LaCrosse event Saturday with competition in Oct

[Ratz and company]

http://www.lacrossetribune.com/articles/2007/09/21/news/z07cache21.txt

: 😀 This Sat. there will be a geocaching workshop and then a fall colors event mid October. Thought you might not be aware.

Breakfast at Hungry Peddler anyone?

[Trekkin and Birdin]

We’ll be at a family event up north.

Getting the infamous page 104, along with others, while we’re there. Have fun, everyone!

[lagrac]

They should have made this thing in Lacrosse into an Event. I have to work tomorrow anyways so I don’t feel so bad about having to miss. As for the infamous page 104… I lost alot of sleep over that one, with some invaluable hints from The Bandits, it turned out not being so bad. I believe there is a cache right across the river in Michigan that is part of their ‘4 Corners’ series. That one being the furthest west in Michigan I was too single minded on my Delorme quest when I was up there to hit that one. There is also a nice virt. in Ironwood. I’m a sucker for virts.

[Trekkin and Birdin]

Brett, I thought they missed the boat on making it an event, too. That would have encouraged more of the locals to attend, and they’d be able to help the newbies hunt the caches.

We got 104 all on our own…the original cache, too! It was absolutely gorgeous up there with the fall colors near peak. Go read about the other one we did on 104, Foster Falls. We’re sure there’s supposed to be an easier way to get over to the cache, but ours was more fun!

We got the virt over in Ironwood, too. We missed some others we could have grabbed, but hey, Trekkin’s from there, you know, his parents live there, so it’s not like we’ll never go back! I could just cry, though. We drove right by a new cache in Ashland yesterday. Came out after I looked for stuff to hunt. Another example of why we need a Palm, LOL. It’s still up for grabs for FTF.

[lagrac]

You know, the article mentioned fashioning this Event after the one that they had in Eau Claire. I see zero similarities between the two. The one in Eau Claire had physical caches associated with it. You’d print a sheet, take it to the caches, punch your sheet. Then, at the end of the Event, you’d turn your sheet in for a free Bling. There was a beginning and and end. Competition for FTF’s on the Event caches. How was the Lacrosse Event similar to this?

[Trekkin and Birdin]

I’m not sure. I’m not sure how involved in geocaching any of the event planners are. I am hoping that the event in October involves new placements to gather and log. I wonder if they intend to have a time-limited contest to find these and then be entered into a drawing?

I guess we’ll just have to see. I have checked area logs to see if any new folks popped up over the weekend and didn’t see that. I did see one log that made me chuckle, though. A couple out hunting for the Oktoberfest medallion found a geocache, brought it home, looked it up online and discovered this whole “subculture,” LOL. They signed on, logged it and put it back where they found it.

[manparuby]

I talked to Mr. Finco who is a member of the Lax sports authority who is promoting this event . They will be putting out 20 caches . These will not be logable . They will start out by advertising a coordinate to a cache ,then you will take your picture with the cache and submit it to the event for a drawing . Give me a call for more questions if you have any .

Pa

[Trekkin and Birdin]

Yeah, I just had an email conversation with one of the folks involved, too.
Maybe they can be convinced to place caches that are permanent and listed if some of us locally are willing to help with that part.

BTW, Mr. Finco and Trekkin’ faced each other across the line of scrimmage in their high school glory days. They figured all this out after Finco started working at the school Trekkin’ had just left for another area teaching job.

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