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What do you get when you cross a GPS unit and a woman with PMS?
A b*tch who will find you 🙂
I don’t have any trackables in the wild for this reason. All my trackables are discover only at events. I only have 8 trackables in my inventory, including a travel bug tattoo 🙂
I wasn’t sure about investing in a trackable and release it into the wild only for it to go missing. That happens a lot. However, I won a geocoin as a door prize at an event some time ago. Since I didn’t invest any money in it, I may just release it into the wild and see where it goes and see what happens.
Most trackables do not have missions attached to it. Those seem to go missing more often. If a person attaches a mission for the trackable with it, I think it is more likely not to go missing and be able to complete its mission.
One time I picked up a trackable with me that didn’t have a mission with it. It was in Green Bay and I’m in Upper Michigan. Once I got home and logged the trackable number, I found out the trackable wanted to go south and I ended up taking it north. Had I known its mission, I would have left it. I did go back to Green Bay to drop it back off eventually and sent it on its way.
Good luck with whatever trackables you decide to release.
I visited the one in Green Bay and liked it. There;s a library in my town and I’m thinking of asking the owner if I can put a cache there. Otherwise, I might build my own.
I myself prefer small events to larger gatherings. Most events I’ve attended, I already know the cachers that are going there.
A few events I’ve attended were “classes” related to geocaching such as learning a bit about first aid, identifying poison plants or using GSAK (the latter which is not allowed anymore by Groundspeak).
Everyone plays the game however they see fit. I do it my way and others do it their way.
One of my goals is to attend a CITO event, something I’ve never done. Most CITO’s listed are either too far for me or I have to work. Hopefully I get to attend one next spring.
100 person FTF? Doesn’t that happen in the Appleton area on a regular basis? 😛
Yeah I wasn’t worried when I made the submission without placing the cache because new caches in my area can go unfound for a day or two. Plus, reviewers typically publish a cache about 2 to 3 days after submission. So to see my cache was published 15 minutes after submission was surprising to me.
One time I scouted out an area for a cache placement and found a spot. I didn’t have the container with me but I did have my GPS unit. I marked the spot and got the coordinates. I then went home and went online to submit the cache.
I then made myself a sandwich and sat down to have some lunch before going back out to place the container when the publication notice came in. I was like, crap. That didn’t take long to publish. In fact, it was only 15 minutes after I submitted it.
I rushed out there to place the container but thankfully my area doesn’t have the FTF hounds that yours does. The cache was found the next day.
I don’t know if you consider a mile a long hike.
I did a 1.06 mile walk earlier this week for this cache – http://coord.info/GC5CCGC
It was on beach sand, making the walk a bit tough. Took me about 35 minutes each way. Yes, 35 minutes just to walk a mile each way. Walking on sand is not easy.
@Northwoods Tom wrote:
That’s the reason! Being from Eau Claire and traveling back there on a regular basis, I would always download some caches to look for and those I didn’t find would remain on the GPS unit. Next time I would visit, no cache! 🙄
And that’s why anytime I revisit an area, I always reload the GPS unit with an updated pocket query 🙂
I admit that when I do take pictures while caching, they all go on Facebook, not with my log. Maybe if Groundspeak allowed us to upload photos WITH the log instead of having to go back and edit the log, I might be inclined to put up ohotos.
This log came in from one of my caches titled “Kleinke Park V 2.0”
found with bluehog 81 while on a road trip. Had to stop for this cache as the name of the park happens to be my last name and the cache owners name happens to be my middle name so I had to get this cache no matter what anyway the park has a beautiful view and the cache was a nice find so will have to give it a favorite point tftc sl
I had a chuckle out of that one.
I play this hobby the way it’s supposed to be.
For example, I know where the final of a puzzle cache that I still cannot solve. Do I still go out there and find it and sign the log? No, I still haven’t. Until I solve the puzzle, the cache remains unfound for me. It has been for the last four years. I don’t bother with the puzzle anymore.
I’m not a numbers person. I don’t care about calendar grids, D/T grids or anything like that. My numbers obviously has declined the last several years. Will I even break 100 finds TOTAL for this year? Last year I found 90 caches total. I know there are people who has found that much in half a day.
This year, I have found just 26 caches all year. That amount can easily be done in a couple hours. Am I gonna fret about it? Nah. I like to play the game at my own pace.
FTF’s are not important to me. The cache will still be there whether I’m first to find or the 25th to find. I’m in no hurry to find it. In my 5 years of geocaching, I’ve had 20 FTF’s and most of those were found at least a day after publication. I know of cachers who has had more FTF’s than that in a day, whether is a power trail or a run in a metropolitan area.
Every souvenir I have on my profile, I earned it, even the ones I didn’t want, like the 31 days of caching last year. I only got 3 of those – lol.
If people want to cheat to fix their statistics, by all means, go ahead. I don’t care. It’s not like we have a leader board and are competing for a prize.
Right?
Peaches107 also found a safe in the woods while geocaching. He posted that somewhere here on the forum. I’ll try and see if I can find it later. It was several years ago.
Here’s a good story from me.
Not long after my bomb scare fiasco, I went night caching and was looking for the final reflectors when a cop car pulled up to the parking lot.
I walked up to the officer, who still was in the car, and told him I was geocaching.
He said “Did you find it?”
I said no.
He pointed the spotlight in the general direction of the cache and said “It’s over there somewhere.”
I thanked him and he drove away and I found the cache in the area he shined the spotlight on.
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