[Folk Trakers]

You’ll probably get expert teaching and advise from Natloh2. As someone who also is involved with orienteering (only using maps and compasses), he’s got knowledge in all of these areas.

[Folk Trakers]

Hey GrouseTales,

Noticed the updated Events Page….but what about the campout!?!

[Folk Trakers]

Bill–
We like the idea of a sticker, we just aren’t very creative people. We’re not the type to design things (they’d all be basic boxes with just some colors and no pictures) so we didn’t add our input hoping others would. We like the idea of a sticker, though, and would be interested in incorporating those onto our caches.

Mrs. Traker

[Folk Trakers]

This sounds fun! The Trakers are a maybe.

I like the idea of some new foods. We love Asian-inspired foods and would love this treat.

[This message has been edited by Folk Trakers (edited 02-07-2005).]

[Folk Trakers]

I’ve been watching this one (and trying to solve it) since it came out!

This makes my Enigma look like childs play…but it definately gets me thinking….hmmmmm.

[Folk Trakers]

groan

[Folk Trakers]

My fellow Americans the time has come for a changing of the guard. A time when the old relinquishes the reins of power and encourages those that follow to do the best that they can. We know that those that are up and coming will go far beyond what we have done here and stretch our imagination like no one has done before.

My administration had three primary goals in issuing Executive Order…Vote. The first was to test the education of our citizenry. Based on the final results we have done well as a community. Every person who took on the challenge passed the final test. There were times when I had concerns that individuals were falling into the deep abyss of a failed school system only to be reinvigorated by their completion of the test. All who have walked the footsteps of the ‘Order’ have excelled academically.

Environmentally speaking our parks had fallen into disrepair over the years and therefore the ‘Order’ was set to clean up those areas in order to preserve them for future generations. With the cooperation of those locally, and a few from out of state, we have preformed a transformation that is, for a time, beyond words. Our parks have been rejuvenated and are now available for the next generation to seize the spirit of the outdoors and continue the progress toward a cleaner environment.

Our last goal was to improve the morale of the people. We believe that this has been accomplished. We have received scores of messages with praise for the ‘Order,’ we have sent many new people out to parks and areas that are rarely visited and we have seen the shining faces of those who have accomplished this difficult task. We are humbled at the encouragement for this challenge and look forward to the new challenges that lay ahead.

So the time has come where we must say goodbye but not forever, just for a time. There will be new people to lead the way, a new adventure to bring us back and as always the gentle tug of those that have gotten us here. We now retire this Executive Order and look to the future. There should never be a day when you look back on life and regret the decisions made, we should all look to the dawn of that new day and hope that the new challenge will be as good as the last.

God Bless America!

[Folk Trakers]

Way to go! Great way to finish off 2004! We can’t wait to see what creative caches you’ll place in 2005!

[Folk Trakers]

Just one last reminder. This is going to be one of the warmest New Year’s days on record–mid 30s! If you’ve ever thought…just once in my life I should take this dare and jump in the lake in WI in January….then this would be the year to do it. Out of the last 15 years of jumping, many years have been single digits or lower, with windchills in the negative. This year will be quite nice to jump (or at least to watch)!

Hope to see you there!

[Folk Trakers]

Just a couple of days left!!

[Folk Trakers]

Unfortunately this does not qualify as an event cache. We wanted to do that last year, but as geocaching is not the main ‘purpose’ of this event, it does not meet the geocache approval requirements. We’ve tried to figure out how to make it into an event, but just didn’t get to it this year.

We hope people can join us, to jump or to watch. The Enigma cache is very, very close, so maybe that can be an incentive.

[Folk Trakers]

Trudy and the Beast braved the single digit weather to hit their 4-digit goal! Congrats!

[Folk Trakers]

Congrats on 900! We’re falling way behind you now, but can’t wait to see when and where you’ll hit 1,000! Also, a big Happy Anniversary to you too!

[Folk Trakers]

Hey, another person who can just read the codes even while encrypted! It’s become a second language for Mrs. Traker.

[Folk Trakers]

Two years ago we forgot to ‘fall back’. We had planned for a full day of caching and, as is our habit, write the times in on each of the logs. That afternoon we stopped at Borzynski’s market for carmel apples. Knowing they closed at 5pm, we hurried to make it there by 4:35. We even commented to the clerk that she only had 1/2 hour left to her shift. She gave us a strange look, but said nothing. Upon arriving home and turning on the TV in the hopes of seeing a show at 6pm, we finally figured it out! We laughed that all of our logs that day have incorrect times and the carmel apple clerk really had 1.5 hours of her shift left!

Luckily we didn’t have any true appointments that day, just fun activities with no specific times. It was funny to post our logs that night and see others comment how they were there at the same time as us (seeing our log), but didn’t see us….we just were there an hour before each and every time!

[This message has been edited by Folk Trakers (edited 11-01-2004).]

[Author]

Posts