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Thank you Jeremy for the donation. The funds were delivered via the “Bunny Express” tonight. (which is to say that Cache Boppin’ Bunny Fu Fu dropped them off at my house)

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Not to burst anyone’s bubble, but those falls are made out of concrete, not cool looking eroded rocks. If you look closely behind the “rocks”, you can see right-angles where the forms were.

It’s cool anyway.

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Thanks for fixing the permissions on the photo album Jeremy!

I just posted my pics, let’s see some more!

Upload your photos today!

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For Earthcaches in a state park, a notification form is not required. However, it would be a good idea to provide one as a courtesy to the land manager.

Now, if you are going to set up an Earthcache in a State Natural Area, then special permission is required.

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@Green Bay Paddlers wrote:

…micros have a much smaller impact on the environment than some jumbo tupperware container.

I will need to respectfully disagree with this statement. I would propose that a micro (in the woods) causes *much* more damage to the surrounding area because it is that much harder to find.

Obviously a micro in an urban setting is less likely to cause envrionmental damage. What can a geocacher do to concrete and guardrails?

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@zuma wrote:

For that date, we have Tie coordinating the hides

zzzzz…..

snort…

Huh?

I will be on a family vacation at that time. Did you mean Grousetales?

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Here’s how I do it…

1. Bring up the web page you want.

2. Press the “Print Screen” button on your keyboard.

3. Bring up your Power-Point presentation to the page where you want the image, then simply paste the image in either using the “Edit” menu or

4. You can then crop the image to get rid of the toolbar on the bottom and anything else that isn’t relevant to the slide.

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I found here at a local checker auto parts store, reflective tape that glows bright white at night, but is black during the day. If properly installed it becomes virtually impossible to find during the day.

See: GC9178 and GCH1QB

For both of those caches I used “Scotchlite Reflective Tape”. The number on the package is: 03468C

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Yup… blame it on my no-father-good-in-law this time.

The Ice Age Center is about an hour (or so) north of Metro-Milwaukee area, up Hwy. 41 then Hwy. 45.

The people there are great to work with and it is a beautiful area.

Also, there is a great local hamburger stand in Dundee, just up the road from the Ice Age center. You can have a burger and visit the old mill (featured on Extreme Makeover, Home Edition last year).

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I came across this today while reviewing a brand-new WSQ cache. I really liked the wording, and I think it would be a good idea for everybody with a WSQ cache to include it. It would be a good way to help people remember their common sense.

As this is classified as a cemetery cache please note it is NOT hidden on any grave marker or site. If there is a service going on, or folks are visiting their loved ones when you arrive please be respectful and come back at a later time. Your understanding and compassion for those folks will be appreciated.

Special thanks to Boris Badenov and his cache GC144B9.

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You might want to try this program:

USA Photomaps

It allows you to upload tracks & waypoints from your GPSR (Garmin included) and plot them onto USGS topo maps as well as black-and-white really old aerial photos.

The interface is kind of klunky, but it does seem to work OK.

On yeah, it is also free.

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@SammyClaws wrote:

Is there a process for archiving caches where there are deadbeat owners who refuse to do anything about a cache that is missing? There are some that are sitting out there and wont show up on any reviewer list until the owner disables them, but the caches are just as useless as there isn’t anything to find and log. I would think there should be a process that goes around the owner to disable it, giving them time to repair/replace the cache or get archived.

There isn’t a perfect way to accomplish this. There are, however, two slightly less-than-perfect ways to get this done.

1. Post an SBA (Should Be Archived) note on the cahce page. Each SBA note goes to all of the reviewers in Wisconsin. Often, such a note will spur the cache owner to action in and of itself. If not, and the circumstances warrant it, the reviewer will get involved and (eventually) archive the cache if the owner does not respond. See the posting above that links to the “Long Disabled Cache Cleanup” policy.

2. Contact a Wisconsin reviewer directly. For now, the reviewer WGA2 handles this function.

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Have a look here: Long Disabled Cache Cleanup Policy

A cache needs to be disabled 3 months before it comes into the cleanup “system”.

The policy is set up to be as flexible and forgiving to the geocache placer as possible. With that being said, I don’t see an SBA on a cache like this accelerating the process any.

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Here is what he is looking for.

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