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The Blue Logger has been spoken for.
This is a great looking coin! Good work. I will place an order soon.
I would also recommend the Hixon forest trail caches. If you do make a stop at Pettibone, check out one of my hides located near to the Pettibone Gazebo: GC1JG8H.
If you want to do some dash-and-caching, you may want to look into the “Three Rivers Trail”.
I might be off the rocker, but they could have been looking for a Geocache. I bet it was a DNF. Goofy aliens have eyes on the tops of their heads, can’t see the ground. Or at least that is what my alien buddy told me over my tinfoil head antenna.
Yep, off rocker a bit. Perhaps my last two DNF’s got to me more than I had realized.
I plant to tackle that mountain seen in the event picture. Woofta!
It is a ways off still, but I hope to make it and get a chance to meet those attending.
I temporarily disabled one cache due to river stage levels today. I performed maintenance on another hide of mine not too long ago, which happened to be more early than needed. It’s that time of the year – this summer should be a blast!
A community that looks out for each other…
Ya, it’s GC1GJYH as mentioned above.
It is very nice back there. Myself with a buddy of mine head to that area several times a year to camp. Their are no campsites, though the DNR does provide a camping permit – minimum of 90 days however.
Check it out sometime and have fun.
The cache container has been replaced with a more appropriate container, of the same size, that will allow the placement to be permanent without destruction for many of days. Surprisingly the original container was in perfect shape, as was the log book. Here is a short summary of my trek to perform maintenance, after over a year, and why I decided to replace the container no matter what the shape the original was in.
Summer is not winter. A wise brain once said to me once after an Owner Maintenance. I decided to take the long route and found myself trudging through 1 1/2 to 3 foot snow drifts to get to the location. I expect for some occasions, or many occasions, this cache may provide the same effort or more on your part, Winter & Summer.
So, after about 45 minutes of hiking, I arrived at the location. I found the cache in perfect shape, and it was placed appropriately by the last person whom found it.
In order to get to the cache, I took off my shoes, socks, and upped my pants; remind you this was 25F degree weather in the dead of Winter. I knew after crossing I would have to dry myself and re-establish my gear no more than 15 to 20 seconds after crossing some, umm, so called wet forest land – happened to be over the waist deep in the shallowest part.
After such a superior sensation, I made darn sure I was going to replace the container no matter what. I quickly warmed up and retrieved the cache and its contents.
Coming back is a different story. I was not about to go through a polar plunge once again, so I thought hard about what might be stable crossing.
Yes, you may have different views of what is safe and appropriate, but mind you I came VERY prepared, else I would have used the GMRS radio for my buddy in the car to come rescue me (you don’t want that embarrassment do you?), and here is why:
Deciding to take another route across the wet land I had originally passed in my first route, I found myself soaked well over my waist line.
I knew something like this might happen, and I hope all Geocachers may be prepared for the same. I knew I didn’t have much time until hypothermia, and I did feel it come fast, so I unpacked my spare clothing: pants, socks, and shirt. The shoes were water proof and held very tight, but by the time I started heading back, the top water soaked part of the socks quickly ran into the boots. In such a case you want to wiggle and hike like their is no tomorrow to re-generate warmth in your body.
So the conclusion, this is NOT A WINTER FRIENDLY CACHE, though IT IS POSSIBLE IF YOU DARE! …the story is a lot longer, but I will leave that to your imagination…
The old log will be scanned in a computer picture format and placed on a website. I will put the URL (link) in the description space when this is done. HAVE A BLAST, I did.. I would do it again any time!
@zuma wrote:
Only 60 finds to learn common sense? I must be a slow learner, since I have a few more finds than 60, and I still managed to walk on thin ice yesterday, earning a boot of icy cold water and swamp muck in the process. 🙂 Fortunately the water was shallow, and it did not impact the day’s plans to cache.
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Sounds like a blast! The swamp muck I could go without though. 😀
I think common outdoor knowledge should be respected in the sense of the cache’s difficulty.
A person with 60 finds should by then have the common sense to head off dangerous behavior, while those new to Geocaching with just a few finds might take unnecessary risks to retrieve the cache.
The only solution I can find reasonable is to post a note on the cache page, or the description section giving warnings and precautions. Why disable these and spoil it for everyone. If you can Geocache, you can read. Don’t jump ahead of yourself.
I found a root system near the La Crosse River’s edge. It would be mostly inaccessible during the winter, as the water rises over the cache itself. That is the problem.
The cache description states to put it back tightly where it was found, but how many actually look at the descriptions of each cache before going out and finding it?
In any case, I imagine it is floating down the Mississippi. I did get my couple of laughs in with Geocachers falling in to the water, but that has kinda dried up now. It is now placed a few feet away, safe and sound, or almost as it is on a steep slope.
I have to give myself grief also. I don’t always read the descriptions as deeply as it should be. I will definitely work harder now to break that habbit.
Is this a common habit anyone?
10/28/2009 at 10:29 pm in reply to: Do you carry a knife while geocaching? If so, what kind? #1915835I carry a Victorinox multi-tool. I don’t believe I have ever needed it. A couple bikers asked if I had a multi-tool and I let them use it. If the need ever arises, for just about any need with this particular tool, at least I will be prepared. It is significantly heavy however. It is always in my day pack, which I never leave to go Geocaching without.
Also own cacheblogs.com if anyone needs a sub-domain…
I just heard about this on the Podcacher Podcast. I can imagine they are taking a long break from each other, the car, and probably geocaching!
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