[GeoStL] Re: Geocaching in the snow
- From: Dan Henke <thunder_monk@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 06:49:39 -0800 (PST)
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Just one question: Even if you are following
footprints in the snow How do you know whether that
person found the cache?....I personally use every clue
that I can find to help locate some of these elusive
caches but most of the time I am looking too closely
at my GPSR to notice footprints etc....but while we
are at it then I have never seen a cache yet unless it
was brand new that did not have at least a small sign
of previuos cachers.....several of mine have been
there for 6 or so months (maybe more I am not sure
this early in the morning) and there are trails (very
faint but definite) leading to those caches....Bruce
said at the last picnic that to locate a cache he
doesn't look for the cache itself but rather for
things out of place....piles of sticks that are
unnatural etc....I guess this would also include faint
trails or signs of previous cachers......If you want
an absolutely clean cache with no signs leading to it
you had better be first on all of them
Just my 2 cents worth but something to think about
Dan (Thunder)
--- Eric & Dayna East <lichanura@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> -
> Sorry if this has been addressed before but, if it
> has, it was before my
> time...
> What are your thoughts on geocaching in the snow?
> Snow covered conditions would obviously make finding
> the cache more
> difficult for the initial hunter. However, the next
> person would only
> need to follow the footprints left by the previous
> hunter. What's the
> fun in that? Personally, I would feel cheated.
> Don't take this wrong, i'm not blasting anyone for
> caching in the snow.
> In fact, I recently did so myself but, only by
> accident. Ok, I know what
> your thinking... How do you hunt by accident? Well,
> when I left home,
> the snow had all melted here in Quincy but, when I
> got to the cache site
> 35 miles away, there was still a couple of inches of
> snow on the ground
> and I wasn't about to drive home empty handed. :-)
>
> God bless!
>
> Eric
>
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