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We found some magnetic tops and base plates that have an astronomy theme that we are now leaving in caches as our signature item. On occasion I get several cool card games from NASA that have been left too. Although those are harder to come by.
Our son likes to find the bouncy balls, money, travel games, and neat key chains.
We’re finding it hard to find nice cache items without spending too much money. We try to leave items that we would want to find ourselves.

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We booked a room at the Park Inn. I was told their pool is open 24 hours….ahh the comforts of camping.

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AstroD-Team will be at an astronomy convention in Sturgeon Bay that weekend. We will not be able to attend. Perhaps there is delivery??

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Congratulation Geofather!! Glad to see you out and about. We look forward to caching with you at the Northwoods Gathering event!

Don and Kat

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Way to Go!! Keep it up and we’ll see you on the trails!

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Congratulations on the big 300! Here’s to many more smily faces in pursuit of those caches. Hope to meet you on the trails soon!

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Interesting set of predictions. I am pretty sure that AstroD-Team will be in the same group as T&TB and Jthorson with the new tires for the cachemobile.

For the EcoRangers(and everybody else as well) there are another 25 or so finds up in Green Bay with the release of our new series. Will be posting something in the announcements shortly.

I just saw this post and was curious, how far off were last years predictions?

AstroDon

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Did you make it? After seeing several of you FTF logs in our new series after dark I might add.. inquiring minds want to know!!

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Hey T&TB Congratualtions on your fine accomplishment! Glad we were able to walk the trails with you on some of those 1000 finds. Here’s to many more in the coming year!

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Congratualtions Unlce Fun! Hopefully you’ll have hit the 1000 club before the Northwoods event in late January! I’ll buy ya a round then! AstroD-Team

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Way to go BQ! Hope you didn’t go through to many cacti bushwacking for those caches! Hope to meet up with you on the trail soon!!
AstroKat

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I’ve been very happy with Garmin myself. I bought a new Legend in May 2004 and it was exausting a new set of batteries rather rapidly. In addition to sending some trouble shooting suggestions (which worked), Garmin sent me a postage paid address to ship my unit back and get a new one.

I was so happy with the customer service, that earlier this month I went and bought a second Garmin.

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Timberline,
most of these answers can be found on the cache event page.. but I’ll post here. For our event, food is on your own. You can bring your own grill and cook out on the cabin deck or get some food at one of the local restaurants. I usually survive on a bunch of snack type junk food as I’m too busy doing other activities. If you gotta have your coffee, bring your coffee maker and plug it in in the cabin. There are plenty of outlets.

Please bring your own bedding – Sleeping bags, pillow etc. The cabin does have a gas furnace and a wood burning fireplace so it won’t be cold. (firewood supplied by camp for free).

Bathroom facilities (showers, toilets) are in a seperate building across from the cabins. Be sure to pay attention which side you go in – One side is boys, one is girls They too are heated. Bring your own towels, shower stuff.

You might want to bring swimsuit/shorts as we do have use of the sauna during the weekend. This is one of my favorite hang outs. One year we got it so hot, the styrofoam in the ceiling started melting!

Hope this helps! It will be a GREAT time.

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There are only three weeks left to sign up and send in payment for the Great Northwoods Gathering. Due to change in camp personnel and enforcement of camp policies, only those who have prepaid by the deadline will be allowed on camp property.

We are still negotiating with the camp about this policy as well as trying to extend the deadline into the first week of January. But if you want to go, I suggest signing up sooner rather than later in case negotiations fall through.

We are planning at least 20 temp hides by several different teams and some unique twists to event caching. I can’t leak out the details, you’ll have to come and see for yourself! There are also 15+ caches within 20 miles of the camp for your caching pleasure as well.

It promises to be a good time. Hope to see you there! If anything changes, I’ll be sure to post.

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