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The best advice for a new cacher is to learn. So many things now are instant gratification and not taking the time to savor anything. One complaint about some newer cachers is that they are here today, gone tomorrow. They try the phone app, dabble a bit, then move on to something else. Like any lasting activity-interest-hobby, one needs to learn about it, to experience how it works, to practice it, to find out why they enjoy it.
Take the time to learn about geocaching… the dos and the don’ts, the history, the possibilities, the options. Learn that there are no containers to look for at the listed coordinates of EarthCaches, virtuals, and mystery caches. Learn how to write a good log that others, especially the cache owners, will enjoy reading. Learn about skirt-lifters and nanos and guardrails and fake rocks and “stickoflage” and geobeacons and trading up or even and leaving no trace and how to close container lids securely. Learn what is required to log a smiley on each cache and then do it.
Learn what types of hides there are and which ones you enjoy looking for. Learn what makes a good cache and a good cache owner. Learn which places give you pleasure when visiting. Learn to think outside the box. Learn your physical limits. Learn that there is more to caching than numbers. Learn to respect the land, the land owners and stewards, the game pieces. Learn to share your knowledge but not give away spoiler information. Learn that you don’t need to find every cache or place one every 528 feet. Learn to be polite. Learn when to move on. Learn when to call it a day.
Learn about ticks and mosquitoes and water hazards and thin ice and deep snow and poison ivy and stinging nettle and to take along a first aid kit. Learn about good footwear and warm jackets and rain gear. Learn to be prepared. Learn that you don’t know everything. Learn to be open to new ideas and to consider tried-and-true ones. Learn that cachers come in all shapes and sizes and ages and experience levels and personalities.
Learn that just when you think that caching is everything, there is so much more to life than caching.
FTP
Still slogging through logging…
We just rototilled some of the dust so that we can plant this year’s rabbit food, and in the process, we most likely planted several hundred new maple trees. 🙄
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SASQUATCH SIGHTING ON FACEBOOK!!!!
Oh, wait…. Maybe it’s just ZB… 😈 😈 😈 😈 😈 😈 😈
“Automotion” was in the Dells this weekend. Even Friday night was a zoo with all the cruising going on.
Our vehicles both need washing. They are covered in pollen, and what little rain we got just turned the dirt/pollen into yellow dribbles down the sides of the dark gray and black vehicles.
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Surprised I didn’t break a leg or twist an ankle at the WGA cache at Lakeshore SP.
I just want to say Beccaday hid it. I just make sure it is still there every once in a while. It took me 20 minutes to find it last week.
We were searching well over twenty minutes… and what we found was the original container! 😯 😕
… and off to bed.
One more post…
One log written, 53 to go. Wrote “sandlanders” forty times yesterday. Surprised I didn’t break a leg or twist an ankle at the WGA cache at Lakeshore SP. Visited lots of cemeteries but found only dead relatives and no containers. Going for the FTP.
Back home from the land of blue and orange… and lurking. A few Thread Stealers need to go sit in the corner. 😉
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