Hidden Creatures - progress thread

[+EmzyJanezy]

So how is everybody getting on so far?  Anybody achieved the final award yet? 

 

(couldn't see a thread on this yet so I thought I'd start one.  Feel free to ignore / delete if there is one already)

Edited June 28, 2018 by EmzyJanezy

[Gabeman26]

I haven't even gotten 1 haha. I'm planning to go to an event Saturday and I know a place near me that has a good 20 caches very near each other.

[+NYPaddleCacher]

None for me either.  I probably won't get any until I go on vacation during the last week of the promotion.  

[+BigBlueDot]

I did one one the day of release. Sort of a kick off. But it was  110° around 5:30, after being at work all day, so I called it. I’m planning my weekend though! 

[+Korichnovui]

My team is attacking this with gusto. We have planned out clusters to hit and we’ve already done 3 major clusters, with 4th scheduled later today.

 

It helps that we are still pretty new and haven’t found all the caches in our area.

[+EggsTheBest]

Some people have already achieved the final reward already! Not me though, I only have one souvenir so far.

You can see stats of all souvenirs on Project GC page: https://project-gc.com/Tools/SouvenirList

[+dprovan]

8 hours ago, EmzyJanezy said:

So how is everybody getting on so far?  Anybody achieved the final award yet? 

 

(couldn't see a thread on this yet so I thought I'd start one.  Feel free to ignore / delete if there is one already)

I wouldn't have even known about if if I hadn't see some strange comments about going after hidden creatures in find logs on caches I'm monitoring.

[+noncentric]

I've only gotten 1 of the souvenirs so far, but anticipate getting all of them before the promotion ends. I'm not in a hurry though, so whether I get them next week or next month doesn't make a difference to me.

 

2 hours ago, EggsTheBest said:

You can see stats of all souvenirs on Project GC page: https://project-gc.com/Tools/SouvenirList

I never noticed that PGC page before. Very cool!  I especially like seeing the results of the geotour souvenirs.

[+Max and 99]

So far so good, but I just realized today how big that jump is from Dragon to World Turtle!

[+bulcacher]

I went caching with my son yesterday and with the rest of my family today.  My son and I are 1 away from Phoenix.  We're going to try to finish it.  We usually just have Wednesdays to work on it, though, so we'll see.  My daughters got to the Mermaid today.  I doubt they'll finish it, but we'll see.  It's fun so far.

Edited June 29, 2018 by bulcacher
I forgot something.

[+GrateBear]

One more to just get to Unicorn.  Doubt I will get all of them--lost desire to do power trails a couple of years ago.  But, you never know.

 

[+Team Christiansen]

Six more left to get a "gryphon", but I have always previously only seen it spelled "griffin". I guess I have lived a sheltered life.

[+hzoi]

Got up to Phoenix yesterday.  (The critter, not the city.)

 

I am juggling priorities other than caching over the next month, but as a Discworld fan, I am definitely coveting that turtle...

[SuperKrypto]

this is a fun souvenir set but we are pretty disappointed that it's happening in summer and for a short amount of time - we've found all the nearby caches so we have to go a few miles out which means too many hours in the heat (we don't have a car) so we will be lucky to grab even 1 cache - wish we hadn't burned through so many fruitlessly chasing Pluto...

[+Korichnovui]

Got Dragon today

We took advantage of these few days that we had nothing else going on

Time to take a break and finish the challenge in a more leisurely fashion

[+BeezySATX]

4 away from yeti after today. It's been too hot to stay out for very long

[+Gill & Tony]

My son and I have found most caches to our respective local areas, so we are planning a major trip South next weekend (7th and 8th).  We hope to get all 100 over the two days as there is a series of 105 down there neither of us have found, plus heaps of others.  Just hoping for reasonable weather as it is midwinter down here.

[+Max and 99]

7 minutes ago, Gill & Tony said:

My son and I have found most caches to our respective local areas, so we are planning a major trip South next weekend (7th and 8th).  We hope to get all 100 over the two days as there is a series of 105 down there neither of us have found, plus heaps of others.  Just hoping for reasonable weather as it is midwinter down here.

Midwinter? LOL. 99 for me today. 110 in Tucson.  

[+Max and 99]

Regarding progress on Hidden Creatures: today I logged a cache and got a notification that I earned the Yeti souvenir. I went to my Hidden Creatures link and saw that indeed Yeti was done, and I had 15 more caches to find in order to reach the next level: Dragon.  The top "progress bar" also indicates that I need to find 15 more caches to reach the level of Dragon.  Obviously it's nothing important to the promotion, but I think it's odd that the progress bar does not match how many more caches you need for that souvenir. I remember now that for the very first souvenir, there was also a green bar even though you only need ONE cache for that souvenir.  Just an observation.

 

 

 

 

[DannyCaffeine]

My goal is to at least get the phoenix. Seeing as I am getting back into the game it's metaphorical in a way

[+EmzyJanezy]

I've only got DNFs since the Hidden Creatures thing started!! 

[+*GeoPunx*]

31 of 100 here so far!

[+geocat_]

Went out caching for the first time since the promotion started.  While logging my finds, I was surprised at how many "You've earned a souvenir" notifications came up on my laptop.  Wound up with 9 of them today.  Fully expect to get them all.  It's kind of cool that they make it easy for the casual cacher to get rewarded too.   

[avejr]

I already got the Yeti and 7 more caches until I unlock the Dragon souvenir. I hope I can collect them all before I go back home as caches are very far from my home location in the Philippines.

[+Max and 99]

22 minutes ago, avejr said:

I already got the Yeti and 7 more caches until I unlock the Dragon souvenir. I hope I can collect them all before I go back home as caches are very far from my home location in the Philippines.

Ooh! I hope you have speedy success all the way to World Turtle!

[Gabeman26]

I found 5 creatures just today! A bit more to get the Sphinx. My goal was the Phoenix.

[+rb9228]

I'm sitting this one out.

[avejr]

8 hours ago, Max and 99 said:

Ooh! I hope you have speedy success all the way to World Turtle!

Thanks Max. It would be very nice if I can reach and get the World Turtle Souvenir..

[+JL_HSTRE]

Here in Florida, it's 80 when I wake up in the morning and 90 in the afternoon, with a heat index pushing 100. Given that I don't do driving powertrails there is a fair chance I will find zero caches this month.

[+thebruce0]

On 6/30/2018 at 10:27 PM, Max and 99 said:

Regarding progress on Hidden Creatures: today I logged a cache and got a notification that I earned the Yeti souvenir. I went to my Hidden Creatures link and saw that indeed Yeti was done, and I had 15 more caches to find in order to reach the next level: Dragon.  The top "progress bar" also indicates that I need to find 15 more caches to reach the level of Dragon.  Obviously it's nothing important to the promotion, but I think it's odd that the progress bar does not match how many more caches you need for that souvenir. I remember now that for the very first souvenir, there was also a green bar even though you only need ONE cache for that souvenir.  Just an observation.

 

Technically, you need 50 for the dragon, so the progress bar is correct indicating 35/50.   But yes it can be odd, since no one will ever be below the amount of the previous souvenir. The bar would be more meaningful showing only the progress of the next segment.

[+*GeoPunx*]

41 of 100 now. Hope to be in the 70's by the weekend.

[+BigBlueDot]

We went out and ended with finding only 2 of 5. We will try again. Some of these micros are mind boggling but with every hide you learn a new trick. We're still working on Kracken. Its like ten billion degrees right now in Tucson so we go later in the day. Once we loose light its virtually impossible with all the thorny trees we have here!

[+Harry Dolphin]

I'd been hoping to get fifty C&D caches.  Two-and-a-half- hour drive each way, but I needed to be there for other reasons.  Only got twenty-five caches.  With my nephew, but he's not much help.  Took two hours for the twenty-five caches.  Leaves me eleven for the dragon, and sixty one for the turtle.  We'll see how that works out.

[+T0SHEA]

Yippee ki yay we found 20 caches on a high mountain power trail and earned the "World Turtle" today. 

[+PlantAKiss]

I haven’t even gotten to start yet. ?  My life sucks.

[+Harry Dolphin]

Got the Dragon today!  Only need 49 for the Turtle...  I'm retired now, so maybe I have a chance!  A few more Geotrails around.  But, it's been very hot out.  90's every day for the last week.

[+cerberus1]

29 minutes ago, Harry Dolphin said:

Got the Dragon today!  Only need 49 for the Turtle...  I'm retired now, so maybe I have a chance!  A few more Geotrails around.  But, it's been very hot out.  90's every day for the last week.

 

Yeah... 70s dew point doesn't help either. 

[+dprovan]

I stumbled into a handful or souvenirs. Kinda surprising to get so many from just a few caches. I found it a little annoying that there's no obvious way to figure out which souvenir is for which accomplishment. Even if you go look at the souvenir itself, the description tells you how many caches it took to get that souvenir, but it doesn't have a link to the promotion where I could see the full list. I had to search for that. (It doesn't help that the list seems random: I have a hard time seeing a turtle as more valuable than a unicorn.)

[+GrateBear]

Will probably get to Dragon, but that's about it.  Temps are now in the 90's, low 100's, but dry, so I might give it a go, but the urge hasn't hit yet.  Plenty of power trails within 20 miles or so, but that gets tiring in the heat.

[+GrateBear]

2 minutes ago, dprovan said:

I stumbled into a handful or souvenirs. Kinda surprising to get so many from just a few caches. I found it a little annoying that there's no obvious way to figure out which souvenir is for which accomplishment. Even if you go look at the souvenir itself, the description tells you how many caches it took to get that souvenir, but it doesn't have a link to the promotion where I could see the full list. I had to search for that. (It doesn't help that the list seems random: I have a hard time seeing a turtle as more valuable than a unicorn.)

There's a link on my profile page that shows them all, and the cache count needed.  Showed up one day--nothing that I loaded.

 

Edited July 10, 2018 by GrateBear

[+dprovan]

4 hours ago, GrateBear said:

There's a link on my profile page that shows them all, and the cache count needed.  Showed up one day--nothing that I loaded.

 

I'll have to take you word for it. I can't find it. I had to track down the blog, then follow a link or two from there that finally led me to a list. It seems bizarre that every souvenir doesn't have a link to the list as well as a link to the next highest souvenir. I assume there's some technical glitch that doesn't allow links in souvenier descriptions.

[+Max and 99]

5 hours ago, GrateBear said:

There's a link on my profile page that shows them all, and the cache count needed.  Showed up one day--nothing that I loaded.

 

That's been my go-to for the promotion. 

[+Teuto-Yachter]

I've found Gryphon this week, and hope to get as far as Dragon, too, before time's up, but that will probably be it.

I've kind of used up all the power trails in my vincinity.

[+Melisaco]

I am 9 caches away from the Turtle.  I've even located one of them, but I am short and couldn't reach.  I'll be back with a step stool as soon as I get up early enough to do it with little notice.  It's been fun and I'm lucky because I just recently started in the middle of Phoenix so there were lots still to be found.  Next challenge will require more work on my part I think

 

Edited July 11, 2018 by Melisaco
extra word

[+Melisaco]

On 7/8/2018 at 1:38 PM, BigBlueDot said:

We went out and ended with finding only 2 of 5. We will try again. Some of these micros are mind boggling but with every hide you learn a new trick. We're still working on Kracken. Its like ten billion degrees right now in Tucson so we go later in the day. Once we loose light its virtually impossible with all the thorny trees we have here!

I feel your pain.  It's been so hot in Phoenix you don't even want to think about outside, let alone go into it.

[+BigBlueDot]

Why couldn’t Hidden Creatures start in October?? Lol

[31MAK]

On 7/1/2018 at 5:06 AM, DannyCaffeine said:

My goal is to at least get the phoenix. Seeing as I am getting back into the game it's metaphorical in a way

 

Even though I have no chance, the world turtle would be nice as I'm a HUGE Discworld (and Terry Pratchett) fan

[+noncentric]

17 hours ago, dprovan said:

I'll have to take you word for it. I can't find it. I had to track down the blog, then follow a link or two from there that finally led me to a list. It seems bizarre that every souvenir doesn't have a link to the list as well as a link to the next highest souvenir. I assume there's some technical glitch that doesn't allow links in souvenier descriptions.

The link is actually in the 'new' Dashboard page, not on Profile pages. In the left-nav column.

[+dprovan]

1 hour ago, noncentric said:

The link is actually in the 'new' Dashboard page, not on Profile pages. In the left-nav column.

Thanks for the tip. That explains why I didn't see it. I did go to look at the new dashboard, but I overlooked the link because it's way more prominent than I expected. It didn't occur to me that something so incidental and ephemeral would be the very first link.

[+NYPaddleCacher]

17 hours ago, BigBlueDot said:

Why couldn’t Hidden Creatures start in October?? Lol

 

That's a good question.   September and October are generally good months for geocaching no matter where one lives.  While it may be very hot in Arizona right now,  it's in the middle of winter in the southern hemisphere.