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Wow, I just realized that I hadn’t replied to this thread.

I’m a shameless self-promoter.

ROGER:
Oh, what sad times are these when passing ruffians can say ‘ni’ at will to old ladies. There is a pestilence upon this land. Nothing is sacred. Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress at this period in history.
ARTHUR:
Did you say ‘shrubberies’?
ROGER:
Yes. Shrubberies are my trade. I am a shrubber. My name is ‘Roger the Shrubber’. I arrange, design, and sell shrubberies.

That was my profession until a fall from my roof last autumn. Now I personally can no longer install them – that’s why I employe Landscape Toonks.

In my parallel life, I carve wood.
In my parallel life, I Master Scouts
In my parallel life, I cache[/img]

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Brand new 3′ drifts in my driveway this morning

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Well now I’m curious.

Are the official colors of all the colleges in the University of Wisconsin system, red and white like UW Madison? Or do they all have their own logos, colors and symbols?

Cause if we’re picking the colors for one college, personally I’d prefer UW Platteville’s.

According to this site http://www.wisconsin.gov/state/core/wisconsin_state_symbols.html, there are no State Colors. We have a State Soil?!? Who’d a thunk it?

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I’d steer away from the geocaching.com colors. Wasn’t there a logo similar to Dave’s proposed in jest a year or so ago with a spinning Wisconsin?

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Unless you’re willing to place a very large order, I can’t see any reason financially why this company would care about a petition. Money talks, sorry.

I too never heard of candy raisins. Must be a local thing. Perhaps that indicates why they will cease production – poor marketing.

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Give me the coords and describe the container Jay, I’ll be glad to check this one out for you 😈

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Good Point! I have a cache in Racine that is bolted to a brick wall. Anchor bolts were required.

I got explicit permission to do so.

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Except terracaching. They don’t want any cross caches.

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You have indeed come to a trailhead. How to list your spiffy new cache. One decision, that you haven’t even realized that you have, is on which website(s) to list this new cache.

The website with the simplest cache submission/approval process is navicache.com There’s not many bells and whistles – just caches. New cache approval is usually within minutes and you can do just about anything you want – so be creative. Your cache types are wide open.

The website which will have some basic html (the flashy stuff) is terracaching.com Here, you’ll find a straight forward listing process which will make you put some thought into how you rate your cache, unlike the other sites. New cache approval is depend ant upon your sponsors – I’d send them a message saying you’re sending a new cache submission through to speed up the process.

The website that I’m sure you thought you had to use is geocaching.com This site has the flashiest graphics and hence the most advanced learning curve. The new cache submission process is pretty straight forward for a simple cache, incredibly complicated should you try to write in html code. New cache approval is usually pretty quick if it’s a simple cache far away from any others. Being creative here will surely get you into long discussions with the local reviewers. Many hand-slappings later, you may discover such things as the Supreme International Cache Approval Court, who dole out their rulings with impunity and engrave their decisions on stone tablets stored in the deep recesses of the Center for International Geocache Study at Groundspeak Mountain.

Throw a rubber stamp into the container and suddenly you’ve stumbled upon a whole new world called letterboxing. Atlasquest.com has a simple cache listing procedure. Some graphic abilities are required here as well. New cache approval is immediate.

Bottom line is you have choices that you probably didn’t even know you had. Explore them all.

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The Eureka Timberline is a great tent, but when you’re buying 20 tents, $170 is a bunch of money. These Colemans that are similar cost more like $40 each.

Eureka also makes some not-so-great tents. We bought a bunch of Eureka Isis Solo tents a couple of years ago for backpacking. You feel like you’re in a coffin. I hate them!

What I’d personally like to find is a 3 man dome tent with an incredible rainfly. Something that I can actually stand up in (6′ peak) to change out of my wet clothes.

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My Troop is in the market for about 20 new tents. These are the items we look for (ranked by importance):
#1 – waterproof. The tent must have an incredible rain fly that covers all seams and reaches nearly to the ground.
#2 – Easy of set up. We almost always set up late on a Friday night – in the dark.
#3 – Replacement parts. Tents must have easy access to replacement parts.
#4 – Price. $300 per tent is not practical.

On the open market, this tent no longer exists. We had over the course of the past 5 years, purchased the Coleman version of the Eureka Timberline. I wish they never would’ve stopped making it.

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Why not list all those temporary caches on a website that allows temporary caches? Then all the logging of temps is above board and “legal”.

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Would you be willing to Archive, put up for Adoption or substantially alter 10% of your caches?

To what end?

I ask all of you cache seekers, Would you be willing to delete, put up for adoption or substantially alter 10% of your smileys?

Why should I have to change anything about my caches? Geocaches are designed to be found be each seeker once. When the locals have all found a cache, it’s going to sit for a while. Why is that a problem?

When I see a problem develop (cacher trails or environmental damage) I archive the cache. That’s the maintenance that I agreed to perform when I placed the cache.

Is the purpose to “open up areas for new caches”? That’s a seriously silly excuse. I can place a cache anywhere in the state. The only problem that I might run into is if it’s too close to an existing geocache listed on one website. Thank goodness there’s more than one website listing caches.

I am unaware of any areas in the state where saturation is a problem that forced archiving of active caches is required.

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@Cache_boppin_BunnyFuFu wrote:

** Vituals can’t be created anymore…Earthcaches sorta fall into that one, so drop Virtual.

**Locationless…. went to Waypointing and I have no clue who participates in that, so drop that one off.

**GC.com doesn’t allow Moving caches, though they use to. So drop that one, another one gone.

**Cache quest and Task caches, is that a CITO???? Hmmmm

**Temps…we’re not going there. LOL Another drop

**Vacation caches are no longer allowed….bye bye!

**Letterboxes and benchmarking are already part of GC.com, though they do have partnership elsewhere.

Sooooo. that leaves just Earthcaches!!! 😀

Wow… and I rationalized all that after being up for 27 hrs and working a 12 hr shift in there!! Plus I’m a blond Hare! ROFLMBO! 😆

Stop hiding behind one cache listing website and you’ll find that each and every comment you made is WRONG! There’a a lot more to geocaching than GC.com!

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