MnGCA

[dornole]

Just got curious about something when I was worked on the 100 Cache Owners challenge and going back through my logs. In the process I clicked on a number of cachers who used to be quite active in my area, ("whatever happened to . .") I was surprised that a lot of them had logged in within the past couple of weeks. Yet no or only a handful of finds for a couple of years or more.

Have you gone through periods as an "armchair" cacher?

[BigChiefS4]

Armchair caching is logging finds without leaving the comfort of your own home.

I was a very casual cacher when I first started in 2010. Now I have a 190 day streak going and have averaged over 200 finds a month for the last 6 months.

I do wonder about those people who place a bunch of caches and then disappear. There's one cacher, RyanTheGr8, who placed a whole bunch of caches in my neighborhood in April of last year. Now he's gone and his caches are slowly disappearing because he won't maintain them.

[casinoman]

[Rustynails]

[BigChiefS4]

If he can't maintain them, then he never should've put them out there in the first place. If he's not old enough to drive, I guess being a teenager and placing them was fun, but didn't think about the maintaining part of it at all.

That's ok, as they disappear, Butcher and I replace them with something new.

[Tropicalloon]

Interesting. I just looked at his profile earlier today, as I finally got my c:geo maps working again & noticed "bricks" has been disabled by one of our reviewers. I noticed the CO was on geocaching.com recently, but hasn't found any for a long time. I'm guessing he's from the area his caches were placed in & there have been many new ones posted the last few months which would be easy to bike or walk to. Looks like his interest is waning?!

[casinoman]

[BigChiefS4]

None of them were Boy Scout related. He could still be a Scout, but I doubt it. He dumped 20-30 in South Mpls and they're slowly disappearing because he doesn't maintain them. I sent him an email a few months ago offering to adopt them, but no response. So, I'll wait for them to get archived and then place my own.

[ST11]

I have to admit I was very actively caching until this last winter. I login several times a day but log many fewer caches than i used to. Most of this is due to the fact I have the local area picked clean and with the cost of fuel I don't go out of my way to find caches and tend to do them when I am in the area. I guess that's why I am not much of a FTF or numbers guy.

During the summer I ride the motortrikes so then fuel costs concerns go out the window and away I go. I now do most of my active caching during the summer and become passive in the winter months.

[A-body]

There is a pre-teen cacher in the SE metro with 150+. I hate to see what happens to those caches when he loses interest

[bflentje]

[beagleboo]

[Arcticabn]

I was pretty active until I took that header and broke both arms. Then I just sort of stopped for awhile. Then all of the work in Iraq sort of keep me off the grid as well. Then the move to CA. I've just started picking it back up again in the last few month.

I figured out one thing real quickly out here. I still hate urban caching. I still hate lamp posts and nanos behind signs in town. Doesn't mean I won't do them. I just don't like them.

If any of you come out this way, I can sure recommend some exciting back country caching. But you will need a high clearance vehicle. But I can guarantee that you won't find anything like it in Minnesota.
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Airborne All the Way!

[bflentje]

[Arcticabn]