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Thinking about attending but wondering: how many actually kayak to the island? Or is this mainly a karfi-riders event?

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I’ll be at the WGA campout this weekend so I can’t meet with you in Hartford. If you would like to come over to Gov. Dodge State Park this weekend, you’d find dozens of friendly geocachers willing to show you the ropes!

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Did you ever get a response to help with your Garmin? I’m thinking that if you didn’t get any offers it’s because people are uncertain about meeting a stranger in their home. No offense. I’d be willing to help you out if we can work out a time and place. I could bring my laptop computer along.

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Leave No Trace (LNT) is an effective way to get people thinking about their relationship with and their impact on nature. In general, I think most geocachers are already more aware of this relationship than most people who do not get outdoors much or even who only participate in outdoor activities that are motor-based (ATVs, dirt bikes, power boats, etc.) To answer the original question, I’d say have to say, yes, we are leaving a trace. But in the grand scheme of things, geocaching is calling more people to care more about the outdoors and the environment. There used to be an article that I wrote about LNT here on the WGA web site but I can’t find it now. A quick online search brings up this reference to my article, which is now posted on the Geocaching Maine web site: http://www.geocachingmaine.org/forum/showthread.php?t=364

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@Jeremy wrote:

One lucky person will walk away with this grand prize, so you can’t use high gas prices as an excuse not to attend!

Not sure that the logic of your statement is correct, but we get what you mean. 😀

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GrouseTales wrote in another forum topic that there are too few hands doing the work this year. For those of us who can’t make the cache hiding tomorrow, how else can we volunteer for the event? What needs to be done?

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A few years ago I placed a 13-part multi-cache called OIT Trailside (GC8CC3) along the Ozaukee Interurban Trail to encourage cycling & geocaching. Unfortunately, it was too difficult to maintain all the waypoints so I archived it. There are now several caches along that trail. It’s a great place for a leisurely family ride, or even a work-out ride if you go early in the morning or on a day when there’s not as much pedestrian and bike traffic.

Here’s a fast-motion video I shot a couple of weeks ago. I enter the Ozaukee Interurban Trail at about the 1:00 mark in the video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbWMt9VieL4

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I never heard anyone on the board or the campout committee say that one section of the selected T-shirt design is our new logo. Could the timing of the two “contests” have been planned a little better? Yes. Is it fair to compare our volunteer board and committee members to how a professional marketing department or ad agency would have handled this. I don’t think so.

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Here’s my road bike, a Specialized Allez’, at a cache called Farm Fresh Brown Eggs. http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=7382a4b3-35ce-469c-85a4-913344adabd3
I also have a Specialized Rockhopper mountain bike, which is pictured in the photo that Should’ve_Bought_Em_The_Tie posted.

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Welcome! It doesn’t have to be an addiction, by the way. It can actually be fun. 😀

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Buxley’s is not actually a site where you go to list your geocache. A little background: Back in the 2001-2002 timeframe, geocaching.com did not show the location of multiple geocaches on a single, easy-to-use map, so an independent site — Buxley’s — tapped into data from geocaching.com and used it to create clickable maps of geocaches. Then Groundspeak (the company that runs geocaching.com) and Buxley’s had a long, drawn out legal disagreement over ownership and liability issues so Buxley’s is no longer allowed to list caches from geocaching.com. At first it was an inconvenience for those of us who had come to rely on the Buxley maps, but over the years Groundspeak has vastly improved the mapping features of geocaching.com, including integration with Google Earth.

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Regarding whether it’s “worth it” to go to camping and get out into nature, even if I can’t log dozens of finds on a web site for my efforts,

The tree the tempest with a crash of wood
Throws down in front of us is not bar
Our passage to our journey’s end for good,
But just to ask us who we think we are

Insisting always on our own way so.
She likes to halt us in our runner tracks,
And make us get down in a foot of snow
Debating what to do without an ax.

And yet she knows obstruction is in vain:
We will not be put off the final goal
We have it hidden in us to attain,
Not though we have to seize earth by the pole

And, tired of aimless circling in one place,
Steer straight off after something into space.

Robert Frost

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Some of you may have recognized the similarities of my last name with Jacey7487’s email address in her WGA logo submission. In the interest of full disclosure, yes it’s true — she’s my daughter. However, I didn’t give her any advice on her logo designs. She did her own research of this site and geocaching.com and came up with both designs completely on her own. I wasn’t even sure she was even going to submit something. I saw them for the first time when the rest of you did. But I do have to say, I think they’re very cool. 😀

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Groundspeak is aware of this bug with certain additional waypoints, both hidden and public. For an event I have coming up in Iowa next month, the map for the parking coordinates show up in Oregon!
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GC1B6CP

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Congratulations! I think we should have a contest for geocaches that are selected for the most milestone cache hunts. My Pike Powder Hike cache would be a contender for sure.

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