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@gotta run wrote:
@seldom|seen wrote:
a 6 foot fencepost
Holy cow…I thought you cut the dang thing off! So that’s over 4′ sunk into the muck????
It is, and when I went out there I didn’t know of or find the handy deer-trail so I was trudging OVER all that 5-8′ tall green marsh grass with that stupid pole going perpendicular to the grass instead of parallel – I found myself fighting with the grass the whole way. I was spent by the time “I found” Ground Zero.
@gotta run wrote:
You see nothing strange about buying every matchstick holder at Fleet Farm.
… and never have a ready comeback when the cashier says, “wow, you taking the whole Troop camping this weekend?”. But you know you’ll shut her up when you next drop a couple 30 cal ammo cans on the checkout counter…
You look over the LCG map every time you have to go out of town to see if there are any good possibilities… even if that going out of town trip is for your grandmother’s funeral…
You swear under your breath ever time you pass a battery kiosk in the supermarket… and then linger there for a couple minutes until your wife breaks you out of your trance when she asks you what you are doing…
You actually look forward to going to Goodwill but then wonder how your going to explain to the wife the need to buy 4 used thermoses…
You find yourself trudging though a marsh with reeds over your head and stinkwater up to your chest carrying a mini-maul, a 6 foot fencepost, some nylon cord and an ammo can… and then your cell phone rings and its Sagasu wondering what you’re up to…
@ToyotaRyan wrote:
There is Telulah park in Appleton, it is right on the river and has plenty of wooded area.
I didn’t make it to the 2007 CITO along the Newberry trail into Telulah park, but I think that one should be OK for the time being.
The 2008 CITO at Jones Park was a great success and I was especially proud of all the Recycles that we gathered. Let’s be sure to separate and recycle this year as well.
I am looking forward to this 2009 CITO as it will clean up 3 of my favorite parks, all within a few blocks of my house. I think -cheeto- and I have settled on the Pierce/Lutz/Alicia combination which is also good news for many of you who have yet to solve the dozen or so Puzzle caches and finals that lie hidden in those parks.
About a week before the event, I will post a complete list of all the S|S caches that are in these 3 parks. I don’t think either of us are interested in placing temp or new perms, although there are a couple spots left (believe it or not). I know of 2 caches that I can place for FTF opportunities, but that’s probably the extent of anything we can put out for the event.
The focus of the event it not so much Cache-In, but Trash-out. I hope many of you attend as I will be distributing a Press Release this year to get some good media attention – something we can always use!
I don’t use GSAK since I am Mac only and have an older generation G5 that won’t run Parallels, so I can’t speak to that software.
What I did with that unit was pull PQ’s from GC.com and then copy that file up to the MC card. Put the card in the H2O unit and then go through the waypoint upload process that I explained to you when you got the unit.
Card in. Power up. Menu. Switch to Basic Mode. Upload Data. Select file you copied over. Upload. Switch back to Advanced Mode.
Let me know if you need any more help.
The Oracle is phallic
Phallic art is popular…
Pop will eat itself…
cheetos art is edible
I’ll eat -cheeto-‘s any dayCongrats!
How I love milestones!
@marc_54140 wrote:
Blake’s 7 is definitely a Space Opera. Lots of flying around is that ship that they hijacked!
OK, then. Blakes 7 is mine. Now I just have to find a good spot to drop it…
A commanding lead for the year already and it’s only mid-Feb! Reminds me of the start-up for 2008 when Dave and I were chasing each other through the snow.
I really gotta get out there and get a few….
Bumping up as a reminder. I know the topic will be discussed in depth at the first meeting with the new board members and just wanted to remind them of my interest in the planning part of this event.
@Team Deejay wrote:
Maybe I’m in the minority, but I don’t think spending a lot of time on a “desk puzzle”, regardless of difficulty, makes a geocache good or bad. There is a certain pride in being able to solve a difficult challenge, but really, I believe that this game should be about spending time outdoors with your family and friends, not spending time by yourself working a sudoku or executing internet searches. That said, some of my favorite “desk puzzle” caches were Cheeering Viper, in the Brookfield area and Lateral Thinking, in the Milwaukee area. Both of these took you through a progression of steps for solving the puzzle, and added quite bit of variety in the solving process. I also greatly appreciate caches where one needs to combine deskwork with multiple trips to the field to gather necessary information. Those really get you involved in the “storyline” of the cache, which is necessary to make the experience memorable. Let’s face it. No one will remember working a crossword a year from now. They will remember a cache which engages those finding it.
I agree wholeheartedly! Now I know that people who come to town on a long-distance run can and do get frustrated with puzzles that require filed and desk time, occasionally multiple rounds of each. At the same time, there are so many caches in any one area now that one simply has to accept that you might not be able to log every cache in every town you visit. This is one of the hardest realizations for many long-distance number-grabbing cachers to fathom, though most eventually do.
I also know that many traveling caches who revisit this area after finding a good puzzle or two, can’t wait to come back to try some more because the reward of finding them is just that much more enjoyable and memorable.
That, for me, is my ultimate goal. To make memorable caches. I want people to be able to say, of any of my caches, “Hey, do you remember seldom’s such-and-such cache” and the response to be “Oh, cripes, DO I REMEMBER that one”, nine times out of ten. If they remember my caches a year from now, It’s that much more likely they will come bouncing back for more…
Now, I have a couple 5/5’s and they both earn that rating as anyone who’s completed them can attest to. But, I also have an aversion to “read-my-mind” puzzles that are layered with so many herrings that you just find yourself wasting tons of time better spent in the woods with family than sitting at a desk all night trying to decypher someone’s twisted logic. I try to make sure there is a path to solving but difficulty is always in the eye of the beholder. Take FIN is for Finish, z.b., with the italic clues laced in the description which spells out the equation to get the solve, I would have thought it would be easier than it turned out to be and I hate knowing that some just can’t make the leap even after staring at it for hours. That’s the point where you need to pick up the phone and call me or shoot me a PM.
… and so the club grows. Man, I guess I gotta get out there and do some caching for once. So many people passing me by.
Is it me or has the 1K club grown by leaps and bounds over the past few months? I only have so much money to spend on Silver Ammo cans!!!!
Congrats!
@Team Deejay wrote:
such as a body of water or a large empty lot
….these too can be places to hide a Nifty Effluent cache…
@gotta run wrote:
I’ve seen logs posted on caches where neophyte cachers have searched in vain in the middle of a parking lot, so I suppose it’s possible someone could walk out to the middle of the highway.
Yup, that was me in the middle of Northland Ave on the overpass wondering who’s brilliant idea it was to place a cache up here in the middle of this insanely busy road. That was during my second of third week of solo caching when I didn’t have a clue about “?” caches and what they were.
A lot has changed since then. But, there will always be newbies looking for caches where there aren’t any until they discover that dummy coordinates exist. That’s why I pretty much agree with the non-searchable locations, although really, any location is “searchable”.
Another reason why some initial education should be a primary goal of the WGA and this site.
I’d sure like to own one by my protegee’
is The Hive by Lostby7 (GC1E18W) still spoken for?
@Team Deejay wrote:
I’m not sure who indicated that there was a “ranking” system in the works for geocaching.com, but I can tell you that this is not true at this time. The last time I saw it discussed, the issue of people using the rating system to attack people or pad votes for their friends caches made the topic something that GS thought was better left alone. I personally would have liked such a system, but I understand their thinking.
Maybe I misspoke. The last time and followed a thread on GC.com about the subject, there was an indication that there would be “some” form of cache evaluation added when the system was upgraded.
Every ranking system will be subject to miss-use, just as the current COTM system is. I’m suggesting that by taking out the nomination and listing of caches that are ranked highly, no one would knowingly pad someone else’s caches for the sole purpose of winning the COTM. The process of determining the COTM or COTY would happen behind the scenes.
Of course everything is subjective and very probably not that many people would be inclined to rank every cache they did. But, I think if I came back from a trip where I did 30-40 caches and 2 or 3 of them really stood out for one reason of another, I’d probably be inclined to click a few extra buttons after I logged them.
Without thinking it through, some ranking categories might be : Overall Experience, Effort to Find, Recommendable, Creativeness, Memorable. Really, what would it take to click on a few extra buttons? Less time than it takes me to log a find, that’s for sure.
I understand that this is probably not going to happen, but I so wish there were more to go on that T/D rankings and logs. One cacher’s “easiest one of the day” can be another’s “that was the worst cache I have ever done”, just as one cacher’s 4/4 can be another cacher’s 2/2. Rankings by other criteria might at least indicate whether it was worth going after that 4/4. not all of us go caching for EVERY cache out there.
I think any form of additional information would be useful, regardless of how many people actually used it and that lots of caches would have skewed results until enough people voted to balance out the votes of anybody with axes to grind. Attributes help, certainly, but even they are not always an indication of what you are in for.
Maybe i just need to add my own “rate this cache” to my caches.
At least it’s worth talking through again. I might have to dig up that old thread…
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