[BONUS] I Love Wings

04/06/2020 By OneKindWord
Had a little extra time in the Greeley area today, so I decided to tackle some more of the Wingin' It caches. I love WIG caches, and this one was put together very well - the cartridge worked perfectly for me. Took a bit to spot the cache once I arrived at the final location. Thanks for the great Wherigo adventure!

01/31/2020 By AbvAvg
Pushed us out of our comfort zone with this series and will not cringe in the future when we have to do projections. Thanks to the coCreation team for that. The final Wherigo was fun. Signed logsheet.

01/29/2020 By animjason
I love Wherigo caches, and can't wait until they are easily functioning on android again. I had to download the cartridge on the computer, and then put on my phone for it to work. Cartridge ran great, and only 2 zones needed a little bigger size.

Thanks for the fun day testing zones. And finding crazy hard caches! Gets a fave!

Apologies to icezebra11 for the beta confusion. I tested the Wherigo cartridge, and checked on all the finals. The puzzles were still being created when I was here.

Thanks coCreation! Logged [BONUS] I Love Wings from a ninth galaxy using c:geo!

~ Geocache Find #10917 ~

01/29/2020 By icezebra11
Well this whole series has been quite the adventure. There were many highs and lows along the way but the highs definitely outnumbered the lows.

Lows:
-All of the math errors I made resulting in coordinates that couldn't possibly be right.
-A WhereYouGo app that wouldn't work for me for a couple days. It would only add the first plate of wings to my inventory but nothing after that.
-Finding the right key for the 3rd stage of Spicy Garlic Wings was particularly frustrating due to my own incompetence.
-And the formula errors - Denali41 and I discovered three different errors in the two caches we completed on the 26th; and on the 27th and 28th I discovered three more caches each had an equation error. I understand the precision that must go into putting these types of puzzles together and that an occasional error can slip through. But when beta tester logs came in on these after the first find, it was very apparent that the beta testing did not include grinding through the formulas. I found that aspect more frustrating than actually discovering the errors.

Highs:
-Finding all the hidden numbers fairly easily.
-Determining six equation corrections without help from the CO (other than confirmation that what Denali41 and I reported as errors truly were and that the corrections were accurate) by relying on my knowledge of coordinate systems and projections and deducing the intended results. What started as lows, became highs when each corrected formula resulted in a successful find of the next stage.
-Fixing my WhereYouGo problem. (I must have had a bug in my WhereYouGo app and had to uninstall and reinstall the app.)
-Finding the plates of wings.
-And, of course, finding this Grand Finale cache!

After my WIG issue was fixed, I gathered up all the wings. Boy was I full from eating all those wings! It will probably be a while before I have wings again. (But maybe I'll have a plate for dessert in the future.) Wink

I found the container right where the WIG cartridge finally led me. I opened it to discover a blank log, which I triumphantly signed in the {FTF} position. I then placed it back exactly as discovered.

Thanks coCreation for feeding my addiction to wings and tough caches!!!!! Despite the hiccups, in my opinion this is the best series of caches that have ever been placed in association with Wingin'It. Much of my experience has been that Wingin'It caches have been given D/Ts that were greatly overrated. That's definitely not the case with this series of 10. I'd say your ratings on a few are actually too low. I think the easiest ones deserve at least a 2.5D, maybe 3D, simply because most cachers don't know coordinate systems and projections and then you've added additional complications. But the bottom line from me is WELL DONE!!!!!!!

01/26/2020 By IgnotusPeverell
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