+All4OfUs Posted August 31, 2004 Share Posted August 31, 2004 http://www.seattlepi.com/local/188667_dcenter31.html Includes a quote from Jeremy! Kinda fun to open up the paper and see it. Joan All4ofUs Quote Link to comment
+TotemLake Posted August 31, 2004 Share Posted August 31, 2004 That's very cool. Quote Link to comment
+Bull Moose Posted August 31, 2004 Share Posted August 31, 2004 What wasn't cool was that they had a lead-in to the story on the top of B1 (story was on B4 or something), and they had a picture of one of the kids with a GPS and to the left of it in bold was: "Buried Treasure." ARgh. Quote Link to comment
+evergreenhiker! Posted August 31, 2004 Share Posted August 31, 2004 Just before I moved, I met those kids as I was signing the logbook of their cache. Cool story! Quote Link to comment
+Shop99er Posted September 1, 2004 Share Posted September 1, 2004 I'm not too sure that I care for the "treasure hunt" spin they put on it. Quote Link to comment
+Bull Moose Posted September 1, 2004 Share Posted September 1, 2004 I'm not too sure that I care for the "treasure hunt" spin they put on it. That's what they always say, "Hi-tech treasure hunt." That doesn't bother me. Until they start saying things like buried treasure. Quote Link to comment
nolenator Posted September 1, 2004 Share Posted September 1, 2004 Heck, my wife calls it "Hide and Seek for Geeks". Aren't we all geeks? Peace, Nolenator Quote Link to comment
+Bull Moose Posted September 1, 2004 Share Posted September 1, 2004 Aren't we all geeks? Only for that one summer in college. I still can't shake the taste for chicken heads. Quote Link to comment
+pdxmarathonman Posted September 1, 2004 Share Posted September 1, 2004 (edited) Don't get too bent about the use of buried and treasure hunt. Remember, to anyone who hasn't sought a cache they're going to have different meanings. Treasure hunting helps attract families. My 5 year-old boys have finally graduated to enjoying the hunt as much as the find - but it didn't start out that way 2 1/2 years ago And it's easy to bury stuff under piles of rocks, leaves, logs, twigs and in stumps. You don't have to dig a hole for someone to think of a treasure being buried. I fully understand the concern over the term, but I doubt it raises the alarms to the non-geocachers reading the article. And judging from the percentage of articles that use the term while describing our addiction, errr I mean hobby, we should get used to it Edited September 1, 2004 by pdxmarathonman Quote Link to comment
+Bull Moose Posted September 1, 2004 Share Posted September 1, 2004 (edited) Don't get too bent about the use of buried and treasure hunt.. I doubt it raises the alarms to the non-geocachers I don't. Well, most rational readers, maybe, but Joe Treehugger and Jill Ranger who know nothing about geocaching are going to hone in on that word and envision a bunch of people running into wilderness areas, parks, whatever with shovels. They'll have a good cry, or meditate to realign their cosmic energy or whatever they do, and then start working on a ban. Is it so hard to say "hidden"? There should be a press kit that gets that idea across to the reporters who write stories - actually in this case it was the editor who wrote the teaser. Edited September 1, 2004 by Bull Moose Quote Link to comment
+Seth! Posted September 4, 2004 Share Posted September 4, 2004 A couple of summers ago, that school got a set of GPS receivers and hired me to take the campers out on some geocaching hunts. I'm glad to see that they stuck with it! (Can you imagine? I was out there with 50 kids hunting a multi-cache. Intense!) Quote Link to comment
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