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Tuesday, December 21st, 2010 / The Cash Man
Well done to Jumpedin2it on reaching 1000 finds.
A great achivement with many memorable adventures, no doubt.
See their statistics here.
Who will be the next Hunter team to reach 1000?
Category: Geocachers
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Friday, December 17th, 2010 / Chippyroo
Does anyone have any caches that you can highly recommend to us as we are going back to SA for 3 weeks over Christmas.
We are driving and travelling through Wagga, Hay, Ouyen, Murray Bridge and onto Strathalbyn (where Rach’s parents live).
We are also going up to the Flinders Ranges, staying in Hawker where Dan’s parents own a caravan park.
As you know, travelling a few hundred kilometres to cache in a day is nothing to us! So any area in and around Adelaide would be greatly appreciated!
We do have good caching friends in Adelaide (Team Wibble) who have recommended quite a few but we were wondering if anyone could recommend a few? Especially in the Wagga area, although, with the flooding we don’t know what will still be there!
We hope everyone has a very Merry Cachemas and Happy New Year!
Category: General
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Sunday, December 12th, 2010 / The Cash Man
Recently xpunkx who is one of the hosts of the Geocaching Podcast ran a Webinar on GSAK.
There is a video presentation that he had of the Webinar that you can buy.
The cost is $12 but it may be worth it to some people if you want to work out GSAK.
Check is out at http://lehmancreations.com/products/geocaching-swiss-army-knife-101-video
Category: GSAK
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Friday, December 10th, 2010 / The Cash Man
Groundspeak announced today:
We will complete our first attempt at a rating system by the end of the month. In lieu of a generic (and IMO unhelpful) 1-5 star rating system we have decided to let people rate a percentage of their finds as their favorites.
This favorite count will then be displayed on the cache listing. The beta feature will initially be introduced to Premium Members but will eventually opened up to all users.
We will also be exploring other ways to identify the best caches to encourage quality. Quality of the game is one of the major themes for 2011.
Jeremy
Admin, Geocaching
This has been a major topic on the Groundspeak Forum Site. It sounds a bit like being able to Recommend Caches on the GCA website. Ironically Groundspeak has made a couple of the announcements in the past two days, coincidently opencaching.com launched. It seems that competition is the market place is very good. The website is owned by Garmin and they obviously see it as a big threat and have responded accordingly. This new site has an AWESOMENESS rating.
Interesting times ahead.
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Tuesday, December 07th, 2010 / The Cash Man
Is anyone aware of a good photo sharing site that we could use.
I know that there are sites like Flickr but these require everyone to have an account to be able to contribute to the group.
Perhaps someone is aware of a site that would allow members to upload and share files for HAVOC events etc.
Category: Website
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Tuesday, December 07th, 2010 / The Cash Man
HAVOC at Barrington GC2HA5Q was held over the past weekend.
8 teams attended on the weekend which was great considering the rain in the lead up to the event.
The purpose of the event was to try and find Frying Pan GCF1, which is the oldest cache in The Hunter.
The cache was found and I have uploaded at YouTude video of the cache is you are interested.
Category: Events
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Tuesday, November 30th, 2010 / Big Matt and Shell
Has anyone else had the Trig bug bite? I’ve been having a ball stopping at all the trigs I pass of late. I even listed a few new ones over the past week or so.
I suppose this comes from my Canberra background. When we were bushwalking we used to try and find new trigs and get our photo taken next to them. If only Trigs were on GCA then…
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Tuesday, November 30th, 2010 / The Cash Man
I intend to plan a camping weekend in the Barrington Tops sometime in November.
My thoughts were for an overnight stay at Frying Pan Camping Area.
There are a couple of caches nearby that you could do over the weekend.
GC2HA5Q HAVOC at Barrington
Date: December 4 – 5
Any thoughts from those interested would be appreciated.
Category: Events
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Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010 / The Cash Man
I have recently come across a couple of musicans writing songs specifically about geocaching.
The first of these is The Travel Bugs who have released an album called “Found it“.
The second is Rob Pearce who has released a number of songs called “The Bomb Squad Nuked My Geocache“, “When the Geocache Cannot be found“ and “Don’t tell my Wife (I’m Out Geocaching)“.
Well worth a listen. The Travels Bugs are serious musicans while Rob Pearce is more of comedian.
You can check them out on itunes.
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