[LightningBugs Mum]

Yep, my son who is now 12 only likes the caches where he gets to climb a tree. Otherwise he’d rather be sitting in the car with his Nintendo.

My 8 year old daughter likes caches that have short walks on trails and where she can do something like throw rocks in the water and look for frogs while I sign the log. She also enjoys “technical” hides, where the container is made to look like something else. And caches near playgrounds are always a hit with her.

Swag doesn’t really enter into it much. I’m more likely to trade something than they are.

[LightningBugs Mum]

@PassingWind wrote:

@jenhen1 wrote:

In my opinion (and my opinion only) alot of them have become glorified virtuals where alot of locations could support a regular geocache. If a regular geocache is allowed, I say place a regular geocache and give a really nice writeup on why it’s a unique and special location, or make it into a cool multi.

Good point. Here’s one still waiting for a visit: Ma & Pa Kettle (GC1DB6R). Have a look at the GC Terrain map of the area, it’s pretty cool.

PASSINGWIND

SSSSHH!!!

I’m still hoping I get the chance to be FTF when I go camping up there next week.

[LightningBugs Mum]

Yes, Ed.

Maybe he doesn’t like girls.

[LightningBugs Mum]

Yeah, I have the coords for a very cool hidden kettle pond right off the trail, but I can’t get any response permission-wise (phone message or email). So I think I’m going to write a letter as my next attempt.

Unless I get a “No”, it will be set up in plenty of time for the picnic.

Lb7 – if you have any original ideas for a write up, I’d be glad to hear them.

[LightningBugs Mum]

@EnergySaver wrote:

Can you rule out that when the party placed the 2nd container, that the 1st container maybe really was missing?

In April, one of my caches was reported as missing (a cache with only one logical hiding spot) … I went out to check on it and it was missing … so I replaced the container. Then a week or two later, I started getting logs of people finding 2 containers in the same spot. Sure enough, I went back to find the original container was now on top of the replacement container. So obviously some muggler find the thing and took, but later returned it.

I know of one other cache where this same thing happened, but it is pretty rare.

[LightningBugs Mum]

@LightningBugs Mum wrote:

I will hunt until it stops being fun.

Sometimes this is 15 minutes, sometimes 45, depending on many variables of course.

Now that I’m not too tired, I’d like to expand on this a bit. The variables that make the hunt stop being fun are:

1. I am frustrated by the fact that I’ve checked every conceivable spot at least twice and I’ve run out of ideas where it could be.

2. Somebody has to go to the bathroom.

3. The kids are whining because they are tired or hungry.

4. The bugs are getting on my nerves.

Actually, I can sometimes ignore 3 and 4 for a while if I’m really motivated and I haven’t gotten to the point of number 1 yet. Number 2 can’t really be ignored, but I may return after the issue is resolved.

[LightningBugs Mum]

I will hunt until it stops being fun.

Sometimes this is 15 minutes, sometimes 45, depending on many variables of course.

[LightningBugs Mum]

Leave it to a storyteller to write a great log. 😉

[LightningBugs Mum]

That’s an awesome place for a milestone! Wish I could have been there to share it with you.

[LightningBugs Mum]

I remember when Ralph was just getting his 2000th cache. *sigh* They grow up so fast.

[LightningBugs Mum]

The info is in the wiki (see menu bar to the left):

http://wi-geocaching.com/modules.php?name=Wiki&pagename=Help%20Spread%20The%20Word

[LightningBugs Mum]

I like maps.

[LightningBugs Mum]

@AuntieNae wrote:

If you ever found The Nature Study cache, read his log on the rescue of the cache .. GCVQV6.

Hey, I remember that one! I commend Brian for his cache rescue efforts.

[LightningBugs Mum]

Lake Delton video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0bVsSWXG-I

Holy crap! This is the first I’ve heard of it. I was just finding a cache right next to the Rock River in Jefferson and it is the highest I’ve ever seen it. And in the Fort Atkinson paper this evening, they were talking about how they’ve never seen the river rise this quickly. It’s going to crest higher than it did after the massive snow thaw we had earlier this year. But at least nobody’s house around here has floated away…yet.

All weekend I kept thinking of the line from the old Bill Cosby “Noah and the Ark” routine. Every time Noah would start kvetching, God would interject, “Noah, how long can you tread water?”

“What’s a cubit?”

Apparently there was a tornado in Fort Atkinson. So me and the pets went to the basement. That’s not a transportation issue for three cats and a small terrier. Carrying a 60 pound greyhound down (and later up) stairs is not fun. But I did some laundry and made sure my sump pump was working.

According to the paper, there were funnel clouds over Fort, but thankfully no confirmed touch down. My daughter and I were stuck in the Ace Hardware when the sirens went off. We hung out there for a while and watched the hail until it let up enough for us to leave. Some of those clouds were pretty eerie.

[LightningBugs Mum]

Two resources that were helpful to me when I was looking to start placing earthcaches were:

Roadside Geology of Wisconsin by Robert Dott and John Attig

Wisconsin’s Outdoor Treasures by Tim Bewer

I figured if something is cool enough to be included here, then it’s probably cool enough to be an EC.

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