+FalseFruit Posted July 25, 2014 Share Posted July 25, 2014 Hello Everyone, The seven souvenirs of August is fast approaching and I have a question: Does placing a cache type during the month of August guarantee a souvenir for the cache type? For example, if possible, I'd like to place an EarthCache around my area; additionally I have found all earthcaches in my town, and the closest ones are at least twenty miles away. I do not drive at the moment so finding one would be quite challenging. Thanks for all your input. FalseFruit Quote Link to comment
+Kacher82 Posted July 25, 2014 Share Posted July 25, 2014 I don't think placing one qualifies. You'd have to find one. BTW, why are you shouting? Quote Link to comment
+FalseFruit Posted July 25, 2014 Author Share Posted July 25, 2014 I don't think placing one qualifies. You'd have to find one. BTW, why are you shouting? Hi, Thanks for your prompt reply...Sorry about the font selection. Quote Link to comment
BlueRajah Posted July 25, 2014 Share Posted July 25, 2014 No, I am pretty sure it is set up for finds only. Quote Link to comment
+TriciaG Posted July 25, 2014 Share Posted July 25, 2014 You could set up (and attend) a CITO event for that souvenir. Quote Link to comment
+FalseFruit Posted July 25, 2014 Author Share Posted July 25, 2014 You could set up (and attend) a CITO event for that souvenir. That too is an option. Thanks for your input. I never thought about that Quote Link to comment
+nikcap Posted July 25, 2014 Share Posted July 25, 2014 You could set up (and attend) a CITO event for that souvenir. At the risk of sending this topic OT, I've always wondered why it was uncool to log your own EarthCaches? If you can log an event as attended, why wouldn't a EarthCache be the same thing? To answer the CO's question, historically Grounspeak has not given rewards or souvenirs for a player hiding a cache, so I highly doubt this would change for the 7 Souvenirs of August promotion. Quote Link to comment
+J Grouchy Posted July 25, 2014 Share Posted July 25, 2014 You could set up (and attend) a CITO event for that souvenir. At the risk of sending this topic OT, I've always wondered why it was uncool to log your own EarthCaches? If you can log an event as attended, why wouldn't a EarthCache be the same thing? To answer the CO's question, historically Grounspeak has not given rewards or souvenirs for a player hiding a cache, so I highly doubt this would change for the 7 Souvenirs of August promotion. I'm guessing because attending an event is participating exactly like everyone else who attends, but on an Earthcache you already know all the answers to the questions, so you have "inside information" that everyone else has to learn while on-site. Quote Link to comment
+Walts Hunting Posted July 25, 2014 Share Posted July 25, 2014 You could set up (and attend) a CITO event for that souvenir. At the risk of sending this topic OT, I've always wondered why it was uncool to log your own EarthCaches? If you can log an event as attended, why wouldn't a EarthCache be the same thing? To answer the CO's question, historically Grounspeak has not given rewards or souvenirs for a player hiding a cache, so I highly doubt this would change for the 7 Souvenirs of August promotion. Place it, then find it. It's not like you didn't do,the research but don't forget to send the answers to yourself. Quote Link to comment
+The Jester Posted July 25, 2014 Share Posted July 25, 2014 I've been out of touch (limited internet) on vacation, where can I find info about this promotion? I've looked around the website but didn't find anything. Thanks. Quote Link to comment
+The Jester Posted July 25, 2014 Share Posted July 25, 2014 Anybody know if the Block Party counts for the event/mega/giga one? Quote Link to comment
+Roman! Posted July 25, 2014 Share Posted July 25, 2014 Anybody know if the Block Party counts for the event/mega/giga one? I asked that too and one person said yes but no official answer was ever given. Quote Link to comment
Pup Patrol Posted July 25, 2014 Share Posted July 25, 2014 (edited) Anybody know if the Block Party counts for the event/mega/giga one? If you attend an event/mega event/giga event held in August, and log it as "attended" during August, that will count for the "Socializer" souvenir. Attend an Event Cache, Mega-Event or Giga-Event to unlock the Socializer souvenir. Not sure why one needs "official" confirmation about that. B. Edited July 25, 2014 by Pup Patrol Quote Link to comment
+The A-Team Posted July 25, 2014 Share Posted July 25, 2014 Anybody know if the Block Party counts for the event/mega/giga one? If you attend an event/mega event/giga event held in August, and log it as "attended" during August, that will count for the "Socializer" souvenir. Attend an Event Cache, Mega-Event or Giga-Event to unlock the Socializer souvenir. Not sure why one needs "official" confirmation about that. B. ...because "Block Party", which is its own cache type, isn't in that list of qualifying cache types. One would assume it qualifies, but we'd only be assuming. Quote Link to comment
+hzoi Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 At the risk of sending this topic OT, I've always wondered why it was uncool to log your own EarthCaches? If you can log an event as attended, why wouldn't a EarthCache be the same thing? I've moved past the point where I concern myself with how others geocache and what they do or don't take credit for, so I'm not telling you to log your own ECs or not. All I can say is that I would not; to me, the intent or spirit of an event cache is a little different than that of an earthcache. The point of an event cache is normally to gather geocachers for socializing. If I throw a party, I get to have fun, too. One normally is in attendance at an event one organizes. And heck, they don't even call the log for events "found it," they call it "attended." I've left attended logs for each of our events, and I plan to keep doing it. I've also noticed that, while my approach is not universally practiced, it is common enough; we've logged events in several different geocaching communities in different German and U.S. states, and the organizer has logged "attended" for each. The point of an earthcache is to take someone to a natural feature and teach them an earth science lesson. Teachers don't normally get credit for taking their own classes, so I wouldn't log my own earthcache. It also seems inconsistent with the earthcache.org guidelines for logging tasks, which seem to treat visitors and cache owners as distinct groups: Logging an EarthCache requires visitors to undertake a site-specific task which provides a learning opportunity related to the topic. The logging tasks must have visitors using the information from the cache page along with their observations at the site to perform some type of analysis of their own. Logging task solutions will serve as the cache owner's proof that the cacher has visited the site. Questions which only serve to prove that someone visited the site, and do not relate to the site's geology, are not permitted. All requests for photographs must be optional. Visitors must be able to send their answers to logging tasks via the cache owner's profile. But at the end of the day, will my world crumble if you log your own ECs? Nope. Quote Link to comment
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