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Well done! Good to see you get to that milestone. I sometimes wondered how you were going to find time while doing so much to bring the Lonely Cache Game dimension to our geocaching experience in Wisconsin. Thanks again, and hearty congrats on the 2K!
Hearty congrats! That really is 16K, not 1.6 K!
Holy smoke. 29K! Wow, I didn’t even notice when you passed Ecorangers! You better log some of those soon! Congrats, Justin!
Congrats. Marc! And thanks for all the caches too, even the puzzles?, and all those WSQs that have kept me finding them and doing some of our own.
Another tie?! I can’t add well enough to orchestrate that. Congrats to both of you!
Congrats, Frizz! And thanks to rsplash for the assist on the species identification!
Nice numbers indeed! Congratulations!
Congrats! Another good way to discover some interesting caches – through the milestone choices of others.
I’d love to hear the stories…
Too much time on your handses.
We add our congratulations. Well done on the K!
And from the ranks of the archaic, as Giz puts it, an answer to the last three posts. Papyrus. Yep, I use a 100 and 210 and a few maps with cache positions and hints. Sometimes I’m lazy and print up a few cache sheets too, especially if the cache is a “complicated” puzzle or earthcache. I guess I’m trying to support the local paper industry while I continue a long-delayed transition to paperless. After a couple thousand caches I have a nice chronological quasi-scrapbook of solves and finds. Takes up space for a few books on the bookshelf, but when I get a call from someone who likes the PAF method of making a find, I can retrieve what they need in under sixty seconds. Sure I take a little heat from my peers on my ancient mariner methodology, but there’s nothing like a good map with topographical features when it comes to going out in the sticks. Otherwise I just remember the street names around town and the other places I go. Even have a photo of Marc carefully looking over one of my archaic accessories on a recent trip, though I don’t think I going to get him hooked on paper. Comes in handy when a log is full and you don’t have any spares in the pack. Not for everyone, but works for me and I sure do like the routing I create in advance.
Congrats to all of you. And you didn’t even run into one of cheeto’s scary friends while down there either….
Congrats to both, and also on the combined 211 caches placed! Well, JimandLinda led the way with 194 of those, but I have enjoyed doing quite a few creative hides by both. Thanks for all of those and well done!
We, too, have this paternal sentiment about our fifty caches. We feel like hosts to those who visit them and try to make the find a good overall experience. There have been lots of comments in the forums about what makes for a good cache and I won’t go into them here, as there are a lot of perspectives. Cachers are driven by different interests and need to go for them all or look for the ones that appeal to their tastes.
As cache owners, we thrive on appreciative logs from finders, like gotta run and T&B, and many others, who make it worth while when they find our caches. We try to blend great location or interesting hide (puzzle or not), and something in the way of good swag or trackables to interest all finders. We have tweaked a lot of caches and haven’t yet archived one as we are pretty stubborn when we commit to an idea or location.
As others mention, there are ways to cope with the obstacles of maintaining a good find, including periodic maintenance and a little TLC if you care enough to bother. We sometimes gnash our teeth at what some people think is suitable to trade or put into a cache. I’d have a trash can full of stuff I’ve taken out of our caches and those of others when I’ve traded or added something to enhance them, if I kept all that junk. Some people have a strange idea of what makes for treasure in a cache. Lots of that stuff should have hit the circular file before they left home.
Fact is, and we continue to come to terms with this, you can’t control what others do to your “offspring” hides. Most likely, those who fail to maintain or enhance a good cache don’t even read these forum thoughts. Many just don’t give much consideration to it or don’t care anyway.
We aren’t giving up, thanks to those good people who write great logs and treat caches fairly. For now at least, we will continue to feed off the visits of people like the gotta runs and T&Bs who come to our hides.
Looks like 1111 give or take a few for us – wonder what it might have been without the Lonely Cache Game taking me (and even my son) to far away places near the Michigan border for 12 hour days of nine or ten spread out lengthy treks in the wonderful north woods. Been on a pace of 100 per month since we started, but the slow-down is coming for us…
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