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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
How about Stage 1 – Appleton -> Stage 2 – Los Angeles -> Stage 3 – Appleton ( GC11ZNW )? Or L.A. -> Appleton -> L.A. ( GCxxxxx – don’t have this one handy…)? Check out a couple from the GizFinder & John Crowe team!
We completed one of these with a California partner who hails from New London, WI. We are 66% done with the other, and been stuck there for awhile now…
cYa, Jim
I got mine today as well. Found out it was $10 off a $50 purchase when I brought $30 worth of stuff up to the checkout. Oh, well, I bet I can go back and spend $50 without much of a problem!
cYa, Grandpa
GC144E4
A couple of miles west of Townsend in Oconto County. This island has been walked to during the winter, but deep snow has caused difficulties finding the cache. We paddled to it, as have most of those who have posted finds.
cYa, Jim & Chris
I have a pair of Somebody’s Army surplus that I bought at a Fleet Farm. They were around $7.00, and work OK – probably not as slick and cool as the REI or Gander ones, but they are alright.
We don’t have a lot of numbers stats to brag about, but do have some favorite ’09 caching memories to share.
* Building a cool cache with our grandson Samson and seeing how excited he gets when folks post appreciative logs. Also, when his mom gets asked if she is “Grandma”… which she does not appreciate, but we all think is pretty funny.
* Integrating curriculum into other subject areas built around student TB’s that are now all over the U.S. and Europe.
* Searching for the correct Kodak moments while working on the 900 series WSQ caches.
* Meeting several cachers either on the trail or as they visited some of our caches.
* Caching in new places with our grown kids and other relatives as they move around to various new locales in the good ole USA.
* Introducing rookies to this fun activity!
Gram and I seem to do about 100 new caches per calendar year. She enjoys visiting cool new places and easy hikes, and is fairly tolerant of what she calls my “obsession”. I try to moderate my obsession, but am getting more into building creative caches and putting them in hopefully safe places. We see 2010 as continuing along these lines.
Happy New Year everybody, and God Bless!
Jim & Chris
I just asked a similar question of a reviewer, in regard to rearranging some caches of mine in order to squeeze in another. I was told one ammo box cache needed to stay 528′ or more from the first stage of my multi, which is a metal strip hanging in a tree. If it is part of the multi, the distance requirements are the same as for a cache.
Not sure why this response appeared elsewhere. I musta pushed the wrong button!
Happy Birthday! We had kinda planned to come over and say it in person, but the horrible roads yesterday / last night changed our family gathering to tomorrow. We’ll be hosting relatives here in Waupaca. Hope y’all have a lot of fun!
Jim & Chris
Yes, we do occasionally put out replacement TB’s with the copy tags. That’s an option we offer to the students once we’ve found out the TB is really gone. But truthfully, they are often disapointed enough that they just say forget it, and partner up with somebody else for the various TB assignments throughout the school year.
We sure appreciate other suggestions and brainstorming for better future successes. Right now we are questioning the worth of this project. It is a lot of work, is costly, and so many cachers are irresponsible. Last evening I sent out 15 emails to cachers who’ve been holding our TB’s (from last year) anywhere from 60 days to nine months. For many, this is the fourth or fifth contact, mostly with no response. We have about 20 or 25 actively circulating TB’s from this batch of 64 we sent out in the Fall of 2008. That seems to be a pretty high dropout rate for only 14 months.
This is supposed to be fun, right?
cYa, Jim
Yes, we do occasionally put out replacement TB’s with the copy tags. That’s an option we offer to the students once we’ve found out the TB is really gone. But truthfully, they are often disapointed enough that they just say forget it, and partner up with somebody else for the various TB assignments throughout the school year.
We sure appreciate other suggestions and brainstorming for better future successes. Right now we are questioning the worth of this project. It is a lot of work, is costly, and so many cachers are irresponsible. Last evening I sent out 15 emails to cachers who’ve been holding our TB’s (from last year) anywhere from 60 days to nine months. For many, this is the fourth or fifth contact, mostly with no response. We have about 20 or 25 actively circulating TB’s from this batch of 64 we sent out in the Fall of 2008. That seems to be a pretty high dropout rate for only 14 months.
This is supposed to be fun, right?
cYa, Jim
Here’s two more cachers who seem to have a couple of our student TB’s.
Anybody know “Palidrafod” or “Eskimo87”? Both are fairly new cachers. They have not responded to several very nicely worded emails.
They visited our Seton Eagle Nest a month-and-a-half ago and grabbed the TB’s, but have not followed through on anything since.
And we’re still waiting to hear from “Engster” or “Eagster” or whoever (s)he is…
This makes three of our 11 year olds who are getting kinda worried… in addition to the two whose TB’s we know were muggled.
Thank goodness for the rest of you who take such good care of our TB’s and pay all of the extra attention to them! Your efforts are so appreciated.
Jim & the SetonCachers teams
Thanks, everybody. All comments and shameless plugs are greatly appreciated!
Jim & Chris
We have a whole bunch of the school kids TB’s out covering the last 3 years. Probably half of them (that are still in circulation…) properly recalculate the miles when they get moved, and about half rarely/never do. We do the manual recalculate step described above zas we compile stats and move the map pins around.
This is not a new glitch. We’ve noticed this on quite a few of our TB’s. It would be nice if it worked the right way, all the time.
cYa, Jim
SetonCachers, SetonCachers2, & SetonCachers3 teams
Oh, yeah, Gram&Gramps team, tooOn Tuesday, Nov. 3, at 5:00 pm, the Seton’s Eagle Nest cache was moved eastward a couple of miles to:
N44 13.251 W088 29.506
It still has 2 of our student’s TB’s in it, plus I added a couple of different ones to the collection.
The new location has not caught up yet on gc.com, although I expect it will shortly.
So who will be the FTF at this new spot?
Thanks, cYa, Jim
Our Seton’s Eagle Nest cache ( GC13EA5 ) which has been a launching site for many of our school TB’s, will be moved a couple of miles closer to the Fox Valley sometime the week of Nov. 2. It will still be along the Hwy 10 corridor.
If you have plans to visit this cache next week, be sure to keep an eye on the cache page for updated info. The move and new coordinates will be announced here as well.
Thanks a lot. cYa, Jim
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