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http://www.geocaching.com/about/icons.aspx
Here could be a fun question for you. Please check out the link above to view all the available Icons you may or may not have seen in a cache’s description. If we want to get technical a real cache hide has of limit to 12, I think, but choose as many or as few as you want.
If you were a geocache what Icons would be in your cache description?
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***Opinions expressed are mine alone and will change based upon new information. ***
LostCheq’s Geocache Icons would be:
Available In Winter, XC Ski, Snowshoe Icons — I believe Helly Hansen’s quote, “There is no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing.” I love the winter snow and ice. I grew up along the west shore of Lake Winnebago and would ice skate, play hockey, and ice fish all winter (having an older brother and boys in the neighborhood helps). Now I have XC Skiing and snowshoeing as a major part of my current winter activities. I love winter geocaches to use skis and snowshoes to seek out these Winter Friendlies. The winter season was also my motivation to moving ‘Up North’ to be in the snow belt of Wisconsin.
Abandoned Structures Icon — Being close to Upper Michigan, I enjoying exploring the many historic caches sites of the copper mining era. Geocache ‘jay2’ has brought me to wonderful mining structures in the Copper Country. Along with this, historic and earthcaches are some of my favorite cache types.
Field Puzzle Icon — No ‘armchair caching’ allowed! Interaction on-site is interesting to me, as there is an element of surprise and wonder what is needed to be found. I would include my enjoyment of Earthcaches in this category. This type of field puzzle is one of my favorite ones. Natural and earth sciences have always been interesting to me. As a child I was also ‘finding and observing’ looking for arrowheads, rocks, interesting pieces of driftwood, leaves, birding, etc. As an adult, geocaching just fits the “inner child within me.”
Hunting Icon — To me the hunting icon equals wide open spaces of undeveloped lands. This also means the sighting of wildlife and their signs will be likely to observe. I live in Bayfield County with a 47% publicly owned landbase. The Wisconsin Geocaching Association State Park Series within the Lake Superior Northwoods Biome is home sweet home to me! I’m also a veteran whitetail deer hunter (bow and rifle). To be in the woods, sitting very still and observing nature, is an incredible rewarding experience. Geocaching to me rewards me with a similar experience, bringing me to the woods, where I can observe nature.
Wheelchair Accessible — Geoaching can be many different experiences to a wide variety of people. I took note of a Board Member’s request for wheelchair accessible caches at our WGA picnics and campouts and made this a priority for this past Pattison State Park Fall Picnic cache hides. There can be a balance to our hides to reach everyone in our caching community. Perhaps the WGA could turn this request into an actual program in the future. Caches Accessible to All?
I’d Rather Be Lost Geocaching, Than Found At Home!
This is definitely a fun question to answer with many possibilities for each attribute. However, the attributes that I think that would be in my cache description are as follows:
1. Recommended for Kids-If my last name (Children) gave you any indication of the type of cache I would be, this would be one that is very fitting. The first time I volunteered to help the WGA was at Pike Lake State Park in 2014. I had no idea what to expect and did this solo. I brought along geocaching containers and TBs that I thought would be a good teaching tool for anyone that visited the WGA booth. I wasn’t quite sure what I needed to do so I observed what the other volunteers were doing. Much to my surprise, the items that I brought, as well as the others on display, caught the eye of many kids. It also helped that I brought some swag to hand out for the curious onlookers 😉 Having been a volunteer for Special Olympics for many years, I was able to connect and engage those young minds and their parents as to what our hobby was all about. After packing up for the day, I hoped that I may have been key into molding those young minds into the future generation of responsible and educated cachers.
2. Tourist Friendly-Throughout my life, I have made many friends from all over the world. I have a genuine interest in learning about other people and their cultures. The same can be said for the geocaching community. I have a genuine interest in meeting and learning new things from people right here in our own state.
3. Teamwork Required-Sometimes we all need a little help whether it’s in our own personal lives or while caching. I believe in helping others and being a part of a team that works for the better good of all people and circumstances.
4. Partnership Cache-In my professional life, I have a lot of partners. Without them, I could never get the answers, the information, or the training I need to excel in my own position. Having good relationships with those partners creates a common goal of an excellent end product no matter what that end product may be.
5. No Ticks-There is a reason why our day grid in May, June, and July is not filled. I hate ticks. They give me the heebie jeebies. I have never encountered one while living in the concrete jungle of the big city for most of my life. However, while caching in early May one year in the Kettle Moraine, I got a tick. Didn’t know about it until the next morning. I had this pain very early in the morning and thought to myself, great, I am getting shingles because of the location of the pain (this due to my boss at work having shingles and telling me about the symptoms). Whatever, I will deal with it in the “real” morning. Needless to say, it ended up being an Urgent Care visit on a Sunday after I looked in the mirror and saw this black thing wriggling around under my skin. EEEKKKK!!!! Yes, I have taken better preventative measures since that time, but you will probably find me in a boat hunting for the fish of 10,000 casts during the summer months. You live and you learn.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
-Henry David Thoreau
Dogs
Seeing as tho I raise Labrador Retrievers this has to be one of my attributes. Nothing better than having a new batch of them little fur friends running around causing trouble. I enjoy seeing the smileys on the kids faces when they come to pick out a new addition to the family.
When I get home after a long day of geocaching my fur kids are always glad to see me, or maybe it’s just because they have to pee real bad.Recommended for kids
We’re all kids at heart! I’m like a little kid in a candy store when it comes to Menards or a Hobby Shop. If I could afford it I would have every adult toy or tool on the planet.
I can get right in the thick of it playing in the sandbox with kids. After all, those are the times kids will remember for the rest of there lives. The little things are the important things! Everything else is just stuff.Campfires
Nothing better than sitting by the campfire on a warm summer night with good friends or even by yourself. Listining to the crackling fire, burning a few marshmallows with a cold beverage of your choice. The frogs croaking off in the distance. The Sparks floating up into the stars as you stare into the fire and think about that next geocache creation to build.
Life is good! 🙂Scenic view
As your walking down a winding trail (on your way to a cache of coarse)
You walk down a hill you can hear the rushing water getting louder and louder, the crunchy leaves under your feet. Around the bend you come to the bottom of a massive waterfall crashing into the rocks below. The mist of the water hitting you in the face as you admire what God has created, to me that is one of the most beautiful places on earth. Noisy and peaceful at the same time!Ticks
Ummm (NO)Lost and Found Tour
Yep, we all do it. Take the wrong path to ground zero. I do more often than not. Get tangled up in the thick brush, then it starts to move SNAKE….
you seem to get to the cache a lot quicker then even though you went the wrong wayFood Nearby
I sure hope so!
I’m kind of like the person in the Snickers commercial when it’s past my feeding time. With my rockin metabolism I’m like the Energizer Bunny.
Pizza anyone…Teamwork Required
There’s no I in team!
We all need to work together. It’s good to have alone time but it’s not as much fun as when your with a group of like minded friends knocking down Smileys. Bantering back and forth, taking friendly jabs at each other. I’ve met some of the best people I’ve ever known geocaching!———————————–
Life is a highway.No wait,I’ll take the unbeaten path through the woods!
Fun question! If I was a geocache my icons would include the following:
Campfire –Who doesn’t love a good campfire!
Available at all times – An adventure is always fun no matter what time.
Available during winter – While I’d love to hibernate, sometimes getting out during winter is helpful in fighting cabin fever.
Partnership cache – I do most of my geocaching solo, but since I’m a social person, it is quite fun to go with others also.
Scenic View – One of my favorite things about geocaching are the views! I love the places that geocaching has taken me, most of which I would never have known existed if it wasn’t for geocaching.
~ **~ All posts are my opinion and do not in any way reflect the opinion of the WGA Board of Directors ~**~
Attributes: (this is a fun one)
Recommended for Kids: Being a mom, it helps to have caches that are good for kids. My three year old absolutely loves caching but they have to be ones that don’t require a lot of bushwhacking. He isn’t real good at walking in the woods yet.
Boat: Who doesn’t enjoy a good kayak or boat ride in the summer!
Dog: I always take the geodog with me. There have been many hikes that he has loved running through the woods. On one particular power trail we were working on, he actually ran by and hit one of the caches with is foot, helping us find it.
Campfire: Good way to relax after a day of geocaching.
Scenic View: I always love a good view for some fall colors or river. One of the best view I have seen was up in Montreal Mine series. One cache was placed on top of a rather large hill to climb, but it gave an excellent view of Lake Superior and surrounding land.
Let’s give this a shot.
24/7 – I’m pretty much available at all times.
Park-N-Grab (NOT) – I feel they serve some purpose but not ones I seek out on a regular basis. Maybe for a quick fix.
Stealth – I’m kind of a shy person (stop laughing). I tend to keep to myself and solo cache, not drawing attention to what I am doing.
Bicycles – trying to hit the bike paths for a little caching and fitness.
Hike (any distance) – I enjoy the quiet hikes to pretty places.
Field Puzzle – I think of myself as a mystery that you need to be around me to really understand me – solve me if you can!
Disclaimer : Always answering to a higher power.
Quads – We love getting out on the trails in our RZR and have even hidden caches on the ATV trail system. When placing these we did keep in mind that not everyone has access to an atv so the majority of them are only a short distance from a main road so anyone can search for them.
Recommended for kids – We enjoy taking our grandkids with us and like to see the enjoyment on their faces when they find a cache. They love it when it has swag they can trade for. We own a couple caches that were placed specifically with kids in mind and we try to keep them stocked so kids can trade treasures when they find the cache.
Teamwork required – Many of the caches we find require teamwork. I have many pictures of me sitting or standing on someones shoulders in order to reach a cache so teamwork is a must. Not only that it is a lot of fun caching with a group. A lot of good chat and you learn a lot from each other.
Tourist friendly – We love going outside our area to find caches so of course tourist friendly is a must!!
Campfire – Telling stories around the fire is a great way to end the day.
No Ticks – Absolutely hate these little buggers. I try to spray my clothes with permethrin if I know the area is loaded with ticks
Scenic view – Who doesn’t love an awesome scenic view 🙂
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