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Surprise, surprise… When I logged in to sign up for one of these, I got a ‘sorry, it’s too late, they’re all gone’ message. But guess what showed up in our mailbox today? Yup, a pair of these Minelab coins – one big, one little, one with tracking numbers, one without.
We’ll have to try to get these to last longer than the Geico Gecko, which disappeared from circulation rather quickly.
cYa, Jim & Chris
I think this would be cool, but agree that it is not the mission or part of the role of our volunteer BOD and others significant.
Yup, it sounds like Samson’s Basketball TB is now in the hands of a car thief. And this crook has not logged it into his or her inventory yet…
Disapointing for us to lose another one, but the larger impact could be on Samson. He enjoyed watching his TB move around.
The John Grisham book I had on reserve from our local library system came in today, but no coin. I’m wondering if we missed the boat? I don’t remember which day we ‘ordered’ it, I thought it was right away, but nothing has come in the mail yet…
Oh, well, we don’t do too well with trackables out in the wild anyway. Just got a note that another one of ours bit the dust. A cacher reported that his car got broken into, and a bunch of his stuff got stolen, including our grandson’s basketball TB, plus 3 others, too. Bummer, eh?
cYa, Jim & Chris
I-94 between Hwy 29 and Minneapolis is pretty bright in color, particularly the hills and valleys near Knapp (10 miles west of Menomonie). Hwy 29 from I-94 to Wausau has not reached peak yet, in our opinion.
However, it was a beautiful weekend for a road trip, and we even snuck in some caching. Great time all around.
cYa, Chris & Jim
We are heading for Mpls to see the Beckster, and hoping for some prettiness en route as well as up there.
cYa, Jim & Chris
For several years our new 6th graders would release TB’s every Fall. We’d write ’em up & take pictures & activate them in Computer Ed, track them in Geography classes, write letters to finders as Com Arts activities, etc. What a great cross-curriculum activity! And so many cachers were just terrific at going the extra mile to get our TB’s, post great logs about them, and take neat pictures. Lotsa fun for all involved.
But that project has gone away, to a great extent due to the short lifespan of TB’s. By the end of a school year, we’d be lucky to have 25% of them left.
Our personal experience is about the same. We have a few still circulating, but probably won’t put any more out into the GeoWorld. Our geomobile TB has lotsa miles on it and has never been held even overnight, and our coins are attached to our hiking sticks so they move around with us. No more probs, but not as much fun.
cYa, Chris & Jim
Per the ‘Wayback’ site, about a month after we signed up:
“As of today, there are 76,101 active caches in 190 countries.
In the last 7 days, there have been 37,016 new logs written by 8839 account holders.”Wow, have things changed, eh?
cYa, Jim & Chris
We have a Nuvi – affectionately named “Ruth” – that we use for turn-by-turn getting to the cache area. Then the Garmin handheld takes over. We like using this system, it is so much more efficient than platbooks and Gazetteers and fold-up maps scattered all over our little Toyotas.
Anyone else besides CJ and us named their GPSs?
We’d be interested in hearing more about downloading cache coordinates directly to Ruth. We currently punch them in manually as needed.
cYa, Chris & Jim
I went through our cache listings and modified the container description anywhere it had been identified as an ammo can. Hopefully they are generic enough that nobody will target them.
cYa, Jim
Our caches in the Waupaca area have been pretty much left alone. I think that is because the caching activity around here is pretty light, and we try to put most of ours on private property or at business places that are not generally open to the public. This has been criticized by some, mostly those who do not read the cache listings carefully enough, as we list clearly the permissions and/or restrictions. A couple of these are ammo cans that have been in place for quite awhile, several are plastic coffee cans or containers, and most have somebody on-site that keep their eyes open. We try to make the ‘cool’ factor the cache itself, the sites are not all scenic or awe inspiring. But we do not have to spend a lot of our caching time on maintenance or replacing.
We did have a lot of trouble with a multi-cache in northern Oconto County a few years ago. The stages were continually vandalized until we finally gave up and archived it. The final, an ammo can, is still there as of the last log, back in November 2011. Maybe we oughta check on it again one of these days… LCG in late summer, anyone?
I was thinking about this story today as I was caching on a trail around one of our parks. It was upper 70’s when I started early, low 90’s when I stopped a couple of hoursa later. I paced myself a bit more than usual, but was still drenched in sweat by the end.
Now I’m sitting in the A.C. recovering!
My aunt and uncle are each blind in one eye – she in the left, he in the right. They’ve functioned very well like that for years, even driving their small RV all over the midwest (I know, scary, but they each contributed 50% of the necessary vision…). They even recently upgraded to a 5th wheel camper! And when we last visited them in April, Aunt Jane managed to spot a geocache along a hiking trail. I had to fetch it, she said that at 81 she is not going off trail any more, but that it had nothing to do with vision!
Watching them with my 2 good eyes has been an inspiration. I’m sure there was some adjustment time, and learning to help compensate for each other, but they never really slowed down. It’s our hope and wish for that you will also be able to discover ways to do the things that have been important to you.
cYa, and God Bless, Jim & Chris
04/23/2012 at 10:43 pm in reply to: Chapel in the Woods – Little Hope(Waupaca area) GC3AD2N #1959899Thank you very much for the kind (and unsolicited…) comments. We do try to put out memorable caches. and certainly appreciate it when others like them.
cYa, Jim & Chris & Chucky the Fisherman
Well, here’s another one of our TB’s that was given up for lost. A cacher picked it up back in September of 2010 and sat on it. Numerous email were sent, asking them to kindly get it back moving. The emails were never responded to, so we figured it was in some child’s toybox or something. (It’s a Pound Puppy that sorta looks like our former geodog Ginger). Today a posting shows up that they moved it 4 miles into a new cache!
Ginger the GeoDog TB – TB18ZAE – is back in the chase! We only have 4 or 5 more now that have dropped out of sight…
cYa, Jim & Chris
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