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Originally posted by Folk Trakers:
The Ice age Trail is perfect for it.FYI – The Ice Age 50 (50 mile race in under 12 hours) is run in the Southern Kettle Moraine in May. The Glacial 50 (50 mile race) is run on the Northern Kettle Moraine (where the picnic is this year) in early October. The Kettle Moraine 100 (100 mile race in under 30 hours) is held in on the Southern Kettle Moraine in early July.
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(Your next “Vote-ish” cache could be about races…pick the wrong answer and you’re on the wrong trail, for a LONG time!)
Why not contact an association from a state that already has coins? Ask them where they got them and if they can share the info. There are lots of states that have them already so…
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Originally posted by Cheesehead Dave:
You’re addicted is you’ve found this cache…
Whew! For a minute there I thought I may be addicted, but thanks to DaveI now know that isn’t true! I didn’t find this cache! I wasn’t there, it wasn’t me so…yippee…no addiction here!
MajorBrat[This message has been edited by MajorBrat (edited 07-05-2005).]
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Originally posted by Opossum:
Hey thanks! That’s really good to know. Now I won’t have to keep my GPS in my pants pocket anymore. (Which, by the way, is how I met Mole.)
Okay…remember, this is a fmaily site!
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Originally posted by cacherchick:
I hate to log them,…people will spend countless hours searching for possibly no good.
As a cache owner, I would prefer that each and every person who has a DNF posts it. If not for these, I would not know that there may be a problem with one of my caches. How would I know to go and check on it unless someone tells me. (And believe me, there have been plenty of DNF’s on a couple of them.) Once I know that the cache is indeed okay, I will send a note to the one who posted the DNF and let them know. I often post notes on the cache page as well. In any case, if you don’t find it, let the owner know.
As for at what point it becomes a DNF?…well, like most things Geocaching, it’s relative…one man’s DNF is another man’s did not look in the right place. It’s not our job as cachers to think that just because we didn’t see it, it’s gone! It’s our job to either uncover it, try again, or ask for help or walk away.
Even worse than DNF’s is the fact that I have recently cached w/ someone who cached w/ 2 WGA members that log DNF’s as finds. Saying that, “If it were there we would have found it, so we’re logging it.” That, in my opinion is a bunch of Mr. Hanky!!! They actually logged 12 caches that they did not touch. (There were no names mentioned, but since I know where they were when they were caching, it didn’t take long to figure out who the two upstanding WGA members are.) Sadly, it’s not the first time I’ve heard it. Oh well…whatever it takes I guess! (I’m so happy that numbers are only personal goals for me and not something I need to show the reast of the world!)
Before this turns into another heated discussion that gets locked or deleted, I’ll stop typing.
MajorBratGame 2…
ACE!Game 1 to WISearchers
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Originally posted by Cathunter:
A few thoughts….
Sounds like Russ has his next contest…”Design the WGA Coin”
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Originally posted by geodawn:
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Hee! Hee!
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Originally posted by geodawn:
and, congrats on the new vehicle!
Was this question asked when you took your new cache mobile into a park Dawn?
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Originally posted by WISearchers:
Guilty, as charged.
Ditto!
First mistake…getting out of bed so late…LOL!!! When we plan a “power day” we are on the road by 5:30 or 6:00…the gpsr’s and PDA’s are loaded the night before. We have a general idea of which route to take (but that usually doesn’t matter once we start moving). The trunk is loaded the night before w/ anything that won’t spoil overnight. The bag w/ gpsr’s, pda’s, wallet, gum, candy, etc. is filled and sitting on the table. Shoes, clothes, hats are all in a pile on the couch. The alarm goes off and it’s game on! We spend about 30 min. on showers, dressing and grabbing last minutes…then off we go!
We try to take a mapsource or mapsend map w/ intended hunts on it, that way we can head for clumps of caches. Sometimes using a “nearest” on the gpsr doesn’t help because you end up going in circles. We run out a clump of hides then head for another clump. It helps having turn-by-turn on the gpsr! It’s usually my job to pick the cache, put it into the gpsr and then CB follows the gpsr to the hide.Once the hide is uncovered, he signs us in while I’m searching for the next one. I do my go-to and get it ready, once back in the car I set his gpsr and we head down the road. (Meanwhile I bookmark the cache in the PDA for easier logging later).
Food and potty breaks are a must for us too! I refuse to drop trou in the woods…EEEEEUUUUUWWWWW! We carry snacks in the car to hold us over until time to break for lunch. Subs and/or salads are always a good thing to eat while caching. They fill us up w/ out weighing us down.
This past Saturday we picked up Genius Loci and Mrs. Genius at 6 am and headed for Bloomington, IL. We stopped a couple of times along the way for fast grabs. We went to an event that had 24 temp hides. While doing those we hit some permanents that were in the areas. Then grabbed some more on our way home. Our total for the day…48. All caches were in parks, but w/ the group we had…no problem! Not a bad day!
Then there are those days when we go out at 6 am and return home at 10 pm only to have picked up 4 or 5 finds. Some days we do 6, 7, 8 part multi’s…some days we do 3 miles walks per cache. It just depends on where we go and which cache we pick. We try to do all the caches in an area instead of only hunting the easy ones, or the park & grabs. If we don’t clean out an area, we go back another day.
I guess my point is that there is no right or wrong number of caches per day. It’s the situation, the people involved, the area and types of hides. There are lots of factors that make up what we do. Don’t give up or worry about what some other cachers are doing! Just keep plugging along, you’ll find a rhythm that works for your team. You’ll find that the more you use it, the better it will get! Before you know it, you’ll walk 50 caches in a day too! Just have fun!
Happy Caching!
MajorBratDig. Set. Kill. Side-out.
Congrats on getting a new cachemobile Mama! It’s always fun to have a new form of transportation! As for the parking sticker…I think you just have to tell them that you already purchased one and they’ll give the replacement, but taking the shreds of the old one can’t hurt. Good luck with that!
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Originally posted by marc_54140:
Linus4Cache – 13 (WI,IL,MO,OK,KS,TX,IA,KY,FL,GA,SC,IN,MI)
Yikes…I just looked at this thread. Please change this name to MajorBrat…I haven’t used Linus in a VERY long time. Thanks!
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