Hiding Your First Geocache 8/1/2005 Ron F. (aka “EnergySaver”) Ron, his wife (Geri) and two daughters (Michelle & Jaimie) make up the team EnergySaver. To date, EnergySaver has hidden 27 regular geocaches in Ozaukee County, in addition to 23 event hides. It’s very tempting after you have a few finds under your belt to run … Continue reading Hiding Your First Geocache
Make February Cache Clean-up Month 2/1/2005 R. Paske We may have a few of them out there… our own geocaches on which we have been meaning to do a little maintenance. Or maybe a geocache that was reported gone, and we’ve disabled it for two or three months. Or maybe a cache that is snow … Continue reading Make February Cache Clean-up Month
Pike Powder Hike – Oldest Active Wisconsin Cache 4/1/2003 RPaske Back in February 2001, there was only one geocache around Milwaukee and a total of three in the entire state. After Ken Braband found his first cache, in the Chicago area, he wanted to place his own. He had skied and hiked the trails at … Continue reading Pike Powder Hike – Oldest Active Wisconsin Cache
Don’t Get Lost 2/1/2002 Team CacheCows I heard a story recently about an emergency call the National Park Service received from a cell phone that a group of hikers had with them. It seems that they were lost and needed rescuing. When the NPS headquarters asked them if they could provide some kind of a … Continue reading Don’t Get Lost