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Marc beat us to the post on this one. We must have followed Sven all day as he turned 100 on the new Little Wolf River cache series. Congratulations, and here’s to many more. Be cool Honeybunny!
We have very limited experience with other units. We use a Garmin Geko 301 which is pretty no frills, but as long as the arrow points at the cache we’ll find it. Mapping, etc. seems neat, but not having it hasn’t affected us one bit. Of course I may be accused of being a technophobe…
OK. Sorry about that, but it really touched a raw nerve. Go out. Have fun geocaching. But remember at some point we will have to work for it.
You’re absolutely right that we need to be proactive. I’m sure it’s one of the reasons this organization was founded. To give us a voice. It’s just frustrating to see everything regulated in minute detail.
I’m not going to begin a screed against our government. I believe in it still. But one of the hallmarks of a totalitarian regime is running the peoples’ lives for them in every tiny detail so that they come to depend on the government for what they think & feel. Sometimes I just feel boxed in in the silliest ways.It wouldn’t be such a big deal if we picked up our beer bottles and quit wearing goth makeup. But seriously, this is just another in a long line of government misdeeds “on our behalf”. Something happens, a sign goes up. The white zone is for loading and unloading only. It is being legislated because small-minded people feel more comfortable having the government handle it than dealing with someone face to face.
When I was climbing hard, the state closed a couple of cliffs at Devil’s lake citing “climber impacts”. A study proved that we were some of the more responsible users of the area, and one cliff was opened, one remained closed. There was always talk of permitting us too, but enforcement seemed to be a hassle. There’s always been talk of registering whitewater kayaks too. Why? There’s no precedent, but they would fee us and the money would probably almost entirely go to hiring somebody to enforce the mess.
As geocaching becomes more popular, and it will, it will invite more scrutiny from people who can’t believe we’re allowed to conduct ourselves without oversight. It’ll be something insane like what we’re seeing in SC, or perhaps because we’re pinpointing coordinates in potentially sensitive areas, who knows. The human imagination is limitless, and as long as there’s an idea these days, we need a law to cover it. Thanks for taking my two cents. Put it in the WGA defense fund.I’ve heard that there are antennas for church steeples shaped like angels blowing horns. A fake tree just might top that though. Now maybe if there’s a neon cross too…
It’s gotta be addiction. Ms. Honeybunny caught me talking in my sleep about caching. And go figure, it was about numbers. A lurking demon in my subconscious? Ha!
We’ve had a watch on this, and it’s going to be big. This will be our first event, so we can’t wait. The Astro-Ds have put out some quality caches in GB (see COTM voting this month), so these oughta’ be sweet too.
Be cool Honeybunny!We’re pretty new, so we’ve only had about two that took more than two tries to find. Generally we don’t DNF because normally it’s just a terminal case of the stupids and we find it right away the next time. We’ve posted notes if we are really, really positive it’s not there (one or two to date), or we are stumped, but know it’s there and are coming back(one or two date).
We’ve only truly logged one DNF and that was a canoe cache, so it seemed like a special case with the logistics and all. But normally, we feel that nothing is going to defeat us for long, and we feel it should be reserved for something especially problematic. Mostly if we can’t find it we log nothing and keep an eye on it until we get another crack at it. Oh, and sometimes we mail the cache owner and plead(once or twice to date)(laughs). That said, it’s probably not right, because just because our instincts tell us it’s there and we can’t find doesn’t mean it hasn’t been muggled.What a coincidence. We just logged your Powers Bluff cache tonight. Congrats on another milestone. Be cool Honeybunny!
And on the other end of the technology spectrum… We have a pretty basic GPSr, a Garmin Geko 301 w/no mapping or other bells & whistles. Our best day so far is 26, and we didn’t really plan for a big # day.
First off, the disclaimer is that we don’t have kids, and we’re just enough granola that Ms. Honeybunny will go(ha!) in the woods so rest stops are usually for fluids and gas at most. We also tend to skip eating all day and go out for a big meal at the end of the day.
Pre-planning includes ordering the cache sheets(still not paperless, but looking forward to it)in a good driving pattern, and hand entering any new coordinates(gasp!). Packs are packed, yadda, yadda yadda…
All that being said, we don’t feel we’ve really planned our first power day yet. The area we had our big day in was one we had pecked at a couple other times, and we didn’t rule out long or difficult caches. Roughly 1/2 were park & log micros though.
I know it’s not about the numbers and all that. We didn’t count on the road, and we were lucky enough to find nearly everything. But at the end of the day it was really fun to see that big stack of sheets. I think we might have even giggled. And that’s fun too.Aaaaahgh! It’s boring into my head! MUST…NOT…DO…IT!
Just noticed our state count is correct, but he states listed misses NM. Thanks.
Couldn’t resist on Opossum’s gun comment.
How about “Guns don’t kill people, I kill people.” (laughs)Getting back to Energysaver’s comments, after all the advice we got here, we were going to babysit that one and drop a container in it, but Cigarmonkey beat us to it, many thanks to him. We logged that one but the same source has some other unmaintained caches and they haven’t answered our e-mail. Just wanted you to know that we’re trying to implement the suggestions we get from the forum.
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