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I have a few on my watch list that I have found or had a DNF on like others have said. My watch list is getting WAY smaller than it used to be. Mostlu just the 6 white Jeep travel bugs I released, and those get no more hits….none.
I am having trouble with the concept of spending 3 hours on a pair of puzzles only to have them be very unrealistically hard to find. I will reserve further judgment until I have found said containers. 😕
Is this a “Bucket list thing”? There was a point in my life where I thought jumping out of a perfectly good airplane would be fun, but for some reason I have the fear of falling thing…. I have been up many times in private planes but jumping out of one isn’t much of an option.
Running a snowmobile at 115 mph (speedometer, not GPS) legally on a trail is indeed a rush I have experienced. Now to get the last 5 mph to bury the speedometer…..
😈I am able to walk away for as long as it takes….up to 288 days without a cache. I am trying to make at least one cache a day, which I think my string is around 36 days, but if something comes up where I don’t get around to it….oh well.
Riding the Harley and working on the cabin at Chute Pond were more important the last two years than any numbers could be to me. My goal was 2000 finds by the end of the year, and I walked right past that last month.
I also wonder how all of the high number people that are married and working do it. 😉
It was just the other day when you hit 3300. Congratulations again! 😉
Stand there in the field with a Palm and find the right Walking in the park cache for an example using Cachemate. WSQ is no better, I have opened many a cache entry in Cachemate and compared the coordinates to see if it is the same cache on the GPS.
I will not spend more than the national debt to print cache pages when an old PDA will work just fine. I can carry thousands of cache pages in my shirt pocket and 500 in the GPS.
In a localized home area packet where you may only have a dozen or so of the same series, it’s not as big of a deal. Go on a graveyard tour or a trip in the heart of the Just a walk series and you have 5 pages of cache names that are not all that different. You have a name field limitation of about 30 characters and when the first 29 are the same is where it gets tough,
Maybe having a new fangled GPS that uses a .GPX packet would be the key since the info is already tied to the cache you are standing at.
By the time I saw this cache posted, it had two finders. I must have lost my touch.. Congrats on your milestone!
I found the final of a 13 part multi cache once, and yes I logged it. 😉
Looks like you aren’t doing so bad yourself with 1700! Congrats!
@Mathman wrote:
Congratulations!
Sounds like you are having fun. Keep on having fun.
Looks like you aren’t doing so bad yourself with 1700! Congrats!
The way I see it, they are one short of a milestone….
@Sagasu wrote:
Congrats, Mike! Sorry I missed spotting you while you were out on the back forty tossing grenades!
The average person wouldn’t have been out in that weather much less looking out the window. 😉 I couldn’t find your Mission cache, but I found the hard one! Go figure…. Thanks Dave!
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@Miata wrote:
Signing log takes very long.
😯 ❗
@Miata wrote:A special sticker can help speed things up.
Please tell me these aren’t the ones that take up 10 spots on my “initial only” micro log rolls and make me have to do maintenance runs more often! If so, you have my full permission to use the patented “Marc Method” of “signing” logs on all gotta run caches!
No. The only time we used them they were dots recomended by the cache owner, but I know what you mean.
Welcome back Lil Otter! 😀 Keep focus, but remember it’s all about the journey. I hope to see you at an event again some time.
@Captain and Mate wrote:
@furfool wrote:
I also have to question group caching where the group finds 75-100 caches in 6-8 hours in an area they never cached in before, or anywhere for that fact. Looking at the conservative side of 75 caches in 8 hours, that comes out to one find every 6.4 minutes. It’s impossible.
This is something we’ve wondered, too. Our personal record for one day is 40 and we busted our humps for 11 hours to get those. How anyone can claim 100 or more in one day is beyond us. Are we just missing something?
Yes, a very well planned route. Marc makes very planned routes that are printed out ahead of time. I did a route myself of Neenah. I used a yellow marker and laid out the route by hand and did 15 in 3 hours and 70 for the day(I limited my search to 2/2.5 and less).
Signing log takes very long. A special sticker can help speed things up. We used cache owner approved stickers when we drove down to Illinois to do the BOB series in which we had 105 caches in one day. Not unusual for Marc and I to do a 14 hour cache day and find 40 to 50 caches.
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