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I know of many caches just south of Wabeno in the Nicolet. I am not aware of any special reporting or permissions needed. We have had some muggling problems with caches, and are aware of a few others, and have wondered if maybe these were done by some misguided “friends of the forest”, or just plain vandals…
If you have not hunted caches in northern Oconto / southern Forest Counties, you need to! There are many great caches in that area.
Anyway, there are still many other beautiful areas up there, with lots of room for terrific caches. We’ll look forward to seeing some more pop up.
Jim & Chris, Waupaca & Townsend
Agreed.
This is why I rarely vote for COM – it’s unusual for any caches I’ve done to be on the list. It would be difficult for me to vote for one over another when I’ve never seen any of them.
But some of the COM’s I do keep track of, and hope to someday have an opportunity to look for.
Jim
Ryan, what area of the Nicolet are you thinking about? What county?
Jim
I sorta ‘manage’ 12 Garmin Etrex Ventures we have at school; 4 basic Etrex’s our camp owns; and Gram & I are on our second Legend… I guess I am pretty happy with Garmin!
We have a list of 40 or so winter friendly caches in the Marquette, MI area. We have found many, but not all, of these and can attest they are OK even in the U.P. snow. The list was compiled by two of the prominent Marquette caching teams, 2227 and Quirktoo in Dec. of 2008.
As has been discussed here before, the U.P. is a terrific area to hunt for great caches. This list has a lot of micros, but also many larger, and a whole lot of them are creative hides in scenic places.
If you are planning a trip to the Marquette / Ishpeming area, send a note. We’ll be happy to share the list.
cYa, Chris & Jim
I’ve gotten one of the school profiles modified with TB stats thanks to zoes brother, who provided technical expertise – thank you very much. I’ll try to do the other account sometime when I have lots of time, too.
Meanwhile, many of you have had your hands on some of our ‘SetonCachers’ school kids TB’s. If you care to see what this years batch of 62 has been doing, check the profile page for the ‘SetonCachers2’ team.
cYa, Grandpa Jim
It looks like the old dog is gonna have to learn some new tricks!
I have a very basic idea of how HTML works on web pages, but did not know it would be needed to do what I want on a Profile. It seems like Word docs may be imported into other areas of gc.com – like TB missions, cache descriptions, etc – so I just figured it would work here also.
Thanks for the tutorials and offers of help. I have a feeling I’ll get this figured out – with some help from my friends!
cYa, Grandpa Jim
Thanks, Jim & Linda, for making a special trip to pick up a couple more of our kids travel bugs! We appreciate it.
Jim & the Setom CMS kids
We just moved 5 of our school kids TB’s to our Seton’s Eagle Nest cache at Hwy 10 & 76, just west of Neenah-Menasha. These TB’s have been sitting in our Waupaca caches for 1-1/2 months. There are still a few others in Waupaca, but we’ll move them, too, in another week or so if they are still sitting.
We also dropped a TB belonging to MaxB on the River of southern Michigan. If you are not familiar with Max and their TB operation, it is worth a look – check out their home cache GCK8ZV . Max has paid special attention to several of our school TB’s, and we found it pretty neat that we’d have a Max TB at the same time Max has one of ours.
So we are pleased to extend our appreciation to MaxB as another great cacher who is helping our kids with this school project – thank you.
Grandpa Jim & the SetonCacher2 kids
Kudo’s and a big THANK YOU to Sparse Grey Hackle & Blondie Bloodhound and Sandlanders for getting their hands on a few of our TB’s. We started looking at maps and geography lessons yesterday. 2 kids were pretty excited to be able to place their map pins, as their TB’s had moved and landed in a new cache. We’ll finish up with the rest of the students on the mapping and tracking process by the middle of next week, and then set up a process for them to check their TB’s at least twice a week.
Right now, about one-half of our TB’s are still in their initial caches. It seems as though gas prices and the economy in general must be slowing down geocaching. Hopefully we’ll be able to get all of our TB’s moved out before Ole Man Winter slows things down even more!
cYa, Grandpa & the SetonCachers2
We do about 100 unique finds per year. It’s fairly consistent in any 12 month period. But we intro lots of rookies to caching through school, youth groups, and camps. And I’ve managed the creation of 125 travel bugs since Sept / Oct of 2007, and had a hand in the launching and tracking of most of them. So we don’t get a lot of our own finds, but we sure have a lot of fun being involved with GeoCaching with lots of other people.
cYa, Jim
Check out this discussion thread in the “General” catagory:
http://wi-geocaching.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=7860
We’d be interested in looking at any geocaching / TB activities… Where & what grade level do you work?
Jim from Seton Catholic Middle School in Menasha
Computer Ed & Technology Integration 6-7-8Thanks to Team Hemi for picking up a few of our kids’ TB’s! We have about a dozen more completed and ready to put into caches, but we are out of room!
Grandpa & the SetonCachers2 team
Thanks for the kind words. Yup, it has been a real fun project for our students, and the staff. Kind of a sneaky way to get kids excited about com arts, computer ed, and geography lessons, eh?
And a big thanks to JimandLinda for grabbing the first handful of our TB’s to move out this year. We still have about 2 dozen packed into our caches (Seton’s Eagle Nest at Hwy 10 & 76, and Seton’s St. M-M TB Retreat & Grandpa’s Computer Cache in Waupaca), and even a couple in Coloma, in the Sesquicentenial caches. We have about 30 ready to place, we’ll trickle a few of these out this weekend. And we still have about a dozen in the process of activating…
cYa, Grandpa Jim & the SetonCachers2
2007-08 SetonCachers TB stats As of Sept. 26, 2008 8:00 pm
60 Travel Bugs were sent out in September & October, 2007
Lowest mileage: 1 @ 0 miles & 2 weeks, it’s initial cache was muggled;
3 @ 12 or 13 miles & 2 weeks before the cache was muggledHighest mileage: 25,519
Current mileages:
<1000 miles, but still going 16
1001 – 2000 7
2001 – 3000 3
3001 – 4000 3
4001 – 5000 8
5001 – 6000 4
6001 – 7000 8
>7000 7
Total miles for all 60 TB’s 211,905, which is an average of 3,531.75 miles each.Current locations:
Unknown 8
In the hands of cachers 22
(of which 12 have been for 2 to 8 months, about half of these cachers have many excuses for not moving them, and many unfulfilled promises)
In caches 29
(1 since January, 2 since March, 2 since April, the rest are fairly recent placements)Interesting places our TB’s have been to:
United Kingdom, Germany, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Ontario, Alberta, Hong Kong, Greece, Spain, almost all U.S. states plus the District of Colombia.
Large maps of Wisconsin, United States, and the world are placed on hallway bulletin boards. TB locations are updated weekly with map pins.
Lots of T.B. pictures posted by cachers, estimate of >200, were color printed out and posted on another hallway bulletin board – our students LOVED this in 2007-08!
Disclaimer: All statistics compiled by hand at the end of a busy week with no high tech assistance. Not all totals may add up to 100%, but all data is from http://www.geocaching.com, our Travel Bugs page.
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