MnGCA

qwerty2582 · Past MnGCA Board Joined: 03 Apr 2009 Posts: 457

Anyone else notice this new feature?

http://www.geocaching.com/about/souvenirs.aspx

I opened up my iPhone app tonight after seeing something about this, and noticed I was awarded a 10/10/10 souvenir.

So if you have the iPhone app or the Android app, do a search for nearby caches, and you should get this as well... Even though it's only the 9th (must be the same time zone thing that affects logging dates...)

My real question - Do you think this is what they mean by the potential return of virtuals? Some forum searching shows that there are several of these available as soon as it launches (geo-woodstock, project ape, groundspeak HQ, original stash - oh wait, 2 of them have their own icon anyway...) From what I've read, they aren't being awarded retroactively yet, but someone logged a cache near GS HQ, and got the HQ souvenir...

What do you think of this? Think it'll be like challenge cache type of stuff? Think it's even necessary or cool?

Go look, it's already linked on your profile. Just don't talk about it on the national forums - they're locking any thread that even thinks about talking about it... Which seems slightly ludicrous, especially since they're now being awarded...

speedysk1 · Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2010 9:07 pm Post subject:

I got one a couple days ago in Seattle. I didn't know what it was.
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EPMinnesota · Past MnGCA Board Joined: 13 Apr 2006 Posts: 1898

Let me know when you see the Minnesota ones. Our icons were submitted to Groundspeak early spring. I don't know which ones they chose but you'll probably recognize at least one of them. I don't know how they decided which souvenir you get in which part of the state.

15Tango · Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2010 6:25 am Post subject:

I just searched for nearby caches with the android app, and so far, I got nothin'.
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wildfoto · Geocacher Joined: 26 Aug 2010 Posts: 9

Do you know if this works with the ipod touch app?

eagleyes · Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2010 9:03 am Post subject:

GC2GE8X is a souvenir cache - when I logged it this morning I got a pop up that said- congrats you have found a souvenir cache-- or what ever-
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qwerty2582 · Past MnGCA Board Joined: 03 Apr 2009 Posts: 457

EPMinnesota · Past MnGCA Board Joined: 13 Apr 2006 Posts: 1898

I have contacted them again to find out how we can add more or if they are accepting more. The MnGCA received an invitation over the winter to submit graphics and we did along with the bio from the creator. If we can add more maybe we can accept submissions and then we can vote on which we like best and submit more. I'll let you know when I find out more.

eagleyes · Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2010 12:06 pm Post subject:

the cache we found this morning for which we got the souvenir icon was published on Oct 09, 2010 and we were the FTF. When we did some cache maintenance after that on our caches,we found another cache which was an older cache with logs already on it and when I logged it we didn't get a souvenir icon.
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EPMinnesota · Past MnGCA Board Joined: 13 Apr 2006 Posts: 1898

If you got the 10-10-10 souvenir it is given to anyone that logs a cache on this day. They're using it to celebrate a hopeful record number of cachers caching today. The last record high number of cachers caching in one day was a day this last April and it was over 54,000. Hopefully, more than that will log found caches, events, etc. today to set a new record high!

qwerty2582 · Past MnGCA Board Joined: 03 Apr 2009 Posts: 457

... but I got one just by performing a search late last night. Now I am logging a cache today, so I would get it anyway... but if they're just using the number of souvenirs given out to determine how many accounts logged, it's not a valid measure...

Now I know they're smarter than that and they'll only count the accounts that actually posted a log dated 10/10/10, right?

dornole · Geocacher Joined: 03 Apr 2006 Posts: 353

Me too, I got one as soon as I logged on my phone to search for caches. I did find one today but that was afterward.

cajun&southern belle · Geocacher Joined: 20 Aug 2010 Posts: 17

We got one after logging a cache on GC.com That's cool.

NYSandy23 · Geocacher Joined: 11 Jun 2007 Posts: 162 Location: Eagan

I got one for logging one of the 10-10-10 events yesterday.
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roylake · Geocacher Joined: 11 Dec 2007 Posts: 55

I noticed a friend of mine who went to the Groundspeak headquarters got a HQ one.