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I enjoy the views along the Mississippi, Wisconsin, and Fox rivers.

Having said that, I would like to cache in the Northwest corner of the state.

Because I haven’t cached there yet, I would like to explore that area.

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If elected, I will be available.

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I must say that I have to defer to Labrat_wr’s opinion. He hit the nail on the head.

The only thing that I might add is that the reason that we see the same members doing the work, is that we always ask the same people to do the work, because we know that we can count on them.

Maybe to strengthen the group, we should each make an effort to ask someone that we see attending an event (someone we don’t know well), to lend a hand on the next one, just one. If they help out with one event, great, if they help out on more than one event later on, even better. And you might make a new friend in the process.

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While each organization may have fluctuations in membership, I was in fact, surprised by TBC’s figures of a 55% drop off in membership over the past five years.

It is possible that the general membership has a different opinion, or has different expectations of what benefits that a WGA membership holds.

One idea would be to solicit comments/input from the membership via an online survey to find out what their expectations are. That may in turn require a revised mission statement and action plan. If you don’t know what the target looks like, it is hard to hit. Right now it would be difficult to come up with an action plan because the target is well cammo’ed

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The board operates on a quorum or majority system does it not? On any board that I have been on before, every board member is allowed to voice their opinion and bring forth ideas, which are then debated and voted on my the entire board.

Once the decision is made, it is the duty and responsibility of each board member to present the results as a united front, whether their idea was adopted or not, whether they agreed with the idea or not.

It is not about personalities. It should be one board working for the greater good.

Understanding that there are differences in what people perceive as the greater good, you may find that if you give someone else’s idea a try, maybe next time will be your turn.

Any maybe this time it is your turn to do the dishes!

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I have 29 of my own geocaches. I think that a better measuring stick would be how well the caches are maintained. A large proliferation of caches is Ok if they are maintained and kept active. Don’t put out more caches than you can regularly maintain.

Placing caches and maintaining them shows responsibility.

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After the even, we went caching and were just behind bartrod. Had to make sure we didn’t step in the yellow snow he left behind.
Congratulations bartrod.

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Congratulations on 1500!

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@Walkingadventure wrote:

Rod is a spooner!

I’d worry if he was a forker.

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Rover was a particularly interesting puzzle and it took a while to get the rust off of the brain cells to solve it.

Thanks everyone for the congratulatory messages. We found some caches with some of you, and found caches placed by most of you. Without you all, we wouldn’t have gotten that many finds. You guys are the best.

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We load up the “varmint” from GSAK and plan an efficient route the night before, to save on gas. We can see the cache pages on the GPSR. That’s all we need.

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@Todd300 wrote:

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Warning :thread hijacking in progress..
If you find a cache in another country, you get a souvenir for that country. Do people from other countries get a U.S. souvenir? Why don’t we get one for the U.S.?

We do – in the form of the 50 state souvenirs.

You could print out all 50 and put them together, kind of like the state refridgerator magnets.

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Warninng :thread hijacking in progress..
If you find a cache in another country, you get a souvenir for that country. Do people from other countries get a U.S. souvenir? Why don’t we get one for the U.S.?

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Connecticut for us. We have family out east. Going back in October to get some more.

Michigan is a close 3rd.

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I think that souvenirs should be awarded for caching in states and countires, and grabbing a cache on a special date or day, like it was before.

I don’t think that picking a ramdom month to award souvenirs adds anything to the activity. Maybe one souvenir should be awarded for completing the entire month.

We won’t go out purposely for a souvenir this month, except for international geocaching day on the 17th, but we will inadvertently collect a couple because we will be out caching on a few different days anyway.

I’m with code junkie, it dilutes the significance of souvenirs (assuming you are someone who believes they have significance in the first place).

This discussion is all moot anyway, the caching gods have issued an edict from on high and we minions must abide!

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