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We’d echo FuFu’s note about the Golden Inn in Superior. We ate there tonight, and were well pleased. The Family Combo’s are good!
We spent half as much as in Hayward last night, had more to eat, the service was friendlier and more efficient, and the food was better. We’ll stop again, if we ever are in Superior again – the last time was 20 years ago, other than just driving through!
Grandma & Grandpa
Good job, Mark & Pat! One of these days Gram & I will retire and have more time for caching. We like what we are doing now, but look forward to having less to do. Glad you guys could get out of the workforce while you’re still young and healthy. Caching helps keep you that way!
We gonna catch some pizza this summer?
cYa, Jim & Chris
Gram’s mom is moving from an Appleton duplex to one in Darboy Saturday. We’ll be tied up with that all day. But I’m glad we bumped in to the Sandlanders at one of our caches yesterday, it was good to be able to visit for a few minutes!
cYa, Chris & Jim
RE: La Salle Falls
Check out GC62B0
We found this cache back in 2005, and apparently it’s still live. A Found It log was posted a couple of weeks ago.
Pretty area. I don’t remember much about the cache, except that it took two seperate trips paddling from a campsite downriver, we could not find it the first time. It is a beautiful area, highly reccomended.
Thanks for putting together this challenge. What a great way to see some of the spectacular sights in our home state!
cYa, Jim & Chris
Our circle… counted up the old fashioned way (no PQ capability):
From our home:
89 caches available within 10 miles, excluding ours
26 left to find within 10 milesOur other circle, Townsend, WI:
62 caches available within 10 miles, excluding ours
29 left to find within 10 milesInteresting topic, I thought we had cleared off more local caches than what an actual search shows. Guess we need to get busier.
cYa, Chris & Jim
We have installed Tie’s suggested program, and it is working fine. Thanks a lot!
But now we are getting loads of pop-ups, and automatic jumps from webpages to advertising pages in a new webpage.
Probably unrelated to our new alternative to Reader, but it’s always something with the computer lately. Why can’t these things just do what we want them to do, without all the drama?
cYa, Jim & Chris
I just showed this funny sign to our daughter. She says she was southbound on I-94 a couple of weeks ago, and saw a black bear alongside the highway. She was a few miles north of Tomah, and right by a business with a name similar to “The Three Bears”. I asked if it was a stuffed advertising bear, but apparently not, because it ran off into the woods.
About the same time, one was photographed in a back yard about a mile from our home here in Waupaca. That made the local paper, and I’m told it was covered on the Channel 5 news and in the Appleton Post Crescent.
cYa, Jim
Do you suppose this might fix it so I don’t have to log in again and again and again, every time I switch to a new screen?
It’s becoming a real pain to try to do anything on the gc.com website.
We just had another school TB resurface that had gone missing back in October ’09. 50 miles after our TB’s were launched, a brand new cache was totally stolen. And of course, no sign of our TB’s. We had two 11 year old boys pretty upset.
A week or so ago, logs started popping up for one of the TB’s. It had gotten grabbed and then lost under a car back seat. Now in just a few short days it’s been to Texas, and in & out of a whole bunch of caches. And one of our sixth graders is smiling again.
cYa, Jim
Last summer, I contacted a state agency about a similar idea – a hollow tree horizontally hanging over the lake about 10′ from a posted state owned island. The second-in-charge bureaucrat told me absolutely not. I politely explained the DNR policies and procedures, but he was not impressed. He simply stated that “they” did not want anybody on “their” island. My descriptions of the cache access also made no difference.
The anticipated cache would be easily reachable from a paddlecraft, but not a motorboat – too rocky and shallow. It would be nearly impossible to reach if one were to trespass onto shore.
There has been some changeover in that particular place in recent months, maybe this summer I’ll try again.
cYa, Jim
Last June, Sandlanders and I spent most of a day with about 30 state park naturalists at Hartman Creek S.P. We showed them all kinds of caching stuff, and then turned them loose with GPS’ to find caches we’d hidden.
According to the info shared at that meeting, every state park property was to be supplied with a box full of Garmin GPS’, along with programming materials to be used at their park, supplied by state park HQ in Madison. On behalf of WGA, we offered the services of our local active cachers to work with the naturalists in the placing and maintaining of caches. This seemed to be well received, in that the naturalists would have a say in the placements, but we’d take care of the caches.
Sounds sorta like the official proposal from the WGA to the DNR, eh?
Interestingly, I’ve gotten volunteered to deliver canoes and kayaks to this same group this June. No geocaching this year, they want to paddle. I will certainly look for opportunity to speak with some of the state park brass we met last year, who seemed all gung ho to get more geocaching going in their properties.
cYa, Jim
I used to see a badger once in awhile when bow hunting in Waushara County, about 8 miles west of Wautoma. Never did see where he holed up, but he’d waddle under my stand now and then.
That’s the only one I’ve ever seen in the wild, and that was several years ago.
Any further thoughts when this could happen?
If the date works, Gram & I would be interested in doing this. We’d either kayak or canoe – we have both. Thanks for working to put this together!
Jim & Chris
We did a few of the Arkansas state park caches last Spring, but had the promo materials for the whole program. It is well laid out, the caches we found were good ones. and the park staffs knew about them and were friendly and encouraging. Some were pretty much park-n-grabs, but some were a ways out. All of the parks we visited had several additional caches placed as well, besides the official ones.
BTW, there was no requirements for park stickers or daily fees in the Arkansas state parks, at least in April 2009.
With Hartman Creek right in our backyard, and experience working with Park staff and the Friends group, I’d offer our services to set up a cache or two there. We’d even stock the cache(s) AND provide 2 pencils, at no cost to WGA or the DNR!
This is a great idea, we certainly hope that it flies. Please let us know how we can help.
cYa, Chris & Jim
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