(by CacheCows and Dustpuppy)

This is an excerpt from an e-mail that was sent to WalkingAdventure in regards to our WGA heritage. The letter below was used with permission from CacheCows and Dustpuppy. A huge thank you to them for providing all of us this wonderful letter and history lesson.

We are grateful to the founding fathers (and mothers) of the WGA and are hoping to fulfill all of the visions those before us have set. You all gave us the building blocks on which we hope to keep adding to the foundation both now and in the years to come.

Please enjoy a vital part of our history.

“We have never met, but we have a history.

I received the latest WGA newsletter today, and was excited, and a bit
trepidatious, to see the WGA history announced.

And I must say, my wife (Arn) and I were more than thrilled at how
complete, but more so how accurate John Sudar’s work is.
Not that our memories are perfect, but we can’t see any issues with the
history, and frankly in this day and age of history being twisted
nationwide, it was refreshing to see this excellent work!

To see the accurate time line, the accurate reviewers list and story,
the picnics and campouts list was a real joy to see, including all the
Friday campout games listed that Arn & I created for the group. The goal
back then was to increase the member participation on Friday nights, so
we were asked each year to come up with a creative game. I’m not sure
which was our personal favorite, but it was probably either the CSI game
or the Amazing Race game.

The first campout as was mentioned was at Governor Dodge State Park. We
had to checkout the location before announcing it, so that Winter I
headed out to the park to check the group sites. Unfortunately, that
part of the park was closed, so I had to hike in through a foot of
snow. As it was a few miles to hit each group area, out in the closed
part of the park, with dusk settling, I noticed the wolf or coyote
prints. That was more excitement than I had planned on, so we were
thrilled at how well the site worked for the first campout!

By the way, there is a logo that precedes the one on the history page.
Ken Braband may still have a copy of it, he had very early on
established a Yahoo Group for the WGA organization prior to our website,
and he edited a photograph of Mount Rushmore, replacing the faces with
the WGA Founding Father’s faces. Just a side note, Arn & I were part of
the founders of the WGA, you will find at least my face on the doctored
image. We were not part of the Pike Lake organizers, but we were at that
event and part of the organizers from that day on. As was stated, Pike
Lake was pre-WGA.

Anyway, enough rambling down memory lane. Please forward a copy of this
to John Sudar, we would like him to know how much we appreciate his
thorough and accurate work!
And thanks to yourself, the current board, and all the boards after we
retired for the great job of sustaining, promoting, strengthening and
growing the WGA!

Sincerely, Alan & Arlene Fiebig (aka CacheCows and Dustpuppy)”