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FTP for Hump Day.
LN- Take Hwy. 26 south to Hwy. C south, then Hwy. 23 west 2 miles. You can drive Hwy. 26 anywhere in the construction xone for $175 a violation. Closed thru September!This must suck for Highway 26 residents. I feel their pain as my road was once ripped up itself. But it was worth it in the end as it was in terrible shape before the construction.
Randy, I think the unfamiliar CO of the two caches that I found today may have been part of a geocaching family and he probably just got his own account, which explains only two finds on it. He did a great job with coordinates and the caches were well hidden. I was impressed.
And we found them. I was FTF on the first. HappyDorkGirl was FTF on the second.
We both claimed a co-FTF though. All I can say is – major bushwacking was involved on both caches, which definitely earned the T3 rating, maybe a half star more.
There goes another new one Todd. I really like the one on the bridge just downstream from there
Yup. Now, see, this is why I never chase FTF’s. I know from experience that if a new cache is placed on a trail with plenty of room for more caches, more caches will placed there in the future. So it’s a good thing I didn’t go out there yesterday to find it because if I did, I would have to go back again today and find the other one.
HappyDorkGirl and I are planning to look for both of them later today if the rains hold off. Otherwise, I’ll grab them tomorrow when I run my errands in Green Bay.
A new geocacher just found one of my caches, saying it was her very first find. I immediately sent her a “welcome to geocaching” email. It’s always nice to see new people get interested in the hobby. My area is definitely lacking of geocachers. Other than HappyDorkGirl and myself, no one in my area is active.
All the caches in my area outside of my own are now owned by inactive CO’s and it’s a sad situation here.
I gotta figure out a way to promote geocaching in the area and get it going again.
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Todd, new cache in Peshtigo. Don’t recognize the name of the CO either.
I saw that. I got the notification on my phone about 7:30pm my time last night. but I don’t chase FTF’s anymore. I’ll let someone else have it. Bartrod will probably find it this morning if he’s home. I did send a Facebook message to a geocaching friend of mine who lives in Peshtigo, but is not a premium member. Hopefully she gets the message and looks for it.
As for the CO, he only has 2 finds. He thinks he’s an expert on geocaching now with that many finds. I bet he placed it with a smartphone which is never accurate for cache placement. One time I was FTF on a cache that was placed with an I-Phone that was 100 feet away from the actual coordinates.
This particular cache in Peshtigo published last night is probably on the Ellis Memorial Trail. I actually have walked that trail to scout out some spots to hide a cache or two of my own and it is definitely not a T3 trail like this CO put in the cache page. And the trail is much closer to the water. But according to the cache page, the cache itself is only 100 feet from the road. Something is hinky here.
I’ll eventually get to it when I get out there to place my own caches. I also have a plan to put one out at Badger Park as the one over there got archived a few months ago.
On a side note, I put a “Needs Archived” log on another cache owned by an out-of-town CO that went missing. This particular one got removed due to construction at the waterfront marina some time ago. I stopped by that cache this morning to verify this after I saw a string of DNF logs in my email. I hate out-of-town CO’s. They never are around to take care of their caches.
According to my profile, I have found 3 state park caches as follows:
WGA State Park Series Finds
Lake Superior North Woods: 0 of 7 WGA SPS caches found.
Southern Savanna: 0 of 13 WGA SPS caches found.
Mississippi and Chippewa Rivers: 0 of 9 WGA SPS caches found.
Central Sands Prairie: 1 of 7 WGA SPS caches found.
Lake Michigan: 2 of 11 WGA SPS caches found.It should be 4 caches. I found Governor Thompson, Copper Culture, Hartman Creek, and High Cliff. Is one of my finds missing?
No, but an F-5 tornado could wipe it off the map 😛
All kidding aside, hope your car is ok. New tires are not cheap.
Hack1of2,
That’s something to consider when I’m on the trails.
I still use an outdated Garmin Venture HC to cache with. No maps on it. So I’m at the mercy of figuring out where the trails lead.
I do have c:GEO on my Samsung Galaxy S3, which I use for the paperless aspect as my Garmin Venture HC does not contain the cache information. It only contains the GC Code and the name of the cache.
Hmm. I’ll have to look to see what maps c:GEO has that I can use, at least for trail navigation.
Somewhere down the road though, I’ll probably upgrade to a better GPS unit that actually has maps on it. I just don’t have the money for that right now, but using my Venture HC along with c:GEO on my Galaxy S3 works well for me right now.
But I definitely will look at the map options on my phone.Thanks.
Openstreet map – default.
So I switched to a different map on GC.COM that shows county lines. Looks like there’s about 5 or 6 caches left that I have to get in Menominee County, MI. One is on the river. So I’ll have to wait for hard water season to get it. The rest of them, I made it a goal to get them this month as 3 of them are together in one area, two in another and the last one near me on an ATV trail. I may have to take my bicycle in for that one.
Looking forward to clearing out my home county.
Thankfully, I don’t live in Marinette County. That is a HUGE area with far more caches, especially in the backwoods that my car cannot get to such as Potato Lake.
Too funny. The map on the geocaching website doesn’t show the county lines, so it’s hard to tell which ones I have left near the county lines.
I’ll have to run a few PQ’s and import them into GSAK and hopefully GSAK will tell me which ones are in Menominee County.
I went for a drive today and found another cache in my goal to clear out Menominee County in Michigan of all caches. I think I have 4 or 5 left to go, but it’s hard to tell, looking at the map which county a certain cache is on.
Hopefully in a couple months, I’ll have found every cache in Menominee County 🙂
Kelly?
Yes, sir.
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