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Yeah, we have that Sunday night thing down already!
Not wanting to get into the various aspects of this topic, I will just take this post to say “Thank you” to all of those who develop and place puzzle caches. When I find one of yours, I will log more than a TFTC. (Have you read some of our logs?)
Word games and solving puzzles for me goes back looong before geocaching to my mother and my grandmother, so I like seeing a puzzle on a cache page, whether it’s a sudoku, a word game, or a “Now what the heck am I supposed to do to solve this?” one.
For the ones close that I can go visit, then finding and logging the cache is a bonus.
(I just wish “geochecker” would work when I want it to!)
We didn’t know about the map either! Of course, we weren’t in WGA in December…
Loaded up OK this afternoon, too, for us on Safari, even with dial-up.
Way to go, Macs!
Yup, we’ve been waiting on those “kayak adventures” for when we get the canoe out again.
Leave some footprints in the snow for us to follow in the area here when we can get out next week. (And it won’t look like that “photo” when we venture out!)
* * * * * * * But…it’s snowing here again now! * * * * * * *
@Team Deejay wrote:
I wish it were easy but it’s not.
We owe a big debt of gratitude to you for getting the list of the Lonely Caches together. It’s nice having something to work off of, whether one wants to play the game or not.
And the administration of this whole thing…AARRRRRGH!
thank you, thank you, thank you!
Whew! Sounds like it was much easier than picking our new political leaders. Good luck to the crew and their “dreams for the future” of WGA.
Ah, remember the good old days of December ’07? When there was only a foot of snow on the gound? And we thought there’d be plenty of time for the weather to improve to go out winter caching?
We realize you are looking more for chances of success than how to handle the snow depths. You have your handy-dandy winter caching tool, but more importantly, you have your skills and experience.
It’s a crap-shoot whenever we go out, but we’d say the odds are in your favor of finding enough caches to make a trip to the Point area worthwhile. Just check out the sheer numbers of hides to choose from! Active caching country, thanks to some dedicated hiders here.
We saw some of the caches near us that you logged recently. If you were able to do those, you should be able to do the ones around SP and east.
When we were there (Waupaca, Wild Rose, Wautoma) a month ago, we found knee-deep snow and were short on time later, so we didn’t try too many, but after clearing the snow off our roof and having to get around in hip-deep stuff for that, lesser snow amounts look easy.
The more caches you try in the deep snow, the more it wears you down (our experience), but from your finds, you look up to handling more than a handful at a time. And you’ve been finding the buried micros!
Of course, today is only Monday, and we’re still waiting for THE BIG ONE to hit this winter.
We like going for the lonely caches just to see if we can find them. It helps us to know that someone who had previously found this cache went back to see if it was still there, especially with the tough conditions this winter and our list of DNFs growing.
Posting a recent find of a lonely cache also helps us, but posting a revisit so soon after a find does not add anything to our knowledge unless there has been a major event in the meantime (tornado, flood, construction, space junk landing at GZ, etc.). We like the revisit posts from people who found the caches before they (caches, not cachers) became lonely.
However, some cachers may feel that, while not owning a cache or adopting a cache, they are “surrogate parents” to that cache and therefore visit it more frequently. As for points…
OK–now who is responsible for giving permission to hide caches at boat launches (those in places that don’t have obvious contact persons, like DNR land, parks, and municipalities do)? Some of those are just along a river or lake, some without detailed signs.
And are all those dead-end or roadside cache locations managed by townships or counties or anyone?
We don’t smoke, caching or not, but since our record for finding caches in one day is four (DUH!), we’re not even SMOKIN’ when we’re caching!
My parents didn’t have a remote for a long time, so when we were kids, and then when we would go back to visit, my dad was always standing right in front of the 13″ set, blocking the view, and switching the channel every few seconds.
He would still flip the channel frequently with the remote, and my mom always told us never to get too involved in a specific television show when Dad was around and holding the remote.
@greyhounder wrote:
Well, I live alone, so this was easy for me.
Did I just skew the data?
Naw, this stuff’s not scientific like those political polls are. We built in a big margin of error for the results. We’ll take into account those that live alone or with quadrupeds before we publish.
Thank you. We are pleased to be remembered. It’s nice to know that we live on in cyberspace.
When old geocachers die, what are the coordinates to enter for the final destination?
And by the way, we’re the only ones logged in now, except for some guests.
Everyone out caching in the @#$%&* cold and snow?!
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