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From one newbie to another, welcome. Good luck on your hunts and hides.

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If you want to try some exotic fair, and my favorite three restaurants, check out these places:

Ginge Rootz – Asian Styles
2920 N Ballard Rd, Appleton, WI‎

Taste of Thai – Great Thai Food
321 E College Ave, Appleton, WI

Sai Ram – Indian (Try the Chicken Makahni)
253 W Northland Ave, Appleton, WI‎

Also some great places:

Red Robin – Burgers
N109 Stoney Brook Rd, Appleton, Wisconsin 54915
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2605 S Oneida St # 100, Green Bay, WI‎

Old Chicago – Good Pizza and Ice Cold Refreshments 😉
2495 S Oneida St, Green Bay, WI‎

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I came to the conclusion last night that this is pretty much a dead issue for me right now. I am still trying to work on getting some caches further down the line on the Duck Creek part of the trail. I thought it over and I really don’t want to become a pest to the Parks guy, and create any issues for existing caches or for anyone who tries to put them out in the future.

Maybe someone else will have better luck getting caches on the trail. For now, time to focus on different areas. I have several cache containers laying around and the wife wants them out of the house. 🙂

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Here is the e-mail that I got from Wis Kid about getting permission for the trail:

“Well, there are already many other caches along the trail. The problem is that the DNR contracts with the county parks departments to manage the trail, so they get the forms from you. Once you submit the forms, you can list the cache, but they might contact you later and ask you to remove it. My thoughts are that this is might be a good time to teach them about geocachers, and how we normally consider poisonous plants, thickets, thorns, swamps, marshes, cliffs, and other hazards to be fun challenges to overcome. If he is worried about liability, introduce him to Wisconsin Statute 895.525, which states that no one participating in a recreational activity cannot accuse a property owner of negligence when the property is made available to the general public. You might also want to mention the terrain rating system and the cache attributes available to indicate hazards such as poisonous plants.

Or, you could just send in the form and hope.”

I’m certain he meant to say that no one can accuse them of negligence.

I mentioned a couple of these things in the e-mails I sent, but I think I might just send in the forms and hope for the best. The trail is to nice to not put some caches out there, even if they end up getting archived. Thoughts?

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@gotta run wrote:

@odysseyuwrf wrote:

The trail signs all point that the trail is being maintained by the Outagamie Parks Dept. I contacted them and the Director got back to me with his concerns.

Well, see there’s your problem right there…probably a thousand caches in land maintained by Outagamie Parks that they don’t know about.

Anyhoo, check with WisKid on this one. When we put our cache out, we were told it was still DNR, very much like how the Mountain-Bay trail is DNR even though individual sections are maintained by local and/or county parks departments. So we did the the DNR form and everything is copacetic.

I have e-mailed Wis Kid and we’ll see what the verdict is. Thanks for the suggestion.

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@gotta run wrote:

@odysseyuwrf wrote:

I’ve been trying to get permission to put some caches on the Newton Blackmour Trail, but it seems like it’s not going to happen. Some concerns about poison ivy and other plants. Grrr, frustrating.

Has the regulating agency of that changed from the DNR? The last time we looked into the trail we were told (by a gc reviewer) that the trail was managed by the DNR, so you only need a DNR notifcation form. Not sure who you’re working with.

The trail signs all point that the trail is being maintained by the Outagamie Parks Dept. I contacted them and the Director got back to me with his concerns.

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I’ve been trying to get permission to put some caches on the Newton Blackmour Trail, but it seems like it’s not going to happen. Some concerns about poison ivy and other plants. Grrr, frustrating.

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Growing up we used to go camping all the time. It was a cheap family vacation. Along with Scouts up until age 12 this is where the majority of my outdoor time came from. Then it grew into a love for fishing. We always had a boat and being on the water is still probably my favorite thing ever. We would go fishing almost any weekend we weren’t camping. Then I started fishing at the quarry near my house.

Then HS happened and jobs happened and college and a career with a young wife and kid. It took nearly 10 years to get back into the outdoors. I started deer hunting in 2004 in order to have some common ground with my father-in-law and it is a big passion now. Combined with my annual trip with students to Trees For Tomorrow in Eagle River, I have grown into a much bigger and responsible outdoorsman.

I took a shine to idea of geocaching just because it would give me an excuse to get a GPSr for hunting. Then, out of the blue, my dad started doing it with his Nuvi 255T. He took me once and I was hooked.

I don’t own a boat or have a fishing license, but now I have an outdoor activity I can share with my daughter, and I love it. She gets pretty excited when we find a cache, especially if it has toys in it. Between my wife and I we are trying to instill her with the same responsibility for nature that we both feel, and hopefully she will grow up with an appreciation of the outdoors.

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@Trekkin’ and Birdin’ wrote:

If folks don’t mind, I’d love to use the final list y’all come up with, as I’ll be doing a session at the state teacher’s convention this October on geocaching.
I’m thinking more from the angle of “no child left indoors” and placed based education, but it could make for a fun opener.

A Geocache session at WEAC? That sounds awesome. I will certainly be on the look out for that session. Thanks!

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I have some ideas for Earthcaches, but I have a question? When choosing a placement for an Earthcache, does it have to be 0.1 miles from any other caches? Are they exempt from this status? The places I would like to submit are very close to some caches.

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As a new cacher myself, I have tried to fulfill the requirements. The only ones that I have any experience with are Marc’s WSQ series. I have taken the approach of signing the log, and then being on the look out for the pictures I need later. Often the goal is not present and needs to be added later anyways. In fact this is a good reminder, because I have a couple pictures I need to upload.

Since I am new, why was this change needed after it was allowed for so long?

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@jerrys dad wrote:

I finally decided to take it into my own hands for my own pages. Here is my link, with a link to my photobucket page for the new logo. fell free to use it.

This cache placed by a member of: <a href="http://wi-geocaching.com&quot; target=”wga”> (click to visit our website)

I like it. I think i will try this on a new cache page soon.

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Just reading this thread now.

I started caching in April, and I definitely found out about WGA through a cache page. I signed up immediately, as I thought it was a great idea to bring people together in the state. I actually would love to see an organized effort at the regional level to. Maybe there already is, I don’t know.

I have only posted one cache as of now, and have the logo on the site. I will certainly use it on all of my pages.

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YEA!

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I guess that concludes my afternoon of geocaching then. Maybe they’ll get it back up and running in the next hour or so.

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