[Mama Fishcacher]

I have really been enjoying this series as well. The writings of Aldo Leopold on the cache pages really add to where you are at for the cache. You can tell they put a lot of work into the caches and into the items that went into the caches as well!!! Thanks team Shanty!!

[Mama Fishcacher]

Wowee, are you zipping right along! Quite impressive!!! Congrats!!!

[Mama Fishcacher]

Thanks everyone!

[Mama Fishcacher]

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Originally posted by Flushingrouse:
Count me in for one Kayak’r….

Getting warmed up on North Lake 9.27.04!!!

Let me know if you need me to bring anything!!!

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Oooohh…. Very pretty photo!

[Mama Fishcacher]

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Originally posted by arcangl7:
So if minefields only rate a 4 1/2 terrain…. What would they consider a 5?

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Eek!

[Mama Fishcacher]

Ok, I have a few now, heh heh….

GCHCW7 (Ross Island Rock) – Not many of us around here will do a 6 mile roundtrip hike for a cache….

GC5803 (As North As It Gets!) – Ummmm, anything placed by an “Iceshelf Research Team” makes *me* think twice!

GC8074 (El Conquistador’s Treasure) – My favorite line: “The descent down the mountain toward the glacier is very steep, nearly 45 degrees with about a 1400 foot elevation drop.” Oy.

[Mama Fishcacher]

Sounds like a good cache for the next “Team Badger” outing…. LOLOL!!!!

I know of a couple others like that…. I’ll be back to post a waypoint I have in mind….

~Mama Fishcacher

[Mama Fishcacher]

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Originally posted by Ms. WISearcher:
I have been back at it with my dealings with the Madison Parks Department.

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And by the way, thanks for working so much with the Madison Parks! I know I appreciate your work a ton!

[Mama Fishcacher]

I’d LOVE to help! Count me in! And I might have to drag Little Fishcacher along too, heh heh. Papa Fishcacher will be sleeping off a night of working.

[Mama Fishcacher]

Wasn’t there a check out sheet for the travel bugs? Somewhere on that sheet it *should* be listed who took which bugs…. If they signed them out….

[Mama Fishcacher]

How very cool there is a submarine reunion going on that same weekend!!!

And I like the idea of “Trudy Camping”! Hee hee!

[Mama Fishcacher]

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Originally posted by Green Bay Paddlers:

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think geocaching.com is raking in the profits. Let’s see… no advertising, few merchandise items, obnoxious server fees, tons of site traffic and it’s offered for free.

If their servers are being clogged by Buxley’s pinging then they should have every right to cut him off…

For all the fun people get out of this hobby, kick in the $20 for the fee! The mapping software on geocaching.com is slick and easy to use. Buxley’s map can’t zoom in very far and doesn’t have nearly the amount of detail that the gc.com maps do. Plus, Buxley has too many expired and archived caches…

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I agree with you. I wonder where exactly their $$ comes from. The only part of what you say that I don’t agree with is I find Buxley’s maps easier to use than the gc.com maps. (Maybe since I’m not trying to find caches in really cache dense areas?) But, I really haven’t used either of maps for quite awhile – I now just put in a search for my zipcode and then find a cache I’m interested in from there. If I want to plan a trip of caches, I click on “find nearest caches” from the cache that interested me. Then I use Mapquest to figure out where I have to go.

I liked perusing Buxley’s to find caches all around the world. Like in Iraq. Or Greenland. Or Antarctica. It’s fascinating! I’m sure I could do the same on gc.com, but I just never figured it out yet….

[Mama Fishcacher]

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Its the other cachers who are looking for a bit more of a challenge, or are tired of being regulated into parking lot micros by guidelines.(just an example!)

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Fortunately, for those of us in Wisconsin, I truly do not feel we are regulated into parking lot micros! Maybe that’s why some of us don’t *get it* about Swiss. We still have high quality caches in wonderful areas, so we don’t feel a need to “branch out” so to speak.

Anyhow, good luck with your endeavors! I hope it can all work together and go hand in hand!

~Mama Fishcacher

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[Mama Fishcacher]

Oh! Also~

I was going to offer getting some for you, but the one vending machine was out of order. If I go back in and see it’s working again, do you want some?

[Mama Fishcacher]

I would guess that my highest elevation would be at the Headwaters of the Mississippi River in northern Minnesota. (1475 ft above sea level)

I don’t know my lowest though. I don’t go thru very many changes in elevation myself.

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