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[brat]

Hey all...got an email recently from a fellow who's helping a Saskatchewan friend/cacher with a university project.

It seems he needs a survey filled out by GeoCachers.

If you want to participate, do the following:

1) Copy the Survey (below) into an Email
2) Answer the Survey (in your email program)
3) Send the survey to: cachestudy@hotmail.com

DO NOT ANSWER THE SURVEY IN THE FORUMS,

But feel free to discuss it here




Here's the Survey:

Thank you for taking the time to take this survey it is appreciated.
Please indicate if you are a SK resident or not. You can answer the questions by bolding or underlining them. Or just write them out again after the questions.

1) How many times a year do you go geocaching?
1-5
5-10
10-20
More than 20

2) What is the furthest you have travelled to go geocaching?
Less than 100km
100-200km
200-400km
400-800km
More than 800km

3) Do you plan extended holidays (longer than a weekend) for which geocaching is the main activity?
Yes
No

4) How much money, on average do you spend on extended holidays (longer than a weekend) per year?
$0-$500
$500-$1000
$1000-$2000
Over $2000

5) Would you be interested in visiting wilderness resorts in Northern Saskatchewan that offered plentiful and various types of caches such as offset or muti-caches?
Yes
No

6) What other types of outdoor/adventure activities do you partake in?
Select all that apply:
-Backcountry camping / Hiking
-Canoeing / Kayaking
-Serviced camping (designated campgrounds)
-X-country skiing / Snowshoeing
-ATV / Snowmobiling / Horseback Riding
-Hunting / Fishing
-Other (please specify)

7) Would you be more interested in visiting a Wilderness Resort in Northern Saskatchewan if it offered packages that enabled you do one or more of the activities listed above while geocaching?(For example a multi-stage cache along a river that must be canoed or kayaked, or a long multi-stage cache that requires a multi-day hike and backcountry camping)
Yes
No

Please forward the survey to
"Dave Boschman"
cachestudy@hotmail.com
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[Ranger Bob]

Sent mine off. Howdy strangers!
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"I am still alive and well and have not been killed in some tragic accident involving alcohol,
geekery, GPS, fire, water, and/or high voltage. Yet!" - RB

N53 35.152 W113 24.741, Phhhhzzt!

[brat]

Hey bud, welcome back..nice to see you still alive

Brat
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[Kaslo]

Done.

I can see the full-color brochure now:

"Attention Geocaching Fanatics, spend your next holiday at the GeoGeek Ranch, located in beautiful Fort Cannibal, Saskatchewan.

Fort Cannibal, located on the shores of lovely Uranium Lake, is an abandoned Hudson's Bay fur trading post with an unfortunate past. Located 1.5 hours north of Prince Albert by floatplane, the GeoGeek Ranch is a fully-serviced yet rustic retreat that caters to all of your back-to-nature/technological needs. Every one of our seven rustic Geekshacks offer all the comforts of home, including high-speed wireless Internet, and our patented back-to-basics "Super-pooper" outhouses. (Paperless option available at no charge.) We offer fishing, canoeing and cross-county-skiing related "theme caches". Ask about our Honeymoon Package.

Or maybe I'm reading too much into this survey...

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[Mr. Speedy]

Well, the first question ends at "More than 20 times". I figure I must go out about 250 times a year!!! By the time it'll be a year of "active" caching for us (in February 2006), we'll probably be at 600 or 700 cache finds!!!

[brat]

[nicolo]

[Bush Creatures]

I sent the fellow an e-mail asking for more details and he gave them to me. Yes, it could be called a marketting survey. I think it is a cool idea.

At a conference at the high end Kananaskis Lodge this summer, I discovered they will lend guests GPSr's and give them a list of caches they have hidden. The caches are not part of geocaching.com but they reference it.