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We need three dry days that are warmer to finish the fence spraying job. I am not hopeful that will happen before next spring. We have big flakes coming down here, but not sticking.
Bennycams, thanks for your thoughtful explanation from the point of view of “newer” cacher. And also thanks for clearing things up with the idea of premium memberships with hardly any finds. We only recently got a smartphone and that app, and being premium members already, aren’t saddled with the restrictions it can have otherwise. For the record….we still prefer our good old handhelds for seeking and placing. Dinosaurs, we are!
I remember attending a CITO but the locations we went to really weren’t that bad. I could see some people feeling that that may have been a waste of time.
I hear you on this one, though any chance to help improve an area while visiting with friends along the way isn’t a waste in my mind. One of the most satisfying CITOs we attended was in Iowa, where we gathered to clean out a state hunting area filled with dumped trash. An orange refrigerator, an oven, several TVs, lots of tires. The organizers had made arrangements with the county to waive the collection fees and there were enough people with trucks and trailers to haul the stuff out. That does take a significant amount of planning. I know seldom|seen has done similar clean ups at High Cliff.
We’ve also done CITOs where the “trash” removed were invasive buckthorn and scrub oak and it made a big difference. I have tried a few times to arrange something with a local landowner of public land but they haven’t been real great at follow-up so it can actually happen.
I could even see a CITO where people go through an area with a lot of “dead” caches and removed the geotrash. I agree with Debby that those of us who enjoy such events don’t worry about getting a souvenir. I think these events have fallen off the rest of the year because of the awarding of souvenirs during those couple weeks each year.
Oh, I completely understand that the souvenirs are not governed by the WGA. This was more an observation I’ve made and wondered if anyone else had noticed this as well. I know the highway clean-up that was sponsored by the WGA was eventually dropped due to minimal participation. We had the same issue with our local Audubon highway section. I think the idea of gathering along a highway isn’t real appealing to most folks.
As far as getting a souvenir Debby…that’s all up to groundspeak. I did read an interesting thread on their forums about the current souvenir promotion. People were complaining that they’re “too easy” and stuff like that. One of the Lackeys came on and commented that while most who post in those forums are already fairly engaged, the average premium member finds about 90 caches a year. So their agenda with these kind of promotions is to get more engagement. Cheapskate that I am, I was simply surprised that people will shell out thirty bucks a year to find less than 100 caches. 😉
Jim raises an excellent point. I’ve been involved in a different type of group where the inclusion of kids under 18 was welcome, but it did create a need for some additional guidelines…including one like this.
I know, but I don’t feel like I’m old enough to be at this one. Go figure.
It’s official….I’m on medicare as of today. The Brewers won, so I don’t feel so worn out and old, anyway!
Yearly physical. Next week it’s Medicare. :O
John, Our ammo cans….I think it’s at least six at last count…have mostly gone missing from the forest where we have our Classics (stolen ammo can) cache and the Well Rounded…still an ammo can, thankfully. Long hikes in relatively remote areas. There is some hunting in there, but until about the past year or two, they’ve left them all alone. If they are properly replaced, and we’ve found they usually are, hunters probably won’t find them. Trekkin’ has helped place anything in areas like that, as he is a hunter and would know what they might do that could reveal them.
So the theft of all of ours has been…curious, at best. There is more to the “missing or damaged ammo can” story, but I won’t share that here. We have a pile of them yet to hide, but after what we’ve experienced, we probably won’t bother to hide any of them. It’s not fun anymore, and just like when we’re searching, once it’s not fun….stop.
I think bennycams makes some great points about providing more “required” education to anyone who signs up. My mom, who has been caching with me before, came with me just last week to do the virtual cache in the historic Stillwater Courthouse. She is….94. She figured she’s lived most of that history, so why not? LOL
We had a very enjoyable time on the river. Trekkin’ plays banjo and knows all the jokes and memes about death by banjo. Different style of picking than he does, but still enjoyable.
Good late morning! My mom came home with me, her first overnight trip away from her home in several years. We’re taking her on the banjo cruise on the LaCrosse Queen later today. No worries about torture; she can pull her hearing aid and enjoy the scenery! 😛 I know she’s also looking forward to visiting our kids and seeing their homes. We figure she’s pretty much been tied to home for five or more years now, so a lot has changed around here since her last visit.
Huh, my earlier post seems to not be here. Maybe I didn’t hit the right button, but I thought I did. Oh well!
Happy Anniversary Jim and Betty! Special plans?
We were on our way home from a few days in Door County. I saw JimandLinda were probably at a birthday party. Others?
Guess if a person wants a campsite in a Dark Sky park the weekend of a new moon, that should have been done awhile back. We’ll survive. 😉
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