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Could not have said it any better then that.
Happy Thanksgiving to all!
I am going to be hiking in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee the last week of December if you do not find anyone else to move it.
Let me know Steve.The subject matter has strayed a bit but as a general rule:
If I cannot find the cache on the first try, I will usually wait to see if someone else logs a find. If they do I just go back again with a much humbler look on my face.
If I am sure after searching that something is wrong, I will email the cache owner and let them know the issue. This has happened with more then one of my caches and it has been very helpful. Sometimes I will leave a no find log to tip others off if I think something may be amiss.
If I cannot find a cache after looking twice and others have found it – I plead for help
.The best ones are like “Wayward Home” by Lil Otter – myself and another couple geocachers could not find it and figured something was wrong and wrote her and logged the no find. Then I found out how clever that Lil Otter is and ate cold crow.
Sometimes it is just gone and in these cases the no finds logged will tell the story.
So keep a smile on your face, life in your step and patience in your heart. The next cache is only a hunt away.
I think one of the many reasons of a cache is to bring people to a particular area that you would like them to see. Some states even allow out of staters to place caches as long as they can be maintained. I know that Lil Otter has some out of state – one of which “Wayward Home” in Illinois is one of the best caches in the area. Kbraband has some in Iowa and on the Mississippi that I would love to do yet. I think there are enough cachers out there that most, if not all, would help maintain it as they visit the area.
One of my peeves about geocaching is the “vacation cache”. When in Jamaica last spring I found there were only 4 caches in the whole country. I hid one on Booby Cay (a small deserted island off Negril) and even had a local available if the need arose. It was turned down under the vacation cache rule. You would have to convince me that there was any harm done with this one. I offered to change it to a virtual with multi-stages and was again rebuffed. Not to tough to maintain a virtual.
On the other hand – hide one in China and get caught and you will spend the rest of your days in prison according to someone who has cached there.
Stage one of the cache could be, go to cell 11 and get coordinates scratched on the wall…..On a more serious side, those of us who have caches far away from their homes depend on others to help. If you get some no finds – either get out and investigate it or disable/archive it. Not much different then one 1 mile from your house that gets lost – you would do the same thing.
Great effort on your 100!
Did you have to go all the way to California to find 100 caches?
Just kidding.Great job on 200.
It seems the core of active geocachers is getting much bigger and this makes us all better.Nice job Hermione as appears I just missed your 200th by a minute or so – at least I got to see 201
.Excellent job Alan!
Another big milestone!
Thanks for sharing some of your adventures with me.Great job – glad you could make some of them down my way.
Congratulations to Jeff!
Hmmmm 900 seems sooooo close now.
Great job! Lets see that should make you the 7th? to make the 600 club.
Congratulations!
It would be great if those who reach the 100 mark, tell us which cache was number 100 and why they picked that one.
Thanks everyone!
The math worked out this way over the last 10 1/2 months:
Wisconsin – 293
Illinois – 75
Missouri – 10
California – 7
Vermont – 7
New Hampshire – 4
Nevada – 4Not bad cachecows – a 2.9+ or lets just say 3.0 average over 22 miles is a pretty hard clip to maintain for a casual walk. Take into account all the trail changes and obstacles in the home areas and you must have been quite exhausted.
Way to go Cheeseheads and welcome to the 300 club!
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