Milestone "accuracy"

[Trekkin and Birdin]

Before I start my marathon day in the kitchen, I’m curious to know others’ opinions about this…..

We’re really close now to a major milestone. In fact, if we’re able to do some successful caching tomorrow, we have the possibility of reaching it this coming weekend. However…..

Any of those we’d like to do to mark it are of course in hunting areas, which we’ve been avoiding this week. We want to do all of those people have suggested, but have decided to do Felsenmeer Ridge and some of the others up there. The others people have suggested sound like the spring time months might be cooler for those, so we’re waiting. (Maybe by then we’ll need another landmark cache!)

Anyway…..for the purposes of logging a big milestone cache, do you sometimes fudge it a bit? Maybe you’ve done 545, but you work your log so that the one you want for the milestone, which is actually 546, looks like 500?

I just know Trekkin’ will have a hard time not caching until we can get to Rice Lake and safely look for those!

[rogheff]

I know in the past, I’ve gone on a caching trip with a milestone in amongst the caches. The exact placement of the milestone depends on the order you log them. I sometimes loose track, was this my 8th or 9th today?

[greyhounder]

I’m highly OCD — my milestones occur exactly as they would come numerically.

Had some nice milestone caches before 500, but then I went back and deleted all my temporary finds. That changed the milestones, but the new caches themselves were still very nice.

Bec

[zuma]

Hi,

I am a little weird, and still keep track of my 100 cache milestones, even when I hit a new one every 2 weeks or so. I try to do a great cache or if not that, at least a good cache by someone I know, for the 100 milestone, and I keep track of em on my profile page.

I can usually adjust which I find for the milestone, and to me that is just another side aspect for the game. For example, I wanted the long Bong cache as my 5500 find milestone, since I couldnt hit it for my FTF milestone. Since I was at 5498, I just hit an easier one on the way, and made that one my 5500th find.

But, I see nothing wrong with adjusting the finds of any given day if ya want to do it that way for your milestone. It is your game, play it anyway that ya want.

zuma

[bandits]

We are a bit compulsive about our milestones as well as other caches. We try and ALWAYS log them in the same order that we found them. We have driven by hundreds just to get to the one we wanted as a milestone. But, then again, we are freaks at times. 😯

[LightningBugs Mum]

@bandits wrote:

We are a bit compulsive about our milestones as well as other caches. We try and ALWAYS log them in the same order that we found them. We have driven by hundreds just to get to the one we wanted as a milestone. But, then again, we are freaks at times. 😯

I’m can be compulsive this way too. Though since I am working on deleting my temp finds over time, I just figure out how many I need to get rid of before logging so that the “magic number” occurs on the cache I want it to.

So how does that affect my previous milestones? Sure, technically they are different now. But to me the milestone cache is the one that got that “magic number” when I logged it online. That’s the cache I list on my profile page and I’m not going back and changing it.

[grcarlson]

I’m very careful at logging my caches in the order I find them and I don’t even worry about milestone caches, my fun is in the caching itself and the places it takes me that I would never have been to without geocaching. My 100th find was in an industrial park, my 1000th was at a small picnic area in the Dells, and my 2000th was behind a coffee shop in Indiana. My 2500th was in Bristol Woods this past weekend at the Pringle event and that cache happened to be several years old which was nice to see. Life is about the journey and not the destination in my opinion.

[RSplash40]

No, when I get close, I plan out which one to do, I like to make it somewhat memorable at least, a good view, history lesson, nice walk, etc. If I need 10, I’ll map out 14-15 in case I dnf in order to finish on that day, and keep track as I go.

I’ve even stopped caching because I couldnt get enough before I was close to the cache chosen for the milestone.

quoting zuma:” It is your game, play it anyway that ya want. “

You hit the nail on the head for the answer to everyone’s gripes about this game…

[TyeDyeSkyGuy]

I think it’s OK to log whichever you like for your Milestone. We paperless cache at ALL times, and don’t use a palm, so keeping track of which caches we did in a day is almost impossible. In fact, I’m not sure that a single one of our ‘official milestones’ are the actual ones we claimed. The main reason for this is because on a day of caching like today when we did around 10 caches, I came home to log them, and logged them not in the order we found them, but in the order we enjoyed them for the most part. Meaning, I log ones that were a lot of fun, or unique in some way before I log a pill bottle cache.

And, as I always say, we cannot take this game to seriously. Play the game the way you want to play it, not the way someone tells you to. The cache police are actually powerless, and there is no geo-jail. 😀

[cheezehead]

@tyedyeskyguy wrote:

The cache police are actually powerless, and there is no geo-jail. 😀

OH no! I’m sure there is some hidden CIA/FBI/NSA secret Geo-jail in like Finland or somewhere like that! 😆 😆 8) 8) 😯 😯 🙄 😉 😉

[grcarlson]

@cheezehead wrote:

@tyedyeskyguy wrote:

The cache police are actually powerless, and there is no geo-jail. 😀

OH no! I’m sure there is some hidden CIA/FBI/NSA secret Geo-jail in like Finland or somewhere like that! 😆 😆 8) 8) 😯 😯 🙄 😉 😉

Actually I think the geo-jail is in a swamp in North Dakota. The cachers there actually let FTF’s go for days and days.

[LDove]

I go in the exact order, I am a bit fussy on that too. But play it however it pleases you – that is the fun part! 😀 My only exception to my own rule was when I hit 666 – I faked that find – did not even get it – nope.

ECH there is a geojail in North Dakota in a SWAMP 😯 This girl is never going there – ha! 😛

[benny7210]

@tyedyeskyguy wrote:

And, as I always say, we cannot take this game to seriously. Play the game the way you want to play it, not the way someone tells you to. The cache police are actually powerless, and there is no geo-jail. 😀

I couldn’t agree more!! Play the game the way you want. I log mine in the order that I want the milestone to appear at.

[EnergySaver]

My 2 cents …

(A) Play the came the way you want, this doesn’t effect the rest of us in any way.

(B) HOWEVER, if you consider a Milestone an “important event”, to me it would lose importance of you “tweak” the order of logging your finds. What’s the point of getting excited about a Milestone, IF in reality it didn’t really happen at the place you claim it did.

[Trekkin and Birdin]

Well, we’ve altered our plans a bit so that we can get the milestone in actuality. We’re saving Felsenmeer for another milestone when the deer season has passed, and heading Iowa way in a little bit. There’s this cool cache planted by some guy in Rushford that looks worthy, and there is the exact right number of easy ones along the way to make it work. Plus two more after.

Thanks for the input, everyone. We agree, the game is played however anyone wants, but given the level of borderline OCD it attracts, we’re trying to swim in that same main stream! [;)]

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