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I think bnb is probably correct. Escaped domestics, perhaps.
05/30/2008 at 10:35 pm in reply to: Geocaching shouldn’t have to cause more fuel consumption #1889818Overall, I’d echo the comments Ralph has already made about our reasons for enjoying this sport. It *does* gnaw at my green little bleeding heart that we use petroleum to pursue the game, but like Ralph, we do this for the joy of discovering new places and enjoying new experiences, while spending time together. I think that in spite of our other interests that bring us nature fixes, we can honestly say that we’d never have discovered some of the caves we’ve explored. Or snowshoed 5 miles through frozen swampland to get to the source of the Eagle River. I think folks who know us would not mistake either of us for overweight, out of shape people who drive around looking for numbers. I guess I can say that running long distance in our younger days has still paid off, because there are a few reading these forums, younger than us, who’ve commented on trying to keep up with us! There are plenty of activities which might be seen by non-participants as a bunch of out of shape folks driving around. My feeling is that everyone has their own reasons for playing the game, they play it at different levels and for the most part, that fact should be celebrated.
We do get our nature fixes all the time without going far. I’m an avid birder, for instance, and 99% of my life list, which is over 200 birds, was sighted in LaCrosse County.
I am not necessarily speaking for Trekkin’, but we do struggle with the gas consumption issue, as I mentioned in another thread here. Biking to caches in our area would be a limited option. We do bike when we can, but we aren’t hill bikers anymore, and this is most definitely hill country.
There are other things we can choose to do to try and offset our gas consumption. One example is the way we choose to eat, at least during the growing season. Eating organic foods raised locally by our CSA reduces a HUGE load of fuel usage, fuel that isn’t consumed directly by us, but by the trucks hauling out of season food from California, the petrochemicals placed on fields to raise those vegetables conventionally, and even our travel to get the food—four blocks down the street, June through October.
That’s just one example, and I’d love to hear what others are doing to reduce gasoline consumption indirectly, so that the driving we do isn’t such a load. Don’t even get me started on the topic of how life has become so auto-centered that it’s almost impossible, at least around here, to live any other way! Americans love their cars, and unless we get hit over the head and embrace living more as they have in Europe, or even some of our larger cities, for instance, I don’t see that aspect changing, in spite of the gas prices.
Congratulations to you on Noah’s arrival! I know we’ve all been eagerly awaiting this little bunny’s arrival. Post a photo when you can!
And sleep when you can. Even if it means no caching….!
As it is, we are strongly considering renting bikes in Mackinac instead of bringing our own. The cost may very well offset what it would have cost to run the bigger vehicle needed to haul them.
Maybe this will be our summer to do a lot more paddling the local waters instead of caching. That would be okay, too. Someone suggested recently we’d go insane if caching ceased to exist. Sad, yes. But there are so many other ways to enjoy the outdoors for far less travel!
We were just talking last night about the spiraling costs and the future of our own geocaching. We have a couple trips already planned, but after that, we think our days of big caching runs are over. 🙁 We just cannot afford it any longer on our salaries. We’ll get local ones as they appear and then find caches when we have occasion to be on our way to other places.
Thank goodness we have other interests, or this would be much sadder than it already is!
Hey Greg, congratulations on reaching a major milestone!
Kevin, Does a person spray the nests with the soap to help eradicate them? Also, isn’t there another more harmless moth that makes similar nests, or am I just misinformed?
We had also said, “Nope, never gonna do anything like that,” but popped our stats in and were surprised at how many pages we already had…especially since we’re in a tri-state region and cache thusly. From that point, we started looking at ways to get pages while traveling for other reasons and probably filled 2/3 to 3/4 of the pages before we had to start making “creative” routes and plain out runs. But really, we’ve done maybe 2 trips so far strictly to get DeLorme pages. We have three left and will complete those when we go to our niece’s graduation party in DePere in a couple weeks.
We’re glad we did it when we did, because gas prices are getting scarier now, but we have seen so many interesting things and visited parts of Wisconsin we’d never have found otherwise. These days, I can watch the news or read the State Journal and when they talk about some place like Dugway Road or Jump River, we can say, “Yup. We found a cache there!”
Good luck in your travels. Every person who does this has different stories to tell. We did a goodly number of hardcore caches, trying to get as many in a chosen area as we can, to reach this goal, cause we enjoy that the most. But we’ll admit to the occasional, “Yup, that gets us page 30″ ones, too.”
We can’t WAIT to get up to the Penokee Range and do Passing Wind’s “St. Peters Dome” cache. Darn work! It’s going to get in the way awhile longer!
Anne, hope your new one pops up before we do our final DeLorme run over that way, too!
We were just discussing if we wanted to give this a go this summer. Maybe! Earthcaches are always a good thing, too. 😀
Congratulations, we heard through the grapevine it was a testy little multi, too!
The bears around here are likely plural. I missed out, the sighting in Hixon was during my Audubon Club’s last warbler walk! Dang! I wanted to go, but am trying to make sure no senior skip nonsense goes on at our house before graduation, so I’m not leaving early these school days. Darn! The figured it to be around 250 pounds.
The other bear was seen in West Salem, where we live…right in town. Probably a good 8 miles over at least two ridges between the two sightings.
05/14/2008 at 12:01 pm in reply to: Anyone care to join a group hunt for The Artful Dodger? #1888925Ralph, We’d like to join you, we plan to do all the permanent caches in the park, anyway. We should be there by then! Looking forward to it!
Got a new one up now, just across the border in Iowa. Not far from Decorah.
Flash! Malanaphy Falls for Geology! The GC number is:
GC1C7AZEnjoy! I’ll bet it’s absolutely breathtaking with wildflowers right now. They were just beginning to poke up when we were there a few weeks back.
Well, in spite of zuma’s great log, snakes are still not a major concern when caching around here. We’ve climbed and poked into all kinds of rocky spots, and haven’t seen one. Heard one once near Genoa, but never saw it. We do follow zuma’s advice to use a long poking stick, however.
Timber Rattlers are basically very shy, and unless startled, are likely to slither away from you.
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