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I am thankful for…..
My family, especially that Trekkin’ and I are as old as we are and all our parents are still around and kicking.
A job that keeps me feeling young.
Stories and all they have done for me.
The great outdoors and all it offers us to enjoy if we treat it well; the birds and animals, the landforms and waters….and of course the chance to enjoy it while seeking boxes of junk in the woods! 😉
And although my faith and religion have severely tested me of late, the hope it still brings me.
Our silver came yesterday, too. I have been waiting….and waiting….and waiting…for a permission for our next earthcache. Once that’s done, we have road trips in mind for both Illinois and Iowa!
Sounds like they might have a day to sit and send them all out now, since we all got pins the same day! Congrats all around!
Sorry you didn’t get to the magic number yet, but it sounds like you had a good weekend anyway. My dad grew up in Duluth and I spent a lot of time there with relatives growing up. It would be fun to go caching up there. Last few times we were that way I was either chasing Arctic owls or mushing dogs!
Now *there’s* an interesting concept for a 5 star cache–a dogsled cache? I’d love that (if I had my own team, that is, which we don’t).
11/20/2007 at 8:13 pm in reply to: If you’ve done Felsenmeer Ridge…..or other milestone ideas #1881330Well, maybe then I should wait until fall, though I was thinking of combining an early spring trip to the Sharp-Tailed blinds with the cache series.
That Felsenmeer cache and the other two really sound like they might fit the bill. The pipestone aspect is quite interesting especially to Trekkin’ as a historical re-enactor/researcher of the fur trade era in the Great Lakes.
zuma mentioned it even had x-c ski trails, although I’m not sure I want snow coming as quickly as I think our milestone might! We’ll definitely get in touch when we do Crex, though.
Yeah, other than lagrac’s memorable 1800th find, this was no doubt the highlight of our whole day.
Even trumped visiting a cache in honor of Oelwein’s most famous hometown boy–Mr. Chrysler himself!
So…..did ya find it? Trekkin’ is only 1/10th as worthy as zuma, maybe I should change our title to “zuma wannabe!”
We’re all waiting for the full story here!
Yowza, I need Trekkin’ to see this! I’m glad you are alright…and hope you’d found most of the caches you were seeking that day. 😉
Oh shoot, we should have marked it, but it’s just a few blocks east of a cache called “Pat’s Pond” in Waterloo. We actually drove back from that cache just to immortalize this site properly!
We all have our own take on these things. We’re more like Team Deejay, bring on the 4+ terrain first. We love a cache that takes us to a place with some kind of uniqueness; a great view on top of the bluff, an interesting historical spot, long and challenging treks to get to the cache. As to difficulty, we like a challenge, but not so hard that it takes us hours or repeat trips. Gas isn’t cheap these days! 😉 That said, a truly unique hide is okay by us. Those bolt ones are pretty cool and especially tough when a cacher encounters one for the first time. We’ve done plenty of 4+ difficulty caches, too. Just don’t make them so impossible that frustrated cachers start wrecking the area in desperation. We’ve seen our share of that and this is just our opinion, but when that happens, it reflects poorly on the caching community as a whole.
We really enjoyed those Heritage series that you placed, for instance. Figuring out the hides or the puzzle was challenging and we learned some things about the area we live that we hadn’t known before.
I know there are Coulee Region cachers who are reading your post and thinking, “Oh no!” But plant away…we’ll curse and rant but we’ve found every one of them in the end! 😆
Waaay to go! Congratulations!
I’m relieved, actually! I enjoyed my first quest this past spring and summer, but I don’t think I could take setting my alarm to get up at weird hours to make arrests or whatever. It was hard enough at the end of the school year, much less now!
Gotta laugh at the “three days early” post!
Congratulations to a great caching team. Lately whenever we sign a log and see “bandits were here!” Dick has taken to saying “Where HAVEN’T they been?” [;)]
11/12/2007 at 2:22 am in reply to: Korpal pauses to think and gets pegged with 1800 pebbles #1881066Wow. Just wow! And to think we had a brush with such greatness last weekend in Winona!
Congratulations, Justin!
Not logging DNFs=my pet peeve! So many times, after we’ve logged a DNF, the cache owner has contacted us and said, “I checked, it’s gone, it’s been replaced.” So many times, we’ve looked really hard for one that should have been easier, talk to someone else about it and they say, “Oh, we never found that one, either.” Had the DNF been logged, maybe it would have saved later searchers some time.
We all play this game our own way. Ours is to log those nasty sad faces. Heck, between the two of us this weekend, we collected two of those nasty blue things!
Yeah, you’d have to have been there to get it. What the heck is going on with the listing, anyway? Trekkin’ saw it pop up last night, emailed me at school and by the time he checked again….it was gone.
BTW, I see Mr. lagrac has passed up the number 1700. Congrats!
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