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CdAGeoGeeks

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  1. Last night we made it to Gillette Wy. The weather was a mix of sun and clouds - it started clear in the morning, but within 15 minutes we were in clouds & fog. It lifted some but there's not much to see along that route anyhow. We did one virtual along the way that covers over 50 miles - a minute man missile silo & launch control, and the air/space museum by Elis AFB. Cold and windy but dry for the stops.

     

    This morning was cool and dry, so we stepped across the steet to a History Museum before getting on the road. At times a strong headwind slowed us, but we made it thru Billings (stopped at Steak N Shake for dinner - last shot a one for a year or so. This is the second closest to home, only Reno is closer - by 100 miles) and then to Bozeman, MT - where it's currently snowing on us while we are parked in the Walmart parking lot (no RV camps open around). They are predicting 1-3 inchs between here and Butte. I guess we'll see how we do pulling trailer in the snow - I just hope the chains for the Forester fit the Outback (actually I hope we don't have to find out!) - we do have chains for the trailer since it has brakes. I sure wish we could have found a RV park - our electric heater would be nice tonight, good thing we have lots of propane.

     

    We were thinking of going down the Columbia Gorge anyhow - I lost my bike off the back of the car down in Silverton and need to get from the kind gentleman who found it - which we thought might add a day to the trip. Now I'm not sure how we'll do, we might not make the Spokane area tomorrow after all.

     

    There is a GIFF Event in Spokane tonight if you want to stop by. It starts at 7 pm. It would be fun to meet you in person and hear some of those stories.

  2. I thought about it, but there are so many drivers in ID who take great offense at someone driving over 35 mph, decided not to, as it is harder to remember random letters/numbers to report to LEO :laughing:

     

    That must be a SOUTHERN Idaho thing. (I'm just kidding.) :blink:

     

    We're still waiting on the daughter to get hers on a plate, but Fairy Ballerina Penguins of DOOM!! is a tough fit.

  3. My thoughts, and I am sure there are others with more ideas as well.

     

    To those that have done the cache as it stood in the past, they have the memory and the original logs. I personally think it was a cool idea. I did two caches in Delaware in May at or near sunrise and it was spectacular to be there at that time of day. Going at that time was not a requirement of either cache.

     

    However, if the COs were to change the requirements now, to somehow make them simpler, it wouldn't harm me at all. The caches I did are still the ones in my mind, and the ones that my photos and logs cannot be taken away if the requirements do change. I alone experienced the coolness of the way I did them. Rarely do I ever look back at my old finds to see how others did them; I know I did them the way they were required to be done when I found it.

     

    I can't tell you how to set your requirements on your caches, however, archiving such a cool and rare cache type seems sad to me because a few folks wanted to argue about their photo.

     

    I would love to have the opportunity to visit your cache with the sunrise requirements some day. We plan to vacation there next Spring Break. I used to live years ago in Orlando (NNPS Class 8502), and visited the Melbourne area many times. Please don't let a few folks who want to whine to the smiley police about something so relatively minor ruin it for the rest of us, nor let them ruin your fun and sharing of photos from other cachers.

     

    Archive or not though, I'm still going to the beach at sunrise. I hope to add your cache if it's still active. I appreciate your efforts to keep this alive for over a decade.

     

    Mr. CdAGeogeeks

  4. We've made several trips through Yellowstone, some of them before caching.

     

    Our one suggestion - see what you want to see and don't turn it into seeing how many caches you can get. Enjoy each for its own individuality. If you try to get them all, you'll burn yourself out and regret turning the great park into a numbers-fest.

     

    Besides, if you did them all this trip, what would you have to do the next time through?

     

    I would recommend jaunting on south through Teton National Park and hitting Jackson, WY if you get the chance as well.

  5. We used pocket queries as well. When we moved to Nebraska, we had two we ran, one called Idahome (for our Idaho home) and one called Omahome (for our Omaha home).

     

    We kept multiple PQs like that for years when we went back and forth. We ran them as needed for where we were. We also created PQs for caches along a route for the drives between the two locations.

  6. If you can get out to Oregon, I highly recommend GC17. It is close to the original stash and another oldie GC12. At this time of the year, it probably will not be available again until May or June due to snow and most people do it in conjunction with a trip to the lilypad in Seattle for a blockparty in the summer. The hike is nice with wonderful views of Mt Hood.

     

    Just a note on GC17 - It has the greatest man-made bench in the history of mankind ever once you get there. You have to go there to understand it.

  7. We would like to withdraw our guess from your contest. We stated in a previous thread that your finds don't matter to us, and ours shouldn't to you. By participating in this contest, it places a value on your finds to us and we find that in direct conflict with our previous statement.

     

    We don't care about anyone's find count but our own. Best of luck on your trip and we hope you have fun.

    *cough* Wrong thread *cough*

     

    Oh my, you are so right.

     

    (In best Gilda Radner voice:) Nevermind.

  8. We would like to withdraw our guess from your contest. We stated in a previous thread that your finds don't matter to us, and ours shouldn't to you. By participating in this contest, it places a value on your finds to us and we find that in direct conflict with our previous statement.

     

    We don't care about anyone's find count but our own. Best of luck on your trip and we hope you have fun.

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