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Congratulations on the milestone, and I know the folks working the event appreciated you giving back as part of your celebration!
Non-caching Betty, who is smaller than I am, almost backed out, because it gets narrower as you go up. Then she saw a fairly large lady with her family ahead of her and figured she could do this. It must be a “thing” to do, not just for geocaching.
Do all the caches on the trail system where GC23 is located. Also, there’s a letterbox hybrid, Kaniakapu, that’s pretty cool. Takes you to the ruins of Kamehameha’s summer palace. Even the locals don’t know about it.
Have fun. I’d go back in a heartbeat. I also did the EarthCache that’s a 5T. Nice little paddle up a river away from touristy stuff. I didn’t do a lot of caching because I was traveling with my friend non-caching Betty. There was also a fun one on the southern tip of the island. Start at the beach where From Here to Eternity was filmed, crawl through a tunnel and then hike up the side of a dead volcano partway to find the cache. I’d have to look up specific GC codes for all these.
I should add that we stayed in Kailua and the only time we went near Honolulu was to fly in and out and to go to Pearl Harbor and Diamond Head. So I can’t speak to any of the caches on that side of the island.
When we almost quit caching a year ago, we took about a month break and thought about the things that appealed to us….hikes, discovery, challenging terrain and the like. We adjusted to picking and choosing and have been much happier this way. We have lately been getting easier stuff close to home and along the way the past couple weeks, but we won’t ever go back to “needing to get it all.” It can’t be done, anyway.
I’m still struggling with going to a completely new area, like northwestern MN and then being “efficient.” The excessive use of fossil fuel is starting to concern me, too. That’s another topic, however, but does play into all this.
That’s how we always make our caching choices…looking for certain things and making a bookmark of those, plus a few extras close to any of them. I don’t know when the last time I did a blanket PQ of an area or route. For us, a big PQ for a 2-3 day trip is 50 caches, of which we’re happy to get half when all is said and done.
I guess it’s still the journey for us, and if that means we’re 93 when we finally finish the MN DeLorme, so be it. We seem to keep going back to certain places, whether we “need” those pages or not….North Shore, the Cannon River valley, the St. Croix/Interstate area. We’ve had some significant life changes we weren’t expecting that have really affected our ability to do many multi-day trips, but even before that….I guess we just don’t have the “itch” to complete, LOL.
Guess I’ve just never hit that sidebar button by accident until this morning, LOL
Maybe this works….
It does not work. Must be a rotating thing…anyway, keep hitting the button and you might see Mr. Team Black Cat and CryptoKat and GeoKatzen singing the praises of the frog.
You just have to wonder sometimes, don’t you? I did see a thread on the groundspeak forums on this very subject, so it’s not just here. Wonder why in the world anyone would take those last two containers, shrek? Not that it makes the ammo can okay. It’s theft, no matter what they take. Sad.
Congratulations to you….not an easy task with little ones along, but having cached with you, we know they keep up pretty well and haven’t slowed you down!
Congratulations, that is a most excellent choice. A cache that gets far too few visits.
Ralph, Seriously? Though not our favorite kind of cache, they are very popular and in this miserable heat we’ve had this summer, probably a godsend for many who want to get out, explore a country road and get a mess of smileys.
Now that I think of it, we think a gold ammo can in an area that isn’t easy to reach, or visited by many, might have gone missing, too. I think Huffin Puffin tried to find it for lonely points this past year. Kind of makes us sad, since we had a little bit of a vested interest in it. Honestly, you practically needed an oxygen tank up there. Go figure.
I’m sorry to hear that….we learned when buying an ammo can from a small army surplus shop that the price has gone up quite a bit on them because of demand for stockpiling. That’s the story we were told, anyway, and why we got the can much cheaper when he heard what we wanted to do with it. He also had a limit on how many you could buy. So I suppose it’s possible that someone who wants them finds them and helps themselves. We did have one go a few years back, a silver ammo can for someone’s 1000th find. It was fairly far off trail up a bit of a steep hill, well inside a huge beacon. Not an area of heavy use compared to some around here.
It’s a shame that there are people out there who seem to have little regard for the concept of personal property. Major bummer.
Any we’ve placed we’ve already met, but I think the guideline is something along the lines of “must show that they could reasonably qualify.”
07/27/2012 at 12:24 pm in reply to: Change in Cache Placement guidelines for 1 star terrain #1962792I remember that video that was going around a few months ago, that showed quite clearly that there’s more to wheelchair accessible than flat pavement. The cache in question was actually at a decent height, but on the back side of a deep rail, so pretty much impossible for the guy in the wheelchair to retrieve from his seated position.
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