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Congratulations on #200.
Congratulations on #100.
June 15th was my 3 year anniversary of caching. After I had been doing it for a little while, I set a goal of 365 at the 1 year mark. If I remember right, I fell short and reset my goal for 730 after 2 years. I had a major set back 5 months earlier when we were burglarized. We were off line for about two months and the psychological stress on me was incredible. Still working through issues from that. So, my goal was reset yet again. I just wanted to average at least one cache find per day. That’s it. Back in January, I had my work cut out for me. I cached hard one day per week, and I had a few other caches thrown in here and there along the way. Most of my big days were between 15 and 25 caches. As of the 13th, my goal was finally met. And with two caches to spare. Hitting one here or one there around home is one thing, but I figure if I am driving somewhere to cache, I will have to make it worth my while. The cost of gas has gone up pretty good now. I can relax a little bit now, but I just don’t want to have to go nuts to get back to that one per day.
Now I need 1,462 finds by this time next year.
Congrats on #1200!
WTG on #1500!
@gotta run wrote:
We establish “winter caching rules” that allow “touch and go” for our caches that are iced in.
Why? Because I got tired of replacing containers that got broken when people got out pickaxes just to excavate the slip of paper to sign. 😡 And frankly even if its a gorgeous day, if there are tons of people around I’d be thrilled if you made a “visual find” rather than expose the cache to the general populace.
There are always extenuating circumstances. I think holding fast to the “you must sign the paper” under all circumstances is unrealistic and needless.
Guess that makes me a scofflaw!
I can fully understand that. However, if I were to find one of your “iced in” caches, I would also email you with a description of the circumstances that it was in. For example, “I found the container frozen to the ground in a hole at the base of a tree. It was well concealed by the pine tree growing 4 feet away from it.” This leaves nearly no doubt that I was there and found it.
I guess I liken a drive by cacher, if you will, to an arm chair cacher logging a virtual. I think there needs to be some kind of communication with the cache owner.
I’m not looking to get anyone’s dander up here. I’m just speaking in general and stating my opinion on the subject.
I think if something legitimate prevents one from signing the log, that should be left up to the cache owner on whether or not to allow the find. In my eyes, one would have to describe the cache container, where it was hidden, and the circumstances preventing one from signing it.
There are a couple of caches just a few miles from my house. Both of them have to be retrieved by climbing trees. I have been at both of them a few times but have never gone up to retrieve them. I’m not about to slip and bust my head open on rocks. Should I be able to claim them as finds? I think not. Once I did take a find without signing the log. It was an easy find. A film canister under the edge of a bleacher seat. The only place around where one could hide anything. When I got to GZ, I found all of the little pieces of it chopped up by a lawn mower that had just left the area. I emailed the owner for maintenance and she said, “That’s it, go ahead and log the find.” I wasn’t even looking for permission to log it. I would have signed it the next time I was out that way. That was 26 miles from home.
If I don’t have to sign any logs, I’ll really be a well rounded cacher by the end of the week. I figure I will have completed all of those challenges out there. Let’s not forget about all of those Fox Valley puzzle caches. Wow! I just found all of them. Not bad for a few hours of driving around. I can’t wait until there are more. I’ll push the envelope a little next weekend. I’ll just look and see where the caches are on the map. That should count, right.
Easy Steps to Geocaching
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Geocaching, Second Edition
1. Register for a free membership.
2. Click “Hide & Seek a Cache.”
3. Enter your postal code and click “search.”
4. Choose any geocache from the list and click on its name.
5. Enter the coordinates of the geocache into your GPS Device.
6. Use your GPS device to assist you in finding the hidden geocache.
7. Sign the logbook and return the geocache to its original location.
8. Share your geocaching stories and photos online.Is somebody on vacation? Congrats on #3400.
@furfool wrote:
This was from a cache that I found earlier today.
June 11
Great day for a bike ride. Didn’t write name in all logs because of the mosquitoes in the brush. TFTCJust for the heck of it, I thought I would check out other posts by this cacher to see if any of them were similar. Here they are:
June 13 (323 found)
Extremely buggy area in humid weather. Couldn’t even sign the log but cache was definately in sight about 3 feet away. Very wet from the dew and rain. Brought a whole lot of Mosquitos! TFTCJune 11 (323 found)
Great day for a bike ride. Didn’t write name in all logs because of the mosquitoes in the brush. TFTCThere were a total of 10 caches found by this person on June 11, and they all had the same log.
I don’t like falling from anything on accident. I really don’t want to on purpose. Maybe some day, but now isn’t the time for me. Have fun.
This was from a cache that I found earlier today.
June 11
Great day for a bike ride. Didn’t write name in all logs because of the mosquitoes in the brush. TFTCI don’t know if this will help you or not. http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/convert_input?form=address
Right now I have a number of DNFs. There is at least one cache (there might be one more) with multiple DNFs on it by me. If I gave an honest search and didn’t find it, I post DNF. If I couldn’t do a decent search, for example, I look in one spot and a bunch of muggles show up and won’t move along, I either won’t post anything, or I will post a note. Usually after a few days of finding a DNF, I will go back and delete my DNF. I do this so I don’t go find a cache that I already found. I have done this more than once. I will also delete old notes, will attends, needs maintenance, etc. when they are obsolete to me.
I would be more than happy to translate for you, but” parlez-vous francais?” is all I know sorry.
I hope you are having a good time up there.
Congrats on #800.
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