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This is great. Thank you to everyone. Down to only two left that need new loving owners.

GC25FDQ – WRR 7 – Hrabik Road (Kewaunee County)
GC20N7W – WRR 8 – Sunrise Road (Brown County)

Hoping to there might be a Green Bay area cacher because they are both within a 25 mile radius of GB

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@Trekkin and Birdin wrote:

One person you might contact for help would be lee arrowslinger. He lives not far from there and might be willing to help with it.

Thanks for the tip. I’ll reach out via a PM and mention you “nominated” him.

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@kmhiker wrote:

I’ll take up WRR63 GC20KG7. It looks like a good one for an “Ol Fart”.

Thanks! I saw your note on the cache, too. Just sent you the adoption request.

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Thanks to everyone again for all the help so far keeping this series alive. Just to update, these are the caches still looking for a new owner:

GC28V33 – WRR 51 – 20th Avenue (Pierce County)
GC25FDQ – WRR 7 – Hrabik Road (Kewaunee County)
GC20N7W – WRR 8 – Sunrise Road (Brown County)
GC20KG7 – WRR 63 – County Hwy. S (Sheboygan County)

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@Lacknothing wrote:

Jay – I now have Bodde Rd – but not the other two. Can you resend those?

I tried to resend the adoption link, but GC.com is telling me I can’t because a request has already been sent.

Try visiting http://www.geocaching.com/adopt/ to see what comes up.

[BakRdz]

Thanks for the help everyone! I’ve sent off a new batch of adoption requests through GC.com. Instructions should be included.

Here are the last few caches still looking for a loving home:

GC28V33 – WRR 51 – 20th Avenue (Pierce County)
GC28V2P – WRR 76 – Middle Road (Clark County)
GC25FDQ – WRR 7 – Hrabik Road (Kewaunee County)
GC20N7W – WRR 8 – Sunrise Road (Brown County)
GC20KG7 – WRR 63 – County Hwy. S (Sheboygan County)

Thank you to the community for helping keep this challenge alive

[BakRdz]

To update the list… Here are the caches still looking for a loving new home:

GC28V33 – WRR 51 – 20th Avenue (Pierce County)
GC28V2W – WRR 45 – Goat Ranch Road (Eau Claire County)
GC28V2P – WRR 76 – Middle Road (Clark County)
GC25FDQ – WRR 7 – Hrabik Road (Kewaunee County)
GC21N5K – WRR 52 – Blue Goose Rd. (Edge of Washington and Ozaukee Counties)
GC20N7W – WRR 8 – Sunrise Road (Brown County)
GC20KG7 – WRR 63 – County Hwy. S (Sheboygan County)
GC206CY – WRR 46 – Old Plank Road (Brown County)
GC1YQZ4 – WRR 106 – Point Road (Dodge County – Horicon Marsh)
GC1XHXX – WRR 22 – White River Road (Green Lake County)
GC1XHXR – WRR 72 – Mountain Road (Winnebago County)

Thank you to the community for helping keep this challenge alive

[BakRdz]

Thank you Pete, Pat & Marie.

[BakRdz]

Oshkosh and Winnebago County, WI has it’s first Munzee.

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Funny! Haven’t had much of a chance to check out forums of late. For some reason I decided to peek in today. What do I find? A post from CJ about a very concept we discussed months ago. I figured something like this would eventually come along as a reaction to geocaching’s numbers-based evolution (or mutation depending on your perspective.)

Downloading the app right now. Nothing in my area…for now.

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Wow. Great thread. I’ve been in a forum hiatus lately, but I’m glad I came upon this one. My two cents:

I dislike cut and paste logs as much as anyone in here. Even when I don’t have much to say I never a simple “TFTC” or “Out caching with _____.” or my least favorite “Easy find.” I expect those on a few of my roadside attraction P/G kind of caches, but it drives me nuts when I have a thoughtful cache or a simple request and that’s the best anyone can do. However it won’t kill the game for me. I just delete the notifications from my email box quicker than it took the logger to post the find and move on.

These type of logs and the advent of new technology have made me realize the game is evolving (or mutating depending on how you look at it). From my perspective, there have become essentially two major categories of cachers: Roadtrippers and Adventurers. Roadtrippers are number driven. FTF’s and quantity is the goal. A fun time is to see how many you can knock off, most often as a group. Adventurers pick and area or a specific cache to conquer. They gain satisfaction from a trek with a few caches along the way. It’s more about the journey than the destination, perhaps solo or with a few friends.

There are hybrids, but I would argue that most people lean either one way or another. A Roadtripper might go on a deep woods hike for a cache or two, but they judge a trip successful by the 14-25 other quick grabs they made along the way. An Adventurer might pick up a few p/g’s on the way to somewhere, but the trip is best remembered and enjoyed by the one or two spectacular caches they did.

Here’s where things really get complicated. GC.com is a service provider. Currently I see them trying to satisfy both types of cachers, but I don’t think they are or even can. As an example…Roadtrippers would probably be happier if the logging was taken completely out of the site. Perhaps something as simple as a number or QR code to collect to prove you were there. (Even that might be too much to ask).

I don’t see the game being killed, however, I do see the game splintering and I could forsee someone coming up with a site dedicated to the numbers type cacher – Sort of a merger of Foursquare and Geocaching – that caters to the way they want to play the game. I know people have tried to come up with competition to GC.com before, but I think they’ve always tried to lure the adventurer/purist in. Those people aren’t likely to migrate due to the history they have established as well as generally not wanting to adopt a new way of doing things. Numbers cachers however might be more likely to adopt something new.

Problem is GC.com would likely try to change their site more to cater to that group to keep from loosing new cachers to the competition. This would likely lead to larger dissatisfaction amongst the purists which might lead them to give up the game instead of joining something new.

My hope? That GC.com realizes that there are generally two segments of cachers and that they would work to cater them with TWO sites that could interact with each other if someone wanted to do both, but primarily were independent and targeted at the two groups. Example: modify Waypointing.com into something more attractive for the numbers/location based cacher and try to migrate those people to that site while adjusting Geocaching.com into less guardrails and p/g’s by putting more restrictions on cache types/locations and logging requirements (perhaps even bringing back ALRs). Then there would be a way for all types of cachers to play and an easier way for people who didn’t want to see things like P/G’s or puzzles to ignore them.

Just my thoughts…

[BakRdz]

Congratulations!…and a delayed additional congrats on #777! Your prize from OshVegas is in the mail. 😉

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Wow! Sounds like quite the adventure. Wish I could have been there! WTG on 3K! 😀

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Great solo hit for the team! WTG! 😀

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Thanks everyone. My geocaching time has slowed down dramatically the past few months, but I’m hoping to renew my affections with maps much more this year with some great road trips to take on some great places in Wisconsin I discovered while completing this challenge.

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