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GC4MAR5 — It’s in the wild, published, and waiting for the adoption to go through…
I just checked on the log stats on the recent logs page, and there was no drop from Saturday to Sunday, either globally or in Wisconsin. With yesterday being a holiday, the numbers were actually up. There is a significant drop-offf for today, though, but that is most likely due to the holiday/summer being over and the back-to-school thing.
So people are still caching, but are they keeping their streaks alive or are those anti-souvenir folks back in the game? 😉 Us? We didn’t go every day, but we did go on a day we liked the souvenir. Now we just go when we have the time and the weather is nice. Haven’t been out in September yet.
@Mister Greenthumb wrote:
and first time driving to HS for Emma.
😯 😯 😯
Doesn’t look too far from the WGA picnic location…
@Chatauqua560 wrote:
Wasn’t caching then so nothing I have qualifies.
It doesn’t matter when you found the caches, just the dates that they were published… kind of like in the Jasmer Challenge. Not many folks were caching in 2000 and 2001, etc., but anyone can still look for caches that were PUBLISHED in those years. To fill your grid, just look for publication dates before October 3, 2008, (the date of the challenge publication) when you are looking to fill your 81 D/T combinations. You probably have quite a few of the squares filled in already.
Maybe the confusing part was that caches found before the challenge publication date count, too, but since you were not caching then, that wouldn’t apply to you.
Anyone can go for this challenge. Obviously, the older dates are harder to come by, just like in the Jasmer. And some of the D/T combinations aren’t as common anyway, so they might be even that much harder to come by.
If you have a premium membership, you can do PQs for published dates and D/T combos. The more difficult part is to see which ones you already have, and I have heard… GSAK… can help you with that. 😉
And don’t forget the other part of the “cheesy” challenge: to find the icons and some “cheese”!
Since this thread has gone in a direction away from souvenirs, I will comment on the most recent discussion. The “Cheesy Well-Rounded” challenge is one of the original “true” challenges out there. It was placed with the requirement that caches needed a certain publication date to eliminate the possibility that new caches would spring up that would be grid-fillers for this challenge.
And that happens all the time. There are now grid-filler power trails, where cachers can get every rating they need. Even GC has just now “helped” people meet challenges requiring a certain number of souvenirs, or certain streaks. I would disagree with the idea that the early caches might not have the correct D/T ratings because “back then”, D/T ratings reflected pretty much what one had to go through to find the caches. Now, D/T ratings are often fudged to fill holes in a grid, and this even happens with events nowadays.
If people become “cheesy” W-R cachers, they can take pride in the fact that they filled their grids by finding some decent caches that were placed to bring people to certain locations, not to fill grid holes. In its infinite wisdom, GC no longer allows date requirements on challenges, thus watering down the game even more.
Not everyone is meant to find every cache or complete every challenge. It is doubtful that we will ever become well-rounded, cheesy or not. Some caches we don’t enjoy doing, and if we can’t find a cache to fill a grid hole that we would enjoy, then that hole will stay empty. Caching is not a job but a leisure activity. We’re not going to kill ourselves just to get certain smilies.
How do we get the official WGA vinyl labels for the cache containers?
Got the 13 souvenirs we made the effort to get, and ended up with seven others that we probably wouldn’t have gone out for except that we were caching on our travels. Added little bit of fun to August.
Bring on September and fall caching! 😀
We started in the fall of 2007, and I think the first puzzles we tried had geocheckers. I remember running across one that had a check sum, and I thought that was out of the ordinary, so checkers must have gained popularity before we got into the game.
We just traveled out west for a week with our two great-nephews. Before going we researched some caches along our route and where we were staying each night. If we had time or made stops in those places, we looked for the caches. A few we went out of our way for.
Coming home we were short on time and changed our route a bit. We knew we would be stopping at a rest stop for lunch that I hadn’t researched, so the eleven-year-old, who had his iPad along to play games on with his cousin, let me use it (they have some kind of a data plan for it) to find a couple of caches at that rest stop. Nice to have, and we got two more smileys, but if we didn’t have that capability, the boys would have run off some energy without looking for any caches.
Long story short, it’s nice to have, but it is not necessary for the way we cache, which we call inefficient but enough for us. No notifications, no checking in the field, just the handheld with what is loaded on it and/or any paper backup.
I do think that most serious cachers have a rugged handheld to use to find most caches, but the smart phone adds another dimension to the hunt.
(BTW, we have a cell phone that we usually forget in the car, so the only times we have used it for PAF (twice) were when our receiver hadn’t loaded the coordinates we needed to use.)
Yay! Congrats on the new baby bunny! I remember when Noah found his first cache on the way home from the hospital. Start them young! 😉
As long as we’re talking appropriate little pieces of cartoon art,
here’s the “August” souvenir we need for August 15… 😉
Got the moon and stars today, but then I got to thinking that we should have done a night cache to match the souvenir. Ammo can for the first day, do a cache on a bike trail for tomorrow… Could make things more interesting…
There was souvenir for National Bacon Day? 😯 😯 😯 😉
Happened to drive right by a cache today but didn’t go for it. Now I don’t have the pressure to continue with any streak.
We’ll probably still get enough souvenirs to wear as patches on our sashes at geo-events. 😉
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