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Why don’t they just issue a card where you can just keep it in your glove compartment, and then place it on your dashboard by the driver’s side while you enter these parks? Either that or some color coded yearly sticker that could go on the front license plate?
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Congrats. Glad to see you all back in action again.
Congratulations on your latest milestone. Glad that you were able to survive the trek to the Roman Eyeballs bonus cache along the way, and thanks for the Clue Series.
Congratulations, Bec. You picked one heck of a cache to achieve that on as well. Good luck towards your next 500 finds.
Good point on that.
I also try to track down letterboxes in my spare time. The main reason I don’t look for as many as I do geocaches is simple..there aren’t anywhere near as many of them around. I keep track of my own counts of them, and have no clue what other letterbox hunters are doing. So far I have found about eleven. On the other hand, I have access to how any geocacher is doing, which is fine in the respect that now I know which other geocachers are around my general area, which makes meeting them that more meaningful. I look for caches because I enjoy doing it, and it’s nice to see my counts automatically reflected when I log them, but I have no aspirations to compete with anyone except within myself. In fact, I believe that any given day, we are all great finders, let alone due to miss on some, no matter what our numbers are. I just try to be consistant, spending a couple hours on a couple days a week searching for caches. As for those with great numbers, I commend them for the time and effort they put into it. We’re all different, and all have our reasons for doing this, and that’s how life is in general.
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Don’t stop writing, Forefeathers.
There are growing numbers of us who look for geocaches, and there are different types of caches to suit everyones needs at one time or another. When on the road for trips, the idea of stopping at a rest stop or a nearby park and ride for caches works for me. In time, I’ll go for any cache within my immediate area. I’ll admit, some have left me feeling much more fulfilled than the rest. I may find one cache, and feel satisfied with that, or I may hit a cluster of several that are in close proximity of each other. It varies for me from one day to another. Caches have brought me to a lot of places I would have never been to before that are really worth seeing, but I guess the main thing is that it’s something to do, that I really enjoy doing. As I said before…I like them all.
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That’s funny. Just the other day, I was examining my existing caches that I have out there, and wondering “what am I offering with these caches”? Although I appreciate really challenging hides when I search, I try to bring cache hunters on a nice scenic hike or to a scenic end point, and hide it just well enough so that non geocachers won’t notice it, but not too hard for a geocacher to find. I do have one in a cemetery, but it’s an old and interesting place, and a couple in parks that meant something to me. About half of them are multi-caches or mystery caches, but not too difficult to figure out (okay..maybe one is a bit tricky for the first waypoint), and one has a bonus added onto it. As far as caches I like to search for..I like them all, but if I had to pick my favorites, I’d go with the ones that left an impression on me with the hiking or finding experience.
I agree. I’ve noticed the same thing in the past week or so with mapquest, and have remedied the situation in the same way.
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Congratulations on 2500 finds. Keep up the good work. Hope to see you on the trails again soon.
Congratulations on your 500th find. Finding anything this time of the year can be a real challenge. Keep up the good work.
Congrats for a nice article. A couple people I work with told me about it as well. Great cache to start him out on. You want to hide something that no one can find? I know a 13 yr old boyscout named Ian who can help you with that.
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Congratulations on reaching 1,000 finds. Best of luck towards your next 1,000.
I guess for me it was when I went for the final of “Show me the Money–play the Geocaching Lottery”.
I really didn’t know the area too well, and drove down a road until I reached a bike trail that showed I was .35 mi from the cache. I proceeded to hike down the trail until it curved obviously away, leaving me .25 mi away, and it didn’t look too bad from that point so I decided to bushwack.
It wound up being a trek through a soggy, marshy area with a few little creeks that I had to hop, not to mention a few thick thorny patches. As I neared ground zero, I saw what looked like a small shed. As I got closer, I could see what looked like a paved drive right next to it, and as I arrived, I realized that it was a parking lot that had a drive leading right out to the same road I had parked on.
In other words, had I driven just .25 mi further down the road from the bike trail, I could’ve driven and parked within 20 ft of the cache.
Fittingly, I saw a flock of wild turkeys running across the drive as I arrived, because I sure felt like one at that point in time.Glad to see you back in action.
Congratulations, Renee. It’s been a pleasure geocaching with you off and on in the past couple weeks. Even with that boot, you haven’t lost a step.
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