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01/29/2010 at 3:03 pm #1729483
Wisconsin Icon Challenge – Get every icon generally available in WI, in WI. GC23D9P
Wisconsin Busy Day Challenge – Get 7 icons in one day, any icon, anywhere.
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01/29/2010 at 5:28 pm #1921107Ah-yup. We qualify for one, need just a tiny bit more work for the other, and have other plans for this weekend.
But soon. Very soon! We’d thought about placing a busy day type one ourselves, but never got around to it. Now we can go find it instead! Thanks!
01/29/2010 at 5:37 pm #1921108Hmmm… We qualify for both. A little far for an FTF run though. 🙂
01/29/2010 at 7:25 pm #1921109Is there an app for the 2nd one? :>
01/29/2010 at 9:15 pm #192111001/30/2010 at 4:05 am #1921111Another challenge including a benchmark….so is there any monitoring that the actual benchmark they are claiming is being logged correctly? While there are many good and accurate benchmark finders out there, there are far more “casual benchmark loggers” – those logging a benchmark that happens to be at/near a cache with no concern whether or not the correct marker was even found (and no pictures to prove anything).
As most of the other icon finds can be easily verified if the find meets the challenge (photos,logbook signatures etc), in my experience no one bothers to check to see if a benchmark find was actually found (Ie correct marker for the PID).
So I ask why are bencmarks bothered to be put on any challenges? Other than to help perpetuate the far to common really not-found found logs and to get the icon to complete another challenge yet put forth?
01/30/2010 at 4:43 am #1921112Hopefully there is a little bit of integrity out there regarding benchmark finds.
Anyone wanting a really easy Benchmark find can come to Wild Rose and find the one near the Larsen Co-op at the South end of town. its not hidden in any way and it is the real deal as listed on the benchmark listings.
Disclaimer : Always answering to a higher power.
01/30/2010 at 4:13 pm #1921113Cool. I added them to my Wisconsin Challenges Bookmark List.
Hmmm…the Busy Cacher challenge sounds like a good one for the Cache Ba$h … If you go to the Mega Event, and the after-party regular Event, you only need 5 more icons that day… Last year, we had a Regular, Unknown, and Letterbox as part of the 50. Plus extra Earthcaches and Multi-Caches (night cache). That’s 7! Maybe a Wherigo this year if I get ambitious?
01/31/2010 at 6:09 pm #1921114Looks to me like a trip to the events in Hudson, WI next weekend could easily make for a ten (yup 10) individual icon day. Not bad pick’ins for those interested.
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