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labrat_wr 9 years, 7 months ago.
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Few people discover the WGA the first time they go out caching. Often we hear stories of people noticing a banner on a cache page after they’ve been caching for a while. So when did you discover the WGA? Have you been to many WGA events? How often do you participate in the forums? Anything else?
Not all who wander are lost. -J.R.R. Tolkien
I started geocaching at the end of August 2014. I wanted to know more about geocaching, so I reached out to my good friend Google, and came across the WGA. I noticed that they were going to be hosting a camping event at High Cliff State Park in May of 2015, so I decided to sign up and go. I had a blast, and met some awesome people. I’ve been to most of the events since then, and look forward to many more. I pop into the forums from time to time. I don’t post all that often, but do on occasion.
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When we started caching, we heard about the WGA from our mentors but never really looked into it as this was all new to us at the time. About a year later, the WGA was looking for volunteers to help out at the WGA booth at Pike Lake State Park. Our mentors were originally asked but needed to decline due to their work schedule. So I volunteered to go and help out at the booth. I have been volunteering for little things since that time and although I have not attended every event, I have attended them when they I could.
I don’t normally post in the forums but do read them at times. If there were notifications of new topics posted through social media, I would spend more time in the forums.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
-Henry David Thoreau
I have been an member since 2008, but not too active until 2011. Love retirement with more time to cache and spend more time poking around the WGA webpage.
Since the April 2013 Campout at Interstate Park I have attended about 9 WGA events (3 spring campouts, 3 Pancake breakfasts at West Bend Cache Ba$h, and 3 others GIFF, Fall Picnic and the recent Chili Feed) I’ve volunteered to hide 3 State Park Series Caches. Good things must come in 3’s?
I have never used the forums until answering a forum on “selifies” and the numerous Candidate Questions! This is a new feature that has been a very interesting form of communication among WGA members. I just had to learn to use notepad instead of word. I’m going to be exploring the WGA Facebook page and prepare and answer to Trekkin and Birdin Forum soon.
Other WGA Things: I’ve played the Lonely Cache Game last year and found this an interesting challenge. Next, I would like to do a Cache Rescue. In the past I have contributed a few articles for the webpage. My 2015 Fall Picnic Racer is now in Paris, France and it was retrieved today. Race on!
The NEXT BIG WGA thing would be elected as a Board of Director member.
I’d Rather Be Lost Geocaching, Than Found At Home!
I attended my first WGA event in September of 2009 and have been to many of them since that time. As for the forums I read them frequently but do not post very often.
I believe I discovered the WGA from an email that a cache owner sent me when I first started geocaching inviting me to the WGA Picnic. I don’t participate nearly as much in the forums as I used to, something I’m making an effort to improve on. I do read the forums quite often however.
39 WGA events (Picnics/Cito/Campouts/LCG/pancake Bfast)
Forums are pretty much a daily visit (often several times)
Found the WGA in 2007 with the campout going on at Hartman Creek in Waupaca.
Took #3 spot on the LCG in its first yearDisclaimer : Always answering to a higher power.
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