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Thanks for the reports everyone! Ticks give me the heebie jeebies…. so I’ve kept myself busy with other projects instead of caching, lol.
I’ve peeked around at benchmark hunting in the past. I’ll try my best to answer some of your questions!
Now, how do I tell before going through all the work and not have to read each and every page? On your page you brought up by searching by postal code or point ID, on the far right, there is a little icon under “last log”. If it was found to be destroyed, that icon should look like a broken plate. (Other icons are happy face for “found it” and frowny face for “didn’t find it”.) Otherwise on the far left of that page, there is also an opportunity to have a “destroyed” icon. (Other icons at that part of the page are a circle with a triangle in it for “not yet logged”, a circle with a ? in it for “may be missing” and a circle with a ! in it for “found or recovered”)
Also, what does “reset” in the name mean?(I.E. “bogus name 1945 reset”) A reset is a “replacement” benchmark for a previously destroyed or not found benchmark.
Where do you pull your list of benchmarks from? I’ve pulled mine in this way – from the main gc.com page, there is a link about 1/3 of the way down the page for benchmark hunting. Click on that. Then I type in my postal code and search. It’s just fun to look at other items that are considered benchmarks such as water towers, church steeples, etc.
I hope that helped!!!
~Mama Fishcacher
That is one of the funniest stories I’ve heard in a long time!
I had no idea cows could swim…. I’ve seen deer swim, but never a cow.
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Originally posted by greyhounder:
Hey All!I am gearing up for a caching extravaganza — let’s all hope the weather behaves (well, I guess I’ll cache regardless. I actually enjoy caching in the rain.) I’m heading to the cabin in Northern WI. That will be my home base and I’ll go from there. Looks like I’ll be visiting some waterfalls Lil Otter!
What’s everyone else got planned for the holiday weekend?
Bec
Sounds like a fun weekend for you Bec! (What? You’re not on call??? Yee haw!!)
My niece is going to be over on Saturday. That’s all the plans I have set up so far for this weekend. I think we have rain slated for this area over the weekend, so any geocaching will be spontaneous. I usually just get up one morning and decide to go caching so if the mood hits, I’ll be out!
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Originally posted by Cathunter:
I wish I could claim the island as my own…. it belongs to an all too distant family member who has had it for 30 some years. I have been given squatters rights provided I help to keep the place up.The lake is part of the Turtle/Flambeau Flowage. The shoreline is 80% state owned, and mostly sand beach. Loons and muskies rule the area. I took the pic last fall after Grousetail’s “Northwoods Breakfast Event Cache” in Arbor Vitae.
It truly is Heaven!
It really is gorgeous. You’re so lucky to have a place like that!!!! That’s my father-in-law’s dream come true right there. Me, I prefer to let someone else own it and I just rent it. Hee hee.
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Originally posted by WISearchers:
Wasn’t it “buttah”? Glad someone else my age remembers that! ah… love the Sesame Street.yep yep yep yep yep. UH huh, UH huh, UH huh.
Tony (WISearchers)
Yep – “buttah”.
And those aliens (yep, yep, yepyepyepyep) were some of my favorites!!!! I still crack up thinking about them! (Scared of the phone and the clock!!! LOLOLOL!!!!!)
You must’ve been a “Schoolhouse Rocks” kid too…. I’ve been meaning to get the DVD of all those songs! Love ’em!
~Mama Fishcacher
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Originally posted by WISearchers:
We go geographically and wipe out an entire area, so we may not do a COTM until we actually come across it.(Soundslike another thread! How do you cache)
I’m also a geographic cacher. Saves on the gas for the car.
Holy cow!!! We have flooded fields around here, and the ground is really squishy. And for the first time ever, we had a little bit of water in our basement. (Didn’t even have any in the flood of 93!) But what we have is a piece of cake compared to some of those photos!
But I did get to see a tornado yesterday evening! Unfortunately, I didn’t have the presence of mind to get out my camera. Only the second I’ve seen in my lifetime. Which is sort of funny considering my mom used to take me out looking for tornados when I was a kid, lol. (“Come on honey! The tornado sirens are going off! Let’s get outside!!!”)
~Mama Fishcacher
Happens to me too. It’s fun to go on occasional caching “binges”, lol. But it’s also nice to sit back, take a break, and just read the logs.
Besides, I gotta go to work and keep the house relatively clean and all that kind of stuff sometime!
Recently, the huge amount of ticks has me staying out of the woods, (they should be dwindling soon though) and pretty soon, we should be getting a flood hatch of mosquitos…. Maybe I’ll have to brave the ticks before those mosquitos hit!
~Mama Fishcacher
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Originally posted by Trudy & the beast:
Let’s take another look at this argument.Enough of us have tired of roadside virtuals, so we have now banned Verts.
Some of us have tired of the cache in the parking lot, let’s ban those.
Soon we will tire of film cannisters,
then pill bottles, and then rubber maid, then tupperware…. and ammoboxes.Admittedly this is drawing the argument through a slippery slope to an absurd conclusion, but isn’t this where it is headed?
There is presently enough variety to please each of us. If there is a type of cache that I don’t care to seek, I will look for another.
tb
Exactly how I feel!!! Thanks for finding the words for it!
~Mama Fishcacher
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Originally posted by The Lil Otter:
As proof.. here’s my best memory log from my latest trip.. Double Rainbow Cache GCGBHF http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=0faa56ae-3d7b-4c4c-83d0-06ae a0b8923e [/B]
Oh wow! That is one amazing story!!! How beautiful!
~Mama Fishcacher
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Originally posted by CacheCows:
We respect your right to defend those creating ‘quick’ caches. Some of us on the other hand feel that when one creates and lists a cache there is an inherent responsibility to value the investment in time and resources that geocachers make when they hunt those caches. And when we hunt a cache that obviously had little effort in its placement or design, we frankly feel that the cache’s owner wasted our time. And we feel we have a right to say so…And in our case, we simply lost 90% of our first year enthusiasm and rarely cache anymore as its too difficult to weed out the quality from the rudimentary caches.
[This message has been edited by CacheCows (edited 05-19-2004).]
I do see your point here. I have a simple suggestion towards finding the caches of the quality you desire – try sticking with only folks who place caches you like. Geocaching.com allows you to do a search in this manner. Do a search by name of hider based on caches you have enjoyed in the past. To try new cache placers, use the folks who frequent this board! They are very dedicated to geocaching and I’m sure they put lots of thought into their placement just as you do.
I hope you can find a lot of your excitement for geocaching again!
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Originally posted by AstroD-Team:
This is my first post. I am relatively new to geocaching (6 months) and do this as a family sport.
If it wasn’t for the 1/1 finds, this activity would require a babysitter so my hubby and I can go alone and then it would no longer be a family sport. 1/1’s give my 5 year old the opportunity to actually find a cache himself and he doesn’t get bored and whiny that results from spending hours looking for a harder rated cache.
When we’re out caching for the day, we’re glad to have a few 1/1 in the mix, it keeps everyone in our family happy. Who knows with more time and more experience our little 5 year old might be ready for the 5/5.
The point to this game for us is to get out and spend time as family – whether it be searching a 1/1 or a 3/4 or a 5/5.
Just my two cents for what its worth.Lt Kat
I completely agree!!!! I save the harder ones for times when my son (just turned 7) isn’t along. Then when he is willing to go, we have some easier ones available that he can find!
My first cache was a 2/2.5 two stage multi that is very close to my home. (If I got on my roof, I bet I could see it!) I thought it was hard! I was thinking I’d hate to try anything harder! But after gaining a bit of experience, I revisited this cache and being at a different time of year, it seemed like a whole new cache to me – the vegetation was totally different and I honestly thought it was a piece of cake…. >blush< And then there are those days when a more difficult cache has you stumped, and I tell ya, an easy find really boosts the morale so you don’t think you’ve *lost the touch*, lol. And you know, we all like different kinds of caches. Some like virtuals, others hate them. Some like multis, others hate them. Some like micros, others hate them. (I’m learning to like the micros, lol!) Fortunately the sport is big enough to have all kinds. And as a sidenote, I thought quite a few of the locationless caches weren’t all that terrible. (Haven’t done one, but looked at them – never heard of a meromictic lake until I stumbled across it on a locationless cache list – VERY cool. Found out my town has THREE places on the National Register of Historic Places. Wouldn’t have found that if I hadn’t seen the locationless cache list.) If every cache was a 4/4, I can tell ya it would get boring after a bit. Many folks would give up out of frustration after not finding caches, or out of boredom since most caches would be the same after awhile. And just because one person thinks a cache is “lame” doesn’t mean a thing to me. It’s more about being out and about, enjoying a beautiful day, finding new parks and places, going for a little hike, having a little fun, and meeting some really nice people instead of spending the day in front of a tv screen. And even better, it gets my whole family involved on occasion. I can honestly say I have yet to find a “lame” cache. But if a cache page said it was a magnet stuck to a guardrail on the side of the road, or a lamppost in the Piggly Wiggly parking lot, I highly doubt I’d even try it. Therefore, I don’t think I’ll ever find a “lame” cache. I invite anyone who has found a “lame” cache to POLITELY ask the owner what the reason for choosing the site was. You just might get a really neat story about it that could completely change your mind about that cache being “lame”. Tony, I applaud you for speaking your mind! (Even if I am feeling clueless as to where this originated from…. Did I miss a post somewhere????) I’m enjoying the discussion though! ~Mama Fishcacher
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Originally posted by AstroD-Team:
Well, I am paranoid about ticks
Maybe a little knowledge would be power! If it’s Lyme Disease you are worried about, know that it only comes from the tiny deer tick (smaller than a sesame seed), and not the larger wood tick. And infection is very unlikely if the tick is attached to you (not just sitting on your pants leg, but firmly attached) less than 36 hours.
I like all kinds of caches.
~Mama Fishcacher
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