Recently, FTF was claimed on a cache in France that sat for over 12 years before being found. However, the finder of that cache declined to be interviewed by this blog, as he is a Groundspeak volunteer reviewer elsewhere in Europe. We did not know they were a reviewer before contacting them, and can totally understand that. Since we are the blog for an alternative or indie Geocaching website, we can tell you that in our world (Navicache.com, to be exact), FTF was recently claimed on a virtual cache created on August 10th 2004. The cache is on the somewhat famous Island in the foreground. Do you know where that is?
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HikerJamz After-Cache: Episode 11
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OCNA Blog Note: Listen in as HikerJamz’s old friends K and B (Ken and Billie) discuss their Geocaching Adventures in Seatttle, Washington from the week prior (Block Party).
Hikerjamz After-Cache is an internet radio show on Spreaker.com. We discuss geocaching stories that you, the listener, send in about your favorite geocaching adventure of the week. Listen in to find out how you can contact us with your favorite stories and finds with your Host: James (Hikerjamz) From Ohio, USA. Here is the link to send a voice message: https://www.speakpipe.com/hikerjamz
OCNA Diversified Cacher Contest: rule clarifications
There are only 10 days left in the OpenCaching North America Diversified Cacher Contest! There were several rule clarification questions for the OC Team early on, both via email, and in our dedicated contest thread in our forums. We answered them all of course, but we realize not everyone is going to send us an email, or post in our forum thread. This blog post will therefore serve as the go to reference for clarification of the rules. We have several clarifications below in a Question and Answer type format. Note: this post was edited 8/30/14 to reflect a new clarification on Social Munzees (they do not count as captures).
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HikerJamz After-Cache: Episode 9
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Hikerjamz After-Cache is an internet radio show on Spreaker.com. We discuss geocaching stories that you, the listener, send in about your favorite geocaching adventure of the week. Listen in to find out how you can contact us with your favorite stories and finds with your Host: James (Hikerjamz) From Ohio, USA. Here is the link to send a voice message: https://www.speakpipe.com/hikerjamz
Diversified Cacher Contest prizes finalized!
The prizes for our August Diversified Cacher Contest have been finalized!! You may remember we had said some Geocaching retailers were busy during Mega Event season, and hadn’t got back to us on the exact nature of their donations. Everything has now been hammered out! We have 11 Sponsors (12 if you count the OCNA admins collectively as one), and 32 individual prizes, worth over $600. Want to play now, if you’re not? You can view the complete list at https://www.opencaching.us/articles.php?page=divprizes along with banners/logo’s from all our sponsors that link to their websites. Please visit and patronize them, they’ve made this amazing contest possible.
Since one paragraph doesn’t make for much of a blog post, here is the list of 32 prizes below as can be viewed at the link above on our website. Remember, you get one entry for every 100 points you score. The more you play, the better your chances of winning.
- A Magellan Explorist GC GPS unit from Terracaching.com
- A Spot II Satellite tracker from OCNA Admin DudleyGrunt
- A Cache Me If You Can Geocaching board game from DPH Games
- (3) Premium Memberships from Munzee.com
- (3) “Virtual Packages” from Munzee.com
- A $30 gift certificate to the OCNA Swag Store from The OCNA Admins
- A prize pack valued at over $20 from GxProxy.com
- A Limited Edition TeamSnook/Space Coast Geocaching Store set of coins (two coins with same tracking code, one to send out and one to keep) from Space Coast Geocaching Store
- A Sighter Hero T-Shirt from Sighter.com
- A $15 Gift Certificate from Cache At Night
- (3) 101 Devil Caches books from Navicache.com
- (3) Bison tube packages from Drives Cache Closet
- (2) starter kits consisting of a geo rake, preform opener, Space Coast Geocaching Store sticker and a random container or two from Space Coast Geocaching Store
- (3) $5 gift certificates from Drives Cache Closet
- (2) five packs of random pathtags from Space Coast Geocaching Store
- A $5 Munzee.com gift certificate from OCNA Admin Mr.Yuck
- 500 Monster coins from MonsterCache.com
- (3) OCNA Pathtags from The OCNA Admins
- (2) OCNA Pathtags from The OCNA Admins
- 250 Monster coins from MonsterCache.com
OpenCaching NA Diversified Cacher Contest entry forms
Contest starts in two days!
We actually announced this via our Social Media outlets on Monday evening, July 28th, but the Official entry forms for our August 2014 Diversified Cacher Contest are now available! Powered by Google Forms, you can view it at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1CJsycLI2jLr914xFvKxQA0p-11TKMi-HQdi1-Hmtriw/viewform?usp=send_form. This form is printer friendly, and should be 6 pages in length. Feel free to print one out to fill out by hand for reference as you go along in the contest. And we have also stated that we will accept legible, handwritten and scanned entry forms emailed to us at the conclusion of the contest. You can also submit your form to us now, and save it for later editing as you go along online! The process for doing so is admittedly not as simple as we would like, but we will outline it below.
Submitting and saving the form online for later editing:
Here are instructions for doing so:
Fill out the three mandatory fields at the top of the entry form (Player name(s), Your email address, and “Enter the total raw score you are claiming for the month”). You’ll have to just “make up” a raw score the first time. Scroll down to the bottom of the form and hit the Submit button. You should now see this page below on your web browser of choice:
Next, click on the “Edit your response” link, as shown above. After that, bookmark the page you are taken to! You should now be able to update your entry form from that bookmarked page as you go throughout the month. Be sure to hit Submit at the bottom every time you edit it.
Sponsors/Prizes Page released also.
We have completed the Diversified Cacher Contest Sponsors/Prizes page as well, found at https://www.opencaching.us/articles.php?page=divprizes. Note from that page that as predicted, our prizes are not finalized yet, and probably won’t be until sometime in August during the contest. That page is the place to look for finalized prize info.
Everything you need for the contest:
We’ve had two blog posts releasing info and details about the contest, as well as releasing some via social media outlets, and via the “news” section on the main page of our website. Everything you need or need to know for the contest can now be found on two pages on our website:
- August 2014 Diversified Cacher Contest Official Rules which contains links to the contest actions form and entry form as well.
Are you playing? Let us know, and let’s talk about it!
The way this contest is set up, we won’t really know exactly how many people are playing until it’s over. We do expect some people to follow the “not as easy as we would like” instructions to fill out their entry forms early, and keep their scores on the fly, but certainly not everyone. So we invite anyone who is playing to tell us about it at a thread we’ve created under the Geocaching sub forum in our forums. We admit that like many old fashioned forums on the internet that ours isn’t very active (they say Facebook is to blame), but hopefully this will be an active thread. Enter the contest, and please consider chiming in over there. Good luck, and hope to hear from you!
