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@JimandLinda wrote:

Congrats! There’s more to Wisconsin than cheese! 😉 😀

Yep, there’s pirate’s there too

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Here is a link to the WGA’s privacy policy
http://wi-geocaching.com/modules.php?name=Wiki&pagename=Privacy%20Policy

Certain features of the WGA website benefit WGA members. If you do not wish to be a WGA member that is your choice. Discussions of features that should/should not benefit WGA members are always welcomed on the forums. I do not know the history as to why submitted an event requires to be a member but I am pretty sure it’s not “accidental functionality”.

The only “admin’s” that have access to member information are current sitting board members (2 year terms) and the Webmasters. The names and contact information for these folks are on the first 2 tabs of the Board of Directors page: http://wi-geocaching.com/modules.php?name=Board_of_Directors&_tab=board Board members are elected by the membership. You know much more about me and the other board members than you do “adam” because we disclosed a ton of personal information about ourselves on a public forum when we “ran” for this election.

Committee members are not admins. They have access to an individual forum area. That is all. I will not touch on the use or need of private forum areas at this time other than to ask, is there a difference between a private board area and folks sending emails back and forth that don’t copy you in every time? Or they meet in person and you weren’t in the room?

Yes, I am posting this with my board member hat on.

On a personal note, I tend to agree with labrat. If you think you can keep your name and address and DOB secret on the Internet your entire life you are probably mistaken about how the Internet works.

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The upcoming events function of the WGA website is voluntary and listed events are submitted by members. It also allows members to advertise events that may not be listed on Geocaching.com yet or never get listed on geocaching.com.

Here’s another geocaching.com Wisconsin event resource:
http://www.geocaching.com/local/default.aspx?state_id=50

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definitely need one eating popcorn..

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@CodeJunkie wrote:

@cheezehead wrote:

@CodeJunkie wrote:

I just found out that the newest release of Geosphere (2.2) on my iTouch now displays the attributes in a separate tab. It looks like this was released on 5/22/10, but it’s a very nice addition in this release.

Geosphere???
What the heck is Geoshphere???

It’s the caching application I use for the iTouch.

By the way it’s called an ipod touch. 😉

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@Mister Greenthumb wrote:

Our 8 and 11 year old grandsons love them. They even wanted to do a multi cache at WalMart using all of the lamposts. Who knows, you may still see that someday.

I did a night cache like this once 😉 (was at last year’s cache bash) how many lamp post skirts will we have to raise?? I remember thinking that…

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@CacheARRRS wrote:

@AuntieNae wrote:

First time = clever
200th time = boring

1000th time = YES! One more number without any work! 😉

Beats circling pine trees for 15 minutes and walking away without a smiley 😉

I own one “LPC”. It’s not in a parking lot and was placed with permission. It was funny getting permission because the person I showed it to didn’t know they lifted up 🙂

I get logs that sound like the finder has never found one before and it’s fun to read these “first time” logs. Not everyone has found them before…

And on a slightly funny note, even caching veterans had a hard time finding it when it was first published simply because it magnets to the underside of the skirt as opposed to set there in plain site and is easy to miss when looking up under.

And on a funnier note, there’s a nearby business with windows facing the trail and the workers there are well aware of why people are lifting the skirt and the on occasion razz the finders which make for fun logs as well.

Like everything for me personally some things get old but I tend to agree with Cachearrs here. Sometimes it’s real nice that a find is predictable. It build confidence since I’m so bad at looking for caches.

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Team Bear Bear taught me the art of lifting the skirt on a flag pole rather than a lamp post. Multiple visits that learning experience took. I applied same logic the first time I encountered said lamp post hide.

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@Scrappy Scout wrote:

Does anyone knoe how long before syptoms can start of lyme disease. The reason I ask is I pulled a Deer tick out of my knee on Saturday and the area around where I pulled it out is soar. when I went to go kneel down today to do something it started to get soar again. I have a call out to my doctor but i was wondering if anyone else has had this problem or know what it could be.

Scout
Kevin

I had an embedded deer tick last year on my belly. It actually ended up getting infected but I lucked out on the lyme’s disease. Perhaps your “entry wound” is showing signs of a small infection starting? I am no doctor but I wouldn’t jump to lyme’s disease right away.

Did you get all parts of the tick out of your body?

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My next backpack…

http://www.voltaicsystems.com/bag_backpack.shtml

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@CacheARRRS wrote:

http://www.hikersjournal.org/video/video/show?id=1284222:Video:8982

Thanks for the link. Very neat project idea…

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@huffinpuffin2 wrote:

Here’s an example of attributes that can be generated and incorporated into your html code – it looks quite easy if you’re writing at that level. It’s from that crazy guy in Texas, 9key: http://www.9key.com/selector.asp
🙂

If I follow the history and connect the dots properly, I believe this was the “inspiration” for the attribute functionality Groundspeak added to cache pages.

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Congrats on the milestone!

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For what it’s worth the cache in question has been there a long time and is a great placement.

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Excellent cache find milestone or not.

If you look back in the logs you will see that, that cache was my NEMESIS cache. I had 10 visits into ground zero to find it. Sounds like you had a bit more luck than I with only 2 😉 Let’s just say it’s a bit tougher in Winter!

Congrats on racking up the numbers.

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