+NOSNOW Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 (edited) Ok this was Shadows favorite time of year. So we are going to have a cointest in honor of him. With a Hop Along Shadow Geocoin as the prize. What you need to do: Describe how you have helped a geocoin reached its goal. You can also Post a link to your log or TB Number of a geocoin that you have helped. One entry per 24 hour Do not post trackable number Maya will determine the winner on April 11 Edited to correct rule 2 Edited April 4, 2015 by NOSNOW Quote Link to comment
+Dorsetgal & GeoDog Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 Ok this was Shadow’s favorite time of year. So we are going to have a cointest in honor of him. With a Hop Along Shadow Geocoin as the prize. What you need to do: Describe how you have helped a geocoin reached its goal. You can also Post a link to your log or TB Number of a geocoin that you have helped. One entry per 24 hour Do not post trackable number or TB number or link Maya will determine the winner on April 11 Quote Link to comment
+DeniScott Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 (edited) Sent one with my husband on a trip to Mexico. Edited April 4, 2015 by DeniScott Quote Link to comment
+JoenGPS Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 (edited) McGrath Husky Dog TB - TB1FA0J This TB's mission -- " I’d at least like to visit the statue of my great, great, great, great, great Uncle Balto in N.Y. Central Park." We took him there and took a picture then took him traveling.... the log: 03/29/2010 JoenSue placed it in FSC-2010 Rehoboth Beach Delaware - 145.65 miles Visit Log Took a picture with his great Uncle Balto in N.Y. Central Park and sent him traveling again. Read about Balto, a Siberian Husky .. a great story and why there is a sculpture of him in central park! Balto Story... Edited April 4, 2015 by JoenSue Quote Link to comment
+RecipeForDisaster Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 When we were new cachers, we came upon a whole bunch of original, nice, geocoins from other countries. The coins were found in about 10 caches. Luckily we knew what to do although it was our first week caching, and we carefully logged them out of the caches, took photos of them at different places, and moved them several states away(home from vacation)into new caches. We naively thought that most caches contained coins like this, since we had that experience at first! Quote Link to comment
+steben6 Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 We helped this trackable win a race against his brother! Both were released in December 2011, and we dropped him in the final cache on July 26, 2012. As of September 2014, he was still traveling (after the race was over) and was last seen in Minnesota after traveling 6500+ miles. TB4KM2E Quote Link to comment
Jasper Gracioso Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 (edited) I received the gorgeous Shadow's friend coin from Sweetlife in the Easter Mission so would love to take part in this. I picked up Irish Flag Geocoin from a cache very near my home on 18/2/13. I was only 2 weeks into my geocaching hobby then and the cache was just my 14th find. It was the first geocoin I had ever seen! It had been released in Dublin the year before with it's goal to get to Glasgow. Just by luck I was going there to meet friends for lunch the following week. I was taking my new hobby very seriously and was determined to fulfill the mission. I had to search the map to find a cache that was not a micro or nano that it could go into. I took the train into Glasgow especially early that morning, then got the underground then walked to the cache. It was muggle central that day, I remember sitting for ages on a wall trying to look nonchalant waiting for people to pass by so that I could retrieve and replace the Kelvin Mill cache . Success in the end but I was a wee bit late for my lunch! I see that the coin has since been to Germany and has a wee trip to the Maldives. Jane Edited April 4, 2015 by Jasper Gracioso Quote Link to comment
+Sivota Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 (edited) In 2010 a geocacher named Delta123 wrote a message on the Dutch geocaching forums. He had activated 15 of his personal geocoins and would adopt them over to 15 geocachers who were going on vacation to nice locations abroad and would be willing to drop the geocoin in a cache. His goal was that these geocoins would be traveling to the Netherlands and would be home in 2013, the year Delta123 was celebrating his 10th anniversary of being a geocacher. I was one of the lucky geocachers to receive a geocoin and I dropped it in a geocache in Indonesia. After visiting two caches in Indonesia the geocoin was taken to Europe again and after visiting Portugal and a little trip to Turkey, it ended up traveling in the United Kingdom. At the end of 2012 it looked like the geocoin was in the South East of The UK. As I did the same thing in 2007 , the idea was born to have a short vacation, with my friend and cache buddy Barny, to fetch the geocoin and bring it home. I had some difficulty reaching the geocacher that was holding the coin at that time, until I realized she was a beginning geocacher (3 founds, 1 retrieved geocoin), probably wondering why Dutch geocachers would be mad enough to travel such a distance to retrieve one geocoin. After I explained this in another mail she replied to me and we agreed to meet at a cache in Eastborne. (For safety reasons she would bring a friend with a big dog ) So, Barny and I drove to France, went through the Channel tunnel and spend some lovely, but freezing days in the UK. We met up with the British gecacher on a rather stormy day and had a brief, but very nice, encounter. We found a geocache together in order to drop and retrieve the geocoin, but my explanation got lost in the wind. Never mind, we did receive the actual thing. With the geocoin burning in my pocket I wanted to bring it to the hometown of Delta123 on the day we returned, but falling snow had turned the highways in Belgium and the Netherlands into one big traffic jam. At the last day of January, the month in which Delta123 was actually geocaching for ten years, I managed to return the geocoin that I released in Indonesia in 2010. That was fun... Delta123 #12 World Wide Adventures (TB2H38D) Edited April 4, 2015 by Sivota Quote Link to comment
+RecipeForDisaster Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 We picked up one of those 50 states travelers from a friend who had brought it to several of the destinations it had on its checklist, and we added about 4 new states and their designated attractions including one 2500 miles away from home. The tough part is that it has a large laminated info sheet attached so placing it in a cache takes some effort. Quote Link to comment
+sparklefingers Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 Thank you for the cointest! My partner at the time and I helped a TB back to it's final location a couple of years ago but that was all on his profile. I took a friends coin to Mexico as it wanted to get to south America so I am going to use that one. Sadly it was taken back to Germany. http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?id=4609812&page=80 Quote Link to comment
+pig,dog,boyandgirl Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 Hmm, so many trackables moved. Mostly just moved on. I did take one to Germany for the Giga but can't find that one anywhere. And have moved a few event type ones of which I'll use this one. http://coord.info/TB4DWM6 CITO tag that was dropped off in a very successful CITO in the Cotswolds. Great memories of that day! Quote Link to comment
+Carponen Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 "In Memory Of My Great Uncle Jack" - TB5J577 This Travel Bug was looking to visit a family members grave in Germany. I picked it up in Calgary Alberta and brought it with me to Geocoinfest in Las Vegas. From there a cacher was able to pick it up and bring it to it's destination. The TB owner was sooooo happy. Quote Link to comment
+RecipeForDisaster Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 Last winter, we found a trackable that wanted to visit lonely caches, and we set out for one with no finds In about 2 years and left it there. Quote Link to comment
+steben6 Posted April 6, 2015 Share Posted April 6, 2015 We picked up a Lackey coin from a cache in June 2012 that wanted to visit Groundspeak Headquarters. We emailed the owners and told them we were going to the Block Party in August and they said they would love it if we could take it there. So it traveled with us a little bit and then we personally handed it to a Lackey at the Block Party in August 2012. The coin promptly disappeared from sight. The next year (2013) the Lackey that we gave the coin to posted that the coin had accidently gotten packed up with all the stuff for the Block Party when they cleaned up in 2012. She passed the coin around to a bunch of Lackeys to discover, and then placed it in a cache that was placed just for her wedding! The coin has traveled 23,000+ miles and has actually made its way back to the cache owners. We love this whole story! Check out the link. TB34J6R Quote Link to comment
+RecipeForDisaster Posted April 7, 2015 Share Posted April 7, 2015 A friend put out an FTF prize coin in a paddle cache. The FTF dropped it in the river. We spent a while looking without any luck, then made an appropriate "underwater" proxy for it. It continued its bad luck, never getting logged out of the cache we put it in, 2500 miles from where it started, and gritting marked as missing by the CO. We may try again... And might return to the river with a metal detector. Quote Link to comment
+New Market Mallers Posted April 7, 2015 Share Posted April 7, 2015 Moving trackables and trying to help meet their goals is actually one of my favorite parts of the game. One recent one that I helped out was a TB that wanted to visit one of five different breweries around the world. When I came across it, the TB had been traveling for 18 months and 30,000+ miles, but no pictures yet. One of the breweries on the list was in Boston (Sam Adams) and I have family who live in the area, but I did not know when I would be going there again. Contacted the CO and told them I could probably get this done, but it might be a while. They were OK with me holding it for a bit, so 8 months later I was up in Boston and was able to get some nice pictures for them. I really like how the in the first picture there is a chalk board with the words "YOU MADE IT!" Quote Link to comment
+NOSNOW Posted April 7, 2015 Author Share Posted April 7, 2015 It's great to see so many helping coin on there way! Quote Link to comment
+RecipeForDisaster Posted April 9, 2015 Share Posted April 9, 2015 We were given a lovely coin on completion of our first fizzy grid. We sent out a proxy in its honor, and its goal is to do something unexpectedly nice for a friend while you have it. Several have done just that which really continues the kindness of our friend giving it to us. Quote Link to comment
+NOSNOW Posted April 11, 2015 Author Share Posted April 11, 2015 Maya has taken time out of playing and has choses the winners. She has chosen three winners to receive a Hop along Shadow Geocoin: New Market Mallers pig,dog,boyandgirls JoenSue She then said Shadow was a very kind and good rabbit and would not want anyone to lose. So the rest should also win. So everyone else that have entered, will receive a Shadow Birthday coin. Dorsetgal & GeoDog DeniScott RecipeForDisaster steben6 Jasper Gracioso Sivota sparklefingers Carponen Please send me your address so I can get Shadow hopping to you. Thanks for taking part in the cointest! Quote Link to comment
+sparklefingers Posted April 11, 2015 Share Posted April 11, 2015 Thank you so much. this is awesome! Quote Link to comment
Jasper Gracioso Posted April 11, 2015 Share Posted April 11, 2015 Wow, thank you so much! Quote Link to comment
+pig,dog,boyandgirl Posted April 11, 2015 Share Posted April 11, 2015 Yay! Can't believe I've won something. Glad everyone is happy too☺☺ Quote Link to comment
+RecipeForDisaster Posted April 11, 2015 Share Posted April 11, 2015 Thank you so much for the fun cointest!! I had no idea a beautiful parrot would be choosing the winners. This is so generous of you and a great surprise! Quote Link to comment
+Sivota Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 Maya obviously is a very sweet and generous girl. Thank you very much Quote Link to comment
+New Market Mallers Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 Wow! Thank you so much for the generous gift! I will send my info over tonight...thanks again! Quote Link to comment
+Carponen Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 That's awesome and very generous! Thank you very much NOSNOW. Quote Link to comment
+JoenGPS Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 That's awesome and very generous! Thank you very much NOSNOW. Wow!!! A special bunny that was owned by two very special cachers. As we say in Jersey..."Yooose guys" are unbelievable. Thank you so much for your overwhelming generosity. Quote Link to comment
+New Market Mallers Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 My coin arrived in the mail yesterday...even nicer than I was expecting! Thanks again for doing this and for your generosity!!! Quote Link to comment
+Carbon Hunter Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 Well done - my NOSNOW coin won in a simialr cointest has moved on very well thanks - still remembering your kindness Quote Link to comment
+sparklefingers Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 Both mine and piggies turned up today. Thank you! Quote Link to comment
+pig,dog,boyandgirl Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 Collected my coin from Sparkles this afternoon. Many thanks again. Really chuffed! Quote Link to comment
+RecipeForDisaster Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 Got ours today too. Thanks so much for your generosity! Quote Link to comment
Jasper Gracioso Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 Shadow's birthday coin arrived today. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I'm so thrilled. Quote Link to comment
+JoenGPS Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 Something hopped out of my mailbox today..... Thank.."Yoose" guys... Quote Link to comment
+Sivota Posted April 24, 2015 Share Posted April 24, 2015 A beautiful Shadow's birthday geocoin arrived in the Netherlands too. Thank you very much Quote Link to comment
+Carponen Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 Shadow's Birthday Geocoin arrived safely here today in Calgary. It's such an awesome looking coin, Mrs.Carponen said its one of her favorites! I'll value it in my collection, it will look great beside my Shadow's Friend coin Thank you very much Quote Link to comment
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