Where are they now?
Sagasu
(by rawevil)
Since I started with labrat_wr, it’s only fair to go onto David Lovejoy (aka Sagasu). You see, there’s a family connection there. Most people don’t know that. However, once you become intertwined within the Wisconsin geocaching community you learn things about people that make you go hmmmmm . . . He has never served on the WGA BOD, but he’s definitely a legend in Wisconsin, especially the Fox Valley.
Sagasu joined the geocaching community 12-26-2006. I have it on good word that it was labrat_wr that introduced him to this great hobby. Sagasu is a bit of a puzzle as are his caches. Good luck ever meeting him. He’s the real Sasquatch just like some of his named caches. Check out his milestones:
Cache Milestones:
100: “Real Gone|Dead and Lovely” 2/17/2007
200: “Dr Jekyll & Mr Heid” 3/18/2007
300: “Gotcha Caching” 4/8/2007
400: “Grand Chute’s Wild Side” 5/12/2007
500: “Moonlighting for Cache” 6/9/2007
600: “usa gaS reaches $6.00” 7/5/2007
666: “Flying Fury” 7/21/2007
700: “Head Case” 7/29/2007
800: “Houdini Caching Tour” 8/28/2007
900: “Another Appleton Park in Cacalin” 9/14/2007
1000: “Walking On Velvet Green” 10/7/2007
1100: “No Rookies” 10/28/2007
1111: “Ashwaubomay’s “brave” history” 10/28/2007
1200: “End of The Line|Berlin” 11/24/2007
1300: “Pace Yourself, Again!” 12/26/2007
1400: “Simon sAys: GeocAchers Search aroUnd” 2/15/2008
1500: “Wooly Ceramicist” 3/21/2008
1600: “French Creek : Kelly’s Island” 4/18/2008
1700: “I Know An Artesian, Well” 5/23/2008
1800: “Barking At The Moon” (Michigan) 6/27/2008
1900: “Laughing Waters|You’re Outta Here” 7/31/2008
2000: “Waterworks|Gaged Fox” 8/28/2008
2100: “A Triangle of LOVE, JOY!” 10/2/2008
2200: “Wisconsin Spirit Quest – Pine Hill Cemetery 10/31/2008
2222: “The Quest For The Holy Cache” 11/14/2008
2300: “WSQ 928 All My Children” 2/20/2009
2400: “Iconoclast | Fairey Revolutionary” 5/2/2009
2500: “RAC: Bushwhack! (Five Points)” 6/27/2009
2600: “Easy As Pi?” 8/15/2009
2700: “A Hobbit’s Trail: The Lair of Smaug” (Minnesota) 10/11/2009
2800: “Swan Lake: Trail of the Serpent” 11/28/2009
2900: “Flat Jack Goes To The Park” 3/6/2010
3000: “The Old Man | Gets All Strung Out” 5/15/2010
3100: “The Beacon” 8/12/2010
3200: “Santa’s List” 12/16/2010 & “Remember The Nimmo” logged as #3199
3300: “Hand to Mouth- Solanum Melongena” 4/29/2011
3333: “Trillium Trail” 5/14/2011
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Consecutive Days Logging a Find: 205 from 1/28/2007 to 8/20/2007
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Wisconsin Lonely Cache Game: First Place, January, 2008
Wisconsin Lonely Cache Game: First Place, February, 2008
Wisconsin Lonely Cache Game: First Place, May, 2008
Wisconsin Lonely Cache Game: First Place for 2008
Wisconsin Lonely Cache Game: Second Place for 2009
Wisconsin Lonely Cache Game: Cumulative First Place for 2008 and 2009
Wisconsin Lonely Cache Game: Fourth Place for 2010
Wisconsin Lonely Cache Game: Cumulative First Place for 2008 – 2010
Did you happen to catch the WGA Lonely Cache Game finds? If you’re not familiar with the WGA LCG, check out this link: https://www.wi-geocaching.com/wga-lonely-cache-game/?_tab=map. This year the WGA has recruited a couple of WGA members to be on the task force of the game. There has been more lonely cache finders this year than what’s been seen in the not so distant past. This legend was one of the original players.
And this is a unique bit of information that I was able to come across. Did you know that Sagasu was seldomIseen’s “guinea pig for several years”? It doesn’t actually surprise me too much knowing that they are both from the Land of Selzzup. And, I was this many years old when I found out that Selzzup is actually puzzles spelled backwards (insert face palm here). Thank you Walkingadventure! Sagasu says that seldomIseen was (and still is IMHO) “one of the most imaginative and creative nightmares for solving puzzles and hides”.
So where is he now? I’ll let him tell you in his own words:
“Still working full time nights and wearing a face mask in warm weather – not a lot of fun. Weekdays are real hard to do much other than a full schedule and home life, and I used up too much time last weekend tweaking most of Wander in the Woods, and then spending three hours redoing Sasquatch Search because hunters had used part of my reflector course and then split off their own tack trail with a lot of bright reflectors. So I moved the start and found enough open woods to redo the tack trail. It took a couple days to recover from far more than I had expected out in the marshes Saturday night. But, all the night caches have now been refreshed, and few of our other caches have needed much as I continue to work on durable, long lasting, and often tethered hides or waypoints.
Your general question got me to thinking a lot about the first time I was persuaded to go look for a cache by Pete. I remember that Giz hide well. Went back several times to see where it moved around to. Then Dan and I begin to check out the caches around home. I remember them all, and
the fun we had discovering so many new and imaginative hides, along with some dumb ones. I haven’t been able to reminisce too much yet, but a flood of memories of special places, real inspiring hides, and some great personalities along the way. I hope someday to return to more of the camaraderie that I miss so much along with the active caching. Wonderful memories.”
I want to thank David Lovejoy (aka Sagasu) for all of the fun (well sometimes not) times I’ve tried solving his puzzles. One of his caches was the HARDEST caches I have ever done. It’s rated as a 5/5, and rightly so. I would highly recommend going after it if you have the courage:
Sagasu’s Sinister Semantic Search (https://coord.info/GC182D3) if you haven’t found it already. Thank you Sagasu. The man, the myth, the legend!
P.S. There were Jeep trackables in that cache. The first ever partnership that Geocaching had with a corporation. If you don’t believe me, take the 20-year quiz that HQ put out recently. We kept the Jeeps for discovery at our Halloween event which we then put them in the capable hands of Walkingadventure.
If you are wondering about WGA Legends Series #1 – please see the WGA Summer Newsletter!