find it in geocaching.

 

GC4WQBR

 

I haven't tried Googling the code but it will be interesting to see if their

search engine will find it. Maybe try the other search engines too. The code

look unique enough. Might even find this post from a keyword search.

 

-RKO

[History-Cacher]

Here's a picture of our event.

 

[History-Cacher]

We're expanding this event virtually to other locations too.

 

Leave me a message if you want to be part of the and do the event from your own area.

 

-RKO

[+redwoodkestrel]

We had a full presidents series nearby here in the Bay Area - one for every president, including Obama. Most are still around though I think few have been archived.

 

We also have a presidents streets series in SF, but it's not all of them - just those we have streets named after.

[+The_Incredibles_]

I live in Canada, but would like to participate also. I would like to hide a cache in honor of George W. Bush. He provided us with many hours of entertainment.

Edited February 12, 2014 by The_Incredibles_

[+FMT15]

Here's a puzzle from Livermore CA that suits Presidents day well!

 

http://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC1Z1YV_americas-greatest-presidents

[+briansnat]

We're expanding this event virtually to other locations too.

 

Leave me a message if you want to be part of the and do the event from your own area.

 

-RKO

What does that mean? I can log an event without actually going to the event?

[+wmpastor]

if decided to take it. IS;

 

To honor a past President by finding or planting a Presidential themed geocache in your area.

 

 

Are you implying that we not honor a current President?

 

A current President is fine too! I have a historical perspective so that is why I said past. Plus as popular as he is I thought there might be too many and that would cut into people planting geocaches for past Presidents.

 

So should I put you down as planting one for the current President? That's a good thing you are doing, I salute

your for it.

 

-RKO

 

PS. This event will be called

 

The Presidents Day Geocache Tour

 

I'm not debating politics here, but I do need to correct the statement that Obama is popular. The professional surveys say otherwise.

 

But one thing that has changed little is President Obama's job approval rating, which tumbled over the last year to the anemic 40% range and remains stuck near the low point of his administration.

 

[+wmpastor]

I live in Canada, but would like to participate also. I would like to hide a cache in honor of George W. Bush. He provided us with many hours of entertainment.

Hopefully Bush has finally mastered reciting that "fool me once" quote. He really flubbed it on camera.

 

—Poplar Bluff, Mo., Sept. 6, 2004 (Watch video clip; listen to audio clip)4) "They misunderestimated me." —Bentonville, Ark., Nov. 6, 20003) "Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?" —Florence, S.C., Jan. 11, 20002) "Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." —Washington, D.C., Aug. 5, 2004 (Watch video clip; listen to audio clip)1) "There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again." —Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002 (Watch video clip; listen to audio clip)

Edited February 13, 2014 by wmpastor

[+BBWolf+3Pigs]

Three former presidents served in Rhode Island during WWII:

 

G. H. W. Bush - Charlestown NAAS

R. M . Nixon - Quonset Point NAS

J. F. Kennedy - Motor Torpedo Boat Training Center, Melville

 

In a tip of the hat to JFK, I hid this puzzle cache a while back - "Green Dragons"

[+Crow T Robot]

We're expanding this event virtually to other locations too.

 

Leave me a message if you want to be part of the and do the event from your own area.

 

-RKO

 

Cachers that do not actually attend the event should not take this as an invitation for virtual attendance. That would not bring about positive consequences.

[+The_Incredibles_]

I live in Canada, but would like to participate also. I would like to hide a cache in honor of George W. Bush. He provided us with many hours of entertainment.

Hopefully Bush has finally mastered reciting that "fool me once" quote. He really flubbed it on camera.

 

Check out youtube. Lots of good material there.

[+BBWolf+3Pigs]

We're expanding this event virtually to other locations too.

 

Leave me a message if you want to be part of the and do the event from your own area.

 

-RKO

 

Cachers that do not actually attend the event should not take this as an invitation for virtual attendance. That would not bring about positive consequences.

 

Is that an official GS stance about logging of events if they are attended virtually (such as via Skype or other means)?

[+briansnat]

We're expanding this event virtually to other locations too.

 

Leave me a message if you want to be part of the and do the event from your own area.

 

-RKO

 

Cachers that do not actually attend the event should not take this as an invitation for virtual attendance. That would not bring about positive consequences.

 

Is that an official GS stance about logging of events if they are attended virtually (such as via Skype or other means)?

 

From the guidelines

 

Events should take place at the posted coordinates and must include both a start time and end time

 

If you aren't at the posted coordinates then I don't see how you can be a participant. Geocaching is pretty simple. You obtain coordinates and go to that location to make the find (or as in the case of events, attend). I recall Miss Jenn saying some time ago that going to the location was a basic assumption of the sport and didn't need to be in the guidelines (I can't find a link to her direct quote, but I'm sure someone here can).

 

If you aren't at the location of the event I think that makes it a form of "locationless cache" and those haven't been allowed for years. So as a reviewer I would never publish an event that welcomes or encourages remote logging.

 

As far as policing who can actually log an event (and the number of times they do so) Groundspeak has rarely gotten involved. So if you want Groundspeak's official stance look to the guideline quoted above and interpret it as you will.

Edited February 16, 2014 by briansnat

[+BBWolf+3Pigs]

We're expanding this event virtually to other locations too.

 

Leave me a message if you want to be part of the and do the event from your own area.

 

-RKO

 

Cachers that do not actually attend the event should not take this as an invitation for virtual attendance. That would not bring about positive consequences.

 

Is that an official GS stance about logging of events if they are attended virtually (such as via Skype or other means)?

 

From the guidelines

 

Events should take place at the posted coordinates and must include both a start time and end time

 

If you aren't at the posted coordinates then I don't see how you can be a participant. Geocaching is pretty simple. You obtain coordinates and go to that location to make the find (or as in the case of events, attend). I recall Miss Jenn saying some time ago that going to the location was a basic assumption of the sport and didn't need to be in the guidelines (I can't find a link to her direct quote, but I'm sure someone here can).

 

If you aren't at the location of the event I think that makes it a form of "locationless cache" and those haven't been allowed for years. So as a reviewer I would never publish an event that welcomes or encourages remote logging.

 

As far as policing who can actually log an event (and the number of times they do so) Groundspeak has rarely gotten involved. So if you want Groundspeak's official stance look to the guideline quoted above and interpret it as you will.

 

I agree with what you're saying. But if GS rarely gets involved, why the "That would not bring about positive consequences" from CTR?

[History-Cacher]

Today's the day (and tomorrow too) what historical and Presidential themed geocaches can you log today?

 

But don't log your finds and locations on our event at the geocaching website.( I never meant that).

 

You are welcome to post your finds in a comment at my blog at4th Annual Presidents Day Geocaching Tour

 

Happy Caching!

 

-RKO