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Thraxman 23 years, 7 months ago.
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Originally posted by kbraband:
Let me add that if you HAVE found more than 100 caches, you’re not damaging the environment as long as your average number of finds is not more than 10.7 per month. (I believe that’s the official number from the EPA.)Great, just great…
Not only are we over 100, AND drive a Suburban…
Our average is 15.4 per month! Now we’re really in trouble!
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Not only are we over 100, AND drive a Suburban…Our average is 15.4 per month! Now we’re really in trouble!
This just in from the “Nasty Rumor Mill”…
Alan leaves his Suburban IDLING while he’s hunting a cache so he can save a few seconds getting to the next one!Then again, I should talk… I drove 500 miles round trip several months ago to hit some caches in St. Louis. But it was worth the impact on the environment just to see Sam fall victim to the “Blood Cache”.
Sam: “Found it”
(WILD THRASHING SOUND)
Sam: “BWWWAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
Sam: “AAAAAYYYYYYYYEEEEEEIIIIIIIII!!!!!”Idling
That’s only on the caches we can’t fit the Suburban down the trails on. It can mow down anything up to 3 inches in diameter, and climb over anything up to and including Spotted Owl in size. Anything more rugged we get out and walk…
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Originally posted by Thraxman:
But it was worth the impact on the environment just to see Sam fall victim to the “Blood Cache”.Sam: “Found it”
(WILD THRASHING SOUND)
Sam: “BWWWAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
Sam: “AAAAAYYYYYYYYEEEEEEIIIIIIIII!!!!!”[/B]
BWWWAAAA is Swahili for “I beat you to yet another cache, Joe, my friend”, and AAAAAAYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEIIIIIIII is, of course, “It’s right here, beneath this giant nine foot spider”. When one speaks Swahili, one must enunciate most forcefully, you know. :0
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Originally posted by Yawningdog:
When one speaks Swahili, one must enunciate most forcefully, you know. :0Ah… COOL… you know Swahili!!! Splendid!!! Could you please translate THIS for me: “Hey Joe, I am being kicked out of the Casino by a 95-year-old security guard!”
That gaurd was obviously a few cards short of a deck.
BTW… Blood Cache would be my vote for cache of the month if it was located in Wisconsin and if it wasn’t archived.
I have formed the Geo-Dashing team “Rabid Badgers”. Jeremy, and anyone else interested in joining, all you need to do is use the link provided at http://geodashing.home.attbi.com/
to join the Geodashing Yahoo group, which they use for message posts and file storage. Once a member, post a message to the group stating you want to join team “Rabid Badgers”, and I will then Post a message saying “Cool, you’re in”, and they will add you to the team.I also posted my first Dashpoint reached immediately after I formed the team. The Dash-Point was about 13 miles west of Janesville, located in a field. Because you only need to be withing 100 meters of a dashpoint to score it, I was able to walk a few paces off of Tolles road, watch my GPS click down to 97 meters and call it a score. It would have been nice to walk to the exact point, but I saw no reason to walk any farther into the field seeing as it was actually someone’s property, and I couldn’t really tell which farm it belonged to to ask permission.
I met some cows near the dashpoint at the corner of Hwy 14 and Tolles Road, and checked out a very small, very old cemetery directly across the road from the cows. The cows seemed confused, perhaps even totally perplexed that I was was near the fence. Guess they just don’t normally get visitors
“I also posted my first Dashpoint reached immediately after I formed the team. The Dash-Point was about 13 miles west of Janesville, located in a field. Because you only need to be withing 100 meters of a dashpoint to score it, I was able to walk a few paces off of Tolles road, watch my GPS click down to 97 meters and call it a score. It would have been nice to walk to the exact point, but I saw no reason to walk any farther into the field seeing as it was actually someone’s property, and I couldn’t really tell which farm it belonged to to ask permission.”
Must be like Harley Davidsons. If you have to explain, I wouldn’t understand.
Steve Bukosky
Waukeshaquote:
Originally posted by sbukosky:
Must be like Harley Davidsons. If you have to explain, I wouldn’t understand.Ok… I’ll bite.
What’s that question that you wanted to ask, but didn’t?Oh, no question really. I’ve looked into Geodashing but it just doesn’t trip my trigger. Of course, that’s no reason to prevent others from enjoying it. I made my comment along the vein of why climb a mountain. Of course, beacause its there. So then why Geodash? Because its not there?
Steve Bukosky
Waukeshaquote:
Originally posted by sbukosky:
I made my comment along the vein of why climb a mountain. Of course, beacause its there. So then why Geodash? Because its not there?Hehe… something like that. The Dash-Points are random points around the globe, picked each month. No cache to find, just get within a hundred meters of the point. The challenge and fun arises from the fact that being random points, you never know where you’ll wind up, and you can never even be sure if it is POSSIBLE to reach a point. My first dashpoint was in a corn field. Not very exciting. MY next one happened to be about a half mile inside off a highway in the Collins Wildlife Refuge, a place that I lived near as a kid, but never knew about! A good number of otherwise reachable dashpoint fall into private property, and this in itself makes it interesting. Many dashers seem to enjoy knocking on the door of the property owner to ask permission, explaining what they are trying to accomplish. Very often the owner is quite interested, and I have seen posts where the owner even tags along for fun
The challeng in Geocaching is finding an object concealed by another cacher, and the reward is often visiting an area that the cache hider enjoyed, and wanted to show others. The challenge in Geodashing is reaching a random point that, because nobody actually ever placed a cache or even walked out to, may be unreachable, and may be virtually anywhere. Preplanning (Studying maps, topos, and satelite images) is actually more important in dashing than in caching.
In a nutshell, caching and dashing are as different as they are similar. Dashing may not appeal to all, but I find it an interesting variation.
Team Rabid Badgers currently has 3 members: Myself, Jeremy, and a man in Australia called “Dashing DOg Mac”. We did nicely last month, being only a couple dashpoint out of 4th place. This is pretty good seeing as we only have 3 team members, and started very late in the month!
We have room for 2 more members, if anyone cares to join, let myself or Jeremy know. We think it’d be fun to get more cachers from Wisconsin or the midwest involved, so you all have first chance to join before I post to the dashing group for global members.
Hey Thrax, is there a link you can provide where the rest of us can watch how the Rabid Badgers are doing?
Thanks, and good luck!
Try http://www.geodashing.org which is the main page. Click on “Summary” under “Current Game”. Actually, a more dirext link would be http://www.seaotters.net/~scout/Scoreboard/index.htm
Right now last month’s game scores are still up, I expect them to reset to the April game in a day or so. Looks like we finished 6th. Gee, if that farmer had been home so I could have gotten permission to walk out into his field, we would have finished 4th
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