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I agree with the selected decision on assigned the 1 yr term to #6.
As was just stated, if this had happened at any other time, there would have been a special election to fill this short-term position. So in theory … if the WGA world picks their “Top 5” choices to fill then regular elections … then, again in theory, if a month later there had been an opening, it’s not too difficult to assume the potential that #6 in the pecking order would be a logical candidate to fill the opening (or at least a “worthy choice”). So, I believe this achieves the same sort of result, just in condensed time.
the volume seems lower than I thought it would be … been then again, I think the entire WGA volume has gone down in the last few month … not that this is bad … it seems like the forums having been sticking on subject better lately and have focuses on more positive/constructive comments.
As for me ….
(a) It doesn’t bother me what other people do, this is just for fun and it’s up to them.
(b) I use to log the temps, then I stopped … it was just a lot of “busy work” on the computer (especially with my 26k connection out in the country).
(c) More and more I look to events as meeting the people and less about finding the temps … just the way I’m feeling about it.
Best bet would be if you could find a “broken” unit for cheap … ebay or another cacher … and use it for parts.
REGARDING QUESTIONS ON THE SPECIFICS OF WHAT I BEING DOING … I’m still in the thought stage … But yes, it would involve using your GPSr, but only for maybe the final approach (ie. the final piece of the N and W coordinates) … most likely you’d have to figure out a couple clues that would first get you to the general area using you ability to figure out the clues, only then would you break out the GPSr. But then again, I’ve not even figured out the hiding spot myself yet. It would NOT likely involve an existing geocache in any way … or for sure not hidden at a cache that’s out there.
MY UNANSWERED CONCERN … I’m semi-indirectly promoting the mystery by doing this … is this a No-No … no one has comment on that. Thinking it over, IF I were to do this … I think I’d spray out the puzzle/clues on my OWN webspace … but just provide an Announced link on the WGA website … that way those that don’t want to mess with this, would not see it cluttered on the WGA site.
If you Google Earth it, it looks for real. In theory, I think it’s for real. At the very least, I suspect you need to some how go out on the water to the pier … now I supose once you get to the pier there could be something telling you that you don’t need to climb the pier. Again, as others have stated, why are there not more “finds” if this is really a simple cache under the cover of a difficult cache.
The author of this cache page certainly takes “over kill” to a new frontier … and I’m one to know over kill. This person either is about 500% too worth, or there’s hidden meaning in the wording. That would be the only other aspect of this cache that might need to be consider. That and how logical would it be for someone to consider flying in a helicopter and lowering an electro-magnetic to grab the cache … like the local authorities would let someone do that and like you could hold it steady enough to pick up the cache, much less accurately place it back on the pier from a helicopter.
If I had to guess … from reading the cache page and from readying my own comments above 🙂 … I’m going to guess that you get to the BASE of the pier, and there’s a “miniture pier” with a “miniture cache” … basically everything is as he says, but miniture … including the potential for bringing a toy helicopter with you and making believe your swooping down for the cache.
Anybody buying into my theory?
I too rather use CacheMate than Plucker … if for no other reason (but there are many), is that CacheMate has a screen that allows you to “log” the date/time of your find just by clicking a button and also punch in notes about the cache you just found. CacheMate then puts all your found caches in a “Found” group on the Palm that you later can use as your information source when typing your Found It notes on the GC website. Plucker is more read only and doesn’t “complete the loop” like CacheMate.
Well done … but I think of myself as more of a super-sized pixie.
My first multiple cache creation “Valley of Oz TB Zoo” had smaller cachers (that I called zoo bars) that were made out of PVC pipe … smaller pipe, 1.5″ diameter by about 6″ long that slide into a slightly bigger diameter PVC … all they hid were part of the coordinates to the final, plus a log sheet. I actually cable tied them to trees … there were sprayed gray … just trying to blend in as an extension to the branch of the trees.
I was fine with them from about a year or so … then I started getting the creeps that some person would thing they’re some kind of pipe bomb … so I retired the series (it was time to release the space to other cachers any way). So I’m not a big fan of them, personally … especially if they’re camo’d … it might be another thing if the hiding location allows you to leave them white.
2 rusty cookie tins
I agree with the thought process … I consider Sheboygan to be SE.
a hair dryer … 500 feet of extension cord … portable generator
(just kidding)
just plan on having more no fines … but enjoy the view along the way.
Winter PROS …
No bugs
No Poison Ivy (hopefully)
Little streams are not a problem
No leaves to mess with your reception
No better reason to get out of the house and avoid cabin fevorWinter CONS …
Ground finds can be tough to find
Ground finds can be frozen tight to the ground
Find containers can be frozen shut
Sometimes tracks of others can fool you (remember they person before you may have gone to the wrong place, or make tracks on purpose, my kids love to do the later)Personally, assuming it’s not below 30 out, I like going just as much in winter as in summer … I feel more like a concured something in winter. Now the rest of my family might not always see it that way, but if it were up to me, I would not let winter slow us down.
Keep in mind that there are monthly fees for XM-WX weather service. Not sure what the plans are for this product, but search around seems to imply such service seems to be in the $13 to $129 per month range for other products currently on the market.
I was up … just not online … trying to calm down the kids at the time, since they found out they didn’t have school.
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