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I think I’ll create a challenge cache about souvenirs.
Challenge caches aren’t allowed anymore?
OK never mind…
Oh my…things are not good here in the Fox Valley tonight. A shooting in the trestle bridge area by Fritse Park…..with rumors of up to four dead and six injured. Sounds like two shooters….a bit close to home….
We’re going to a wedding in less than two weeks in Appleton (during the campout). The couple that were shot were both going to stand up in the wedding; she was going to be a bridesmaid and he was to be the best man. So very sad.
I was out geocaching of course!
I bet it wasn’t in Milwaukee County, since those caches don’t count.
I feel your pain on that one Becca.

What type of owl is this? I can’t find it in any of my books.
It’s a question for Birdin….
I have a question that perhaps only one person here can help me with…
I’ve heard 5 minutes for every point of difficulty. So a D3 would be 15 minutes. A good general rule of thumb but not always applicable.
We hiked all day in Door county, drained the batteries in both our GPSr’s, drained the battery in the camera, and didn’t have any DNF’s today. A pretty good day.
If they’re micros in the woods, one for the whole park is plenty. If they’re ammo cans, well you can never have enough ammo cans. 😉
Milwaukee County Parks denying geocache placements….that sounds familiar. They allow homeless camps, ewok villages, and drug users’ paradises a 100 feet off of trails, yet the geocacher will destroy the environment.
We kind of knew in advance that one of our proposed placements was a longshot. It was in the same area that you were denied last year. Going on Friday to scout out alternate locations.
Sorry for your loss BBG. Pretty heartwarming story.
We can’t make it for the event there this year, but we’re actually camping there this summer! Maybe we’ll load up a cache or two with some glitter…
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It’s good and it’s bad. With a city population in the hundreds of thousands, TPTB have been charged with trying to protect natural areas as much as possible with increased human traffic, so I get it. They have developed extensive biking/walking trails that can handle the wear and tear of constant use. They’re trying to keep some natural areas pristine in Milwaukee County for humans and animals alike. But it does make it more challenging for secluded cache placement. We’ll deal with it, and in a way that will likely be a win-win for all involved. We want geocaching to be regarded as a family-friendly good activity by the Milwaukee County parks & rec people, not as a threat to the parks and the environment.
What naughty things did you try to do?
Evidently in Milwaukee County parks they want caches placed within 10 feet of approved trails. The ones we tried to place are mostly 50 to 100 feet off trail. And there isn’t any good spots next to the trails in the stretches of park land we were looking at. Too easily muggled. [sigh]
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