KKTH3
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Local news did a report last month on the opening of a new Walmart in town on location - showing the viewers what it was like around the whole store and everything. There is now a cache there.
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I disagree with the statement that a cache 12 miles up in the mountains should be off limits to kids. When I was young, I spent most of my non-school, awake time 12 miles out in the wilderness - often with no adults for miles. Granted, these are different times, but back then the neighborhood kids spent more time out exploring abandoned mines and hiking up the sides of forested canyons rather than be indoors or out in paved over parks and such. I probably wouldn't like my son hiking out in the woods with the grizzlys and mountain lions, but from my own experience, there are certainly a lot of kids able to do a lot more strenuous hiking than most adults.
Funny thing is, back then I think a lot of those hikes were for treasure hunting - abandoned gold mines, airplane crash sites, chinese worker family stashes, stagecoach robbers buried treasure from Buillion Bend... all stuff we went well off the beaten path to try and find.
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Sorry for being missing in action for so long. Wyoming's cache may be taken over by "onerka". He lives in Jackson Hole and has several sites he is looking at. Placing the cache in Gillette was not working so well. Hopefully we can have something up soon. So sorry for the delay.
We have a few options in central WY as well. I've got an ammo box ready to go that we were already planning to place during our next free day out. Not a big deal either way, though. The cache will be placed soon regardless of if its just a normal traditional or part of something else.
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A different take on "Discovery"....
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I went on a spree on saturday & grabbed 16 with my nephew. Logged two DNFs. Then, my nephew developed appendicitis, and cut our weekend short. As soon as he's healed again, we'll head out to grab more!
You went caching with Ben Rothlesberger?? Cool! Sorry about the appendicitis though.
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Sorry I didn't see this posting sooner.
Is it the jeep sitting in Comfortably Numbers? If so have you tried going to the jeep page selecting Found It? Log it! There should be an option to 'mark as missing'.
No, its is the Hesse Mountain (WY) GJTB in Home Tweet Home. I just tried it again.. I select "mark bug missing" and hit GO... page reloads with the mark bug missing option gone and the status doesn't change. There also is no Are you sure? Yes/No option that comes up. I just am not allowed to mark the TB as missing from our own cache.
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Good post Eartha - lots of good advice there to take to heart.
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I am having trouble marking a TB as missing myself, but I am not getting the Yes/No confirmation. The situation is a GJTB that is in one of the caches we own and it hasn't been there for several days, but still shows up on the cache page. I would like to get this TB marked as missing so people specifically looking for GJTBs don't waste their time with this one. When I click the GO button the page reloads the same as before, only now the dropdown box is empty and there is no confirmation line. I am not sure if its a global issue, because I am only the cache owner and not the TB owner, or because the GJTBs are a special case. I usually would wait a couple weeks to mark TBs as missing, but since this is a special case as well as the likelyhood that the TB was removed by a local that doesnt intend to log it online (no physical logs after the one mentioning the TB being dropped) I would like to get the inventory corrected as soon as possible.
Any ideas?
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Our most visited cache is our first cache placed, Eastdale Starter Micro - yes its a micro, but only one of two micros we have and there really arent many micros in town so I guess its more of a novelty. It has 83 visits in nearly 15 months with almost all of them being finds. We have another with 87 visits, but quite a number of them are re-visits to trade travel bugs, so it clearly doesnt have quite as many finds.
We have a two way tie between the least found caches: DON'T PANIC: #15 - HEART OF GOLD and Comfortably Numbers have each been found only once each. They are our only two active mystery caches, which have limited interest in this area. Even our latest cache placed had more finds than that within 4 hours of being published. I don't think i have ever seen a cache within 80 miles of here that has had a triple digit number of visits so that is pretty much the extremes for the region as well as our personal extremes.
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You can't look suspicious if they can't see you.
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I ran across an account awhile back where the cacher had about 29 finds. So, being curious, I decided to see what caches they were... turns out he had only found 2 caches and one was his own cache. At least he did get the FTF on that one. Then again, this was over the course of several years that these two caches were being logged multiple times. My theory is that it is a short term memory thing. I can just imagine a guy that randomly runs into the GC.com page every couple of months and thinks "that's a cool idea - maybe I should try to find this cache closest to my house!" does the whole caching experience and gets home and logs it online and goes to bed. By morning he wakes up completely forgetting about the previous day (like Drew Barrymore in "50 First Dates")
Inevitabily a couple months later he is at his computer and finds the gc.com page and thinks "that's a cool idea - maybe I should try to find this cache closest to my house!"
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Perfect to hide at the bottom of a wishing well.
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since there are no caches that are currently active within 15 miles as the crow flies from our home...every cache to seek out is a sizable driving distance away. The closest unfound active cache for us is a terrain 5 cache that requires over 20 miles of combined driving, 4x4 driving, river rafting, and mountian climbing to reach. The majority of that is paved driving, but I still bet not many others would be able to make the same claim about their closest unfoound cache.
Of course in about 2 years of existance, the cache has only been found once. Needless to say - it is at the top of our "to do" list.
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I never really cared for this type of cache, though the only one I can recall ever even driving up to was Tahosa's cache in Colorado. I figured out that it was his house, but since he had emailed me before that weekend telling me that he was going to be at work during the day I was pretty sure no one was home. That being the case I passed on the cache since I couldnt see anything from inside our truck that was clearly a geocache and I was concerned the neighbors would mistake me for a burglar if I got out of the truck and acted suspicious. That and being in a residential area was giving the wife issues.
However, on a recent road trip we found several house caches around Blanding, UT. The difference here was every one of them was huge containers visible from the road and placed in a very specific place well enough away from the house to make us more comfortable that we were not at the wrong yard or encroaching on anyone's personal time or space. No one came out to meet us on that trip and at least one of them was worthy of taking photos of the unique artwork on site. So they were house caches, but also not too much different from other normal caches.
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Hard to say, really. I grew up as being an outdoor person most of my life with hunting, fishing, skiing (downhill and X-country) camping, backpacking, road cycling, long distance running, and middle distance T&F being my main activities. The only main activity I had that was more of an indoor activity was music. After Lady K had her injury I had to give up nearly all of those activities. I was able to keep up fishing and music for a couple years and then eventually had to quit those as well as I really can't spend much time on the road like I was used to being able to do. Since then, only geocaching has really filled in the outdoors part of my hobbies with everything else being something I can do at home. In that way, yes, geocaching has been an excuse to get outdoors. In reality, however, this isn't really a new experience for me to be outside. I spend less time outside since picking up geocaching than I did most of my life before geocaching. Sometimes that's just the way things work out.
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87.2 miles....but it would be over 135 driving miles to those caches
79.6 miles to get 200
When I started there were 5 caches within 100 miles.
93.4 miles for cache #200. Fargo, ND. There really is nothing up here. Only 84 within 47 miles of home.
At least 300 miles to collect 200 caches, about 60 (other than mine) within 50 miles. That's why its taken me a year to find about 130 caches, and I'm only in rural Australia, not the out back, where the distances would be in the thousand mile range.
167.8 miles
Yeah, it's that sparce.
Go go rural cachers! for us it was almost a perfect 2 cache per 1 mile radius ratio with the 200th closest cache being 100.3 miles away from home. If we filter out finds and our own hides, that distance swells out to "too far"
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Within 50 miles? Only 67
90
40 planted by others
50 planted by me
sigh
We get to join the sub-100 club with only 80 caches within 50 miles of our house. 20 of those were placed by us and only 14 remain unfound by us. Half of the unfound caches are terrain 3.5 or high, which makes caching in a wheelchair a bit difficult. The others are either fairly new or just havent got around to them yet. One of the closest unfound caches is a 1/1 virtual in an abandoned uranium mine - only 35 miles away (about 50 by car) but all by itself so we havent justified the gas to spend all afternoon going out for one virtual.
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And now the Greenies are coming up here to WY to escape the Californians!
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If it was just about fun and the joy of finding caches, a 20 stage multi would serve the purpose just as well as 20 individual caches.
The thing is, everyone isn't like you.
I would enjoy a power train because it gives me incentive for walking further. However, even with this incentive, I am not physically up to a long hike. Therefore, a 20-stage multi wouldn't work for me; while you could easily choose to find all twenty individual caches, or not.
And there is the issue of those that want to do the whole length, but cannot find stage 3. If it is a 20 stage multi, the trip is over (at least the finding caches part of it) - but 20 individually placed caches keeps the project going. Also from an owner perspective, if word comes up that one stage may or may not be missing - the owner may have to temp disable the whole thing to investigate. with 20 individual caches, 19 of them can stay active and still provide reasons for people to geocache in the area, rather than block the whole trail from any caching until the issue is resolved. In these ways a 20 stage multi would not serve the purpose just as well as 20 individual caches.
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Ah, 500 caches isn't really a goal for how many we expect to find - its how many waypoints I can fit into the GPSr. Part of my delima is finding a way to spread them out evenly so that A) we dont fill up the GPSr before I add in the PQ with caches along the route home or
we don't fill up on the routes so much that we don't have room for adding in extra caches in the PHX area or the SLO area. On top of all of that, we want to make sure we don't filter out any of the must visit caches either along our route or in the general areas we will be travelling. And that later point is further complicated by the fact that our daily side trips while staying in AZ and CA are mostly TBA. For instance, if we decided to go to Tuscon or the mexico border for a day trip, I currently do not have a PQ designed to pick up possible caches to do in those areas and I am not aware of any five star caches (in quality - rather than terrain or difficulty) to enter those in manually.By the end of it all, getting even 50 caches over the 15 days would be incredible for us and getting 5 is probably more likely. Still, we'd like to hedge our bets by maxing out the GPSr to its limit with how many it can handle and then picking out the caches on the fly. Some of the driving days will be awfully long already which makes getting a few caches necessary (have to stretch the legs) and a lot of caches impossible (simply not enough time) - I believe a couple years ago during a long drive to NOLA we were averaging about 6 caches a day on the driving days. I can't remember how many DNFs we had during that time, but I do remember skipping a few caches and giving up on a few caches just because we had to keep moving down the road.
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Sadly - starting to also see lampskirt micros. I hope many of the new cachers don't continue that trend.
Here in Wyoming, there aren't very many micros at all and in fact, the first lamppost skirt cache we found was a full sized tupperware. It didn't even have any dirty golf balls or broken McToys in it - just normal dollar store trinkets.
I'm not sure if I could declare any prevalent style around here, aside from the fact there are very few caches that are not small or regular sized traditional caches. Multi-caches and unknown caches are generally ignored (though there are a few excellent multis in the area) and I don't believe there has ever been a virtual or webcam cache within 30 miles of here. Now that no new ones can be created, it seems that will permanently be absent from this area. Also, even though there was never many of them to begin with, there were no earth caches anywhere in the entire state. Maybe some of these later versions have popped up on Waymarking.com, but I never go there - so I'll never know.
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Finally taking a break from work and we are preparing for our biggest road trip in 2 years. This time we will get to use the "find caches along a route" feature and while that will help us out a ton, but we wont have internet access during our trip so we have to load up all our waypoints in advance. In addition to the caches along the route, we will also be spending some extensive time in the Phoenix area and in the San Luis Obispo, CA area. Hopefully the weather will cool off some and allow for some caching in each of those areas as well.
July 29th, WY, CO, UT - Passing through Rawlins, Craig, GJ, and staying in Moab.
July 30th, UT, AZ - Passing through Flagstaff and staying in Scottsdale.
July 31-August 5th - Arizona in general (day trips TBD)
August 6th, AZ, CA - Passing through Blythe, Indio, San Bernardino, Pasadena, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and staying in Atascadero.
August 7th - 10th - SLO county in general - probably at least 1 day wine tasting in the Santa Ynez valley as well.
August 11th, CA, NV, UT - Passing through Paso Robles, Bakersfield, Mojave, Barstow, Las Vegas, Mesquite, St. George and staying in Cedar City.
August 12th, UT, WY - Passing through Provo, SLC, Park City, Evanston, Rock Springs and arriving home.
August 13th - sleeping all day.
It will be fun going back to old places and being able to cache there this time. I believe its been 4 years since we have been to SLO and probably about 6 since we have been to AZ. It should be fun!
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Our is still relatively generic. We are still working on creating an animated map with Q*Bert hopping around from state to state to color them in and show where we have cached. Maybe I should add in some snakes too - not sure what they would represent but they would be fun to add in. Besides, this is already a record year for the number of snakes I have run into while maintaining our caches.
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About half the caches in this area are found very infrequently. There are only about 60 caches within 35 miles of here so once a new one is placed, pretty much all of the active cachers have found it within a month and it will just sit there until a new cacher takes up the hobby or someone travels through. That could result in only 3-4 finds a year. For some of the more difficult caches it could result in even fewer finds. If there is a multicache or unknown cache tag - it will probably only get found a couple times in its whole lifetime - even if the difficulty isn't too tough. As far as I know, there have only been three unknown caches placed within 50 miles of here. They have only registered 5 finds in over 2 years of combined active service. and 2 of those finds were at the same time by cachers working together. Despite all of that, I know of cachers that are actively working on finding those caches and eventually there will be more visits.
We are more likely to replace or retire a cache if it is creating maintenence issues, suffers cronic muggling or vandalism, or is too small of a cache in an area that can handle a much larger cache. "Not being found enough" in itself isn't a valid reason in our opinion.
we don't fill up on the routes so much that we don't have room for adding in extra caches in the PHX area or the SLO area. On top of all of that, we want to make sure we don't filter out any of the must visit caches either along our route or in the general areas we will be travelling. And that later point is further complicated by the fact that our daily side trips while staying in AZ and CA are mostly TBA. For instance, if we decided to go to Tuscon or the mexico border for a day trip, I currently do not have a PQ designed to pick up possible caches to do in those areas and I am not aware of any five star caches (in quality - rather than terrain or difficulty) to enter those in manually.
The 50 State Multi-cache
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Cool! We have a very close friend of ours that lives in Wasilla - now we have a reason to visit him