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Oh sheesh, that’s almost like throwing down the gauntlet for Trekkin’! But I promised if we go over there, numbers only next trip. We laugh, cause our friends go there for numbers, and we have very few check marks next to any of their finds. We go there for, well, puzzles!
Other than that epic bike run to the Bugline and Glacial Drumlin, we have not been doing any numbers at all. 15-25 caches on an outing. If even that. It’s been kind of refreshing!
Pete, Do I even want to know? Dare I look?
I’ve been sitting here happily making bookmark lists and solving puzzles for my trip to Newfoundland in a few weeks. Don’t drag me into that stuff! LOL
(But it’s hard to pass one up, isn’t it! )
It is indeed! LOL And there’s no way I’d ever find too many caches problematic, I just find it to be an interesting trend of late.
There’s one ON a water tower? Where? Trekkin’ has developed a bizarre fixation on those things lately, this would be right up his alley!
I just did it. Here’s the link…
http://www.geocaching.com/bookmarks/view.aspx?guid=c083a980-f4ee-4105-8fcf-2d3c9244db65
I did discover in the process that someone else has also done this, but more for challenge completion purposes. While people can certainly help narrow their choices as they travel to meet a challenge cache, our thinking is more to showcase what’s remaining of geocaching’s original intent….hikes into areas of natural beauty with a box at the end, and probably a view to go with it.
Hope this helps a few. Minnesota and Illinois have the closest 2000 year caches. Iowa and Wisconsin don’t have any left. There are a couple caches out there dated well in advance of geocaching or probably even satellites….one in 1963 in Ca and one in 1942 in New Jersey. They are actually recently published caches that have time travel type themes!
There are precious few caches remaining that were placed in August 2000. Interesting trivia, I think I’ve been hanging around with TBC too much! 😈
I think only premium members can view the list. Not my choice, but groundspeak’s.
Congratulations Rick….I solved that one some time back but do you think I wrote it in my book? No! Back to the maps!
Fun choice for a fun milestone!
Congratulations Bill and Vicki! What a fun photo of what I’m sure is a great memory for all of you.
I seem to remember a post some time back about getting to 2000 and then not going so much, because 2000 would be a big accomplishment…..hmmmmm! Again….congrats!
p.s. That’s the ONLY reason Trekkin’ looks for the FTF?!
Jim, Honestly, that truly is the only reason for him. He likes giving Ralph a bit of a run at times, too! But yes, it’s the reason. He really does not care if he is there later, figuring he’d go looking anyway, and really in the big scheme of life, does anyone really care about how many FTFs you have? LOL
CJ, I agree that the icon only means “available in winter,” but around here it gets interpreted by many as ‘winter friendly.’ We have found caches on a trail when the hint says “crotch of tree” and will put it in the crotch closest to the coordinates and email the owner as well. This was simply putting something hidden one way in a completely different kind of hide. Hopefully it will be there when we go to fix it. Part of the reason it was hidden as it was is the activity level on the trail and wanting it to be, well, hidden.
He he Pete, I thought you were referencing this corner of the state, which as far as I know, has not received any designation like other areas, such as Sandland, Selzzup or the rest.
I guess there are some areas in Australia with snowfall, but in spite of visiting there during their winter, I didn’t experience anything worse than some raw winds in the highlands inland. And I’ll take what passes for “winter” in Queensland any day. Body surfing, playing frisbee in shorts, snorkeling the Barrier Reef….yeah.
Pete, We do get snow. Lots! There is a strong opinion among some around that all caches should be winter friendly and that gets stated in their logs.
Heck, we managed to find one of your not at all winter friendly Wild Side caches under a pile of snow last winter. I used to filter PQs for the snowflake attribute when we were winter caching, but last year, stopped doing that. If we wanted it bad enough, we’d dig!
I tried looking, too. Wonder if it’s a matter of logging out and then back in?
That’s cool. I know people who skip puzzles altogether, unless we point out to them that they can be solved on site.
Congratulations to you guys!
06/30/2010 at 1:36 pm in reply to: #700 WI Hibiscus Snags a ‘Walter’ at Flat Jack Goes Fishing #1931129Congratulations on another milestone!
Congratulations on the double K!
Congratulations, and we’re honored you chose an EarthCache of ours to do your icon milestone thing. Glad there was a cold shower awaiting after all that hiking!
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