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Found my first geocaches a few days ago since July 2017. Been a while. I hope to find a few more in the near future. The downside of living in a rural area where I pretty much found everything until a few new ones popped up last week. I probably won’t have time though. Received a temporary promotion at work so currently working 7 days a week doing my regular job and my temporary new job. See how that goes.
And hello, Thread Stealers 🙂
That’s not in town.
Hey, is your hide in Henes Park in the lake? Probably, judging from the logs. There’s a rock painting craze going on around here. I think someone was hiding rocks, found my cache, and tossed it. I ended up archiving it as I’m pretty much done with geocaching. If I’m near a cache, ok, I’ll go find it. But I’m not gonna go out of my way to do it. Hence why I still have to find GC6KQ1Y myself. I didn’t have a reason to go down that road yet.
It’s hard to believe, but we got two days in a row with 60+ degrees. . .in February.
No kidding. Just the other day in Oconto, I found more caches (7) in one day than I did in 7 previous Februaries combined (5 caches total).
Weird weather we are having. I wonder who else set personal bests for finds in February this week.
May standings look empty.
Like many others on here, I probably only use a small percentage of GSAK’s full features. I use mine to filter out what type of geocaches I want to find. I use it to filter out geocaches that have a string of recent DNF’s. That’s just a small sample of what I use GSAK for.
For a data geek like myself, GSAK is also great for getting specific data. For example, if you want to know how many geocaches that you found that was placed by a certain owner, GSAK can get that info for you.
And that’s just the beginning. Trust me, Happy Hodag, you will LOVE it and will wonder how you lived without it once you get yourself familiar with the software. It is money well worth spent. Attend a local GSAK class that sometimes pop up and check it out.
Being hard of hearing, a smart phone is a must for me. I have an app that downloads my voice mail and transcribes it to text. I also have an app that will caption my phone calls though it needs FCC approval to be operational.
Having other apps like Facebook, email, etc. are just a bonus. But if I wasn’t hard of hearing, I wouldn’t need a smart phone. I would be ok going without other apps that I use now on my smart phone such as checking sport scores, reading up-to-date news, etc.
As for navigation with a smart phone, that requires data and I’m on a limited data plan. I prefer using my trusty Garmin Nuvi for that even the maps may not always be up to date as a smart phone navigation app might be. In fact, my current Garmin Nuvi 205 has a map that was installed in 2009 😆 I just use common sense when using the Nuvi and use my smart phone navigation as a backup if I’m going somewhere new.
While I’ve used C:GEO on it in a pinch, I still prefer a dedicated GPS to cache. Even though a smart phone can be accurate for caching with apps like C:GEO, I do not want to expose it to the elements – rain, mud, risk of dropping it, etc.
To sum it up, for me, a smart phone is necessary for me because of my deafness, but if I wasn’t deaf, I wouldn’t need it.
I was successful in removing a big chunk of the sticker with the ID number still readable on it along with several small pieces. Just a matter of going to my local DNR office with the pieces. I had to do it right away because I put the car up for sale.
Funny thing is, I was also able to remove my ENTIRE Michigan State Park stick in one piece and it still sticks. So I put it in a small container and will affix it to my current vehicle when I have the chance, so I don’t have to worry about that. I’ll just tape over it with clear tape if it does not re-stick to my new vehicle’s window. At least I won’t have to worry about replacing the Michigan sticker. I just have to do Wisconsin’s.
Thanks. I have not sold the car yet. Still have it. I’ll take a drive to my local DNR office with the sticker still in the window and explain my situation.
Seeing I’m out of state, I would have to pay $35 for a sticker and summer is half over and I wasn’t about to pay it again for only a few more visits.
Thanks again.
I’m only a casual geocacher living in an area sparse with geocaches. So goals of completing a D/T grid or a calendar or other challenges are out of the question.
However, I do have reasonable goals set as follows.
1) Menominee County in Michigan is my home county. I have found most of the caches in the county and I believe I have just 7 left to go as of today. But they are all in the out-of-the-way areas. So it’s just a matter of picking a day to go get them.
2) WGA SP caches – Obviously, I don’t think I can get all the state parks. But the Lake Michigan biome is doable for me. I hope to do that someday.
3) Bartrod’s OCH series – I love this series and I hope to get out there and finish the series. I think I have just 3 or 4 left to go.
4) Upper Peninsula Counties – While I doubt I’ll ever go to every county in Michigan or Wisconsin, getting a cache in each of the 13 counties in the UP is very doable. The only open areas are in the far western part of the UP and the far eastern part.
Driver, navigator, log signer, jump out guy. You start with a bunch of containers with signed logs and drop one at the first cache and move that first one to the next stop.
No, it’s easy. First you prepare 1500 film canisters with pre-signed logs. Then you drive along the power trail, stopping every 0.1 miles, toss a film can out the window, then copy/paste the log; “Didn’t find cache so we replaced it.”
Gee. I can just imagine the geo litter that results because of this. Sounds like those cachers are all about the numbers. I don’t do that. Even on a power trail, I like to take my time and enjoy nature around me.
If I can’t find the container, I’ll log the DNF. I WILL NOT replace the container with a pre signed log. It is the CO’s responsibility to maintain the caches. If the CO puts out a 300 cache power trail, it is his job to replace a container if it goes missing. Not mine. I will not do that. I will log DNF’s on the trail.
A few years ago, I was at the Brillion Power trail when it had half the caches that it does now. I rode my bike and did 31 of 34 in a little less than 3 hours and I was taking my time too. It was a beautiful trail with some abandoned buildings on it that I stopped to look at. So considering that I was taking my time, going 31 of 34 in a little less than 3 hours on a bike by myself is not bad.
I just cannot imagine spending an entire 24 hour period just caching for numbers. I think my longest run ever was an 8 hour run in Appleton a few years ago on a 2/2 run in an urban run using my car. I visited 51 caches and found 42 of them. And I was taking my time doing this too. I was in no hurry either. The 8 hour run included a half hour lunch break, so really, I visited those 51 caches in 7 and a half hours. It was a fun day, but I don’t think I’ll do another long run like that and I doubt I’ll even do a 24 hour run like that 1500 cache run. Hell, I have found less than that (1266 finds) in six YEARS – LOL. No way will I go out and double that total in one day – lol.
1500 finds in one day? Is that doable, even on a power trail?
In a 24 hour period, that’s 62.5 finds per hour. That means a person would have to find just over one cache per minute.
It just cannot be done. It takes time to get to each cache 528 feet apart, find it, retrieve log, sign it, replace log, replace cache, then dash to the next cache.
It just cannot be done.
Got a ftf on a cache that published 9 days ago.
I once got an FTF on a cache published two weeks prior. It wasn’t an impossible puzzle cache or a T5 cache though it was a T3.5. I just happen to live in an area with no FTF hounds and took my time getting to it.
How about the rest of you? Not including impossible puzzles or T5’s, what was the longest after publication that you got an FTF on?
To be honest, I rarely, if ever, use repellent of any sort.
I dislike any sort of chemicals on me or my clothes. So I don’t use much repellant, if any, at all. I MIGHT spray a little Off on me and even then, just a little to deter a few skeeters. I’m more than willing to put up with skeeters and ticks just so I don’t have to deal with the chemicals from repellant as they actually make me a little sick.
Ticks crawling on me do not bother me anymore. I flick it off on me and then step on it and dispose of it like thing. If I find one embedded in me, I know how to remove it. And in my 6 years of geocaching, I’ve actually only found two embedded ticks with only one of them leaving a bullseye rash on my leg.
First thing I do when I get home is go to my basement, strip naked, throw my clothes in the washer, and then take a shower. I check my whole body for ticks and I’m good. It’s a ritual I’ve gotten very efficient at.
I know there are natural recipes floating around the internet where someone can make his own repellent from natural ingredients. One of these days, I’ll have to do that.
Several events that took place weeks ago are still showing up in searches. I wish event hosts would archive them sooner than later. But many hosts do not even archive them at all.
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Hey, is your hide in Henes Park in the lake?