[GeoStL] Re: A Puzzling Cache... and some thoughts
- From: bromley@xxxxxxx
- To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Mike Griffin <griff@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 12:41:49 -0500
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I agree with Dan about caching and losing the beginners. My son, who is 14,
isn't fond of the micros. He'd rather look for "An another ammo box in the
Woods" type caches. He and I scoured that sink hole last week for over an hour
an, not even once did he say he was bored or wanted to give up on it. When he
looks for micros he isn't as enthusiastic. I don't mind micros but haven't a
clue as to even how to start on Puzzle caches. It's not that I can't do them,
it's that I don't know how to start to solve them.
We need to continue to provide a good mix but also help bring along the
beginners to the point that they aren't intimidated with Puzzle caches and look
forward to solving and finding them.
It's all about education to advance the sport. We need to create ways for the
more experienced cachers to share their experience with the beginners. I can't
tell you how many logs I've read from people who've had a string of DNF's and
have given up. I've come to the point now that I can spot a lot of the obvious
hides as I walk up to an area. It's at that point, I start enjoying the micros
because they take more systematic searching. I didn't appreciate them at my
first 20+ hides, I was happy to find anything at that point. It's the same way
with puzzle caches. Once I get a clue as to how to solve them, I'd probably
enjoy them as much as the next person. Right now they are too much bother.
The more people we involve in the sport, the more caches we'll have to look for.
The better trained those people are, the better quality hides we'll have.
Quoting Mike Griffin <griff@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
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> That is why I balance my caches.. I like to have a mix of all flavors. I was
> just in Micro hell last week. I had 5 DNFs in the area. Everyplace was a
> micro. I was trying to leave a coin and could not find a single cache that
> would hold it. I finally expanded the area and was lucky enough to find a
> cache of regular size. I think as hiders, we sometimes get bored with
> ordinary caches. I have a few out and they get a lot more hits than the
> puzzle caches. That's to be expected.
>
> I think we have a good mix in St. Louis of traditional caches and puzzle
> caches. We are not overrun by micros, yet..
>
> Mike
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dan Henke" <thunder_monk@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 9:45 AM
> Subject: [GeoStL] Re: A Puzzling Cache... and some thoughts
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> So says the hitchhiker's guide to the Universe :P
> Glad I don't live in PA and don't any of you get any ideas here ..
>
> Whatever happened to just plain ordinary traditional caches that a person
> can just go out and find.
>
> We are losing sight of the beginners with all these puzzle caches
>
> I have a good friend in WV who has a number of grandchildren that she takes
> to local parks to play and keep busy .....I thought maybe she and the kids
> might enjoy geocaching so I told her about it.....then I ran her zipcode to
> see what might be nearby and sure enough their was a cache within a mile of
> her house....A MICRO!!!!!! ...not good for kids ....I checked 15 caches
> within 4 miles of her ...they were all MICROS or puzzle caches too hard for
> a beginner to figure out. So I gave her the page to look but she is not
> interested in taking kids to look for 35 mm film containers and does not
> have the time or patience to figure out complicated puzzles.
>
> Puzzle and complicated caches are fine for those who live in an area and
> have the time to work on them but please remember there are some of us who
> do not have the time nor the inclination to figure this stuff out and
> beginning cachers are completely turned off by something too hard and
> difficult to work out.
>
> Just my thoughts ...have a great day
>
> Dan
>
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> Mike Griffin <griff@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: -
> http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GCQW8K
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> The answer is 42!
>
> Mike
>
> Tired of Spam??
> Here's your solution..
> See: http://www.spamarrest.com/affl?4001050
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> ----- Original Message -----
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> The link won't work for me. What is the GC number?
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> Tim
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> Not sure how the address got messed up when all I did was cut & paste.
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> Why didn't I think of this?
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