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I was with Zuma on that cache run, and can’t say enough good things about all three. Great picture caches as well!
@Flushingrouse wrote:
Probably some “locals” having some fun sending some kind of secret messages….
Or,
Could be one of these…. Number Stations
Better watch yourselves in the woods… If you run into Bond, get me his autograph… 🙂
Wow. I read the entire article and some of the links and found it utterly fascinating. Thanks!
Heh, heh. How about something really scary you can find out in the woods like Lyme’s disease, blastomycosis, hantavirus(not locally), “swamp vapors”… 😯
Righteous indignation on our part probably won’t amount to a hill of beans in the eyes of Brown County’s officials, but I can take the stance that I will not find caches under their jurisdiction any longer, and perhaps local cachers up there should make a point of telling us whether a cache is under their jurisdiction or not on the cache page.
The paltry sum they will collect from cache placement fees is nothing compared to the money we spend in their communities. I have family in the area, and I can attest to the fact that since we have started caching (about two years now), the two of us alone have exceeded in food and gas the $500.00 or so they will collect in fees every year.
Perhaps they’ll feel it, perhaps they won’t. We are not a large demographic yet. But maybe cities with more understanding management policies will see more of our business, and will be happy for our dollar.
@LightningBugs Mum wrote:
The above statement is solely that of the poster and does not represent the opinion of the WGA board. 😈
Why? Does the opinion of the board differ? Perhaps they endorse the no-hint hint?:lol:
All it means is somebody changed the name of the cache. WSQ is a naming convention some of us are starting in the state to designate cemetery caches.
Often enough it’s one of those things that goes unnoticed, but owners change cache names often enough.
The big one that sticks out in my mind is when Zuma changed his Yellowstone Trail series so that rather than starting with Yellowstone Trail, they start with the name of the city. Not a big difference until you have them all loaded into a Palm and you have a nice row of different cities instead of 50 caches that all start with Yellowstone.
Yeesh! People are watching I guess…
You’ve been in our thoughts since day one, Jim. We had actually been talking on the way home from dinner this evening that we hadn’t heard an update and had planned to drop a mail. Glad to see everything seems to be looking up. We’ll talk soon, but by that time I’m sure you’ll be caching up a storm again!
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Big thumbs up for our 4th finisher! I watched your progress, nearly finding all 84 just before we could log the final. Great achievement!
Congrats! It’s always nice to see the hidden patterns in our lives. I’ll bet the migrating birds were beautiful. Last time we cached through there we saw at least 100 egrets.
Ooooh! I really like the idea of being able to customize your title. It neatly eliminates the problem, allows us to have some more fun in here, and we should still be able to readily identify one-time and infrequent visitors who wouldn’t bother to customize their title. Great idea.
After reading this thread, I’m surprised at how many people specifically avoid cemetery caches. To me they’re fascinating, but obviously not for others. Perhaps a poll of peoples’ interest in them and their degree of tolerance would be useful as well?
Yes….sometimes. Usually I do, but to be honest sometimes I just skip it. The further I am from home, the less I bother. For example, when we went to NC a couple weeks ago, we had a very high rate of DNFs. The style was a high percentage of bison tubes in holly bushes in strip malls, roundabouts etc. We’d pull up, give it five minutes and call it. Too much attention, and not really big fun. Just as much as being a record of the experience, it’s a flag to the owner that there is a problem with the cache. In that case, being from well away and having difficulties with the hiding style, my DNFs would be neither instuctive to others or very useful to the owner. I have every faith that they were there.
If I feel the cache is missing, I always log a DNF. Always. Then I feel I’m being helpful.
I also tend to gloss over if I DNFed while night caching or in really adverse conditions. Why should I scare someone away from a cache that’s probably a walk-up in good conditions?
Maybe I get into the pschology of it all too much…
B is for Big Fat Ammo Cans!
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