[Northwoods Tom]

@jim1830 wrote:

I’ve had a few times where I couldn’t get the log out – because the container was stuck, or frozen, or something like that, and I log it as a note – and don’t log it as a find until I actually come back and physically sign it.

Like your thinking, same think happened to my wife and I on January 1st. My trucks defrosters turned on high came in handy. Dried the log out nicely also.

[Northwoods Tom]

@David Cantrell wrote:

FTF was……. 3:21pm (logged). School there gets done at 3:35pm. GRRRRRRRR!

Someone who’s life can’t wait 14 minutes… I would be interested in their reaction. They just couldn’t follow the rules.

[Northwoods Tom]

I would be more inclined to ignore those that don’t sign, especially if they clearly located but were unable to retrieve. For me, it’s about bringing a person to someplace special. The log signing is less important.

I and I think just about everyone out there would definitely delete someone claiming FTF, when they didn’t sign, but for the others, it becomes a case of having to police all your caches to make sure that they sign. If that’s what you want to do, that’s a personal choice which we all are entitled to.

I would never claim a cache as a find until I sign the log, but that’s me. It’s part of the quest. The people who seek the tally “numbers”, are always going to find a way to stretch or bend the rules regardless of what we do. Just look at the groups who claim puzzles they haven’t personally solved or those who cache in small armies together. I hope that the experience in the location or the solve is more important to them than the tally, but we know it isn’t always that way.

P.S. As a side note, I still have handful of your caches up north that I have been in the area of, but have yet to locate. Getting to ground zero and opening that container and signing that log as I enjoy the surroundings is going to make the experience complete for me!

[Northwoods Tom]

Way to go Jim!!!

[Northwoods Tom]

I’ve met the individual and will contact him. It’s twelve miles from my summer cottage.

[Northwoods Tom]

What’s going to kill this game?

Geocaching.com not taking care of the glitches in their site..

[Northwoods Tom]

@Timberline Echoes wrote:

it is getting disheartening to hear the “purist” bash P & G’s as if they are only for the “number grabbers” or “lesser cachers” sometimes there are other reasons for why people get these. We sometimes take our handicapped friends caching and long hikes are not always doable for them. Some handicaps sometimes prevent much typing too. So before eveyone is lumped into one box please consider there may be different things for different cachers why things are done the way they are.

So many excellent comments by everyone! And Timberline Echoes reminds me of something I should always remember.

At this time in my life I find the P&G’s a cache I often drive right past. I look down at them when I should be remembering not that long ago when I would push my late father around in his wheel chair, through fields and other areas a wheelchair should not go just so he too could still be part of the outdoor experience and enjoy it.

Don’t know if he would have liked geocaching, but at least he could have experienced it.

[Northwoods Tom]

In the age of “guard rail, place a cache”, when I travel to an area I plug the area into my search and go after those listed as favorites.

I’ve only found a few hundred but I have now decided to be more selective in what I search for.

[Northwoods Tom]

I purchased my Chevy S-10 new in 1997. I bought the small size truck because I wanted better gas mileage than the full size truck could offer and because I needed to haul building materials and my gear.

So why can’t they make a small size truck that gets even better gas mileage now with all the other vehicles coming out that can get good mileage. Instead, the full size trucks get bigger and more powerful. I don’t need to haul culverts like you see on the commercial. (Yet I have hauled 10 railroad ties at a time with my small truck.)

Where I geocache, a Prius or the likes would get stuck. Maybe I can find someone to chop the back, jack it up, and improve my mileage…

Or cache more in the city.

[Northwoods Tom]

That’s why I try to avoid mine cave-ins and prison.

Yet living on this Island sometimes make it seem that long before the next cache.

[Northwoods Tom]

Okay, with Easter just around the corner.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/gallery/070402/GAL-07Apr02-69859/index.html

You either love them or hate them. My wife loves them, I can’t stand them.

[Northwoods Tom]

These non fiber arts people have no class… 🙄

I will forward the link to my wife, the Manager of Sievers “Fiber Arts School” on the Island. SHE will appreciate it…

Personally, I like VG’s the best… 😉

[Northwoods Tom]

Great trailer!

Do I see that beautiful WGA logo gracing its sides in the future?

[Northwoods Tom]

Congratulations! That’s wonderful. I also personally like the idea of trying to find a special cache for one of the milestones, and sometimes it actually works out! Only been caching for about 2 years and around 600 caches, but I have a rough idea what I would like to search for on the next several 100 mark milestones.

I”s fun to look back at those numbers! Keep racking them up!

[Northwoods Tom]

Congratulations!

That first 100 was a hoot! Then you get like “I know where this cache is…”. and run in to one of the really great hiders (is that a word?) out there and get brought back to earth… And it just keeps getting better and more fun.

Welcome Mimi!

I checked the Mandan Road! You mean you didn’t do it! There’s probably only 4-6 feet of snow left…

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