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Who you callin’ hillbillys, anyhows? Just cause Trekkin’ can play “Dueling Banjos” don’t make us no hillbillys! LOL
Join us or Timberline Echoes in those wild lands no one has claimed (because they can’t even see them on the map and therefore don’t know they exist!). Form an alliance with us!
Congratulations! You mean there’s caches up there? 😉 Oh yeah, a lot of our favorites are north even of highway 8 or *gasp* highway 77!
12/08/2008 at 1:09 am in reply to: Rsplash40 Off the drag strip, now drives slow, turns Left!!! #1898767Congratulations, Mike! Great to see you’re able to hit the caching trail in force again!
“Trash Talk This Cache,” Ralph, but you already did that! When you coming down for the challenge? If it works out, I’ll make cookies again. These are already history. I also hope to head to that area and get another cache in there on Wednesday this week, weather permitting.
Dear Santa,
I’ve been a pretty good girl this year. There is the matter of that embarrassing 1/1 DNF a few weeks back, but other than that, I’ve looked hard on all our adventures, and even found one nasty one without ANY help from Trekkin’ (though a few others gave me nudges).
So, all I want for Christmas is someone to travel with me to Hawaii so I can cache and get that same kayaking EC Da Fu is getting. Add to that a jillion new life birds. Trekkin’ won’t take a plane! LOL I might even have a non-caching friend convinced, who knows?
Your friend, Birdin’
A reunion? It HAS to be better on January 1 than it was on September 23, right? You might be able to *see* the entry and exit points now! And no evil swampgrass to wrap around our waders and try to pull us into the mire, cause…..the mire is frozen!
We were there three times for that same cache, gr, and each time, the city of Appleton had altered the location. Surely one of the most aggravating experiences, LOL, and no fault of s|s (unless he has some sort of insider connection with the city works department!)
We’ve found 34 that we could log, plus others not in the database. In fact, we had adopted a Lil ‘Otter cache in BRF, saw a number of DNFs, went to check on it and whaddya know? A benchmark was placed where the cache had once been!
We haven’t gone seeking them for their own sake, but find it interesting the things that might be listed as benchmarks, like fire towers, church spires and that goofy ear of corn water tower in Rochester. For the reasons Anne stated, it makes sense to create a separate forum for this. There are probably as many who hunt benchmarks as those who do Earthcaches.
Congrats to you!
Congratulations, good to see you get to play, too!
So which cache was the milestone?
I think benchmarking has its own forum on groundspeak. It certainly seems to generate interest in Wisconsin, why not a forum for it here?
I like the idea of overall points for the year, or a quarter or whatever, even better. We all have times when it’s easier to pursue this kind of thing.
In a perfect world, people would do this just for the sheer fun of it, but we know as human beings, some sort of incentive is needed to get it to happen. The key is what incentive will motivate the greatest number of people in various areas.
We’re not sure how much we’ll play next year, either. As I said, once I got past that first month or two, it became a matter of finding lonelies in the course of our normal hunting. In November I got bored one day, didn’t have anything close to home and checked on a bunch of previously found ones, but that’s about as much effort as was intentionally placed on the game since early last spring.
BTW, if anyone is interested….I can tell you how to get to a lonely 5 terrain pointer that hasn’t been found in over a year….without a boat. I’ve now done that one both ways! You do have to be willing to hike a good 3-4 miles one way, but not bad hiking, all level ground.
As one who was crazed the first month or two, then switched to “oh, so this was a lonely cache, cool” as we did our usual thing (we enjoy tougher terrain and did lots of canoe caches, which got us “coincidental points), I’m wondering about a different twist. I’m sure it won’t be popular with those who worked their butts off all year, but it might motivate others to get out and play a little harder, which will ultimately lead to greater participation and attention to the ones that are really lacking visits.
Let’s say that each month, some predetermined number of points puts you into the “bragging rights” pot. Prizes are nice, but honestly, it seemed to be more about bragging rights. So, a person finds or checks on X number of lonely caches. Their name gets thrown into the hat for that month for the prize. Maybe we don’t even know what that number is, only some anonymous board member or someone like that. I know this is just like the kids in t-ball; no score is kept, but the kids know exactly who won. But at least this way, others who have given it a good shot have a chance at some level of bragging rights. It was fun at first, and I especially enjoyed those “wow, this hasn’t been found in a YEAR?” caches, but unless our travels took us to the hinterlands (which is our preference), we weren’t getting to those areas with concentrations of lonelies to be checked.
Another part of me would like to see some way to recognize people’s efforts to help with cache maintenance, whether it’s lonely or not. Lots of replacement pencils and logs go into the lonelies, but not into others found that need the TLC? I guess the point I’m trying to make is that maybe we don’t need to burden Dave with keeping track like this on top of everything else he does, but create a way to encourage everyone to help out where they can, bragging rights, prizes or not. There were instances where I could have gained a few more points by putting out a replacement cache, but the owners seemed to have left the game, so why do that? Sometimes I think in our excitement to get points, it was easy to put out replacements when really, archiving might have been the better option. After I did a couple like that early on, I gave it more thought and opted not to replace unless I’d already contacted the cache owner.
As I said, these are just my thoughts as someone who “coulda been a contenda,” but just didn’t have it in me. I really want to commend Dave for setting this all up and making it pretty easy for players to track things, and for putting up with all the questions and other stuff that went along with it. In the end, it has helped improve the Wisconsin caching experience, even if there are places that still need help.
Hey congratulations Justin! Yes, what’s next?
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