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There was an article about it in last weeks local paper, since the “hiders” are from the neighboring community. They also interviewed the locals that “seeked” the thing … including 2 groups from Port Washington and one from Saukville. Sounds like they had fun, got together with their neighbors and made a party out of it 30 mins before each clue’s unveiling. Sounds like that group missed “winning” by about 15 minutes … I believe they were first in the Park, but had about a 1 hour delay in getting their final clue where to look in that Park (due to the accumulated lag times of their prior answers) … so while they were waiting for the wife left at home to call with the final clue, the winning team arrived in the park and swooped it away from them (since they had the final clue sooner). Sounds like it was hidden in a hollow tree stump … who would have ever thought.
Thanks for all the comments. Again, please don’t feel that I was crying foul … it just hit me as being interesting/confusing/etc. Also I hope the owner’s foot heals soon and I understand the need to let the cache sit idle in the mean time.
I suspect that the older segments (such as the one I was in) will not be added … they seem to only go back so far on content on their new website, which just started up the other week.
No offense intended … I don’t think it’s “against the rules” (at least none that I see), just “confusing” to me. I guess I would assume that one would vote for a cache with the thinking that others should be encourage to try that cache … but there’s no cache to be found at this time and hasn’t been for over 2 months.
That said, I think it’s great that you set out with the goal of fixing it, since the owner doesn’t seem to be getting around to it … it’s cool when cachers like you try to help out.
I voted “don’t care either way” … but for an odd reason:
I like to HIDE them, but I tend to shy away from FINDING them. I guess the desire to “entertain” in me is stronger than the desire to play detective. Which explains why I’m about to revive my past hobby of directing mystery plays … another thing I don’t understand why I do, when I do it.
Tami indicated to me that this is actually a Two Part “episode” … so watch again November 2nd at 9pm (pending something changing).
I have to agree with what Tami said in an email to me, which is that Vince is a really down-to-earth and easy guy to talk to. When you’re out there with him, you feel like your hang’en with any other geocacher … if you ignore the camera and interesting looks from mugglers … LOL
#14 Even a clock that doesn’t run is right twice a day.
#15 Seventy-five percent of all statistics are made up.
Ditto what others said, plus:
Make them really easy to find (make them at least partially visible) and don’t make them small (unless it’s a somewhat obvious spot).
Make it so that from one hiding spot you can’t see someone else finding one at another hiding spot, that will likely spoil the fun.
I have some TBs attached to full size bottles of shampoo and shaving cream … opps! … are you flying there?
@Cache_boppin_BunnyFuFu wrote:
give bear watches
How much are the bear watches going to be?
Are they self winding?“PC Frog”, I liked your points … no “flax catching” from me.
My own personal experience, which may or may not apply to other individuals … when I was “young” to geocaching I placed many more caches than I do now … I think they were good caches (at least I hope others feel that way); but my excitement level was much higher then. So I could see other cachers hiding caches without thinking through what they’ll need to do in the future to keep them going. I suspect that if any other cachers are like me, after the “freshman rush” wears off, there might be an occasional thought of: “Why did I place that thing way out there 3 miles from the parking lot, that now I need to fix every 2 months?”
I currently have 22 active caches and 8 inactive caches. I’d estimate that my inactive ones were active for between 6 months and 2 years. I think you have a very valid point and I suspect in SOME cases people are removing them too quickly without a good reason.
I’ve never placed a cache with any thought or goal of making it inactive. The reasons I have made them inactive:
A series of 4 caches (so half of my 8 ) pretty much tied up about 75% of a park – after a 2 year run I decided it was polite to give someone else a chance to hide caches in that park – plus the series was getting very little activity (I’m in somewhat of a rural area and the series was pretty time consuming, so it seems like it’s natural audience was pretty much depleted).
My “Port Puzzle” (one of those caches of the month), was stolen by a resident animal and dragged into a hollow space under a long concrete stairway – so after about 1 1/2 years of replacing it every few months, I decided it was time to let the animal win – plus this was a very involved puzzle cache and 2 of the important historical parts of it were removed by the city. I suspect that in SOME case (as with mine) a “cache of the month” is something a little above and beyond the average cache, which sometimes it means (as in my case) that it’s also in a “high risk” setting that might cause an early death to the cache.
The remaining 3 caches, ranging in life space from 6 months to a year, we’re stolen or burn to a blob, 2 to 3 times – in most cases with very little time between each occurrence – my feeling is that when “vandals” know about a cache and take it more than once, you’ll never keep it in place at that location.
Ahhhhh! I see the difference now … permit is required in the PARKS, but not in the FORESTS.
Interesting … the MN DNR site has a park rules page that was update 9/14/06 … it indicates a Permit IS required … http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/state_parks/rules.html … but you need to get it at a park office.
Personally … I think it’s good that WI requires permits … I don’t see any reason we should assume we have the right to hide stuff on land and be allowed to keep it a secret from the person(s) that are responsible for overseeing that property.
Also … when you get use to it, it doesn’t take much time.
For the heck of it, I timed myself … I can prepare the file I get emailed to me for processing; delete the old waypoints from two GPSrs and one Palm and upload to all three devices in about 12 minutes. In my case, I’m always upload the 350 closest caches that I’ve not found yet (so that I have a variety of directions I could head). -
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