Is the subject of Benchmarks considered at mainegeocaching? Or is it not appropriate for discussion on this site. I know that the Geocaching.com has a place for it.
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Benchmarks- off-topic at Mainegeo?
Is the subject of Benchmarks considered at mainegeocaching? Or is it not appropriate for discussion on this site. I know that the Geocaching.com has a place for it.
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Feel free to use the general geocaching discussion are of the forums for benchmark discussion. If it turns into a popular thing, we can add a new category. I did 6, all in one day, but that was just to log the easternmost US benchmarks, and that was waaaaay back 09/07/2002!
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Heck no, but I remember gc.com keeps records of it!Originally Posted by WhereRWe?
Sheesh! You really can remember that far back?
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I haven't bothered with benchmarks yet.... mainly because they don't count as a "find" on Geocaching.com ha!
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I am quite certain that is the reason many people don't do them. It's probably the reason I did log the ones I did yet never logged a locationless cache. Benchmarking is not geocaching in my book, and neither were locationless caches. But locationless caches did count toward your numbers, so I refused to do any. Benchmarks can be hard to find and often take some research to complete and I can see where some people have dun doing them. But for me I think it is missing that personal factor, with geocaches someone placed something intentionally for you to go look for.
The most famous locationless cache?
Yellow Jeep Fever (Locationless) (GC3FFB) by Team CBX2 (1/1). To log a find on the cache: Coordinates given are false. To get credit for this cache you must find a Yellow Jeep (any model) and post its picture along with the GPS coordinates the picture was taken at. The more detail the better.
This cache was getting so many logs and had so many finds that is was dragging down the servers big time whenever it was included in a PQ, and ultimately forced the move of locationless to waymarking.org. Gc.com's current servers would probably have no issue with it.
As easy as most locationless caches were, it was not easy enough for some who chose to cheat. One cacher in particular photoshopped the same picture of his hand with GPSr in front of pictures taken from the web to log a large number of them all over the world. Sheesh!
Last edited by brdad; 11-18-2010 at 04:22 AM.
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Hmmmm
I recognize that hand, but no idea about the jeep.
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that fence looks familiar....I recognize that hand, but no idea about the jeep.
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I would do them, but I can find an easy way how to download all of them in certain area.
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There used to be a way to do it by county though the NGS site. It's been so long I don't remember, and can't seem to find it. There is a guy on the national forums selling a 3 CD set of supposedly every mark in every state for 10 to over shipping, all converted to gpx format.
http://forums.groundspeak.com/GC/ind...owtopic=258803
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