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For the past several years my geocaching quota has dropped off the
map. My wife really loved virtuals... (yeah). My old went off to
college, and my younger two never really enjoyed it. My youngest
got into competitive archery and we have been doing tournaments on a
national level. And there went the time and money. I still love it,
but, I don't have the people to do it with (in my family) that I
once did.<br>
<br>
In some ways I miss the Halloween Radioactives (I still have the
shirts, pictures, and memories). Those were events like none other.
While Tamo and crew put huge resources into these, I tried to be of
some value in putting these together. Even that little effort was a
lot of work. But, I miss the association of all these good folks.<br>
<br>
I have dozens of caches in the four miles radius of my home. At one
point I nearly had all of them in a 10 mile radius. Time change,
people change. But, man, it was (and still is) fun.<br>
<br>
Steven Stringham<br>
StringCachers<br>
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On 12/4/2011 11:23 PM, wogun1 wrote:
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shout out to Team Tierra Buena! Nice to see you name again!
We are still out there too—and loving it! Hope to run into
you one day! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Terry
& Barb<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">wogunhiker<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:az-geocaching-bounces@listserv.azgeocaching.com">az-geocaching-bounces@listserv.azgeocaching.com</a>
[<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:az-geocaching-bounces@listserv.azgeocaching.com">mailto:az-geocaching-bounces@listserv.azgeocaching.com</a>] <b>On
Behalf Of </b>Team Tierra Buena<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, December 04, 2011 7:46 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:listserv@azgeocaching.com">listserv@azgeocaching.com</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Az-Geocaching] Are people still
caching?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet
MS","sans-serif"">We're still caching, and
we're still enjoying it as much as ever, even after ten
years.. But we've become much more selective about the kinds
of caches we go after. I don't think it's dying, I think
it's just become fragmented in a number of ways:
geographically, for one, how the caching communities
communicate internally and externally is another, and
perhaps most significantly, there is fragmentation in terms
of what cachers see as their goals. For many, it's become a
numbers game, and I think it's a tribute to geocaching that
it's been able to adapt to accommodate that. And all the
other ways to play that have evolved over the years. For us,
though, it's still and always has been about location. We
want to cache someplace that's beautiful or interesting or
unusual, and we don't want finding the cache to be a vision
test when we get there, because our aging eyes will most
likely flunk that test and spoil the fun.<br>
<br>
Brian, I can also agree with you from experience that trying
(or being forced) to take geocaching from the world of
recreation to the world of business and lawyers will
definitely, as you put it, suck the joy out of it. Someone
in one of these recent posts mentioned Halloween
Radioactive... I almost became physically ill seeing those
two words in print again. Those were the years when caching
took over our lives, while at the same time we did next to
no caching. <br>
<br>
Just Hike once referred to us as "old school cachers", and
we took that title with pride. We can't wait until next
weekend so we can go out caching again -- our way.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 3:40 PM, Brian
Cluff <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://brian-at-snaptek.com">brian-at-snaptek.com</a>
|Geocaching-AZ/Sneak1.0 Allow| <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:4ljlb6dntt@sneakemail.com">4ljlb6dntt@sneakemail.com</a>>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I personally haven't been out in quite a
while. The cachers that I run into all tell me that they
aren't looking for caches anymore, though some say they
still go to some of the get together events to hang out with
friends.<br>
<br>
I know for me the joy was sucked out of it when the lawyers
for <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://geocaching.com"
target="_blank">geocaching.com</a> contacted us to tell us
to take down functionality that we had created and they had
copied..<br>
<br>
This discussion list has also died. It used to get a couple
dozen messages a day in its heyday, now we get about a
message a month.<br>
<br>
Are people still caching? It seems like it became a
dying/dead fad from where I sit.<br>
<br>
Brian Cluff<br>
Team Snaptek<br>
AzGeocaching.com
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