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@bobcatw98 wrote:

P.S. You should hide another geocache similar but this one, don’t leave a container. Call it the Vikings. Ya know, nothing to look forward to!!!

Now that’s FUNNY!!!!! 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆

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I ask the wife and she actuall picked up a couple of ammo cans. 😯

I recieved a new Sawyer County plat book, I think 8 Tb’s( I’m told they are in the mail) A pair of carhart jeans. That’s about it for geocaching supplies. Oh ya! $40 for swag!

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As a former scout I’d buy one from ya.

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Got mine too! Mine wants to go to Russia and the Wife’s to Japan.

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Still waiting to recieve mine 🙄 😥 .

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@elfdoctors wrote:

Do people think that this is an acceptable usage of the regional forums? ❓ This is the limit of the promotion of my own caches. I envision promotion is most likely for either unusual caches or series of caches which are just published (until these forums are used in a different way).

Yup! That’s what they are for. I am working a couple of different series that are going to be different. This will be a good place to bounce off ideas and such. Once life slows down a bit, I’ll see if I can get down there and attempt those new ones.

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@Cache_boppin_BunnyFuFu wrote:

Depends on what you need. I draw more of a cartoon type drawings and not so realistic, but let me know!

Hey Fu Fu, did ya get my PM? If not, I’ll resend the info. Cartoon drawings is what I’m looking for. Please PM for further info you you would like.

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I was born and raised in Rhinelander for 10 years. Been living in Hayward ever sence. One of these days, after my life slows down I would like to get over to my old dtomping grounds and hit some caches over in that area. SLAS, I have gotten do do a few in Solon Springs. The one I did were pretty neat. I need to get back over there and finsh a few that I started.

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I’m actually getting kind of excited about doing some snowshoeing caching this year. My wife gave me a pair of Atlas last year Christmas and I didn’t get to use them all that much CZ of my heart surgery last. Feb. We didn’t have all that much snow either up here until late.

Most of the caches I put out are winter friendly and I have plans for a few others that snow shoes or skies will help get ya to them.

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@Team Deejay wrote:

Actually, there are 3 SNAs in Sawyer County: Flambeau River Hardwood Forest (about 5 miles W of Phillips, within Flambeau River State Forest), Lake of the Pines Conifer-Hardwoods (18 miles W of Phillips in the Flambeau River State Forest), and Kissick Alkaline Bog Lake (about 2.5 miles W of Hayward, in Kissick Swamp Wildlife Area). Combined, its around 700 acres of land, although the Kissick Lake looks like all water and marsh. You might check to see if any of your caches happened into one of these areas. As mentioned above, the DNR does a really poor job on marking borders. You basically have to take a topo map and try to guess exactly where someone drew a line on a map.

I guess I knew about the bog and the are no caches near it. As for the others, they are on the south eastern part of the county and so I’m not sure if there are caches near the other 2 SNA cuz I haven’t hit any of the cahce down there yet.

The 2 caches that I have out on State land I had no problem with the land manager. He actualy told me of a few locations on state land that would be good for caches!

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Living up north as I do. Sawyer County does not have any SNA that I am aware of. But we do have the Namekagon River, which is part of the National Scenic River Way(NSRW), where chaches are not allowed. But the land is open to hunting and other things. Heck, A NPS Park Ranger will give you a ticket on the spot if they think you are caching. There was a cache at a favorite spot of mine that I knew was placed wrong and was recently archived. There where a few others that were also archived but did some leg work and got them active because they where not on NPS property. There are many, many spots that would be great for caches but you can’t. I think that the SNA’s & NSRW goes hand in hand. If can do one, you should be able to do both. Just a note that the Namekagon and the St. Croix Rivers are both part of the NSRW.

I guess that there is a fine line to tight rope. What’s to stop the DNR from saying ALL State land is close to geo-caching 😯 ?

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Like, as in North of Hwy 29? I think that would work.

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@I M W/U wrote:

Being new, I’m already finding too many forums to read. Maybe there is a science to reading them? I would be close to the 4 corner mark and would have to read all 4 forums. I think less is more.

OK, how anout north and south then? Us hwy 94/29 as a divider.
Look at it from a Northern point of view. Caches in the Madison, Milwaukee,Green Bay area of are no intrest to me. Not unless in going to be making a special trip in that direction would I be looking for those caches. One reason being distance. It has been brought more then once(as in where to hold the next WGA event-being more or less know more than 2 hrs from those areas.)

For me, I have only travled about an hour away to cache,2 hors would be my max. From Hayward, that would cover the about the area from Eau Claire-Superior- Ashland-Hurley-Park Falls-Woodruff- St. Croix Fall areas. I would think it’s the same case if you live in the southern part of the state also. Caches in Port Wing would be of no intrest to someone that lives in New Berlin,unless they were palnning a trip to that area.

Now if there was info about caches those areas I would spend most of my time reading those posts. I won’t try to find search for the info if it’s all lumped together.

Take COM’s. I have never voted on one because I have never heard of them or an oppertunity to have found them. I was pleasently surprised to see one of mine nominated for COM,but know that there is only a handful of people who have found it, and those who have do not come to this site or any other forum.

No matter how you look at it, this site is geared toward the souther part of the state. And it is. I think if there was a spot for Northern Cachers, and be it word of mouth or whatever, you might get people from the north to participate in this organization.

I have been on the Ground Speak forums once. Look how the lump the states together that make up the Midwest Now I just found out about the Northern Lights board and I know there is some friction between members there and the MnGCA, (Sort of the same thing here, how some feel towards the Ground Speak Forums) but it more or less set of for cachers in the Northern Parts of Minnesota and Wisconsin.

Northwestern Wisconsin is becoming more and more a part of Minnesota.
Out local TV is Duluth stations, and a few of cities. One of the cable company’s does carry the Eau Claire station. The Milwaukee Jurnal/Sentnial will no longer be dilevering the paper up here after the end of the month. The ST. Paul Press Publihes a Wisconsion edition paper as does the Duluth New Tribune. WE ARE PART OF WISCONSIN DANGIT ALL!! 😡 Please try to do what can be done so ALL of Geo-CachingWisconsinites may call this home.

(Putting the soap box away again. Sorry.)

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@GrouseTales wrote:

What would be the boundaries of such “regions”? Thinking out loud, you could quarter the state up. The North/South line could be hwy 51/39. The E/W line could be Hwy 10. That would give us a N/E, S/E, N/W, and S/W region.

Only problem, what if you live near the boundary. Do you post in several regions, or choose ownership to a certain region?

I think you could post in any are region where ayou cache. I would divied it the way Grouse Tails said but I think ,in my opnion, would us Hwys 94 to Eau Claire and Hwy 29 from Eau Claire to Green Bay as the divider between Noth and South.As the for the East West I would use Hwy 39-51 from Beloit to Wausau and Hwy 13 from Abbotsford to Ashland or continue on with hwy 51 to Hurley.

You could also do a Middle region with Hwy94-29 as the north,Hwy51 as the east, Hwy 90 as the South and the Miss. River as the West boundies.

I dunno, I guess you could do it how ever you wanted. The DNR sets it up for diffrent areas. so it would be up to….whoever it’s up too.

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@elfdoctors wrote:

I’m new to these forums. I live in northwestern Wisconsin on the western border. In my limited experience, it seems that these forums are dominated by people in the Madison/Milwaukee area.

Would it be possible (or a good idea) to get some regional forums? This would provide local members the opportunity to discuss caches, events, etc that would be of interest primarily only to anyone who lives/vacations in these areas?

I would think that this would be a good idea. There are more and more Geocachers up north that you relize. Some do not know of this site is here and those that do, do not visit because it tends to to deal with the southern part of the state. Do you know just how many Mud Ducks we get up here on the weekends? Many! They give the weather reports for this area on the Twin Cities news because so many from the cites do have cabins in the area. It would be an area for “US in the Sticks” to talk about caches in our area.

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