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MavWitt wrote:

Juel_Beer is a Wisconsin cacher with a signature pathtag. https://www.pathtags.com/community/publicpathtagprofile.php?id=46583

Super!  I’ll add yours to the next quarterly update.  🙂

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BigJim wrote:

Anyone notice that the number of caches in Wisconsin has been going down? Archives are outnumbering new caches. Last time I looked there was just under 28,982. Today there is 28,611

Where do you find this information?

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Such a nice even number.  But you have to be logged in to post here.

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July 2020 quarterly pathtag update. There are now 126 known Wisconsin geocachers past and present that have created at least one pathtag. Shown here is one pathtag from each of them (some have created many pathtag designs). Pathtags are trackable personal coins/swag similar to travel bugs that people trade or put in caches, except that when you find one you get to log it and keep it! 🙂 I know of at least three more that haven’t yet been minted but are on their way. Do you see any pathtag owners missing from the list?

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BigJim wrote:

7 consecutive DNFs will do that.

  Jeepers!  That has to be some kind of record!

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Noonan wrote:

Sure, and you can work on finding all of my caches too. Let’s see who gets done with that challenge first!

 

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Noonan wrote:

I think I found my first BigJim cache yesterday, and now my first Hack cache today. Love how my Census job is taking me all over the place.

Just another 200 or so and you’ll have found all of the BigJim & Hack caches.  Snap to it! 😉

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We were thinking of having ours in June on our official 10 year geo-anniversary to celebrate GC’s 20 year anniversary, and launch a new series of caches that ties into that theme  It could have been epic.  We’ll possibly do it for June 2021 instead.

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Saw this family while earthcaching in Dane County this weekend.

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We finally got our feet wet (not literally) with our first lonely for the year.

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Welcome back Mr. & Mrs. StfRon!  Wow 35 states – you’ve certainly been around!  Although we find any size cache (or at least try to), we also prefer non-micros, preferably in green spaces or next to a river, lake, or waterfall.  There’s even places that fit that description in Milwaukee (especially since we’ve placed a bunch of them there).  Your observation on how geocaching has changed since you first started is spot on: trackables don’t seem to last very long, and what was once almost exclusively size “regular” caches with decent swag involving a pleasant hike, it’s now gravitated toward a lot more micros and an explosion of smartphone-only geocachers.  We still love it, but we do have our preferences.  Some good news – now that you’re in Milwaukee, you have hundreds of geocaches to choose from all within 10 miles of your home.  Keep on caching!  🙂

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For the most part we’re not geocaching except to keep our two streaks alive.  We’ve found a cache every week since we started caching in June 2010, and we’ve found an FTF every month since mid 2011.  So it looks like we’ll be finding mainly one cache/week for the foreseeable future.  FTF’d a new virtual yesterday for April.

 

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Didn’t vote in the poll, undecided.  I do think it will be an increasing problem to have state parks unattended by staff as the trash piles up and the restroom facilities out of TP and maintenance, so it might be best for some to close.  But for those parks, preserves, and forests where maintenance isn’t much of an issue, I wish they’d stay open.

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Wow, a projected high of 70 degrees for today in Milwaukee.  That’ll bring some of the social distancers out.  It will be more challenging to find a sparsely populated area to walk.

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