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When I started writing this list, it was hard to believe that these memories were all from this past year!
2008 Highlights: (The Short List)
Reaching #1000 at SSSS
Attending my first Event and GeoCampout
Everything about my trip to Door County (except getting hopelessly lost at one cache)
Finding the Lord of the Cache Trilogy by myself through rough terrain
Obsession with Puzzle Caches in Appleton, Kenosha, Madison, Mount Vernon
Dragging Jeremy to caches he probably didn’t want to solve or go.
Mild FTF Fever
Placing my first caches
West Bend Cache Ba$h
Meeting PharmTeam (namesake geoparents? 😆 ) and many other caching teams2009 Goals: Location, Location, Location
Complete Wisconsin County Challenge (and maybe DeLorme?)
Cache out of State
Cache out of Country? (Santo Domingo)
Get that stupid Evil Monkey in Kewaskum. (I really hate climbing trees!)
Terrain/Difficulty Blackout Bingo?? (Lots of 4.5 and 5s left)Christmas shopping begun and done today. 😀
😀 Thanks!! Yup, Santa gave me just what I wanted! 😀 And yes, #1000 was the Sinister Semantic Search, my first 5/5!
At the beginning of 2008, I had made a New Year’s Resolution to find a mere 250 caches… So far this year, I have found 891! Well past my expectation!
And now, a shameless plug to remind everyone to mark your calendar for next year’s West Bend Cache Ba$h the weekend of August 14-16th, 2009! 8)
@Crockett3663 wrote:
…and PLEASE make one of them the elusive “Creekie Cache” GCQ8ZZ!! Please Santa…it’s the closest one to my house (you know where I live, right? You come down my chimney every year) and I’ve looked for it three times with no luck. I won’t rest until I find it!!
If it makes you feel any better, I’ve tried that one twice with no luck. I think I’m too vertically challenged.
Hey, thanks, I just noticed this thread. I’m glad you all enjoyed the series! I figured West Bend needed a couple puzzle caches… 🙂
Hmm… I wonder what Marc’s family was doing wrong (or differently) with Ewe Thinker?
@seldom|seen wrote:
The more challenging puzzles are the Camelback Cinema series, ZoeBroCoup series, etc…”
Funny, I had no problem solving the ZoeBroCoup series…
But I really think there is a learning curve with Puzzle Caches, just like regular caches. The longer you cache and the more you attempt and experience, the easier they become as you get familiarized with how people’s minds work and the methods they use.
I have no issue working for hours on a puzzle because I enjoy trying to figure them out. It’s actually usually therapeutic for me. I rarely ask for help… only when I get way past the point of frustration and it’s no longer any fun. And usually, it’s because I’m making things WAY harder than it needs to be…. like I did for the Sinister puzzle. If the actual solve method would have been some of the things I tried… it would have been a 10-star difficulty puzzle.
At the start of my caching, I could not figure out Madison’s “All You Need Is Before You” cache GC16HNE . It drove me insane. I printed out the cache page and would stare at those stupid hot air balloons every day, trying to derive coordinates a million different ways. Jeremy would just laugh at me. I refused to accept a hint though. Finally, many months later, I was struck with inspiration, and tried out my theory which was correct. If I saw another puzzle like that now, it would take mere seconds to solve.
That’s my little interjection about puzzle caches which wasn’t the original intention of this thread, really, but I felt like posting it. 😆
@LDove wrote:
I take back my request for a lump of coal for PharmGirl when she made a very scary cache that came flying out and hit my dog in the head and had her running for the car. She is actually quite nice and I will forgive her, but only if she comes up with something more devious for next year!
Don’t worry… I have a few ideas up my sleeve… 😈 😀 😈 😀
WOOO HOOOO! Merry Christmas to ME! I figured out the coordinates. Geochecker confirmed. 😀 😀 😀 And I’ll be invading the Kingdom of Selzzup very soon. 😀
P.S. I’ve been sworn to uphold the sanctity of 5/5 cache coordinate secrecy by the cache owner, so all my puzzle groupies shouldn’t start asking me for hints unless they’ve spent at least as much time as I did on this puzzle (which was close to 30 hours!–Yes, I was obsessed!).
@Sagasu wrote:
Got an alert from one of Santa’s helpers… Placed thirty-one and were good as well? Except for that snake thing. Well, I do have one serving as a guide at one of our own caches. Sounds like a fine report card. Checked your profile and see you are halfway dressed for the occasion – might need a warmer shirt though. You will find something to help you on your way in your mailbox. Hope you can have a Merry if Chilly Christmas!
S.S.S.S.Santagasu
Hey wait a minute… the “help” in my mailbox was something I had already figured out. Sneaky Santagasu. I guess he gave me the satisfaction of knowing I was right. 😆
So close, and yet, so frustrated… 😡
But this is what makes milestones memorable….right? 😀Nobody else has a Cache Wish List for Santa? I guess Santa can focus all his time on me. 😀 😀 😀
Holy cow, I don’t check the forum for awhile, and look what happens. 🙄 😆 Gilligan looks quite dashing though…
I do like LB7’s suggestion if we could pull that off. Plus, it would get more people to stay and enjoy West Bend the entire weekend. More days caching=more fun. 😀
wow. Nice job. I can’t imagine how it’s even possible.
@Jeremy wrote:
… and if the singers suck (and you know they will :)), I don’t even want to be within earshot of the park.
Party pooper. 😉
Ditto, congrats. From the pharmgirl, no relation. 😉 I doubt I’ll ever match your accomplishments. Whenever cachers I meet say, “Oh yeah, I’ve seen your name a lot,” I assume they probably saw YOUR name instead.
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