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I use a Belkin adapter and have never had any problems – after it was installed. I found out just how important it was to install the driver software before plugging the adapter into the computer. It wouldn’t work at first and it was a pain to completely un-install everything and reinstall, but that was my fault for not reading the instructions, not Belkin’s fault.
05/31/2008 at 5:45 pm in reply to: Any Must Hit Caches in Madison or on the way to Madison?? #1889805The Madison area has several caches with nice views, but not a whole lot of interesting containers, although I’ve heard that the Madison Underground series are well camouflaged. I’ve only found one of them, so can’t speak from personal experience.
If you hunt for the “May” cache in the Leopold Series (north of Lake Mendota) be sure to walk to the bottom of the hill on the south side. There is a really cool, big spring that bubbles up there, with a nice boardwalk out to see it.
There are lots of bison tube hides in the parks here, so in my biased opinion you can skip the micros except:
GC162JQ Eye Spy Madtown,
GCWZRY Wyldhaven, and
GC10P5G Springhaven Pagodawhich all have great views. A virtual with a nice view is GC1EEC Picnic Point Cache , and an Earthcache with a view is GC1BAQ1 Madison Lakes (This is mine, so I might be a bit biased on this one).
Other recommendations include:
The Door Creek Park caches: GCWVD8, GCWHQT, GCWHR2
Harry’s Bug Resort GCQZJ2
Syc-Some-More GCZT2Q
Another Simple Dead-End Cache? GC15PHVRight between Leoplod Legacy July & September is
Map Stash Cache GC17BN3 another nice cache.
If you have more time or want to venture out farther from Madison let me know and I’ll add some more recommendations.
05/30/2008 at 2:22 pm in reply to: Any Must Hit Caches in Madison or on the way to Madison?? #1889802What do you consider the best? Scenic views, long hikes, evil nano hides? If you give a bit more detail about what you like I’ll give a few suggestions.
I agree with Zuma! that the Leopold series are great caches involving relatively easy finds after hikes through a county park, if that’s what you like, but most are a ways out from Madison itself.
Congrats on reaching Platinum!
I’m hoping to make it to help hide caches, but its still tentative. No way I can be there by nine am, but hopefully before noon.
Thanks for the bookmark lists – these will help a lot 😀
These lists would be a great addition to this website’s Bookmark Lists – Favorite Caches wiki.
I think the explosion is happening all over. I’ve had a pocket query set up for over a year where I got all earthcaches within 500 miles, or 500 earthcaches, whichever came first. Up until a few months ago I’d hit the 500 miles long before the 500 caches. Now I hit 500 earthcaches first, and the number of miles out to reach that is shrinking fast.
I, too, hope that GC.com doesn’t get upset with the larger number being created, but as long as they stay educational, and the regular reviewers don’t have to determine the “wow” factor, I don’t think it will be a problem.
I’m already working on one at Moraine Park, just south of Verona, if that’s what’s meant by ‘Verona Moraine’ in your list. I’d be willing to help out in the Cross Plains area too.
Also planning another one near the Green/Dane County line, right on the Ice Age Trail. This small slice of land is unusual in that it was glaciated 50-60,000 years ago, but the last glacier stopped just short of it. It’s not as glaciated as the rest of the state, but its not driftless either.
Is the project interested in something like this, or are they looking for a specific feature (lake, pothole, drumlin, etc) to highlight?
The IATCC Project sounds really cool (pun intended). Is there a way to find out what the identified areas are? Although I don’t have an earthcache published yet, I’m working on a couple of them that would be along the Ice Age Trail – one in Green and one in Dane counties. I wouldn’t want to be stepping on anyone’s toes if these areas already have ‘dibs’ by the project.
@Cache_boppin_BunnyFuFu wrote:
If the Earthcache in question is in the middle of where or land that there is no one to contact, if you let Geoaware know that, there should be no issue. For example, roadside geological/historical markers. There isn’t anyone to contact and people are stopping there already.
Fu
That’s good to know about the roadside markers. There’s a great kettle pond with a descriptive roadside marker that I’d thought of using for an Earthcache, but decided to go with a regular cache because I didn’t know where to start with asking permission (couldn’t find the organization listed on the marker in google searches). Now that I’ve spent a lot of time camo-ing the container maybe I’ll place both there, since they can co-exist. The container is really site specific so can’t be reused elsewhere.
I’m waiting for permission from Madison parks for my first Earthcache. The idea is to look out over one of Madison’s lakes and estimate the height of the old valley floor vs the height of the now existing glacial drumlin using the estimated height of a specific building.
The one I’m having more problems with is the terminal moraine – to the east is glaciated and to the west its the driftless area, but other than standing there and describing how they look different I’m not sure what educational thing I can have someone do. Any suggestions?
@rogheff wrote:
Oh boy, jump in and close eyes.
Is there a GPSr that can plug in to your cigarette lighter? That would seem to be a really nice option to have that would eliminate the whole battery issue.
I don’t know about Garmins, but my Magellan Meridian Color, my daughter’s Magellan eXplorist 500, and my son’s Lowrance iFinder H2O all have a cable that let you plug them into the cigarette lighter. It does save tons of batteries!
Thanks for the replies – it helps to know what to expect from geoaware. I’m not worried about the permissions part – the places I’m thinking of already allow regular caches, so I can’t see a problem with Earthcaches. Its a good tip though to explain what type of education thing I’ll have people doing when I’m getting the permission.
Lisa
When I was in the area in March 2007 the Shutter Ridge Earthcache didn’t exist yet. Time and transportation were limited on this trip, so the only other Earthcache I did in the area was Franciscan Complex – Alcatraz Terrane (GCZCPK ) which was interesting, but not on my list of favorites. I’d like to go back out there when I have more time to visit some of the other ones. There are lots that look pretty interesting out there.
I haven’t made it to very many Wisconsin Earthcaches yet, but we go out of our way to visit Earthcaches while on vacation. A few favorite ones (in no particular order) are:
Earthquake Lake (GC112BZ) a 15,000 – 24,000 acre lake (size depends on whose sign you read) in Tennessee formed during the New Madrid earthquakes in 1811-1812. Reports during that time talk of the Mississippi River running backwards – it was, to fill up this lake when quakes caused a big depression here. More quakes came and the surrounding land was uplifted, cutting the lake off from the Mississippi. Now the river is several miles away from this lake.
Point Reyes EarthQuake Trail (GCNFRT ) which takes you to a spot on the San Andreas fault where you can actually see just how far the earth moved in such a short period of time.
New Orleans Levee Breaches Part I & II (GC127GG and GC127GN) which show the destruction that can be caused when humans build without taking geology into account.
I guess I’d have to say my favorite type of Earthcaches are the ones that show the power of Mother Nature and what she can do, though I want to get to more Wisconsin ones when the weather warms up a bit.
@cheezehead wrote:
How about a few different topics. Here are some suggestions.
How about The WGA Cook Book? Just a place for members to post different recipes and such. Recipes like your favorite camping recipes or just your favorite recipes in general.
Camping/Parks. A place to for member to post about their favorite camping spots or favorite parks they like to go to,
Four-legged cachers. A place to post pics of our for-legged buddies.
Like I said, these are just some suggestions. They may be good or they maybe bad.
I like the Camping/Parks suggestion, and I’m not sure it’s Off Topic, since most people seem to include caching when they go camping. You might want to consider broadening the topic to Travel – not just camping and parks.
It would be the obvious forum for camping spot questions, instead of deciding if a request for camping suggestions in SW Wisconsin should go in the SW Wisconsin forum, Help forum, General forum, or Off Topic.
It would be easier for people looking for camping suggestions to browse through one forum to get ideas before posting a question, then to browse through all the forums because recommendations are scattered throughout.
By broadening it to include other travel it would be the spot to recommend areas for caching, even if you don’t have a specific cache to recommend. If you were going on a trip you could ask here if anyone has caching suggestions for the area. Again it would be a single place for others to browse through when looking for ideas.
I think the four-legged cachers pictures and stories would be a fun topic in the OT forum, but not sure if there would be enough discussion after the initial postings to warrant a separate forum.
Ditto for the cookbook, although keeping it as a separate forum would help keep it from getting buried, plus you’re more likely to have a great new recipe to post or a recipe request than pictures of a new pet (at least I get new recipes faster than new pets).
JMHO
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