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Originally posted by Green Bay Paddlers:
The forest preserves around Tinley Park (SW suburb of Chicago) contain some of the best caching I’ve ever done. Not only can you park your car and knock out about 20-25 caches in one sweep, but you’ll cover some of the most beautiful terrain around.
You beat me to it. I did this one last year, and knocked off 27 caches while only moving my car twice. There’s a nice path system, and some of the terrain is very challenging, especially for the Lord of the Rings series. I’m not sure if the Trivial Pursuit caches are still there, however.
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Originally posted by Green Bay Paddlers:
As a teacher, I agree with being a stickler. However…One goes for a drive… but can go driving.
One goes for a run… but goes running.
One goes for a walk… but goes walking.It’s only a matter of time before “caching” enters the mainstream vocabulary. I remember when “surfing” was riding a funny board on top of a wave.
Sure… bring back those painful English memories…
-ing words are not actually verbs, but are called gerunds. They are more or less still nouns. Saying “I’m going caching on Saturday” is perfectly fine. “I’m going to cache on Saturday” sounds strange, although we’ve been “verbing” nouns a lot recently, especially in the business world (“Fax that to me” instead of “Send me a fax”) so I’m sure that it will eventually become second nature.There’s going to be a half-dozen temp caches at the breakfast on the 19th. If there’s a way to get six of those down here, I could seed the caches with them.
The last trip I took out east, I created several Pocket Queries that covered the territory I would be travelling through. I then opened up all those queries in ExpertGPS. I went to the Topo view and traced the approximate route I would be following. I selected all the caches within a few miles of my route and deleted the rest. I then took the waypoints I had remaining and uploaded them to my GPSr.
Streets and Trips will also let you find points within a certain distance from your route, but there’s no GPSr upload ability. It’s useful if you have a laptop you can bring with you on your trip, however, as it does let you plug your GPSr into your laptop and it will always show your current position on the map.
Disclaimer: A cache of mine has been nominated for COTM for this month, but my opinion would be the same regardless.
While I think some event caches deserve to be allowed to be on the COTM ballot, I think the WGA events are a special case and should be excluded. All the ones I have been to have been so well executed and so much fun to be at, and so well attended, that two COTMs a year would automatically go to the campout and the picnic. This is certainly not a “bad” thing, but for a reason I can’t quite put my finger on, it just doesn’t seem to fit the spirit of what I think COTM should be.
There’s really no hard and fast rules for COTM. Is it the best cache you did in the past month? Is it the best cache that was placed in the past month? Is it the bast cache in the state that I’ve ever found, not necessarily placed or found in the past month, that has yet to win COTM? I’d be interested to run a poll just to see what people’s criteria is for voting. I guess I tend to lean towards the third example above.
I see suggestions on the GC forums every now and then for allowing finders to assign a rating to a found cache, and then that would be averaged and displayed alongside the terrain and difficulty ratings. I see this as something similar. It’s a way for us, the finders, to highlight caches that we think are special and worthy for others to go out of their way to find. If there’s a cache I liked, I’ll nominate it month after month until either it wins COTM, or I do another cache I liked even better and nominate that one instead, or I’ve forgotten how much I liked the first one and don’t nominate it anymore.
I’d take the freezing cold if I could have been there this weekend. Unfortunately, I have commencement tomorrow, so I couldn’t make it, even late.
Here’s hoping everyone stays warm, or at least dry…
Congrats to Cashing Out who became the first person to finish this series, and in faw less time than I had expected!
Also, congrats to MR Anderson, who found the fourth stage of this cache for his 400th overall find!
The next breakfast is June 19th in Kenosha. The cache page is here. (I promise I’ll be filling in more info soon!)
Come on down and I’m sure there’ll be plenty of people willing to give you a hand getting started. There are several caches in that park which are not too difficult for a beginner, plus there will be some temporary caches available as well. Hope to see you there!
Odd things seem to happen with the checkboxes every now and then. I’ll go in and edit a cache listing and when I try to save the pages, I’ll get an error saying “You must select a difficulty rating” or something.
I never even touched the setting, but sure enough, what it had been set to originally was gone.
Now, whenever I edit a cache, I make sure to double check all the drop-downs and checkboxes just in case…
I see you can look at caches owned. I’d like to be able to click on my name to see a list of my caches (active and archived) with the number of finders for each, then be able to click on that cache and see who the finders actually are.
It would be a handy way of checking who has found my caches without having to scroll through a zillion log entries.
You could also expand it to give you a list showing something like:
You own 20 Caches
John Q Cacher has found 20 for 100%
Cache Addict has found 18 for 90%What’s there right now is fantastic, however! Thanks!
Why not toss some McToys inside, paint the outside cammo, drag it out into the woods somewhere and log it as a new cache with a clever name like “Frozen in Time” or “Cold Hard Cache”?
For all you 60C users… I got an email yesterday saying that ExpertGPS now has a beta version out that supports high-speed USB transfer to the 60C and other models.
Of course, where there’s one, there’s sure to be hundreds more…
Congrats! You’re halfway to a kilocache!
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Originally posted by Cashing Out:
It didn’t take the Illinois cachers long, they found the flag before 7am this morning.I hope the next hide can hold them off a little longer. Anyone wish to join up as a Badger Team to go after CTF-4?
Bob
I was out there at 5:45 am looking for that thing! It ended up taking three pairs of eyes to find that thing! That was one well hidden cache! Too bad I couldn’t have taken it back to Kenosha with me even if I had been the one to spot it first…
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