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08/19/2016 at 10:53 am #2051261
Hey! It was our 9th geo-anniversary yesterday! (no event)
08/19/2016 at 11:28 am #2051263The sandlanders have decided that too much driveling means not enough other stuff. They are still alive and visited one of our “regulars” here recently, which I think he already mentioned.
08/19/2016 at 11:35 am #2051266I came across this article the other day, an interview with the co-founder of geocaching.com It sounds like more and more, they’re looking at the game becoming a smartphone activity. Good thing we’re backing off and returning to some of our other interests, and discovering some new ones, too.
http://www.geekwire.com/2016/geocaching-co-founder-on-pokemon-go/
08/19/2016 at 5:39 pm #2051267I guess I don’t understand the distaste for the game opening up to technology beyond the original handheld GPS devices. I started with both, but quickly moved away from the GPS because the phone could load caches on the fly without prepping and has accuracy that competes with the GPS everywhere except for very remote locations (and I’ve found plenty of those out here). The apps give me more functionality than the GPS we could afford at the time, and we sure don’t have the spare cash to sink into something that would be comparable to what I already have on my phone.
Anyway, time to go endure some of the 90+ degree heat again and see if I can find/shoot some more chipmunks. 3 this morning, 6 yesterday and a dozen before that. Yet, at certain times, I can see as many as five of them chasing each other on our hill. They’ve learned to scatter as soon as one of them sees me, up to 500′ away. Makes it a challenge to shoot them with a pellet gun.
Third puzzle solved, and already have a target picked out. There are only two qualifying caches within 50 miles of home. One is a night cache and the other may or may not be able to be found – hope the CO gets back from his tour of Europe before the 27th.
Happy early International Geocaching Day!
The best sig is no sig.
08/20/2016 at 1:09 am #2051268FTP for Saturday the 20th.
08/20/2016 at 7:28 am #2051269The distaste we have is the fact that we don’t have that kind of phone, nor do we plan to add a costly phone plan to a retiree’s fixed income. If the game evolves to that, so be it. We have other things we enjoy doing, so it’s not a huge loss to us. We’ve been able to borrow our son’s phone a couple times to do intercaches, but that’s as close as we’ve ever been to phone caching.
08/20/2016 at 1:12 pm #2051270Hey! A BIG Thank you to all who came by the WGA booth and Wild Cakes and Stampede Sausages Breakfast at the West Bend festivities last weekend.
I’d Rather Be Lost Geocaching, Than Found At Home!
08/20/2016 at 1:15 pm #2051271Now get ready for the Fall Picnic – Activities are being finalized, great prizes for some of the contests, and of course the grills will be hot for food and merriment. Sept. 24th Black River State Forest
I’d Rather Be Lost Geocaching, Than Found At Home!
08/20/2016 at 8:47 pm #2051272So….we haven’t looked at these kind of stats in probably a couple years, but because we’re bored, we went to the cacherstats ranking page. Currently we’re at…..drum roll….666 in the world. I hope it never changes, LOL
08/21/2016 at 1:50 am #2051273FTP for Sunday the 21st.
08/21/2016 at 11:13 am #2051274Howdy y’all!
Not all who wander are lost. -J.R.R. Tolkien
08/21/2016 at 1:11 pm #2051275We live in an area where flip phones are still the dominant phone, if people have cell phones. I understand. I guess being in this remote area, we don’t have the tech driven caches that are more common in more civilized area 🙂 I’d like to make a Whereigo cache, but we’re Mac people and everything I find about making them is PC based.
Once again, this is post #13, so I’m setting someone up for an easy FTP
The best sig is no sig.
08/21/2016 at 1:24 pm #2051276I almost forgot my mini-rant! It’s crazy reviewer time again.
The same guy that gives us headaches out here is at it again. He keeps archiving caches that newbies can’t find even after someone else goes back and refinds it, because the CO didn’t do maintenance to verify it is in place. One of these COs is deceased, most others have just moved on from the game to other things.
This particular cache was placed in an undeveloped subdivision (tons of those in KF) and was a PVC pipe stuck in the ground. The cap for the tube had the cache dangling from it. Very clever because there are other things sticking out of the ground due to unfinished building plans.
It got archived. I stopped by to see if it was still there (after someone else confirmed it was while it was still active) and, yes, it was there. So, I turned it into a puzzle cache and relisted it. In my notes, I mentioned how it was the same cache (new log sheet) and how clever the original hide was. The reviewer nixed it, even though it was an existing cache, because he wanted to verify that it wasn’t buried. I said it isn’t buried, the end of it is in the ground to keep the tube vertical, but the cache itself isn’t buried.
No good! The container of a cache cannot be buried in any way. You may not dig any hole to help hide a cache, even if you didn’t dig the hole yourself.
To expedite this, I had someone put a new container in a bush next to the cache. But seriously, reading this the way it was written, any GRC, road sign, etc. cache would be forbidden. There are a whole series of caches out here that are PVC pipes in the ground with the container inside and rocks on top of them, much more buried than this thing is…
The advice I received from others in this area is just say, “It’s a plastic container with a rock on it” and leave out the other details.
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08/21/2016 at 1:25 pm #2051277Guess I will take
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08/21/2016 at 1:25 pm #2051278the easy :ftp:
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