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You Might Be From Wisconsin If . . .
The term “Blaze Orange” means clothing to you, not a color.
You have gotten frostbitten and sunburned in the same week.
You can identify a Michigan accent.
You know what “cow-tipping” is.
If “down south” to you means Chicago.
A brat is something you eat, and you know how to pronouce it.
You know that Eau Claire is not something you eat.
You used to think Deer Season was an official school holiday.
You can actually pronounce and spell Oconomowoc and Lac Du Flambeau.
You go out for a fish fry every Friday.
You tell someone where you are from and they say, “I thought that was part of Canada.” (This has actually happened to me. Twice. ๐ฏ )
You know how to polka.
Your children describe their summer vacation out-of-state as a “trip to Door County.”
You know where to look for a bubbler.
You know that the emphasis on “Green Bay” is on the SECOND word.
You believe the Upper Peninsula of Michigan really belongs to Wisconsin. (It doesn’t? ๐ )
You know that “Fongulac” is the city at the south end of Lake Winnebago.
You have driven your car on a lake.
You check the brand of every bathroom fixture you encounter to see if it’s a Kohler.
You really did walk home from school as a child when the temperature was -20 F.
You check the antifreeze in your car on Labor Day.
You know how to play sheepshead.
You refer to the Packers as “we.”
You can recognize someone from Illinois by their driving.
You can visit Luxemburg, Holland, Belgium, Denmark, Berlin, New London and Poland all in one afternoon.
You consider Madison “exotic.”
You design your Halloween costumes to fit over a snowsuit. (True!)
You’ve taken your kids trick-or-treating in a blizzard.
Driving is better in the winter because the potholes get filled with snow
You own a “winter car” while the “good one” sits in the garage from Nov-Apr.
You buy kitty litter every winter, but you don’t own a cat.
The local paper covers national and international headlines on 1/4 page, but requires six pages for sports (5 1/2 pages for the Packers…in July)!
You’ve worn your winter coat to watch the fire works on the 4th of July.
You think it’s nice enough to swim when the temperature hits 50.
At least twice a year, the kitchen doubles as a meat processing plant or cannery.
Your snow blower gets stuck on the roof.
You have 10 favorite recipes for venison.
You frequently clean grease off your barbecue so the raccoons won’t prowl on your deck.
You know which leaves make good toilet paper.
You find -20F a little chilly.
In winter, the trunk of your car or your garage doubles as a deep freezer.
You know the four seasons: Winter, Still Winter, Almost Winter, and Construction / Mosquito.
On the Left Side of the Road...You have to be .1 miles away from any physical stage of a different multi-cache, not just the first stage, if that’s what you’re asking.
I’m curious why your submissions didn’t “save” the spots on the trail, unless the multi-cache itself was submitted before you had worked up your caches.
On the Left Side of the Road...These have now all been adopted out.
On the Left Side of the Road...Very well said, GMO. I will take your words to heart.
On the Left Side of the Road...@Johnny Cache wrote:
Auditing archived caches? Are you kidding me.
Neither of the two archived caches of ours from which you pulled those logs are puzzles to solve. I stand by my assertion but feel free to keep arguing your case if you’d like. Regarding the original topic, I have made my arguments and have nothing more to say on the matter.
Again, I am neither perfect nor perfectly consistent. In fact, there’s been only one person in our history who was perfect and, although his initials were also JC, he does not post to these forums.
On the Left Side of the Road...Johnny, you’re really grasping at straws with the FTF cache analogy; that’s the way the CO designed the cache and that’s exactly my point.
Regarding the logs on our owned caches you point out–yeah, I admit I got pretty annoyed about the fact that the change to the ALR rules a while back had people jumping on those two caches to log them as now-traditional caches as fast as they could with TFTC-type logs. We tried to restructure one as a Challenge, but it was just pointless and caused too much confusion for finders so we decided to take it down. Were my logs unnecessarily saracastic? In retrospect, probably. (Then again, who would really ever know unless they’re audting our archived caches?)
If you keep spending time researching my writings, you will undoubteldy find plenty more upset, sarcastic, or angry logs and forum threads and facebook posts and emails and letters to the editor and…well, you get the point. I know I could never run for public office. And since I don’t have time or inclination to audit all your cache logs to mix up a pot of mud of my own, I’ll just quote from this thread:
@gotta run wrote:
I do not claim to be perfect or anywhere near it.
However, my imperfections and inconsistencies do not negate the fact that
@gotta run wrote:
I have a right to continue advocating my point of view
as do you.
Lastly, I already publicly apologized to 3Hawks, so I’m surprised to see you bring it up again, particularly after the many cordial PMs you and I have had on this topic. Oh well. Keep it in your pocket to use against me again, because I’m bound to get worked up about something different sooner or later.
On the Left Side of the Road...@marc_54140 wrote:
Yes, you are making an assumption. Perhaps you should come down off that high chair, and come on a Tour, just once. Be surprised what goes on…..
Can’t find my high chair…or even my high horse. But I did find my rocking horse! Ah, memories….
On the Left Side of the Road...Thanks Zollinger.
Two left:
GC1J3MZ
GC1F73TOn the Left Side of the Road...Yay! 8)
But what’s the deal with that green comic sans font? ๐
On the Left Side of the Road...@AstroD-Team wrote:
Thanks for letting me hijack you thread. ๐
It’s your thread too! Everyone’s for that matter.
Well, there are fewer puzzles for everyone to fret over in the Green Bay area now. Did a bunch of archiving today for various reasons. Some puzzles were just ciphers and as such were really only marginally enjoyable, especially with the proliferation of cipher puzzles that happened after we put them out (and still continues today). Others were decent puzzles, but really uninspired finals. Other puzzle ideas had just run their course.
We will be using the comments from this thread to shape our puzzle placements going forward. I think to save us some of that “mental distress,” we’ll focus on combining challenging puzzles with challenging terrain. That serves a number of objectives. First, the bus doesn’t stop at high terrain puzzles as a rule. Second, that means we won’t be cluttering up valuable urban park-and-grab territory with caches that are “barricaded behind complicated hoops and barrels.” ๐ Third, since we’ve made such a big stink about “quality,” I suppose we better put our caches where our mouth is…uh…or something like that. And fourth, well, we just like the tough ones.
On the Left Side of the Road...@marc_54140 wrote:
As I cache throughout Wisconsin (and IL, MN, etc), meeting different addicts from all over, I have been hearing more and more about cache saturation. And specifically, puzzle caches.
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But another, more important point is how these caches are tying up otherwise good locations for other, and future, caches.
Yes, each cacher has a right to place a cache. But when an area becomes saturated with puzzles, it can have a negative effect.
The primary purpose of geocaching for to hide caches for people to go out and find. When some (or too many) caches are barricaded behind complicated hoops and barrels that frustrate the majority of cachers, it defeats that intent.
Caches are meant to be found.
Puzzle saturation can affect the future of caching. Consider this: How are new cachers to begin to figure out where to place a new cache, when there are so many hidden รขโฌหbombsรขโฌโข out there?
Is it time to place some restrictions? Or should individuals begin to restrain themselves? Would they?
Bump….
Seems to be lots of interest in placing puzzles lately…On the Left Side of the Road...If I’m running a race and someone pulls a Rosie Ruiz because they wanted to run the race the way they wanted to, it’s going to bug me even though I would have no chance of winning because I’m slow :). So it shouldn’t matter to me, since what they did has no impact on my own performance and experience–but it would.
If I go back to take some college courses–let’s say I’m auditing them so it’s just for my own edification, not a degree–and someone obtains some test answers and uses them because that’s the way they wanted to take the test, it’s going to bug me even though what they did has absolutely no impact on my own test experience.
It’s not a perfect parallel–back to that “rules for logging” issue again–but neither do I think it’s an apples-and-oranges comparision….more like a Gala and Braeburn comparison…
Now, without the online forum that is integral to geocaching, none of this would ever be known to me. I could have a whole greyhound bus full of poeple shortcut one of our letterbox puzzles and no one would be the wiser. But, I do know it with geocaches–also because some people go out of their way to wave it in my face–so, it bugs me. ‘Bout all I can tell you.
On the Left Side of the Road...@Team Deejay wrote:
Hey, now that you have all the puzzles solved, will you take me along? ๐
Just use your magical reviewer powers….poof! Coordinates!
On the Left Side of the Road...Count me in if schedules allow…it will be lonely again next winter…
On the Left Side of the Road...15 miles is a pretty big radius! Let me recommend a few within a few miles of your starting point.
Ok, with that as your starting point, I would highly recommend doing the “Laughing Waters” series: http://www.geocaching.com/bookmarks/view.aspx?guid=de298e27-d7af-4adf-8262-0c8bf9b9288e . Given your appreciation of EarthCaches, there is a lot of content to these puzzles that might appeal to you. The one with the additional logging request is a neat concept, although the fountain itself may be covered at this point in time.
Many of the other puzzles in the immediate vicinity are site solves: GC13HT3, GC1F7T2, and GC1660Q, GC1DR0D, GC1GJ3B, GC15F6F
which are not difficult solves, but may require more time in the field than you want to allot.So, focusing then on puzzles you can desk-solve beforehand, you might want to take a look at some of -cheeto-‘s video game puzzles, which we have not done yet. Also, GC15WQB.
Now, we need to go out about 3 miles to find more desk-solves that fit the bill. GC1M7BE is a hoot (with the D rating a bit high IMO) and GC1PF8A is a quick solve, both with an AL-request.
Check out GC1Y71E and it’s counterparts; at least the first two should be findable and you might get the third depending on how much melting there is.
Going in generally the same direction (i.e., into Appleton rather than west), and focusing on desk solves, you could do GC1DZVM, GC15QCR, GC1A97Y, GC1XFWV. Somewhat more difficult solves could involve GC1P6R3, GC1NRHP, GC11E42, and GC1NRG8.
That takes you from your starting point to about 4 miles northeast and is far more than our team could do in the 4 hours you’re targeting, but it’s a few options for you.
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