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SSO JOAT Administrator Board of Directors - Webmaster Lying on my back under this forum engine with wrenches and dirty hands... Posts: 3,254 GeocacheAlaska! Membership Level: Sourdough	It's about time JOAT!!! Sept 21, 2011 19:58:42 GMT -9 Reply Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by SSO JOAT on Sept 21, 2011 19:58:42 GMT -9 Finally... Five Hundred! coord.info/GC3364Y X
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It's about time JOAT!!! Sept 22, 2011 7:46:30 GMT -9

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Post by NorthWes on Sept 22, 2011 7:46:30 GMT -9

Wow - what a neat cache to make your 500 milestone on - unique location, a bear encounter, and dinner afterwards at the Reluctant Fisherman. Doesn't get much better than that, unless I'd have been along to buy you dinner! (well - that would've been 'better' for me, at least!)

Congrats on the milestone - especially since you've got nearly a 10% cache placed to cache found ratio (and over half those caches placed are pretty good puzzle caches!)

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Post by SSO JOAT on Jul 21, 2013 23:28:07 GMT -9

Gee, it only took me another 21 months to crawl my way up to 600! What kind of cacher doesn't take time out to go caching?!?

(In my own defense, there are but a handful of caches left around Kenai that I've yet to find; so the pickin's are pretty slim)

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NorthWes Administrator Board of Directors - Vice-President I've got direction in my life... do you? Posts: 1,853 GeocacheAlaska! Membership Level: Sourdough	It's about time JOAT!!! Jul 22, 2013 6:00:34 GMT -9 via the ProBoards App Reply Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by NorthWes on Jul 22, 2013 6:00:34 GMT -9 Congrats again! As busy as you are on the board, it's amazing you find time to cache at all...
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barnacle9 Advocacy Committee Posts: 86 GeocacheAlaska! Membership Level: Sourdough	It's about time JOAT!!! Jul 22, 2013 11:59:28 GMT -9 Reply Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by barnacle9 on Jul 22, 2013 11:59:28 GMT -9 Looks like a good one for #600! Not sure I agree with people that needing a boat automatically makes terrain a 5 though. Congratulations!
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akgh519 Gold Cacher Posts: 530	It's about time JOAT!!! Jul 22, 2013 12:25:30 GMT -9 via the ProBoards App Reply Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by akgh519 on Jul 22, 2013 12:25:30 GMT -9 Congratulations Scott

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Post by SSO JOAT on Jul 22, 2013 18:56:59 GMT -9

I also disagree that the need for a boat automatically makes the terrain a 5* rating. The cache in question is on the south side of Kachemak Bay, which is easily accessed via small boats, river boats, kayaks, etc., so I would have called this one a T-4.

Compare that to a cache on an island that is far enough away from mainland that it will require a larger sea-worthy boat to get there, and perhaps a dingy or kayak to get from tne boat to shore, and then a notable hike up to the cache after you get there, and that's going to be a T-5.

We discussed this at length back in the spring... geocachealaska.proboards.com/thread/1986/define-4-terrain-rating-alaska

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It's about time JOAT!!!

Post by SSO JOAT on Sept 21, 2011 19:58:42 GMT -9

Post by NorthWes on Sept 22, 2011 7:46:30 GMT -9

Post by SSO JOAT on Jul 21, 2013 23:28:07 GMT -9

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Post by akgh519 on Jul 22, 2013 12:25:30 GMT -9

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