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regarding planting new “regular” caches and release them on a day of an event … that would be cool when it would work … but I think of the upcoming event I’m hosting with EcoRangers … there’s no way the park would agree to us sticking 30+ new REGULAR caches in the park, yet they are very excited about having 30+ temporary caches and are practically begging me to make them harder (ie they’re really getting into this). On a semi-related issues, I have toyed with the idea of “releasing” maybe one “regular” cache in the park that day … but I’m leaning towards NOT doing so … because in theory, it seems to me everyone will visit it that day, but then it will not receive much activity after the event, since logically most of the semi-nearby cachers will have already found it … who’s left, for the most part, to find it?
1. Caches with no spelling erroors (qualties = qualities)
2. Fairly accurate coordinates (when applicable)
3. An interesting hide location (never using a so-so spot, when there is a cool one 40 feet away, I hate that)
4. Some interesting text on the GC listing page, that ties the Title to the cache (leave off a list of the original cache contents, unless there’s a good reason to list the items)
5. Some slightly sneaky or intriguing in the listing that only makes sense when you get out in the woods
6. A container that will last
7. The most important an owner that will keep an eye on the cache and monitoring the comments of others and respond to them
It’s not really changed our lives enough to stop us from doing things we use to do … it’s gotten us out of the house more than when we were not really doing anything (ie. less TV now) … so for us it has increased our level of physical activity a bit. We always like walking in parks, but now we walking in different parks, instead of the 2 or 3 we knew about … actually the biggest change is now the kids don’t want to walk in the parks closest to us because “there’s nothing to find there” (other than our own caches for the most part), so I guess now we go for walks with a purpose/goal, but for us it’s just as much about enjoying the walk/view/park as find the cache at the end of the line. We don’t have big numbers of finds, we’ve slowed down a lot from when we started in April. For me personally, I enjoyed “day dreaming” about that perfect/cool hide that I could place for others to find … it’s not come to me, some day it will. In the mean time, I’m putting all my creative juices into planning the geo-event that we’re doing on 4/30/05 with Ecorangers.
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I agree with what others have said … our daughters are a bit older … but still have some of the same things to consider.
Be patient! Assume they will only last for 1 or 2 or 3 caches … print more, but count yourself lucky if you get to them. After doing it a few weeks, they get into the swing of things more. But, I drove myself nuts when I assumed we’d do everything I printed off … once I got past that assumption, we we’re all happier.
For sure let the kids find them … if you see it and they’re going in totally the wrong direction, direct them to a spot that’s sort of near the cache and ask them if they see anything (cause your back is too sore to bend), then keep them poking around in the right area.
Also, look at what prior finders have said … avoid caches that others seem to have trouble finding or indicate that the contents are wet, for example.
EnergySaver … not too hard to figure out, I work for a company that is part of the state’s energy efficiency and renewable energy program … not that I save much energy directly, since I work in the admin office. I save a lot of energy when I drive to work, since I’m only about 7 miles away … which I love.
Thanks for the kind words so far! Will do our best to live up to your hopes. How’s this for a start:
We’ve already planned the location of 30 caches, I’m doing half, “Ecorangers” the other, and we are not even telling each other what we’re doing, too much of a secret to trust any one, even my geocaching wife and kids are not allowed out in the park with me.
Can’t speak for “Ecorangers”, but I’ve already logged 6 hours of finding the hide locations, about 12 hours of figure out the whole “scheme” and how it fits together, 1 trip to Walmart, 2 trips to hardware store, and 1 online order to purchase “props”. I better get back to it, I only have 5 1/2 months to work out the details.
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Originally posted by Digital_Dan:
with my caching friend Cache_boppin_BunnyFuFu.
I love doing that kind of stuff to my family, mainly pine cones. You and BunnyFuFu … you guys must leave a trail of fun everywhere you go, I still click back to your entries at my Valley of Oz TB Zoo series and laugh at what you guys say about the experience. I hope you and Fu can make it to a geo event were planning (most likely late April or early May), you’ve inspired me to make it a real riot.
Congrats!
Forget about school work … forget about find caches.
Hide some in the area for us to find!
My birth certificate doesn’t allow us to leave a 2 county area.quote:
Originally posted by GrouseTales:
We’ve always stressed a quality outdoors experience. Perhaps remove statisical links on our page will get people to focus back on the hunt and not on some meaningless number next to their name.
Excellent points GT! Regarding the point I quoted above … Excellent x2. As a cache owner, the creative side of my is always looking at the log entries below my caches, awaiting “cool log entries” that express the great experience finders of my caches have had … it could be something about my cache OR just a great experience (ie. deer, funny things that happened, finding a new favorite park to treasure, etc.). I’ve found that no longer do I even glance at the number of finds next to the finders team name, but go straight to the “meat” of the text of their log.
What hooked me on the people-side of this whole thing and created a desire to place more caches were the log entry comments of teams like “econrangers” and “pharmteam” and others like them that have left memorable logs, which only come from memorable experiences. Examples, check out the first few finders in May 2004 of GCJH8E … ecorangers beating out Lost Boyscout as first to find because the latter decided to stop first for a donut … Pharteam checking out the birds and bushes … or the great entry by BunnyFuFu on May 27th. I don’t know how many caches these people have found any more, I know it’s a lot … but I do remember their great log entries and could almost recite them from memory … now that’s enjoying GCing.
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Sounds like fun. We’ve never cached on snow … maybe we will be in desperate need of training around then … so can I write that off as an educational expense?
… “Loon A Ticks”
In the case of the Loon, it’s a problem caused by a specific variety of ticks, that are attacking the Loons, specifically the “A” strain of ticks, that only feeds on this type of bird. I will look up the technical term for these ticks and get back to you ….
Speaking as someone who has attended a couple events and plans on running one (with ecorangers) in the year to come …
This is a good change, thanks for doing it.
I’m not sure what the magic answer is as to how to properly recognize the efforts of events … but ideas that come to mind … have a special place for people to post their thank yous (maybe a MAIN subject on the message board of “Wisc. Geo Event Thank Yous”, then the SUB subjects could be the name of the events … or maybe the MAIN subject should just be “Wisc. Geo Events”, then the event planners can “advertise” their events, then after the event, it can start filling up with praise of the event. Beyond that, maybe a special place to vote for “Event of the Year”.
As others have stated at different levels … labeling I think has the main advantage of dis-alarming the “first contact muggler” … if that person figures out the container is ok, they will leave it alone (at best) or take it (at worst) and escalate the issue to involving the local police, who really don’t have an option of being non-concerned.
But more luck than anything, I happen to have gotten two sherrif deputies in my county into the sport … one a semi-active cacher, the other who works odd hours has not gotten out with us in the woods yet but is very excited at the prospect. Not that these two guys are always on duty to “calm a concern” but it doesn’t hurt.
We put in “earth stress balls” … because I’m EnergySaver … and I work with the state’s energy efficiency program … and we had about 500 of the left from give aways for an obsolete program. However, they don’t always fit in another cache, unless I dump out everything into the grass (just kidding). I also have a big 200 watt incandescent light bulb (bad bulb, use CFLs instead) … for that story and a photo, check out the EnergySaver profile page on GC.
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