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Warm congrats, Jay, and great choice! Would like to get to that one in the winter sometime! Nicely done with fun logs as usual! 8)
Hearty congrats on the latest episode in this milestone series. Great cache choice, too. Would love to do that one in the winter. Liked the line about the easy one mile walk! 😉 Congrats again! 8)
Yes, an overdue nod for that huge month! I think I tossed out a little incentive mid-way through May too. 😉 It’s fun to watch the ebb and flow of the competition in this game.
As for trolling around in the forums, well, that can tend to become a full-time job…. 😯
Congrats on the 2K and the cool 2/2 2K tribute. Hope to see you down this way often en route to your 3K. WTG! 8)
Hearty congrats on the 2K milestone, Brian! Hope to see you and some of the rest of the original team cachin’ a little closer than Shwano this summer. Kudos! 8)
A bit late but warm congrats on #700 to the entire Hitman4! Good cache; I remember that wp1 well! I’ve enjoyed reading your logs and who gets the finds in a fun team. Congrats again; I’d bet on you reaching your goal! 😉
06/16/2010 at 2:12 am in reply to: #700 WI Hibiscus Snags a ‘Walter’ at Flat Jack Goes Fishing #1931120Wow, that one snuck right by me while I enjoyed reading some of your other logs! Congrats on the 700 and the fun choice of a cache. Been waiting to get to that one myself. On to 777! 8)
Belated a bit, but HAPPY ANNIVERSARY! 😀
12K! Wow. Congrats on the huge number of finds. 8)
Warm congrats on the 2200, Robb and Sue! 8) And with a puzzle yet! Looked at it and got dizzy. Glad it’s not on my page one! Nicely done, as always. On to 2222! 😉
Good news on the Stonehenge Coin. It got a personal escort to a cache in Germany, and much closer to the goal hide in Switzerland. 😉 A trip came up quickly for Lacknothing, who made the grab at one of our high difficulty caches (thanks, Marie) and took it from there. Thanks, Roger! 8)
Awesome indeed! Loved seeing the hot spots emerge – southeast Wisconsin early on, then the West Bend and Eau Claire areas, followed by the more recent surge of concentrations in the Fox Cities, Green Bay and La Crosse. Made me think of the ones who lit up the map at those times. Nicely done again, Brian!
Warm congratulations to both of you, Gwyn and Dick! Gosh, I remember way back when I saw that smoke trail for a while…. Wow! 7K. That’s amazing!! 😯
We have 363 FTFs of 3003 total finds, a little over 12%, or an FTF out of each 8.3 or so finds, but like some others, we are recovering from the addiction, and declared our “semi-retirement” from FTF chasing after 300 of them over a year ago. And then we retired again after 333 of them. Tough habit to kick, but we are definitely making progress with a little help from a whole new generation of FTF hounds. 😉
Our first FTF a week or so into the game with our 24th find at “The Old Man Returns” (yes one of seldom|seen’s early traditionals), a cache that had eluded some much more experienced cachers for a couple months, got our attention. Dan and I were curious about what a tough hide was like and slid down the slope to DNF it that day. Believing that it must be there somewhere, a notion that we later discovered wasn’t always the case, I went back an hour later with some inspiration and made the find. A month later I got our second FTF with “For Immediate Release” at 3am in 13 below zero temps, also making two trips, mostly because the flashlight batteries got too cold to continue, so I went home for fresh ones. It didn’t help that the Raboon could be hiding anywhere within a tenth of a mile from the given coordinates at that time (it’s now .05 miles for the range). 😯
Along the way there were plenty of other very memorable FTFs; -cheeto- mentioned one of them where we went nuts chasing puzzle finds in a race to log twenty new ones to qualify for the FTF for Crazy Retro Driver’s Wanted!. We each traveled over 200 miles just to log enough puzzle finds in the race for that co-FTF. Crazy indeed. Same for the FTF at peach107’s first hide over seventy miles away past Sturgeon Bay. And the FTF halfway across the state en route to a 20 lonely cache run towards Eau Claire that Labrat_WR and I shared, getting to that one just a short time before none other than the King of FTFs himself, zuma!
The Lonely Cache Game changed much of our focus, and our game evolved to “pick and choose” a bit more. That continues each month and day we have the time to hit the trail, even close to home, but chasing them has been a lot of fun, and we still will when the timing works out. Nothing like making a good find (they aren’t all good) that no one else yet has, with no geo-trail (except for the one the owner might have left in the snow 🙄 ), and seeing a cache exactly the way it was first hidden. Forty-one consecutive months of FTFs, but that streak may also end soon, with no regrets, and a lasting memory of Giz’s introduction of the FAD. We have almost as much fun watching the new competition get their piece of the action these days.
Come on Mike. Need to relax? 😯 How about three finds since this milestone two weeks ago, and six months to get the last two hundred! That used to be a little over a months worth. This new “picking and choosing” pace is a little different for me, but it is probably going to last for a couple more years till retirement.
Thanks to all who commented, many of you having placed some great hides for Dan, Jackie, and I to enjoy. Some of you patiently waited and noticed that I survived the choice for this big one. It was a dandy; had me on edge most of the time. Look forward to seeing all of you on the trail, most of you again, a few of you for the first time. Look for the grey-haired guy who isn’t moving quite as fast as he used to. 😉
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