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I don’t think it has a name but there has been a cow statue on top of Romy’s Nitingale (http://www.romysbanquethall.com/) since time out of mind. Looking at the address, there isn’t a geocache within three miles.
If I’m caching around my home area, I will try to go after hiking or more “difficult” caches. When I’m out of my home area, I tend to stick with caches that have favorite points but certainly won’t pass up hiking/difficult caches. The biggest issue for me when traveling or outside my home turf is just not really knowing the area, so finding my way around makes it challenging to filter out the P/G caches from something I need to hike for.
Of course, I used to set up a pocket query(s) with 1000 caches, including the ones I wanted to seek and load that up before I left. This meant the “good” caches got completely buried in my GPS and I since I rarely remembered the name/code, they stayed buried. In the past few months, I’m just adding the caches I want to find to a bookmark and then loading that bookmark query before I leave. This way, the caches I am targeting to find are on my GPS and anything else is just a cache of opportunity that I’d have to look up using the smartphone app. It’s worked out much better for me. I’ve never cared about numbers and now I get to find the caches I really want to find and anything else is a bonus. I just wonder why it took me so many years to figure this out! I guess I always thought I should arrive at a place with a GPS stuffed full of caches to find, even if that meant that 90% would be the take-it-or-leave-it variety.
I do get what you’re saying about placing caches, though. In a perfect world, any cache I place would involve a scenic hike. But, the few years I’ve been a cache owner have taught me that you have to decide what you want out of ownership. If you want your caches to be found often, forget about placing them in the woods or making them anything but a traditional. I like to think I put effort and thought into my caches, especially my multi/mystery caches and while I don’t believe they’re “incredible, must find caches”, I do think they’re worth the effort of finding. I’m lucky to see more than two to three finds on my multis a year and neither of those require any long distance hiking. It seems like anything that isn’t a traditional right off the side of the highway/street, it might as well not exist. That disappoints me and it’s really taken a lot of wind out of my sails in terms of finding the energy to craft a new cache.
I think I’ve found three of the Wild Side caches so far but only have one clue noted, from the last W/S cache I found this summer. I’ve loved the Wild Side caches, but they also are taking me an extremely long time to carve out the time to find. My current rate of finding would probably be another two years before getting them all (plus getting the two clues I didn’t note), so, personally, this is a great solution for me. I would prefer to get the final coordinates old school, but if some of the Wild Side caches don’t survive, the puzzle can still be solved. That’s a good compromise!
Travelbugs fare much better than geocoins. Geocoins seem to go missing before being moved twice. That’s been my experience, anyway. TB’s, unless you attach something shiny or valuable to them, seem to travel longer and farther. Keep putting them out there! That they end up missing and/or stolen is just part of the game.
One other thing to keep in mind is that regular sized caches are getting increasingly rare these days, so don’t attach anything too big to your tag. It can be tough to find a cache to drop a TB into even if it’s attached to something as common as a small stuffed toy.
It shows up for me as well.
Central Park has a lot of caches and you’d probably have better GPS reception there. If you have the time, Bridges & Arches of Central Park is highly favorited but it is also a 30 stage multi that might be better broken up into separate visits. If/when I visit NYC, this is a cache I’m planning on doing. Otherwise, lots of other caches in CP and of all different types…Earthcaches, Mystery, Wherigo’s, Virtuals, etc.
Hope you have fun!
Thanks for the heads up. I’m flying out of Milwaukee next weekend and this will make for a nice short detour on the drive down.
I’m a big fan of Redfeather and they are generally reasonably priced. A good quality snowshoe should last for at least five years and if you use them often, you’ll easily get your moneys worth no matter what you pay.
If you’re going to buy poles as well, that is where I’d recommend getting as good as you can afford. My first set of poles were pretty cheap and they didn’t last more than a month. I bought a pair of Komperdell’s and couldn’t be happier with them. Pricier but definitely worth it.
When buying poles, look for ones that have the snap style lock rather than the twist lock. The twist locks tend to loosen up occasionally as you’re using them and over time, the wear and tear will cause them to fail much quicker than the snap lock style.
Do you want the waypoint to be visible or hidden? For now, I’m going to leave them visible.
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What’s with all the negativity? I like how Groundspeak is trying something fun and new. It adds a little fun so the game doesn’t get stale. It’s only for a month and is just for those that want to participate.
I agree. I hope my post doesn’t come off sounding negative, because it wasn’t meant to be. Negativity is what doomed Challenges and I thought the same thing about those…a lot of potential but all anyone wanted to focus on was how they weren’t virtuals.
Once again, as with Challenges, Groundspeak is giving you the freedom to create whatever you want with this lab cache…soo..go nuts, experiment, try anything. The only limit is your imagination.
I like the potential but there are already so many outlets for creative caches (Wherigo’s, multi’s with virtual stages, offset caches, mystery caches, etc) that I doubt you can really come up with anything truly original. Perhaps, but I’m guessing it’s been done before…in other words, anything you can create as a lab cache could probably also be worked into a geocache.
The biggest draw for a Lab Cache is that it doesn’t have to conform with saturation guidelines…so you could make it as elaborate as you wished and not have to worry about getting denied because it’s too close to another cache. That, to me, is a pretty big plus all by itself.
I did create one for a friend who lives in Seattle, so putting out a physical container wasn’t going to work. Instead, I picked out a very cool multicache that I have found there but she hasn’t and the unlock code was something you found at stage one. The set up was easy to follow but there were few tools you could use, such as html, to pretty up the page. It was very basic as far as page design goes.
I was surprised to see that Wyoming is still second on my list.
You can’t turn off Owner notifications. You could set up a dummy email account for the time being until the Bash is over and send your notifications there.
Personally, I just don’t cache enough. If I set out to tackle a sizable challenge, it would probably be a decade before I’d get close to finishing. Besides not knowing if I could keep up the enthusiasm long enough…the cache itself would probably be archived by the time I qualified for it. Normally, I believe in qualifying for a challenge cache before finding it, so I probably wouldn’t find the cache first and then fill in my grid.
A lot of the challenges I’ve seen, like the ones linked to in this thread, are very appealing to me and how I’d like to cache. But, I also look at them like my Netflix queue. I’ll add a movie to my queue because I want to see it (eventually) and two years later, it hasn’t made it to the top yet. The initial excitement of a challenge, for me, is going to wear off. Am I still going to be trying to finish a DeLorme challenge years from now? I can’t say that I would be.
Thanks, TBC! So, I’ve just not noticed it until now 😳
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