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Let me introduce myself since I am somewhat new to the Wisconsin geocaching community. My name is Paul Charlier, one half of Fondue4Two with my wife JoAnn. We relocated back to Wisconsin in August of 2019 to be closer to family and we now live in Monona. It was family, two of my sisters, who introduced us to caching in the summer of 2009 on one of our many visits to Wisconsin from Western New York state where I had lived for almost 40 years. Being hikers and outdoor people my sisters knew we would love caching and they were right.
We love to travel and we have cached around a good portion of the US and a bit in Europe. Caching is now an important part of planning any trip. We now have close to 7000 finds and we have recently hidden around 20 caches and created two Adventure Labs in the Monona area. The last two years our caching has really ramped up – during Covid we have found over 3000 caches (it also helps being retired.) With the need to “socially distance” caching has been a great way to get out and explore our new surroundings. We have explored almost every small town, park and guardrail within 45 minutes of Madison during the past two years all because of caching.
We were only able to meet a few local cachers at a couple of Madison events before Covid struck. For the most part we got to know cachers/ cache owners by their logs or caches or if we bumped into them on the hunt. Fortunately this past year we were able to attend the WGA spring picnic, the West Bend Cache Ba$h, and the local GIFF viewing – we were finally able to put some faces with the caching names.
Having come from a very active caching community in Rochester NY I hopefully have some ideas that might be helpful here. Also all of those years in corporate America and and having an engineering background makes me a pretty organized person which is usually useful in most groups.
What questions do you have for me?
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