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I think it’s in the best interest of the “caching community” to log all DNFs … BUT to also include an explanation … as “DNF because it started raining after I look for 2 minutes” is different than “DNF and I look for 2 hours with a group of 30 people” … it’s a series of DNF’s that should tell you something.
Can you rule out that when the party placed the 2nd container, that the 1st container maybe really was missing?
In April, one of my caches was reported as missing (a cache with only one logical hiding spot) … I went out to check on it and it was missing … so I replaced the container. Then a week or two later, I started getting logs of people finding 2 containers in the same spot. Sure enough, I went back to find the original container was now on top of the replacement container. So obviously some muggler find the thing and took, but later returned it.
I have to agree with others … it’s a snake.
two years ago my daughter found a wrist watch … still in the packaging … she still uses it.
I purchased the bean bag “mount” … I set the thing on the dash and looked at it for like 5 minutes … the I decide this just doesn’t feel right.
I ended up taking it apart and finding a spot where a could bolt the non-bean base of it to my car interior without wrecking anything.
I guess if your only going to use it occasionally and/or you want to switch between multiple vehicles it might be worth a shot. But I just think that you make some sort of evasive maneuver with your car, the thing just has to move or flip. It just seems so bulky looking too.
The whole idea is great, and I don’t see a problem with an automated letter going out. After all people are participating in a techy sport, I would assume they can handle the automation of a letter. In fact when I sign up for something online, I anticipate getting such an email.
@nohandsgps wrote:
The forum seems to be the best place to get information about events. If the new members don’t know this they might be missing out on events or volunteering. Just a thought.
… ONE THE ABOVE QUOTE … While there is no harm in this thought … I would think that someone that has bothered to sign up on the WGA website to start with, would have already “snooped” enough to know what we have to offer. So maybe this means that an automated letter should always be kept very current (ie. list the next 5 events and maybe a handful of “important stuff” currently happening … thus using the “Welcome” email as a tool to help stuff “float to the top of the heap”. I think the biggest “barrier” to a new member would be that they are presented with a billion UNread forum topics … they could use a helping hand at focusing on stuff that is more applicable to a newbie and/or the next few weeks to come.
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I think “Kohler Andrae” would be a great location …
… lots of parking
… the park ranger is very pro-geocaching
… just a short hop off I-43
… lots of caches in the general area
… many motel possibilities
… the northern section (Black River area) boast a cache in tribute the first cache in Wisconsin, originally at the same location.IF you should happen to go with it, contact the ranger in advance regarding temp hides. There’s many places that are great, but some “sensitive zones” where they don’t want you off trail (mainly the dunes along the “cordwalk”) … not that I giant pile of sand with endangered weeds is the best place for a cache any way.
The clipboard has an amazing effect … I agree with that. If you have a clipboard you automatically have better reason to be there than anyone else, it seems.
Twice while planning event hides at a local state park, I decided it would be handy to have a clipboard. I’ve never had so many questions asked of me … none to do with geocaching or clipboards … I felt I was on the park’s payroll.
Also, having a dog along helps. You can hang out in the bushes as much as you want, if you have a dog.
The lesson … tell your kids to stay away from strangers with dogs and clipboards.
@gkrone wrote:
Had to bring your own nail to get it out of the hole.
That’s one way to get to use that rating criteria of “need special equipment”!
More or less a Ditto of what others said, but to help explain the thinking out there:
(1) Yup, TBs typically have goals that center around moving as fast as possible, so “Hotels” go against that concept (yet I’ve had Hotels of my own in the past too).
(2) Paperless caching does mean many people are not reading the text on the website listing … when people have it on a PDA they at least have the text in hand. But some people are into “blind” caching, just seeking a cache by coordinates alone … no reading of text or hints at all … they get a kick out of finding them that way. So all the text in the world on your listing will be of no use, no matter how you emphasis it.
(3) I’ve seen people caching with little kids, where the let the little kids check through the “goodies” while the adult just signs the log page and hands it back to the kids. So the adults never even get close enough to the container to be aware of a special note inside. I’m not saying this is bad or wrong … but it can explain the lack of reading giant blinking signs inside a cache.
A thought … maybe try a Multi-Hotel … hid a micro with coordinates to the final and put your warning right by the coordinates on the piece of paper. This is your best chance for the finders eyes to see your “rules” … but good luck with that working 🙂
@StarWarsGuy wrote:
… I only have about 480 ft of property … StarWarsGuy
He’s only got 480 feet to work with … he can’t move his points far enough apart.
Sorry StarWarsGuy, but I’d say you only have enough room for one cache. I’ve had places I’d like to put more than one cache too, but when there’s not enough room the “rules” don’t support placing a second cache. I don’t the powers-that-be would see this as a reason to allow an exception, or we’d have just as many exceptions as not.
Yipee! The first date in two years that works for me (assuming it’s on that date).
I think you should have a drawing for a free tank of gas!I like my Palm Tungsten E2 … it’s overkill for caching, but I use it for other stuff too. I had the Zire 31 prior, it worked fine too, except the screen was harder to read in the sunlight.
Actually I found caching with my Nuvi 650 plus my old hand-held GPSr great. I let the Nuvi tell me where to park .. then use the “Find Nearest” on the handheld to find the same cache and off I go.
Personally, I don’t see a reason to get the “latest, greatest” handheld any more … as the Nuvi covers the road trip in style, and my 5 year old handheld just needs and arrow to point me in the right direction.
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