Fjordi
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Hi there,
I am Fjordi from Austria and I will be living in the Waynesboro area from February - July.
I have already noticed that there are lots of caches to look for and I can't wait to start on my first tour.
But nevertheless it would be nice to meet some cachers from that area
So maybe some of you are living around Waynesboro?
Happy hunting,
Fjordi
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It is for sure a great experience to meet a bear, but I am so glad, that the most dangerous animal in our woods ist maybe a tick
It would scare the s*** out of me, when I met a bear...
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Wie gesagt, dass ist für mich die Grundvoraussetzung
So hab ich das mit mir selber vereinbart - wie das jemand anderer handhabt, ist mir eigentlich egal
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Ich möchte mich bei den Organisatoren ganz herzlich bedanken!
Wir hatten ein großartiges Wochenende und der ganze Stress und der Aufwand haben sich mehr als ausgezahlt!
Freitag um 3:30 Uhr Tagwache - ab zum Flughafen und auf nach Köln.
Ein gemütlicher Nachmittag und Abend im Biergarten
Samstag um 3:45 Tagwache - um 4:30 Uhr ab zum BBB Event
Um 20:30 Uhr hatten wir die verrückte Bustour tatsächlich überlebt und konnten auf das zweite Event gehen.
Gegen 22:30 Uhr sind wir mehr tot als lebendig in unsere Betten gefallen
Sonntag um 6:30 Uhr Tagwache und endlich ein stressfreies Frühstück.
Danach hatten wir eine 6-stündige Führung durch Köln anhand des Caches "Cologne Sightseeing" von und mit AlexanderD (auch an dieser Stelle noch einmal ein großes Dankeschön!
)Um 15:30 Uhr konnten wir dann am Mega Event endlich die vielen tollen Coins bestaunen und unsere drei Event Coins abholen.
Es war schwer, bei den vielen Angeboten nicht schwach zu werden.
Auch ein Einblick in die Welt der Pathtags wurde uns zuteil - hoffentlich nicht wieder etwas, wonach wir süchtig werden
Den Montag haben wir mit einem gemütlichen Zoobesuch ausklingen lassen, bevor es wieder zurück nach Österreich ging.
Unser Fazit: ein spannendes Wochenende mit dem perfekten Programm für den Geocacher! Wir hatten alles dabei: gemütliches Plaudern mit Geocachern aus aller Welt, Statistikcachen und betreutes Caches *g*, gemütliches Sightseeing-Cachen und auch ein Tag (fast) ganz ohne Cachen zum Erholen
Noch einmal herzlichen Dank für alles und (hoffentlich) bis zum nächsten Mal!
LG aus Österreich,
Fjordi und Gisi
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Finds:
- Austria
- Germany
- Italy
- France
- Turkey
- Belgium
- Netherlands
12 in total
No hides so far
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I have only cached during night once. It was after an event and we were about 10 people.
It was great fun (not only because I found the cache
)In the last few months nightcaches became really popular and there is one not far from where I live.
I would love to try it, but definitely not alone
But I can imagine, that it is a really exciting and creepy experience (as long as it is not prohibited).
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Jetzt bei den neuen Challenges bekommt dieses Thema wieder eine aktuelle Bedeutung. Die Couch Potato Logs werden nun wieder stark ansteigen, wenn seitens der Guidelines dort nichts unternommen wird.
Und nachdem es ja nur Guidelines sind, muss es jeder für sich entscheiden
Ich habe ebenfalls bei einer worldwide Challenge ein Foto gepostet, das ich vor zwei Jahren bei unserem ersten Cache in der Nähe unseres Zuhauses gemacht habe.
Für mich ist die Grundvoraussetzung, dass ich das Foto im Rahmen von geocaching gemacht habe, und nicht in meiner Zeit als Muggel.
Das Foto ist aber so toll, dass ich mir ziemlich sicher bin, in nächster Zeit niemals mehr so ein Motiv vor die Linse zu bekommen.
Ich könnte auch einige Virtuals (unter anderem im Disneyworld) loggen, aber zu dieser Zeit war ich noch kein Geocacher, somit wird erst geloggt, wenn ich auch wirklich bewusst dort war.
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When I view a cache page now, I see the date, but the avatars have disappeared?
At least I can only see the "sad smiley" like, nobody has chosen an avatar...
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Ich bin für Sonntag mit 2 Personen sehr interessiert an der Tour!!
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Will the people going on the 5 country tour be getting a gpx file of the caches we will be doing?
Yes, of course every one will get a gpx file that morning before the busses will start. There will be even a T5-good morning-breakfast-event before the busses will leave.
There will be a Wherigo cache to be solved while at the bus, this will be given out as well.
Hm, and what about those, who do not have internet access from Friday morning on? Like me?
It will take me some time to upload the files to my GPS (at the moment I do not even have a topo map of Europe for my Garmin Dakota 20
) - and now it seems, I won't have any chance to prepare the route...I know that there are many other cachers on the busses and we won't have any problems with finding the caches, when there are so many helping hands, but nevertheless I would prefer to have all waypoints saved on my own GPS device...
We are really looking forward to the bus tour and hope, we will find a way to get to the starting point from our hotel in Mühlheim
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Oh, they are both sooo cute!
I wish you a lot of fun with your new team member!
That is our JRT, who joined us in January
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Es gibt noch ein CITO Event und eben das normale Event. Dann hätte man die 10 Icons schon zusammen.
Wir würden gerne am Sonntag eine Runde durch die Stadt drehen...
Natürlich bevorzugt mit einheimischer Begleitung.
LG aus Österreich,
Fjordi
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I do not have a Jack Russell Coin, but I purchased a small "track me" coin, which is now attached to the collar of our Jack Russell "Idefix"
What about a simple TB with a toy dog attached? And then you could put the story of your dog onto the TB's page?
I am sorry for your loss...
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If you don't like them, stay away from them. Some love this kind of caching.
Here's a video, 3 caches in about 140 seconds.
Got a good chuckle out of this:
The Driver--had it easy.
The Stamp--"Hold it still so I can hit it."
The Hat--Did all the work! I can't imagine he kept that pace up.
Thanks for posting--got my morning off to a good start.
*lol* That made my day
THANK YOU for sharing it!
I would love to try it - but I might get bored after 50 caches or so.
But who knows... maybe I will find myself in the very same situation, when we travel to the USA in August 2012 (seems to me, that we might have the chance to hit the Route 66 powertrail...
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Yeah, it would be great if there was someone with a car, who could take us across the border. We have never been caching in Germany or the Netherlands so it would be a nice bonus to add another country to our statistics
We will of course pay for the fuel, but we will arrive via plane and do not rent a car for the three days. So we are pretty limited concerning the means of transport.
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Team Fjordi wäre an betreutem Cachen interessiert
Wir (2 Personen) wohnen im Holiday Inn direkt neben der Event Location und würden uns freuen, wenn uns jemand mitnehmen würde.
LG Fjordi-Lisa
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Yessss!
Team Fjordi just booked the hotel and flight!
Köln, here we come!
Our first Mega Event - we are really looking forward to it!
I will take a closer look at the available tours and the caches around and then we will decide what to do.
Best regards from Lower-Austria,
Fjordi and Gisi
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Wow, I just read your post and your story really gives me goose bumps.
Thanks a lot for sharing it with us.
That's one of the moments when geocaching becomes even more than just a hobby.
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I have experienced that with a mystery cache, which held a TB called "no TB left". The clue was to spot that. Once you clicked onto the TB, you could get the coordinates from its listing.
So why not?
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I am glad, that I do not own a travel tag for myself - I really do not want to know, how many miles and fuel I spent for caching
But since January, at least our dog is trackable.
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I guess some people care more about the score of the game and not how they play it?
I have found 307 caches since May 2009 - so it is clearly not about the numbers, when we go caching.
But nevertheless I have logged 3 caches, where I didn't find the whole cache + logbook.
- a part of the canister attached to a tree, which had been felled
- the lid of the cache hanging from a small bridge - the cache was visible in the water below
- a broken box and a logbook on the ground (the cache had been archived some days before, which I hadn't realized) --> btw: I signed the logbook
According to our local reviewer there are three aspects for a cache: location, location and location
And that's what I want from caching as well. So when I find the box damaged, only a part, the lid or the logbook and the owner gives permission, I log the cache as a found. Only if I do not find anything, I log a DNF.
It is not my fault (and in most cases not the owner's fault), when the cache is damaged or partly missing. The owner wants to show a special location by hiding a cache there, at least, that's what I expect, when I go for a cache or hide one.
But I definitely won't visit a location, not even look for the cache and post a "hey, didn't find the cache, but log it because I have been there".
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@Never Summer
I absolutely agree with you!
If I lived in an area with high caching activity, I might think about placing a PMO Cache as well.
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Just some weeks ago, I went for a FTF together with a friend.
We searched for about 30 minutes and stopped, because the location was simply disgusting: under a bride (spider webs and mould everywhere), somebody had used this place as a toilet, there were smelly animal bones around and when we took a look into a plastic bucket, we nearly throw up when we lifted the lid (who puts a bucket with fecals in the middle of the wood??
)We logged a DNF and wrote into the log, that this was a "did not want to find - Cache" - and that the location was simply digusting. There are so many nice and wonderful places around here, and nobody needs another strange container under a bridge.
I returned a second time with another friend. She couldn't and didn't want to find the cache either. She logged that as well - honest but friendly.
So let me get this straight: after everything you experienced on your first visit...not only did you return, but you brought a friend with you?
Not going caching with you any time soon!
No. My friend doesn't live in the area and comes for a visit every couple of weeks. She was missing some other caches next to those anyway and she wanted to see the location herself and have a look, if she could find the cache. I stayed in the car and waited for her ro return. I warned her, I did not look for the cache again and in the end she posted a DNF too.
But as we were driving in the same car (in hers, btw) I had no other chance than going with her again
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Cache-Größe wird nicht übernommen!
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Hallo zusammen,
bin grade dabei zwei neue Caches publishen zu lassen. Den ersten habe ich grad problemlos erstellen und submitten können.
Bei meinem Multi komm ich aber beim Erstellungs-Formular nicht über Schritt 5 mit der Cache Größe hinweg.
Ich bekomme ständig die Fehlermeldung: "Please correct the following issues: •Please provide a valid Cache Container Size" und das, obwohl ich natürlich eine Größe angegeben habe.
Hattet ihr dieses Problem auch schon einmal? Woran könnte das liegen?
Liebe Grüße,
Fjordi-Lisa