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Count us in 8) . Rambling the countryside makes for some great lonely cache opportunities. With shocking regularity we find ourselves saying “My God, nobody’s been here since…”. We have seen other states’ Lonely Cache games and this could be a ton of fun, especially with automatic harvesting.

Off Topic, but another thought is that maybe the Cache Rescue function would be more active if there were a leaderboard for rescues. I think Michigan does it that way. Maybe Team B Squared knows?

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Congratulations on the double millenium! We’re going to have to cross paths someday.

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Thanks from us as well. Our strong, happy community has been built on the backs of great volunteers like yourself. Does this mean more time on the trails? 8)

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@-cheeto- wrote:

and the best one was the hermit crab elves!

Post please! Those sound hilarious!

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Um. Yeah. Wow.

Hee! Hee! That’s too cool Bec!

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Year-round caching keeps the smile on my face 😀 . I just wish that Cachemate included the attributes in some form. Often enough the cache page doesn’t get read until in the field or at the time of logging, so I miss the attributes entirely.

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We could always step back and look at it from an outsider’s point of view…

After they are done giving you a bewildered look, ask you if you win anything, or how deep you have to dig, they will be very hard pressed to understand that a physical cache in the woods with a log and trinkets is not in fact a geocache, but another beast entirely.

Also explain to the new family with their shiny new GPSr, that these caches aren’t for logging, only for finding.

The layers on the onion come for those who have been playing for a while and have to make a choice as to what their position will be on these concepts. The casual cacher I would guess is confused by all the acrimony.

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@marc_54140 wrote:

You like to stick the poker in the fire, and stur things up! Admit it!

Heh, heh. Might want to put a 😉 on that one Marc. I know your tone on this one, but they might not.

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This bugbear will continue to rear its head as long as there is a geocaching.com. There will continue to be interest in logging caches that were found at events, including walking miles and miles and working on some fiendishly clever hides. And there will continue to be a very vocal constituent that consider this to be cheating of the lowest order.

I will state immediately that we do not log temps, and am of the opinion that it doesn’t matter one way or the other if others do. We have logged multiple stages of caches when the cache owner has specified that we may in the description. We have a discrepancy of 49 logs of this sort, and I can account for at least half of these from the following caches:

Nicolet Forest Tour: 3 logs (18-stage multi with three loggable containers)
?: 7 logs (7 puzzles, 7 containers, 7 logs)
NEW Solar System Jupiter: 5 logs (difficult and fun)
NEW Solar System Saturn: 4 logs (3 trips for a difficult early cache)
NEW Solar System Mars: 2 logs (Aaagh! WP2!)
Roman Eyeballs: 2 logs (Bonus cache after finding the final of a puzzle)
Jones Springs Multicache: 4 logs (great area with 4 big containers spread over miles)
The rest I would have to dig.

Some of those caches were among our first 100-200 finds and Wow! did we ever earn them. A few of these are on our favorites bookmark list as some of the most rewarding caching we have done. In no way do I feel that we somehow “cheated” by logging these.

The analogy that I have mulled over comes from golf. I golf my way, others golf their way. Some will take a mulligan if their drive goes in the drink, or kick their ball out of a particularly bad lie, or any number of other things. At the end of the day we are both filling out scorecards and are both comfortable with the game we play. We meet in the clubhouse and enjoy each other’s company, perhaps play a round together from time to time. When we are playing the links the same day in our separate fashions we have no idea what type of game the other is playing, and in the end don’t really care, as the game is about one’s own achievement, not anyone else’s. No fingerpointing, no name-calling. If this were tournament play things would be different, but geocaching isn’t (Thank God!).

The rub comes in where geocaching has the numbers on display for all to see.

Who here plays Monopoly with Free Parking? A show of hands please? And all the Sopranos fans out there will remember Tony Soprano and Bobby Baccalieri nearly killing each other over that one…

There does seem to be an evolution going on, with fewer multi-log multis and more caches with coordinates that lead you to a mystery cache, and from there to another mystery cache, and so forth. Not much different except that they have different GC numbers for each. Were the old multi-log caches wrong for doing it the way they did? No, not really, just different.

Flame on!

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Big thumbs up Ralph! Not really a milestone until you hit 1,000 of them though 😯 …

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Count the Honeybunnies in on the congratulations 😀 . We’ll have your executive lounge key next time we cross paths.

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I am thankful for stuffing. And leftover stuffing. And if you don’t think stuffing is something to be thankful for you haven’t had mine 8) .

In Reality… I am thankful for the health and continued development of our expected wee one. First and foremost.

I am thankful for the friends and experiences that geocaching has brought us. The bonds we have forged with our acquaintances in this close-knit community are stronger than just about any others we have made over the years. And I don’t think I will ever tire of the sense of wonder that geocaching can bring. If there is something that makes America (and our world) special, odds are there is a geocache within .1 miles 😉 .

I could wax philosophical for quite some time, but let’s suffice it to say that I have a lot to be thankful for, and that alone is a reason to be thankful.

We hope everyone had a bountiful and Happy Thanksgiving.

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@lagrac wrote:

That guy on the right sure is one handsome devil!! 😀

The guy on your right? Yeah, I’m sure Birdin’ would agree too 😉 .

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Good luck from both of us Linds! You will be one of the few and the proud who can use the forum title “WGA alumnus” 😀 . And enjoy your station on the Bay. It’s loaded with history and good caches.

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Congratulations Rick, and nice choice for a milestone cache. The Mountian area is loaded with great views and nice walks. Do I see a kilo-cache in someone’s near future?

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