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It was a great fall day for geocaching today. We took our 11 year old grandaughter Emma along and she helped to make it a 9 for 9 afternoon including one WSQ. However the highlight of the day was finding a rural cemetery that was cacheless. I didn’t have a cache along, but will return soon to place one. I also have 2 or 3 other cemeteries in mind too. I hid 65 caches before placing my first cemetery cache and now have two. I enjoy reading the logs on all of my hides and thr cemetery logs have all been positive. I’m sure that now I’ll be doing more of them in the future.

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Wow, Furfool with an amazing technical explanation. I would have expected a story about giant beavers marking their territory from FURfool.

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Thanks to all of the geocachers who place hides for all of us to find. There would be no game without them. My 74th hide (59 Active) was just published tonight. Thanks to everyone who has searched fo my hides. I read every log and enjoy your experiences as well as mine.

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Did we have Indian Summer yet?

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The nice part about an earth cache is that you can usually leave it active indefinitely so it can eventually be found by those interested. We want to do some caching in Green Bay and Door County in the future and will definitely keep this one on our list for one of those trips. We always catch a few of your local caches on the way to Crivitz and might also have a chance to do it then. I looked at the photo on the cache page and this looks like one not to miss.

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683 in the last 12 months. We’ve slowed down a lot since finding #1000 back in August. Concentrating more now on hides that sound interesting and scenic. Went to Spring Green area last weekend and only did 3, but one was one the best cemetery hide to date. Hyde cemetery had a church on the National Register of Historic places and the family plot ofthe descedants of the nearby Hyde Mill virtual. Today we’re going to Lapham Peak for 8 caches that we skipped at the the WGA Picnic for better fall color. We also have some unique hides we’re working on and a few to get out and do somemaintenance on before winter. Events have also become more of a focus for us.

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Look at my profile for the caches that I found Sept. 19-21. We camped there that weekend. There are 4 caches in the park and three in a school forest just to the north. All were worth finding and in good condition after we did maintenace on a few. PM mwe if you have any questions.

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@hogrod wrote:

The legend at less than $100 does seem like a good deal, but since it’s really an old unit(came out around 2001) money would better be spend on a unit with the newer chipset(better signal in the woods). not to mention it only has 8mb of storage for maps, serial connection, and worse battery life.

I agree with all of Hogrod’s points, however with rechargeable batteries we can keep the units on all day and still have enough charge for the next day. Why don’t you try to find some geocachers in your area that would be willing to go out with you and let you try some of the different units that they’re using. We would have opted to upgrade to better gps’r recently, but instead chose to get a gps for in the suv and this has increased our capabilities more than a hand held upgrade may have.

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We use Etrex Legends and they can easily be purchased over the Internet for less than $100 each. They are easy to download into and can be hand programmed quickly. It took one 3 minute lesson to teach our 11 year old grandaughter to use it. It seems the kids can grasp all of the techno gadgets quicker than the adults. The only drawback that we have found with these units is loosing a signal when under heavy cover.

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@Trekkin’ and Birdin’ wrote:

Having previously been part of the “hard core” scrapbooking world—trust me, it exists, as silly as that sounds!—I have seen how becoming preoccupied with a seemingly benign hobby can lead to all kinds of problems.

I scrapbook all of our geocaching adventures so I must really be on a road to trouble. I leave all of the scrapbooking go until snowy days in the winter and I guess that becomes my mock geocaching. Did 50 pages last winter. Help!

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@marc_54140 wrote:

@marc_54140 wrote:

OK, I have been mulling this over, and have a more concrete suggestion.

This is something for the Board to consider, and work on.

Create a business card for the WGA, with it’s name, logo and website shown on the front. On the reverse could be info on what the WGA is, what it has to offer, etc.

The Board would have it printed (in bulk). Then distribute x number of cards to cachers who are hosting events. Also distribute them in some manner to cachers who request them to have to pass to others they meet on the trail.

Any comments from the BOD? Or should I make my own, and then have complaints about what I have printed?

I think this is a great and inexpensive way to promote the WGA. I would be happy to carry some with me and pass out when needed. I know of several instances this year where I could have done that including an event that I hosted that had several non-WGA members in attendance.

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@dalevc wrote:

Harder, harder, don’t stop.

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@abcdmCachers wrote:

– The cache page clearly stated to bring our own place settings, but I wonder if there were others like us who forgot or didn’t read the page in detail? Many of the group picnics that we attend, the utensils, napkins, plates, etc. are provided. Could the WGA provide these using the donations received? Or maybe assign these out to participants to bring instead of foodDoug

This was one our first thought as we drove home. We brought extra and Sunshine passed them out to everyone that she saw eating potato salad with their fingers.

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@zuma wrote:

I am quite sure that the 2 folks that logged it multiple times are unaware of the change of policy, so the problem rests with the WGA messing up the cache page, and not with the 2 people who logged it multiple times. They will be sent an email requesting them to delete their logs, with the reasons set forth for doing so. If they chose not to delete their logs, that is there choice, and should be respected either way. Obviously folks in the Waukesha area believe this is normal practice because it has been past practice in that area, even though it is not considered to be acceptable by most geocachers elsewhere.

zuma

I’m really appalled that a WGA Board Member would make a statement like this and single out a specific part of the state on this subject when the practice of logging temps goes on statewide. What about all of the temps that were logged this past weekend in New Richmond on a cache set up specifically for logging temps. It wasn’t a a geocaching.com event, but none the less there were several goecachers that logged temps and isn’t this your part of the state? If this is going to be the attitude of the board towards the cachers in SE Wisconsin, as much as we enjoyed both the campout and picnic this year we will probably not be attending any WGA events again until the board gets an attitutude adjustment to represent ALL Wisconsin geocachers equally.

Mister Greenthumb and Sunshine

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@EnergySaver wrote:

This question is addressed to anyone that has actually been to the park …

I’m pondering if I could bring our dog (Scooter, dauschund).
I know the park “rules” allow dogs, but with the normal limits on not being in buildings/shelters, etc.

Comments and feedback would be great.

We’re not power-cachers … we just want to find some of the caches and socialize with people.

I would just make sure that you keep your “hotdog” away from the grill area.

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