[LightningBugs Mum]

Why is it always young blond women?

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@LightningBugs Mum wrote:

Well, I don’t have approval yet, but after talking to Lb7 about it, I’m going to submit one for the kettle in Lapham Peak.

I’m also going to work on one in Blue Mound SP this spring. With luck I might just have it going before the WGA event in May. No promises though.

Just thought I’d throw that out there so you all knew what I was planning for this spring. 😀

OK, I still have the kettle and Blue Mound on my to-do list, but just in time for the campout:

GC1C1AE “Stephens’ Falls”

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There’s now a Wal-Mart in Dodgeville on the east side. If I remember correctly, I think it is a super center so there would be groceries.

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That’s cool! I’d love to see something like this in Wisconsin as well.

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@Ry and Ny wrote:

Is there a way to do a PQ on a bookmark like that? I ask because I’d like to download to GSAK and be able to sort by distance from home, which GC.dom apparently doesn’t care to allow. I’m not sure why because, after all, it’s a database and databases were meant to have sort tools designed around them….

If you scroll to the bottom of the bookmark page, there’s a button that says “Create Pocket Query”.

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Podcasts are MP3 files that can either be listened to on the computer or on an MP3 player like iPod. But instead of music, it’s talk! It’s like listening to a radio show about geocaching.

Of course there are podcasts out there about every conceivable topic. And anybody who has the right equipment and software can make them.

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I brought up this idea at the end of the last WGA board meeting. I enjoy listening to other geocaching podcasts and would love to have a Wisconsin based one. Ideas I think would work:

1. WGA events – interviewing people, plus recording any official meetings.

2. COTM / COTY coverage.

3. Geocaching with Wisconsin geocachers from around the state – where somebody would interview them during an actual geocache hunt.

4. Coverage of anything else going on in the WGA – things like design contests, geocoins going on sale, hot topics from the forums, etc.

I haven’t moved forward on this because I know absolutley nothing about the logistics of putting together a podcast. I know lots of people do a podcast just with some equipment from their computer, but we would need to be mobile.

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@Lostby7 wrote:

@tyedyeskyguy wrote:

@Cheesehead Dave wrote:

@Bushwhacking Queen wrote:

I want to log all the temps I find, it means something to me.

This is why I wish Groundspeak would code something into the site to account for temp caches to make them logable.

GC.com already gives you the ability to add additional waypoints to cache listings. (e.g. Parking location, trailhead, etc.) I wish they would add a “temporary cache” type that you could add to an event cache to list all the temps, and then give you a way to log them in some fashion, and still give you a total for the number of temps that you found on your profile page

That would solve the problem permanently. Couldn’t the board put together a proposal and present it’s case directly to Groundspeak?

…well that depends on how the extra smiles are logged. I’d still not have them count towards the main find count but rather as a number of event finds (like benchmarks are logged).

I have done exactly this, although not as an official board member since I wasn’t one at the time. The suggestion was completely ignored. Now, would something coming from the WGA board carry more weight? I doubt it. It has seemed that Groundspeak’s attitude on this subject has always been along the lines of: if we ignore the problem, it will eventually go away.

I’ve always thought that treating temp caches like benchmarks, where they show up in the profile – but not the find count, would be an elegant compromise.

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Yay for Cheesehead Dave and Groundspeak!!!

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So looking at the venue map, whereabouts would P016 be?

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Vandalism = very BAD!
Natural wear and tear = philosophical resignation

It’s true after a couple generations, the graves usually get forgotten. People naturally tend to visit the gravesites of people they have known. When everybody who has known someone has gone themselves, then who is left to care about a headstone? Well, genealogists do. Having visited cemeteries to do genealogical research, I can tell you that having a nice, intact readable stone makes things much easier.

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@Lostby7 wrote:

no problem…I like to do that to Greyhounder (it makes her crazy).

I like how you think.

😈

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I just got the Ice Age Trail atlas and the companion guide in the mail today. They’re really nice!!!

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Thanks for sharing. Very helpful!

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Dibs on the kettle in Lapham Peak! I was hoping to get out there this weekend to put that earthcache together – been thinking on it since January.

Isn’t “Kettle Moraine Earthcache” (GCP3GB) at Bald Bluff?

I can do the Elephant Rock. I know right where it is!

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