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Congratulations!
I want to thank you for all your wonderful logs too… they are appreciated.Wow – that’s amazing! It will only take me about 23 years to make that milestone. 😯
Thank you! It was really just lots of fun… Well, we could have done without a few of the tree climbs. I’ll take a swamp over a tree any day. 😀
Wow – that paddle is a thing of beauty.
Chest waders – Ooooh.The funniest thing we got was from relatives in the south. The label says red neck wine glasses. They are Ball jars (real ones, with lids) that have had fancy glass handles attached. LOL!
I’ll try just giving you the address to paste into your browser. Santa brought me a whole bunch of geocaching-related stuff but this one is just so fun I had to share.
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=190549&l=c1583fe558&id=100001317961865Thanks Sandlanders! Merry Christmas!
I thought that’s what I did… trying again:
Wow – that is so cool! I gotta earn one of those!!! I gues I’ll have to investigate that Navy Seal I’ve heard mention of…
The results…
Dick drilled a 0.10″ dia hole in a “The World Is Our Playing Field” geocoin for me and it worked pretty well. He clamped it to wood, as suggested, and used 3 different drill sizes. The back side has one tiny chip (about 0.02″) at the hole edge but otherwise the finish looks perfect. But, when you look at the front side at an angle, it’s apparent that the finish is no longer adhered to the underlying metal for maybe 0.08″ around the hole – it’s slightly raised. So, I’m expecting with wear that we’ll loose some finish around the hole. I’ll still call it a success. Thanks for the input.
So geodog Mag will now be trackable. She would love nothing more than to be discovered by every human on earth so, if you see her, please give her a pat!Geocoins.
I was a normal person until recently. (Well, not really, but at least regarding little pieces of metal!) I’m hoping it’s a phase.Thanks Pirate Monkeys.
I have ordered some coins and will let you all know how it goes. Of course once I started looking at coins, I got completely carried away. It’s easy to see how geocoins could become an obsession!Thanks for the tips. We have a drill press so I think I’ll search out a coin and give it a try.
I did have another idea too… There are some nice dog tags available pre-made with a hole which can be ordered with engraving. We could get a regular travel bug, just for the tracking code, and engrave it on the nicer tag. But no special icon that way.Thanks for the input. The Cachekinz would work although we were hoping to use a cool micro coin if we could successfully add a hole. But my guess is it would be easy to ruin any applied design.
Thanks BunnyFuFu. We went and saw no hunters. There is convenient parking at the trailhead, off 72, right by the lake. It’s a lovely Forest Preserve and I wish we’d had more time while there.
That’s cool. I’m sure that grid represents a lot of fun. And it’s neat that a Pileated Woodpecker witnessed the milestone!
My current perspective… the D/T ratings are really not very meaningful. We’ve just been at this for a year and almost have our grid filled in once. Filling it turned out to be a really fun exercise and we’ll probably do it again. But I think the stats are only meaningful over a large sample of caches… more than 1 or 2 per rating, IMO.
The D/T of my own caches vary dramatically – with season, with time (things change) and with “traffic”. There is no one rating that solves the puzzle for a particular cache and I wouldn’t want to try to re-gauge it at various times either. I just think you can’t take the numbers too seriously. Hopefully they’re in the ball park relative to others in the region. I’ll just leave them as is – for some it’s a benefit, for others a disadvantage.
Just this AM I looked at the new location of one of my TBs. It’s in GC24BZZ It’s a 4.5 terrain and the elevation change between parking and cache is about 1700 feet. None of the 4.5s I’ve done were anywhere near as physically demanding as that. But I wouldn’t say the ratings were wrong. It’s just all so relative and subjective. That’s ok with me. It’s all good.
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