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There is a webcam cache in Marshfield at the high school. Last I looked, nobody has logged it. As I have relation up there, as soon as I have some good motorcycle weather, I’ll probably hit that one. That is if I can get my wife to be around and remember how to save the picture.
Steve Bukosky
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Originally posted by Thraxman:
Get a motorcycle helmet, be sure it is the type with the plastic flip-down face wind shield. Place the sticker on the lower left corner of the face shield. Viola! You are now set for riding your cycle into any park, with your sticker prominently displayed. If you decide to take your car or truck to the park, NO PROBLEM! just wear your helmet in the car! No law against that, is there?
Harley riders would have to stick it on their foreheads? I’ve wondered what a patrolman would think about someone wearing their helmet in a car. I’ve got a black full face with a smoke shield. Makes me look a little like Darth Vader with my black leather jacket, black jeans and boots. Sometimes if I don’t pay at the pump, I’ll walk in to pay with the helmet on and visor down. Gets the attendants nervous.
As to being attached to a permanent part of the motorcycle, before I began geocaching, my wife thought I WAS a permanent part of my motorcycles!
Steve Bukosky
WaukeshaA few weeks ago I bought a new car and tried the hair drier. I’m happy to report that both stickers came off nicely and look like new applied to the new car.
Now, how to I apply a state sticker to my motorcycle that doesn’t even have a windshield???
Steve Bukosky
WaukeshaHi Jesse and welcome to the hobby. Hopefully someone familiar with it will respond. Otherwise I would first check Maggelan’s web site and next would post a question to the message area on http://www.geocaching.com Another place for information would be a few of the newsgroups for GPS’s. I hope you find your answer.
Steve Bukosky
WaukeshaI started geocaching early December. We’ve had rather nice weather for going outside since then. I’ve read the logs with comments on heat, humidity and the bugs. Well, got my first mosquito bite today down at New Munster. I kind of enjoy hunting in the colder weather. 45 degrees seems to be ideal in my opinion. I think something else that we will be seeing more of is Geocachers! There sure are a lot of new team names making logs.
Steve Bukosky
WaukeshaOh, no question really. I’ve looked into Geodashing but it just doesn’t trip my trigger. Of course, that’s no reason to prevent others from enjoying it. I made my comment along the vein of why climb a mountain. Of course, beacause its there. So then why Geodash? Because its not there?
Steve Bukosky
Waukesha“I also posted my first Dashpoint reached immediately after I formed the team. The Dash-Point was about 13 miles west of Janesville, located in a field. Because you only need to be withing 100 meters of a dashpoint to score it, I was able to walk a few paces off of Tolles road, watch my GPS click down to 97 meters and call it a score. It would have been nice to walk to the exact point, but I saw no reason to walk any farther into the field seeing as it was actually someone’s property, and I couldn’t really tell which farm it belonged to to ask permission.”
Must be like Harley Davidsons. If you have to explain, I wouldn’t understand.
Steve Bukosky
WaukeshaYeah, the trophy looks good on the shelf by mine! Artopsy is quite the artist with the wood burning tool!
Steve Bukosky
WaukeshaGreat story! But that picture is from Ottawa Panorama, if I’m not mistaken. Guess the ammo box is more impressive than… well, you know.
Wow, a lot has happened since I was out of town! I’ll pay my money. I’ve seen the need for some time. Now, we are customers and not just guests. I’ve appreciated what Jeremy has been doing but did feel uncomfortable being in his debt.
Steve Bukosky
WaukeshaHard Rock Cache. This is the one that stands out as my hardest. The cache was right out in the open. It was the trip getting there and back. Here is my log.
“What a day! The theme of the hunts were thorns! I thought that I’d be smart and check out alternate entrances to the cache. I parked on the side road as it showed half the distance than from the trailhead. The way I took had no existing trail and 100% existing thorns. Once I climbed the hill to the cache, I heard voices from further west. Thought they were hunting too, but they faded away. I found the box shortly after 4PM and sunset was at 4:40. I really didn’t want to trailback as it was so difficult but trying to find the park trail would take time as would the hike down H and then over on the side road. Looking east, the way I came in, I saw something non-organic. I used the binoculars that my son Michael gave me for Christmas and saw that it was my car! Thorns be damned. I headed back the hard way and made it out before sunset. This way was definitely a **** terain-wise. I’ll have to try it the easy way soon. Took a picture and left all else intact. Everything dry.”
Ottawa Panorama was a trip too. A few times I hoped that someone would find my body while I could still be recognized!
Both of these made Mini Bushwack easy except for the fact that this was the first one where I fell hard and the Garmin went flying.
I was thinking about having a team card made to leave behind kind of like letterboxers have a stamp. I think Groustails has laminated cards for their caches and I got a cache card from “Puzzled in Cedarburg”. Before my Ham days, I belonged to QSL clubs and collected litterally thousands of them along with dozens of club stamps and a bunch of ink pads. I stopped doing that and tossed the whole batch one day. Wish I would have kept the stamps though. I’ve been thinking about making a team stamp and stamping the log books as part of a signature item.
Steve Bukosky
WaukeshaJust a story related to walking on ice to a cache. On Muskego lake, our radio club once had a transmitter hunt where the “fox” was several hundred feet out on the ice. Several of the teams, me included, were on shore wondering whether to go out there when a snowmobile broke through the ice just off shore. We got visual finds that night but no one felt it was worth it to drown in getting there first, second or down the line.
But back to the first find topic. I don’t want anyone to get me wrong. I imagine that we are talking about special caches and I think it is generally agreed that a little variety is interesting. I don’t want to give a sour grapes impression. I’m always worried about the government taking so much fun out of the hobby that it dwindles rather than grows and I’m afraid my discussions may reflect that too much at times.
Steve Bukosky
WaukeshaI’ve done hidden transmitter hunting since before GPS was a concept. I’ve seen many participants quit because the competition to be first or better than the rest caused most, and I do mean most, to quit. Fortunately with Geocaching, equipment is all pretty much on a level field. Other factors may discourage some people though. If a cache is based on the first one there getting the right to take an expensive prize, what incentive is there after that? Better would be to put something valuable in an existing cache and just anounce it through normal cache page logging. I like one where someone bought a new digital camera and said they left their old digital in the cache that they were on. At least this promotes keeping in touch with the various caches out there.
I suppose an occasional foot race to find the treasure is ok. But too much of it will just cause congestion everytime one is announced and existing caches will end up being pretty much ignored. Keep in mind that one objection some land managers have stated about us is the impact of foot traffic to the area. How do you think they would react to 50 teams of Geocachers tearing through the woods to find the gold, all at one time?
All this is just food for thought. I like a first find and big prize about as much as the next team.
Steve Bukosky
WaukeshaTags fastened with fishing leader like used on Nature Hill is a great idea, provided they are not allowed to remain and have the tree grow around them. Things entering into the the bark should have no negative affect on the trunk, I would think. I don’t have a big beef about nails and such but can picture a park manager going balistic over it. Lord know that the landowners love to nail “No Trespassing” signs to trees.
Steve Bukosky
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