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My avatar is a cat doing a back handspring on a balance beam. I love cats, people call me Kat for short, and the blance beam was my favorite apparatus to tumble on….I saw the avatar on the web and just seemed fitting in a weird sort of way. 😀
I just got up and turned on the TV when I saw an image of a plane hitting the WTC. I thought it was some movie that was on whatever channel was left on from the night before. I heard my son stirring (he just turned 3), went up to get him out of bed, came downstairs, looked at the TV to see the second plane hit the tower, heard the commentary and realized this was no bad movie I was watching. I just sat there stunned…I then called my hubby at work to tell him what happened. He came home and got our extra TV to bring to work.
The weirdest thing though, was on Thursday we went to a big star party (astronomy observing) south of Chicago and the entire four days – there was absolute silence and empty skies as there were no planes flying. If you’ve ever spent time in or near the Chicago area – you know how those skies are filled with the sight and sound of planes all the time. It was a very surreal experience.
AWESOME accomplishment guys. South Dakota? I bet you saw some pretty cool stuff there!
So what state is the next victim?
@gotta run wrote:
It’s hard to fit travelers into bison tubes.
Yeah, that was my thought as well.
I see a steady decline at least in our area. It seems fewer and fewer listings have TBs in them when I do a general search for caches and the ones that do have TBs listed are usually missing. I find myself not taking TBs as much as I used to as there are long periods between caching and its a PITA to find a container for them to fit in when I do. Coins seem to an endangered nearing extinction. I think the last one I saw was in the wild was on vacation some months ago and that was a photocopy of the coin.
@cheezehead wrote:
I got a log recently, by a new cacher that was mad that the cache coords were off 10 feet and that they had to leave the parking lot to find it. :dry: :blink: :unsure: :wacko:
Ha! I had a similiar log on one of my caches awhile ago. He was complaining my cache was off 12 feet – he should know as he was using a “very high degree of accuracy GPS”. Then proceeded to tell me I need to update my coords or get a better GPS. I wish I would’ve had a witty GR response at my disposal for this loser.
@zuma wrote:
@gotta run wrote:
“Veni, vidi, sivi.”
“Adventavit asinus/ Pulcher et fortissim.”
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to whom are you refering as the ass?
I’m surprised this one is still around. The former Director of the Sanctuary (Ty Bauman – he just retired in May) wanted nothing to do with geocaching and he sure didn’t want anything out there without his permission (which he wasn’t giving nor ever gave – we tried). Who knows, a new director, maybe a new policy in the future?? Sure would be nice!
Anyway, I feel it’s not the caching community’s responsibility to maintain/repair/upkeep caches of absent cachers. I don’t care how “historic” or “sentimental” or “old” they may be. Just get rid of them and open up the area for yourself or others. Who knows, it could prevent the prolifration of guard rail or terrace caches that many here seem to loathe.
Smores (Rock Island Getaway style)
Roast marshmallows. Twist apart a Golden Oreo with chocolate filling, place marshmallow between, put cookie back together and enjoy!
Far less messier, far less work, far less packing of supplies, and ever so yummier! If you decide not to make smores, you still have Oreo cookies to eat!
Wow what the hell with the dates?? I use those dates as a personal record of when we did each cache. It’s sad to see that our recent 16+ days 14 states vacation of specific spots we visited on specific dates is all erased for some generic stamp. Not to mention all those great memory caches reduced to nothing more than a blip on the screen. Hey, I bet it’s much easier for people to backlog caches now. There’s no date to attach to the log – just a generic stamp that’ll say a year or two ago – how do you verify that?????.
Adding mindless and pointless challenges that have nothing to do with geocaching? Why don’t they just get rid of the rule that one needs to actually find and sign the log book on a regular cache then too.
If this is what geocaching is de-evolving into – a facebook knockoff, I think I may be archiving all my caches and deleting our accounts. This isn’t fun anymore and like facebook, sucks.
@JimandLinda wrote:
We Archived our “South Park-Under Old Glory” nano, since a letterbox was placed in the base of the flagpole. Kept getting strange and conflicting logs!
That may be the same park that started this thread, since RtrezrsNHvn adopted ours there.Oh, well… 😕
I remember Duck and I finding the letterbox and realizing the size desription did not match the one on the cache page. Found the nano cache right after. 😀 Having dealt with one on top of another, I can see where it can be confusing and animosity can creep in.
@gotta run wrote:
The animosity comes from geocahers coming across letterboxes near caches, taking the stamp and swapping in a McD toy. By and large this does not happen in the other direction because letterboxing does not involve taking stuff from boxes.
I like the stamps. I just wish I’d remember to pack paper along so I can have a stamp imprint when I stumble across them in the field!!
Are there guidelines in place for putting out a letterbox or is it all free reign? I noticed UWGB has quite a few of them (5), yet caches aren’t allowed there….just curious.
What is a cacher/letterboxer owner to do if one is on top of the other or in very close proximity? Curious minds want to know!
I print out the GSAK file of the caches and leave space to write comments. On a numbers run, the first sentence of all the logs may be the same (I like to know who I was with and whatnot), but I do try very hard to add something unique to each log. Although some caches just aren’t worth a whole of lot of words; I still appreciate the time it took the cache hider to go out and place something for me to find.
Our son Duck505 collects them!!! Some he even has multiples of.
@beccaday wrote:
Wow, and here I was all impressed with my 42 EC’s and V’s in our week of vacation. But you’ve definately gotten me beat. It took me 5 days to log and upload photos. Very impressive AstroD-Team!
42 is a lot for a week!!! You should be proud of your accomplishments! I bet you were in some pretty amazing spots too. (Ones we’re hoping to get to in the next couple of years). 😀 I think this was the first vacation we took where it was about the journey and the caching was just an added bonus.
I had some owners request not to send answers until the day you log as it was easier for verification. I also found that many of them requested a silmiliar format for sending answers:
GC# Cache Name
Number of people in your group
Answers….
Instead of number of people, I listed our caching names and added the date visited as well.I haven’t had any complaints or deletions considering I backdated all the cache finds to correspond with the day we did them (hence the date visited in my email answers). Poor Duck just finished logging all his two days ago – a good week plus after I sent the answers.
Question for Earthcache owners do you prefer each person in the group wanting to claim the find to send the answers or one email with all the names of those in the party? Why? Kind of curious as to what the consensus is around here.
@Lostby7 wrote:
@AstroD-Team wrote:
I just spent the last four days sending emails to owners and resizing pictures for the logs of the 50-60 earthcaches (and virtuals) done in 10 different states over the last two weeks.
Let me take the opportunity to say….”WOW.” I get a bit overwhelmed with 10 virts…organizing the information for 50-60 virts is amazing. I wish I was along for that trip it must have been fantastic!
It was alot of fun and thoroughly enjoyable. I originally had about 200 Earthcaches and virts printed out, and placed in a binder by state. Cause who knows where the road was going to lead us. I hated the paper copies, but it was the only sane way I could keep track of all the answers in all the different states for 2+ weeks. I uploaded the pixs each night to our netbook and tagged the ones that were related to earths/virtuals for easier logging later. It was awesome focusing on just the Earthcaches and virts. I learned more of what makes Arches Natl park so amazing, the badlands of South Dakota so weird, the history of the early settlers in Arizona to Utah to Nevada, and jems that were off the beaten trails in quite a few other states.
We were at the north rim of the Grand Canyon and the wind blew the papers right out of hubby’s hands and nearly dumped them over the edge into the chasm. Fortunately they got tangled in a tree/shrub and some crazy person reached out to grab them. (hello…1000 ft vertical drop). We also lost our Oregon 300 somewhere in Arches National Park too. (Another good reason to have paper copies!).
One Earthcache we did there were six criteria – we got five of the six done – as we completely forgot about the sixth cause we were having to much fun. We logged it as a note and not as a find. It was ok with us.
Yeah, doing all these Earthcaches and virts really made us more aware of what we seeing which seemed to make the trip that much more worthwhile and meaningful. Thank you Earthcache placers out there!
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