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No grandfathering? That seems harsh. We’ve enjoyed doing Marc’s WSQ900 series and continue to look for photos for these. Where will they draw the line between a “challenge” (like well rounded cacher) and the kind of ALR they want to end, like tell what your favorite superhero is? ?
I might be inclined to drop the well rounded if that’s the case. It dilutes the value for those who log it as intended. Oh well.
Say it ain’t so! I know Sunday is supposed to be cruddy, but not THAT cruddy! Yuck!
Hey congratulations! Glad to have enjoyed a few of those with you this past winter.
We were coming home from the Baraboo Dells area last Saturday, and though we know the way, we wanted to see what “Mom” (the nuvi) would tell us is our shortest route. She put us on the Sparta Elroy Trail! And the directions knew it was a bike trail, not a road! LOL
There’s something to be said for maps and common sense. I’d hate to lose my directional senses by relying on these things too much. Did anyone see the episode of ER a few weeks ago where they had a couple come in because they listened to their GPS and drove into Lake Michigan?
Congratulations, that grand is not far away!
We’ve enjoyed a few challenge caches for some of the reasons LB mentions; they give us a direction to look when designing our adventures. We’ll grab the numbers along the way, but looking for the interesting, challenging or just plain awe-inspiring are the things that keep our GPSr units in batteries.
We admit to owning two of the challenge caches out there, and will be placing one more, which should be easily attainable, if one chooses their caching location well. I also agree that there can just be too many, challenges for the sake of having challenges. I’m sure they motivate some out there, but the ones to which we’ve gravitated are those that promise the journey, not the numbers (although this practice of grabbing those numbers along the journey does get results, LOL).
I’m sure each of us has our own little private challenges, too. In general, ours have to do with seeing the coolest spots, possibly the remotest, and seeing how far we can push our senior citizen selves to get to and/or retrieve some of them. If it involves a canoe or kayak in a river, we’re on it.
Congratulations! Trekkin’ enjoyed many of your caches while visiting a friend in Milton a week or so ago.
Thanks y’all, we’ve been having lots of fun. And yes…..Trekkin’ found two ticks yesterday. Ugh. He does NOT want to make the world record book for most cases of Lyme!
Congratulations! That’s one Trekkin’ did without me, looks like a great choice!
If you meant amita’s dilemma……not sure on that one!
Marc, the gc number is in the OP. We got it, btw. I was just impatient, while Trekkin’ was on the trail of a solve working at the other computer downstairs!
Yeah, you’re right about the difficulty. Once Trekkin’ got it, it was just busy work. There will be a payback cache of some sort placed soon, now that we get how this stuff works!
It was actually somewhat embarrassing where he found the information he needed to come up with this one. But to save our psyches, we aren’t telling, LOL.
Nothing yet, Michael, but I told emailed him again and told him Trekkin’ has figured it out. He’s going through the decoding process, but his first efforts were making sense, so I think he’s got it!
Glad one of our left brains was working today. He cracked the code, then wanted me to do the dirty work. Told him, nope, you get the pleasure for a change, LOL.
Just a note to all Coulee Region cachers. The only hints we’ll share are those that were suggested here, which Trekkin’ figured out.
Course, we have to finish and then try and find it, so we’re not celebrating yet. It’s happened before that I’ve solved something, it made sense, but it didn’t check out. This one is such that geochecker wouldn’t work to confirm our solve, either. We’ll have to head out with blind faith here.
Trekkin’ has figured that part out. I gave up and decided to let him tackle this one. I’ve solved all but two of our puzzle solves thus far. He can take a turn, LOL.
We can’t seem to find how to match these groupings into anything meaningful, though. Seems like everything is based on 8s and such. He figures the first word is four letters, and the middle two are the same letter. So he’s made better strides than I!
All it says is BIN fives.
I almost think this one could be a 5 difficulty, cause it seems like it requires special knowledge to understand. If I knew how to discern where the numbers break, I’d be happy to sit and hand decrypt it. Not that different than S4, and I managed that!
Anything I google to try and gain some insight seems to require a basic knowledge of coding. I don’t know if I’m converting to ACSII, hexidecimal or what! I’ve tried them all.
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