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@steveherrick wrote:
When I first did mine, it was the only EC within 50 miles.
When I put out my first there were NONE, then someone beat me to having the very first. I am still trying to get Two Creeks Buried Forest reinstated, but the WDNR guy STILL has not responded and if he did I probably fell intp the tho9usands of spam mail I get and got deleted 🙁
Awesome Job Bec!! Proud of ya!! I think those last few lbs you lost, found there way over to MY house! LOL
Keep up the great work!!!
Huggs!!
Anne
Here is the link I believe I tried!!
http://www.palm.com/us/support/windowsvista/
There is a specific download/patch you can get here!!
It took me a bit of looking but I finally had found the patch I needed to get my cachemate to work with my Vista. It didn’t google out and I can’t remember if I found it in forums, rather just came across it. Let me do some research and see if I can come up with it again. It wasn’t obvious, but it worked!! 😀
I work nites and after a late monring early afternoon of Earthcaching, I got to sleep aobut 330p. Got woken up by sirens about 430p. We have one just one block away. I woke so suddenly I wasn’t even sure what the noise was. Living in the Upper Bunny Hutch, I took watch out the window til the winds came then hopped down the the basement for a while. I have never been “IN” the storm with potential tornados directly over head before.
Everything survivied, nothing blown over. So much rain the water was shooting over 6 feet UP out of the manhole in the middle of the street. Strange to see. Took my camera out the front door to try to get a shot of that and a bolt of lightening hit so close I could feel the bunny fur on my arms stand up. Hit more heavy rain on the way in to Waukesha from Milwaukee at about 10p.
Needless to say, after having been up over 30hrs (trying to turn around to nights after being off) I got a mere 4 hrs of very broken sleep. Here I typing at 3am, trying to stay awake at work. What a weekend!!! Enough is enough for the rain already!! I guess it could be worse…. could have been 21 inches of snow instead of 3 inches of rain!! LOL
LB7
I think the cache was just viewed differently…..seen as just the Kiln itself and not all the OTHER geological stuff that goes with it. And that happens. We did one or two in Indiana that got us wondering. The kilns are much like GCP4W3 – Lilydale Park Brickyard – Earthcache.
King Boreas emphasized the fossils and hunting done here and NOT the ovens and brick making, which would have added a great history lesson to this EC. It was neat to visit and we did get to see a few fossils, but I had great interest in the ovens and storage caves (Not sure what they really call them). Maybe he’ll update that one someday.
PS Thanks for the complement on the Mounds EC. Just wish I could have gotten the picture uploading to work. NOW… if I want them added, I ahve to put the whole thing in html coding.
Well… I started this thread, I might as well add to it.
One of my most intriguing EC’s I have been to is GCMYZ0 – That Old Sinking Feeling Earthcache in Gaines ville, Florida. This was only my second Earth cache ever. What a treat!! It is an enormous sinkhole nearly 120 feet deep and measuring some 500 feet across. A 232 step stairway allows visitors to descend into the sinkhole. It was like a whole other world down there. Also enjoyed a few regular caches in the park.
Another neat area I visited not that long ago was an area in Iowa. The EC was GC16H30 – Frankenstein Cave. If you look at the pics on the cache page the huge Rock formation really does look like Frankensteins head. We found a huge chuck of what looks like quarts, with crystals loaded inside. This ia a rather protected area and samples are not to be removed If you read my log, you will also hear about our memorable trip out of there. LOL
On our trip to Vegas, we drove to Utah to visit Zion National Park. here we got to see a really neat wind/water erosion process at GCZ5Z9 – Checkerboard Mesa. This absolutely amazed me that erosion could cause rock to look like this. It looks more man made.
There are SO many kewl EC’s out there and everyone in state (and those of you from out of state creating here) all are doing an incredible job at bringing us all to places we otherwise would not venture to. I have learned so much from my visits and have a greater love and appreciation for geology.
@Lostby7 wrote:
Most have under 300 finds (but not all). I do check how many finds the cacher has and see if they have found Earthcaches before as well as check the logs of any they have done to see if they logged those correctly. Then I contact them and explain how Earthcaches work if needed or remind them to send me more information or the photo…then only if they do not contact me or they refuse to send the information do I delete their find after a week or so.
That is more than fair, I think!! Even my good caching buddies give me grief and say, “Oh.. you probably MAKE me actually send the info. LOL Darn Tootin’!! Fair is fair. Besides….GOD forbid people actually LEARN something! ROFLMABO 😆 I love giving my buddies a hard time 😀
There’s a name I haven’t seen in a while, except on some caches I’m wanting to get. You’re hot on the run and have the bug now!! Congrats!!
100 is the BEST feeling. I am sure you’ll be getting to 200 a lot soon that 2011. 😉
Way to go!
Wooooh!!! You hit em hard in CA didn’t ya!!??!! Congrats!!
@Lostby7 wrote:
Holy Cow My Iowa EC has been racking up deleted logs! People cannot seem to get the pic uploaded there. I’ll bet I have deleted nearly a dozen logs now (for no picture) between my various EC’s. And you wonder why I have been creating EC’s only to give them away…
Hey LB7.. are you finding that these are Newbees not e-mailing or putting photos on??? Or is it a combination of both??
Hmmm… have to think about it. I might actually be off that weekend. Hope there are NEW Earthcaches close by. I already did 61 of them in Indiana. LOL
@CacheARRRS wrote:
nonono….when you pull up to a playground cache when you are alone, just remember…. your “daughter lost her bike lock key around here” and you are trying to find it….. 😛
when at a playground, we use the old “Just doing a safety check on the equipment” That works real well when searching on those marry-go-rounds. LOL
Other than that, while caching with BQ, Digital Dan and benny7210, in the appleton area, we had a cop pull up in the P&R where we were searching. He rolls down the window and BQ tosses out the charm. She says, “We’re geocaching. Have you heard about it?” He says “Sure have, but didn’t know there was one here…where is it at?” We showed him then stood around and shot the bull for a bit. We wanted an official pic of us being cuffed or something, but he said “Oh yeah… THAT would look good on the web. A pic with the caption‘Sheriff Deputy harasses Geocacher!’lol”
@2_Stand wrote:
I saw these containers at the vet in ER a couple of weeks ago. I just now got around to googling them.
Has anyone seen or used them for nanos yet?
Yes I have… the darn thing rusted shut and couldn’t be opened after a winter. I was bummed!! Then I replaced it and the tree got bushwhacked. I saw and bought mine at Petco!!
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