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The new cache for August is GC31C3G “Welcome Cache Ba$h Cachers”
08/03/2011 at 3:19 am in reply to: RJ McKenzie reaches #5000 with Oconto County – High Point #1951035@labrat_wr wrote:
congratulations Ryan! Wow, 5K is a lot of caches to sign. I think I have your autograph on a log sheet or two over this-a-way!
And just think how many more times he had to sign for Marc.
Still need a few more volunteers to help with the downloads. No experience needed – training provided. Let us know what time slots you can help in.
If you are a fast runner it should not be a problem, but am slow so I usually resort to tripping someone trying to get to the cache before me.
Being truthful now most cachers enjoy the experience of bumping into aanother cacher on the trail at this event. That’s what events are for for – the social aspect. Some cachers come to this event to find as mant caches as they can and others come just for the comraderie. We plan on finding about 10 caches each day and spending the rest of the time geo-gabbing in the park.
08/02/2011 at 3:27 am in reply to: RJ McKenzie reaches #5000 with Oconto County – High Point #1951025Congratulations Ryan. I remember reading kmsnoops log on this one too. Sounds like a great milestone choice that I might try if we are ever at the lake in Oconto County at a milestone time.
HardinFamily it seems like you are someone who will never be pleased no matter what other people say or do. Much of the critcism here was meant to be helpful and instructive, but I guess you just don’t see it that way.
I’ll hit the “like” button for August (KFH). I can attest to the prowess of him and his boys when it comes to geocaching. To date they are the only ones to have found a 5/4 of mine published in May GC2VTK8. Here’s their log.
This journey might have been the most fun I’ve had on a challenge. I’m not sure how I missed this being published as I love working on the challenge caches, but last week while caching with Mr G he mentioned it and I knew that it was perfect for us. Living in Madison only about 2 miles from the IAT and doing a lot of caching along the trail in the Milwaukee area, I figured that I had a pretty good start on this one. After doing some digging through our previous caches, it turned out we only needed 5 counties to qualify, so made plans for a couple of roadtrips and shot the CO my list of caches. The boys and I spent an afternoon hiking in the NKM to pick up Sheboygan & Fond du Lac and then ran to Wausau/Waupaca and the final to finish up on Sat. We were 3rd to sign, but FTF . I absolutely love hiking the IAT with the boys and can’t wait to continue adding the rest of the counties. Once they are older, the plan is to spend a summer hiking the trail but we’ll see. The Loew Lake area is still one of my favorite areas to visit and cache in, thanks for another excuse to come back!
And it goes on and on.
@Hardinfam wrote:
I understand your points Muggle B, Cheeto, and who ever are against these kind of hides. The problem isn’t the hides always sometimes it is the finders not using common sense. I realize that, that is easy to say, but in essence it is the truth. If people go to these hides and shake a arrow sign because they dropped the nano down the back in view of everyone that will cause the police to arrive. If you walk down the street with the family and have the kids locate it probably won’t raise much alarm. If the cache neighbor doesn’t like it on the public land called a terrace then I will remove them, but not if another cacher is upset with me.(on that note, to who ever took apart my cache and left it for a muggle to find please stop)
The game is meant for everyone not just people who like to walk in the woods. I know some of you are single and I know some of you have a family, but all of you enjoy some aspect of this game which is why you play.
Ten times as likely a muggle messed with your container and not a geocacher. If you place hides in public places you are going to have problems. I’ll agree with you that the cacher looking for your hide can be the start of the problem. Careless searching will undoubtedly be observed by curious muggles. That brings us right back to the same point again that if this type of hide is creating problems for you it may be time to adapt and expand the type of caches and places that you are hiding them. I haven’t seen much support for you here so it may be time to bite the bullet and give in to some sort of conformity if you want to continue in this activity.
@sandlanders wrote:
@JimandLinda wrote:
“Find 100, then hide a cache”.
So they’ll go out and find a quick 100 P&Gs. 🙄
now we’ve gone full circle – it’s hopeless
@beccaday wrote:
OK, it’s hidden. A cache dedicated to Hack1of2. Now I just have to wait for approval.
WisKid has already met John and Kim so he may not approve it
Do we have to wear costumes when we look for this one.
Remember to have a lost and found box near the cache.
Add that one to the Geocacher Bingo Card. Thanks for sharing, looks like great fun.
@Hardinfam wrote:
I know where that puzzle one was. I just wish that the person in charge of publication of new caches would have a better map.
You’re not going to get any map that is better than what the reviewers use. You need to start looking for places that are definitely public land and even if it is public you still should be getting permission for all caches. You might want to read Groundspeaks cache hiding guidelines.
@Muggle B wrote:
What about a geocaching TOWN of the month?
Pick a town with lots of nice caches and even post an event for the occasion. This way it would draw people to that town to check it out or maybe draw them to a new place in Wisconsin that even regular geocaching wouldn’t have brought them since there are so many its hard to decide where to go.
id like that better than a cacher of the month.
What’s your address and the town you live in?
@BigJim60 wrote:
Just wondering, if the caches are published at midnight, but the event doesn’t begin until noon, are there cachers out there claiming the FTFs prior to noon? Or does everybody wait until noon before starting to search? Not that it really matters, but it would be kind of cool to get an FTF at an event like this.
There were only a small amount of the caches found before the event started and mostly by local West bend cachers who wanted a FTF. You do need your book if you want to be eligible for prizes. I would guess that by mid afternoon on Friday many of the caches will have been found.
One thing to note though is that the caches are even spread out further than last year and require much more hiking.
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