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We’re stunned. He has been real helpful as the liaison between the DNR and geocaching for most if not all of the caches at Harrington, and helped us out when we placed the WGA state park cache there earlier this month. The DNR ranger for Harrington Beach SP would actually consult Ron before approving caches in the park. He was protective of the environment and an asset to the geocaching community, and will be missed. It is comforting for us to know that Ron had an eternal perspective; on his profile page he quotes Jesus from John 8:12 “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” We know that Ron is now in a better place.

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Nice job Ed. I volunteer to be your solved puzzles offsite data backup.

Fun way to complete the challenge cache!

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@Walkingadventure wrote:

Platinum Status: Do them all

Gold Status: meet the required amount of XX found?

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@beccaday wrote:

Beccaday would happily go to Harrington Beach! 😉

So would Coco 8)

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@Mister Greenthumb wrote:

I don’t think finding all of them as a challenge wouldn’t be publishable. Challenges can’t be that cache specific.

I wonder if we could solicit Groundspeak for an exception? Mr. G is right that one can no longer create a challenge based on only one cacher’s hides (in this case the WGA is the cache owner of all of them). Don’t know if there is a similar rule for a specific series. Since many hid them and not just one person, and given the nature of the theme (state parks), maybe they would allow?

If they don’t allow it, we could still go with the “golden box” on our own at WGA events, or create a challenge for the 49 state parks but not necessarily all of them would have to be the official WGA state park caches; perhaps just 50%+ of them. So something like “find a cache in all 49 state parks, with at least 50% of them being from the new WGA State Park series.”

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Another thought – inside the golden box could be an item available only to those that complete the challenge. Perhaps also a special log book inside where they could briefly relate their favorite state park or state park adventure.

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The challenge: either find them all or find at least half (why not create both challenges).

The prize: Two things come to mind.

First, perhaps a nice geocoin for FTF, such as the annual Groundspeak lackey geocoin. Anyone completing the challenge will likely already have a WGA coin.

Second, how about having a traveling golden ammobox that is brought to WGA events and is autographed by those who complete the full challenge. There used to be one of those for whomever completed 1,000 finds that we saw at the LCG event as recently as 2011. I think the ceremony disappeared shortly after that because we haven’t seen it since and didn’t get an opportunity to sign it after we reached that milestone. Plus there are significantly more people who have reached that milestone by now. At the LCG (Lonely cache Game) event it was a formal presentation for those who reached the milestone. That could be fun to see once/year (or more) at the annual LCG event. The traveling golden ammo box could be stored in the WGA hauler perhaps.

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@kungfuhippie wrote:

Speaking of FTFs on State Park caches, grabbed the Lake Kegonsa one this morning with a couple of lil hippie helpers! Now I need to plan some roadtrips to clear the rest of that bookmark list. 😀

Sounds like a worthy goal! And a cool challenge, if anyone creates it…

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@AstroD-Team wrote:

LOL…with those smiley stickers, I thought Bartrod already found it!

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Fantastic, welcome to the wonderful world of geocaching and greetings from Wauwatosa!
🙂 🙂

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@sandlanders wrote:

GC4MAR5 — It’s in the wild, published, and waiting for the adoption to go through…

I think we need to buy happy stickers!

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Harrington Beach State Park in Ozaukee county now has its state park cache in place. 🙂

http://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC4MWQ9

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Congratulations on the fun milestone!!

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@Mister Greenthumb wrote:

The sticker is for an state licensed vehicle and must be permanently attached. If a Wisconsin resident buys one you could not put it on an out of state vehicle. The stickers are different. We have stickers on all three of ours. It says senior on it. Otherwise it is the same as the one you would buy. $10 each for us. Sometimes it pays to be old, but more often than not it sucks. The money I saved on the stickers I spend annually on Alleve.

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@Todd300 wrote:

… the battery will die quicker than FTF’s following publications in the Fox Valley 😉

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