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I’m looking forward to meeting Zuma at the campout, but I was worried that I wouldn’t know which one he is. Now I know that all I have to do is look for someone with tips of his fingers worn down from keyboarding.

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We still plan on coming, but probably wouldn’t have if there weren’t 6 permanent caches to look for in the park. We now won’t plan on looking for any of the temporary hides unless there is some incentive to do so such as prizes or the like . What disappoints us the most is the timing of all of these events. All of this should have been thought out sooner before people had their plans made for the campout. We’ll probably learn to live with it in the future, but it will be harder to convince us to come to a WGA event. The main thing about the sport is finding caches and we have so many places we want to visit when searching that we’ll never get to them all. In the year and a half that we’ve been geocaching we have been to 9 events and met a lot of new friends, so we do also enjoy the social part of the game. Some of the events had temporary hides and some had permanent hides so we’re not dead set on an event having temps. The burden is now on the board and the WGA as a whole to provide some new incentive to geocachers like us to want to attend WGA events. I really hope that we’ll want to attend and also that the end can come now to hard feelings and the fence mending can begin.

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We have two Timberlin Trail Bikes. Mine has a Garmin GPSR mount on the handlebars. We have biked for years before we started geocaching. We did a few caching bike rides last year. We want to hit the Ozaukee Interurban Trail soon. We have a camping trip to Hartman Creek scheduled for the end of June with OPPS5 and will be spending a day on the Tomorrow River Trail which has a series of caches.

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I’m on the same bandwagon with BWQ, Wade, Tami and DOC. Look at the effort that’s going to made hiding caches for the campout in a great park setting. These caches will be no different than going to some other park on your own and finding some. I had already decided to attend the campout before all of the logging controversy started so I’ll give it a try for at least one WGA event. We’ve been to 9 events in the last year and got to log finds either as temps or permanent finds. I don’t really care which kind they are, but besides the social part of the events which we do enjoy I need more than one log to be there. I can find lots of other interesting places and communities to go to to get my logs and never run out so why would I go for one log?

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Congrats Jeremy. Glad you’re having enough time to get out and find some caches with all of the other time that you put in for the WGA and its members.

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@LDove wrote:

We are have quite a few of the cache locations marked already, so things are really shaping up! 😀

When we were caching in WB yesterday we found some the markers and thought they were geojunk and Citoed them.

(LOL)

Thanks to you, Tami and Wade for the fun we had in WB this weekend for my birthday.

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Good luck on the way to 800. I know how you feel, I’m sitting on 797 right now. I’m waiting for my birthday this weekend to find #800. This is the first milestone that really feels significant to me. Maybe it’s because 1000 is now close by. Have a great rest of your trip.

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I’ll probably be upgrading in the future, but we do just fine with two EtrexLegends. Nearly 800 finds since January of 2006 and very few dnf’s. The skill in searching comes more into play than where the gpsr takes you. When I get within 30′ I stop looking at the screen and start looking for hiding spots. I learned that from Tami of the Ecorangers and that seems to work fine for them (LOL). My main concern for upgrading would be to purchase a unit that would give the best accuracy for hiding so you can find them. I’ve hidden 50+ and have about 10 in the works and have only had comments on trouble with coordinates twice. On the other hand a recent hide (Gnome Home) on the Ice Age Trail took the owner 3 or 4 tries to get the coordinates close. It is still 50+ ft off and started 1200 ft off. I equate gpsr to vehicles. They all get you there, sometimes you’ld just like to ride more in in style.

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Someone once told me that I was as old as dirt so I guess I’m always doing my part. Happy birthday to everyone who has a birthday this week. Mine is this Sunday and I’ll be 61. We’re going to West Bend to find as many as we can. The most we’ve ever done in one day is 18 so it should be fun.

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@Ry and Ny wrote:

I like the idea of temps to display unique situations, but I’m still not sold on the idea of boycotting real caches for the muggle factor. I do know that if I were attending something of this nature, I’d get the impression that the presenter was being somewhat elitist by not letting us search for the real thing.

If you would attend a basics class you would see how clueless some of the attendees are. Also everyone who attends does not become addicted. Those of us who own hides ( I have over 50) value them and we have all had some muggled. Without the geocachers who put caches out there there would be none to look for. A minority of the WGA members own the majority of the caches hidden and pride ourselves in providing quality well maintained caches. The responsibility of owning a cache is non ending and sometimes I’ll spend half a day just visiting my own hides to check on them. Once you have hidden a cache this is much easier to understand.

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I was busy working in the yard thinking about this one. I was going to write exactly what Lostby7 said. Some Boyscouts in Hartland recently had an event in Hartland just for the Scouts. They were going to use permanent caches in the area, two of which were mine. I was a bit worried as they would later be telling their friends about the caches and who knows what would happen next. Luckily they went with temps for the day. The only thing that I don’t like about your idea is now there may not be another event by you at HB and we were looking forward to it. If any veteran geocachers are hesitant to attend basics class events go to Energysavres. We attended and despite a day of caching in the rain this rates as one of the better events that we have attended. We had 11 finds, hot dogs and brownies. The only thing missing was sun.

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The only time I run out of hands is when opening a cache and signing the log. However, Sunshine has expressed often that I give her too many things to carry (that’s her job) and she’s always fumbling and dropping things. Since we’re both in the same area I’m sure she would like to give it a try. We go out a few times a week and could probably make a decision quickly as to it being a worth while product.

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There are enough GC caches to last me the rest of my life. Why would I want to go on another site. This seems to be developing into another log temps or not spat. Let’s keep the WGA about GEOCACHING.

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I just got permission for my first Earthcahe and it just happens to be 5 blocks from a grade school. I know that some of the classes have visited this site in the past. Now I’ll try to gear my text towards class visits and let the school know about it. I had already been thinking about volunteering to take classes on trips to the site. This might be another area to expand into to promote geocaching within schools and communities by actually offering to lead a class to the earthcache.

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Yesterday we did some cahing in the Southern Kettle Morraine. We stopped at Ottawa Camping Area to buy our annual sticker. We were surprised to see the campground 25% full and mostly with tents. Some of the sites still had a little snow in them. Gave us the urge to get out and camp, but the campout probably will still be the first time this year.When we camped last October it got down into the thirties at night so yesterday really wasn’t much different. So for anyone worried about the weather I guess we’d be wooses not to show up. So cross your fingers for good weather to go with good hides and good friends.

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