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Wonderful!

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@marc_54140 wrote:

But it would be nice …………..

My philosophy is that since the cache owner has already put forth the time, effort, and expense to put out caches and create a series, the least that cache finders can do is put a little effort into keeping track of what they have found. I don’t think that’s too much to ask!

It also seems to be a bigger concern with the number-hunters, though that’s just my perception.

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Well Marc you and I have had this discussion before and we did end up putting the numbers after our Shawano County cemetery caches, which does make it easier to sort and find that particular series.

But ultimately it comes down to the cache-finder’s responsibility to keep track of things in the way he/she sees fit. It’s not the owners’ responsibility to make things easy.

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Ok, now that I see THREE people including me have gotten stuck in snow I don’t feel so bad!

Oh, did I forget to mention that I did not have my wallet that day too?

I learned that the hard way at the end of the day AFTER filling up the car, the ONLY time in the past 5 years I have NOT used pay at the pump because I wanted to buy something inside, so there I am standing at the counter going…”Uh…I lost my wallet.” So I call Mrs. gotta run who is on the road herself…she pulls over and reads my card number and I give it to the clerk, who manually does the payment.

So that’s cool, but now where’s my wallet? I assume it’s lost in the woods somewhere, perhaps when I pulled out the Palm to check cachemate. So I’m strategizing how to make another 2-mile roundtrip hike after having already put on more than 10 miles since the early a.m. misadventure. Decide to hang out for a bit and wait for her to get home and check…thankfully I just forgot the wallet on the counter.

In retrospect…that would have made for a very interesting tow experience…

A guy.
Stuck in the woods with a car registered to a woman.
At about 6am.
With NO ID.

Naw, that wouldn’t have looked suspicious at all…

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Funny you should bring it up, as I was thinking about a topic along these lines–the most trouble you’ve gotten into or out of, that sort of thing.

So, with a few months behind me on this adventure (and yes, it is just “me”–I can’t blame this one on the family), here’s one you all might like.

Well, it’s the end of March, and I’m taking a day off to go hunt some lonelies in the northwoods. Decided to take “da wife’s” car–that would be the Sebring (convertible). The roads are fine and we’ve had some big melts; in fact, the woods look bare in spots.

The first of the caches I’m hunting is down an unnammed logging road. The plan is to park on the end, hike about 1.5 mile in to find the cache, and hike back. Left early to get a head start.

Pull up to where the logging road starts, and there is no snow of consequence. So you guessed it. Yes, I know this is the wrong idea, a bad idea, even as I turn onto this road, best travelled by a high-clearance vehicle even in dry conditions, with my low, light, 2wd coupe.

Well, I get over the first hill and there is the snow. I’m already in it. With the thawing it had formed a crust, but I am crunching through. I’m even hitting water pockets. All I know is I do NOT want to be here, but if I stop on these hills, I am stuck. In short order, I am a half mile into the woods.

Finally, I get to a flat, wider spot where the snow is not so deep. I figure, I can turn around and get out the same way I got back in. So I execute my most careful Y-turn, nearly getting the car turned completely around before planting back end of the car off the shoulder. It sinks to the chassis, and the spinning front drive wheels have turned the icy snow to acutal ice.

I spend 15 minutes digging out the car but can’t get any traction no matter what materials I try (and I tried several). With the sun coming up and the snow getting softer, I realize even if I CAN somehow get a tow out here, it has to be fast. But I have NO cell coverage here. Nada.

So I run, literally run, the .5 mile back to the main road, turn the corner and see…roofing shingles. About half a bundle. Must have fallen off a truck or something. So I grab the shingles, run back to the car, wedge them under the drive wheels, and after several attempts manage to get free and get enough momentum to make it back to the main road.

So, that was the dumbest thing I have ever done, which somehow managed to turn out ok in the end.

(Oh, I did walk back down that road to find the caches and CITO the shingles–)

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apparently it was so great I said it twice! Dang computer…

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@gotta run wrote:

It wasn’t as sinister or as sloppy as their 1,000th find, but Curly Girls scored on a swampy cache, GC1RDMW
, for 1,100…and have the pictures to prove it:

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Many thanks and congratulations. The game would not exist were it not for people like you!

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@JimandLinda wrote:

3) Matchstick holders (they keep disappearing), no matches!

Oh man! What do those clerks at Fleet Farm think, I wonder! 😆

“Uhhhh…find everything you were looking for?”

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I think the 123 current views and one reply (besides this one) to the topic signifies a lack of interest in the topic as a thread.

It’s a good topic but unfortunately I don’t think having a discussion of it will do any good. Basically it comes down to common sense and courtesy, so you either have it or you don’t.

Probably the best thing that teaches people “best practices” is placing caches themselves. Cache owners out there can relate to the disappointment of finding a cache plundered, or finding one missing due to cacher carelessness. “Experience is the best teacher,” so to speak.

As is the nature of the game, you have new people join who don’t place caches right away. For that matter, you have people who find hundreds or even thousands of caches but don’t place any caches except for maybe a token cache required to find a seed cache (and those are DOA now too with ALR rules). Geocaching is a game that relies on the welfare of the community to continue, but you will always have those who are content to be simply welfare recipients.

So the short version is, I don’t see a need for a thread on the topic.

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I can’t tell how hot it is because our thermometer blew away….

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@-cheeto- wrote:

Perhaps our economic recovery bill should have included a handful of new satellites to be built and launched…

The more pertinent issue is how many MPG these new satellites will get.

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You are now entering the Twilight Zone of redundant topic threads…

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@seldom|seen wrote:

…many of you have probably used my name in vein.

Eggcorn and homonym! Double points!

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I look at it as just one more excuse I have when I can’t find a cache. “Yah, dem satellites were on the fritz, dontcha know?”

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