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Super Job!
Keep it up and make sure and get lots of hints on the tough ones in Illinois from from your inside contacts (wink wink).
On to 400!Sachel Paige heard the footsteps from behind and I think the rest of us do too!
Way to go Ecorangers!
Just like in the final episode of each Survivor – give our gps’s a thought as you pass us this summer.
My congratulations on your enthusiasm and pace.[This message has been edited by wzbt03 (edited 05-20-2004).]
One quick thought on the “do what has not been done” idea.
I am sure there are very few original ideas out there but probably some. Most of us find a particular cache we like in a different part of the state and want to put one out like that closer to home. I think this is great.
I was contacted by three different groups that were interested in doing a “Capture the Flag” type series in their communities like we started in Rock County. I have been contacted by other cachers in our state asking if it was okay for them to put out a cache similiar to one I had done in their own areas.
How great is that!As far as the COTM that I have out there that was kinding voted for, it is just my attempt at making a Jeff Thorson cache in Janesville. Granted we all add our own little twist but those that have done mine probably will see a lot of Thorson in it.
I borrowed one idea for a cache from a Trudy & the Beast cache, one from a Socko cache and I have had some which I think are original as I have never seen some like them.The same people that put out some of the “lame” caches, in my opinion, tend to surprise me every once in a while and put out some of my favorite hides, so I have learned to take the good with the bad.
One thing I do believe is that we all should give our own opinion on the caches we do when recording our comments. I tend to do so and it has gotten me a couple of emails from the owner telling me that I was being too real in my comments.
I believe it was in a Erle Stanley Gardner novel that Perry Mason stated you should never leave a tip at a restaurant unless you take the trouble to thank the waitress.
In this case perhaps you should never leave a comment unless you say what you really feel.Okay I wrote a reply earlier today – read it and it seemed to offer nothing to the discussion, so I deleted it.
Now the subject has been discussed by many and I again have the urge to write but about different things.
First, face it, what Cachecows is saying is very important to the future of caching. We all need to have some more quality to our caches. 1/1’s are fine but lets work harder on making the 1/1’s better thought out and make sure they are really what we rate them – as the Beast says “a 1/1 should be easily accessible to someone in a wheelchair”.I admit I have put out some “seed” caches to bring people in to do some of what I like – my multi’s – it didn’t work. Everyone did the seed caches (well not quite everyone) and ignored the ones I had put the effort into.
When I started caching in December of 2002, there were about 600 caches or so in Wisconsin and I was the 300th person/team in Wisconsin to get involved (or so says the beast which is gospel to me). I think a large number of the caches I did in my first 100 were as lame as or worse then many of the new ones today. So the “they don’t make em like they used to” saying is not quite true.
What I did find was that certain cachers in the state put out much better caches then others. Those caches, by those people, I tried to seek out and give them a go.We are a very diverse group in many ways and our wants and needs out of geocaching vary.
These discussions are what will help us all grow, so lets keep them positive and ongoing.In an email early on in my caching days I asked Cachecows to consider putting back out some more caches as I enjoyed theirs – I repeat my request to them and everyone else who may had their hands in the early days of geocaching – My paraphrase will go like this:
“Show a geocacher a cache and they will enjoy the day, Teach them how you make a great hide and they will be hooked for a lifetime”
Forgetting where it all started would be a crime but failing to see the vision of where it can be is worse.
Face it, we are all one family and if you look around, you will see a bit of yourself in all of us.
Ticks you say?
I found 5 on my while at the campout of the wood variety and one of the deer variety.
One managed to make it home on my jeans and one crawled onto my hand on a dark ride home on Saturday night.
I will say that they were worse in Eau Claire when I was there a couple of weeks ago.
I think this is going to be a very bad year for them. Not being an expert, I wonder if the very mild winter and great spring have anything to do with the record populations?Congratulations on number 300!
Quite an accomplishment!
So many milestones this weekend – congratulations on having one of them.
Off to 500!Even though I offered my congrats in person, I still wanted to say it again.
Way to go!Congratulations to both of you!
I am glad you have continued on in your quest to make milestone after milestone.
Good job Folk Trakers!
It was so nice to see you walking through the deep gook at Rhonda’s Birch cache.
Keep it up!
Way to go Bec!
I will give you more then a teeny tiny congrats!
On to 200!Way to go!
What a great accomplishment for a great family.
On to 500!Way to go on number 100!
I got a brief chance to see who you were at the campout in the parking lot. Looks like you are well on your way to being hooked.
Great job and my personal advice is to make number 500 one you will always remember!
Congratulations!
I am not sure I would put on your business card that you have over 300 Bugs – might make people avoid you.
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