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Yep these are for sure elusive. My feeling is when they made them larger (read more collectable) and had multiple month contest entries they doomed these to be held by the greedy amoung us.
I like to be able to log all the caches found at an event if they are actual hides. Finding a store or the 12 bug salad dessert to me isn’t a logable find. (My bad for logging a few of these types of things when I started out…have had a change of heart since.) Just making the real hides where a GPS is needed loggable would be swell.
[This message has been edited by Lostby7 (edited 07-27-2005).]
And keep up with the nice hides. I did one of yours today; it was a hoot.
What city is this near?
What city is this near?
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Originally posted by Big M:
I am very upset that you are not senting any to the LaCrosse area. There are several caches and cachers in this area. So in the eyes of the WGA the Southwest corner does not rank high enough to be blessed with a jeep? You can put out 20 in the Milwaukee area and many more in eastern cites, but could not even spare one or two for this part of the state. Maybe there should be a new system for putting out the jeeps like a lottery so ALL cachers have a fair chance of getting one. I would love to hear comments from cachers in other forgotten areas.
SE Wisconsin is a huge area for 20 Jeeps as well. I think odds are almost as good for me (living in Waukesha/Jeferson county) to see one as for you to see one. If we see one we see one. It’s a shame Jeep couldn’t just make 20,000 Jeeps but then what fun would that be; where’s the adventure?
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Originally posted by EnergySaver:
PUT this all in the correct perspective.
THEM Jeeps are just pieces of metal & plastic.
ALL of us will get a chance to see one.
IN due time they will work there way to you.
MY how we all get so excited about toys.
CACHES are more important than Jeeps!(Caution: You’ve just been exposed to a subliminal message!)
LOL!!!
What is Letterboxing?
Letterboxing is an intriguing mix of treasure hunting, art, navigation, and exploring interesting, scenic, and sometimes remote places. It takes the ancient custom of placing a rock on a cairn upon reaching the summit of a mountain to an artform. It started when a gentleman simply left his calling card in a bottle by a remote pool on the moors of Dartmoor, in England.
Here’s the basic idea: Someone hides a waterproof box somewhere (in a beautiful, interesting, or remote location) containing at least a logbook and a carved rubber stamp, and perhaps other goodies. The hider then usually writes directions to the box (called “clues” or “the map”), which can be straightforward, cryptic, or any degree in between. Often the clues involve map coordinates or compass bearings from landmarks, but they don’t have to. Selecting a location and writing the clues is one aspect of the art.
Once the clues are written, hunters in possession of the clues attempt to find the box. In addition to the clue and any maps or tools needed to solve it, the hunter should carry at least a pencil, his personal rubber stamp, an inkpad, and his personal logbook. When the hunter successfully deciphers the clue and finds the box, he stamps the logbook in the box with his personal stamp, and stamps his personal logbook with the box’s stamp. The box’s logbook keeps a record of all its visitors, and the hunters keep a record of all the boxes they have found, in their personal logbooks.
The one near my Crash Cache is: http://www.letterboxing.org/BoxView.php?boxnum=10558&boxname=Wonderful_Land_of_Oz_Series
The listing comes up as a Wisconsin Mystery letterbox rather than by location. It’s one of the Wizard of OZ hides. I think there is one or two more in the park.
Hee Hee. I waited until it went live before going back out to sign the log. Well there is a fine line to the cheating aspect; maybe I was just looking at this cool park for a hide of my own and I found a funny card with coords on it and maybe I followed them to the end. I just took a stab in the dark that he would place a cache in this park; lucky guess.
I have found letterbox caches too by just wandering around in parks. As you are well aware you just never know what you will find wandering around. I think that’s why we go in the first place.
Their Ski Slide cache was one of my first and also when I discovered exactly how devilish Cachers could be if left to their own devises. Congrats.
Nice Dan! Now about the follow up to Mission Impossible…Oh and please include the Cliff notes this time as some of us took the short bus to school
BUmmer I was lookin for a laptop. Anyone else got one gathering dust?
Now that I have read some of the arguments and opinions I can see some good reasons for using a multi only where and when necessary. Recently I came upon a great big open area on which three or four caches could easily be planted but it is taken up by a single cache with over a dozen wps. Don’t get me wrong I love the cache and wouldn’t change it as I think there is a legitimate place for something as grandiose as this needed to break up the monotony of the average cache. But when someone uses a multi they really limit the space others could use for other hides in the same area. I guess if you have some features you really want to show in an area place a multi, but if you are just placing it to place it think about whether this multi adds to the hunt or the viewing of the area. If not consider just placing it as a single stage hide. But this is of course only my opinion. Lets face it though with all the new cachers and limited park space, I think we need to start thinking a bit more carefully prior to placing a cache.
This contest was a hoot and a half. If it were not for an alarm call which made me leave the computer briefly I may have had a shot at a first find. Oh well there is always next year. I still managed a hat and keychain.
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