GeoStash 2009

[DrMoab]

I'm going to do it. It will be in the Uinta's. I do not care if next years IC BOD wants to make it a run.

Yep...it will be MY run. I plan on putting it together MYSELF and if any of you want to help...that would be wonderful.

Been doing a lot of thinking(my job gives me that oprotunity.)

The last two years Geostash events has brought more money to the chapter than all the previous years raffles combined.

If you throw in what we have given to the Cannan Mtn fund I figure we have grossed about 2200 bucks. I think the most we have ever made on a raffle at the spring Moab run was around 300-400 bucks.

So, how do you guys feel about it? I know you most likely will not be the next years BOD guys but you can push the new guys to do what you want. It's worked well for me, ask Dan.

Seriously though, I am not going to Colorado next year. It's going to be a get out of Debt year for me so I am going to be stuck doing little trips.

I'm pretty sure we will be able to use Brians campground again.

 

[Israel]

Seriously though, I am not going to Colorado next year. It's going to be a get out of Debt year for me so I am going to be stuck doing little trips.

Let me guess, Dave says no Colorado trip, right?

I'm all for another Geostash. If I were in next year's BOD, I would have FF be the official National run, but they'd be crazy not to want in on the Geostash as well.

So, I assume Brian will still have access to the campground next year, meaning he and his wife have been able to work things out?

 

[Mrs Moab]

Let me guess, Dave says no Colorado trip, right?

I'm all for another Geostash. If I were in next year's BOD, I would have FF be the official National run, but they'd be crazy not to want in on the Geostash as well.

So, I assume Brian will still have access to the campground next year, meaning he and his wife have been able to work things out?

Next year is Ryan and I's 10 year anniversary. So that's our BIG event of the year and yes, Dave says no Colorado trip. LOL

As for Brian and Shortie, their working things out. I think their going to be OK. I hope.

Ryan and I are giong to start working on this early this year. Planning it out and getting things ready. We want next year to be bigger and better than this year or even last year. It's a lot of work to put it on, but when you see how excited people, like Tom and Mary, get it's so worth it.

 

[XJBANKER]

I am in favor of a Geostash again next year. I will help you out Ryan. I would like to make it up to our Cabin more next year. I missed out on it a lot due to working on my house. I still have a lot to do but would like to make it up there more. I think that we could even start getting caches put together soon so it is one less thing to do. A good thing to do in the winter months!! Let me know what you would like my help with.

 

[Israel]

Can I help place some caches? I'll limit the super steep hikes to 50 yards instead of 100 yards.

 

[Mrs Moab]

I think that one of the first things that we need to do is to decide if were going to go and get the ones that we placed this year and use the bottles again for next year, or do we want to do that part of it completly different.

Another thing, I think that we need to be working all year long on getting as many donations and give a ways as we can now.

 

[Israel]

I heard from a couple people that the bottles we used this year were too small and hard to find.

 

[XJBANKER]

I vote larger coffee cans again

 

[DrMoab]

I vote larger coffee cans again

Start saving your coffee cans.

 

[Israel]

If you want, we have a bunch of bottles like these here at work (the one on the left ). They are watertight and I could grab a bunch of our discards (might be dented or have a bad label on them) if you wanted to use them.

 

[DrMoab]

Going to stick with the smaller ones...for several reasons. The first being they are easier to hide. The second, because they are easier to hide, they are harder to find.

The hunt is what it's all about anyway. In fact next year I would like do make it even harder by making about half of them have some sort of task you have to do to find them. Something like the reflector cache we found up there or maybe a multi-cache, where you find the first coords but all it has is directions to another one, which in turn might have directions to another and so on.

They would have been much much easier to find if the coords would have been on BTW

I also need to be more careful about transcribing the numbers down...a couple of them got transfered from notebook to computer wrong.

 

[Israel]

The hunt is what it's all about anyway. In fact next year I would like do make it even harder...
They would have been much much easier to find if the coords would have been on BTW

There's just no pleasing some people.

 

[XJBANKER]

Somehow I wonder how we were so off on some of them. I teamed up with Chirs and Vanessa for a couple of them and one we were both right on and the other we were about 50 ft apart. Around town I am almost always right on.

 

[DrMoab]

Somehow I wonder how we were so off on some of them. I teamed up with Chirs and Vanessa for a couple of them and one we were both right on and the other we were about 50 ft apart. Around town I am almost always right on.

The best thing to do is get a good average on your GPS. Its possible that yours may not do that...I don't know.

 

[XJBANKER]

If you want, we have a bunch of bottles like these here at work (the one on the left ). They are watertight and I could grab a bunch of our discards (might be dented or have a bad label on them) if you wanted to use them.

I think you should grab as many as you can and maybe we can use them for 2010 if ryan doesnt want to use them this year. It is his chapter anyway.

 

[Israel]

I think you should grab as many as you can and maybe we can use them for 2010 if ryan doesnt want to use them this year. It is his chapter anyway.

Will do.

 

[DrMoab]

I think you should grab as many as you can and maybe we can use them for 2010 if ryan doesnt want to use them this year. It is his chapter anyway.

Actually, we might be able to use them.

I had an idea for a fun cache....stick with me now.

Items you would need.

An ammo can.

Some sort of music or sound playing device...a portable CD player, tape Walkman, old ipod. But it can not have it's own speaker.

An FM modulator

batteries.


OK, so now, you have people find the cache, it would either need to be very close to the road or you would have to direct people to bring their own FM radio. They get there, find all the pieces and have to figure out what it all means. Basically you put it together, plug the FM modulator into the sound making device and listen to the directions to find the cache...which is hidden elsewhere.

Honestly, small caches are not hard to find if you can get the coords spot on. Getting them spot on takes a little work. Generally you need to hide it, then go back and find it a couple of times with a couple different GPS units.

Last year when we hid them we would take a reading, walk away and then come back to make sure it was where it said it was.

I also have plans for a night cache which will use a car battery, very small wire, light bulbs and trees.

My mind has been on some serious OD the last couple days. Late hours and several Monster drinks will wake up the seriously twisted side of my imagination.