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Did the math the old fashioned way: 366/420 = 87.142857%
The other 54 finds were in “the state to the south of us”.
So he watched the same TV show as you. It seems that his puzzles can be just as bad as yours. Guess that headbanging character is moving into my house permanently!
Just put out our first letterbox with lots of angst and many PMs with Birdin’, but that’s just me being super particular. You definitely need to put a stamp and a stamping book into the letterbox hybrid. An ink pad is optional, and Up Nort it might just freeze nine months out of the year, so just put a note in the cache page to bring your own ink.
You yourself do not need a stamp unless you want to find some letterboxes on your own and make those stamp impressions in your own book. You can buy a commercial stamp to put in if it is one that you feel reflects your cache (Ceezehead at the scrapbookin’ store 🙂 ), you can pay to have one made (check out places like printing companies, etc., who make all kinds of stamps), or you can attempt to make one by yourself, even if you are not artistic and have fat fingers.
Or you can give me the answers to all of your puzzle caches and I will make you a stamp!
But back on topic, you need to have GPS use in there somewhere, and not just for a parking spot. It can be for some starting location, and then you can give directions for the rest of the hunt (go 50 feet down the trail, take the right path at the Y, find the three-trunked tree, take ten paces east and look under a fallen limb, and so on). Or make it what you want. Or make the coords listed where the final is, but give some alternate directions for those who want to try it the “letterboxing” way.
And someone correct me if I am wrong, just make it a regular type cache with the coordinates for the final location, but put a stamp and a stamp book inside the container. People who hunt for and find a letterbox hybrid can treat it like a regular geocache find (but it goes down as a letterbox icon find), or they can do the whole letterboxing thing with the stamps, too.
Any type of container is fine as long as everything fits into it and things can stay dry and safe–like any other cache. You can even use white plastic round things and spray paint them camo. 😉
Birdin’? gottarun? Mrs. TE? Others?
Oops! While I was writing this narrative, I see gottarun jumped in there with some answers. Well, all of this should keep Cheezehead busy for awhile!
@furfool wrote:
Am I really that bad?
No, furfool, you are not. Puzzles just aren’t for you. Now with your unplanned vacation, maybe you can work on some of the solves. You already have the solve on one we put out.
“Magic Mirror” appears to be one of the harder ones–the “huh?” kind. Skip it and go on to a nice sudoku (I know, you probably can’t do those either). “Click on the links” means any link on the page, not necessarily in the body of the text. Could be the cache owner’s profile, could be on something in the “hides” listing, could be anything.
There are enough puzzles out there that you can drop the frustrating ones. Cheezehead even has one out there that no one seems to want to find. 👿
Let’s put it this way, furfool . . . you are a first class FTP player!
@cheezehead wrote:
Some of you might have heard of pfalstad. He lives in the Twin Cities.
Dang Cheezehead! Got me looking at pfalstad’s puzzles now–spent half an hour doing one on the spot. Now we need a trip to Minnesota AND to Hayward. Add that to the trip we need to make to the Fox Valley and farther NE. Puzzles, puzzles, puzzles!
Hey, Woody1! Met you at Cheezehead’s Weenie Roast, and we see you’ve been putting those many freebie door prizes to good use in your neck of the woods. Someone has to start filling those gaps on the map left by Cheezehead! Welcome to the WGA!
And don’t let Cheezehead mentor ya too much–bad influence, ya know (heh-heh)
Congratulations on the 2000 finds!
Didn’t know that was coming up.
Best wishes and congratulations go out to Robin and Ralph! Glad you shared your special day with the geocaching community. Though we did not attend the event your daughter put on for you, we loved the idea and the cache page, and we are enjoying reading the logs of those who went.
We can feel bad if we were the last ones to move the trackable or if it disappeared from one of our caches, but we can’t be responsible for the actions and lack of caching ethics of others. We can help educate for the future, and maybe make different choices when moving trackables. And we can always go above and beyond as you did, furfool, to see if by any chance there was some way to locate the missing trackable. I’m sure the owner appreciated your attempts.
I like finding geocoins in caches. They are usually smaller and more durable than many travel bugs, and many are quite beautiful and artistic. I like the heavy feel of holding them. I like when they are well-protected and have their missions along with them. If I can help them on their missions, I will usually retrieve them from a cache and get them moving.
Sometimes they have stayed too long with us (hate to have any TB or coin around for more than a couple of weeks), and sometimes we have put them in our new caches. We do not usually discover trackables, but I know that a note as to this can let the owner know where one is.
We have no travel bugs of our own, but we purchased two 2008 WGA cow coins. One is to keep and the other is to put out to travel. Before we could do that, however, that one went missing somewhere in the house. 😳 Maybe by the time we find it and release it, coinnappers will be on to something else.
Trackables are for some people and not for for others. Be willing to accept the loss (financial and emotional) in trade for the enjoyment of watching the travels.
Congratulations on the major accomplishment, Snyder Bear! Meeting the challenge and earning the reward — priceless! You have gone where we dare not venture. Nice detailed log of your adventures.
Liked the photos of the prize dinner. Sounds like Trekkin’ wants to do this again. 😉 Any takers?
@kmhiker wrote:
😳 I didn’t know I would start the debate of the century!!!!!!
Naw, not that–just the latest battle in the ongoing war. It would have come up again sometime without your post, so don’t feel bad. Just keep on cachin’ and havin’ fun! 😀
The caches we didn’t find in Appleton, etc., were ones under the snow, ones where we couldn’t find the containers (some seemed pretty easy 😳 ), and ones we had researched but didn’t have time to look for that we still want to do.
We have some puzzle solves that we intend to look for on our own next time we’re in town, and if we haven’t solved certain puzzles on our own yet, well, we just won’t look for those until we do. Most of the fun on puzzle caches is making the solve, and the find is the icing on the cake.
So, no puzzle tours for us. Enjoying a day of caching with others? No problem.
If they’re in the Menasha/Neenah/Appleton area, you will need a DNF/DNA week! Or month! We have a few there ourselves, but can’t make the “tour” weekend. Sounds like this could be a monthly event! 😉
Good luck on the finds!
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