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If you use either the “available” or “not available” icon, just elaborate in the cache page text: OK unless there is deep snow, on a snowmobile trail, good one for skis or snowshoes, park is closed, gate is closed, treacherous ice conditions, rocks are slippery, harder to find, etc. Sometimes cache owners even use “winter friendly” as a year-round hint, which we take to mean that it is off the ground somewhat or look up.
(Sorry for repeating some of what Cheeto just said. He snuck in his post while I was typing mine.)
To quote Admiral Markham from his “Cache Series” OP in the General forum . . .
“What is needed is a numbering system which places the number early in the name. That will take care of both GPS and CacheMate displays.”
Does the Admiral have his strategy prepared for handling this concern in the upcoming secret operation? Looks like the opposition didn’t get the memo. 😉
@Timberline Echoes wrote:
New windows in. Winter can come.
Not in the middle of October!
@Bassanio wrote:
Mainly, I don’t care about the points and the process of submitting the cache for those points.
That’s the easy part; it’s the finding that’s hard sometimes. The submitting part is set up so that it’s painless and hassle-free. Takes less time than posting in the forums. “Try it; you’ll like it!”
@Bassanio wrote:
I do enjoy finding lonely caches, so I do look at the list and see if I can’t knock one or two off
That’s how we got started. It’s a personal challenge, unless you really are going for the competitive part of the game. And if you can verify that the cache is there and in good shape, that’s good. And if you can say that it’s not there or that it’s in really bad shape, that’s good, too, because it can get a cache either cleaned up or put out of its misery, which is good for the caching community.
So if you’ve been finding lonelies all along, go ahead and submit your new finds from now on. And get ready for a new list the first of November. 😈
@Sparse Grey Hackle wrote:
So glad we got to meet the iconic SAGASU.
We would probably use “venerable” to describe Sagasu. And we noted in one of his Minnesota logs another adjective: Sagasuvian. Might have to find a way to use that new vocab word.
But we digress . . . Congratulations on find #2700, Dave, and for putting Minnesota in your “Found” column!
@seldom|seen wrote:
I wonder why they never show these guys landing?
They pull ripcords for parachutes at strategic moments and land just like regular parachuters. Guess it’s not spectacular enough to show (unless the chute doesn’t open).
@gotta run wrote:
@sandlanders wrote:
Suppose you could put a cache at the top, but the jumping off would have to be just a “suggested” ALR now. 😉
No, it would be a multi. WP1 would be at the top. WP2 would be halfway down and it would be written so you’d see it flying down past the bridge. The final would be at the bottom.
Alex, you listening?
But the final would be a couple of hundred feet off, so you’d have to redo everything to check.
“60 Minutes” did a whole segment on this just this past Sunday, also in Norway. That part where they skim so close to the rock face that they can almost touch it is done so that they can get a greater sensation of speed rather that just going out in mid-air.
Also, the “flyers” hike up to the top. The jump they did for the piece was about an hour and a half hike. Sometimes they take fours hours of climbing for a couple of minutes “flying” down.
Suppose you could put a cache at the top, but the jumping off would have to be just a “suggested” ALR now. 😉
@gotta run wrote:
Or a big stack of reports in Deejay’s inbox.
Which appeared to be the case. Some people have lives outside of the LCG. 😉
@gotta run wrote:
After all why start geocaching at all when three teams in Wisconsin are over 10,000 finds and one is coming up on 20,000.
I know, I took the above out of context, but . . . 😯 Do you have to ask? INATN, GR.
@Timberline Echoes wrote:
We live within walking distance of Pamida… and we are suppose to get over 2 inches of snow today.
TEDifferent Pamida, but we live within walking distance, too. And the flakes just now stared to fly. Must be Wisconsin if you have less than a six-month break between the last spring snow and the first fall snow.
@Mister Greenthumb wrote:
I even climbed the tower at Lapham Peak.
😯 😯 😯
Now that’s a quick recovery!Two years and a thousand finds . . . great job, Duck505!
@Mister Greenthumb wrote:
NoHandsGPS wisely found #200 before the 2010 Winter Janboree to avoid being kidnapped for the second year in a row. Congratulations Kevin.
I think I remember reading about that little escapade here when it happened. They wouldn’t let you go until you had found #100. Glad you got safely to #200. Congrats!
I was going to go shopping at Pamida today, but we didn’t have any snow.
It’s “snowing” yellow maple leaves now.
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