+dw Posted September 3, 2004 Share Posted September 3, 2004 I'm also wondering what happened to the pinned topic devoted to asking for nominations. I brought a YJTB on a 3 day, 60 mile walk to raise funds for breast cancer research. As a cancer survivor and an avid geocacher, I thought it was a great way to combine them! You can vote for my photo at http://www.geocaching.com/track/log.aspx?l...53-00134ec91bae (hope that link works!). Thanks! Link to comment
+AtlantaGal Posted September 3, 2004 Share Posted September 3, 2004 I was also wondering where that thread went. I didn't see it get confrontational or anything that would give the mods reason to pull it. Only thing is maybe we're not allowed to beg for votes??? (just a guess) Link to comment
Keystone Posted September 3, 2004 Share Posted September 3, 2004 I was also wondering where that thread went. I didn't see it get confrontational or anything that would give the mods reason to pull it. Only thing is maybe we're not allowed to beg for votes??? (just a guess) The thread is still there; it just isn't pinned at the top anymore. If you read the initial post, Jeremy defined a two-week period beginning on August 1st for people to make their case. As that time period has passed, he unpinned the topic. Link to comment
+AtlantaGal Posted September 3, 2004 Share Posted September 3, 2004 I was also wondering where that thread went. I didn't see it get confrontational or anything that would give the mods reason to pull it. Only thing is maybe we're not allowed to beg for votes??? (just a guess) The thread is still there; it just isn't pinned at the top anymore. If you read the initial post, Jeremy defined a two-week period beginning on August 1st for people to make their case. As that time period has passed, he unpinned the topic. Ahh ok. Thanks for clarifying. Link to comment
stupee Posted September 4, 2004 Share Posted September 4, 2004 THATS IT, now the Giant AMERICAN Corperations move in, you might as well forget it! There will be big signs to Geocaches to get maximum publicty.!!!!Really bad move! Link to comment
+Scoobie10 Posted September 4, 2004 Share Posted September 4, 2004 THATS IT, now the Giant AMERICAN Corperations move in, you might as well forget it! There will be big signs to Geocaches to get maximum publicty.!!!!Really bad move! LOL......Ummm....Huh? Link to comment
+Scoobie10 Posted September 4, 2004 Share Posted September 4, 2004 (edited) I agree Ummm......what are you agreeing with BabyFox? Scoob edited for spelling Edited September 4, 2004 by Scoobie10 Link to comment
BabyFox Posted September 4, 2004 Share Posted September 4, 2004 Just agreeing that now since this Jeep thing, possibly Geocaching will get too much exposure. I even saw it on the news recently. He was exaterating a bit (the one who I agreed with) by saying "signs pointing to the geocaches" but I liked the idea of geocaching being sort of a secret thing not many knew about and wouldn't want to see it become well known about. Link to comment
Cire Yamel Posted September 12, 2004 Share Posted September 12, 2004 Just agreeing that now since this Jeep thing, possibly Geocaching will get too much exposure. I even saw it on the news recently. He was exaterating a bit (the one who I agreed with) by saying "signs pointing to the geocaches" but I liked the idea of geocaching being sort of a secret thing not many knew about and wouldn't want to see it become well known about. Cat's out of the bag. Link to comment
+Scoobie10 Posted September 15, 2004 Share Posted September 15, 2004 So, did we ever find out who won the Jeep? Do we even know if if was a cacher? Scoob Link to comment
2oldfarts (the rockhounders) Posted September 21, 2004 Share Posted September 21, 2004 Is it time for the 'NEW' Yellow Jeep picture gallery to be put up? It would be nice to see some of them before time to vote. Thank you very muchly. Link to comment
+Two Geeks and a GPS Posted September 26, 2004 Share Posted September 26, 2004 (edited) On the photo contest.........I seem to recall some discussion regarding digitally altered photos not being allowed. Is this true? The problem is that I have two seperate, unaltered photos that I would like to "put together" in a sort of "montage" photo. Would this be allowed? I think the idea could be a winner! EDIT: spelling Edited September 26, 2004 by Two Geeks and a GPS Link to comment
+Two Geeks and a GPS Posted September 27, 2004 Share Posted September 27, 2004 (edited) Where are the new Jeep photo pics?! By the way, vote for us!_ How do we get the caption to come over w/ the pic? And yes, there is a Hell, Michigan and a Paradise, MI only about 6 hours apart! Edited September 27, 2004 by Two Geeks and a GPS Link to comment
+AtlantaGal Posted October 1, 2004 Share Posted October 1, 2004 New jeep photos are up and nominations for period 3 have begun. The discussion about digitally altered pictures is moot since there is no mention of it in the rules and the entries seem to support that as well.... loads of digitally altered pix entered. So who won the last two periods? Link to comment
+Two Geeks and a GPS Posted October 3, 2004 Share Posted October 3, 2004 Vote for us. I see somebody already has. But I think I figured out how to link the whole thing. vote Link to comment
2oldfarts (the rockhounders) Posted October 3, 2004 Share Posted October 3, 2004 Vote for us. I see somebody already has. But I think I figured out how to link the whole thing.vote How did you see someone had voted for you? Where do you look for that?? Inquiring minds & all that... Thanks. Shirley~ Oh by the way, VOTE for me too. Link to comment
+Two Geeks and a GPS Posted October 4, 2004 Share Posted October 4, 2004 How did you see someone had voted for you? If you go to the pic and click on red "Click here to nominate" button. Once there, you see "1 vote" or something to that effect within (). I tested the theory and it seems to be correct. Somebody let me know if it isn't. Link to comment
+AtlantaGal Posted October 4, 2004 Share Posted October 4, 2004 Please nominate My Photo Entry. TIA. Link to comment
+cachew nut Posted October 13, 2004 Share Posted October 13, 2004 It's been 5 months since this Jeep contest started and still no Jeeps have made it inside the Chicago city limits. Any idea when you will be shipping out the Chiccago batch? Link to comment
+E = Mc2 Posted October 13, 2004 Share Posted October 13, 2004 It's been 5 months since this Jeep contest started and still no Jeeps have made it inside the Chicago city limits. Huh? I coulda sworn they sent some your way. Most of the organizations got them in batches from the first 4000, and individual cachers requested and received the last 1000 (if I'm not mistaken). All of them have been shipped, though, so it's now up to ya'll to go pick them up and bring them to the Windy... Link to comment
Pto Posted October 13, 2004 Share Posted October 13, 2004 (edited) Huh? I coulda sworn they sent some your way. Most of the organizations got them in batches from the first 4000, and individual cachers requested and received the last 1000 If you local Org had problems with distribution, or had problems with the Promo itself, its possible many of them are still sitting in a file cabinet somewhere- by choice of someone involved. My state has seen very little Jeep bug movement, due to a pretty negative attitude towards them by many Edited October 13, 2004 by Pto Link to comment
+Cushag Posted October 13, 2004 Share Posted October 13, 2004 One of the Jeeps has ended up in an Isle of Man cache. For your info the Isle of Man is in the middle of the Irish sea between Ireland and England. In case I get to pick it up I had a look at the web site and it appears that only USA and DC can enter the Competition. Pity about that. Have any other Jeeps turned up across the oceans? Link to comment
+Two Geeks and a GPS Posted October 13, 2004 Share Posted October 13, 2004 Vote For ours! We took a YJTB and dropped it in the Vancouver BC area. It had been to Germany and back! Link to comment
+E = Mc2 Posted October 13, 2004 Share Posted October 13, 2004 How do I find one? Welcome to the addiction! I just ran a Pocket Query and the nearest one I can easily locate is about 65 miles from Alpena. It might be a while before you see any up there unless you feel like driving a bit for a toy car with a tag on it... There -is/was/may never have been- a way to search specifically for them, but I can't remember. The "Notify Me" option from the JEEP main page has never worked for me, so I don't know of any easier way (short of paying for a Premium membership) to serch for them than: If you do a zipcode search, the caches with travel bugs will have the TB icon in the listing. The JEEP icon will appear next to those caches with a YJTB in them. Unfortunately, if the cache has both a 'regular' and a Jeep TB in it, the page will default to the 'regular' TB icon. You will have to view each page with a TB icon on it in order to determine if it has both. Link to comment
Jeremy Posted October 13, 2004 Share Posted October 13, 2004 (edited) On the photo contest.........I seem to recall some discussion regarding digitally altered photos not being allowed. Is this true? Sorry I didn't respond to this sooner. This is not necessarily true. Altered photos are considered. Edited October 13, 2004 by Jeremy Link to comment
+Two Geeks and a GPS Posted October 14, 2004 Share Posted October 14, 2004 Jeremy, Does that mean you voted for ours? Link to comment
+team walkingsticks Posted October 16, 2004 Share Posted October 16, 2004 I just read all 15 of these pages trying to find out if the first winner has been announced. Did we ever find out who it was or if the person is an actual geocacher? The second contest ended today so I figured by now the first winner might have been made known... Link to comment
+E = Mc2 Posted October 16, 2004 Share Posted October 16, 2004 Did we ever find out who it was or if the person is an actual geocacher? I'm fairly certain that if it was a Cacher, we'd have heard something in the forums by now. Unfortunately, the sweepstakes is open to just about everyone... We discussed "Will the winner be annouced" some pages back, and while there was never any definite answer, the consensus is that there will be no announcements made. The Sweepstakes page says that if you want a winners list, you must send in a S.A.S.E before some date... Sorry I can't be any clearer than that. Link to comment
Jeremy Posted October 17, 2004 Share Posted October 17, 2004 The first winner was most likely not a cacher (at least with an account on this site). The second winner has not been announced to me as of yet. I can't give out the information on the winners but I can at least let you know whether they were a geocacher (or not). Link to comment
+Jeep_Dog Posted October 22, 2004 Share Posted October 22, 2004 (edited) I'm hoping that most knuckleheads won't exert enough energy to catch one, but we have a bunch in reserve if they get too popular. I don't think I'm a knucklehead. Check it out: My daughter (just a wee bit under two years old), absolutely refuses to let me drop the YJTB. Yes, she caches with me (she calls it "Twesser-Hunt-ING!"), and I can't get her to let go of it. We went to one of the more challenging caches in the area involving a decent elevation change (hoping to get her tired, you see), to no avail. She starting bawling the second I postured to drop the YJTB, crying loudly "NO. NO! Jeep TAVEL-BUG!" Great. So, what a problem I have! She has made me a kucklehead who managed to find a YJTB. I will try again this weekend to get it moving along its way.... but is this the type of situation the 1,000 reserve was created to assist? If so, can I get one? Ah, by the way, my first post on the forums. Too many opinions, too much emotionally charged folks with the sky falling over little things (my humble opinion), so I've been lurking. Edited October 22, 2004 by jeep_dog Link to comment
+Foxgloves Posted October 22, 2004 Share Posted October 22, 2004 Check it out: My daughter (just a wee bit under two years old), absolutely refuses to let me drop the YJTB. Yes, she caches with me (she calls it "Twesser-Hunt-ING!"), and I can't get her to let go of it. We went to one of the more challenging caches in the area involving a decent elevation change (hoping to get her tired, you see), to no avail. She starting bawling the second I postured to drop the YJTB, crying loudly "NO. NO! Jeep TAVEL-BUG!" That is too precious and 2 :lol: !! Maybe you should buy her a REAL yellow Jeep! Link to comment
+Jeep_Dog Posted October 22, 2004 Share Posted October 22, 2004 (edited) Maybe you should buy her a REAL yellow Jeep! HA! That's exactly what she was thinking last night when we went to 2005 Premier night and she espied a yellow Wrangler Unlimited (in her opinion, it went very well with the YJTB clutched securely in her left paw). Let's give her a couple more years before daddy parts with the cache (pun intended) to get her a jeep, too. Hey, she got a new backpack last weekend to ride on my back when the caching gets rough, that should suffice for a couple of years. Besides, that would go really bad with my spouse. "Honey, I'm sorry, but I have to buy a new yellow Jeep since our daughter loves the YJTB too much to part with it." Uh-huh. That'll work REALLY well. I shouldn't press my luck, since my wife purchased us a new GPS this week. Imagine that, she supports daughter and daddy caching addiction. Edited October 22, 2004 by jeep_dog Link to comment
Jeremy Posted October 26, 2004 Share Posted October 26, 2004 FINALLY I have been able to post the winners of the essays and photos from July through September. They're now on the Jeep 4x4 Travel Bug Contest page. Link to comment
+AtlantaGal Posted October 30, 2004 Share Posted October 30, 2004 Interesting to see who won. None of the ones I votes for, although one of the July photo winners made my shortlist. Thanks for posting the winners. Any word on if a cacher won the Jeep draw for Oct 15? Link to comment
Jeremy Posted November 4, 2004 Share Posted November 4, 2004 Please take some time and vote for your favorite photo and essay for October!. http://jeep.geocaching.com/contest Link to comment
+Wildwoods Posted November 5, 2004 Share Posted November 5, 2004 FINALLY I have been able to post the winners of the essays and photos from July through September. They're now on the Jeep 4x4 Travel Bug Contest page. I finally got a chance to look at the winner list. I have a question on the winner of the essay contest written by THE HONEY WOLVES. The rules state "Method 2) Complete the official online entry form and submit it, along with an essay of 300 words or less describing your Geocaching experience finding or planting the Jeep 4x4 Travel Bug (the “Essay entry”). Essays over 300 words will be disqualified. The winning essay has a word count of 425. Why was this essay not disqualified according to the official rules? It is a good essay, but are the rules there for some and not others? Link to comment
The Foster Clan Posted November 6, 2004 Share Posted November 6, 2004 425 words? That's interesting. I was just looking for our picture that we entered into the photo contest on 10-31-04 (before the midnight deadline). I don't see the picture in the current contest photo area but I can find it through our log. And the log says we have entered the photo into the October contest. If nobody can see it, how can they vote for it if they think it's worthy? I want to vote for my own photo but it's not in the listing where I can vote for it! Who do we contact about this? Link to comment
+Wildwoods Posted November 6, 2004 Share Posted November 6, 2004 Contact Us If you have any questions about the promotion, please send an email to jeep@geocaching.com Link to comment
+team safari Posted November 6, 2004 Share Posted November 6, 2004 Yes, our picture also disappeared. I sent an inquiry - they acknowledged it but never replied. Are they disorganized or simply unresponsive?? Don't they know it may influence our decision to buy a Jeep or not, or do they not care...Team Safari Link to comment
+kkids Posted November 6, 2004 Share Posted November 6, 2004 We had a lot of fun making up this little poem for the essay contest. If you have a minute, please read it and nominate it for us! Thanks, K-kids Our entry Link to comment
The Foster Clan Posted November 7, 2004 Share Posted November 7, 2004 Team Safari, I don't know if this would keep me from buying a Jeep or not but right now I don't have the funds to buy anything! But, one of our daughters loves Jeep's so I'll be buying one for her when she turns 16. If not new, something newer I hope. As for myself, I like Jeep's but they don't do what I need them to do right now. The truck in the link below is our current rig. We pull a 34 foot long 10,000 pound trailer with it. When we don't pull trailers, it's a daily driver. It has a full rear interior, toilet, ice box(s), rear heat, air compressor, DVD's for the kids and we carry dry goods (food) plus water, pop and beer. She can carry 90 gallons of diesel when both tanks are in and full. Range is just over a 1000 miles traveling light. Scales are tipped at about 8,380 pounds empty. And when this is too big, we have a Bronco that's ready for the trails too. It's sporting F-250 suspension with locking axles and 4:56 gearsets. The tires are Mickey Baja's 35x14.50 and the motor breaths through a snorkel at the base of the windshield. It's an awesome river crosser and rock crawler! The Little Rig Link to comment
2oldfarts (the rockhounders) Posted November 12, 2004 Share Posted November 12, 2004 (edited) It would be nice to see just one vote for our entry...pretty please?? It is taken on the edge of a deep sinkhole that is shaped like the state of Utah, & it is in the southern part of Utah! Way cool spot! The link to vote. (Opps) I forgot to say ... Thank you! Shirley~ Edited November 12, 2004 by 2oldfarts (the rockhounders) Link to comment
Jeepgirl n' Dallas Posted November 20, 2004 Share Posted November 20, 2004 Does anyone know where we can find information about geocaches that are specifically geared towards offroading? We are having fun, but wanted to use our Jeeps a little more to do this. We plan to hide some soon, but figured other Jeep people must have been putting them out in some good four wheel drive areas? Link to comment
The Foster Clan Posted November 23, 2004 Share Posted November 23, 2004 I've sent two messages to the e-mail address posted above (jeep@geocaching.com ) about pictures not showing up in the contest pages and have still heard nothing in response. What gives??? Anyone else having trouble like this? Thanks, Jon. Link to comment
+team safari Posted November 23, 2004 Share Posted November 23, 2004 We had this problem in the first contest and never got a reply at all. After that we kind of lost interest in the whole Jeep TB thing. It's too bad for the good PR Jeep could have gotten if they had been more responsive. Link to comment
The Foster Clan Posted November 25, 2004 Share Posted November 25, 2004 It's kind of a bummer for us too. The kids really liked the idea of the Jeep TB's and taking pictures of them all set up in neat little layouts they made... Oh well. Link to comment
+southdeltan Posted December 10, 2004 Author Share Posted December 10, 2004 I was wondering when this was going to get unpinned. I had thought about locking it but I didn't want to cause a stir. Now that it's unpinned - and has been discussed to death - is it ok if I lock it? sd Link to comment
+MissJenn Posted December 10, 2004 Share Posted December 10, 2004 Thanks for asking the community! My vote? Lock it. A new thread can easily be started about specific aspects of the Jeep Contest. Link to comment
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