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@RSplash40 wrote:
@gotta run wrote:
Yah, just to clarify, I am not looking to go boulder-roading, it’s just that the Sebring convertible didn’t have quite the clearance of the Tahoe. I don’t mind the hike on logging roads a-course but why not use all the tools you got…
There’s a statement I never thought I’d see from you 😯 😀
I thought someone would pick that up comment. So put this one in your memory banks: “I’m looking for some park and grab caches.” You read that right. 😯 All depends how you define P&G….
Besides, I got my fill of literally running up and down those logging roads on a LCG run last spring after I decided it was better to park the car on the main roads. If I wouldn’t have found that bundle of discarded roof shingles for traction I don’t know how I would have gotten the Sebring out of “Schultz Drive…”
On the Left Side of the Road...Yah, just to clarify, I am not looking to go boulder-roading, it’s just that the Sebring convertible didn’t have quite the clearance of the Tahoe. I don’t mind the hike on logging roads a-course but why not use all the tools you got…
On the Left Side of the Road...@GetMeOutdoors wrote:
Gotta Run – stop being so lazy. yeesh!
Sorry, I was out kissing a frog. Or scratching my butt. Basically my usual daily routine.
Ok, so groundspeak is going for the “eureka!” moment. Well, think back to your most memorable adventures. I’m guessing there would be a lot of stories about epic treks capped with FINDING SOMETHING.
Let’s take “Eagle Source,” a GMO favorite 🙂 . Would we have assembled a caching party, driven two hours, then trekked into the middle of a frozen swamp to find a nice view? Ah…..no.
I think there might be a place for these things where containers can’t be hidden, or because of density issues, or whatever. But to say it is for a “eureka” moment–the real surprise comes when you hold the container in your scratched up, dirty, mosquito-bitten, sunburned, grubby fingers. At least in my view of the game.
BUT…as I said before, don’t like ’em, don’t do ’em, and if enough people don’t do ’em they’ll collapse under their own weight of irrelevance.
On the Left Side of the Road...Because I’m too lazy to listen to the podcast, what are the “goals of the new game” of geocaching?
On the Left Side of the Road...Keweenaw looks great but is farther than I want to drive. I’d like to keep it to 1 – 1.5 hours of Gresham b/c I need to get back in the early evening.
It’s a new-old truck so I’m willing to let it take a some abuse.
On the Left Side of the Road...@GetMeOutdoors wrote:
Maybe I’m a new catcher and work hard to complete my first 100 caches. In my excitement I celebrate with fellow cachers who share my excitement. Then I find someone who logged 100 “Challenges” in 3 days while sitting at home on the couch, by performing some stupid stunt, or by “taking a picture of my cat”. If a person wants to make a hobby out of that then THAT’S FINE, but please don’t compare it to the person who worked hard for his or her first 100 caches – on the field, through the weeds, solving the puzzles. They’re not the same hobbies.
When did this game become a competition?
Again, I’m going to compare this to other discussions. Take puzzles. We argued back and forth about how it was “unfair” for those who had enguinely solved puzzles to have their finds “diluted” by puzzle bus tours where the solves were just handed out.
And puzzle-solving proponents were told, time and again, Why does it matter to you? This isn’t a competition, your stats are your own, etc etc etc.
This is absolutely no different, whether or not groundspeak counts challenges as bona fide finds.
But the funny thing is, I’m seeing some of the exact same people who were on the “what does it matter” side now decrying the existence of challenges.
Use the same logic. If you don’t like challenges, “Just say NO to challenges.” Don’t compare your stats to anyone elses. Don’t worry about what anyone else does. Voila.
NOTE: This is not directed personally at GMO, it just happened to be a convenient quote to pull.
On the Left Side of the Road...As I read more postings, not just here but on gc forums and Facebook, it’s fascinating to hear about challenges not being “real” geocaching. For years now every time a situation has come up where some cachers have argued for issues of “standards”–whether they be tours, solve sharing, I don’t like puzzles, cache quality, cache location–others have loudly proclaimed “Cache the way you want. If you don’t like it, don’t do it. It’s just a game, get over yourselves.”
Interesting that some of those same “do what you want” people are now complaining about challenges not belonging in the game.
Pot, meet kettle?
On the Left Side of the Road...I think challenges could have a place for puzzles where the container is incidental…prove your solve to log? Also to highlight an interesting location where the .1 mile rule prohibits a physical cache…perhaps others. What do you think s¦s???
On the Left Side of the Road...I just explained these to the household and the response was the same from all…”I thought the GPS has to be integral to the hunt?” Mrs. GR mentioned the ALR component…It’s just very interesting how many “guidelines” these violate.
I got it…a terrace challenge!
On the Left Side of the Road...It’s groundspeaks sandbox so if ya don’t like challenges don’t do em. Kwitcherbellyachin.
On the Left Side of the Road...@Team Black-Cat wrote:
@gotta run wrote:
Go ahead, makes no difference.
Who ARE you and what have you done with GR?
But I agree. Just doesn’t matter.
As long as you don’t log an owned cache in a terrace.
On the Left Side of the Road...@-cheeto- wrote:
There’s a cache in fish creek in door county that’s right next to a letterbox. At least it was when I found both the cache and the letterbox. It’s the only actual letterbox I ever found.
Sunset park? I think the LB is AWOL now.
On the Left Side of the Road...The last time I talked to UWGB I got nowhere.
The letterboxes there date to a class project from the early 1990s.
On the Left Side of the Road...I go on vacation and all bell breaks loose. Looks like the frog jumped the shark…
On the Left Side of the Road...The animosity comes from geocahers coming across letterboxes near caches, taking the stamp and swapping in a McD toy. By and large this does not happen in the other direction because letterboxing does not involve taking stuff from boxes.
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