+J Grouchy Posted January 9, 2014 Share Posted January 9, 2014 I was inspired by this cache GC4D9GQ and the teamwork required across long distances. I'd be interested in creating a similar cache, perhaps with someone in another state or country. Anyone up for it? Throw out some ideas! Quote Link to comment
+Yuma4 Posted January 9, 2014 Share Posted January 9, 2014 The Exchange cache sounds like an awsome idea. I would do it if I was in Atlanta. I always think of Exchange programs as international. Maybe within the states we could do Cachepals? Kinda of like penpals? Do the same thing? Quote Link to comment
+NYPaddleCacher Posted January 9, 2014 Share Posted January 9, 2014 The Exchange cache sounds like an awsome idea. I would do it if I was in Atlanta. I always think of Exchange programs as international. Maybe within the states we could do Cachepals? Kinda of like penpals? Do the same thing? An interesting idea. It would be fun to do an exchange cache where the city name is the same (e.g. Rome, Italy and Rome, NY). Quote Link to comment
+BBWolf+3Pigs Posted January 9, 2014 Share Posted January 9, 2014 One between Rhode Island and Hawaii. Quote Link to comment
+BBWolf+3Pigs Posted January 9, 2014 Share Posted January 9, 2014 The Exchange cache sounds like an awsome idea. I would do it if I was in Atlanta. I always think of Exchange programs as international. Maybe within the states we could do Cachepals? Kinda of like penpals? Do the same thing? An interesting idea. It would be fun to do an exchange cache where the city name is the same (e.g. Rome, Italy and Rome, NY). Isle of Rhodes and Rhode Island. Quote Link to comment
+NeverSummer Posted January 9, 2014 Share Posted January 9, 2014 I'm in for Homer, AK. Quote Link to comment
+J Grouchy Posted January 9, 2014 Author Share Posted January 9, 2014 The Exchange cache sounds like an awsome idea. I would do it if I was in Atlanta. I always think of Exchange programs as international. Maybe within the states we could do Cachepals? Kinda of like penpals? Do the same thing? An interesting idea. It would be fun to do an exchange cache where the city name is the same (e.g. Rome, Italy and Rome, NY). Alright...I'd do that. Anyone here from or near... Atlanta, Nova Scotia, Canada? Atlanta, Región Autónoma del Atlántico Sur, Nicaragua? Atlanta, Arkansas? Atlanta, California? Atlanta, Delaware? Atlanta, Idaho? Atlanta, Illinois? Atlanta, Indiana? Atlanta, Kansas? Atlanta, Louisiana? Atlanta, Michigan? Atlanta, Missouri? Atlanta, Nebraska? Atlanta, New York? Atlanta, Texas? Atlanta, Wisconsin? Atlanta Township, Logan County, Illinois? Atlanta Township, Kansas? Atlanta Township, Minnesota? Quote Link to comment
+J Grouchy Posted January 9, 2014 Author Share Posted January 9, 2014 (edited) I'm in for Homer, AK. ...or that! Sufficient distance to make claiming both a real challenge (yet not impossible). Plus, "Homer" has a little connection to Atlanta, I suppose. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Major_League_Baseball_mascots#Homer_.28Atlanta.29 Edited January 9, 2014 by J Grouchy Quote Link to comment
+NeverSummer Posted January 9, 2014 Share Posted January 9, 2014 (edited) The Exchange cache sounds like an awsome idea. I would do it if I was in Atlanta. I always think of Exchange programs as international. Maybe within the states we could do Cachepals? Kinda of like penpals? Do the same thing? An interesting idea. It would be fun to do an exchange cache where the city name is the same (e.g. Rome, Italy and Rome, NY). Alright...I'd do that. Anyone here from or near... Atlanta, Nova Scotia, Canada? Atlanta, Región Autónoma del Atlántico Sur, Nicaragua? Atlanta, Arkansas? Atlanta, California? Atlanta, Delaware? Atlanta, Idaho? Atlanta, Illinois? Atlanta, Indiana? Atlanta, Kansas? Atlanta, Louisiana? Atlanta, Michigan? Atlanta, Missouri? Atlanta, Nebraska? Atlanta, New York? Atlanta, Texas? Atlanta, Wisconsin? Atlanta Township, Logan County, Illinois? Atlanta Township, Kansas? Atlanta Township, Minnesota? There is a Homer, GA... 75 miles from Atlanta Edited January 9, 2014 by NeverSummer Quote Link to comment
+NYPaddleCacher Posted January 9, 2014 Share Posted January 9, 2014 I'm in for Homer, AK. There's a Homer, NY about 22 miles from where I live. It would also be interesting to see "Sister city" caches. Apparently the sister city for the town I live in is Eldoret, Rift Valley Province, Kenya. I had never heard of Eldoret before and wonder what the connection might be, and then noticed the it's the location of Moi University. I did some training (as a trainer) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania a couple of years ago and several of the attendees were from Moi University. I doubt that any of them are geocachers but there *are* a couple of caches there. It looks like the sister cities for Homer, Alaska are Teshio, Japan and Yelizovo, Russia. Quote Link to comment
+J Grouchy Posted January 9, 2014 Author Share Posted January 9, 2014 The Exchange cache sounds like an awsome idea. I would do it if I was in Atlanta. I always think of Exchange programs as international. Maybe within the states we could do Cachepals? Kinda of like penpals? Do the same thing? An interesting idea. It would be fun to do an exchange cache where the city name is the same (e.g. Rome, Italy and Rome, NY). Alright...I'd do that. Anyone here from or near... Atlanta, Nova Scotia, Canada? Atlanta, Región Autónoma del Atlántico Sur, Nicaragua? Atlanta, Arkansas? Atlanta, California? Atlanta, Delaware? Atlanta, Idaho? Atlanta, Illinois? Atlanta, Indiana? Atlanta, Kansas? Atlanta, Louisiana? Atlanta, Michigan? Atlanta, Missouri? Atlanta, Nebraska? Atlanta, New York? Atlanta, Texas? Atlanta, Wisconsin? Atlanta Township, Logan County, Illinois? Atlanta Township, Kansas? Atlanta Township, Minnesota? There is a Homer, GA... 75 miles from Atlanta A good bit outside my normal radius... Quote Link to comment
+niraD Posted January 9, 2014 Share Posted January 9, 2014 Interesting... There is a Mountain View, Georgia not far from Atlanta. I'm in Mountain View, California (although the area is pretty saturated already). Quote Link to comment
+J Grouchy Posted January 9, 2014 Author Share Posted January 9, 2014 Interesting... There is a Mountain View, Georgia not far from Atlanta. I'm in Mountain View, California (although the area is pretty saturated already). Hmmm...looks like it's more of a "neighborhood" and not an actual town. But it's fairly close to me. I actually have a cache on Conley Road further east. Quote Link to comment
+NeverSummer Posted January 9, 2014 Share Posted January 9, 2014 The Exchange cache sounds like an awsome idea. I would do it if I was in Atlanta. I always think of Exchange programs as international. Maybe within the states we could do Cachepals? Kinda of like penpals? Do the same thing? An interesting idea. It would be fun to do an exchange cache where the city name is the same (e.g. Rome, Italy and Rome, NY). Alright...I'd do that. Anyone here from or near... Atlanta, Nova Scotia, Canada? Atlanta, Región Autónoma del Atlántico Sur, Nicaragua? Atlanta, Arkansas? Atlanta, California? Atlanta, Delaware? Atlanta, Idaho? Atlanta, Illinois? Atlanta, Indiana? Atlanta, Kansas? Atlanta, Louisiana? Atlanta, Michigan? Atlanta, Missouri? Atlanta, Nebraska? Atlanta, New York? Atlanta, Texas? Atlanta, Wisconsin? Atlanta Township, Logan County, Illinois? Atlanta Township, Kansas? Atlanta Township, Minnesota? There is a Homer, GA... 75 miles from Atlanta A good bit outside my normal radius... Perhaps a New Year's Resolution to get out more? Plus, if we make sure the cache is a good container, well hidden, and has a plenty big enough write-in-the-rain logbook, we should be ok on maintenance visits on that end. Anyhow, food for thought for anyone who is north of Atlanta and wants to partner Homer, GA>>Homer, AK Quote Link to comment
+baack40 Posted January 9, 2014 Share Posted January 9, 2014 I did this one and it was a lot of work on my part but was fun. GC2RM0P http://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC2RM0P_ohnocarwashingtexasodakio-multi-state-multi?guid=7628a232-0121-4275-bcee-caf501d16b4d# Quote Link to comment
+NeverSummer Posted January 9, 2014 Share Posted January 9, 2014 I did this one and it was a lot of work on my part but was fun. GC2RM0P http://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC2RM0P_ohnocarwashingtexasodakio-multi-state-multi?guid=7628a232-0121-4275-bcee-caf501d16b4d# Woah! Looks like more than a 3*, but that's just my opinion! Quote Link to comment
+GopherGreg Posted January 9, 2014 Share Posted January 9, 2014 I was inspired by this cache GC4D9GQ and the teamwork required across long distances. I'd be interested in creating a similar cache, perhaps with someone in another state or country. Anyone up for it? Throw out some ideas! I live in Ottawa Ontario, Canada, and would love to do something like this with you. Or with anyone for that matter. I saw similar multicaches featured on Groundspeak's geocache of the week. Contact me through the link on my profile or at gophergregftw@gmail.com if you're willing to do this with me. Thanks, Greg Quote Link to comment
+Cankid Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 I might be able to help out here! I am from Australia. Quote Link to comment
+colleda Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 The Exchange cache sounds like an awsome idea. I would do it if I was in Atlanta. I always think of Exchange programs as international. Maybe within the states we could do Cachepals? Kinda of like penpals? Do the same thing? An interesting idea. It would be fun to do an exchange cache where the city name is the same (e.g. Rome, Italy and Rome, NY). Its been done e.g. Newcastle UK/Newcastle Australia. GC4RZ3D/GC4RZ26 Quote Link to comment
+colleda Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 The Exchange cache sounds like an awsome idea. I would do it if I was in Atlanta. I always think of Exchange programs as international. Maybe within the states we could do Cachepals? Kinda of like penpals? Do the same thing? An interesting idea. It would be fun to do an exchange cache where the city name is the same (e.g. Rome, Italy and Rome, NY). Its been done e.g. Newcastle UK/Newcastle Australia. GC4RZ3D/GC4RZ26 Quote Link to comment
+-CJ- Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 The idea is great if both destinations are of similar activity level. Makes little sense to built such a pair in central Moscow and central London: too many people ready to go for the box in the UK capital will be waiting for anyone willing to help them here. There are some smaller places with funny names in the US however that could be considered for such partnership caches. Moscow in Idaho or Kremlin in Oklahoma, for example Quote Link to comment
+NYPaddleCacher Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 The idea is great if both destinations are of similar activity level. Makes little sense to built such a pair in central Moscow and central London: too many people ready to go for the box in the UK capital will be waiting for anyone willing to help them here. There are some smaller places with funny names in the US however that could be considered for such partnership caches. Moscow in Idaho or Kremlin in Oklahoma, for example There is also a St. Petersburg in Florida. Lots of towns in my area are based on Greek names (I live in Ithaca). A few weeks ago I was in Hamburg, Germany and Hamburg, New York in the span of a week. While I think this is an interesting idea, some of the examples I've seen include what appear to be ALRs (you can't visit both locations, you must work as a team) and the idea that working with someone in another cities justifies finds on both caches just doesn't make sense to me. The definition of "a find" is often a grey area open to debate, but I just don't understand how some can convince themselves the "found" a cache when they didn't even visit the location. Quote Link to comment
+Mudfrog Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 The idea is great if both destinations are of similar activity level. Makes little sense to built such a pair in central Moscow and central London: too many people ready to go for the box in the UK capital will be waiting for anyone willing to help them here. There are some smaller places with funny names in the US however that could be considered for such partnership caches. Moscow in Idaho or Kremlin in Oklahoma, for example There is also a St. Petersburg in Florida. Lots of towns in my area are based on Greek names (I live in Ithaca). A few weeks ago I was in Hamburg, Germany and Hamburg, New York in the span of a week. While I think this is an interesting idea, some of the examples I've seen include what appear to be ALRs (you can't visit both locations, you must work as a team) and the idea that working with someone in another cities justifies finds on both caches just doesn't make sense to me. The definition of "a find" is often a grey area open to debate, but I just don't understand how some can convince themselves the "found" a cache when they didn't even visit the location. I saw the thread title and this immediately sprang to mind. Claiming both caches simply because you had help from the person at the other end doesn't make sense, yet i've seen similarly placed caches with that concept in mind. The cache in the original post in this thread doesn't seem to be set up this way. It's different from the ordinary and sounds like fun. Lumberton, Tx? I know there's a Lumberton, NC. (hint hint) Quote Link to comment
+J Grouchy Posted January 10, 2014 Author Share Posted January 10, 2014 The idea is great if both destinations are of similar activity level. Makes little sense to built such a pair in central Moscow and central London: too many people ready to go for the box in the UK capital will be waiting for anyone willing to help them here. There are some smaller places with funny names in the US however that could be considered for such partnership caches. Moscow in Idaho or Kremlin in Oklahoma, for example There is also a St. Petersburg in Florida. Lots of towns in my area are based on Greek names (I live in Ithaca). A few weeks ago I was in Hamburg, Germany and Hamburg, New York in the span of a week. While I think this is an interesting idea, some of the examples I've seen include what appear to be ALRs (you can't visit both locations, you must work as a team) and the idea that working with someone in another cities justifies finds on both caches just doesn't make sense to me. The definition of "a find" is often a grey area open to debate, but I just don't understand how some can convince themselves the "found" a cache when they didn't even visit the location. The example I gave specifically states that "A special prize will be awarded to the first cacher who is able to find both caches and sign both logs solo"...implying that one can't claim a find on both when really only finding one. I don't think anyone has tried doing that, either. If "Atlanta" is tough...some other options for areas of town or the metro area I could place a cache in: Decatur Edgewood Grant Park Dekalb or Fulton (two counties here) any number of street names It also doesn't have to be a city/town name, but could be some historical connection (famous resident of both places, Civil War campaigns, etc.) or even a modern day connection. Heck...it could even be something like a multiple city exchange between Delta Airlines "hub" cities (and actually, that might be kind of cool...and tough...requiring communication between three or more parties to have all the info needed to find the cache in any given city). Quote Link to comment
+BBWolf+3Pigs Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 It also doesn't have to be a city/town name, but could be some historical connection (famous resident of both places, Civil War campaigns, etc.) or even a modern day connection. Heck...it could even be something like a multiple city exchange between Delta Airlines "hub" cities (and actually, that might be kind of cool...and tough...requiring communication between three or more parties to have all the info needed to find the cache in any given city). Many cities have "sister" cities in other countries. Newport, RI has several! Quote Link to comment
+J Grouchy Posted January 10, 2014 Author Share Posted January 10, 2014 (edited) It also doesn't have to be a city/town name, but could be some historical connection (famous resident of both places, Civil War campaigns, etc.) or even a modern day connection. Heck...it could even be something like a multiple city exchange between Delta Airlines "hub" cities (and actually, that might be kind of cool...and tough...requiring communication between three or more parties to have all the info needed to find the cache in any given city). Many cities have "sister" cities in other countries. Newport, RI has several! Hehe...Atlanta has 21!! What? Anyone here from Lagos, Nigeria? How about Newcastle upon Tyne, UK? Hmmm...that last one could mean a beer-themed cache.... Edited January 10, 2014 by J Grouchy Quote Link to comment
NeecesandNephews Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 I did this one and it was a lot of work on my part but was fun. GC2RM0P http://www.geocachin...e-caf501d16b4d# From the description on the listing: The Ohio geocacher (who has to be the same geocacher who started the team) then finds the sixth and final stage. He/she signs the logsheet for both him/herself and all the others on his/her team. All geocachers on the team can then enter on-line find logs for the cache! That is about as lame as it gets. Quote Link to comment
+Yorkshire Yellow Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 I'm near Stroud in the UK. Anyone on here from Stroud, Oklahoma, USA, or Stroud, NSW Australia, who'd be interested in putting out such a pair of caches? Or indeed anywhere else? Quote Link to comment
+NeverSummer Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 I'm in for Homer, AK. There's a Homer, NY about 22 miles from where I live. It would also be interesting to see "Sister city" caches. Apparently the sister city for the town I live in is Eldoret, Rift Valley Province, Kenya. I had never heard of Eldoret before and wonder what the connection might be, and then noticed the it's the location of Moi University. I did some training (as a trainer) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania a couple of years ago and several of the attendees were from Moi University. I doubt that any of them are geocachers but there *are* a couple of caches there. It looks like the sister cities for Homer, Alaska are Teshio, Japan and Yelizovo, Russia. If you want to partner up AK>>NY, I'm in! Quote Link to comment
+BlackRose67 Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 I might be able to help out here! I am from Australia. I know there is one such cache in Australia already. GC3CETF One of the pieces of it resides not that far from where I live (Richmond, Ontario, Canada). Quote Link to comment
+cheech gang Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 I did this one and it was a lot of work on my part but was fun. GC2RM0P http://www.geocachin...e-caf501d16b4d# From the description on the listing: The Ohio geocacher (who has to be the same geocacher who started the team) then finds the sixth and final stage. He/she signs the logsheet for both him/herself and all the others on his/her team. All geocachers on the team can then enter on-line find logs for the cache! That is about as lame as it gets. Nah, there are lamer things in Ohio. Quote Link to comment
+NeverSummer Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 I'm starting a spreadsheet to keep track of who is interested in a partnership. If you would like to get yourself on this list to find a connection, please send me a PM through the forum. (Not my account email--I'm trying to keep certain correspondence in specific places!) I'll periodically post images of the spreadsheet so that folks can look it over and see who they might be able to partner up with. Quote Link to comment
+NeverSummer Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 I'm in for Homer, AK. ...or that! Sufficient distance to make claiming both a real challenge (yet not impossible). Plus, "Homer" has a little connection to Atlanta, I suppose. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Major_League_Baseball_mascots#Homer_.28Atlanta.29 I like that connection! We could make it work... Quote Link to comment
+K13 Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 Pretty soon, one will be asking other cachers just to sign one's name to a log in their location. One will have a find in every country where a friend or relative (or another cacher who agrees that this is a valid method to claim a find) lives or visits. Quote Link to comment
+NeverSummer Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 Pretty soon, one will be asking other cachers just to sign one's name to a log in their location. One will have a find in every country where a friend or relative (or another cacher who agrees that this is a valid method to claim a find) lives or visits. What do you mean, "pretty soon"? It already happens. Quote Link to comment
+NYPaddleCacher Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 Pretty soon, one will be asking other cachers just to sign one's name to a log in their location. One will have a find in every country where a friend or relative (or another cacher who agrees that this is a valid method to claim a find) lives or visits. Another cacher agreeing that this is a valid method to claim a find isn't the problem. The problem is cache owners that allow this method to claim a find. The issue of container swapping and leapfrogging as valid methods to do a power trail wouldn't be an issue of cache owners didn't allow them Quote Link to comment
+coman123 Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 (edited) I'm from Ontario, Canada Near Kingston I live with in 20 minutes of here N 44° 16.917 W 076° 30.567 Towns like Kingston Odessa Moscow are close to here I'm in, just PM me Edited January 10, 2014 by coman123 Quote Link to comment
+redwoodkestrel Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 All the folks who live in all the Springfields in the US (I've heard there's one in every state? But I haven't fact-checked that bit of information...) should put together one massive exchange cache. Quote Link to comment
+J Grouchy Posted January 10, 2014 Author Share Posted January 10, 2014 All the folks who live in all the Springfields in the US (I've heard there's one in every state? But I haven't fact-checked that bit of information...) should put together one massive exchange cache. Simpsons related, of course! Quote Link to comment
+NYPaddleCacher Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 I'm in for Homer, AK. There's a Homer, NY about 22 miles from where I live. It would also be interesting to see "Sister city" caches. Apparently the sister city for the town I live in is Eldoret, Rift Valley Province, Kenya. I had never heard of Eldoret before and wonder what the connection might be, and then noticed the it's the location of Moi University. I did some training (as a trainer) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania a couple of years ago and several of the attendees were from Moi University. I doubt that any of them are geocachers but there *are* a couple of caches there. It looks like the sister cities for Homer, Alaska are Teshio, Japan and Yelizovo, Russia. If you want to partner up AK>>NY, I'm in! I would but, I'm not doing much caching locally anymore (if 22 miles is local). I just don't get up to Homer, NY often enough to justify placing a cache. I know a cacher that lives in Homer though and can check if he's interested. Quote Link to comment
+NeverSummer Posted January 11, 2014 Share Posted January 11, 2014 (edited) I'm in for Homer, AK. There's a Homer, NY about 22 miles from where I live. It would also be interesting to see "Sister city" caches. Apparently the sister city for the town I live in is Eldoret, Rift Valley Province, Kenya. I had never heard of Eldoret before and wonder what the connection might be, and then noticed the it's the location of Moi University. I did some training (as a trainer) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania a couple of years ago and several of the attendees were from Moi University. I doubt that any of them are geocachers but there *are* a couple of caches there. It looks like the sister cities for Homer, Alaska are Teshio, Japan and Yelizovo, Russia. If you want to partner up AK>>NY, I'm in! I would but, I'm not doing much caching locally anymore (if 22 miles is local). I just don't get up to Homer, NY often enough to justify placing a cache. I know a cacher that lives in Homer though and can check if he's interested. Point them my way! If anyone else is interested, I'm still updating the "Partner Finder" spreadsheet. (take that one to out of context, will ya wmpastor...) Right now I have: J Grouchy: Atlanta, GA, USA NeverSummer: Homer/Anchor Point, AK, USA GopherGreg: Ottawa, Ont., Canada Cankid: XXX, XXX, Australia Yorkshire Yellow: Stroud, UK coman123: Kingston, Ont., Canada Once I start seeing requests to my PM inbox here on the forums, I will start posting images of the list. Edited January 11, 2014 by NeverSummer Quote Link to comment
+FunnyNose Posted January 11, 2014 Share Posted January 11, 2014 The Exchange cache sounds like an awsome idea. I would do it if I was in Atlanta. I always think of Exchange programs as international. Maybe within the states we could do Cachepals? Kinda of like penpals? Do the same thing? An interesting idea. It would be fun to do an exchange cache where the city name is the same (e.g. Rome, Italy and Rome, NY). I probably have one of the first ones. Between Hobart Tasmania and Hobart Washington. Hobart-Hobart TransPacific Multi-cache Part 1 When I did the Tasmania part the final is on Mt Wellington, I hiked up there XMAS eve which is summer time downunder and it was snowing and sleeting. Which is good because it kept the Jack Jumpers down. Quote Link to comment
+Chuckle berry Posted January 11, 2014 Share Posted January 11, 2014 Is there a way to search for these? I'd love to try one of these if I can find one close enough to me. I live near flint michigan. Quote Link to comment
+Cankid Posted January 11, 2014 Share Posted January 11, 2014 I'm in for Homer, AK. There's a Homer, NY about 22 miles from where I live. It would also be interesting to see "Sister city" caches. Apparently the sister city for the town I live in is Eldoret, Rift Valley Province, Kenya. I had never heard of Eldoret before and wonder what the connection might be, and then noticed the it's the location of Moi University. I did some training (as a trainer) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania a couple of years ago and several of the attendees were from Moi University. I doubt that any of them are geocachers but there *are* a couple of caches there. It looks like the sister cities for Homer, Alaska are Teshio, Japan and Yelizovo, Russia. If you want to partner up AK>>NY, I'm in! I would but, I'm not doing much caching locally anymore (if 22 miles is local). I just don't get up to Homer, NY often enough to justify placing a cache. I know a cacher that lives in Homer though and can check if he's interested. Point them my way! If anyone else is interested, I'm still updating the "Partner Finder" spreadsheet. (take that one to out of context, will ya wmpastor...) Right now I have: J Grouchy: Atlanta, GA, USA NeverSummer: Homer/Anchor Point, AK, USA GopherGreg: Ottawa, Ont., Canada Cankid: Canberra, ACT, Australia Yorkshire Yellow: Stroud, UK coman123: Kingston, Ont., Canada Once I start seeing requests to my PM inbox here on the forums, I will start posting images of the list. There, I fixed it for you! Quote Link to comment
+Cankid Posted January 11, 2014 Share Posted January 11, 2014 I'm in for Homer, AK. There's a Homer, NY about 22 miles from where I live. It would also be interesting to see "Sister city" caches. Apparently the sister city for the town I live in is Eldoret, Rift Valley Province, Kenya. I had never heard of Eldoret before and wonder what the connection might be, and then noticed the it's the location of Moi University. I did some training (as a trainer) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania a couple of years ago and several of the attendees were from Moi University. I doubt that any of them are geocachers but there *are* a couple of caches there. It looks like the sister cities for Homer, Alaska are Teshio, Japan and Yelizovo, Russia. If you want to partner up AK>>NY, I'm in! I would but, I'm not doing much caching locally anymore (if 22 miles is local). I just don't get up to Homer, NY often enough to justify placing a cache. I know a cacher that lives in Homer though and can check if he's interested. Point them my way! If anyone else is interested, I'm still updating the "Partner Finder" spreadsheet. (take that one to out of context, will ya wmpastor...) Right now I have: J Grouchy: Atlanta, GA, USA NeverSummer: Homer/Anchor Point, AK, USA GopherGreg: Ottawa, Ont., Canada Cankid: Canberra, ACT, Australia Yorkshire Yellow: Stroud, UK coman123: Kingston, Ont., Canada Once I start seeing requests to my PM inbox here on the forums, I will start posting images of the list. There, I fixed it for you! Quote Link to comment
+colleda Posted January 11, 2014 Share Posted January 11, 2014 The idea is great if both destinations are of similar activity level. Makes little sense to built such a pair in central Moscow and central London: too many people ready to go for the box in the UK capital will be waiting for anyone willing to help them here. There are some smaller places with funny names in the US however that could be considered for such partnership caches. Moscow in Idaho or Kremlin in Oklahoma, for example There is also a St. Petersburg in Florida. Lots of towns in my area are based on Greek names (I live in Ithaca). A few weeks ago I was in Hamburg, Germany and Hamburg, New York in the span of a week. I think you may have misunderstood. The Found cache is in your own city. The coordinates are supplied from your 'partner' in the sister city. You then go find the cache, sign the log and claim your smiley. You can't claim a find for the cache in the other city. While I think this is an interesting idea, some of the examples I've seen include what appear to be ALRs (you can't visit both locations, you must work as a team) and the idea that working with someone in another cities justifies finds on both caches just doesn't make sense to me. The definition of "a find" is often a grey area open to debate, but I just don't understand how some can convince themselves the "found" a cache when they didn't even visit the location. Quote Link to comment
+bumpkins35 Posted January 11, 2014 Share Posted January 11, 2014 (edited) Riverside is in all but 4 states( Hawaii, Alaska, Louisiana, and Oklahoma)...or Pleasant valley is another common city. I'm not too far from pleasant valley in California. I'm fairly new and still learning but I'd be willing to help if needed? Thanks Edited January 11, 2014 by bumpkins35 Quote Link to comment
+sarahmcmur Posted January 13, 2014 Share Posted January 13, 2014 I would be interested in a cache exchange. I'm in county Wicklow, Ireland (I live near Europe's first cache). Quote Link to comment
+K13 Posted January 13, 2014 Share Posted January 13, 2014 How about we just do a log signature exchange. No need to litter the countryside with more caches. Find someone in another country and have them sign your name to a few caches, taking photos of your sig on the log. You do the same for them in your area. If you want to feel better about the armchairyness of it all, call each other while on the search. It will be just like you were there. Quote Link to comment
+wimseyguy Posted January 13, 2014 Share Posted January 13, 2014 It's a fun concept. We've had an North Carolina-British Colombia one here for years. Sorry mudfrog, but Lumberton NC is outside of my maintenance zone although I have found a few caches there while passing through town. Quote Link to comment
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