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Yup!  Thatsa Good One, J&L!

 

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STP

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Thank you for your service, BigJim! 😁

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Drive by……………………………………

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If there was a puzzle to be solved here my guess is there are a couple of geofriends in Marinette named Baker and Ebsch….just can’t figure out where the geochecker is to verify!  😀

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Mr. Happy Hodag, one way or another, there will come a time when it will once again be a ‘cool spot’ and up will spring another cache to educate and delight cachers. 😉

Hey bartrod, now is a great time to go back over there!  Just spotted round-trip tickets to Kona (this August) for a bit over $400…might have been from Minneapolis, but still likely half-price the norm out of GB.  Cars are cheap to rent too!

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One of our Favorite Earthcaches is just a few hours from extinction, if it’s not buried under fresh lava already.  Someday, perhaps, there will be another to take its place, but with a different lesson to teach.
Puna Must See Series #8: Wai’ Opae Tide Pools => https://coord.info/GC2TDPK   –> There are a lot of cool images in the cache’s Gallery.

 

Here comes the Lava….it will smother our winter ‘vacation home away from home’ just before it covers the EC.

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OK, Mr. Happy Hodag!…………………. LTP for 5/26?  Or not?

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FWIW, between worm-holes and ‘time-outs’, tis still a bit of a timely struggle to post here.  It IS nice to see the FB link added. 🙂

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https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC2GP5Y_bear-butte-lot

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https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC2GP5Y_bear-butte-lot

(wonder if this link works ^^^^^; used the ‘link icon’)

Waiting until that visit is a year in the past……to log a Lonely Find?  Yeah, have gotten way behind, with a very few exceptions.

That said, this sure was a great kick-off to a most memorable day of caching adventures!  Took until late Fall to finally rub/wax out all the tree scratches in the geomobile’s coating.

 

 

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Noonan wrote:

Who does this? If I’m reading this correctly, the CO of a cache GCTR2Mneanderthal-man”>unfound for 4.5 years just dropped of three trackables. I really wanted to find that one before we moved. Roads were always too muddy.

The CO is an ‘old-timer’ on the Geocaching Timescale, and did the old “place and retrieve” move.  Might not yet know the ‘visit’ trick.  Also, gave us trip down ‘Memory Lane’ for a half-hour’s-worth of good memories!  Wonderful hike in the rain!

 

 

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rawevil wrote:

There is an official WGA FB page: https://www.facebook.com/Wisconsin.Geocaching.Association/ Anything that gets posted on the front page of the WGA website automatically posts to the FB page but not vice versa.

Thanks!  Quite the parallel universe over there!   (On wishlist:  Incorporate the FB link into this Website’s upper or left-side menu)

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Website v. Social Media?  Perhaps take a survey of preference……..  Each has pros/cons and may fulfill differing needs of importance, communication efficiency/timeliness, reference source/knowledge base, etc.  Age spread of WGA membership likely runs from 8 – 80+, and membership access to WGA might run from smart phone to terminal/mainframe, well, at least desktops.  Determine/examine membership demographics, needs and wants to help steer the organization, or perhaps steer the membership profile: does the membership shape the WGA, or does the WGA shape the membership?  Membership recruitment AND/OR retention? Who on the BOD would not say “Both”?

Related…is there an official WGA Facebook presence, and an easy link between the WGA website and WGA on Facebook?

 

 

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C:GEO/Android, for many years has been our go-to caching machine; we use our OREGON only for long treks where battery longevity is an issue.

Re: Phone Battery, if planning allows, we’ll carry a 10,000 mAh portable fast-charge (Samsung) back-up battery, using continuous corded feed, to keep the phone battery topped-off and pretty much up to par with the Oregon, for long periods of use.

Have found most situations where the Android is as accurate as the Garmin, if anything, we’ve more faith in the Android; example: on a major trek …..two days up to Mt. Whitney, the Android laid down a track (using Strava) that was the same going up as it was coming back down…..even though we took a single trail both ways, the Garmin paths to and fro were often not even close to over-lapping….this was up through a high-walled canyon to 15K.  Found the Garmin had us way off – as in, over an edge….) when trying to find specific rock features for Earthcaches, and had to pull out the Android to locate what we needed.

Only advantage we appreciate in the official Geocaching app is the messaging feature.

 

hope this helps

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