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I’m not a fan of challenge caches anyways. They are starting to get ridiculous.
Would you people geocache in a park infested with ticks that are known to test positive for Lyme disease?
True that. I guess it depends on the park that they are in, really. If the park is designed to have hiking and biking and stuff like that, then by all means, put them out.
Like someone said, I have the option of not finding them if I don’t want to.
As long as it is not a nano inside a log, I’ll look for it. I actually came across those type of hides in the past – unfortunately.
Thanks for the feedback, everyone.
M&M weekend? Just guessing.
Can’t make it. The first one I will miss. Can’t afford the days off to get there and back unless I fly and it would be just me, and that suggestion would go over like a fart in church.I have no idea if it is M & M weekend. We tried to make it a summer thing, but people got too much going on for the summer. Weddings, family reunions, vacations, etc. So October 3 was decided.
If things change, let me know. I’ll have them send you an invitation with the details.
Congrats on the geoversary, Todd! I see you also marked the occasion with a new avatar. I like it!
I was gonna try and find a few of your caches today at HCSP, but it didn’t work out that way as they all are on the north side of the park and I stayed mainly to the south side. I did find your tribute cache left by Labrat.
I’ll be at the campout thing next month at High Cliff so I’ll see you then.
6 years ago today, I found my first geocache.
I celebrated my geoversary with a hiking excursion at Hartman Creek State Park, finding 12 caches along the way.
Noonan, class reunion is October 3rd. If you want more info, let me know.
I’m in the minority that I prefer caches in a park to be spread out so I’m not stopping every .1 mile to find them.
Today, I went to Hartman Creek State Park and paid an obscene amount for a yearly out-of-state pass to get into the park, a pass I’ll probably only use at least a couple more times this year.
If I wanted numbers, I could have planned a hiking route to grab as many as possible. But today, I just wanted to hike and if my GPS unit beeped to show a cache nearby, then I’ll grab it. Otherwise, I just hiked around and took random trails, finding 12 caches, all on the south side of the park, where they seem to be more spread out, not including puzzle finals that I did not get. I spent 3 hours at HCSP today so I thought it was great that I happened to find 12 caches in those three hours and I didn’t even plan the route as it was random, whatever trail I took.
I agree a bunch of caches will attract visitors to a park, but to see them every .1 of a mile is another thing. Park managers probably should limit them to avoid damage to the ecosystem like trampled grass, broken branches, etc. I tried my best not to do any damage once I was near ground zero. I looked for grass that was already trampled and walked on those areas rather than trample on other grass and also tried to avoid bushwacking to ground zero as I get closer. I could see the cache right there, but to get to it was another problem. So I was careful to try and not damage the area around the cache in my attempt to retrieve it. I’ve seen evidence that other people don’t give a crap. They would break branches off trees and bulldoze through rather than walk around. That’s one example.
I definitely will return to HCSP as well as visit other state parks, but my primary mission when I do go to those parks is to hike, not geocache. If I happen to find a few caches while I’m hiking, great. But if I spend four hours walking the trails and only find one or two caches, I’m happy with that too. I’m not about the numbers or I would have more than 1240 finds in my 6 years of geocaching.
Just 36 finds TOTAL for me in 2014, compared to 90 some finds last year.
Yup, I cut back on my caching a LOT.
4 days off work now. Working retail, having 4 days of work will seem like an eternity. I’m gonna enjoy it while I can.
Odd publishing of some of WA’s new caches …. email says new and then when I open them in GC, they are archived.
He probably meant not to activate them when he made the cache pages.
Yes.
Given the recent school shootings in Oregon, maybe it is just as well, Noonan.
I guess every community is different. Here is Marinette, I have not heard anything about suspicious activity on school property thus far – or any other property for that matter. Then again, geocaching activity in the Marinette area is very sparse. I might be lucky to receive only a few logs a week.
Our reviewers are awesome. How great it is to be able to send them the cache page GC# before submission and have them tell me if there are issues. Probably makes less work for them too.
I don’t want to talk about reviewers right now
Noonan, given your reviewer issues, I’m surprised that here in Wisconsin, this one is allowed. GC20DFB
Maybe talk to the school administrators. Get their ok and convince the reviewer since that is what was done for the cache that I linked.
When I click on an event on the event calendar, I don’t see a GC code listed on the event that I’ve viewing. The following in the quote is what I see.
12/13/14 FLASH MOB-Door County
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Date(s) – 12/13/2014
12:13 pm – 12:27 pm
0GC Code
Notice it says “GC Code” at the bottom of that quote, but no actual GC code is provided.
Noonan, I can understand where the reviewer is coming from. I was at the center of a bomb scare a few years ago when I found a cache near a school in Ashwaubenon and someone thought I was very suspicious and called the cops on me.
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