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Nice to have, not necessary. We have included some where the containers could accept them, but we haven’t found too many in the FTFs we have. Didn’t matter to us.
We try to include congratulatory “laminated” certificates we made, usually slipped into the log books so that they are not overlooked. They have the cache name and our name on them, sometimes the date and coordinates. We even have some skinny tiny ones for the small containers.
But again, not necessary.
@HeliDood wrote:
I saw one in Biron (near Wisconsin Rapids) when I was about 16 or 17 years old.
It was crossing the road about 40 yards in front of me. It was close to Sandlander’s GC21DK5 cache, but on the main road (So Biron Drive), and before the railroad tracks.…
Everytime I go through that area on foot or whatever, I cant help but think about that big cat that might (still) be lurking in the woods thats going to make a meal of me.
Oh, yeah, NOW you tell us!!!!! 🙄 🙄 😉
Gonna have to think twice when doing maintenance on this cache from now on! 😯First of all, congratulations on escaping some of the Wisconsin winter weather. Second, congrats on find #2000, Brian. And third, and best of all, congrats to the two of you on the marriage and the first of many, many, many caching trips as husband and wife!
@JimandLinda wrote:
Good to see your smiling face, as the sunshine was a bit scarce in the marsh! 8)
I approve of who you chose to include in the milestone picture. 😉
And here’s that picture: Frizz @ 1800
Congrats on the milestone, Frizz. Looks like everyone had fun sharing it with you.
Big congrats to CodeJunkie on all of the memorable events on the recent outing. Sounds like you “programmed” everything just-so to get to #300, and the hundred puzzle finds total is amazing!
But we don’t see any letterbox hybrid icons on your GC “found” list, so we’re thinking #400 could be one of those for a different kind of milestone cache. We know where you can find three of them not too far west of you! 😉
Did Flat Jack and Roosevelt have a good time, too? 😉
Well, here’s hoping that everyone enjoys stompin’ through the swamp on Saturday, plus the cocoa and mini-marshmallows. Keep your feet dry, and don’t lose any of your hiking sticks in any muck! Safe caching, all!
No journals or anything, but we usually write lengthy logs on our finds (and some DNFs), and we can look back at those to remember each cache adventure. We also take lots of photos, and many we have uploaded to our cache logs, both for us to remember and for others to see some of the things we have enjoyed.
We did this cache, and it is basically a nice walk along the river, looking at different things and getting some information. There is a physical container for the final, and that you would have to stay 528′ away from. If you do not know where that is and don’t want to risk putting anything near it, I would suggest doing the cache (if you haven’t already) and finding out where the final actually is. I think this one is all doable in the winter. Don’t know how much they keep the riverwalk clear of snow, but the place is quite busy in the nicer weather.
@marc_54140 wrote:
@Todd300 wrote:
Just read this thread for the first time.
Marc, I’m disappointed in you. The other thread was closed for a reason so you had to stir things up in a new thread. C’mon, you are better than that.
Helidood is new to caching in general. I think he got it when he requested the thread to be closed…but no, you had to be beating a dead horse.
I wanted to speak my two cents worth!
Oh, yeah, and for newbies? Marc is a rabble rouser, best to be ignored when pontificating. 🙄 Don’t rise to the bait.
@gotta run wrote:
@labrat_wr wrote:
The term guinea pig comes to mind 😆
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I’ve never seen that. Or if I have, it’s been very seldom.
Come on, guys. Inside jokes are the pits to new people here.
OK, Helidood and others… Cacher seldom|seen in the Appleton area has put out lots of caches, including lots of puzzle caches. He has a bit of a reputation of sometimes publishing before all the kinks are worked out, and he often uses the early finders (aka guinea pigs) to help him tweak the caches into more user-friendly versions. Many times it’s just the coordinates that are considered not too reliable. But the caches of seldom|seen, and many times his containers, are some of the best you’d want to see in caching.
I’ve died and gone to heaven! Let the geo-stalking resume!
We used phone-a-friend once, and the CO wasn’t there. We’ll do the “email-the-cache-owner” thing after we get home from a DNF sometimes. We take the cell phone with us for emergencies, but it almost always gets left in the car. We realize that fact when we can’t find the cache after a long hard trip to GZ and contemplate a PAF. 🙄 😉
There have been a couple of times when we thought that maybe we should have had the cell with us in case one of us got hurt or something, and the car was a ways away for the other to go back to. But if it’s just to have a CO guide us to the container, probably not, especially if we got the number off a list and didn’t even know the CO.
Before we went premium and had the notification options, the recent logs list was how I could see when new caches were published, for the most part. There are also the tabs at the top to check out some of the logging stats, too. And it’s interesting to see other states/countries come up as Wisconsin cachers travel and find caches in different places.
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