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This sounds really fun! I’m cooking up some ideas.
Oh the woes of the short geocacher!
Thanks for the offer, I’ll let you know if I find the time before the campout. I would especially be interested in something involving Long Lake. My great-grandparents had a lake house there and so nearly every year we drove up here from Colorado (where I grew up) to visit. Lots of fond memories there and nearly the only place in Wisconsin I visited as a child. I haven’t been back in about 15 years so I am looking forward to it. Anyway, I will do a little digging and see what I can come up with. I appreciate the offer.
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Congratulations on hitting 500!
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05/03/2011 at 4:26 pm in reply to: A little Help from Our Geocaching/Pathtag Community Friends #1947692How about some cribbage boards? My husband and I have made several for other charity auctions and for Christmas gifts. Maybe one day we’ll actually make one for ourselves. 🙂 Here is an example of a few we have made before. We haven’t actually made them yet but we could do it next weekend.
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I don’t think those were the ones I voted for but they are beautiful nonetheless.
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05/03/2011 at 2:01 pm in reply to: A little Help from Our Geocaching/Pathtag Community Friends #1947690I may be able to come up with something, I’ll get back to you. I’m sorry to hear that you’re having such a tough time! Oh, and I LOVE the pathtag that he made for your mom.
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Congratulations! I hope to get to that number one of these days too but it will be a while. I hope you get all the glory of a FTF as well. 🙂
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@-cheeto- wrote:
@sandlanders wrote:
@beccaday wrote:
Should I cover our tent with camo duct tape?
That should make it waterproof! 😆 😆 😆
And hard to see!
Help! I need coordinates to find my tent! 😆
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Should I cover our tent with camo duct tape?
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05/01/2011 at 12:37 pm in reply to: Looking for fellow Extreme Mutli Cachers for trip to PA!! #1947549Oh man, those look like so much fun! You’ll have a great time. Probably lose a little blood along the way and wreck a pair of jeans or two, but fun!
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I’ve been following this thread with interest because I am curious what all you seasoned geocachers think on this topic. I guess I am getting rid of my “newbie” status as I have been caching a year now and have found over 300 caches. But since I began geocaching by being self-taught I feel like it took me a while to learn the ropes, and I’m still learning them. A few cachers have been very helpful to me as I am figuring things out, like posting etiquette, the best kinds of hides, etc. But I just want to throw out there that the junk caches you all have been talking about were really helpful to me at first. As I said, I was self-taught in the beginning. I had heard about geocaching here and there over the years. Then a friend posted some pictures on facebook and I thought “cool, I’m going to try that!” and so I used my Garmin Nuvi that I used in my car, checked out the video on gc.com and found some caches nearby. I later upgraded to using the groundspeak app on my Droid. Anyway, it was really helpful for me to find those easy caches in the beginning because I had no clue what I was doing. I found a lot that way. There was no way I could do the micros in the woods because my GPS was just not that accurate. In fact, I had given up trying for micros completely until I started using my smartphone. Now that I have cached a little longer I have started to pass on those easier and much less interesting caches unless I am trying for a FTF or if I just want to quickly add a number. I definately have come to appreciate the more interesting containers and locations and prefer those. I also have started trying to solve puzzle caches which is turning out to be a lot of fun, even if I am completely stumped for a while there is nothing like the satisfaction of solving a puzzle on your own and then going out to find it.
I also want to throw out one more thing that I think has changed the game and the kinds of hides and finds. Since groundspeak added all those features to everyone’s profiles, especially the statistics tab, I think habits are changing. I know they did for me. My longest streak was 10 days before I could check my statistics and I thought there was no way that should be that low! I started trying to grab easy ones on days I was busy just so that I could have at least one find that day. I know there were all kinds of websites before that offered this but I would bet that people didn’t check them as often. But on the plus side it made me realize that I had been doing too many 1.5/1.5 and I have been branching out more. I would love to see a full difficulty grid one day.
OK, I lied. One more thing. I would also agree and thank you all for being much more pleasant than those who post on geocaching.com. Those are the forums I first started looking at when trying to figure things out and I was turned off by how nasty people got. The WGA forums are much nicer! 😀
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I am trying to figure out all of this too so I would be interested in people’s responses. Thanks! 🙂
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😀 Congratulations! 😀
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Intriguing. I’ll watch for the date and then see if I can squeeze it in. That sounds fun! We have a very busy summer.
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I was having trouble with it yesterday too. Now today it’s even worse! Ugh, don’t they know I need to feed my addiction?
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