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Pokemon was just on the national news how it has zoomed the stocks of the company producing it.

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Chris – What a great tool for the power trail caches! I’m sure many WGA members will benefit from your talents and sharing your skills. Many Thanks from the WGA BOD for this contribution.

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On another topic – 2016 Fall Picnic at Black River State Forest, Sept. 24, 2016

The WGA has contacted several cache supplier/vendors and it seems before they donate to events, they want to see at least 25 “Will Attend Logs”. There are 23 “Will Attend” logs to date .

Please encourage our fellow cachers to attend! As Soon As Possible too, so the WGA Board can make some additional contacts for our raffle prizes.

Thanks WGA Members!!!!

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There are 23 “Will Attend” logs to date and we need at least 25 to seek donations from some of the Cache Supplier/Vendors.

Please encourage our fellow cachers to attend! As Soon As Possible too, so the WGA Board can make some additional contacts for our raffle prizes.

Thanks WGA Members!!!!

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Once archieved I believe, unless there is a “miracle” worked by a reviewer, they are not to be “resurrected”. OLD, caches from 2000, 2001 have a better chance to be re-activate, but not recent ones.

You might be able to reinvent them, and call them a “redux”? at the same coordinates, same write-up, etc.

Maybe someone else can respond too if I am inaccurate on what I have heard. Nice idea!

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OMG!

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I have an interesting experience: Did you ever sit in a car with damaging hail hitting all around you and the car?
After finding South Dakota’s oldest cache: GC87F Roxiemama and I talked with a fellow cacher which delayed our leaving the parking lot, then went down the road a bit for a cache hidden in a mine, when the storm hit. At first just rain, but then I was notice hail stones exploding when they hit the ground. So back in the car to wait it out. After a few hit the car with a “bang!” I nosed the car under a pine tree and then the heavens broke lose and it was a long banging on the car for about 20-30 minutes. Broken windshield and lots of dimples on the top and side of the rental car! This storm made the national news.

2 days later, we were caching in the Castlewood Canyonlands SE of Denver and found remaining hailstones tucked in the rock crevices from the same storm. So our location wasn’t the only hail area from the same storm.

In a way, I was glad this was not my car, but then I’m not so sure how the insurance and credit card company will eventually work out payment. Time will tell.

Lastly, traveling back through Kansas, we had to make a detour around another hail-damaging storm with 2″ hail near Oberlein, while on our way to Norton, KS for the night.

I’ll take Wisconsin over the open plains storms!

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As CO I would think you could request an email in answers to the questions.

I had a different experience where a cacher logged the earthcache answers with encrypted message in their found it log. When I asked them to respond via email with their answers so I could read it, they replied, “Not a chance!” So their log was deleted and I moved on.

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I reserved site #34 today and I see 18 sites of 35 available for Fri and Sat nights, 9/23-24/2016 at Castle Mound CG.

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Strawberries are ripening here. Washburn dodged the big storm last night, but the Northland didn’t. Still a lot of people in Minnesota and NW Wisco without power.

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2nd that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Thanks Pat for the coordinates. I think I can possibly locate the coordinates using my GPS map from any location. I’ll double check this next week against your coordinates. I do have the cache page ready to publish, but I must wait 90 days for an event to be published through geocaching.com, as this is the time limit set by the “Frog”. I wrote the article for the Fall Picnic in advance and it was put front page on the home page of the WGA web for early notification.

I would like to address some of the concerns voiced in the forum discussions.

State Forest and State Parks are ALL a part of our Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. The WGA is definitely cooperating with our WDNR for the location of the fall picnic at the State Forest.

Many options were discussed for the Fall Picnic Location. Buckthorn SP was definitely considered. True, Black River SF does have an enclosed shelter. As a new BOD member, I will say our decisions are not taken lightly and much discussion takes place before an informed decision is made. It is also a vote of 9 members and not ALL of us agree with each other. Trust me, we have healthy disagreements and whatever the outcome, we all support each other and try our best to do good for our WGA members.

Pat, you would be a great board member and I’ll second your nomination !!

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FTP June 7 Chipmunks? Trapped two mice in the garage this past week. No wonder the flies were buzzing around when they were discovered past their ‘prime’.

There is a Meet and Greet Event at Mercer, WI this Saturday during Lupine Fest.

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I’ll try to join the “Lawn Mower Races” if it ever dries up – Up North!

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http://coord.info/GC2EEDH This challenge should have been on the list. I found it 5/31/16, so does this remove it?

I had several Wascott/Barnes caches that were lonely and they never make the list either. Cannot understand this.

http://coord.info/GC1426H This one wasn’t on the list either and it was almost 2 years since I found it.

I cannot see where I could manually add a cache to the list. Maybe this function should be there too?

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