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The deed is done. It was the Match Head. Because it was due to be archived for winter so I only had this weekend to try it. I will do every suggestion here though especially High Brass which got the most recommendations. I’ll plan on that over the next holiday weekend, weather permitting so I can give it the attention it deserves and enjoy it! Thank you every one and Happy Thanksgiving. _Lauren M.

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@rogheff wrote:

I like to do milestone caches that belong to a friend or WITH a friend. It makes them far more memorable!

BTW: You’d have to be mad to do Captain Klutz – but it’s not a Scout thing. and yes, you will get torn up.

I think you should head south of the border to “#$%^ Baldwin”. One of my all-time favorites, but then I’m partial to it.

@#&% Baldwin !! does sound interesting. Everyone seems to have enjoyed it except the folks who found the stick pile unatural. There should be a night course a person could take on “How to pile sticks in a Natural Fashion”. I’d pay good money for that! 😉 I find some natural stick piles fairly contrived looking.

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@Trudy & the beast wrote:

Your 100th find should be a cache that you want to do. You can make it more memorable by selecting the cache of someone you admire and respect; by finding it with a team of your caching friends or by making an event of it such as a family picnic.

If you are looking for scenery without bushwhacking, try “Mountaineering Illinois Style” (GC97C5). If a little bushwhacking is ok, try any of the caches in Bong.

No matter which cache you select, it is your occasion. Enjoy it. ~tb

Mountaineering sounds nice. I do like to take photos! Bong makes me nervous and I can’t forgive them for changing the sign. For years, that sign was one of the best tourist spots pretty much anywhere.

I mean, this just does not tell a fun little story:

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@tyedyeskyguy wrote:

Go to Racine and do Match Head before I have to disable it for winter! 😀

You know, I am going to try it before 12/1. I think I can make it out there but I don’t think I will try it for my 100th because if it is like I imagine on the big rocks used for breakwater, I looked for one of those for like TWO HOURS with a helper and the dog up in Manitowoc and never found it even with the hint. Afterwards I saw other people posting finds like it was nothing. I’m guessing the dog would not like it? He liked the rocks at the Manitowoc location once he was off the leash and free to jump around. I am guessing this one will take me more than one try since I have a huge defeatist attitude towards it before even starting. Maybe I will take a chalk to mark the places I’ve looked and grid it off and methodically cover it. If it’s what I imagine, I find the rocks really hard for some reason.

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Since you posted your no-find, there have been around 25 finds, including us. The coordinates for the first waypoint are not at the sign you need to reference, but are, instead, in the middle of the cemetery. (I think The key is to recognize the word “Established” in the cache description, as the object with the required information has either “established” or “est.” written on it. If you took a date off of a tombstone or a statue or something, you aren’t going to the right place.
I’ll have to look again. I think I that est. thing was what I used. I’m sure I even have a photo of it at home! I’ll go back again sometime. It’s just not my favorite direction to go in for no particular reason. Thanks!

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@knoffer wrote:

There is a bunch of good one in Kettle Moraine Southern Unit.
I’ve done all those. I live 5 min from the Nordic trail/John Muir. My couple hides are in there too! Survival in a Can has been my most favorite cache ever out of all of them I’ve done. The place was so unexpected… That was the first thing I loved about geocaching was I got to revisit all the areas I was kind of tired of in a new refreshing way!
The High Brass series is a good one too. Just make sure if go during hunting season to wear Blaze Orange.

That’s the second vote for High Brass so I’ll add it to the list. I wear something orange all the time unless it’s summer and too hot then usually there’s nothing to hunt either.

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Are you only collecting one with the nighttime attribute set?

These are 3 I did at night and really liked:
GCHZFZ Carvers Rock 2 I had a big flashlight with me. You would need a flash light. There is a little 1900 cemetary near the cache. I did it a few days after Halloween and felt cheated. It would have been perfect.

GCXKJW To Grandmother’s House We Go
The place across the street has a giant sports light on so I could make out the trail in the dark. You’d still need a flashlight to find the cache.

Both of the above were close enough to houses that if you started screaming, someone would call the police!

GCMRET The Cowboy’s and Cowboy Jr’s first Hide! is listed as 24/7 and I did it at night. There is a tall pole light in the parking lot but you’d need a flashlight to sign the log. You might find the cache under moon power alone. Kind of deserted but a super-low crime area.

GCH6WM Cacheopeia they advertise as a nighttime one and it has the nighttime attribute. I did it during the day but I’d go back at night! It was a really nice area. I have it marked as a place to just go back for a non-caching walk sometime.

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If anyone knows of a night cache I’m missing please let me know.

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@Team Deejay wrote:

Thanks for considering (and immediately dismissing 😆 ) my caches.
I knew that was going to happen! I’ve always meant to do that walking tour even before it was a cache. It’s always in my head as an option. One day I’ll go spontaneously do it!

Option 1: 8 caches in the New Munster Wildlife Area (Creepy Cache, …
I started Creepy Cache one day and got the wrong date on the first stage. I think the owners where going to make sure the right sign was still there. I never went back….

Option 2: The 5 caches of Along the Milky Way….
These sound really nice. I will add them to my list of possibilities.

Option 3: You could, of course, do The Gauntlet. Definitely bring a friend.
I am sorely tempted by the gauntlet. I don’t have any friends that are that good or that stupid and it sounds like the dog would get hurt too and I hate those dirty looks he gives me when his nose is bleeding from thorns but I am STILL tempted…. I wonder if it’s any easier in winter. I wonder if anyone’s ever just taken a pruner along? I could sew a waterproof kevlar suit for myself and the dog. hmmm…

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Because Microsoft Power Point is a proprietary format, there is no simple way to make it not PowerPoint.

Those with Windows can download a free Power Point Viewer directly from Microsoft at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=428d5727-43ab-4f24-90b7-a94784af71a4&displaylang=en

Mac users are out of luck however, if you happen to have a pdf creator like the full version of Acrobat (not the reader), you can convert your Power Point to a pdf but be aware it will be a big pdf. You can optimize it after conversion though. That is the simplest option I can think of.

You could capture each screen as a graphic and put them in a zip folder.

It might be best to just manually convert the Power Point to html then it could be placed online for reference and could be viewed by anyone with access to any sort of modern browser.

If someone needed this done I might volunteer my time for it. WIsearcher

@knoffer wrote:

Is it possible to save this as a stand alone slide show? Actually I know that you can. I was thinking that many people may not have access to Powerpoint and if it was a stand alone file anybody could use it.

Thanks

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I tried to start off paperless and that didn’t work out so good but after a couple months, I’m back to paperless with a few caveats. I have queries that run on geocaching.com that give me several different gpx files for different locations I frequently travel too. All of this information is downloading into my explorist 210. I guess this thing is like a combo of a PDA/GPS? It has special icons for geocaches which I can flick on and off in the map mode. The type of cache is there and I can tell on the screen if it is a multi or regular but not the size.

Before I go, I usually will browse online to get a few in my head then when I’m out there I have some I know I wanted to do so when I look a them on the map at least I have some knowledge to make a choice on.

The problems with going paperless:
No parking coords
Puzzles have to be solved and entered manually
Missed more than one bonus because I didn’t know it existed until I went to log my find
No foreknowledge of travel bugs and such but usually something like that is a nice surprise and not really a problem….
Long cache names that all start with the same characters (you know who you are) are truncated so they all appear the same in the list mode. When I was hunting these, I had to manually make them in shorter in the file before uploading it so I could differentiate between them in the field.

Away, I have had NO paper with me except for kleenex, not even a map for weeks and weeks and I’m really happy. I really don’t like paper all that much in the wild. It’s very hydroscopic and starts to absorb moisture immediately.

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I am another occasional WGA visitor. I check in maybe once a month to see the cache of the month and browse through the forums and read a few dozen posts. Why would someone register here? Geocaching.com while wonderful, can get a little overwhelming and anonymous at times. For instance, if you post a specific container question there, you might get replies from people in desert areas then they all start bickering amongst themselves. Here, there are people that have the same climate concerns and sometimes I recognize something I’ve done or somewhere I’ve been in someone else’s post and that makes the experience more personal than at geocaching.com. That’s why I come here…

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I assumed I was the only one even buying a state park sticker solely based on the difficulty of changing it out each January! When it comes in the mail, I wait for a trip where the car will be nice and warm at the end. I take the blade from a Stanley knife and two paper towels, one soaked in Windex in a baggie. At the end of the journey, when the car is warm and I don’t have to sit there and freeze, I take the blade out and push it against the edge of the sticker using the dry paper towel for padding until I get the bulk of it off. It defiantly is best when the window is cold and the sticker stays stiff. With 12 years of experience, I can get one off in about 5 or 6 pieces. Then I clean and dry the window real good and put the new one on. If you cut off most of the clear corners, there’s less to remove next year. I will look at his preventative thingy though. That seems reasonable to me and I have honestly no intention of cheating the state out of the $25 when I use the parks several times a week.

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