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I’m a cool kid????

Welcome to the fun.

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Congratulations on a fun milestone! I enjoyed the photos and log on facebook!

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I just did the Red Barn Hack posted. Very nice photo. Probably taken earlier in the season, judging by the snow cover!

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So…do we go to Diane’s profile to read the whole story???

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Those are good things to consider. Since we’re also in the dark ages, we have no clue about a lot of the newer things out there. Trekkin’ asked some questions recently on a facebook page and uws22 has a good understanding of the capabilities and limitations of cell phones. It was a really productive thread and maybe Brian could pass along some tips for those of us who are pretty clueless.

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I chose not to respond to the other thread because I thought it was a silly idea, but I know others enjoy this opportunity. That said, if I ever got to an event where these things are hosted, I’d sure give them a try. In the end, we are still old school cachers and probably always will be….comes from being old, maybe. I heard tell of a classic temporary cache placed at a WGA event when they still placed them that predated our time just a little. Apparently it was an owl decoy set up with glowing eyes and a loop tape of an owl hooting….that somehow never got turned off after the fun was over! I wish I’d seen that and it sounds like the kind of thing perfect for this kind of cache placement.

I realize that for a business to survive, they have to be willing to experiment and make efforts to broaden their customer base. For those who are excited by this little side game, have fun with it!

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Just an update…we’d hoped we could get out to the grotto this Saturday to be ready later this month to take folks out there. We will be at a family function that came up instead. Sorry to any who we’re counting on us to get you out there. Go to Bayfield and see those caves instead. 😉

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And also…..I did a short stint writing about geocaching on the Examiner.com website, and had done a gift giving article around Christmas time. I had posted some items in a photo to accompany the article, and without really thinking about it, had included my “Hi My Name is…” badge style travel bug as one of the items. After a time, I started getting logs like you mention and knowing it had been in a box for a couple years, finally asked one of the loggers. I hadn’t blurred out the tracking number. I finally asked Groundspeak to lock that one for me. I can’t use it to let others discover now, but I just lost interest in the whole TB thing, anyway…..

For reasons like this.

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I’ve been told there are facebook groups where tracking numbers are placed so that people can virtually log a TB. I don’t understand why, but apparently that’s part of the game for some folks.

I have never seen such a group, but someone else told me at an event about one.

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Ha ha, I’m glad I started this thread if for no other reason than to pull hotdogs and The Lil’ Otter out of hiding! 😉

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Here’s another one….on a lake in northern Wisconsin. 100 pieces

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GR, Your second point really puts into words something we haven’t been able to articulate. We have long since realized that, yes….it’s changed. We’ve done plenty of those roadside caches, but miss the enjoyment a good old fashioned hike or paddle into a more remote area involves. We still put out those types of caches, but they sit unloved unless someone comes through to gather up Lonely points. Our favorite places to cache remain the northern parts of Minnesota and Wisconsin, because that old school stuff is still around up there. When you put it that way, I see there’s less need for a forum to discuss geocaching stuff.

Facebook….I just struggle with that one. I discovered you can’t really leave facebook, just deactivate, and I wanted to keep it available because it is a nice “history” for me of when we did certain things. I actually stayed off it for four months and really didn’t miss it after a couple weeks except……birding stuff. So I’m back there but I get frustrated that often, it’s not really a social connection, but funny memes that I need to get past to find anything in the way of my connections and conversations. That’s why I signed off in the first place….it was too hard to actually connect and I didn’t want to spend my time sifting through all that stuff to find it. My facebook friends, all people I actually know in real life, fall into a few basic groups. Family, friends from geocaching, friends from birding and friends from storytelling. I find that as a group, my friends from storytelling are the ones with the highest rate of actual “let’s share our experiences and ideas.” It’s also probably a good thing then that we tend to cache on our own, so we don’t have the need to make all these connections. Because we aren’t in any of the “let’s get together” geocaching facebook pages where that kind of thing happens. We don’t want to be added to them, either. I still wish people would do more sharing here, because as someone commented, some of us are willing to travel to meet friends and make new ones and discover new places, but we aren’t going to know about them as things generally stand now.

It’s been nice to see people crawl out of the woodwork and add their insights here. Thanks for taking your time to do that, everyone!

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Wisconsin River in Autumn is pretty….one of my favorite times of year to cache, too.

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I haven’t done the puzzle yet, but the sky at Mingo HAS to be more interesting than anything at the cache site itself. I found it kind of sadly prophetic that the oldest cache is basically a roadside p/g.

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http://www.jigsawplanet.com/?rc=play&pid=0f5be08f7eee 140 pieces
Near Dunbar Wisconsin, on the grounds of a bed and breakfast where I stayed.

http://www.jigsawplanet.com/?rc=play&pid=1e0c114a2dde 130 pieces
Watts Mill, Kansas City MO…the state’s oldest cache

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