Geowoodstock 8 will be held July 3, 2010, in Carnation, Washington, at Remlinger Farms.

Here's a chance for a mega-event icon, plus a 30 mile side-trip to one of only two remaining Project APE caches. (The other APE cache is in Brazil.)

MY TB is going to the one in NC!

Hmm, there is only one Geowoodstock each year. This year (yesterday) Geowoodstock 7 was in Bell Buckle, Tennessee. That's where Bendy Bunny was.

You got it! Thanks for setting me straight!

Hey All, Perhaps we might enter into some long range goal setting and planning to get a contingent headed to GW 8 next year. Multi Passenger van, loads of Geo-Friends, some tents, plenty of GPS'r units, AA batteries, strong data base, caches along a route. Hit the original site and it's twin on the way up. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Nylimb has already taken off on his bicycle. Honk when you pass him.

Daaaaang, He left tooooo early, we had hoped he could tow the van in order to save on fuel expenses.

Here is some additional information about Project A.P.E.

Geowoodstock VIII officials tell me that Tolt MacDonald Park is the nearest camping facility to GZ. They have 22 tent sites, 16 RV sites, and two large group camping sites.

Geowoodstock is for hippies and geeks. (In response to this story.)

The Snoqualmie River RV Park and Campground is another place for camping near GW8. It has 92 RV sites and 32 tents sites, and reservations are being accepted now for 2010.

Today new border crossing regulations took effect, so if you plan to visit Canada before or after GW8 start thinking about getting a passport. Here are the new regulations.

Here's a nice way to add another state to your cache map: Cruise to Alaska after GeoWoodstock VIII. I'll volunteer to be stuffed into someone's luggage!

I am a bit smaller than you, hidegoseek. I think I would fit better in the luggage.

Hey, I think I see Aleiyn in this photo. Third row (from the bottom), a little left of center. Click to enlarge.

Hey, I think you are right

The Geowoodstock VIII website is now up and running.

Bencdy Bunny made it to Geowoodstock! SUPER COOL! I am planning on making it to Geowoodstock in WA next year. Zop-Want to go to geowoodstock next year with me?

So, how many Lost Coast Cachers plan to attend GW VIII next July?

Oh yeah would i love to go??? Depends on how nice Uncle Sam is to me...

A trip to GW8 is an opportunity to complete Shelrik's Center Of The Triad Challenge. And there is a geocoin for this cache too.

I think that I fit in luggage the best or a suitcase like this LINKEY

Looks like a case a scrap booker would find useful. Careful of the cutting shears!

Just a reminder: On April 1st, all registration fee's will be going up $5.00, so you still have some time left to get the sale price!

As of April 1st, the prices are:

• Geoduck: $15
• Dungeness Crab: $25
• Chinook Salmon: $35
• Orca: $45
• Bald Eagle $1,500

Please note that you can register for free if you do not want the meal, shirt, geocoin, etc.

Why do I need to log in there?

I linked to the registration details on the GW8 forum. I guess that page is behind the login. You can view the info using the link below.

Geowoodstock VIII Cachekinz for sale now: only $3 each!

We are signed up as of today, and have reservations at an RV park in Bothell (about 25 miles away) for July 1-6. Too late to get a place much closer, and we have stayed at the park in Bothell before.

Anybody else confirmed as attending?

Be sure to put the Lost & Found Celebration (GC24GYW) on your "to do" list. It will be held at Groundspeak headquarters on the 4th of July.

Registration for Geowoodstock VIII closes on May 15th. Anyone else here registered?

Five, that I know of. (Not counting spouses and babies.)

There are several organized events from Thursday to Sunday.

• Podcacher Meet & Greet (Thursday)
• On the Road to GeoWoodstock: Everett (Thursday)
• On the Road to Geowoodstock VIII ~ Waterville Hwy2 (Thursday)
• Going APE! (Friday)
• COWWS Friday Meet & Greet and Luau Friday)
• Geowoodstock VIII (Saturday)
• C.I.T.O. @ GW VIII (Saturday)
• Midnight Geocoin Madness II ~ MGM 2 (Saturday)
• Lost & Found Celebration (Sunday)

Sometime that weekend is an opportunity for the 7 Icons in a Day Challenge.

Now only four (that I know of).

Petty cachers are registered for GWVII and the Ape cache. Yes, I'm going to get out there and practice hiking uphill. Yeah, we might run into a few LCC there.

We are signed up for the Ape cache also. It looks like the hardest workout on my ankle since I messed it up a couple of years ago, but nothing ventured, nothing gained!

We will be at Geo-Woodstock, and possibly the Midnight Madness event. We have some people to visit, so we probably won't make the APE cache event, and I don't know that we want to subject the kids to the insanity of the Lost and Found Celebration on Sunday. (Or navigate Seattle at that point!)

We'll be caching and visiting around Oregon and Washington for the better part of a month, so we have to make sure not to spread ourselves too thin.

Who wants to take the coyote?

Updating the list with several new events:

• XXX Rootbeer: Early Bird Welcome! Meet n Greet (Wednesday)
• Just Around the Corner from Geowoodstock (Thursday)
• Podcacher Meet & Greet (Thursday) [not yet published]
• On the Road to GeoWoodstock: Everett (Thursday)
• On the Road to Geowoodstock VIII ~ Waterville Hwy2 (Thursday)
• Going APE! (Friday)
• COWWS Friday Meet & Greet and Luau Friday)
• Geowoodstock VIII (Saturday)
• C.I.T.O. @ GW VIII (Saturday)
• Midnight Geocoin Madness II ~ MGM 2 (Saturday)
• Lost & Found Celebration (Sunday)

Apparently no one ...

Well i thought taht HGS was going to take it

The Groundspeak Headquarter's Lost and Found Celebration on July 4th is only a 15-minute walk from Gas Works Park, site of the mega firework show over Lake Union. The fireworks were almost cancelled this year due to lack of corporate funding, but the business community stepped up and raised $500,000 for the show. (Groundspeak pledged $1,000 for the Family 4th show.)

Sounds like the place to be on the 4th!

The attached document details the Family 4th events at Gas Works Park on July 4, site of the firework display. And they even have a dunk tank and a giant compass!

I wonder if we can get sweetj or Enbay1 to go. They could make sure the dunk tank is working properly. I'm sure there are plenty of cachers who have good aim to get the job done.*wink*

Updated list of 11 events:

• XXX Rootbeer: Early Bird Welcome! Meet n Greet (Wednesday)
• Just Around the Corner from Geowoodstock (Thursday)
• Team Podcacher Meet & Greet (Thursday)
• On the Road to GeoWoodstock: Everett (Thursday)
• On the Road to Geowoodstock VIII ~ Waterville Hwy2 (Thursday)
• Going APE! (Friday)
• COWWS Friday Meet & Greet and Luau Friday)
• Geowoodstock VIII (Saturday)
• C.I.T.O. @ GW VIII (Saturday)
• Midnight Geocoin Madness II ~ MGM 2 (Saturday)
• Lost & Found Celebration (Sunday)

Maybe all the LCCF members attending GW8 should meet at the totem pole for a group photo sometime during the event. Anybody interested?

Sure, as long as there isn't something else going on!

Sigh, This worker bee is envious

Sure! Shall we all private message our cell phone numbers, so we can text (or call, for text-o-phobes) our rendevouz? Or do we just want to set a time and place?

I thought I had the coords for the totem pole, but I was wrong. I'll post them once I get confirmation.

The organizers say the totem pole is at
N 47° 37.875 W 121° 53.821

Those coords are about 3,400 feet from the GW8 posted coords, but COWWS say this about that:

HF just ordered some wallet-sized photos of the GW8 group. He chose the $5 photo package.

I'll be the one walking right past the totem pole. I'll be staring at my GPS, following the arrow and checking the distance to destination and forget to look up. Grab me as I walk by! See you there.

Just don't walk into the totem pole enjoy your visit.

I really wanted a hoody, however, I indeed opted for the $ 5 in wallet sized. Gaseous terribly gaseous.

To view the GW8 schedule, click here.

Any thoughts on when to do a gettogether? I will probably be playing geocoin poker starting at 1. Probably because although I didn't make the initial draw of 40 players I'm number 2 on the wait list and they say they've never used less than 10 from that list.

I'm guessing that a time before lunch might be best.

How does 11:30 sound to everyone?

Sounds good to me. (But I haven't worn a watch for two years. Or a tie.)

I haven't worn a tie since 1970, and been without a watch most of that time as well, but the advent of cell phones means I'm rarely without a clock. My GPSer adds one more clock to the mix!

well ill see if i can go!

Sounds good to me.

Anybody figure out how to get to the Lost & Found Celebration on July 4? I downloaded the bus schedule, but it looks like a schematic drawing for a binary clock. I'm taking my passport just in case I end up in Canada.

Oh, boy! Bubbleman* will be at the Lost & Found event; plus a scavenger hunt for a limited edition trackable. Read more here.


* Bubbleman's bubbleosophy:
I bubbelieve that we the people are just like bubbles.
We are all different shapes, colours and sizes, just like bubbles
and some of us last longer than others, just like bubbles...
and though our surface tensions may vary,
we all come from the same Source, just like bubbles.
All bubbles come from joy.
All people come from Love, because only Love exists.
When we don't know we come from Love, we fall in Love.
When we realize we come from Love, we rise in Love...
just like bubbles.

On last night's Geocaching podcast, Jen from Groundspeak announced that the new 2010 Lackey geocoin will be released at the Lost and Found Celebration. She also said that signing the logwall at the event is for both the Groundspeak Headquarters and the Lost and Found event. (Yes, in lieu of a logbook they will have a log wall.) Entrance to the event is at 34th and Evanston.

She also said to keep an eye out for the Troll.

Anybody here remember the TV show Twin Peaks? It was one of my favorite shows, at least until it got all weird. I loved the music and I loved the waterfall.

Snoqualmie Falls is only a dozen miles from GW8:
N 47° 32.590 W 121° 50.250
And there's an earthcache there too!

Here's the icon you'll get for attending the July 4 Lost & Found Celebration.

Come to the Podcacher Meet & Greet on Thursday and get treated to free pizza!

And look for me at the Podcacher booth at GW8 to get a raffle ticket for prizes! (There will be a flyer in your GW registration packet.)

Oh, oh. They broke Signal the Frog!

this is all over my head

If you're going to the Root Beer event Wednesday night be sure and bring money. A hamburger is $13.00.

I think I saw Buddy Holly tonight.

I enjoyed a nice, leisurely breakfast this morning with someone that humboldt flier knows and loves. But sweetj's name came up the most often in conversation. (Not to worry, I said very nice things about both of you.)

Can you guess who it was? (Or is it whom?)

Before I click the "Show Me!" button my guess is either Krypton or Nomex.

He was at the Podcacher meet 'n greet today also.

After this morning I'm pretty sure I'll never get a cache published again. I'll have to change my name to humboldt flier just to have a chance.

So what did I miss this morning?

YIKES! So, what happened so we can learn the lesson without having to have to many HFs around here?

Hey association with my name will cause you to be guilty by mere association.

Then your goose will truly be cooked

At least one Lost Coast Cacher completed the Geocaching Challenge Course today and earned a bandana, t-shirt, trackable geoteam tag, and a big gold medal to wear at LCCF breakfasts.

The "as the crow flies" route was about 5.1 miles through the streets of Fremont, including some heavy-panting hills and staircases. I'm not sure what the final mileage was—I'm just glad it's over.

Jeremy in the dunk tank. (I'm pretty sure they stole that idea from me.)

I think I spot one Lost Coast Cacher at the APE cache. Or is that Sasquatch?

The day before the Going APE! event someone stole the lid to the APE cache container (and the coin attached to it). Now they're having another event to replace the lid: Putting a Lid on the APE.

Following the event some may go to Twede's Cafe (aka Twin Peaks Cafe) for some cherry pie and a "damn fine cup o' coffee."

yah what did i miss

THATS ALL!!!! :hijacked: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CqaLAm1nOY