+Us 4 and Jess Posted August 19, 2011 Share Posted August 19, 2011 I have been told that tomorrow (Saturday 20th August) is International Geocaching Day and that anyone who logs a cache or event tomorrow will receive a special badge on their profile but I cannot find information about this If anyone could let me have any info that I could post onto my event page for tomorrow I would be grateful Mandy Quote Link to comment
+abanazar Posted August 19, 2011 Share Posted August 19, 2011 The weekly Groundspeak email contained the following, but that's all I know. International Geocaching Day This Saturday, August 20th is the first International Geocaching Day! You can celebrate with fellow geocachers at an event near you or simply mark the day by finding a geocache. Anyone who finds a cache or logs an "attended" for an event will receive the International Geocaching Day souvenir. If you are in the Seattle area, we hope you will be celebrating International Geocaching Day with us at the annual Geocaching Block Party. Quote Link to comment
+Us 4 and Jess Posted August 19, 2011 Author Share Posted August 19, 2011 The weekly Groundspeak email contained the following, but that's all I know. International Geocaching Day This Saturday, August 20th is the first International Geocaching Day! You can celebrate with fellow geocachers at an event near you or simply mark the day by finding a geocache. Anyone who finds a cache or logs an "attended" for an event will receive the International Geocaching Day souvenir. If you are in the Seattle area, we hope you will be celebrating International Geocaching Day with us at the annual Geocaching Block Party. I just knew it would be on the Groundspeak email whe I deleted it just before I posted here Ta muchly for the info, I will copy and paste that onto my evnt page M [] Quote Link to comment
+keehotee Posted August 19, 2011 Share Posted August 19, 2011 The weekly Groundspeak email contained the following, but that's all I know. International Geocaching Day This Saturday, August 20th is the first International Geocaching Day! You can celebrate with fellow geocachers at an event near you or simply mark the day by finding a geocache. Anyone who finds a cache or logs an "attended" for an event will receive the International Geocaching Day souvenir. If you are in the Seattle area, we hope you will be celebrating International Geocaching Day with us at the annual Geocaching Block Party. I just knew it would be on the Groundspeak email whe I deleted it just before I posted here Ta muchly for the info, I will copy and paste that onto my evnt page M [] They could make it a proper "International" day by giving a souvenir to everybody that armchair logs a challenge in another country Quote Link to comment
Neath Worthies Posted August 19, 2011 Share Posted August 19, 2011 This Saturday, August 20th is the first International Geocaching Day! You can celebrate with fellow geocachers at an event near you or simply mark the day by finding a geocache. Anyone who finds a cache or logs an "attended" for an event will receive the International Geocaching Day souvenir. Excellent! As it's being promoted as a worldwide all encompassing "special" day presumably ALL international caches are included. Those would surely include all the various national Opencaching sites, Terracaches, Navicaches, personal caching listing sites, places such as www.geocaching-france.com, http://www.geocaching.de/, http://geocaching.com.au/ etc. Quote Link to comment
+Fianccetto Posted August 19, 2011 Share Posted August 19, 2011 All the best for your event, Us 4 and Jess! :-) Quote Link to comment
+Max and 99 Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 They could make it a proper "International" day by giving a souvenir to everybody that armchair logs a challenge in another country Ditto that! Quote Link to comment
+TigerBrewUK Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 Well I've found 3 caches today and no souvenir. Can someone advise what I'm doing wrong. Kind Regards Chris. Quote Link to comment
+The Blorenges Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 Well I've found 3 caches today and no souvenir. Can someone advise what I'm doing wrong. Kind Regards Chris. Hello, welcome I'm sure you haven't done anything wrong. Souvenirs are sometimes a bit sluggish in appearing on profiles... It may be that they won't turn on the special "Award A Souvenir Switch" until later in the day. If we don't see them appear by Monday then we'll start a petition. MrsB Quote Link to comment
+Swansea Jack Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 Same here just did a few with my rugrat and no award she is miffed, rightly so as we had to cut the day short as she fell in nettles and is now suffering Quote Link to comment
+TigerBrewUK Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 Well this is quality still no souvenir. I've even tried deleting a post and reposting and still no joy Think someone at Groundspeak is going to have to advise on this. Has anyone actually got a souvenir for this yet? Kind Regards Chris Quote Link to comment
+MBFace Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 Well this is quality still no souvenir. I've even tried deleting a post and reposting and still no joy Think someone at Groundspeak is going to have to advise on this. Has anyone actually got a souvenir for this yet? Kind Regards Chris Be patient - I've read elsewhere that another special souvenir took about a week to appear (and I'm sure that TPTB have more pressing challenges issues to deal with at present.). Quote Link to comment
+The Blorenges Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 Well this is quality still no souvenir. I've even tried deleting a post and reposting and still no joy Think someone at Groundspeak is going to have to advise on this. Has anyone actually got a souvenir for this yet? Kind Regards Chris Be patient - I've read elsewhere that another special souvenir took about a week to appear (and I'm sure that TPTB have more pressing challenges issues to deal with at present.). It's Saturday lunchtime for them - They'll all be busy with the Groundspeak Block Party preparations... sauté frogs legs, hamster stew anyone? I'm not expecting the souvenir to arrive before Monday at the earliest. MrsB Quote Link to comment
+TigerBrewUK Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 I know I'm been impatient, just give me my god damm souvenir lol Quote Link to comment
+MBFace Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 (edited) It's Saturday lunchtime for them - They'll all be busy with the Groundspeak Block Party preparations... sauté frogs legs, hamster stew anyone? The way the site is 'running' at the moment I reckon that they have stewed ALL the hamsters Edit: it's speeded up now - was it something I said? Edited August 20, 2011 by MBFace Quote Link to comment
+t.a.folk Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 We would be happy to see the souveir for finding caches today on our profile because we did found caches today. But,we've just looked at the souvenir section of our profile and we are puzzled to see the 10/10/10 souvenir has appeared on it. We did not find a cache on 10/10/10 so we have no idea why it is there. Quote Link to comment
+MBFace Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 We would be happy to see the souveir for finding caches today on our profile because we did found caches today. But,we've just looked at the souvenir section of our profile and we are puzzled to see the 10/10/10 souvenir has appeared on it. We did not find a cache on 10/10/10 so we have no idea why it is there. The souvenir was for the 10 years of Geocaching events held on 01 May 2010. Quote Link to comment
+drdick&vick Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 have to correct you on this as this the blurb that you get when you click on the Souvenir itself 10/10/10 is the date of Groundspeak’s global geocaching challenge. The date is significant because it represents 10 years of geocaching and 10 years of Groundspeak in 2010. Quote Link to comment
+MBFace Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 have to correct you on this as this the blurb that you get when you click on the Souvenir itself 10/10/10 is the date of Groundspeak’s global geocaching challenge. The date is significant because it represents 10 years of geocaching and 10 years of Groundspeak in 2010. I stand corrected - got confused with the special icon for the 10 years caches . It's easy enough to get a souvenir removed, just contact support. We did that with one we got from logging the travelling German geocache/van. Quote Link to comment
+drdick&vick Posted August 21, 2011 Share Posted August 21, 2011 Still no sign of my souvenir, has anybody got one yet? Quote Link to comment
geomomjz Posted August 21, 2011 Share Posted August 21, 2011 Well this is quality still no souvenir. I've even tried deleting a post and reposting and still no joy Think someone at Groundspeak is going to have to advise on this. Has anyone actually got a souvenir for this yet? Kind Regards Chris Be patient - I've read elsewhere that another special souvenir took about a week to appear (and I'm sure that TPTB have more pressing challenges issues to deal with at present.). It's Saturday lunchtime for them - They'll all be busy with the Groundspeak Block Party preparations... sauté frogs legs, hamster stew anyone? I'm not expecting the souvenir to arrive before Monday at the earliest. MrsB Quote Link to comment
+t.a.folk Posted August 21, 2011 Share Posted August 21, 2011 It's easy enough to get a souvenir removed, just contact support. We did that with one we got from logging the travelling German geocache/van. Thanks for that ,email now sent. Quote Link to comment
+Morris-clan Posted August 22, 2011 Share Posted August 22, 2011 Hi We did 3 caches in France on sat 20th and logged them the same day even completed a challenge, still waiting for souvenir so no need to panic yet. Quote Link to comment
+Mark+Karen Posted August 22, 2011 Share Posted August 22, 2011 I have been told that tomorrow (Saturday 20th August) is International Geocaching Day and that anyone who logs a cache or event tomorrow will receive a special badge on their profile but I cannot find information about this If anyone could let me have any info that I could post onto my event page for tomorrow I would be grateful Mandy Typical, I found caches on Friday and I found caches on Sunday, but not Saturday! . PS. My Sunday caches were ones you put out in Herrington Park, good to see some new ones there as we'd already done all the existing ones Quote Link to comment
+TigerBrewUK Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 Has anybody got their souvenir yet? Quote Link to comment
+mcwomble Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 I think I'd prefer a correctly functioning site to an "I did something" sticker. Quote Link to comment
+eusty Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 Has anybody got their souvenir yet? Nope, but I think they have been delayed for a bit due to the site upgrade screwup Quote Link to comment
+NickandAliandEliza Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 Teddies back in the prams please. The souvenir has arrived. Quote Link to comment
+The Brat Pack Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 Mine in there too! Better late than never particularly as I made a trip out specially. Quote Link to comment
+Delta68 Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 Mine in there too! Better late than never particularly as I made a trip out specially. It's not late. This type of souvenir is applied by TPTB running a script which applies souvenirs to qualifying cachers. The delay was just waiting for everyone to log their finds... Mark Quote Link to comment
+lifechooser Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 I didn't get one for my DNF Quote Link to comment
+Louis Lovers Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 I've got the right hump about this. I don't have a pretty souveneir in my profile yet but I didn't know about the special day. Dammit. Tried caching on the 20th too, but the new site upgrades have been causing me all sorts of problems. Ah well. Someone hurry up and sort out a UK Geocaching Day please. Quote Link to comment
+Happy Humphrey Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 I'm up to 14 souvenirs now. I think that the IGD souvenir will be available next 20th August as well, so no need to lose hope if you don't have it. Quote Link to comment
+Delta68 Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 (edited) I think that the IGD souvenir will be available next 20th August as well, so no need to lose hope if you don't have it. That won't be the 2011 one though. M Edited August 26, 2011 by Delta68 Quote Link to comment
+Louis Lovers Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 I quite like all the collectable souveneirs, GC icons etc. No need to bin them! If it's not your bag then don't bother. Crikey - geocaching is a pointless waste of time (most of the time), but it's still thoroughly good fun... Quote Link to comment
+Happy Humphrey Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 I quite like all the collectable souveneirs, GC icons etc. No need to bin them! If it's not your bag then don't bother. Crikey - geocaching is a pointless waste of time (most of the time), but it's still thoroughly good fun... Absolutely. I don't understand why anyone should get hot under the collar about icon / souvenir collecting. It's so easy to just ignore if you're not into that game, and clearly a number of people do like these things. Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 International Geocaching Day Souvenir info for those who're interested. Speaking to Groundspeak, we should have a Geolympix Souvenir for the event next year. Quote Link to comment
+Palujia Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 Forgot to check - so have just looked up me profile - Har Har It's arrived in all its pictorial glory !!- jolly good Quote Link to comment
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