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Congrats on the 1K – a most memorable milestone!
All’s fair when you’ve been there! 🙄 But over a mile away, that is indeed persistance! I saw labrat score an FTF with me at several hundred feet away from ground zero, but that was due to mother nature or aliens and not the i-phone that day. 😉
Congrats, Dave! After you clean out that county are you planning to transfer at semester break? 😉
A similar example is when I had a coin recently that wanted to visit universities, but the local caches at them were micros that it wouldn’t fit in, so I “dipped” (drop and retrieve the same visit) the coin in a couple of those caches to visit Lawrence and the UW-Fox Valley Center and dropped it in a cache down the street a short distance from one of the schools. I figured it was helping accomplish the stated mission similar to when someone dips one of my travel bugs or coins in a cache for mileage while moving it along when on a trip towards its goal, if it has one, or in a great cache or spot just for the photo opportunity. I had one of my TBs dipped in the Mississippi State Geocachers Association letterbox cache this past week just to have “visited” that cache en route to a coastal location, and it’s a nice gesture to have that happen. I’m sure those kinds of stopovers are appreciated by most trackable owners, and a photo of the visit adds a nice touch too.
That sweating thing. Can’t have that, and the naturist’s log testifies that it’s a great way to beat the heat, or at least high temperatures, while hiking. Informative log, too. Took me back to minnow class at the old YMCA where they sure didn’t want to clog the pool filters with cloth fibers. 😯 I guess the bug spray in the kit gets another plug somewhere in here. That FTFN only applies to that cache by the way (GCVYKT). Now there’s a stolen thread for you.
Congrats on the 3K! Nice number!
Congrats yet again, Seth and Marie! Curious, too, as labrat mentioned, about how many pages there were there and was able to find that twelve would do it. As for rsplash’s question on Alaska, oh golly, 133 is what I was able to get for a number, though that seems like the minimum, and I wonder what kind of terrain average that would involve! 😯 Don’t know if there even is a complete challenge doable there. Should we nominate an emissary? 😉
Great article in my home-town magazine. Informative and interesting, and just a few typos! 😉
Warm congrats on the 1500 Milestone Anne!!
🙂 x 1500!
I didn’t notice – everything is working here at 10:30 am.
Congrats on the run! A little friendly competition is always fun.
09/18/2009 at 3:01 pm in reply to: Should placing a geocache inside a roundabout be banned? #1914283Like gotta run, and zuma!, I am big on freedom of choice. I have actually logged a couple roundabout hides, and chose to do what in hindsight seems possibly like jaywalking to get to them. Neither of the hides were anything memorable, but I found them at the time because they were FTFs. This interesting discussion on caches of this kind seems to have taken a dive into the black and white of the issue, with a lot of splitting hairs and some pretty strong opinions supporting or defending one side or the other. Life is just not that way. Neither is freedom.
Though initially I voted with the present majority on this topic, it seems there is a lot more gray area to consider, like the right to log dumb hides for the numbers (or the FTF), the choice of many, or dangerous ones for the challenge or excitement, which others sometimes find preferable. There is also the thorny issue of public perception about the activity, or more importantly, some of the misconceptions that arise. This is the facet of the topic that I considered most when I voted on the poll. I guess now, I would change that to a “depends on the circumstances” choice, if there were one.
I think it is inevitable that some of these roundabout hides will be scrutinized and challenged or banned by public authorities. If unpredictable and fickle media coverage accompanies such events, geocaching risks more than it gains by having some of these caches approved. If some culverts, listed by the DOT as bridges, are deemed off limits, and some cache placements across a street and field from a live rail line are determined to be unacceptable by reviewers, most of the roundabout caches warrant as much, if not more scrutiny. Those without walkways or other specific pedestrian access to the hide position are probably not worth the risk to geocaching.
Congrats on the 800! See you were over our way working on your next milestone and did one of our caches. 54 to go! 😉
Congrats on the milestone, and the encore with the three 5/5s in one day to get you on the way to your next K!
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