Finding the last cache in your area….

[Team B Squared]

@marc_54140 wrote:

If you are really desperate, I’ll come up and plant a few puzzles.

Do it, that would make them a lot closer to hunt if I can figure them out. 😆

[Astro_D]

I remember the days when we had Green Bay, Appleton and Manty “cleaned” up. Now….well Appleton area is just one big geocache icon as there are too many, Green Bay we are letting pile up so we have something to do close to home someday (and easier pickings for filling in squares on the find a cache each day grid), and Manty is just about cleaned up (to our standards anyway).

We like to see how long it takes until the caches start piling up again after we “clean” an area. It doesn’t seem to take too long nowadays.

[Sagasu]

I, too, remember having two counties around Appleton cleaned out, and keeping it that way for a couple years – until about a year ago when the next generation explosion and “selzzup” hit. It’s not a bad thing, but maddening sometimes! 😯 Jim and Cathy, you can visit more often, though some days I’d like to escape to the north! 😉

[Timberline Echoes]

Nope too many family members in the Fox Valley. The don’t get caching and expect me to visit while there.. 😯

[Todd300]

Well, I have some modest goals right now. They are as follows:

1) Get all 13 counties in the UP of Michigan. I’ve got 3 (Menominee, Delta, Dickinson) thus far and will get more once my kids start their high school bowling season next month. We’ll be going up to Bruce Crossing, L’anse, and Marquette among others. Then we have Michigan state regionals in Traverse City, so I’ll get more counties on US Highway 2 along the way to the Big Mac Bridge. Not sure how many more counties there are after I pass through Delta County on US 2. Then I’ll get the Western UP in the spring with a possible goal of getting the Norich View for my 400th.

2) I don’t think I’ll ever get all 72 counties in Wisconsin. That will take me years as I don’t have time to drive that much. For example, to get to the extreme southwest corner of WI like near the Iowa border, that will take me 7 hours minimum – without stopping. I don’t think there is a macro for GSAK to tell me what counties that I’ve found so far, so I’ll have to go to INATN to upload “My Finds”, but I think as of today, I have 6 counties completed in WI. So I have a ways to go yet.

3) Delorme sounds complicated, Trudy. I have no desire to pick up a book to see what pages I need to get. I’ll skip that.

4) As for the 365 day challenge, It will also be years before I find one cache for each day of the year. I’ve only started caching this past April. But I do have one small goal and that is to find at least one cache for each numeral day of a month. According to my GSAK stats, I have never made a find of the 15th, the 18th, or the 31st of any month. I’ll have the 31st crossed off my list this weekend when I go after #300 overall. It looks like I won’t get the 15th or 18th next month as I work on both days next month, so we’ll see when I get those days crossed off my list.

5) As for getting all 50 states, that will never happen. The last time I’ve been to a state other than the ones bordering WI was when I went to FL for Spring Break back in 1986. The Detroit Lions has a better chance of winning a Super Bowl than me getting all 50 states – lol. So I set a more realistic goal of getting the oldest cache in each of the states bordering WI. The one in MI may be a problem though because I need a boat to get to it. It’s near Traverse City. But I think I can get the others.

6) A major numbers run. The most I’ve found in one day is only 21 caches. I feel I can at least double that sometime next summer when I can get more daylight. I had a great run just this past Monday when I found 8 WSQ’s of Sweetlifes in just 2 hours. I figure if I can find a dense area and plan it just right, I can do that pace for an entire day from dusk to dawn and end up with 50+ finds in one day I’ll probably go to West Bend for this run, though I’ll do it sometime in June, not at the Cache Bash.

7) Finally….a D5 cache…to date, I have never found a D5, thought I’ve yet to even attempt one. I doubt I’ll complete the grid for the well rounded cacher, but I do want an opportunity to get at least one D5. As for a T5, that usually takes special equipment like a boat or climbing gear, so I usually skip T5’s.

Well, there you have it. Those are my goals for right now.

[nohandsgps]

@Todd300 wrote:

Well, I have some modest goals right now. They are as follows:
4) As for the 365 day challenge, It will also be years before I find one cache for each day of the year. I’ve only started caching this past April.

I didn’t know there was a 365 day challenge. I am on day 60 something. With winter on the way I don’t know how many more consecutive days I will go. I will keep cachin’ wether I get it or I don’t! It gives me something to do in the morning.

[Todd300]

The 365 Day challenge that I’m talking about is that you need to have at least 1 find on each day of a calendar year over the course of your geocaching career. Actually it should be 366 days when you factor in Leap Years.

If you look at my profile and see my 365 day grid, you will see that I have a lot of holes to fill, but I only started caching of april of this year. Come next April, I’ll be planning to cache on the days that I did not cache this year so I can fill in those grids. It will probably take me quite a few years to do it and the winter months (Dec-Feb) will be the toughest to fill in the grid for obvious reasons unless I go south 😉

Hope I make sense here.

I doubt anyone has done 365 days in a row, but I could be wrong.

[sandlanders]

@Todd300 wrote:

I doubt anyone has done 365 days in a row, but I could be wrong.

Some have, but I can’t remember who around here. I know there was somebody, though.

[sandlanders]

[cheezehead]

I have all but 1 cache with in 10 mile radius of Hayward. The rest are mine, or I helped with. That 1 caches I get beat to the FTF. It would have been my 1st or 2nd. 2 gals were walking into it as I pulled up.
So I hit the other one just down the road and got the FTF. This was during my luch hour too and I was a fresh newbie. I not sure why I haven’t gone and found that one yet. I think it’s my safety valve. I f I really have the need to hunt for one, it’s there.

[marc_54140]

Check out the bookmark listings on this web site.

I believe it is Pharmgirl who maintains a challenges list.

Also, watch challenge caches for other bookmarks. There is a guy somewhere that maintains listings for ALL challenges everywhere. Quite interesting.

[Ray]

Here is another thought.. Grow your geocaching community. 1.) Hold a caching seminar with the help of the local scouts, DNR or outdoor gear shop. 2.) Plant a seed cache [ammo box filled with 35mm film canisters containing logs.. ready to go ..you gotta plant one to count the mother cache]. 3.) Talk to the local HS technology or math teacher, get him/her interested, take him/her along. … get a HS geocaching club going. 4.) Host an event – meet & greet – talk-up the activity with other local cachers, get them interested in doing the things we have discussed.

There are still a few of us who can claim to have once cached-out Milwaukee county.

Above all, Never say Never. Trudy & the beast are within a couple of years of completing the 50 State challenge.

[-cheeto-]

Move?

[Ray]

@-cheeto- wrote:

Move?

Now that’s Cheezy. 😀

[kbraband]

In the interest of physical health and the health of the environment, I have established a goal for myself of seeking only those geocaches that involve no additional gasoline consumption. That is, I won’t drive my car *just* to find a geocache. I’ve been thinking about this as a goal for quite some time and started practicing it this past weekend when I walked four miles from my home to find a geocache. That particular cache hunt was really more about the walk than it was the geocache, but having the geocache out there gave me the goal/destination. Then on Tuesday I found another geocache while out for a noontime run along the lakefront. This “carbon nuetral” goal doesn’t rule out that I sometimes arrive at a geocache in a car, but my goal is to do so only if it’s along a route that I would be traveling anyway for other purposes, such as going to or from work or traveling to visit friends or family. I realize there’s lots of room for interpretation and grey areas under these self-imposed guidelines, but I feel that if I stick to my overall objective, it will help me be healthier, save me money and in a small way contribute to the health of the planet.

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