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Kudos Jeff. It’s time to toot your own horn.
Way to go, Jeff!
Way to go! No fair going where it’s warm to cache.
Congratulations Jeff.Keep up the good work.
Pat & BobI want to share part of an e-mail message I got from Jeff.
===============Thank you for the congrats message.
The top of Mt. LeConte has the state line running through it. I was 10 feet into North Carolina for number 500. I did do numbers 499, 501, 502, 503 and 504 in Tennessee though. As I probably mentioned, this was the favorite place of my late mother. She would hike to the top with my dad when they were 67 and 69 just to have lunch. It is a rather extreme hike but she loved it. So all the planning for 500 worked out great.
It is rated a 4 1/2 terrain and perhaps we should make everyone do this one before they rate their terrains and they might change their standard. Due to ice and snow we took the “easy way” to the top – 11 miles starting at 2900 feet to 6600+. The trails were coated in ice and we considered turning around but kept at it. On the cliff trails with dropoffs that were coated with ice, there are steel cables in the rockface to hold onto. More then once these cables prevented a quick trip down. My newest son-in-law decided that we were all nuts but he struggled through the hike.So 500 was very special and I am sure number 1000 will be also.
BTW
That’s 500 caches in just under a year.
This is Wisconsin’s 4th most active caching rate at 1.39 caches per day.
Nice job Jeff!
[This message has been edited by TeamLotsacache (edited 12-30-2003).]
Congratulations! Sounds like an interesting hike for the 500th.
Wow! That sounds like an incredible hike. Congratulations on your milestone!
Thanks everyone.
It was a real challenge for number 500 with the trail conditions as they were.
Seems like for most of the year I was on track to hit 400 for the year and then Geoffnsara talked about making 500 this year……… Well what can I say.Congrats Jeff! It sounds like you realy earned those last couple of caches. I hope you at least found a decent Mctoy in the cache box after all that.
Way to go! I would probably not made it up to the top…
Congratulations Jeff! Don’t go blaming this achievement on us though, it’s your own ambition that got you to where you are.
Congratulations on your 500th cache, wow! It must have been a real special trip.
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