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@Todd300 wrote:

GC Number?

Edit: N/m. Found it in Labrat’s profile.

You can also punch in 54984 for the zip code in a search, and they are all fairly close to Wild Rose itself and should come up. All have the same name except for the number: A Walk on the Wild Side #…

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@Sagasu wrote:

Go now Gwyn! That’s where I got my Lyme memory. 😯 And those geotrails should be there till the next snowfall. 😉

No, no, no! Save them for summer and fall when the weeds/grasses are high! Or in the spring when (I assume) the water and the tick populations are high!

But definitely go! They should be a snap for the adventurous cachers to do all in one day, and nice extended trips into the wild one or two caches at a time for those of us who tend to, shall we say, savor every step and hour we spend in the woods and water.

And don’t forget that there is a seventh cache to get after finding all of the clues to put together for the final, “Ryan’s Rebus”.

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The people. Definitely the people. And some good hikes.
Second nice Memorial Day in a row to spend on some quality caches.

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Whether you plan for the milestones or not, they just keep happening anyway. Congratulations on the 5000 finds! (Is there an echo in the room? Did we just hear 5000 finds? 😀 )

WTG, TE!

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Congratulations on the 2000 finds!

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@cheezehead wrote:

A new cacher was planing a multi series at a particular spot. Someone placed a new cache across from this spot. Does the 1st stage need to be 528 feet from the location of the other?
The final for the multi would be a quite a few blocks away.

If this planned first stage is just a sign or something to read/figure numbers off of, it would be OK to list, I would think.

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From geocaching.com under Cache Listing Guidelines:

“Cache containers and physical stages should generally be separated by a minimum of 0.1 miles (528 feet or 161 m). A physical stage is defined as any stage that contains a physical element placed by the geocache owner, such as a tag with the next set of coordinates or a container. Non-physical caches or stages including reference points, trailhead/parking coordinates and question to answer waypoints are exempt from this guideline. Additionally, within a single multi-cache or mystery/puzzle cache, there is no minimum required distance between physical elements.”

So it’s my understanding that two separate caches, whether owned by the same cacher or by two different cachers, need to have all parts 528 feet from each other. However, within the same multi, you can have less than 528 feet between stages, whether virtual stages or physical stages. We have a five-part multi where some of the stages are 400 feet apart and some are .12 miles apart, etc.

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I had a movie I put together of video clips and stills that I did on iDVD on my Mac. It was maybe 30 minutes long and it was still too big to fit on one disc, so I never burned it. Now I can’t even find where it is on the computer! If there was a way to compress things to fit on a DVD-R disc, I never tried it.

That’s the perspective of a Mac user who’s not sure of what she’s doing.

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@One Paddle Short wrote:

We will have about 20 High School Juniors and Seniors at our home for the evening. I’m sure that it will be fine. 🙄

It will be fine, right? Nothing could go wrong.

Could it? 😯 ❓ 🙂

You will be chaperoning the event, won’t you?
You’ve survived 16-18 years of your kids and their friends… What’s a few more hours?

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@RSplash40 wrote:

@labrat_wr wrote:

HMMMM, does this seem to be running off topic???

umm..yeah, just a tad…

OK, I’ll tell this heartwarming “present from Santa” story.

My sister’s almost eight-year-old grandson wanted a Wii for Christmas. We asked him at Thanksgiving what we could get him this year, and he said, “A Wii, but Mom won’t let me have it.” Evidently, most video games are frowned upon in their household, and my niece told us, “Please don’t get him a Wii.”

He called his grandparents early on Christmas morning to tell them that the first present he saw under the tree when he and his little sister ran in to check things out was the big present from Santa–a Wii! He said he definitely knew that Santa had brought it because his parents would NEVER have gotten him one. Then when Mom and Dad opened their present from Santa, which was a Biggest Loser Wii thing, our great-nephew said, “See? Even Santa knows that the Wii isn’t just video games, and it’s good to do and grown-ups can do it, too!”

And so the magic continues for one more Christmas…

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At least those people have a big yard. The guy near us has maybe 100×150 feet of lot with everything crammed in like ten feet or less apart. At Halloween he had the spider on the roof of the house.

Wonder what it costs to keep the blowers going on those inflatables.

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@cheezehead wrote:

But the Roman Empire fell shortly after you were born, right? 😛

Point to HCH! But you could have scored more if you had said I had invented Roman numerals.

But really, has that cache page been sitting around for almost three years? That’s when the other ones with similar numbers were published.

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@amita17 wrote:

Thanks for the responses. I checked it out and it seems like a good deal…then I checked on shipping charges. Something like $14.95 to ship. Does that seem right? I haven’t ordered by mail in years, but that seems like a lot. And they base it on the total of your order. Why not on the weight?

Is it shipping or shipping and handling? That handling allows for charging a lot more than it costs to ship something. Don’t know why they do it by $$$ and not weight, but they do manage to cover their costs. $14.95 sounds OK. Anyone else?

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@cheezehead wrote:

I am sure I had my Lil arrows planned out well before you did. 😉

Boy, I’ll say you did! Or at least you had that cache page going long before we ever got into geocaching, according to it’s GC number. That cache number is older than my eTrexH. It’s practically written in Roman numerals!

But then again, I’m kind of a pack rat, and I save quite a few PMs, especially the “please, please, please” ones begging for permission to use my brilliant cache ideas. Never know when the evidence will come in handy. 😈

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@cheezehead wrote:

I don’t get kickbacks from Cabelas or Atlas

That’s not what my sources say. And there’s also something about running some illegal gambling ring out of your home. Just giving you the heads up.

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