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Metroguide also lets you find a specific street address, not just the street. At least that’s what I remember from the last time I loaded a Metroguide into my GPS, which was about 2 years ago.
We (active2gether) and Team GrouseTales checked out Hartman Creek State Park yesterday. This should be a great location for our geo-campout!
The group camp sites we have reserved are very scenic and include wooded as well as open areas to set up tents. If you plan to reserve personal (non-group) sites in the family campground, we recommend site 28 and those adjacent to it. Very scenic with a view overlooking one of the lakes.
Group campers with tents — keep watching for an annoucement here at the WGA website to begin signups. We hope to have the on-line signup ready by the end of the month or in early January.
Those with bicycles will want to bring them along because there are lots of nice bike trails. The terrain is flat and gently rolling — not steep like Devil’s Lake and Gov. Dodge trails — so it should be good for biking.
[This message has been edited by kbraband (edited 12-07-2003).]
We’ll check on that and other details, Bill. Brian and I are planning to be at Hartman Creek Saturday (tomorrow) to check things out and do some geocaching in the area. If anyone wishes to join us we should be there around 10 a.m. Hail us on FRS channel 12.
Wow. The GPSMAP 60 is quite the unit. Now those little plastic boxes cowering in the woods don’t stand a chance.
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Originally posted by Cathunter:
I open this topic out of interest in others opinions. This is a discussion board- isn’t it?[This message has been edited by Cathunter (edited 11-29-2003).]
Sure, discussion is good! I have no problem with forum members posting their own comments in a courteous fashion. Originally the first message in this topic was simply a cut-and-paste from one of Criminal’s postings in the gc.com forums with no comment at all by Cathunter. I see he has now added his own comments and opinions, and this is good.
I saw this posted in the gc.com forums a few days ago. As a result, I archived my “Up, Down, and Around” cache that was hidden on an island in the Upper Mississippi River Wildlife Refuge.
I have seen that person’s postings in the gc.com forums and usually choose to ignore them. Now one of them has been thrust into our otherwise civil discourse here in wi-geocaching.com. I’m not going to respond to all of the rants because there are too many to know where to begin. However, one of the most blatant lies of that message is about park officials. Most are very cooperative, friendly, and willing to listen to thoughtful proposals from geocachers. The time has passed when geocachers can operate under the radar and do as we please. We are in a new era; an era of awareness brought about by large numbers of geocachers that requires cooperation and dare I say it, compliance with a base set of rules.
You haven’t cached until you remove your boots, socks, legs of your pants and walk barefoot in sub-freezing temperatures in mid-February through knee-high water under a highway overpass looking for coordinates written on the wall.
And then not find them because your system goes into shock.
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Originally posted by Cathunter:
I agree with you fully, although I am careful about logging “no finds”. The problem with logging a “no find” is that it scares off the newbies, who then won’t hunt it, when in fact it could have just been my eyesight.
I gotta respectfully disagree about posting no finds. I think everyone should post them whenever they can’t find a cache. Everyone, including the cache owner, deserves to know if someone looked and did not find — for whatever reason. It’s a courtesy to all other cachers.
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Originally posted by wzbt03:
I realize that everyone is into geocaching for different reasons but lets talk Multi-caches. Most are much harder then traditional, I hide it – you find it, caches.
I know you didn’t mean to disparage all “traditional” caches as being easy. Aren’t ALL caches based on the “I hide it, you find it” principle? Some of us prefer 4 and 5 star cache hikes in scenic areas to “traditional” walk-around-the-playground multi-caches.
Personally, I wouldn’t have a problem with placing a cache 2 to 3 hours from home if you can and would get there within a week to check or maintain a cache. I believe the crackdown on “vacation” caches came about because some people were placing caches while on cruises or during visits to foreign countries.
Let me throw 2 cents in as a volunteer part-time admin approver for Wisconsin and the approver for Iowa. Please refer to the guidelines posted at geocaching.com to make sure your event will qualify as a CITO event. Find the guidelines here: http://www.geocaching.com/about/guidelines.aspx#event
Here’s an excerpt:Event Caches
Event caches are gatherings for geocachers by geocachers to discuss geocaching. After the event has passed, the event cache is archived. While a music concert, a garage sale, a ham radio field day or an orienteering event might be of interest to a large percentage of geocachers, such events are not suitable for submission as event caches because the primary focus of these events is not geocaching and the primary attendees are not geocachers. In addition, an event cache should not be set up for the sole purpose of drawing together cachers for an organized hunt of another cache or caches. Such group hunts are best organized using the forums or an email distribution list.
For geocaching events that involve several components, such as a day-long group cache hunt that also involves a seminar and dinner, only a single event cache covering all components should be submitted.
CITO Event Caches
The idea of Cache In Trash Out (CITO) came about in the fall of 2000 as a way for geocachers to contribute to the beautification of our local parks and lands. You may find more information about the CITO program at http://www.geocaching.com/cito.
The CITO event cache category was added to differentiate cleanup events from other types of event caches. Use this category when you are asking geocachers to show up on a particular day to pick up litter at a park, remove piles of junk near a popular waterfront, etc. Do NOT use this category for a physical cache that is placed in an area that is need of cleanup – just mention the CITO opportunity on your cache page.
If you have an event you feel fits within the spirit of this unique category, yet are still unsure, please seek permission before submitting.
This topic is for the Nov. 22 breakfast event. For further discussion of WGA campouts, please jump over to this thread: http://wi-geocaching.com/forums/Forum7/HTML/000008.html
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Originally posted by hermione:
Next time we have a get-together in a state park, any interest in getting a group campsite? that way we can enjoy each other’s company for a greater portion of the day, if we so choose.
Are you aware of the WGA campouts we have held the past two years in May, and which we intend to hold again this spring. Click on the “Events” link on the main page for more information. Forgive me if you know all about those and you’re talking about events in addition to those campouts.
There are many but my favorite previously unvisisted place that I return to (so far)is Gov. Dodge State Park. The first time I went there was to place caches for the 2002 WGA campout. I’ve been back about half a dozen times to maintain a geocache, ride the mountain bike trails, and hike. I probably would never have gone there if it weren’t for geocaching.
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