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Welcome to the club, (team) Snyder Bear! Nice place for a milestone; I remember seeing my first good meteor shower there on a warm August night many years ago! Congrats on the big first K, and hope to see you on the LCG leaderboard again! 😉
11/02/2009 at 3:21 am in reply to: drhaas left their hearts in San Francisco and took 10,000! #1916163Congrats on both milestones and wonderful accomplishments! Keep on having fun!
Congrats on the 4K, Dennis and Lisa! Look forward to seeing your dust trail again!
Wow, and I remember when you passed me by too! 3K ago or so. Congrats again, and on to 6K!
Has another week passed already? 😉 Congrats, again!
Congrats, Bob! Yes, it is obvious retirement suits you. And I still remember when you blew by me not so long ago! Well done!
Congratulation on 300, Todd!
Congratulation x 2! WTG, both of you.
Another thought on this thread. What a goldmine of some great shots for the WGA homepage!
I, too, remember having two counties around Appleton cleaned out, and keeping it that way for a couple years – until about a year ago when the next generation explosion and “selzzup” hit. It’s not a bad thing, but maddening sometimes! 😯 Jim and Cathy, you can visit more often, though some days I’d like to escape to the north! 😉
Hey, GREAT PHOTOS, EVERYONE! Some places I’ve been, some I am looking up to stop at, pileated woodpecker holes in a tree at a cache in western Wisconsin, a place ?? I know where it is :wink:, and A LOT OF HAPPY SMILES. Thanks for sharing!
Wow. Nice week! Congrats on the latest milestone!
Congrats on the 11K and happy sailing!
The brand I got at Wal-Mart is called “Velcro Extreme” for rough surfaces. I have some holding the “Lift Bridge” cache on for over two years now and it’s still there. The glue and staple addition sounds like a good idea, but I haven’t had to use it. Good luck on the new hides!
I try to get the accuracy down to under fifteen feet on most of our caches, especially waypoints for multis, sometimes tweaking coordinates over time if I get consistent feedback to make a slight change. Hardly ever happens, though I have gotten one or two logs that say the coordinates were off by 16 feet, or something like that and I just laugh, especially after several others logged previously that the coordinates were dead on. I do like to see the “coordinates dead on” comments, and have gotten quite a few as I usually take at least three readings on a new cache before submitting, and then check at intervals for a while to be sure the tectonic plates haven’t shifted. 🙄 We lean toward non-urban, non-micro caches, so the difficulty is usually based more on a subtle and muggle-proof hide than soft coordinates. With a few exceptions, most of our caches are intended to be able to be found easily enough on the first attempt.
How far I would go off my GPS ground zero to look for a cache is a totally different matter. I’m in the hundred foot range like some others, and have gotten FTFs at over a hundred feet off. Even got one with labrat_wr that was in the hundreds off. I guess it depends on how far I can see, and if it’s a regular sized cache or a micro in the woods. 😯 If it’s a micro in a park with only two trees and a trash can it doesn’t seem to be an issue. Sometimes it’s fun to just leave the GPS in the car and go check out some spots based on where you think it would be. There are diffeerent standards and styles on accuracy (and different equipment) so sometimes you can get to see a pattern with a certain hider’s style, sometimes even a tendency for their equipment to lean one direction or other compared to your own.
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