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Post by aktraveler on Mar 12, 2008 15:36:18 GMT -9
My first attempt at this geocaching thing was a bust Couldn't find the cache but if I had found it, I couldn't get close enough to it to retrieve it anyway! There was no footprints going up to the site (which in retrospect, could mean I was in the wrong place!), but it leads me to ask... How do you geocache in the winter up here and not leave tell-tale evidence leading one right up to the spot? I mean, if there is a trail leading up to a tree for no apparent reason, won't that draw attention to the cache? I read some comments about caching up here in subzero temps but how does one not leave a trail - I haven't mastered the hover quite yet!
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Post by NorthWes on Mar 12, 2008 15:49:46 GMT -9
You're right - you'll leave tracks. Most of us just leave LOTS of tracks! I do, because I seem to never walk right up to the find, but in any case I wander about the area a bit to leave several trails behind. No choice otherwise.
Another seriously effective technique is to bring along a dog - the larger, the better. My standard poodles (the geo-mega-poodle pack) are guaranteed to thoroughly crisscross an area with tracks in mere moments after we arrive on scene. On occasion they've been known to find the cache ahead of me too.
I will admit, in the deep woods some folks stain the snow yellow to camo their real reason for leaving the trail.... me? I just blame the poodles...
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Post by fuzzybelly on Nov 6, 2013 18:46:17 GMT -9
OMG, Northwes, you had me rolling on this one.
reminds me of a saying we would use to rookies on the commercial fishing boat.....If you don't know knots.....tie LOTS.
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Post by fuzzybelly on Nov 6, 2013 18:48:09 GMT -9
I'll take any geotrail I can get.
It is always funny though to see all the geotrails made by the CO when first on the scene of a FTF chase.
We've all got to admit it though, we've made false trails when planting a cache in the winter.
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Post by ladybugkids on Nov 7, 2013 10:31:47 GMT -9
We've all got to admit it though, we've made false trails when planting a cache in the winter. And some people hide caches during Autumn and wait for the snow to fall.
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Post by NeverSummer on Nov 7, 2013 11:03:19 GMT -9
We've all got to admit it though, we've made false trails when planting a cache in the winter. And some people hide caches during Autumn and wait for the snow to fall. It's always a great day when it snows the night when you placed the cache. Happened to me a couple of times back in MN, and it made for some funny conversations with local FTF racers around the table at events!
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Post by akgh519 on Nov 7, 2013 13:00:28 GMT -9
I have waited for weeks to publish a cache after placing it....to cover the tracks made when placing
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Post by ladybugkids on Nov 7, 2013 14:58:16 GMT -9
I have waited for weeks months to publish a cache after placing it....to cover the tracks made when placing Fixed it for you.
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Post by fuzzybelly on Nov 7, 2013 18:30:08 GMT -9
LOL. good one LBK Ya little turd
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