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In terms of geocaching I’m the oldest one here. In attitude, activities and adventures I like to think I’m one of the youngest. 😆

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Fixed the date in the description. Thanks for the heads-up!
Also, for volunteers, I just posted information on the event page with details about where to park, etc.
Here’s a link to the event page: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=0985a7f6-9c57-4b61-bb94-7fca03670e79

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Just giving this a bump. Please view the cache page and let us know if you can help out during the day.

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Cool. Back when locationless caches were in vogue (and still allowed to be listed on geocaching.com), I created GC3B84 for people to log their visits.

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Concise. Clear. To the point. Nice!

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@HeliDood wrote:

Would this be a good place to bring a kayak to go paddling around the island?

Rock Island is a great place for kayaks. If you have sea kayak equipment and experience you can make the crossing from Washington Island. If your kayak is the recreational type with no spray skirt or watertight compartments, you probably shouldn’t make the crossing in it, but you should be able to bring it over on the Karfi passenger ferry and then paddle within the relatively protected confines of the bay near the boathouse on Rock Island, as long as the winds are not strong out of the west or south. We’ll be kayak-camping on Rock Island again this year the same weekend as the getaway so I look forward to seeing everyone again. Each year we reserve a private camp site so we can pull onto shore at our site (the geocachers’ group site is not along shore).

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Before there’s a big push to increase revenues for the WGA, there should be some thought given to how much additional revenue is needed and what it will be used for. When I served on the board (back in the dark ages of the WGA 🙂 ) we had money in the bank and we had to search for worthy causes to spend it on. Not sure if that’s still the case today.

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JMHO, don’t expect much. It has stereotype characters you don’t get involved with because you don’t believe they are real, a plot that leaves you scratching your head because it goes nowhere, and humor that is just not funny.

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In the interest of physical health and the health of the environment, I have established a goal for myself of seeking only those geocaches that involve no additional gasoline consumption. That is, I won’t drive my car *just* to find a geocache. I’ve been thinking about this as a goal for quite some time and started practicing it this past weekend when I walked four miles from my home to find a geocache. That particular cache hunt was really more about the walk than it was the geocache, but having the geocache out there gave me the goal/destination. Then on Tuesday I found another geocache while out for a noontime run along the lakefront. This “carbon nuetral” goal doesn’t rule out that I sometimes arrive at a geocache in a car, but my goal is to do so only if it’s along a route that I would be traveling anyway for other purposes, such as going to or from work or traveling to visit friends or family. I realize there’s lots of room for interpretation and grey areas under these self-imposed guidelines, but I feel that if I stick to my overall objective, it will help me be healthier, save me money and in a small way contribute to the health of the planet.

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@TheBalks wrote:

Front page photo is excellent!

It was pointed out to me that I should check out the photo now on the front page. Very nice! Anyone know who that is? 😆

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Sorry to hear the news that they have to vacate the park. I wonder if the news media knows about this.

When I read this topic I had to check back to see how long ago I found this one: nearly 7 years ago! It’s still one of my favorites.

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@-cheeto- wrote:

all I can do is publish the cache.

Technically, you could take a different stance on this as a reviewer. You could question the approval that was gotten to place a cache in an intersection, no?

There’s an older blog from November http://iowaadmin.blogspot.com/2008/11/roundabouts.html from IowaAdmin (known by another name on our forums) that states a slightly different reviewer opinion on this topic.

Thanks for the link. I can’t speak for the Wisconsin reviewers, but as I stated in my blog, the Iowa Department of Transportation has stated, “Never walk though a roundabout or cross the center island.”
However, some roundabouts do seem to be designed for pedestrian traffic. But that doesn’t negate the fact that permission is needed to place a geocache there — required for all geocaches listed on geocaching.com. So here’s what I tell Iowa geocachers: If you as the cache owner feel a roundabout cache would not be a hazard to geocachers or to drivers, and if you are able to obtain permission for your geocache placement from the government in charge of the roundabout, then it’s very likely that it can be approved, provided it complies with the other guidelines of geocaching.com.

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Nice account. The cache you were tracking is a classic – one of Wisconsin’s oldest. Thanks for sharing.

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Interesting story. While I’ve never met a nasty geocacher in the woods, I have run into a few at geocaching events, believe it or not. When I served on the WGA board, there were a few people who seemed to have a grudge against the board and therefore against me, even though I knew of nothing I had done to tick them off.

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I’ve been writing a blog about reviewing geocaches and occasionally other topics since 2006. http://iowaadmin.blogspot.com/

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