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@Team Black-Cat wrote:

I really hope it doesn’t come down to nameing these “realms” after any given cachers. There are too many cachers placing great caches for any single caching team to take ownership of an area. Let’s try to keep it a little more “generic”.

And I was just thinking about proposing a small section of the OUTLANDS to Black Cat….. perhaps name it “Cat Man Do!”

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@GetMeOutdoors wrote:

Terrain 5 season and terrain 3 season (AKA, Kayak season and snowshoe season)

😆 😆 😆

Are you thinking of any in particular???

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@GetMeOutdoors wrote:

Yup, like a puppy in a prosthetic leg store! I just can’t contain my excitement.

Oh, TBC, I forgot to tell you… I am a FTF hound. And winter’s over. Isn’t it? Wait… what’s all that white stuff? Crap. See you in 3 months. And… I’m not really a FTF hound… I’m a 2TF hound. sometimes 3TF. or 4. 5 if it needs to be. What the hay, I’ll just stay home and work on puzzles. Dang it, I can’t do those either! Hmm. I guess I’m out of luck.

I have inside information regarding TBC’s desire to beat you to the FTF on My new puzzle cache w/ OPS. TBC said he wouldn’t sleep if that is what it would take to claw the FTF from you the same way ZUMA did at midnight. GO GMO!!!!

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@team handstand wrote:

i thought it was a good idea to try that today… i put some hot water in a old coffee can, and threw it up… but it didn’t do anything.. when it hit the ground it was still water.. so much for trying to impress the kids with that one.. they just watched me from the window waiting for something cool to happen. lol

Try doing it with “really” hot water and use just a cup. Also throw it up high enough to separate the water.

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@kbraband wrote:

@Mathman wrote:

@kbraband wrote:

I’m not sure I’ll get a state sticker this year if it has butterflies on it. That’s just too girly.

And yes, I’m kidding. 😀

What part are you kidding about? The “not getting a sticker” or the “girly part?”

I don’t know if you were kidding when you asked me to explain so I’ll explain. I was kidding about two things: 1. I will definitely get a state park sticker again this year. In fact, I got one yesterday. 2. I don’t think showing butterflies on the sticker is too girly. Butterflies are part of nature and the outdoors, and to me, the “outdoors” is gender neutral. I wrote this to poke fun ina good-natured way at the WGA members who said back during the logo debacle that they thought the stylized “g” logo was too girly. (Isn’t humor that much more funny when you have to explain it? Yes, I’m kidding again.)

Which part are you kidding about… explaining it… or the humor??

😉

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I too have enjoyed the many quality caches placed by Team Everest and was able to survive the frigid weather today to find one of their newly placed caches.

Everyone in prior logs has mentioned viable points, pro and con. Sometimes it just takes some information about certain expectations of geocaching to get pointed in the right direction. I know that my own experiences have been helped because of my fellow geocachers especially One Paddle Short. During my early days of caching he was a wealth of information mainly because he had educated himself through reading and keeping up with the WGA forums which I now do as well.

For maintenance purposes it is hard to beat an ammo box. If caches are readily accessible cachers can get by with cammoed plastic jars for the most part, but I have replaced many of those along the way. As far as cache rescue, I think OPS said it well, in that we want to make sure we aren’t “littering.” We were tempted to rescue the “Westlund” cache too but thought it might be on public land and weren’t sure if the cachers were still associated with the land owners so we didn’t rescue that one. It is also a coutersy to replace logs when possible. I know Rick Blick has done this many times as well as place them in a watertight plastic bag from his “supply” bag.

I know everyone caches “their” way and it should stay that way. It is for “enjoyment.” I think Black Cat wasn’t trying to be mean but rather stating that he hopes you can maintain your caches better or get help when you do place them because it is discouraging to find wet or NO logs in a cache. You have many fun caches and they are always a challenge. Thanks for placing them. Welcome back and I hope you can get the opportunity to visit the area cachers. Perhaps you could even attend Team Black Cat’s upcoming EVENT cache in February.

Black Cat Event

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Neat experiment although the Better Half wasn’t amused when the outside screen door fell off the tracks and then all of the cold air was coming in the house. Good thing it wasn’t being taped!

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@kbraband wrote:

I’m not sure I’ll get a state sticker this year if it has butterflies on it. That’s just too girly.

And yes, I’m kidding. 😀

What part are you kidding about? The “not getting a sticker” or the “girly part?”

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@Team Black-Cat wrote:

GMO’s compass is a little off kilter.

His avatar looks nice, though. 😛

😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆

You know GMO to well!

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@cheezehead wrote:

@EnergySaver wrote:

This is what I have had stuck in my head …

Now that I like! 😉 🙂

Looks good but it may still need a football. 😉

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I have a few that I can hare. I will enter them later.

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@Team Black-Cat wrote:

@Team Deejay wrote:

The problem with this sort of analysis is that there are a lot of caches archived over the same time period, including many which are both published and archived over the same year. I can’t speak for WGA3,. but I published 2493 caches in 2008, including events. I’m guessing she published about the same.

I’m not sure which analysis you referring to, but I mentioned that the numbers I posted didn’t take into account any caches archived before about 7/07. GR asked for “about” how many, and “about” how much it’s grown. I would say the number for 2008 are pretty accurate, and the previous years less so.

Just because I have too much time, here’s some more useless info…
3 caches placed in 2001 were archived in 2008
14 caches placed in 2002 were archived in 2008
52 caches placed in 2003 were archived in 2008
57 caches placed in 2004 were archived in 2008
194 caches placed in 2005 were archived in 2008
362 caches placed in 2006 were archived in 2008
605 caches placed in 2007 were archived in 2008
208 caches placed in 2008 were archived in 2008

These numbers may not be exact, but should be pretty close. The last one is interesting.

Very interesting.

Now can you tell us the percentage of caches archived of total caches in Wisconsin using these numbers?

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😯

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@One Paddle Short wrote:

Okay,

This time I got it. Those snowshoes are all yours. Everybody is looking forward to seeing you Saturday. Should be a great time. Oh, and as far as you wanting to lead all the way in if I’ll lead on the way out: seems fair enough I guess…
I suppose I could lead as I normally do because you probably need me to find the cache for you. 😉

😉

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@One Paddle Short wrote:

Mathman,

Please resend the email where you ask if you can borrow the scout-made snowshoes in order to go along. Somehow, the other emails haven’t got here yet ❓

😯 😯 😯 😯 😯 😯 😯 😯 😯

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