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It ain’t easy, being (this) cheesy.
The big advantage of summer is longer days
The honest to goodness truth there… I for one must not have ate enough carrots growing up as I have a real hard time geocaching at night and having these longs days allows me and my son to get out after supper and find a few before dark.
You adapt to caching in the winter by researching and making sure to hunt those that will be findable with the snow cover. However, I’m a summer kind of person, even with all the skeeters.
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The object of the last point of view is to insure the newbie will still be interested, and active, in geocaching after several months.
This is probably true, but the other thing about “waiting awhile” is that you start to see the kinds of hides you like and the kinds you don’t so you know what kind of new caches you would like other cacher’s to find. You will also see how placing a geocache affects the natural surroundings in varied terrain and areas so that you can pick out the best placement for minimizing the affects on nature. Remember, these will “have your name on them” and most people want to be proud of what they create in life.
Regardless of if you heed these words on when to start placing your own new caches, don’t let anyone stop you from doing what it is you enjoy. Be it finding and/or hiding geocaches. Welcome to the hobby!
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Is it just me or did I stop receiving emails when I post to a cache I own??
Anyone else notice this?
Seems like a pretty big site update from the release notes on the Groundspeak forums. Lot’s of small little changes and they don’t even mention “look and feel” in the release notes, just all the “bugs” they fixed which many sound like typos, grammar errors, contact info changes, etc. Oh and it sounds like they streamlined the process for them to earn revenue 😉
Lot’s of nice additions but already some feedback on the realease note thread regarding items that people are not happy about.
For instance, the “friends” functionality (which I dont use) no longer display hide/find counts.
I don’t envy the folks that maintain that site….
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Freistadt, WI
Was the response “Where?”
I did that once…
Congrats!
she was a future thinking trend-setter with “scientist friends”…
could be wrong here, and I am certainly not a lawyer, but wouldn’t use of this “G” or one very similar to it open up the Association to a lawsuit for a logo infringement or something of the like?
there’s also a restaurant type place in Appleton that has a very similar logo but the colors are different and there is a curve on the “straight part” of the “big G” but otherwise it resembles the packer G as well.
It would be cool if the new logo used the letters WGA and the G was “packerish” though…
I just assumed they were sold again and my money went to a good cause… 🙂 since they’re still around I might just take you up on the offer to gain possesion of them.
For the record, I voted to keep it how it is now in the final round because I kinda like the current logo. However if the masses want it updated, then let’s do it right.
However, I do not see the need to spend money on perfecting something to that level for a non-profit, recreational association
I think this also depends on the particular non-profit agency’s cash flow/budget.
My church is a non-profit and they probably spent money designing a sign out front and a “logo” for their website, etc.
If a non-profit has money coming in, why not use some of that to represent the organization accurately and professionally?
It sounds like S|S is talking hundreds not thousands. I have no clue what our money pool looks like but I would guess that hundreds is certainly “doable”. Considering running some of these events must run much more than this.
I bought a few t-shirts for the campout and never attended so I never got my shirts, yet I am happy that I contributed money to the organization. I trust the board to use my donation and any future donations wisely and I feel that a logo/brand/icon that I am proud to display is a wise use of those funds.
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micros….
When I first started Geocaching, my first attempts were down in Georgia beleive it or not. When I was a newbie then I started with Regulars the first few days. THen I tried finding a few micros. One supposedly in some bushes near an icecream shop, one in a parking lot of a gym, you get the idea. I dnf’ed on them all.
Fast forward to today…
Micro’s, just like ammo can’s have common hide techniques. Once you get those down, it’s not really that much harder than finding those ammo cans under stick piles in the woods.
As for urban placements, I consider this part of the fun of geocaching. Riding by cache hides that I know are “right there” and not many do. I have a micro that’s literally 100 feet from my parking spot at work (it’s not on a light pole in a parking lot…). I bet 100 people walk by it daily on the sidewalk and can actually see it but don’t see it. If you don’t like geocaching in urban areas, than you don’t have to do it. Some like it.
Not everyone thinks about cache placement enough when they hide these micros, but that’s true with any other size as well. I hid a micro in “the woods” near a trail and that cache continues to get great logs because it’s about the experience of finding the item, not the size or the swag. We are playing “hide and seek” at the root level of the game. Not hoarding treasure.
All cache sizes are great and for you cache hiders out there, don’t let a thread like this stop you from placing that next great micro hide in a good spot.
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Ask -cheeto-‘s kid what his top 5 favorite caches are and I GUARANTEE none of them are ammo boxes.
What a good idea. So I “surveyed” Matt (age 10) and here’s the scoop:
#1 – GCVDYE – gilligan’s island – a regular. not an ammo can. this is his favorite cache because you have to cross a creek to find it.
FYI – we logged this in August of last year.#2 – GC1CT2N – PUC | Grubby little fingers – Small. not an ammo can. No real “swag” at all in this cache. An obvious kid favorite.
#3 – GC1DC1G – Camelback Cinema | The passings of Mr Pink – “Other” but it’s a micro with no swag essentially. He loved this one for the container.
#4 – GCPDBP – My best friend… Where is she? – Not chosen. No swag in this one. He said this was the funniest cache he’s found.
#5 – GC1519Z – Houdini Caching Tour – Small – Not much swag though we traded travel bugs when we logged it. He liked this one because he had fun running around downtown appleton and learned a lot about Harry Houdini.
You’re right. None of them were ammo can’s full of swag. We have found our share of these type of caches together…
If you’ve done any or all of these caches you will get the idea that what makes a “kid friendly” cache, at least for a 10 yr old boy is not at all what I expected. He never gave “finding lot’s of cool stuff” or “the cache had lot’s of travel bugs” as a reason for his favorite choices.
Food for thought.
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And do you really care if someone sits at his computer and plugs in set after set of coords looking for verification? I don’t.
Having more than 2 digits wrong makes this an almost impossible thing to do unless you have way too much time on your hands. Otherwise, if it’s a digit or 2, I see it as a perfectly legit way to solve it if the owner provides a coords checker. There are some puzzles where the solve can be tricky on some of the digits or there are differing research sources out there. I typically don’t do this until I’ve exhausted my options and am pulling what I have for hair out.
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