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No propaganda (hand those religious, political, charitable or social agenda leaflets out on street corners instead).

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@nohandsgps wrote:

…used toilet paper. I never want to see that in a cache.

I saw it next to a cache about an hour ago….gee and I somehow forgot to trash it out.

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@PCFrog wrote:

Winchester Folding Pocket Knife

I just bought a first run special edition of this blade….it’s for my son (when he’s old enough). I find the lock release mechanism on this one a bit on the tricky side though.

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I have several caches left within 10 miles of me…but they are onsies….I rarely go out for a single cache so until another cache pops up near one of the closer caches the likelyhood of them getting found anytime soon is remote. Time and gas money is short. I go after groups of caches not just singles….unless they seem special (and NEED to be found).

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Most of my caching is done early AM so that I can still hang with the fam when they finally drag their sorry butts out of bed at 9am. Seriously…do you know how many caches can be found before 9am?

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@sweetlife wrote:

@Lostby7 wrote:

I own dozens of knives but I carry this one everywhere I go…unless I’m swimming…then it’s on the shore.

Same one that I carry (but mines green)

I have it in red, blue, black, smoke black, smoke red…then about 8 other models of SAKs, a Leatherman, Gerbers, Buck knives, Ben Hibbens and lots of generic blades…but in the end I like to travel light and only bring a larger blade if I’m going deep woods…then we are talking about a fixed blade of about 6-7 inches.

No guns though…wife won’t let me play with anything dangerous….I think it may have something to do with her seeing how I operate power tools…(there is usually bleeding involved—stupid hedge trimmer).

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I own dozens of knives but I carry this one everywhere I go…unless I’m swimming…then it’s on the shore.

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@sandlanders wrote:

Just curious on this series . . . Are people playing this like the “Battleship” game, making enough finds to sink all the ships and get the final, and then letting it sit for awhile before getting the other caches (or at least getting the rest after the final), or are people looking to do all 106 caches before considering it complete, for their own purposes?

Those of you who are working on this series or who have completed it, how are you doing this one?

I did all of them in a geographic area (first in the Hartland-ish area then all of them South of I-94 in Milwaukee) and now have about 70ish done. I now know where the last 4 hits are to sink 3 ships and where three possible hits are to sink the last ship….now I can just go to those locations or finish all 100…the jury is still out on how I will finish the series. I had two DNFs due to missing containers so that does make me tend to want to just go to those last few locations as I now have open holes in the board ( and I hate to have to revisit to clear up the DNFs).

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I normally prefer to just make a helpful note in the log and other finders will normally do the same. If the person chooses not to change the cache or the methods used to hide it that’s up to them. I don’t like appearing arrogant either.

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The hider might be using Google Earth for coords?

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@Mister Greenthumb wrote:

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@Mister Greenthumb wrote:

I had 2 dnf’s on a hide of ours in recent weeks and went to check on it and on that day the coordinates were 25′ off for me. I checked allof the logs from the 45 cachers who made the find and there were no mentions of bad coordinates. Normally my coordinates are very good so I left them as they were.

That wasn’t the one I DNFd was it…I read the logs too and saw no mention of a problem with coords….I figured I just was fated not to find that one…if so I guess I need to vote for 0-15.

That’s the one and the other dnf was OPPS5, but Doug was in charge that day. The hint narrows it down to only a few possible spots.

Doug huh? That explains it…should have let the kids find it. 😈

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@Mister Greenthumb wrote:

I had 2 dnf’s on a hide of ours in recent weeks and went to check on it and on that day the coordinates were 25′ off for me. I checked allof the logs from the 45 cachers who made the find and there were no mentions of bad coordinates. Normally my coordinates are very good so I left them as they were.

That wasn’t the one I DNFd was it…I read the logs too and saw no mention of a problem with coords….I figured I just was fated not to find that one…if so I guess I need to vote for 0-15.

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@kaptnkarl wrote:

i think they are more concerned with large dumps. Like form trucks or trailers.

—or with folks growing non-apporved cash crops in the back 40.

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@-cheeto- wrote:

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I know I for one pay for my stickers every year…did I do that pre-Geocaching…nope. We can definitely show that geocaching IS a tourist draw. The state should be paying attention….and we should continue to point it out when possible.

I bought my first annual state park sticker this year and plan to continue each year from now on. I know I wouldn’t without geocaching. What this also does is it also makes me research camping at state parks as well. This year we camped at 2 State Parks and plan to add more to that list next year.

Agreed, I partly base what campground (usually state) I will be staying at based on the geocaches in and around the area.

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@-cheeto- wrote:

I can’t speak for any doings by the official WGA board, but I can speak to the positive things I am seeing that have happened at High Cliff State park since the campout earlier in the year.

The state park worked with us to place many new caches in the park where they were not welcomed in the past.

One of the caches I placed there has been found 100 plus times since May. That’s many more times than most other caches I have placed.

I cant say that geocaching has brought more people to this park but I can say based on reading logs, that having caches there is adding geocaching to the agenda of park visitors and campers. Even introducing new cachers to the activity.

In theory that’s 100+ state park admission fees 🙂

I would have never expected those caches to be found that many times. It’s a pleasant surprise.

That was where I found my first cache on Oct 31st 2004 (before the caches were all forced to be archived by the park folks). High Cliff has an amazing number of geocachers running through it. The EC there is one of the most commonly found in the state with 123 finds in just 18 months. So yes I think that this park has clearly demonstrated the draw of geocaches. I know I for one pay for my stickers every year…did I do that pre-Geocaching…nope. We can definitely show that geocaching IS a tourist draw. The state should be paying attention….and we should continue to point it out when possible.

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