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I will also say that whatever else can be said about KB, he does usually respond, as zuma said. Which is kind of amazing. He also allowed me to remotely log a Diabetes tag for Columbia Heights, where he lives and where I grew up (and where my diabetic dad still lives), which was nice. I think we’ve always found any of the ones of his we’ve hunted, too, so no complaints about that!

We have slowed down on placing more, and hope to concentrate most of any future efforts to a couple favorite forest areas. I know “cache saturation” is frowned upon, but it makes it much easier to do good maintenance if we can go to an area, walk the trails and take care of business in one trip. Kind of the same as “park once, hit three” when out caching.

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The cache owner has added comments after reading Trekkin’s log and thanked us. These are creative and enthusiastic newer cachers in our area, so of course we want them to keep hiding.

I think, like Brian said, sometimes when we’re new, we just don’t know differently. It does help to visit these forums, go to events and meet other cachers to help gain perspective. Our biggest concern is always playing so as not to give the game a bad name to the rest of the world.

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marc, that’s been our experience, too, the easy part, I mean. I think if a person wants it to be challenging, you can make it a puzzle or multi that encourages seekers to visit interesting markers to gather information. That also slows folks down and allows them to appreciate the history in these spots, not just the smileys.

Did you do the one on the way to Fort Wayne with the half boulder markers? We had to find nine of those to fill in the coordinates. These were recent markers, the likes of which none of us had ever seen before or since.

P.S. We spotted a cemetery in our area with a Petrified Tree stone. We’ll be looking more closely at that one, hint hint!

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Thanks everyone, it was fun to mark that milestone with the final for a zuma challenge on our side of the state.

Trekkin’ is on his way home from West Bend and it sounds like we’ve already hit the next number after his shenanigans there. It’s a bit scary, thank goodness school starts pretty soon! LOL

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Thanks, Dean, you cannot believe how much editing gc.com made me do with that log before I could post it, LOL. It’s really a nice trail to find that one, both the final and all those that lead to it. A great milestone in many ways!

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cheeto, I like your thinking! This is a big pet peeve of ours, too. No shame in missing some.

Well, maybe some, but still….LOL.

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We suck. Couldn’t even find the first stage, in spite of almost an hour and a half of hard searching. I wonder how many people haven’t logged their DNFs for it. So tomorrow we’re off to find our alternative choice.

Which should be fun. Cause we know we can find it. Cause we’ve found lots of them hidden by this guy!

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Don’t think we can log that one, Doc.! LOL

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shrek and fiona, that’s a great way to mark that milestone for sure. Can’t get Trekkin’ on anything airborne, doggone it.

When is your trip? Do you have a certain cache picked out for that one?

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Am I dreaming? Where did it go?????? I know you’d posted something else! This sport is getting to me!

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We noticed that also, congratulations Mr. Five Digits.

A trip to Geobash is certainly good for numbers, isn’t it? I’m so sick of logging!

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We only need to get the final for that one, Dean. You can still give Trekkin’ a hard one in Ouzakee County, but we want to get this one together, before we have to go our separate ways over the weekend on Friday.

I think we found something, though it’s in Minnesota. It’s a toughie, been out since the end of July without a finder yet (highly motivating for Trekkin’!) and there are letterboxes in the area, too. It is in an area where we haven’t cached before, so we don’t know the hiding patterns there. Our backup is to get the 12 pack final on Thursday otherwise. Which, we’ll probably get it anyway then, if we’re not totally ready to park the car.

For the record, I’m getting really tired of driving all over at this point. We need to do more hiking and less driving! LOL

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Yeah, but out of our range after all that driving right now. Maybe for 3000! LOL

Hey wait, you don’t have many puzzles that take long wilderness hikes. We still like your puzzles, marc.

Did I just say that? 😯

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We’ve done a number of their caches and enjoyed each one. Trekkin’ did one he really enjoyed somewhere over near Oshkosh, titled something like “A Trip Around the Block,” which was a four stage multi that was indeed a trip around a block.

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also, some first-to-find hounds. Hang out at a new cache and you may meet them (if you get there in time).

Ruth, Not I. 🙄 That would be Trekkin’, and he claims he’s “mostly reformed” now.

Personally, I think that’s just the Lyme disease talking there. But he did let 14 of them slip by the other day, just so another FTF hound could have some fun! Not naming names or anything, but I think it was zuma!

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