Thread Stealers With Too Much On Their Minds

[Trekkin and Birdin]

We spent the day hiking in the Kickapoo Reserve. Wow, the spring wildflower show there right now is pretty awesome. We got a different view of the EC cave, too.

[BigJim]

What we really need is a forum for rants. Had two caches publish Thursday morning in Stevens Point. CO had 1 find and no hides prior to these. A cacher ran out to find them, but encountered a group of workers painting the building at one, so didn’t search. The other he found. Later that day I went to take a look, but spent 15 minutes searching in the bushes in front of a couple businesses. After a while I was joined by another cacher, but still no find. We expanded our search to a nearby business whose name matched the name of the cache. Finally we went to search for the other cache, to see if the container or hide style might give us a clue. Found the spot where it had been, but no cache (later confirmed by the FTF). Walking back to my vehicle, I was stopped by a group that was drinking in the outdoor patio area of the establishment. They told me that they had found what we were looking for, and that I probably wasn’t tall enough to see it, then I spotted it on top of a brick light post about 6.5 feet up and 0.14 miles from the posted coords. The hint for the cache had suggested that it was down low.

Friday a multi-cache published from the same CO. Cacher who had made FTF on the Thursday morning cache went to look for it this morning and was joined by another pair of cachers. No luck. Later today the CO posted Temporarily Disabled for all three caches, but implied in the logs that they were permanently removed. I wish that there was a rule prohibiting new cachers from hiding until they had at least 50 finds.

Thanks for letting me vent. Rant over. (I feel better now)

All opinions, comments, and useless drivel I post are mine alone and do not reflect the opinions of the WGA BOD.

[sandlanders]

We used to have a forum for rants. Not sure if it made it to the new website.
Even though your post is about caching, BigJim, anything goes in the drivel.

[Trekkin and Birdin]

I know what you mean. While we don’t like to discourage new people to the game, it would be nice if they had a better clue about the process. There was one like that here. We were out searching all over with another team, and the coordinates were no where near anything that made sense, so we looked all over in that little pocket park with no luck. Trekkin’ was out a few days ago and did find it…..stuck by the garbage can. Really??? There’s another local hider who could use some help, but won’t accept it. We’ve decided his aren’t fun, so we just ignore them now. No sense of placement at all, and usually way off as far as the coordinates go.

[Thraxman]

I set up a calendar reminder YEARS ago to come back and steal this thread. I didn’t expect the thread to actually still be active. Wow!

[sandlanders]

A blast from the past, and an EPIC steal by Thraxman!

:like:

[labrat_wr]

But BigJim, the CO found a 1/1 in Janesville, that should have given the green light for a well done cache.

Disclaimer : Always answering to a higher power.

[BigJim]

labrat_wr wrote:

But BigJim, the CO found a 1/1 in Janesville, that should have given the green light for a well done cache.

My bad

All opinions, comments, and useless drivel I post are mine alone and do not reflect the opinions of the WGA BOD.

[JimandLinda]

The Sunday F T P!

[Trekkin and Birdin]

So….it’s decided to rain. We were planning to do a hiking cache north of Winona and sink to new lows by also doing CITO, so we can get our souvenir. *eye roll* There’s a long standing CITO event in Minnesota where one can spend 30 minutes doing CITO anywhere and get the “event.” It’s going to be archived soon, but was from the early days when the MNGA was trying to build a good relationship with the parks. We were up north last weekend, and didn’t want to drive three hours (at minimum) this weekend to do CITO. The one in Willow River yesterday would have been a good one, because they were clearing out farm junk from an old dump site. I really like the ones where you do some hard work that makes an immediate difference. Trash cleanup is a good thing, but there’s part of me that just bristles at the notion that others can behave poorly because we’ll clean up after them.

Can you see I’m stalling so I don’t have to do any inside chores that have gone waiting????

[WanderingTracks]

Does anyone know if the WGA Store is going to be open before the Spring Campout? We haven’t seen anything on it this year. Seems a little odd.

[lostcheq]

I just placed on order today.   I had a request sitting in my cart and earlier paypal account had an issue and I couldn’t place it.  But today I did.     Try again Wandering Tracks.      The WGA Store button is the 2nd from the top left on the website.     I’ve been in communication with the other BOD members on this issue before I submitted my order today.     We’ll “watch it” and please post again if there are continuing issues.

I’d Rather Be Lost Geocaching, Than Found At Home!

[Mister Greenthumb]

Retirement practice today. Picnic was fun – fishing not so much. Someone caught all of the fish and it wasn’t me.

[Mister Greenthumb]

Then she asked me to save the rest of the night crawlers so we can go again sometime this week. I thought I would be catching more fish during retirement.

[Mister Greenthumb]

Maybe I can catch a FTP

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