Log of the Day

[cheezehead]

Now this is what geocaching is all about.

Location: Wisconsin, United States
Van’s Clan found 52-Pickup – WWF #01 & #02 (Copper Falls) (Multi-cache) at 8/16/2008

Log Date: 8/16/2008
I took my whole family up to Copper Falls State Park for the first time this weekend. I also invited a friend of mine that is a single father with twin 11 year old. We had a great time swimming, hiking, camping and wildlife.

Speaking of wildlife, the first morning we woke up in the camp ground, I build a fire to cook breakfast. My daughter, 7, wanted to walk with her into the woods to get a stick to poke into the fire. On our was in she looked to her right and then FREAKED OUT with a loud scream and quickly tried to run away. I look over to the right and jumped myself – there was a whitetail doe deer standing, perfectly still, watching us from 10 feet away! My daughter has never seen a deer that close, especially in the wild. Both mornings we were camping, a that doe and her fawn (still in spots) came right into camp with us eating breakfast. My kids were very excited. My oldest son found out that she loves Cheez-Its. He was able to get the doe to get with in a foot from him. See the pics!

I took my father on his first cache adventure with this one. He was amazed that at the whole geocaching event. He grew up only 20 miles away from this park. This gave him to the chance to share many memories of his youth with me. Apparently this was one of his favorite spots to bring his girlfriends.

On the way through the trails, I wrote down all the needed information except the devils gate sign information. I didn’t realize it until we got all the way back to the parking lot. I was NOT going to hike all the way back to that sign, so I took a totally random guess at that number in the coords.

Even with a guess at the number, we were able to find the cache. My oldest son found it right away. Today, we did the trail again and I stopped at the sign – can you believe that the number I guessed was the right number!?! We had a good laugh.

Thanks for the wonderful memories!

TNLN – SL – TFTC!

[JimandLinda]

Northwoods caching can be more of an adventure than in southern Wisconsin. Blueberry bogs, mossy trees, bear and wolf tracks in the snow, and waterfalls… all that and so much more! I really enjoy the wildlife part. The Leather-head Turtles at Watertown were the best. They are some of the fastest turtles on earth. WOW, can they run!
But I think the Whitetails are still the favorites of most of us. The doe must have had some human contact to be so trusting, especially with a little one in tow. Great log!

[Vans Clan]

Hi Everyone,

This is “Van’s Clan” from the log posted above. I was told about cheesehead’s post from another local cacher. I am very flattered to receive such kind words.

First, I must apologize for the typo’s and grammar errors. I was exhausted when I got home Sunday night when I posted it. I re-read it the next day and corrected those errors. I know, like I am the only one that makes typos and such, right? 🙂

More on that Doe and her Fawn…

I agree that she must have a lot of human interaction. She was cautious, but not afraid. The fawn was a lot more afraid of us and mostly kept its distance. That doe ate half of the box of Cheez-Its. If you go to this page on GC you will see the picture of the doe that came into our camp.
On the second morning we had our dogs with us and the Doe still came up to the camp site – though she didn’t like the bark too much. Once we quieted the dogs down, she came back for more of her favorite snack.

About the log itself…

I love to log about my adventures during geocaching. I have only been doing it for little over a month now. My average log size (to date) is 74 words. With recognition of my logs by other cachers, this just enforces my love of logging. Thank you so much for sharing my log with others so they could experience what I did over last weekend. It’s a lifetime memory.

Dale (Van’s Clan)

[Trekkin and Birdin]

Hi Dale, I saw that log even before cheezehead pointed it out, because we had also done these same caches recently. Trekkin’ grew up near here as well, so it was a fun way to spend a day.

I’m another hardcore logger, and as a cache owner, I think I can speak for most of us that we enjoy logs like yours that tell a little of the experience you had. I know there are those quick number caches that can hardly muster more than “TFTC” but I can even make an adventure out of some of those.

So keep on telling those stories!

We much prefer the remote caches. You can find plenty like that in southwestern Wisconsin, too. The terrain is similar, only the trees are more often deciduous and the rocks sandstone instead of granite. We’re looking forward to a last bash of summer on the Lake Superior shoreline this weekend.

P.S. Smart doe, Cheez-its are my new junk food of choice!

[Lostby7]

…and go figure it was a cache placed by The Lil Otter. 8)
She has placed some really fantastic caches….thanks Lil Otter and thanks to the logger of this cache for posting a really great pic and log…while I’m guilty of short logs in general I REALLY appreciate the longer original posts issued by some folks.
Cheers.
-LB7

[GetMeOutdoors]

Dale’s posts are always fun to read. Especially for the owner of the cache. I was glad to meet Dale and his son at an event a few weeks ago… he’s one to watch out for. He’s going to out-cache us all! 😉 Keep up the good work, Dale.

[uws22]

i grew up a few miles from that park, and worked there while in college, so i can attest to how tame the deer can be. my parents still live close by and can tell when the “park deer” are in the yard because they don’t care if the dogs are barking or we are moving around in the house… while the other deer were almost always skittish.

before i adopted this cache this summer, i found it last year while visiting home, and it is still my longest log to date.

on a side note… i worked in the park before i knew what geocaching was, and was within a few feet of both of the park caches (one since archived) and had no clue either were there. definitely great hides.

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