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There is a link on their page, however it says the event has been cancelled due to lack of interest.

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Congrats and thanks for including a few of ours in your weekend trip.

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That’s a lot of Huffin’ and Puffin’. Congrats!

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You can buy velcro at Joann Fabrics. I agree use Gorilla Glue to adhere it to the container. Staple to the wooden bench.

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@Lostby7 wrote:

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I had 2 dnf’s on a hide of ours in recent weeks and went to check on it and on that day the coordinates were 25′ off for me. I checked allof the logs from the 45 cachers who made the find and there were no mentions of bad coordinates. Normally my coordinates are very good so I left them as they were.

That wasn’t the one I DNFd was it…I read the logs too and saw no mention of a problem with coords….I figured I just was fated not to find that one…if so I guess I need to vote for 0-15.

That’s the one and the other dnf was OPPS5, but Doug was in charge that day. The hint narrows it down to only a few possible spots.

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I also didn’t vote since your numbers don’t go high enough. Finding a cache 30-40′ off isn’t unusual. We’ve found them up to 75′ off, which of course isn’t acceptable. In cases like that we post the coordinates that we found the cache at in our log and hope the owner makes the change or checks on the cache. I had 2 dnf’s on a hide of ours in recent weeks and went to check on it and on that day the coordinates were 25′ off for me. I checked allof the logs from the 45 cachers who made the find and there were no mentions of bad coordinates. Normally my coordinates are very good so I left them as they were.

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Always in my bag:
3 or 4 different sizes of baggies
log sheets and small log books
Micro containers (to place with a dry log inside a cache in really poor condition until the owner can get to it)
short pencils
we used to add swag to poorly stocked caches, but stopped doing that about a year ago

We perform maintenance whenever needed and either explain in our log or send a message to the owner. I have never had anyone complain that we helped a cache in need.

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Congratulations on a challenging find for your milestone. Perfect weather for a Fall hike.

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The icon means available in winter. Depending on how determined you are all caches are actually available in winter. The only time I place it on a cache that I’ve hidden is if it’s at least 1 foot above the ground and I expect you would have no more trouble in winter than any other time of the year. Someone just placed a roadside cache 2 miles from our house that has the icon on. It’s along side a road that has had at least 3′ of snow from plowing and drifting along side it every year in the 30 years that I have lived here. If you do a lot of winter caching you will probably begin to notice who’s caches are truly winter friendly or not. I’m known as using holes in trees and hide very few on the ground. Winter buried hides just end up needing more maintenance.

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2 down, 104 to go.

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I think there are something like 110 all total from about 8-10 cachers. I was asked to be part of it, but I’m more into interesting and unique cache hides right now. I don’t think there will be that many who will ever finish the complete series. I would much rather spend my time right now on a good fall hike. However, I will do the part of the series hidden locally near me by the goldiediggers. I’m about to head out now to find the 3 in Sussex.

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At least I have an excuse. I had surgery a week ago. There are just enough LC’s in SE Wisconsin to play, but not compete. Because of that my goal again for this year has been to finish in the top ten. I’m currently #12. As soon as I’m a little more mobile I still have 3 or 4 more I would like to get to this month. Since I’m one of the more prolific hiders in this part of the state it’s the service part of the game rather than the competition for me.

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Thanks everyone for all of the well wishes. It was nice to have some contact with geocachers while recovering and waiting to get back out. It’s amazing the surgery that they can perform nowdays. My surgery for the gall bladder removal was last Monday and done as an outpatient. I was home in 8 hours. After 2 days of pain I gradually started feeling a little better each day. Today we took our grandsons Evan (10) and Eric (7) with us and hiked about 3 miles in the Southern Kettle Morraine and found 8 caches. I even climbed the tower at Lapham Peak. Now I have to not become foolish and keep on a slow pace to full recovery. I still don’t feel like I could lift anything very heavy and that’s probably a good thing. I’m looking forward to some of the upcoming events and getting back out to thank some of you in person.

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Now that’s just Ducky! Congratulations on the milestone and a 40 find day!

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@Todd300 wrote:

Since this thread is basically about caching in the winter and shopping at Pamida ;), I have a question to ask here.

What type of gloves do you guys wear when caching in the cold? I’m sure the bigger ski gloves might be a bit bulky to be able to navigate the buttons on a GPS. At the same time, the thin driving gloves may not be warm enough for caching. So I would assume you wear something in between.

I’m sure you remove the gloves once you find the cache and have to sign the log, but that only takes a minute. So no biggie there.

I take 2 or 3 different weights of gloves and hand warmers are a great help too.

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