This topic contains 41 replies, has 17 voices, and was last updated by 
-
Posts
-
It’s time to pare back our owned cache load while picking and choosing a bit more so we can have a little more free time for some of the fun parts of the game as well as other priorities. The following caches/locations are available for adoption. There is no need to keep the original hide intact if any adopting party wants to demonstrate their own creative style and make some changes. We know some of these locations have been eyed by others, so there may be some new find opportunities for all. The caches will remain available as is until such time an adoption takes place and any changes are made.
Sturgeon Bay:
Little Cache on the Prairie (GCPMX1)Green Lake:
Great Green Lake View (GC15XD3)Royalton/New London:
WSQ Royalton (GC14289)Hollandtown:
Schut, Every Town Needs a Kids’ Cache (GC1A0BM)Dale area:
Across The Creek (GC1BHAR)High Cliff/Sherwood:
Tread Lightly – Up the Creek and Around the Pond (GC1RA9B)
High Cliff – Shore Is A Nice View (GC1R7WJ)Fox Cities area:
On The Way To Whitetail Cedars (GC1JHJW)
Whitetail Cedars (GC1A0RX)
Down By The Riverside (GC1A09K)
Cousin On The Pine Prairie (GC18X7A)
Highview Park (GC150JR)
Little Cache at Prairie Hill (GCKJKB)
Rocky (GCP3ZY)
ODS: Friendship Trail (GC1A8FM)
Memorial Marshgrass (GC1A0TY)
Did I Hear Shots? (GC1A0C7)
Schueler’s Roaring Good Time – Take Two (GCHZ8Q)
Abby’s Cache (GCXDVA)
Zöe Bro Coup | de Foudre (GC17W4Y)
Friendship At Cold Spring (GC11AD7)
Miata’s Moonlit Mystery (GC12GT9)
Just Another Appleton Park in Palisades (GC15TA4)
Earth Angel Special (GC1A09W)
GIZ GREEN (GC128W1)I guess I’ll take Zöe Bro Coup | de Foudre.
Thanks, Dave. Adoption request on the way. Perfect adoption! 8)
I’ll take the GIZ GREEN (GC128W1) location if it’s not spoken for.
Friendship at Cold Spring is close to home as is Abby’s cache (bookends to my Friendship Trail cache).
Then I am done for awhile on my adopting.
Following the signals from space.
Duh, a correction, “Little Cache on the Prairie” is in Sheboygan, not Sturgeon Bay. Sorry, I go through Sturgeon Bay more often and it just was in my mind somewhere out there near big water.
GIZ GREEN, Abby’s Cache, and Friendship At Cold Spring are en route to new owners. Thanks much, CodeJunkie and Walkingadventure!
Too bad I live so far away from Miata’s Moonlit Mystery (GC12GT9). I really loved that one. My visit of about once every one or two months is just not often enough…even though I did place a cache about a mile from there a few years ago….(now archived).
Our first find was:
Schueler’s Roaring Good Time – Take Two (GCHZ8Q)
I will take that if it is available.
I would gladly adopt the Great Green Lake View cache by Hattie Sherwood Beach. Let me know what I need to do from here!!
Adoption papers are on the way to great caretakers for Schueler’s Roaring Good Time – Take Two and Great Green Lake View. Thanks Curly Girls and MuddyBottoms! 8)
We will take any of the Fox Cities ones that are left. We are really trying to contribute to cache owning as it’s about time we step up. So let me know what you have left on the Fox Cities list.
The views expressed here are that of myself only and do not necessarily represent that of the WGA board.
Sagasu – I will take over Rocky (GCP3ZY)
I know your caches mean as much to you as mine do to me and can imagine the waves of emotion your first archive – after more that 3 years of keeping all of those caches active, well maintained and well stocked with enticing trackables – must have elicited in your gut.
Mine was never the intent to start a wave of archiving activity in the valley or beyond and I am now realizing not only how broad the sentiments about cheapening the sport are around the state, but also how committed my caching piers are to keeping the sport pure in their hearts by preferring to archive many rather than adopt them out.
Shane, Dave, and Mike. You guys represent the purest intent of the sport; to savor, experience, and remember the most rewarding aspects of caching. I am honored to be among the company of so many with so much conviction of character. I wish I could adopt some of these myself for the memories they hold, but I can’t find homes for half of my own . The decision to call it has become overwhelming now that I am faced with archiving so many memorable and worthwhile caches. I thought it would be easier to do. It is not, in fact it’s excruciating, painful and sad.
To think this has all precipitated from the reckless action of a single cacher who has yet to offer up a single apology to anyone and moreover, continues to think that he hasn’t done anything wrong because he didn’t violate any specific rule of the sport. He fails to see or comprehend the emotional toll his actions have taken on many of the most prolific and creative cachers in the valley and cannot see that that is where his transgression lies, not in some arbitrary definition of how the sport is supposed to be played.
I am thankful for all of the support of the caching community has given us as a whole. I am encouraged by the actions of the few mentioned above which has only bolstered my conviction that ethically a line was indeed crossed. I am saddened by the knowledge that these destructive practices were not acknowledged by a body we elected to monitor the sport in Wisconsin. That no one has has the conviction of character to come out and say this was wrong. Not the individual responsible, not GC.com, not the WGA whose many members have close ties to the individual responsible and who, I am quite sure, as a collective voice could have made an impact on that person.
So here I sit, looking at all that I have created and realizing what a collossal waste it would be to archive even half of them, robbing so many other cachers of memorable experiences, but knowing full well that the puzzle touring will not stop, nor be acknowledged for what it is. I don’t know what the future holds for geocaching but the events of the past couple weeks and indeed months does not bode well for the sport which will more and more be distilled to “how many slips of paper did you sign today?”
Nicely worded Alex. I think this post, above all the others, conveys your feeling very well. But….
I have to take exception to one, single line.I am saddened by the knowledge that these destructive practices were not acknowledged by a body we elected to monitor the sport in Wisconsin.
Where is it said that the WGA as an organization, or the WGA board is expected to “monitor the sport”? I did not become a board member to monitor the playground.
I will publicly state that I don’t particulary care for the sharing of puzzle or multi-cache coordinates. But, that is just me as an individual and not as a board member.
You must be logged in to reply to this topic.