Camp Hobe is a special summer camp designed for children with cancer and their siblings, who are often forgotten in the cancer...]]> It’s that time again,

Camp Hobe is a special summer camp designed for children with cancer and their siblings, who are often forgotten in the cancer experience. Camp Hobe gives kids the opportunity to participate in camp activities just like healthy children whose families are not affected by cancer. This is their chance sometimes their only chance to just be kids and to escape the grown-up realities they face every day.

Where:

Camp Hobe is in Tooele, it’s held at Camp Wipiti up Settlement Canyon. Turn left off of Main Street (36) at N40 30.975 W112 18.289, You will pass by the reservoir, there is a shack that collects money for entrance. Tell the person in the shack that you are volunteering at the camp and they will let you in without paying. Continue up the road until you reach N40 30.076 W112 17.260, there take another left and that will take you to the camp.

When:

Kids week,  June 12, 2012 9:45am (Tuesday)

Teen week,  June 20, 2012 1:40pm (Wednesday)

How can YOU help? There are plenty of ways:

1. First and foremost, We need volunteers!! We need cachers to help the kids find the caches. If you can help out one or both days, that would be fantastic! I realize that these days fall on a weekday and many of you have jobs, school, lives... But I promise not to tell your bosses if you just happen to call in sick on one or both of these days! And I also promise you that this will be an amazing and rewarding experience for you.

2. We have arranged with the Magellan rep. to barrow some GPS units to use this year. This is such a big help I can’t thank Magellan enough! Just in case something goes wrong or even if it doesn’t please bring your GPS units with you so we will have enough to go around. We host a large number of children who all want a chance to use the GPS unit.

3. If none of these options work for you, I could always use a small donation to help buy the SWAG. I need to fill 6 caches with enough SWAG for about 125-150 kids (times that by 6 and that's a lot of SWAG). I will be buying everything from the Oriental Trading company to keep the cost down. I am not looking for large donations. Even $3-$5 will help! Please use the link below to make a donation. The donation button is on the right hand side of the page where it says "GIVE!"

http://fundrazr.com/campaigns/eJ3N7

Our contact information:

Jan & Ken Morales

gotwings716@msn.com

801-865-5857

Thanks,

Jan & Ken (gotwings & WindBeneath)

This is just a reminder and should be common sense f...]]> http://www.thepublicopinion.com/news/local_news/article_03f45340-952e-11e1-a4b5-0019bb2963f4.html

This is just a reminder and should be common sense for all of us players here.  Private property is private property.  When law enforcement has to get involved in our game and when they don't understand, rules and regulations (more than they already are) will be put in place restricting how we play. 

All I ask is that we all play according to the rules so that we may continue to play without any issues.  There may be times where playing within the rules is totally legit but there may still be some issues.  In these cases, use common sense.

http://co...]]> I know this is not in UT, but I thougth we would invite any UTAG members to join us at  the CITO at the Bear River State Park in Evanston WY.

http://coord.info/GC3CN77

Evanston is about an hour from SLC and Ogden.

I was gifted a nice geocoin, copy tag...]]> While I know that you all can only offer your opinions on this and not a real answer, I would love to hear them.

I was gifted a nice geocoin, copy tag, and pin set that are pretty cool.  The copy tag has the tracking code and a pretty goor representation of the artwork on the coin. So, of course, my dillema is whether to send out the actual coin or so send out the copy tag and keep the coin.  I am sure everyone has varying opinions on the subject, and in the end I just have to decide.

What would/do you all do when you have such a set?

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Here is a link the the Geocaching.com forum that talks...]]> I was recommended by a member of UTAG to post of photo of these coins here in the UTAG forum.

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Here is a link the the Geocaching.com forum that talks more about them, http://forums.groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=271754

These coins were made by RRinc (roundhouse restoration inc. a non-profit) as a fund raiser to help with the restoration of the Evanston WY Roundhouse.

The coins are $10 each and if  you pick them up in person they are $25 for a set of three. If you want them mailed, you can send me a message and I will send out paypal invoices.