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The winner for August was Marble Guy. A check made out to June is in the mail.

The new cache for September is GC336YT “Cache in the Blue”.
It was palced by kmhiker and commemorates the 100th anniversary of the West Bend Company. They have donated prize(s) for this month’s winner.

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Which Park was it?

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Probably would not get approved if used on a cache as it is the opposite of what geocaching is supposed to be.

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@sevencards wrote:

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I think you should scrap the whole idea and hide an ammo box in the woods with a hint, but that’s just me.

I think that she did one of those for you already…http://coord.info/GC2WP8C

Haven’t done that one yet, but you can never have too many ammo cans, just too many puzzles.

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@CodeJunkie wrote:

I’ve even seen variations between identical real GPSr’s in the field. Keep in mind this isn’t an “exact” science. If you’re within 20′ you’re there just start looking.

Sunshine and I both have the same model and we have had them vary by as much as 40′. The only way we get them to match is if we stand in the same spot and turn them on at the same time. How much fun would it be if you were within a few feet every time. You would be in and out so fast there would be no time for ticks, poison ivy, bushwacking scratches, trips and falls and all of the other fun things. Also mud, but CJ is more of an expert on that than me.

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I know several people who cache with phones and they’re happy to get within 40′ so you are doing good. I found two caches today with a Garmin Etrex and had a reading under 5′ on both of them. Your problems couls also become compounded if the phone was used to hide the caches. When you try to start hiding with a phone it usually leads to buying a gps’r.

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WTG Steve, please let me know the airline and car rental company that you use so I can buy some stock and make a little money off of your power runs.

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I think you should scrap the whole idea and hide an ammo box in the woods with a hint, but that’s just me.

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We still find quite a few TB’s and almost always move them, but very few coins anymore. When we startes geocaching there were lots of coins. We have 2 bugs across the ocean that are doing well and racking up miles. They have more respect for them there. All but one bug stateside had disappeared.

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OK Gwyn, here’s one you will appreciate. We took our almost 4 year old grandson Ryan to the WGA Pancake Breakfast in West Bend. After the breakfast we went over to the Eisenbahn Trail with him to hunt a few easy ones on the paved trail. The first one he found by himself cleverly hidden while I was on my knees looking in the wrong spot. Another .15 down the trail I grabbed the large ammo box from under the bridge and brought it up onto the trail for him to go through. He was astonished that people would just leave all of this good stuff out here ( he took refrigerator magnets ). Started heading for home, but stopped to let him find one more, a PnG that we had found the day before. It was a strange object completely in plain sight, but his geo-senses were in high gear and he walked right up to it and popped it open. We had to head home now for his little brother’s 2 year old birthday party, but he was OK with that. He told us he had just had “his best day ever”.

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@redhead3434 wrote:

People who do that are only ruining it for themselves.

????? How are they ruining it for themselves if this is what they wanted to and enjoyed doing it? There are no rules on how to geocache except for the signing the log thing. Everything else are guidelines. What does ruin geocaching is people continuing to rant and rave about unimportant things to no end. Let it go people and move on. Oops, sorry got to go. Have to go log a few of my own hides and then go to a few more “worldwide challenges”.

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@conductorBrian wrote:

I just ened up replacing a cache today http://coord.info/GC127XB. I had done this cache a year ago and replaced the log and posted a “Needs Maintenance” on it as the film canister had holes chewed in it and I knew the replacement log wouldn’t last long. I didn’t replace it back then as I didn’t have any replacements with me at the time.

Now I go back again this year with my cousin and find that the contents are once again water loged and the same busted film canister is still there. I would have just given up and posted a “Needs Archived” but this is one of the caches the DNR has published in the paper that they hand out to all of the campers.

Without even looking it up I’m going to guess that the cache was “Frog Bog”. In the 4 years that we have been camping at Point Beach this one is in poor condition more often than not.

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Congratulations guys. Kevin be careful not to drop the “baby”.

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Congratulations on a great milestone. We always enjoy your hides when we are in the Waupaca area.

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Conrats on a major milestone.

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