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Easy or hard, caches don’t get archived if COs take good care of them.
Got two DNFs on separate dates from two different cachers on a cache of ours recently. That means we’ll be checking on this one soon. Now, they were two newer cachers, so maybe they just weren’t searching thoroughly, but we’re still checking, and we’ll post if we find it or if we replaced it. Would have left it alone with out the DNFs.
I think they got rid of that challenge.
@Earthlovers4 wrote:
Awesome! We’ll go back to that area in June, for sure. We’ve been meaning to, as I have a photo of me at the bottom of those stairs with the sign stating “Strenuous Climb,” or something of that nature. I was seven and a half months pregnant with my son, and went into labor two weeks later. It would be fun to get a picture with him by that sign, if it’s still there. He’s eight now!
Drove through the park today. First time this season. We weren’t dressed for climbing, but I believe I saw that sign at the bottom of the stairway! 😆
I agree with Mister GT. Except once or twice a year, we don’t routinely check on most of our caches, so we don’t know if they are there or not if people don’t log their DNFs. Once we see a DNF, we’ll check on the cache as soon as we can. If it’s there, we write a note in the logs so that others can see it’s OK to look for. If it’s not, we can put a new container out and log that it’s back in play.
How you write your DNFs will help the COs know if the problem is with you or with their cache. If you looked all over in every possible hiding spot, and it’s an easy cache, the CO can be pretty much sure that it’s missing. If you looked for the cache only a few minutes because you were on your way somewhere or the weather turned bad or the kids got cranky or whatever, then the CO might wait for another DNF before checking, or at least won’t drop everything to get check on the cache.
And if it’s a tough hide, you can say you hadn’t run across one like this before or that you gave the search a lot of time, but maybe it wasn’t quite enough. There’s no shame in not finding a cache, no matter how many you have found or not found previously.
You can still write about your experiences at the cache site, even in a DNF log. That’s why the CO wanted you to visit in the first place. And writing DNF logs will give you a “list” to keep track of when you find yourself in that area again.
Hi, Earthlovers4! I (Pat–Mrs. Sandlanders) met you last summer at your event at the Portage library that Team Sloughfoot helped you with. Great job! And I just finished logging a French Creek cache that we did a couple of weeks ago that you had found the day before. Enjoy your caching and enjoy the WGA!
Congrats on getting everything to line up just right for you, August!
So you’re one of the “geocaching babies”: “born” on May 3, and you were “born” on the Big 1-0 for GC! Hippie GC birthday, Hippie, and go celebrate with a can of beans!
All right! Four of ours on the list, an all-time high for us! And we recently checked on two, so we know they’re there.
Nice article and videos. Great that the spread made the cover, too!
Thanks for spreading the word, Captian and Mate, and Tom K!
Had a fine time schmoozin’ with everyone! The BOD members, the BOD ladies, and the BOD pups fit into the scene quite well. Lots of WGA gear was being sported in the cool weather. Thanks for coming, and come back again!
@RangerBoy wrote:
I was looking at what this cacher has accomplished, and I was amazed! What do you think?
I think that Ranger Boy has come up with another puzzle for all of us to enjoy! 😉 😀
Can each awesome cacher come up with the solve?@Team Black-Cat wrote:
I’m afraid that GR’s smartassery can’t be disabled with a single mouse click.
😛Sledgehammer? 😉
It has always done that for me. I just zoom out after it is relocated, then I re-center it closer to where I want to look.
We have been to the Red Mill several times over the years when visiting the “summer home”. We have been inside the mill as well as out. One time when we were there, the chapel was set up for a wedding later that day. The covered bridge is fun, too. We were there last weekend to try the cache, but we had only 15 minutes left to make finds on both parts, and when we checked out what we needed to do, it was going to take a bit more time for us than we had, so we just took some photos and headed out. We’ll make that our first stop instead of our last the next time we’re over that way.
A Gram&Gramps cache (along with a Chucky cache) is worth finding and worth taking the time to savor.
Oh, yeah… We have one of those jigsaw puzzles!
@Team Black-Cat wrote:
@sandlanders wrote:
I just meant sell online before selling at any event.
Is there a reason for that? I’m not trying to be snarky, but the first coins out of the box are the same as the last ones.
Just so that there are still coins left in the box after an event so that people can still order them online. I am talking about the initial ordering chance, not an ongoing sale.
OK. The WGA orders 500 coins. No individual has ordered any of them yet online. How many do you take to sell at the event (WB for this year, it appears) and how many do you hold back for those who order online?
As I have said previously, not being on the BOD, nor being a “coiner”, I have little knowledge of what all is involved in coin sales and the timeline of making a coin. I just know that I did not like how things were done with last year’s coin. There was not an option to order coins and have them mailed to you. It was either pick up your order at the event (the fall picnic last year) or make arrangements to have someone do that for you.
That is what I am concerned with. If the mass mailing is a lot of work, that is what I am volunteering to help with.
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