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Letzte Woche standen Lab-Caches ganz oben beim HQ und auch bei uns im Podcast. Welche Empfehlungen es aus dem HQ gab hört ihr in der heutigen Folge und unter diesen beiden Blog-Beiträgen: Mit ALCs ein ganzes Land entdecken: HIER ALCs für schlechtes Wetter nutzen: HIER --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cacher-reisen/message
Wart ihr schon einmal auf dem höchsten Berg Bremens? Nein, noch nicht? Dann lohnt es sich jetzt erst recht. Am Wochenende ist dort nämlich unser neuer Lab-Cache online gegangen. Einblicke mit Ausblick (ALC) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/cacher-reisen/message
Ein weiteres Megaevent wurde für Bremerhaven annonciert: http://www.eventammeer.de/ In Dresden ist unser LAB-Cache und ein noch unveröffentlichter Mystery jetzt zu machen: https://itunes.apple.com/de/app/adventure-lab/id1412140803?mt=8 (er heißt auf dem Holzweg)
Join us this week for a discussion about the necessity of paper logs in Geocaches Last Week... Check out the Opencaching.us blog for our interview only show with The GCDoc Whats your nemesis cache? One of ours was Little Church by Jacaru - now archived. Scott Berks The lonesome bridge by tnt63 GC217PN. "Spent a total of 6 hours there over many days." SangueG 'Earnanæs, þæs wyrmes denn' by abanazar GC2VH8B "It's freaking hard! Log note only till I master one part of the route." saxhorn Nemesis was "It's an ammo can." (GC497HJ) by Cachnut II "Found it on the 5th try. Key? What's an ammo can? Halljourneys.wordpress.com" Because of Geocaching... Scott Berks and DarrylW4 from geocachingpodcast.com geogearheads.com chicagogeocacher.com Feedback... DarrylW4 "Offensiving" needs to be added the the Geocaching Lexicon. BTW – you'd funny like that milk that's been in the fridge for the last 6 months. ;-) Lucie Melen Just listened... so here is some listener feedback! I find "another find for me" even more annoying and insulting than TFTC, because that's the automatic text on the app. They couldn't even be bothered to type anything! From Yorkshire Yellow Just to say I enjoyed this segment in your last podcast. The honesty with which you spoke was touching, and I found myself with a tear in my eye at one or two points. Although I don't suffer from depression, I do think I get a little 'down' sometimes myself, particularity in the grey winter months. Also, most of my role at work is in essentially what is a sales environment (letting and sale of commercial property), which, if it's not going well, gets me down. I've found that quick lunchtime cache, in the green areas in the town where I work, or, If I can manage it, on the edges of the Cotswold Hills, lifts my mood/spirits no end. I also totally agreed/empathised with you on the 'simple pleasures' side of what you were saying - children splashing in puddles, seeing nature, etc. I've been on an enforced 4 day working week since the start of the recession, so have been lucky enough to have one weekday a week to spend with my nearly 7yo geokid and now her nearly 3yo sister. The times we spend together on these days, often on a short caching circuit (on which she invariably ends up riding most of it on my shoulders!) are incredibly enjoyable, and I've some precious memories from these times. Keep up the good work on the podcast. I'm enjoying them! John (Yorkshire Yellow) Ask Doctor D... From Yorkshire Yellow Dear Dr Duck, When me or the geokids swap swag in caches, we also replace what we take with something we think is of equivalent or greater value. However, so often we see caches with, to be honest, are a load of crap in them - broken old fast food toys, soggy paper items, things which have got wet and gone rusty - you probably know what I'm talking about. My question for you - has the concept of swag in caches had its day? Thanks Dr Duck! Yorkshire Yellow PS - My thoughts on this: We will always tidy up a cache, so that the the 'finding experience' is a better one for the next cacher. We will will often add more swag than we swap out. If my (young) geokids are coming caching with me, then I will often try to pick a newer series of caches, where the swag is still there and hasn't had time to 'degrade', which unfortunately seems to be the way of things nowadays. News & Events... Carry On Camping - 2014by House Of Boo | GC4YKGK | West Midlands, United Kingdom Bring & Buy - it could be lucky for you?by Sir & Lady Harveyjj | GC53TDZ | North Wales, United Kingdom Cheltenham Event - farewell AmblingFreeby AmblingFree | GC52KME | Southern England, United Kingdom CacheWalker goes to the Beach Splash Mob Eventby CacheWalker crew | GC558MJ | Southern England, United Kingdom The Roller Coaster Team's Meet & Greetby Roller Coaster Team | GC55NHN | Yorkshire, United Kingdom The First "Penistone Palaver"by RoweGeocache | GC51RWA | Yorkshire, United Kingdom BBH#78 Bordering on the Regal...by MKGees | GC55R1V | Southern England, United Kingdom Other News... Geocaching.com have launched their newest stat page, the Geocaching Refer-a-Friend Page Geocaching.com are also bringing Lab Caches in to the official stats: Your Lab Cache finds are now more official than ever. Lab Caches are scheduled to be rolled into Geocaching find statistics and your milestones beginning on June 3, 2014. Besides cheering, there's one other thing you might want to consider doing. The addition of your Lab Cache finds may alter your milestones. Check now to lock-in milestones on your Geocaching.com profile. After the update, you'll be able to use the tool to lock in a Lab Cache find as a milestone. You'll also find Lab Cache stats on your chronology and geocache types section. If you created a Lab Cache and it was logged, you'll find new stats on your owned geocaches page. Thanks for finding a Lab Cache and helping to play a part in shaping the future of geocaching. Sincerely, Everyone at Geocaching HQ www.bbc.co.uk - Cash treasure hunt. @HiddenCash Video Of The Week... Hardest Geocache Ever? by twish1999 http://youtu.be/5rieyONff5c Discussion... Are paper log sheets still necessary? Why they aren't necessary: Technology has moved on, we can now log at GZ online or take a photo as proof and post that to the cache page A lot of the time logs are turned to mush, so signing is a little pointless/impossible Cache maintenance would be made much simpler without logs Most of the appeal of Geocaching is the find, signing the log is secondary As a cache owner I'm more interested in the online logs and photos. How many cache owners actually cross check the paper log with the online log to make sure those who claim to have found the cache actually did? An alternative method can be used to prove you found the cache - such as a code in the container, as seen in the LAB caches at the 2014 Kent Mega Why they are necessary: Signing the log is in the rules! On the bigger caches and special locations its nice to see what people have to say in the log book There is something a little exciting about seeing a familiar name on a log book, or even seeing that someone is out there caching the same time you are They're essential for some Geocache types; for example Letterbox Hybrids If you have feedback, please send it to feedback@ohbeep.com or leave a comment at www.ohbeep.com
Join us this week for the Kent Mega, LAB Caches and Doctor D's hill climb... Contact us at feedback@ohbeep.com or on our website www.ohbeep.com Last Week... It was Kent Mega weekend, more of that later in the show notes. Picked up some cool trackables from www.pulse72geocaching.co.uk. Hopefully, the kids will be unleashing them on the world soon. Look out for the GeoPaul interview with BananaSource - Paul should be releasing that on his Youtube channel in the coming weeks. Benignsource solved the puzzle, set on episode 27 by Mark Pickard, putting him 2-0 up. The puzzle was Treebeard GC3QHMG Because of Geocaching... This weeks because of Geocaching comes from GeoPaul & Nighthawk23 Feedback... We asked, via social media If you could have a mutant power to help you #geocache, what would it be? BananaSource picked finger pens - because we always forget to take a pen. These are some of the responses we got: Collin French Superior sense of smell, attuned to plastic. Then I can smell the beggars out! Mark Pickard Have to be psychic ability to read the thoughts of the co who hid the b****y thing @geoT7 x-ray vision, of course! To look inside all those stumps Ask Doctor D... Tony Liddell If you can invent a new cache type (eg multi, virtual) what would it be? Sams audio from Mam Tor. GC4DVK5 News & Events... The Dragonlady Invites You #23 by fly2live2fly | GC546ZC | East Midlands, United Kingdom BAD Hominem by happy_hunter_hp20 | GC53ZRB | Southern England, United Kingdom The Question is.....May by The Amasons | GC50D3A | East Midlands, United Kingdom "Whatever You Want" by jamange | GC4XRAN | North Wales, United Kingdom Other News... Geocaching turned 14 last week, The Geocaching Doc celebrated it with a great video (There's no crying in Geocaching) http://youtu.be/DCxVacs9FkI The UK Cache Mag is now available in digital format on the iPad/iphone. Click HERE. Geocaching "bomb" at rest stop http://fox8.com/2014/04/30/treasure-hunt-prompts-bomb-scare-at-i-90-rest-stop/ DIY Geocaching Bracelet http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/30/this-diy-geocaching-bracelet-shows-the-power-of-wearables/ Video of the Week... Geocaching Basics: Making a Geocache by AussieMark909 http://youtu.be/qq1zlIDdXrg The Kent Mega... Our first mega, some of our thoughts: Life is full of small coincidences. We parked up at the mega and getting out the car next to us was GeoPaul. Geocachers are friendly. As we were getting our gear together, the couple parked next to us asked if we logged trackables. Which we do. They had a couple of great coins to discover. We had a little chat and then went on our way. Fish out of water at first Learned a lot about the timing of such things - the stalls will still be there later in the day, when the crowds die down Its a very positive atmosphere and people are very happy to talk and share their Geocaching stories We'd plan ahead better. We missed the caches published on the day, due to not having connected to the wifi in the hotel and not having a great data signal on our phones. Its a great opportunity to meet those people you may have spoken to online, but also meet new people. Interview With GerryUK... Cuckoo cache GC4C35 GerryUK's recommended cache...the spar cave earth cache by the buttons UK Mega Information GC4HBG4 - UK Mega Event 2014 - Ayrshire and Arran GAGB link www.gagb.org.uk The LAB Cache experience. Our photos of the series of caches can be found at www.ohbeep.com/gallery Frustrating at first. We relied on just having the web link to the cache page. Big mistake, as we had very poor data connection. Had we arrived at the LAB Cache station sooner, they were handing out leaflets with the cache information on. But we could have also taken photos of the information they had on the desk. Having finally connected long enough to grab the gpx file of the cache and loaded it in to Geosphere, off we went. Having no data was a major frustration - having received the link via e mail the day before, we should have planned better (our ignorance was our downfall). Here's another lesson learnt, at a mega, we didn't need the co-ordinates. We just needed to follow the crowd and stop where they stopped. The first location for this particular LAB Cache was Cache of Fame, not indicative of the quality to follow - was that deliberate? Once we arrived at the wooded area, where the remaining caches were located, we were greeted with a number of high quality cache hides. It was a little strange being able to see where the next cache was hidden - but even being able to see GZ didn't give away the crafty hides themselves. At this point there was no need for GPSr or phone - well the phone would come in handy for logging the finds, but that could be done back home. From memory - maybe not in the order we did them. Cache Dispenser - a number of film canisters in tubes (made of tree bark). Our task to find the canister with the code. The previous finders did a good job of re-hiding, so it was still a challenge. The LAB Cache - a mad scientist had set up his lab in the middle of the wood. I hope GeoPaul filmed this one, I can't remember where on the table the code was hidden? One Cache Too Many - a cacher had set up camp in the wood and had left the next code hidden in his socks. Picnic Cache - a nice picnic scene in the woods. From memory the cache was hidden in the picnic basket. Treasure Cache - it seems pirates had left their swag, buried in these woods. Pool Cache - a ball pool in the woods. Now, this should have been a real challenge, but GeoPaul found the right ball before we'd even started looking. Crash and Dash - the most impressive of them all. A plane, crash landed, in the woods. Its pilot stuck in a nearby tree. The code we needed printed on his boot sole. Race for FTF - two high end sports cars, crashed in to a tree. The code we needed, hidden under the bonnet of one of the cars. Its in the cache title - again, another that should have been a real stumper (remember we'd not got the clues). Somehow I managed to pick up the VHS box with the code in it, first time of trying. Other than the frustration of not being able to get a data connection and partly due to our lack of planning ahead, this was a great series of caches. Even the number of people looking at the same time didn't spoil the fun - it was a little like waiting your turn at crazy golf.
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In this, the final episode we discuss the new Lab Cache; how Long, dark winters give rise to idle minds; Cache of the Month for December; Read and listen to Feedback; give some final thoughts and sign off for the last time. We have been honored and blessed to provide you with 7 years of podcast episodes, we will truly miss having you be part of our lives...but all good things must come to an end.