General news or information of interest to geocachers.
As Groundspeak has announced, we are currently in CITO season 1 (March 1-May 31) for 2023. Are you planning to host a CITO event? Did you know, the Wisconsin Geocaching Association offers grants to CITO event hosts across Wisconsin in the amount of $50 that can be used towards the costs associated with purchasing supplies? … Continue reading Cache In Trash Out® (CITO)
It is that time of the year. Have you visited your hides since the Spring melt? Here are some helpful tips.
If you are like me, you didn’t get a chance to listen to the WPR program on geocaching. So here is a link to the WPR page where you can listen to the recorded program. Thanks to Dawn Children (rawevil) for getting up soooo early in the morning to represent the WGA and geocaching in … Continue reading Wisconsin Public Radio on Geocaching
On May 31st their will be 200+ caches released and starting June 1, 2020 the reviewers will be reviewing and releasing new caches and events. Thank you for your patience during this pandemic.
Hello, Due to the COVID-19 pandemic your Wisconsin Volunteer Reviewers had discontinued publishing new physical geocaches for a time. The current “safer at home” order is set to expire at 8 a.m. Tuesday, May 26, and as we look towards reopening the state and getting back to the new normal, we have the following plans … Continue reading Update from our reviewers
Due to Gov. Evers #safeathome extension our reviewer’s have also extended the cache publishing ban till June 1st. Thank you for the understanding with the difficult times we face. Please stay safe.
Due to the corona virus pandemic, Geocaching HQ has extended the time frame for Community Celebration Events to be held. Originally, Community Celebration Events were to be held between May 1 and December 31, 2020. The new time frame allows events to be held through December 31, 2021.
Your Wisconsin reviewers have been monitoring the COVID-19 pandemic. Recently we stopped publishing events; this was done to promote social distancing in accordance to state and federal guidelines. As this pandemic is getting more serious each day we feel it is in everyone’s best to follow the essential travel guidelines. Therefore, beginning at 7 a.m. … Continue reading New caches put on hold.(revised)
Reviewers retract their decision to resign In an emergency ZOOM meeting, I spoke to the reviewers and learned that they have had a change of heart about taking their leave. Johnny Waypoint said, “I took a long bike ride and it occurred to me that other than working for special Ops faking alien abductions, reviewing … Continue reading Reviewers retract their resignations
I have just been informed that the Wisconsin reviewers have officially called it quits. This email was sent to me late this morning: Bec and I (Johnny Waypoint) have had several discussions of late, and with all that is going on we have come to the conclusion that it’s time to set aside our reviewing … Continue reading Reviewers call it quits.