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On the Left Side of the Road...Quickly stealing this thread…
The baggie discussion is interesting. How useful are they? Those little hobby ones that some folks use for micro-logs don’t seem to last for more than one opening. Most baggies don’t seem to serve much useful purpose after a few finds other than to tell you which piece of debris in a cache is the log book. Don’t even get me started on O-rings. If they made everything as biodegradable as those, we’d have no landfill problems.
Is it worth starting a “Tips” thread on cache design? Is there one already out there?
I now return this thread to it’s regularly scheduled discourse…
On the Left Side of the Road...The first cache we ever found was a multi.
Other favorites:
GC17Y72 – Seldom’s a bit off center
GCGE6B – Door County Challenge
GCXHN8 – Long Tail Point Lighthouses
GCZRFJ – Ted’s Geo-Adventure
GCMC5P – Mars
GCY4YE – Optimist till the end…and virtually any night cache published as a multi!
On the Left Side of the Road...@seldom|seen wrote:
I do this this is a valuable aspect of the game but by the same token needs some kind of constraint imposed to we don’t end up with the same lonely caches next year.
Bingo!
The mechanism for this process is already in place–DNF logs, write notes, “needs maintenance,” and “needs archived.” It’s the owners’ responsibility to maintain caches and therefore respond to those logs. If not, the cache should go through the process of being allowed to die, be removed via cache rescue if needed, and hopefully a better one with a more responsibile owner put in its place which benefits the geocommunity as a whole (not to mention gives everyone a new cache to hunt).
On the Left Side of the Road...New scoring rule: Any cache that has received only DNFs while on the LCG list (i.e., no owner feedback), and is subsequently rehabbed or replaced by a player, said LCG player shall have 500 points deducted from his or her total.
On the Left Side of the Road...A common thread/complaint here seems to be that people run into multis where there are maintenance issues with waypoints. But that’s true for traditionals as well. You gotta read the logs and do your usual due diligence. And, you can burn the same amount of time DNFing on a multi as you can with a traditional. I’d also venture a guess that most multis are in the 2 to 3 stage range anyway.
Interestingly, as we are “cleaning up” the greater Green Bay area, almost all of the very few multis we have left are those that were published in the last month or so and we simply haven’t gotten there. Otherwise all the multis and puzzles are done and we’re finding that what’s left are micros and drive-ups that we’ve passed over for the past several years.
Perhaps it’s because we are caching (usually) as a family and a large part of it for us is the experience of doing something together, rather than drive up, grab the cache, and dash off to the next one. After all, when it doesn’t even pay to have the kids get out of the car because you can pretty much grab the cache from the passenger’s window, what’s the point?
On the Left Side of the Road...Being the gentleman that I am, I allowed Da Wife to hunt for this one whilst she was running errands in the Big City and whilst I toiled away in the home office here in the Boonies (which has seceded from Camelot). She reports she is still picking juniper debris out of her hair and drying out various items of clothing. In other words, a great caching experience. 😆
It is evident lots of work went into getting this cache put together and published.
On the Left Side of the Road...Well, actually, you didn’t find the original cache. You found the multi before it was published. 🙂
But the new cache is an interesting twist. As a multi, now there is no cache for the cult to steal, but people will still be stopping by their compound. Wonder if they’ll steal WP1 now. 😡
On the Left Side of the Road...@kansas64 wrote:
And 2 visits by the Green Bay Police
Do tell…you can’t just leave it at that!
On the Left Side of the Road...@AstroD-Team wrote:
There are a lot of people here who have Big Bird as their leader.
Scary.
Very scary……
Not really, everybody’s just wearing grey for maximum stealth this time of year.
On the Left Side of the Road...I don’t think of it in terms of priority, more in terms of time. We plan caches by the anticipated time to complete them in planning a particular venture. So a long walk would have the same priority as a time consuming multi with little walk. GC1H02A had more than 6 waypoints within 30 feet of a central spot but it still took over an hour to solve. Can’t do that one if you’re just intending to pass by with a short detour.
On the Left Side of the Road...@marc_54140 wrote:
But how to get all cachers, anywhere, to look at them?
I don’t worry about it. I’m happy that the contingent of drive-by cachers don’t take the time to find our ?s, even when they’re not puzzles. GC16WFY is right in Green Bay, only moderately difficult, and is a big ammo box. It’s been found twice in 2008. That’s just fine by me. Less maintenance work on our part.
And the best part of placing a puzzle cache is that the average doofus without a GPSr bent on deliberately sabotaging caches can’t find it using mapping software. Or if they go to the posted coordinates in the middle of a freeway or lake somewhere, no big loss.
We love puzzles, the only problem is that we have to drive further and further to hunt them…oh crap, that just invited another Read Marc’s Mind puzzle in our backyard 🙄
On the Left Side of the Road...http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/article/20081123/GPG0101/811230720/1978
Guess what showed up in the newspaper today…the photo immediately caught my eye. Pretty much right across from where the cache used to be. Didn’t see this nice lady when we were there…thankfully.
On the Left Side of the Road...I highly recommend Team Hemi’s cache–can’t miss the trail markings and the final is cool. Bring your kids along. Or even funnier, have da wife go find it.
Anyhoo, here’s another one that hasn’t been found yet:
GC1J23G
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