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Look at poor ND! The whole darn state has as many caches as my somewhat cache poor 50 mile radius.
Not sure what to make of DC. Though that could be said about DC on many levels. 🙄
We were wondering about logging those we adopted from her, too. The actual caches are ones we’d already done, but we took on a few of the virtuals, too, and hadn’t done those. I mean, do we email ourselves the correct answer? 😯 In the case of one of them, I guess it’s the ONLY cache in Menominee County, so if we ever chase that goal, can we even achieve it?
I guess that’s one we’ll worry over if we actually need to, though.
Frizz, If there were a Cacher of the Month award, Keith certainly sounds like someone who should receive it. It’s always heartening to find friends who will help you through the hard times, just because they want to.
A big high five to Keith!
Nope, that one isn’t too far from us, either, but the one I’m thinking of is the Wexford Catholic Church on the Great River Road between Lansing and Harpers Ferry. It truly is the kind of “I’d never have come here if not for gc” kind of place.
marc, we saw that. It looks really good, and we haven’t completely ruled that event out. Heck, we could probably snag a couple more pages on the way! But…..is that the toy we need? LOL
Yes, that’s one of Trekkin’s old co-workers and fishing buddies. We’ve communicated and I think he’s realizing that new published caches will be helpful, so he’s been doing this himself. Yeah, wheels!
I noticed the stats links on the grand poobah thing are different now, too. Oh well. Progress!
Actually in this case, it seems to be several former co-workers of Trekkin’. None of whom has more than 50 finds. We never have gotten any respect from people, and never will. (Well, except the storytelling world. I’m a president in that world!) I know they have great intentions, and not everyone is as nuts as those of us who post here, but you know? Those of us who post here are the ones who’d actually travel to another city to do an event that’s listed. And spend money while there.
I know they might have had trouble listing the event itself on gc.com, but permanent caches can be listed. It’s too bad. We’re sticking with whittling down the less than three dozen listed caches in our 50 miles, thank you!
We’ve got that, I was just looking at it to get ideas for this series we’re doing tomorrow. What I liked about that map on the links was being able to zoom in on an area where we’d be traveling and get an idea and some names of caches to look up. For whatever reason, using the PQ route thing isn’t working as well as this has for me.
Remember, though, we’re still Dark Ages cachers, hand-entering everything! 😯
Doug, I know one of the folks on the board of this hosting organization is a very occasional geocacher. Unless he’s changed his caching name, which is very possible, he only shows 3 finds. Trekkin’ knows him because they went to junior college together in the U.P. and have crossed paths occasionally here for work-related reasons. Another of the guys involved is an old friend, who is also very occasional and refers to us as “fanatics.” I told him we’re just guppies compared to the sharks here! No DeLorme, not even 1000 finds, none of those glory finds, LOL.
I know that the article in the Tribune that introduced this talked about how much the Chippewa Valley event brought into the Eau Claire area. That’s because of all the new permanent caches that were placed in advance of that event. I never like to discourage someone’s enthusiasm for outdoors recreation, but I’m feeling as if they really missed the boat. If they’d put out a bunch of new ones, we all know those of us who are slightly “off” would be down here searching, eating, perhaps renting motel rooms and buying gas. As it is, maybe some interested locals will be enticed to play based on the prizes. Personally, we’re just going to keep heading to new places to hunt for caches that are listed. I’ll be curious to see how many new players emerge as a result of this promotion. They don’t even need to come onto gc.com to get the coords for those hides, so they aren’t getting the full picture (unless they covered that at that kick off event a few weeks back).
Maybe I’m wrong. It’s been known to happen.
Wow, no wonder I was striking out. Some of these were placed within the last year, so cemetery hides must be okay. I stopped at this church last Friday on my way to check out the Peregrine nest site near Harpers Ferry and spotted a couple little quick waysides, plus this really neat spot, that begged for caches. There are very few in this corner of Iowa.
Originally I’d wanted to do an earthcache where the falcons are nesting, but it’s too close to the tracks and the location itself isn’t all that exciting. I’m going to rethink that one, but I would like to put a couple others out, since no one else seems to be covering this corner of Iowa.
We haven’t met yet, but I’m sorry to hear you’re facing this. We’ll keep you in our thoughts for a successful outcome and hope you’ll be back in the game as soon as possible.
I’ve seen those maps show up at least twice on gc.com, only to vanish shortly after appearing. It seems like they are struggling with the buggy stuff. There are things I like about them, others I don’t. I’d like to see it pan out beyond 15 miles, for one.
I emailed someone who is helping to organize this event and suggested the caches should be listed on gc.com. Not sure why they have chosen not to do so. Too bad.
Thanks, we’ve had fun with this. I’m not sure either of the Calvetti brothers will honor that motivator, anyway. I don’t think you guys have anything to worry about, TE!
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