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@cheezehead wrote:

So Brian, you have made it clear that there you will never support an event in North part of the state. Is that correct?

No, that is incorrect. In fact, I hosted the first event in Northern Wisconsin.

Time after time we ask for help. We get the same results time after time. We get the same core group of helpers time after time. I would love to be proven wrong here, but it hasn’t happened yet. It seems like people are all gung ho to have an event in their neck of the woods, but when we ask for help, we get very little help. Then come the emails, I would like to help but this came up, or that happened. The same group of folks show up to help. Prove me wrong, PLEASE.

I would love to have the next campout in the Northern part of the state. Start lining up the help and show the WGA that there is enough help…. Help that will be there to actually help out.

Back on topic of the picnic. I think it should be held in an area closer to the majority of the members. While a few may spend the night, I think the majority will only come for the day.

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The problem is folks, we get very little help when organizing the events. It is the same core group of people that drive across the state to hide temps and scout parks. We need LOCAL help.

I would love to have the campout in St Croix. We would need about 20 LOCAL volunteers to make it possible. We ask for locals, and we only get 1 or 2. We appreciate the help, but we need much more help then that.

I simply cannot support an event on the other part of the state, when chances are, we will have the same handful of people helping out from the opposite end.

There is a theme here folks..

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My general feelings are this….

The campout is for the travelers. People are willing to travel much further because they can spend the night. For the campout, distance isn’t a major consideration.

The picnic is for the masses. It should be held near higher population areas to accomodate the most amount of people. People are not as willing to travel several hours, attend the event, then drive several hours back.

Last year we had the picnic in the Western part of the state.

I’d like to see us revisit Lapham Peak! We would have a HUGE turnout.

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Zuma,

Sorry we didn’t learn the chairs were your’s until I made it home to Milwaukee area.

Perhaps we can make them into travel bugs. Their missing will be to make it back to your house 😀 .

I hope you are on a short road to recovery. Get well soon !

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The two folding chairs apparently belong to Zuma. I don’t know about the folding camp stool.

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Joe, I love your sense of humor 🙂

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I spent my only free time visiting these two caches. Found a couple temps along the way.

Great caches !!

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Well, after another great WGA event, I didn’t notice anything different.

Everything was the same:
– Months of planning
– Dozens of volunteers
– Lots of caches spread around the park.
– Registration
– Lunch
– Meeting
– Night caching
– Social bon fires
– Pancake breakfast
– Cache retrieval
– Sore legs
– Blisters
– Ticks
– Thorn scratches
– Tons of opportunites to explore the park
– Great time spent outdoors
– Packing and unpacking from the camping trip.

The only change was when I got home and logged onto the computer. I left one log instead of many. Gave me a little more time to unpack this morning.

The experience at the event was exactly the same as it’s been for for many years. The only difference was the experience sitting at home in front of the computer when logging “attended”. When I come to these events, I look forward to my time AT THE EVENT, not the time at the COMPUTER.

That was the only difference for me.

Bri

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@tyedyeskyguy wrote:

We’ll bring some charcoal.

On that subject, is there another place besides the dinky little grocery store in Dodgeville, where we can shop for food and charcoal when we get there?

We stayed in Dodgeville last year when visiting House on the Rock, and there wasn’t much more in that town than a small grocer, a 1 screen theater and a Ford dealer. Oh yeah, forgot the fancy shmancy PizzHut!

We loved the town, there just wasn’t much there.

Thanks, I’ll put you down for a large bag of charcoal.

I’m bringing one bag, and we could use one more bag, for a total of 3.

Anyone else for a bag?

Please bring the bag to registration on Saturday morning. We need to have all the supplies present so we can start the grill on time. Last time we camped here, the guy with the charcoal arrived at 1:00 PM. Lunch was at noon…. Lesson learned 🙂

Thanks!

Brian

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(I think Ken was joking that if you “walk away” with a free gas card, you probably don’t need it. I hope to “drive away” with the $100 card, which will give me 1/2 a tank in my Suburban 🙁 )

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@gotta run wrote:

I am sick and tired of self-righteous enviro-weenies like this Backpacker magazine clown spewing this garbage disguised as political correctness, trying to make us all feel guilty just for being alive. Who made him the arbiter of the outdoors?

I agree. I subscribed to Backpacker magazine for one year. While I love back packing, I could no longer stomach the “enviro-weenie” articles. Haven’t picked up a copy since !

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I think that Geocaching definitely violates the principals of “leave no trace”.

Let’s face it, if you can tell someone was at a spot before you, then they “left a trace”, thus violated “Leave no trace”. You can usually see evidence of foot traffic or sometimes a volunteer trail near the cache. I’ve seen it over, and over, and its leaving a trace.

I think that “leave no trace” is often a hardcore philosophy. I can tell you that the deer, bear, rabbits, squirrels, and other critters create heavier trails then any geocache!

There’s a place for everything. Geocaching fits in just fine in most situations.

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Cachemate ???

GSAK ???

🙂

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Yes, we use the .gpx format.

For the PDA’s, all the caches will be in the “to do” list. You see a list of caches. When you look at he details for any particular one, you will get all the info. You can then “check” the box indicating your find. This works for Palm, but I don’t know if we have PDA product for the Pocket PC crowd.

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My weapon of choice always has been, and will be……. “ExpertGPS”

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