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09/11/2009 at 2:22 am #1728844
How large is your watch list…and why?
On the Left Side of the Road...09/11/2009 at 2:31 am #1914056I currently have 15 cache listings on my watch list. They fall under the following categories….
1)Interesting caches we’ve found. I want to see what others say when they find them. This would be things like the DeLorme Challenge and the Blackout cache in MN.
2) Caches that we’d really like to do some day but haven’t. Things like EskoClimbers “Cliffhanger” in Duluth, an old crypt EarthCache in Indiana and the Isle Royale Earthcache are examples. If we find these…and it happens….I might keep them on the watchlist or let go and move on.
3) Personal interest, like the Silver Ammo can that was put out for us when we hit 1000.
4) Very rarely….DNFs, just to see if they turn up or were missing. Usually only if it was a cache we really wanted to find, like a letterbox. Otherwise, DNFs are just another part of the sport to us.
09/11/2009 at 2:41 am #19140578 on the watch list. Three are ones we found memorable for one reason or another, and we want to see who is finding them (or not) and what they have to say. Three are puzzles to see if any notes were posted with new hints, except we have found two of those and liked them, so see the above for that now. The other two are tough ones (a puzzle and a multi) we haven’t been able to get back to. We see that lots of others are having problems with them, too.
In checking just now , I discovered an archived cache that I deleted–didn’t need it any more. Same goes if I’m watching an event that I may not remember to check on frequently–delete the watch when the event is over.
Having comparatively few finds, I have the luxury of cruising up and down our Found list or DNF list every so often to see if a particular cache strikes my fancy to do a check on. Getting harder to do now after hitting 500, though. Also cruise the trackables once in a while to see where the ones we’ve found are.
09/11/2009 at 2:45 am #191405860 right now. Usually 50-80.
Upcoming events.
Recent dnf’s to find out if they are missing or it was us.
A half dozen of our daughter’s teams hides.
New hides we want to find, but for some reason would like to read someone elses log before we try.
Fun hides we just found to read the next few logs.Took off 3 or 4 in the last week and added about the same.
09/11/2009 at 2:45 am #1914059I have about a dozen. Mostly challenges to see who or how often they’re being accomplished. Some of the others are kind of being used as bookmarks. If I know that I will be somewhere that I normally don’t go to, or very rarely go to, I can quickly reference that spot, get other nearby caches, and eye up the ones that are found often if I will be under a time restraint.
09/11/2009 at 2:46 am #19140608 on my watchlist, some of the first trackables I found just to watch where they go, and DNF’s go on, so I can go looking if maint is done or someone else finds them.
09/11/2009 at 3:00 am #1914061It occurred to me I didn’t answer my own question.
140 for us! Holy cow. But sagasu I bet you have us beat. 😆
The vast majority are caches we liked a lot that we want to read about others’ experiences. But we’re the type that like to read interesting logs. Most of the rest are are vexing DNFs.
On the Left Side of the Road...09/11/2009 at 3:02 am #1914062@gotta run wrote:
It occurred to me I didn’t answer my own question.
140 for us! Holy cow.
You must get quite a few email notifications on those.
09/11/2009 at 5:20 am #1914063We have 46 caches on our watchlist.
In addition to that I maintain a bookmark of our favorite caches. For that bookmark I get an email for each log, essentially putting them on my watchlist. There are 115 caches in that list.
On top of that we have 98 caches that are currently active that we receive emails for.
Watchlist + bookmark = 161 caches
Watchlist + bookmark + owned caches = 259 caches
I do get a lot of emails, but I enjoy reading them because I don’t get to cache as often as I like so reading about other people’s adventures gives me a little bit of a caching fix when I can’t go.
09/11/2009 at 10:39 am #1914064I watch all ECs I helped create and a handfull of other caches which I plan to find in he future…so currently I have 24 listings I’m peeking at.
09/11/2009 at 11:12 am #1914065@sandlanders wrote:
@gotta run wrote:
It occurred to me I didn’t answer my own question.
140 for us! Holy cow.
You must get quite a few email notifications on those.
Surprisingly few. Looking at the list, it’s because most of them on there are difficult puzzles, terrains, or both. Many of them we discovered through the LCG. 8)
On the Left Side of the Road...09/11/2009 at 11:58 am #19140668 caches on my watch list and 2 trackables.
Here are the caches on my watch list:
Camelback Cinema | The Passings of Mr Pink (remove)
Dark Knight | Super-Serums (remove)
Innervisions | Up the Rabbit Hole (remove)
Pareidolia 🙂 Big Smiles Every One (remove)
Phenomenal | Solid, Liquid, Gas… Plasma? (remove)
Start Yer Yakin’ | Backwater Banter (remove)
Start Yer Yakin’ | Join the Club (remove)
Tributary | Exploding Cheeto’s Inevitable (remove)As to my rhyme or reason to my watch list, it’s mostly curiosity. I am always adding and subtracting from this list so that’s why it stays pretty short.
I also look at the recent logs on our WGA site a couple times a day which satisfies the voyeur in me 😉
09/11/2009 at 12:11 pm #1914067We are down to 4 on the watchlist – the two Long Tail Caches, CSI>Espionage cache, and a Benchmark Event in Kansas.
09/11/2009 at 3:30 pm #1914068I have 1 cache event I am watching. However I have 30 trackables on my watch list.
09/11/2009 at 4:17 pm #1914069I have 21 on my watchlist. Mostly difficult puzzles from all over. I do have one EarthCache on my watchlist, so that I can learn some faces out there.
And two coins.
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