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Welcome to all of the fun Kim. If you can find those caches under all that snow, you’ll be able to find them anywhere. When I have problems finding one, I start by cussing out the cache owner to myself. If that doesn’t work, I cuss out everyone one else that found it and said, “nice quick find” or “found it in the first place I looked”. It doesn’t always work, but it makes me feel better anyway. Good luck to you.

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I just recieved my other activation code. I must have had two digits reversed

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I just went for my codes and I got one immediately. I’m still waiting on the other one for about five minutes now. If I don’t get it by morning, I’ll contact him.

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@I M W/U wrote:

Going in March if it is still in the area by then.

In case you want to track it, it was placed in GC17WKG – Can u Can oe? I’m not sure if I should post the tracking number on here or not. If interested, send me a private message.

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A lot of small towns have their own muni court. In this case you usually talk to the town attorney and enter your plea. If you plead not guilty, your next stop is the judge to plead your case to. If guilty, they will more likely than not do something to lessen the charge as far as points go, but usually keep the fine where it is. This has been my wife’s experience in the only two court dates that she showed up for. A small town wants to handle their own cases because that way they get to keep all of the money from fines. The county may be different in the way that whatever money they take in is usually split between all of the municipalities. Sometimes a big city like Milwaukee may just send a case to county court so that they don’t spend money on court costs.
My wife’s experiences were “guilty”. “Ok. Instead of going 15mph over the posted speed and losing 4 points with an eighty dollar fine, we will reduce it to 10mph over the posted speed and you lose two points with an eighty dollar fine”.
If it were me, I would show up. If they offer to reduce your points and even increase the fine a little, I might even make a counteroffer. Say maybe another twenty-five bucks for another point in reduction. The counteroffer would depend on my driving record and maybe muni court vs county. You wouldn’t want a counteroffer to appear like a bribe. You might have bigger problems then.
By the way, this is in no way intended to be any kind of legal advice. Just speaking from past experience.
Good luck.

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@gotta run wrote:

Is it possible for a picked scab to turn to gangrene?

I hope so.

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We came up from Saint Charles Illinois to visit Paul’s Tree Farm and grab a few caches on the way home.We picked a few caches that sounded interesting and posed a bit of a challenge.We COULDN’T WAIT TO DO THIS ONE both for the challenge and to grab the GeoCoins that it holds!! It took us awhile to find Ruben’s Cave Drive!!We parked right there read the dinky little sign about “public hunting grounds”no dates,no times,debated wether to go in or not,decided to go,NEVER thinking we would find what we did.We get about 1,000ft. in and there’s a sniper sitting up in a tree!!This is REALLY STRANGE to us out-of-towner’s cuz where we come from,when parks/preserves are open for hunting,you can’t go in as a hiker and there are WARNING SIGNS ALL OVER THE PLACE that clearly state the dates~times that hunting is allowed.This place is INSANE !You just can’t have hikers and hunters mixin’ in the same preserve at the same time! We could’ve gone in never seeing this guy and him not seeing us,next thing you know he mistakes us for a deer comin’ outta the woods and it’s goodbye Charlie ! The owner of this cache needs to be EXPLICIT in his description and state “ENTER THIS PRESERVE AT YOUR OWN RISK BECAUSE HUNTERS MAY OR MAY NOT BE PERCHED UP IN TREES WITH RIFLES AND YOU MAY OR MAY NOT GET YOUR HEAD BLOWN OFF”.You gotta be a little clearer with us Illinois people cuz we do things differently.No offense to anyone but this whole thing needs to be explained to people who don’t live in Wisconsin.

We were TOTALLY BUMMED that we didn’t get to do this cache.It sounds really awesome and we were ready for the challenge!!We had just come from doing Spelunking in Magnolia and it was GREAT,WE LOVED IT!! The plan is to come back in the spring.There’s no hunting in the spring right???? Well,thanks anyway,maybe next time.TSAWSF…Carl & Kimberly 🙁

Well, not to offend anyone but, when you come into our state, or any state for that matter, it is your responsibility to find out how things work there. Things should not have to be explained unless you ask first.
When you come back in spring, all of the snipers will be sitting on the ground as there is a hunting season then as well.

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If anyone was going, too late. Coin was dropped today.

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They look even better than the drawing. Thank you.

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“…ancient old days before the invention of high speed internet…”
Hell, I still use dial up.

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All I can say is don’t worry about it. You can’t help other’s ignorance. Most public hunting lands that I have encountered are clearly marked with signs stating so with some exceptions. I have never had any problems after running into hunters. A cacher has the same rights to be there as anyone else does. It sounds like you did what you could on your end. If anybody truly has a concern about being in a hunting area, they can always wear an orange hat. This person might not be upset with you at all, but misplacing their anger with you for their ignorance.

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I(my wife actually) has been trying to set up our mac for caching. Ours is two or three years old now, so I believe that we will have a little more difficulty in doing so. Anyway, check out http://www.maccaching.com. If anything, you might find some other links that may be helpful.

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Thanks for all of your hard work and giving yourself to our geocommunity. Enjoy all of the extra time you’ll have now.

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I would say that it IS available, but it may not be winter friendly.

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My understanding is that “available in winter” means just that. That you are able to access the cache during the winter. “Not winter friendly” means that it will be that much harder to find if there is snow on the ground, ice, frozen in,etc. If it says “winter friendly” the cache should be up off the ground and/or protected somehow from the elements. Of course I have found a couple of caches that were winter friendly that were in the tops of fence posts that had snow on the top of them. Unless one is hanging somewhere, or something to that effect, the wind can easily blow snow over them.

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