christyglpn
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Ok I get to the page but it wont let me log. Am I missing something. All I get is a speal about it being a premium cache.
Find the GC code and go to http://www.geocachingadmin.com
Put the code in the top box and press the Log button. If you can it via the map then grand - sometimes this isn't possible. Don't forget to change the date!
Ah thank you figured it out. Kept trying to press find and not log. Glad I figured it out.
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Ok I get to the page but it wont let me log. Am I missing something. All I get is a speal about it being a premium cache.
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For some reason MA found this to be a crazy caching experience.
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A few years ago we had driven down to Florida and did the Easy Street series. The caches were mostly film canisters on the ground next to fence posts. A few times as we looked back down the road, we spotted neighbours at the end of their driveways looking towards us.
At one cache I had the following log.
Ma went for the cache and Pa stayed in the car. A car went by, slowed and made a U-turn and parked behind our car. Pa figured it was perhaps an upset neighbour, so he stayed in car and locked the door and let Ma handle him. Turns out it was a local cacher Doughball. Had a great conversation about local caches.
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Had a similar exp. Though don't think it was a geocacher. The guy played music in parking lot while searching. Completely weirded me out
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For some reason MA found this to be a crazy caching experience.
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A few years ago we had driven down to Florida and did the Easy Street series. The caches were mostly film canisters on the ground next to fence posts. A few times as we looked back down the road, we spotted neighbours at the end of their driveways looking towards us.
At one cache I had the following log.
Ma went for the cache and Pa stayed in the car. A car went by, slowed and made a U-turn and parked behind our car. Pa figured it was perhaps an upset neighbour, so he stayed in car and locked the door and let Ma handle him. Turns out it was a local cacher Doughball. Had a great conversation about local caches.
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Had a similar exp. Though don't think it was a geocacher. The guy played music in parking lot while searching. Completely weirded me out
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For some reason MA found this to be a crazy caching experience.
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A few years ago we had driven down to Florida and did the Easy Street series. The caches were mostly film canisters on the ground next to fence posts. A few times as we looked back down the road, we spotted neighbours at the end of their driveways looking towards us.
At one cache I had the following log.
Ma went for the cache and Pa stayed in the car. A car went by, slowed and made a U-turn and parked behind our car. Pa figured it was perhaps an upset neighbour, so he stayed in car and locked the door and let Ma handle him. Turns out it was a local cacher Doughball. Had a great conversation about local caches.
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Had a similar exp. Though don't think it was a geocacher. The guy played music in parking lot while searching. Completely weirded me out
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For some reason MA found this to be a crazy caching experience.
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A few years ago we had driven down to Florida and did the Easy Street series. The caches were mostly film canisters on the ground next to fence posts. A few times as we looked back down the road, we spotted neighbours at the end of their driveways looking towards us.
At one cache I had the following log.
Ma went for the cache and Pa stayed in the car. A car went by, slowed and made a U-turn and parked behind our car. Pa figured it was perhaps an upset neighbour, so he stayed in car and locked the door and let Ma handle him. Turns out it was a local cacher Doughball. Had a great conversation about local caches.
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Had a similar exp. Though don't think it was a geocacher. The guy played music in parking lot while searching. Completely weirded me out
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For some reason MA found this to be a crazy caching experience.
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A few years ago we had driven down to Florida and did the Easy Street series. The caches were mostly film canisters on the ground next to fence posts. A few times as we looked back down the road, we spotted neighbours at the end of their driveways looking towards us.
At one cache I had the following log.
Ma went for the cache and Pa stayed in the car. A car went by, slowed and made a U-turn and parked behind our car. Pa figured it was perhaps an upset neighbour, so he stayed in car and locked the door and let Ma handle him. Turns out it was a local cacher Doughball. Had a great conversation about local caches.
.
Had a similar exp. Though don't think it was a geocacher. The guy played music in parking lot while searching. Completely weirded me out
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For some reason MA found this to be a crazy caching experience.
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A few years ago we had driven down to Florida and did the Easy Street series. The caches were mostly film canisters on the ground next to fence posts. A few times as we looked back down the road, we spotted neighbours at the end of their driveways looking towards us.
At one cache I had the following log.
Ma went for the cache and Pa stayed in the car. A car went by, slowed and made a U-turn and parked behind our car. Pa figured it was perhaps an upset neighbour, so he stayed in car and locked the door and let Ma handle him. Turns out it was a local cacher Doughball. Had a great conversation about local caches.
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Had a similar exp. Though don't think it was a geocacher. The guy played music in parking lot while searching. Completely weirded me out
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I found a premium cache by accident didn't know it was premium. It had cache name on log. I signed the log.
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This thread has had some great stories here's another from me happened today.
Tackled part of a power trail today on foot. Decided to end day off at a tb geocoin hotel. While there ran into a pregnant puppy
Chased it around for about an hour trying to find the owner. 1 person I asked got cops involved. So worked with cops for about an hour trying to get her. Tried for about an hour before we lost her.
After walking 5 miles I amazed myself by running about half a mile though now my big toe is in a lot of pain
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Nothing to crazy lately 2 dirty diapers at one cache.
Than an eye opener
A cache listed as a larger walked a mile there and back
It was a large container but next to no swag. But an amazing
View which made the 2 mile round trip well worth it
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[ Its a lot harder to rack up 2k+ finds when you usually spend your entire caching day going after one cache.
So what do the numbers mean?
I thought I'd see just how far from home I'd have to go to log 2000 caches. Doing a search for the closest 2000 caches to my home I have a circle 125 miles radius or over 49,000 square miles. I have logged all the caches within 40 mile radius of my home except for the most recent 11 that just was put out last weekend.
Doing some playing around with the numbers (hey, it's raining, what else to do) for some locations I find if I lived in NYC that from Battery Park, a person has 2000 caches within 43 miles. San Francisco - 2000 caches within 23 miles. LA - 2000 within 23 miles. Tampa - 44 miles. North Chicago - 39 miles. With each of those the mileage only extends out 180 deg from center point due to the oceans/gulf/lake on one side. Seattle - 29 miles. For Dallas, TX there are 2000 caches within 19 miles radius.
However, if a person lived in Circle, MT they'd have to draw a circle 337 miles in radius to get 2000 caches or an area of about 357,000 square miles. Just how big is 357,000 sq mi? That's bigger than the land mass of MT, ND, SD, and WI combined.
So a person from Dallas, LA, SF, Seattle, or Chicago with 2000 finds? Yawn. A person from Circle, MT with 2000 finds, now that person has been hitting it hard.
After reading this makes me wish I had taking up grocaching sooner
Lived in Dallas area several years. Irving to be exact. Pretty in between fort worth and Dallas
I'm not a numbers person.1 main issue to consider is that most of Dallas is
Bad neighborhoods
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I spent 11 days on a bus from Vancouver B.C. To Maine and back so I could create a challenge cache no one here was pre qualified for. It should have only been a 9 day trip but I lost a day due to an avalanche and another day due to deciding to visit Mingo.
Wow and I thought I was crazy walking to most of my caches 25 so far
About 30 miles total at least
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Hatto's Schatz was a cache on an island in the Rhein River near Bingen. It was near an old tower, the Mauseturm (Mouse Tower) that was used to collect tolls on the river. When we started caching, I saw that the owner had put up a "Hall of Fame" for the first three finders. Of course, since this was an island cache in the middle of the river, the idea was that you were supposed to use a boat. I had no boat, so I waited until it was warm enough and then swam across. The current was so strong that, even though I was swimming in a straight line, I traveled at a 45 degree angle from shore to island.
When I got to the cache, I saw that another cacher had beaten me to the #3 spot by a mere four hours. But the cache owner added me to the hall of fame anyway.
Holy cow that had to be a long swum
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At time didn't know about replacement logs and bag inside had water in it
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What if you find cache and log is soaked. My first find was this way. I reported it as a find than rereported that it needed maintenance
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OK after reading post will change it keep same title but
Make it factual. Believe in America and list different
Events in Ohio and us history saying why. The title alone
Is commemorative enough
Just seems like people these day give up
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I thought about doing a series on a slightly controversial
Topic nothing illegal or to my knowledge against rules.
Here's info suggestions opinions are appreciated. Please no rudeness
I do have a decently genuine reason
What a political named cache but not themed. For all ages
Reasoning to commemorate in 2012 knocking on 3000 doors
I would be putting caches along my walking rout not in yards
Also in 2 places marking significant events that year.
This area has very few geocaches. Once again non theme with good
Items
This is not the place to discuss it. The place to discuss it is via private email with your reviewer.
I haven't posted a cache so no reviewer. Also new to caching.
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I thought about doing a series on a slightly controversial
Topic nothing illegal or to my knowledge against rules.
Here's info suggestions opinions are appreciated. Please no rudeness
I do have a decently genuine reason
What a political named cache but not themed. For all ages
Reasoning to commemorate in 2012 knocking on 3000 doors
I would be putting caches along my walking rout not in yards
Also in 2 places marking significant events that year.
This area has very few geocaches. Once again non theme with good
Items
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Does finding a dead body count? I've done that. Twice.
Yikes that would freak me out
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Thought it would be fun to have this thread. I have only found 6 caches but have
Already had some outright fun and crazy times. I can only imagine what the more experienced cachets
Have been through.
Here are mine
4th cache I had someone sitting in an old truck listening to
Music made me feel weird felt like was being watched.
5th cache so I thought I knew where it was I was wrong but it was
Close so I took what I thought was a shortcut. Big mistake
Scooted on my butt downhill. And walked through a marsh with all kind
Of fallen trees.
On a dnf cache, the terrain was listed below a 2 it should of
Been a 4. It was on a set of abandoned railroad tracks. I started walking along tracks
About halfway to coordinates the brush was next to impossible
To b break through
What an adventure. Walked about 8 miles in one day will get skinny one
Way or another.
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and for some peoples info I'm 24 but on extremely limited income.this is my new form of entertainment
when bored since for most part free
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OK so wound up downloading a GPS app to smart phone. It has
already taken me on quite the adventure. it tends to
take you the hard way. have gone through practically a marsh in
the woods. scooted on my butt downhill. though that one was a bit by
choice. battle thick and next to impossible brushes.
though succeeded 2 out of 4 tries today so I am happy
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Sometimes it's easier to replace the log in the TOP of the container before you close it, especially if it's like this one!
this was the container and thanks to all
don't have tweezers so will have to avoid for a while
INTRO APP users are killing the hobby
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Posted · Edited by christyglpn
Im not exactly a newbie been at it for a few months now. In comparison to some I'm new. I semi depend on smartphone apps, though I really like just going it alone sometimes and do some great hiking.
1 difference between me and some smartphone users is I dont have a car so its a lifesaver for me otherwise could go all day
without finding a single cache, walking about 20 miles at that. I walk to most caches, though catch a local bus to within walking distance. Or to an entrance of a park.
Other day did a big park near my house without a smartphone walked 10miles finding only 1 cache. But was well worth it.
I'm also a free member on an extremely limited budget.