Cache-cadians

[+Blue J Wenatchee]

Tonight the flow is 324 . I did Itty Bitty Island cache yesterday and I am amazed at low the Columbia is. Where is all the water that is going to generate electricity to heat my house this winter ??

I went up to the river this evening before dark and it dawned on my at that time that I dont even know how to get to the river at the spot that Pinball is. I tried the Saunders road side of the river and that must not be it. I was going to check the Dryden side but it was dark after I did a couple of caches in Dertown. Oh well.

[+xy,xx,xy,xy,xy,xy]

If you click on the rand Mcnally Map Link fron the cache page, then zoom in one more notch, you;ll see the way in from Dryden. It is a fish and Wildlife access.

[+The Navigatorz]

Tonight the flow is 324 .

Wow! If it keeps going down, you may not even get your ankles wet.

[+The Navigatorz]

I see Jacknapps new one was approved, too bad I have to work tomorrow. Hmmm..what did I read earlier? XY has Friday off? Coincidence? Hmmm....Buddies.

[+xy,xx,xy,xy,xy,xy]

I see Jacknapps new one was approved, too bad I have to work tomorrow. Hmmm..what did I read earlier? XY has Friday off? Coincidence? Hmmm....Buddies.

I went out with Mr. Gadget #2 This morning, but there wasn't time before his Dr. Appt to make a 1 1/2 mile hike. I have too many home projects to do now and can't justify the time. Gadget probably already has it in hand by now.

[+Ambrosia]

It seems that there are some congratulations in order for today:

 

Patudles - 1300

 

Navigatorz - 1300

 

Gadget - 400

 

Congratulations, everyone!

 

What a day.

[+Blue J Wenatchee]

Congratulations you guys. You are the ones that inspire me to keep caching. I am barely over 100 and with winter coming I wont even come close to guys. Keep up the good work.

 

Blue J

[+xy,xx,xy,xy,xy,xy]

It seems that there are some congratulations in order for today:

 

Patudles - 1300

 

Navigatorz - 1300

 

Gadget - 400

 

Congratulations, everyone!

 

What a day.

A great big hearty FTF WoooHooo to all of you!

[+Mr. Gadget #2]

I see Jacknapps new one was approved, too bad I have to work tomorrow.  Hmmm..what did I read earlier?  XY has Friday off?  Coincidence?  Hmmm....Buddies.

I went out with Mr. Gadget #2 This morning, but there wasn't time before his Dr. Appt to make a 1 1/2 mile hike. I have too many home projects to do now and can't justify the time. Gadget probably already has it in hand by now.

Yes I did get FTF also. Had a good report from the Dr. on my arm injury. I could not resist going out and nabbing a few caches to set myself up for a milestone cache with the Navagatorz on Sat.

It is a lot further to the cache than the way a crow flies from the parking area. It is a good hike and well worth the hike.Some intersting sandstone gully washes in the area.

[+Patudles]

Thanks for the congrats even though I haven't posted my logs yet and Congrats to Nav and Gadget. They both beat me to their milestones. They went out togeather and I went out with Ccmin to try to keep up with Nav.

 

Edit: Ooooops

Edited September 20, 2005 by Patudles

[+The Navigatorz]

Didn't realize it until just now, but Ambrosia reached 600 while on vacation in California a week or so ago. So a belated Congratulations Ambrosia!!

[+Mr. Gadget #2]

HEAR YEE, HEAR YEE AMBROSIA HAS BEEN QUITE SNEAKY AND QUIET ABOUT REACHING A MILESTONE WITHOUT BEING NOTICED.

CONGRATULATIONS DEAR ONE FOR YOUR 600 CACHE FIND.[/color

[+Ambrosia]

 

Thanks, guys.

[+Patudles]

Oooops, sorry I forgot even though I knew all about it. Sorry Ambrosia. Congratulations to you. I know you had to work hard to acheive this.

[+Blue J Wenatchee]

Tonight on PBS on NOVA there is a story on the megafloods that carved out the valleys that we love to play hide and seek in

 

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/megaflood/

 

Bruce talked about this at the last Erratics meeting and tonight is the night it airs on NOVA.

 

J

[+Blue J Wenatchee]

Edited September 20, 2005 by Blue J Wenatchee

[+Blue J Wenatchee]

The flow this morning is at 319 . I am scheduled to have tomorrow off and am seriously going to try this around 2pm tomorrow. There is no rain in the forescast and another day it might be even lower. It is setting records every time it drops.

 

J

Edited September 20, 2005 by Blue J Wenatchee

[+Patudles]

Sunday September 25, a.m. Anyone want to go to The World as Runhills Likes To See It and Prayer Flags I really want to go do these two before winter sets in. I heard that Amabilis Mountain Cache is a really great cache also and has not had very many visitors.

 

Anyone game to go let me know.

[+Ambrosia]

Oooops, sorry I forgot even though I knew all about it. Sorry Ambrosia. Congratulations to you. I know you had to work hard to acheive this.

Thanks.

[+Blue J Wenatchee]

At 9am this morning the flow at Peshastin is 314. Normbev and I are going to walk on water at 2 pm today if anyone wants to join us. I scoped out the area yesterday and I think that we can make it without getting too wet upstream from where the others did it 2 weeks ago.

 

J

[+The Navigatorz]

Good luck and have fun. Let us know how you did.

[+Allanon]

314?!?! Wow...So much for that shiny thing I left in that cache...

 

You'll have a blast! Be safe!

[+Blue J Wenatchee]

It took me over 2 months to get to 100 and the G-People have done it in just over a month. Congratulations to you guys. Plus you have Jeeps and coins that i don't have. I need to quit working all these hours and start caching full time.

 

J

[+Ambrosia]

And they did their 100 at 98801. They have good taste.

 

Congratulations!

[+Ambrosia]

It took me 8 months to do my first 100. Of course, 90% of those were either done out of town, out of state, or were locationless.

 

At all of your rates, you'll be passing me up very soon.

 

Have fun!

[+The Navigatorz]

I recently completed my Geocaching Webpage and thought I'd share it. It is linked on my profile page. Not as fancy as some I've seen, but it was fun to make.

 

And Congratulations to g-people. At a pace of 100 in a month, does that mean you'll have 1200 in your first year?

Edited September 24, 2005 by The Navigatorz

[+Mr. Gadget #2]

Congratulations "g-people for your first centry mark. I am willing to bet you will have your next 100 before snow flies.

As for all of you other cache-cadians, I have had a lot of e-mail caontact with them and they would like to meet with the rest of us at some local event. They have a very interesting story to tell on placing thier first hide in Wenatchee.

GOOD WOORK g-people!!!

Edited September 24, 2005 by Mr. Gadget #2

[+Ambrosia]

they would like to meet with the rest of us at some local event.

Working on it!

[+xy,xx,xy,xy,xy,xy]

Congrats to the G- People. Also Jackknap blew by 200 a coupe of weeks ago. This guy is on fore. He took Thursday and found 21 caches and DNF1. Pace yourself, buddy.

[+Patudles]

Congrats to the G- People. Also Jackknap blew by 200 a coupe of weeks ago. This guy is on fore. He took Thursday and found 21 caches and DNF1. Pace yourself, buddy.

Simmer down XY, let em go, or is he getting breathing down your back.

Congrats to both G-people and Jackknap on your milestones. Hope we get to meet you all at out Oct. event.

[+Blue J Wenatchee]

I missed Pinball last week and today it is 304 . I have a meeting at the airport Tuesday at 1130 and at 2pm I should be standing on the beach. I am gonna do it this week while it is still low and no chance of rain.

 

Wednesday I am going to do a Stevens Pass run starting with Druid Training and ending at Deception Falls with stops along Hiway 2. Hopefully time will allow for Wellington and the old Hiway hides.

 

Have a good week.

 

J

[+The Navigatorz]

The flow at 5:00 this evening was 299 cfs. Amazing.

[+xy,xx,xy,xy,xy,xy]

OK People (this means you Toodles, Nav, and Gadget) Repeat after me..."You can't claim FTF unless you find a cache AFTER it is posted." (Unless it is your birthday or something.) Nav already has enough of an FTF advantage over the rest of us because his phone rings each time a cache is approved.

[+Ambrosia]

OK People (this means you Toodles, Nav, and Gadget) Repeat after me..."You can't claim FTF unless you find a cache AFTER it is posted." (Unless it is your birthday or something.) Nav already has enough of an FTF advantage over the rest of us because his phone rings each time a cache is approved.

Just ignore them, and claim ftf anyway. It's what we all do.

[+The Navigatorz]

Mr. Gadget and I were discussing whether or not we should claim FTF or not and decided the way gas prices are going, it made sense to claim the find then, rather than drive back up after the cache was posted. We also thought if anyone was going to squawk about it, it would be XY. There are no official rules regarding FTF, and there are no official stats for FTF either. If you read my log on Gadget's hide, I say nothing about FTF. I will remove it from my homepage list though, so it won't be a sore point with you.

[+Ambrosia]

Mr. Gadget and I were discussing whether or not we should claim FTF or not and decided the way gas prices are going, it made sense to claim the find then, rather than drive back up after the cache was posted. We also thought if anyone was going to squawk about it, it would be XY. There are no official rules regarding FTF, and there are no official stats for FTF either. If you read my log on Gadget's hide, I say nothing about FTF. I will remove it from my homepage list though, so it won't be a sore point with you.

There is absolutely no point in going back up to a far a way place that you've already been just so that you can log the cache later. That is just twisting yourself around and just plain silly.

[+The Navigatorz]

Nav already has enough of an FTF advantage over the rest of us because his phone rings each time a cache is approved.

Clarification: My phone doesn't ring every time a cache is approved. I have to go online just like everyone else. The advantage I have is my computer with internet access fits in my pocket, a Pocket PC phone from Verizon. So with mobile web I can access gc.com's instant cache notification e-mail from almost anywhere.

[+xy,xx,xy,xy,xy,xy]

The trouble with these danged computers is that they can't convey a sarcastic tone of voice or show a person talking with tongue in cheek. I'm just ticked at myself that I didn't have the good sense to put my name in the logbook for dadgum!!!when I was along for the hide. I'm not against logging a find. Just make it clear that firsties is still out there. I agree with the whole gas rationale too.

 

edit: Rants are much more convincing when you spell correctly

Edited September 27, 2005 by xy,xx,xy,xy,xy,xy

[+Patudles]

Simmer down guys. It is just an adventure. Geo-caching.com is just a way of publishing a geocache. It is not the rules. Anyone can hide a cache and publish it via giving the coords out by phone, mail, in person and or geocaching.com. How ever the coords are given out and who finds it first is not the importance of the cache. If I want to hide a cache and call a fellow Cache-cadian with the coords and then publish it on Groundspeak it is okay. I am the cache owner and am playing the games under my terms. Groundspeak is just one way of letting people know where the cache is.

 

If you are competitive and like to be FTF. That is okay too. Some people like the competiveness. Just think of why you want to be FTF though. Is it the challenge? If so you can still be FTF after it was published. Or is it the attention you want. The gratification of everyone seeing how many FTF you have. If that is it, don't worry, the rest of us aren't really interested in that. That is for your own gratification.

[+The Navigatorz]

Dang, I feel like I was just scolded by the VP, and I didn't even bring this subject up. I even said I didn't claim FTF in my log, and would remove it from the list on my homepage. I even said there are no rules in FTF. So why is this an issue? This is one reason I avoid events. Just let me go geocaching and you guys can get together and argue all you want.

[+Ambrosia]

Dang, I feel like I was just scolded by the VP, and I didn't even bring this subject up. I even said I didn't claim FTF in my log, and would remove it from the list on my homepage. I even said there are no rules in FTF. So why is this an issue? This is one reason I avoid events. Just let me go geocaching and you guys can get together and argue all you want.

We never argue at events.

[+Patudles]

Geo-caching.com is just a way of publishing a geocache. It is not the rules. Anyone can hide a cache and publish it via giving the coords out by phone, mail, in person and or geocaching.com. How ever the coords are given out and who finds it first is not the importance of the cache. If I want to hide a cache and call a fellow Cache-cadian with the coords and then publish it on Groundspeak it is okay. I am the cache owner and am playing the games under my terms. Groundspeak is just one way of letting people know where the cache is.

 

Sorry if I hurt anyones feelings. I was not scolding. I usually speak before I think. But what I was pointing out is that is doesn't matter how you got the coords to be FTF. They don't have to be published. Hmm, just got an idea for a cache.

[+Patudles]

Dang, I feel like I was just scolded by the VP, and I didn't even bring this subject up. I even said I didn't claim FTF in my log, and would remove it from the list on my homepage. I even said there are no rules in FTF. So why is this an issue? This is one reason I avoid events. Just let me go geocaching and you guys can get together and argue all you want.

Oh, come on and come to the events, just bring your boxing gloves

[+The Navigatorz]

I'm just ticked at myself that I didn't have the good sense to put my name in the logbook for dadgum!!!when I was along for the hide.

You should have signed the log in dagblasted, and Patudles should have signed the logs in the four Eureka caches. What were you guys thinking?

[+Blue J Wenatchee]

If you have the time this weekend make a trip to Tumwater and look at the dam. I have lived in the valley for 25 years and have made many trips thru Tumwater canyon and have never seen the water this low. You can see the diverters on the spillway. I did 11 on Hiway 2 today and most of them were history lessons. And a bonus..the colors are wonderful. Enjoy a fall drive and go over Stevens pass.

 

J

Edited September 29, 2005 by Blue J Wenatchee

[+xy,xx,xy,xy,xy,xy]

You should have signed the log in dagblasted,

Funny thing, but when I typed in the cache name, I used the actual name, but when the entry was posted, Groundspeak had changed it to dadgum!!! They must have family friendly anti swearing software in effect.

[+Allanon]

Funny thing, but when I typed in the cache name, I used the actual name, but when the entry was posted, Groundspeak had changed it to dadgum!!! They must have family friendly anti swearing software in effect.

Yes, they do...

 

We must be protected, you know...

[+xy,xx,xy,xy,xy,xy]

Odd then that the cache was approved with the name drat!!! (or something like that.)

Edited September 29, 2005 by xy,xx,xy,xy,xy,xy

[+Allanon]

I know nothing...and usually I like it that way.

[+xy,xx,xy,xy,xy,xy]

Funny how it will change dam with an n on the end to dadgum, but it won't spell check. Ain't life grand?