[jerrys dad]

@seldom|seen wrote:

I’ve learned not to jump in too soon, usually until my name is mentioned. Much of the anti-puzzle rhetoric is directed at me which of course begs for a response…

…As has been said in a hundred threads a thousand times over, there are a million ways to play this game and a millions rewards to get out of it. To each, their own!

This was well thought out and well written. Of course the most important part is the last two sentences. To that I say “AHMEN”

[jerrys dad]

@brkster wrote:

I hadn’t heard of anyone removing a container that was muggled before, but I have heard of cachers ADDING new containers (pill bottles, 35mm, etc) for those that HAD been obviously muggled.

I had that happen. Instead of telling me the container was missing, they placed one (40′ from where I placed it) and took credit for the find.

[jerrys dad]

Welcome to a brand new month!

[jerrys dad]

I’m wondering how this series made it on to the COTM Honorable Mention bookmark list and its not the end of the month!

(I noticed it a few days ago)

[jerrys dad]

@-cheeto- wrote:

And secondly why in the world did a reviewer “have to disable” a cache if the owner was active? Shouldn’t the “active” owner do that themselves??

I think he disables them if a NM log has been posted and nothing was done after a certain period of time. I thinks it a way to nudge or remind someone who might not be keeping up with their caches for what ever reason.

[jerrys dad]

@TyeDyeSkyGuy wrote:

PLEASE, no used golf balls! 😆

Jerry likes those too! Please don’t stop using them, Jerry would be disapointed!

[jerrys dad]

Shotgun shells… used or not! Never! Ever!

[jerrys dad]

I also have not heard about a chip. I do own two garmin etrexes. The basic etrex (before the H) and a legend cx. We actually use both for caching. My wife uses the basic one and I use the legend. The only problem we have with it is that it , the basic, only holds six digits for the GC name and new caches contain seven! They might have fixed this with the H. I would look for a refurbished one. You can get refurbished ones cheaper than new. I bought the legend for the price of the H.

At this point I would not buy anything but a garmin so go for it!

[jerrys dad]

Here is a picture of Jerry when we first started geocaching in ’05. He was two at the time.

And this past year, the big six yeaar old!

And then Jacob as a baby.

And Jerry and Jacob this past year at the Firmans Memorial in Wisconsin Rapids. This one was on the local tv show!

[jerrys dad]

I voted number one just because school has to come first. If not I would fall behind and that won’t work!

[jerrys dad]

I carry a basic 3″ folding knife. You never know when your going to need it.

[jerrys dad]

Being in school, I took the time to cover areas until I knew for sure where the hits were. Then I went for the Victory. I stil need to do homework and attend classes and watch the boys (Jerry has the flu) so time is a premium, but I wanted to accomplish the final on this one. It took me 9 days. Five of those we cached when we could but with little kids you can only go so long. We will be finishing them all but we can take our time on the misses, maybe! 😉

[jerrys dad]

@sandlanders wrote:

Two years ago today we found our first geocache. Last year at this time we were reflecting on the numbers. This year we found almost twice as many caches as last, but we are now reflecting not on the numbers but on the people in geocaching. We attended more events this year, we’ve been communicating more with other cachers, and we’ve even dropped a post or two in the forums here. While we still basically cache alone, we have come to enjoy the give-and-take plus the overall camaraderie of this geocaching activity. We enjoy getting the email notices that our caches have been found, we like it when other cachers ask us about certain caches (either ours or ones we have found), and there’s nothing like putting out or working to solve puzzle caches to get an exchange going.

Even though we have met some of you at events and/or elsewhere (and we highly recommend attending events), many of you are still faceless names on logs or in the forums. That doesn’t matter, though, because we’ll bump into you one of these days, and because we’re all members of this wonderful caching community, it will feel like old home week, and we’ll be swapping stories before you know it.

Thanks to everyone for making our past two years memorable, and here’s to a great Year #3!

And Thank You ( and everyone else) for being the type of person who makes it easy to fit in this group. While I feel as though I am one of the faceless names for you on the site, I can’t wait to meet you on the trails “up north” one day. I know I have dropped off the face of the forums pages since school started, but I just had to thank you. Yours was a touching post. My family feels the same way about our hobby and we could not have said it any better!

[jerrys dad]

Can anyone guess where mine came from? Jerrys Mom is out there too, but we decided just to use mine.

[jerrys dad]

@Northern Lightz wrote:

After reading all the posts up til this point in time, we have come to an agreement. Us as a husband/wife team, like going for those “Big Number” days… it’s something “exciting” However, there are days we like to do the puzzle caches, and wondering around our state parks, and even days we like to go around doing our Earth caches. Our apologies for those who think differently. However, we DO love doing the puzzles, and the multi’s and the Earth Caches… But you have to think about one thing! If in fact no one cares about how they “Rate” then why are there websites that will rank you according to the number of finds to other members in your state/country/world? If it doesn’t matter, then why does it mention how many finds you have on the Geocaching website? The truth is… is it is human nature to be competitive for most people. If one person wants to see if they can beat out another member… hey! More power to em! If on the other hand, certain people want to go for the puzzles that make them use their brains, or people want to go for the multi’s to see more interesting places, or even the people who want to learn about their surroundings more by doing the Earth caches… let them! This wasn’t a website designed to be a race to see who can get the most numbers the fastest… its about fun! pure and simple. There’s NOTHING complicated about this! People like to go bowling… don’t they? No… not everyone. It’s fun for some, and it’s not to others. It’s the same thing no matter what you compare it to, right?

My whole point is that this is fun for every type of person, age, gender, and cache. We’re all doing the same thing, caching. And we’re all having fun doing it just to get out and do something, and find stuff that you might otherwise be numb to seeing in your normal busy lives. And if that means your definition of fun is a 413 cache finds in 24 hours… then that’s fun for them, THEM. We shouldn’t be criticizing. We’re all doing this for our own reasons. And we’re all doing the certain types of caches we enjoy doing the most. Let’s just leave it at that.

I apologize if I offended anyone, and I also apologize if anyone is mad at me. But this is what I think. And it’s what they thought as well preparing for this amazing feat in 24 hours. They had fun, period.

Amen!
PS lets go for 414!

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