liquidsnatch Posted December 3, 2003 Share Posted December 3, 2003 I've been looking around for a Kansas caching club, but the closest I can find is the Kansas City group. Are there just too few of us to warrant such a thing? -L "Bored at 2:30 AM" Snatch Lawrence, KS Quote Link to comment
+DustyJacket Posted December 3, 2003 Share Posted December 3, 2003 There is the mo-kan group, which really hasn't taken off. http://www.mokancachers.com/ Quote Link to comment
+SeventhSon Posted December 3, 2003 Share Posted December 3, 2003 I'm in Salina, and there are several in this area, but no organizations that I know of. Quote Link to comment
+Sparky-Watts Posted December 5, 2003 Share Posted December 5, 2003 NW of Wichita about 15 miles, and I'm too new to this to know anything....but there are some great caches in this area! Quote Link to comment
Runinwild Posted December 28, 2003 Share Posted December 28, 2003 If there is one out there I would also be interested. Quote Link to comment
+Sparky-Watts Posted December 28, 2003 Share Posted December 28, 2003 I'm working on getting one started in the Wichita/Hutchinson area after the first of the year. Contact me if you're close and interested in joining. Quote Link to comment
Iplayoutside Posted January 6, 2004 Share Posted January 6, 2004 There is a KC group that get's together about every qtr, but every time they do something I'm out of town so I can't tell you any more. Quote Link to comment
+Little Brown Dog Posted January 6, 2004 Share Posted January 6, 2004 Hey, Can I play too? I'm in Olathe, Johnson County, aka, "the Land of the Lost". Count me in, wherever. Quote Link to comment
moose1961 Posted January 24, 2004 Share Posted January 24, 2004 I am in South West Kansas (Meade), there are half a dozen or so of us that are active in this area. I am always looking forward to meeting others involved in this hobby. Moose1961 Quote Link to comment
+Kiefer3D Posted January 25, 2004 Share Posted January 25, 2004 I've been looking around for a Kansas caching club, but the closest I can find is the Kansas City group. Are there just too few of us to warrant such a thing? -L "Bored at 2:30 AM" Snatch Lawrence, KS Not to dampen your spirits, but yes. For the Lawrence/Topeka area anyway, there are too few caches and too few cachers to really support an organization. Please excuse this authoritative tone, but my old stomping grounds of mid MO (Columbia and Jefferson City) have over 100 caches in about a 30 mile radius. They are still struggling to get organized. There is an event cache in KC fairly soon, that the KC club is putting on. http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...62-3329038b43fc The best thing to do, is hit all of the geocaches you can. In KC, around here, etc. This way you'll get ideas for new caches that you might have otherwise not considered. Trust me, there are a lot of interesting and unique cache ideas out there. Then, if you're bored, start placing you're own geocaches. I urge you to explore all the public lands that are out there first. There's a lot of interesting stuff to see. In addition to the city parks there is a vast amount of public land owned by the Army Corps of Engineers around both Clinton Lake and Perry Lake. http://www.nwk.usace.army.mil/clinton/gif/clinton_all.jpg http://www.nwk.usace.army.mil/perry/gif/pe-lakemap.jpg Quote Link to comment
+Sparky-Watts Posted January 25, 2004 Share Posted January 25, 2004 For those of you who may be interested, this thread is about a cache event coming up over the Memorial day weekend at Sugarite Park in NM. I know from the Wichita area, it's only about an 8 or 9 hour drive, and I'm planning on going, as a good friend is the planner of it. Add a few more hours to that drive for the Lawrence/KC/Olathe areas appropriately and decide if it's worth a drive for you. Sounds like a fun chance to experience caching out of state in a beautiful park. Just a thought. Quote Link to comment
Runinwild Posted January 26, 2004 Share Posted January 26, 2004 I would be very interested in joining a local group. I am new to this and would like to meet others doing it! Please contact me if anyone ever decides to take on the task of getting this up and going (I would be willing to help)! Quote Link to comment
+rusty_tlc Posted January 26, 2004 Share Posted January 26, 2004 I'd suggest hosting an event cache. You never know who will crawl out of the wood work. Try placing it at the local pizza joint on a Sat. afternoon. We have a yahoo e-mail group. When we did our first event cache about %30 of the people didn't even belong. They just saw the new cache and showed up. We did a picnic type thing at a local park. Quote Link to comment
+KSWader Posted January 26, 2004 Share Posted January 26, 2004 I would love to join a local caching club but being in NW Kansas it is very doubtful that there would ever be enough people in the area to start a club. Our closest cache is 32 miles away and there are only 66 caches in 100 miles from us! We have to plan to geocache - cannot just decide to go geocaching after work as it takes close to 40 minutes to get to the closest cache site. Quote Link to comment
+rusty_tlc Posted January 26, 2004 Share Posted January 26, 2004 A seed cache might help. Quote Link to comment
moose1961 Posted January 27, 2004 Share Posted January 27, 2004 There are 8 - 12 solid cachers in the sw part of kansas, I can not speak for them but a club in western kansas would be awesome I think. I have no idea of how to go about starting such a thing, but would be willing to HELP. Moose1961 Quote Link to comment
+Sparky-Watts Posted January 27, 2004 Share Posted January 27, 2004 There are 8 - 12 solid cachers in the sw part of kansas, I can not speak for them but a club in western kansas would be awesome I think. I have no idea of how to go about starting such a thing, but would be willing to HELP. Moose1961 Send me your email address. I've got links to several sites that would help you out, as I'm trying to get something going here in the Wichita/Hutchinson area. Quote Link to comment
+Sparky-Watts Posted January 27, 2004 Share Posted January 27, 2004 (edited) I would love to join a local caching club but being in NW Kansas it is very doubtful that there would ever be enough people in the area to start a club. Our closest cache is 32 miles away and there are only 66 caches in 100 miles from us! We have to plan to geocache - cannot just decide to go geocaching after work as it takes close to 40 minutes to get to the closest cache site. I guess I'm lucky to live halfway between Hutchinson and Wichita. There are 427 caches within 100 miles of me! Aside from mine and one by droid61, the closest are about 15 miles in any direction. I've managed to find about 21 of them so far...... Edited January 27, 2004 by Sparky-Watts Quote Link to comment
+KSWader Posted January 27, 2004 Share Posted January 27, 2004 A seed cache might help. A seed cache is a wonderful idea for our lack of caches in NW Kansas. As a newbie this is the first I have ever heard or a seed cache. Maybe by getting more caches out would get more in Western Kansas into geocaching. Now I just have to wait a couple of weeks until I have a Saturday off so I can hit the Army Supply store to look for some ammo boxes! Quote Link to comment
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