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Congratulations and a great choice for a milestone.
I went to check on one of my caches and found it 50′ from where it was hidden in the hands of a racoon. It was an ammo box. I’ve also seen a squirrel running across a cemetery with a film canister in it’s mouth.
Congratulations on one of the most expensive pizza runs ever. Aren’t there 6 dead end caches and a Rocky Roccocos in Manitowoc?
Congratulations Ralph, and I’m sure it’s been a great roller coaster ride all the way.
Congratulations on your first big milestone.
Congratulations Clayton, I didn’t even know you had a girl friend.
Congratulations! Geocaching and retirement were made for each other.
@gotta run wrote:
@Mister Greenthumb wrote:
Also the remaining standing stone framework of the old hotel nearby is worth the visit.
Then be sure to check out GC1ZVZW.
It is only .1 mile as the crow flies from the nearest EarthCache, but you have to leave the park to avoid crossing the hotel grounds, which are private, albeit frequently trespassed.
Unfortunately this was published after we were at the caves last fall. This gives us a definite reason to drive by again next time we’re in the area.
Still to date some of the best EC’s we’ve done. This park was a great place to hike with an almost prehistoric feel to it. Amazing tree formations besides all of the rock formations and caves. Also the remaining standing stone framework of the old hotel nearby is worth the visit.
@EnergySaver wrote:
go with the Nuvi …
(2) Garmin has great customer servicel
The off/on switch on our Nuvi broke a week after the warranty had expired. We contacted Garmin and they sent us a whole new unit.
Our funniest cemetery story happened at a small rural cemetery near Watertown late last fall. Our grand daughter Emma was still up in the tree from retrieving the cache. Another car drove and a man walked over to the grave marker where we got information for the final waypoints. We told Emma to wait in the tree so she could retrieve the cache again and save him a climb. I walked over and when I was close enough I blurted something out about are you finding the right infomation or do you need any help with the waypoints. Just then I realized he was not a geocacher, but the custodian of the cemetery. The paper in his hand was a layout of the grave plots. I was now just a few feet away from him and as he looked up I struggled for words. Out came the first thing I could think of. “I see your out today checking to make sure everyone is still here”. Needless to say Emma came down from the tree and we drove off all having a good laugh.
@-cheeto- wrote:
One clarification on my opinion of the topic. I think that caching teams (couples, families, friends) that cache under the same name are a bit different than multiple teams getting together for “puzzle tours”.
Teams/families should not be discouraged from doing puzzles. Should everyone understand the puzzle, yes. Do they all need to solve it themselves? well that’s just picking nits. I don’t think anyone is being that critical. Even the die hard “must solve it yourself” crew shouldn’t expect that all the time because it just won’t happen that way.
That is kinda what I do with OPPS5 (daughter’s family and grand kids). They are regular cachers, but because of the kids school and soccer can barely squeeze caching time in, let alone time to solve puzzles. We do usually discuss what I had to go through to solve a puzzle and I know that they appreciate and enjoy caches that they would otherwise not have the opportunity to hunt. The outings with them are our most fun adventures.
Congratulations, 2K is just around the corner. Great pictures!
@smashing ground wrote:
if your caching with someone else how about the method “since i solved the puzzle you find the cache”
that seems to fair right?That’s why I take the grand kids. I solve the puzzle and then I send them up the tree or through the brambles to find the cache.
I’m kinda middle of the road on this one so I voted other. First of all I’m not big on puzzles even though we have found 140. My idea of geocaching is using the given coordinates to find something hidden in the woods. I checked the 140 that we found and there were about a dozen that we had help on from previous finders or the owner. Two of them were solved by our grand kids. One involved SpongeBob and the other involved texting; both are subjects that we know nothing about. We had no guilt in logging them since our grand kids are frequent caching partners. We have had offers to either tag along on group finds or be given gift coordinates and have turned down both offers. We have probably taken our grand kids along to find 50 of the puzzles that we’ve solved and I don’t think they should feel guilty logging them. They introduced us to geocaching and it’s my way of paying them back. Most of the 10 closest unfound caches to home right now are puzzles and we probably will never find them or do we really have that much desire to. It really doesn’t bother us that they’re out there.
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