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I get great pleasure just from seeing Jeff continue to log not only the finds, but all the miles inbetween. What’s that odometer reading these days anyway?

Congratulations! You are an inspiration to all!

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GSAK can export a PQ into pretty much any mapping software commonly used by geocachers.

I use Garmin Roads & Recreation, Microsoft Streets & Trips, Mapsend Streets & Destinations (Magellan), & USA Photomaps.

Any of these loaded up with a fresh PQ can show me everything I could ever want.

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There is also a link here to try to force the system to email another validation request.
http://www.geocaching.com/v/

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As a test, I just changed my e-mail address twice without validating inbetween and I got immediate validation e-mails at both of the addresses.

If it is indeed your ISP blocking the e-mail, just set up an account outside of your isp (hotmail, yahoo, etc) and change your geocaching profile to that address. You will get an immediate validation request.

This will enable you to receive e-mail until you can get your isp situation fixed.

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Either your e-mail software or your ISP is blocking e-mail from geocaching.com. We had a similiar problem with Roadrunner some months ago which took weeks to straighten out. Shouldn’t your validation e-mail go to your new address? Or is that under the same ISP?

Searching the forums will lead to to the thread in which we all cursed Roadrunner for some time.

Best of Luck!

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First I thought I found a human body, but it was actually just a vagabond catching a nap.

Then there was the 99% intact deer skeleton, complete with a nice 6 point rack. It had apparently hit a car and then ran the 1/2 mile through the woods before succumbing.

I have also picked up a couple of nice snail shells, but have had little luck identifying them or how they got there.

A couple hundred golf balls which I occasionally use to confuse golfers by throwing them onto the course at the same time they are teeing off.

A portable deer stand which a hunter quite surly couldn’t find again after setting it at the base of a tree in the middle of the Kettle Moraine. We won’t go there though.

Several baseballs and a bocce ball. One basketball in the middle of a swamp.

One of my favorites is still ground zero at ProStreet’s “Where did I park my Car?”.

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I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the WGA president is also the WI approver for geocaching.com Aknowledging the incredible amount of hours he has spent researching regulations, property lines and the “legal” placement of every cache in WI, I already see an existing burden. The regulations are so diverse & widespread and the boundries have so many grey areas, that handing over a true set of rules for WI would be a great task in itself.

With Swiss, it would be even a greater burden. Imagine if in a few months there are 30 Swiss caches in WI. If each of these caches moves every week or two, the entire approval process starts over possibly 60-100+ times a month.
Maybe some people like to tie up all their free time, but I don’t know any of them.

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This actually happened quite some time ago. More than once Jeremy has walked all over the folks that gave so much in the beginning of the sport. Then again, business is business. It’s about money, self-preservation, and ego.

Thankfully, I have the option to take what I want from geocaching and leave the rest behind. Geocaching.com is not the basis of geocaching- it is just a database of caches. With the massive growth of the sport, many new hides are overlapping & becoming more mundane. As this continues, the other gps games & sites slowly become more interesting.

Luckly, I have yet to visit a few thousand places in WI that will someday make me go WOW…………

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If hunting the cache is going to be like a whole different experience for the hunter- i.e. completely different hunt……….. then it should be a new cache.

If it’s basically the same with some minor changes in the hide or the hunt, then move it and keep it the same.

More than once I have had a cache on my pq that I went to, only to find myself walking down the same trail as the other cache or former cache at the location. I prefer not to go somewhere thinking i’m hunting a new hide, only to find it is all too similar to the previous or other one I hunted in the same park.

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Great going Brkster! I see your 400th coming hard and fast. Congratulations

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I have some concern here in that although the intentions of SwissPerpetual may be good, the activity of seeking out hidden objects with a GPSr will be mistaken for geocaching.

Where this becomes a problem is that the WGA is working hard to make sure that our activity is agreeable with the state DNR and other land managers. At a minimum, any form of GPS stash hunting in WI should coincide with the rules that the WGA and it’s members have worked out with the land managers. Any less, and we risk endangering the future of our sport.

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Hey look, Active2gether has NEW hats!

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Looking back through the logs, I’m one of the very few who actually did this one at night. It is a GREAT place for star-gazing and I was lucky enough to be there on a clear night. The terrain is very easy-going; just look out for the pond.

My second favorite place for star-gazing was GrouseTale’s highly recommended cache “Salute to Stute”.

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It’s not stealthy, but it’s functional.

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This is a great area that I would have never seen if not for this cache. For anyone that enjoys natural areas in a setting that also provide interesting historical information- this cache is a “must do”.

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