Milestones aren’t always about geocaching. On February 19 fifty years ago, Team Sloughfoot became a team at the church where GC1V98A is located. OK, fifty years ago there was no geocaching, so there was no Team Sloughfoot and no cache at the church, but that’s where John and Gail got married, and they have been celebrating ever since, including at an open house for family and friends today (January 31). Joining them were their one son, three grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren… plus many, many other relatives in their extended families.

You may have met John and Gail at a caching event at some point; if not, you most likely have done some of their hides, either in the Fox Valley before they retired to the Big Slough, or the many they have placed in the Portage/Dells area… “Confederate Spy”… “Sloughfoot Does the Dells”… “Hole in the Wall”… or their epic series, “The Trail of the Serpent” strung out along the Fox River. They also adopted many of The Lil Otter’s caches when she stepped back from active caching, plus those of bugsmasher69 when he passed away a few years ago. Most recently, their hides have been in Portage city parks and along Columbia County bike trails, and while you make think some of those are park and grabs, they are not. Read the cache pages, appreciate the containers and hiding techniques, and write appreciative logs for all that they have done for Wisconsin caching over these past ten-plus years.

Enjoy the photos below that they have let me share here, and join me in congratulating John and Gail on their golden wedding anniversary… a true milestone!

Gail and John fifty years ago:

John and Gail in their early caching days:

Gail and John now: