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@Johnny Cache wrote:
Any ideas why mine just showed up today?
John, if you don’t pay your dues, you get yours last.
@Trudy & the beast wrote:
We finished the 72 Wisconsin counties 7/5/08 and were disappointed to find that the Milestone page will not accept the number 72.
Took me a second to understand what the problem was there, guys. The milestone page only records # of caches as a milestone. So, if it would allow 72, this would be the entry you would make for finding your 72nd cache, something you did long ago. The page you want is the “State/County Stats” page, where you can enter the first cache found in each county (or just mark that you found a cache in those counties, without mentioning which cache it was.)
Ya know, this really shouldn’t be surprising. The very nature of our game (leaving “things” around in public places for others to find) means that caches will be found by noncachers on occasion. If you spend any time dealing with the public, you will soon realize that there are a significant amount of idiots out there, who will destroy anything they can. If you let this bother you, maybe placing geocaches is not for you. Life is too short to do things which make you unhappy.
Build a pocket query of the list, load the PQ into GSAK and sort by distance. There is a button for building a query at the bottom of the bookmark page.
Double points caches! I have had little if any luck communicating through the bookmark lists which caches are available to score double points. This time, I will try something different. Instead of marking the special caches in the bookmark list, here is a list of the 26 caches which provide double points to the first finder during the two month period.
Airport Flats Compass Course GCPVW5 N46° 16.212 W91° 52.226
Mallalieu Canoe GCGX6Y N44° 59.646 W92° 44.142
Star Wars Trivia GCZ13R N45° 20.599 W90° 17.114
Bob GCVDVJ N44° 51.156 W92° 37.879
Somers Lake Cache GCGV24 N45° 39.549 W92° 21.850
Marsh to the Philippine Islands GCGNRY N44° 38.307 W89° 34.253
Carpe’ Cache’ GC1F93 N43° 04.750 W88° 47.940
Lost Boy Scout GCMTEJ N44° 42.783 W89° 40.517
Long Tail Point Lighthouse 1899 GCXHNH N44° 35.136 W87° 58.909
Lamanske Cache GCM46G N43° 11.604 W90° 22.045
Walla Hi Multi Cache GCJ448 N43° 54.112 W87° 57.058
Peace of Mind GCVF8Q N44° 47.539 W90° 57.658
loch nest GCNM7E N44° 57.843 W91° 24.106
Spring Creek Journey #2 Micro GCY50K N43° 18.652 W89° 31.557
Ursus Americanus GCX9WY N45° 59.061 W89° 05.841
Evergreen Heights GCMM5N N45° 41.653 W92° 05.150
Lunch Break GCVJHM N44° 56.375 W91° 21.995
Gasline Ridge Cache GCNE8Y N45° 31.665 W89° 36.159
Clam River Secret GCXQ29 N45° 46.117 W92° 17.517
The Gray L Quest GCXXMX N44° 41.712 W91° 35.111
ATVing 7A and 7B GCXW95 N45° 42.212 W88° 15.701
Eagles and Islands #4 GCXJZG N45° 04.154 W91° 42.728
HIDDEN VALLEY GC11GQ8 N43° 43.789 W91° 11.723
Cross Over the Bridge–IAT GCNEP7 N45° 11.293 W91° 11.412
The Broken Dam GCW9KE N43° 06.727 W88° 26.965
THE KETTLE MORAINE MICRO VIEWS GCW64D N43° 32.518 W88° 11.097What, you thought I wouldn’t approve your SCUBA cache? Up here north of the border, we try to accommodate adventure in caching!
Welcome, welcome! Don’t hesitate to ask if you have any questions.
We are the opposite. In town, we are likely to exhaust all possible locations in 10-15 minutes. In the woods, this might take a couple hours.
The kid is already driving? I thought you had to be 16 to get a license.
I don’t know how serious you were with your comments, but you really don’t want to be walking unprotected in flood waters. The runoff contains some “not so nice” stuff. Stick to the waders and leave the swimming suit at home.
As a reviewer, I see many more puzzles than the average geocacher. Most of the puzzle caches published are of easy to moderate challenge, but a small fraction are very difficult. My thinking is that there are two kinds of difficult puzzles. The first requires significant research, or specialized knowledge, or difficult leaps of logic, or just plain tedious work, to solve. In my opinion, these are great, no matter how difficult, and there is no reason to archive them.
The second type are what I call “read my mind” puzzles. These puzzles utilize some sort of unrecognizable pattern which can only be discerned by external hints or other assistance from the cache owner. The best way to recognize one of these is, when presented with the solution, your first reaction is “why would I ever try that?” Another symptom is a puzzle where you MUST have a geochecker link, because the puzzle could produce many possible logical answers, depending on the path chosen. In my opinion, if the puzzle cannot be solved by anybody without assistance (and you have many of the best solvers around up there), it really doesn’t merit the space it is occupying. Again, we are not talking about hard puzzles, but puzzles where the solution does not follow from any sort of logical approach.
It was cloudy today, but no significant rain. They say 40% chance of rain tomorrow.
On the other hand, now is not really the best time to cache Racine. There are still a lot of caches disabled from the flooding. If you are just coming for the Delorme cache, that area is probably pretty wet (not giving away much, there is a LOT of flooding down here). Waders would be highly recommended. (A dry suit might be better.)
I’m not sure if Randy is still watching this, but I can tell you that it is still available, and the cache requires a boat.
Since Marc was so kind as to start a thread, I do need to announce the winner for May was Sagasu, winning a 2007 WI Geocoin, donated by Jeremy. For June, the prize will be a 2005 WI geocoin, donated by Jeremy as well. Keep up the good work, guys. The next list will probably be much shorter as it seems most of the really old stuff has either been replaced, archived, or just found, which was the whole point.
These caches have all been added to the recommended cache bookmark list. Probably easiest to drop the list into GSAK and filter by the cache owner.
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