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07/11/2007 at 6:39 am #1725146
As we have done in the past, the WGA is working with the Wisconsin DNR to conduct an introduction to geocaching course at the Ice Age Center in the Northern Kettle Moraine. The event will be held on July 28 at 6:30 PM until 8:45. Tie has always presented this class in the past, but family obligations have intruded into his schedule, so I volunteered to do the presentation this year.
Unfortunately, we don’t have any volunteers lined up yet, so I need to scramble to get people there to help out the new geocachers. If you know how to use your GPS and how to find a 1 difficulty cache, we need you to show up, meet some new geocachers and show them the ropes. Basically, you show them how to find select a waypoint on the GPS, and then follow them around and make sure they don’t get too frustrated or lost. You’ll find it to be a lot of fun, plus you get heckle me while I give the presentation. I am also going to set up an event cache so the volunteers can get a smiley while giving back to the sport.
If you are able to help out, please post a note here (or on the event page once I get it through the review process). I look forward to seeing you all there.
07/11/2007 at 1:26 pm #1876912Yup… blame it on my no-father-good-in-law this time.
The Ice Age Center is about an hour (or so) north of Metro-Milwaukee area, up Hwy. 41 then Hwy. 45.
The people there are great to work with and it is a beautiful area.
Also, there is a great local hamburger stand in Dundee, just up the road from the Ice Age center. You can have a burger and visit the old mill (featured on Extreme Makeover, Home Edition last year).
07/11/2007 at 7:00 pm #1876913@Buy_The_Tie wrote:
Also, there is a great local hamburger stand in Dundee, just up the road from the Ice Age center. You can have a burger and visit the old mill (featured on Extreme Makeover, Home Edition last year).
Hey, I’ve been there! It is good.
Unfortunately, I will be near Mt. Horeb that day.
07/11/2007 at 7:39 pm #1876914Count us in.
07/11/2007 at 9:53 pm #1876915The beast (Trudy & the beast) will be there. He was talking about it earlier with Tie, I think. His computer hasn’t been working, so he has been off line. But, I still communicate with him.
07/14/2007 at 1:46 am #1876916@Gusty Winds wrote:
The beast (Trudy & the beast) will be there. He was talking about it earlier with Tie, I think. His computer hasn’t been working, so he has been off line. But, I still communicate with him.
Sure, I’ll be there ~tb
07/14/2007 at 2:14 pm #1876917OK, the event cache listing is GC14AEP See you there!
07/28/2007 at 4:21 am #1876918Anyone who wants to load the temporaries can get a loc or gpx file at
Link
Also, if anyone has Magellan cables, please bring them. I only have Garmin cables.
07/29/2007 at 6:28 am #1876919@Buy_The_Tie wrote:
Yup… blame it on my no-father-good-in-law this time.
The Ice Age Center is about an hour (or so) north of Metro-Milwaukee area, up Hwy. 41 then Hwy. 45.
The people there are great to work with and it is a beautiful area.
Also, there is a great local hamburger stand in Dundee, just up the road from the Ice Age center. You can have a burger and visit the old mill (featured on Extreme Makeover, Home Edition last year).
I should have read this thread before we left for the event today.. luckily we pretty much discovered all of this stuff ourselves anyways..including directions, mill, hamburger stand, and event.
Thanks for the Event!! It was a fun secon event!!!!!! 🙂
07/29/2007 at 11:55 pm #1876920What an event. Dave did an amazing job. I don’t know how many people were there but it was standing room only.
Then we all had a group to take to the woods. I feel particularly proud of myself. I ended up with the same amount of people I started with. No losses at all.The real highlight for me was able to genuflect at the feet of Trudy and the Beast. What a thrill.
Thanks Dave, if you do it again let me know. I’ll be more than happy to help.
P S Dave did you find that one cache?
07/30/2007 at 2:12 am #1876921For those interested, we had 65 attendees, including the volunteers. It was really too many people for the number of GPSrs and volunteers we had available (about 10-11 people per volunteer) and most of the volunteers only brought a single GPS. (The DNR provided 1, and it was apparently last used somewhere far away, as we had found 2 caches before the unit recalibrated and the satellites locked in.) But even so, everyone seemed to have a good time.
And yes, Decdogg, all the caches were there when I picked them up. Apparently someone camouflaged the fake rock with a leaf, which made it a bit more difficult. If I were to do this again, I would change that cache anyway (just too frustrating for beginners), and probably add 3 or 4 more caches to prevent groups from running into each other so much.
Finally, thanks to all the volunteers who showed up. I know that nobody expected to be herding that many beginners around the woods, but you all did a great job. Thanks again!
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