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Marsha and Silent Bob
Past MnGCA President
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| Has anyone asked the Utah club what the approximate rate of mortality is with their traveling nuts? This seems inordinately high....... |
Out of the 7 TBs that I have released into the wild 6 are dead. 1 is basically dead but the person who has it has at least responded to an email.
While a very small sample 85% of my bugs are gone. It doesn't seem unlikely that we would lose several in the course of the game.
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Kitch
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Joined: 18 May 2003
Posts: 1286
Location: SSP,MN
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| Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2004 9:23 am Post subject: |
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| On June 27th HUSTLER was not in GREAT HINCKLEY FIRE and it wasn't noted in the log nor the cache page that it was taken |
unless I screwed up ...I 90% I put hustler in that cache... |
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Kitch
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Location: SSP,MN
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| Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2004 9:27 am Post subject: |
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| Has anyone asked the Utah club what the approximate rate of mortality is with their traveling nuts? This seems inordinately high....... |
Part of the issue that I see- Is that the "lakers" could easy make a really cool keychain Vs. A nut that has a "klunky" metal tag on it. |
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Arcticabn
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Joined: 30 Nov 2003
Posts: 1846
Location: Lakeville, MN
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| Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2004 10:47 am Post subject: |
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I don't know but maybe part of the problem is that individuals that are not real familiar with the game pick one up from the cache and then don't really know what to do with it.
Maybe they are just to lazy to try and figure out how to play the game when they get to the web site. So they don't log it out or return it to another cache. I know that I have at least found one Laker in a cache that was not logged into the cache to begin with.
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Centris
Past MnGCA Chair
Joined: 27 Nov 2002
Posts: 620
Location: Southwest WY
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| Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2004 12:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Kitch wrote: |
| the "lakers" could easy make a really cool keychain Vs. A nut that has a "klunky" metal tag on it. |
The Cache-u-nuts are really neat... they are not just nuts with a tag attached. I found some of them when I was out in Wyoming last year. Most are welded and shaped and painted into people and animals and all sorts of little doo-dads. Go check out the page with the pictures.
Granted he does enlist a nut themed Travel Bug or two that passes through Utah (as Kitch well knows), but for the most part, these are little handmade sculptures.
I think there IS a high disappearance rate with the Utah nuts, but he just keeps making and releasing more (ahhhhh the wonders of retirement). 
Maybe we should pass the hat and smile sweetly at RJ & TB to get more Lakers made up for the 4th or 5th round, eh?  |
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KC0GRN
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Joined: 22 Feb 2004
Posts: 1424
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| Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2004 2:20 pm Post subject: |
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BTW, I resurrected the "Towers of Foo" cache in Faribault after the event there on Saturday. "Big Sandy" was in the cache, but I didn't know the cache was archived because the owner thought it had gone missing (and with it the laker).
Since I haven't been playing the game recently, I didn't take it, so it's still sitting in that archived cache (which is there, in case someone wants to rescue the laker). |
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towlebooth
Past MnGCA Board
Joined: 26 Nov 2002
Posts: 1269
Location: Saint Paul
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| Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2004 9:01 am Post subject: |
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Pigs Eye turned up again - sweet!
Hustler was pulled from play (but it's whereabouts are actually known and it will return)
The following pieces have been removed from play and are presumed gone:
Anderson
Birch
Canon
Fish
Lida
Loon
Mille Lacs
Prior
Sturgeon
Sunfish
Sunrise
Swan
Turtle
Waconia
Lakers taken from cache but not logged here (removed from play pending contact with cacher):
Pleasant w/ piratep
Rainy w/ shaman55115
Lakers last reported in cacher's hands but not returned to the game
Busties w/ skycop
Buzzle w/ k2geokids
Elmo w/ milbank
Leech w/ BDJA
Otter Tail w/ zoejam72
Rush w/ georhomik
Sakatah w/ milbank
Scooty w/ minn5
St. Croix w/ towlebooth (uhhh…sorry)
Theif w/ thin blue line
Lakers previously removed:
Detroit
Lizzie
Lobster
Island was placed in a multi-cache which then had stages removed. Status of final stage of multi (and laker within) unknown.
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towlebooth
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| Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2004 10:33 am Post subject: |
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Otter Tail w/ zoejam72
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zoejam72 has brought this laker back into play - thanks!! |
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towlebooth
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Location: Saint Paul
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| Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2004 12:42 pm Post subject: |
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Alright, I think I got everything in order regarding missing Lakers and will contact everyone who has had a Laker longer than a month tonight. Hopefully 80-90% of those will get them back into play in the next few days-weeks.
Are there any mistakes in my lists above? I'm really back this time and want to make the game fun for Round 3. |
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tomslusher
Geocacher
Joined: 02 Jan 2003
Posts: 182
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| Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2004 2:49 pm Post subject: |
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I just retrieved Rush lake yesterday in Sydney's Middle Jefferson Cache
and have not logged it yet. I will do so soon.
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towlebooth
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Posts: 1269
Location: Saint Paul
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| Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2004 2:58 pm Post subject: |
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| tomslusher wrote: |
I just retrieved Rush lake yesterday in Sydney's Middle Jefferson Cache
and have not logged it yet. I will do so soon.
tomslusher |
GREAT news -- thanks! |
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towlebooth
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Location: Saint Paul
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| Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2004 3:53 am Post subject: |
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Island was placed in a multi-cache which then had stages removed. Status of final stage of multi (and laker within) unknown. |
Cache owner reports that the final stage of the cache Island was in was stolen and that the Laker is gone. I've removed it from play. |
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towlebooth
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| Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2004 8:03 am Post subject: |
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The following pieces have been removed from play and are presumed gone:
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Turtle
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Turtle is back in play! |
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Ko-tis-vey
Geocacher
Joined: 05 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2004 1:51 pm Post subject: MIA List.. |
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I placed "Swan" into "Who want's to be a $1.20 aire" on 8/1/2004 I checked the cache today...It's still there.
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towlebooth
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Posts: 1269
Location: Saint Paul
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| Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2004 3:01 pm Post subject: Re: MIA List.. |
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| Ko-tis-vey wrote: |
| I placed "Swan" into "Who want's to be a $1.20 aire" on 8/1/2004 I checked the cache today...It's still there. |
Excellent news - thanks!
I've deleted the LakerAdmin grab so the data should be correct now. |
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