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I think we have five caches on public hunting land, and other than one where I KNOW there is plenty of pressure during the gun/deer season (tons of cars at the parking spot and along the road most days), we don’t plan to disable any of them, just have the “wear orange” notice prominent on the cache page, maybe log a note. We won’t go out ourselves during gun season, but if people want to cache there and are appropriately dressed, they can.
Private hunting land is another thing, and I think maybe that’s what CodeJunkie was asking about. We wanted to place a cache just on the edge of someone’s property, quite near the road, no need to go in further, disable during gun season, dire warnings on the cache page, etc. No go, and these are people we know. Private land owners can be very protective about their land when it comes to hunting, especially gun deer hunting.
Went to the Pamida website and found 18 stores in Wisconsin:
Abbotsford, Adams, Arcadia, Ashland, Clintonville, Eagle River, Ellsworth, Hayward, Kewaunee, Ladysmith, Lancaster, Neillsville, Oconto, Park Falls, Reedsburg, Sister Bay, Spooner, and Wautoma.
So there you have it. And you can buy all sorts of snow shovels, ice scrapers, winter clothing, boots, etc., at Pamida to prepare for the upcoming winter weather, like this weekend’s cold and possible SNOW!
(Are you happy, now JimandLinda? :wink:)
@Timberline Echoes wrote:
Maybe we can talk the guy who has Jarustic park in Marshfield to allow a cache at his place. Similar yet very different from Evermores. Each creature has a story of how it was excavated out of the McMillian swamp.
Yeah, that guy will talk your ear off, too. We have one of his mosquitoes and a spider in our garden, and we gave one of his ticks to a niece.
Pamida in Adams is a shopping destination for area folks . Nothing like it for 25-30 miles in any direction. Another Pamida is east of Wautoma on Highway 21. One in Reedsburg, too, if I remember right.
More things to add to the literature and the Geocaching 101 list of things to educate newer cachers on. Don’t know how that would help the veterans who would rather post a “Need Maintenance” than a DNF, though.
We don’t usually mention in our DNFs that the cache might be be missing either. We just assume there might be something we have overlooked or it was a clever hide, not that because we couldn’t find the container, it must be missing. The cache owner gets notified through the DNF anyway, and can check or not as he/she sees fit.
Wow! Same day in and out. Hope the recovery goes as quickly.
Private hunting land is highly prized and most often very tightly controlled by those who own property. If you are lucky enough to get permission to place a cache on some, I would disable the cache for the hunting season, checking with the land owners as to which dates they don’t want any non-hunters in the area, then maybe disabling a bit before and after to be safe. Put this on the cache page for year-round viewing, then each season put a note in the cache logs saying this is what is being done.
Then, because some people will try to look for caches even thought they are disabled, mention that the cache container will be removed for the duration and then remove it. No container, no incentive to go for the smiley. But then don’t forget to put the container back and write a maintenance log and enable the cache.
If the land owners still don’t want a cache on their property, respect their decisions, thank them for their time, and leave graciously. Good will is more important than another container in the woods.
Definitely something to read and re-read, and not just for new cachers. We’ve incorporated many of these guidelines into materials we hand out at our presentations, and we include the link to the Geocreed site. Sometimes we even run off the actual brochure to be included. People can put the link on their own cache pages, too, just like the WGA logo.
@Trekkin’ and Birdin’ wrote:
I sort of need the electronic download to the nuvi if I don’t want to get lost in some sandpit!
And in what location might you find some sandpit?????? Hmmmmm-mmmm?
Remember the old days when people had paper maps in the glove compartment of the car? We still have a few. And our ancient DeLorme is so beat up that the centerfold is in pieces with ragged edges, but it still works. We manage to get around.
Still time for lunch . . .
I have a friend who had cows and pigs on the farm, and her vanity license plate is MOINK. I’ll have to see how she likes MOOPIGS.
Well, why not? 😀
@Trekkin’ and Birdin’ wrote:
dog ate my letterboxing stamp
Now that’s an original excuse! Do you have a back-up one to use? Got a new letterbox hybrid out. Is that one you needed the directions for? I can help you out there.
Hey, just drive over, we’ll do lunch, and I can send you back with some pages for caching on your away home. Unless that PQ was for the full 500 . . .
It’s getting dark so early now. 🙁
Way to go on #300, BakRdz!
So . . . we missed last night’s episode of “Law and Order” that was on at 7:00. Forgot to record it, too. Blaming the new schedule again. 7:00? For “Law and Order”? 👿 Got to find when that episode’s on again now.
BUT . . . tonight at 9:00 p.m. on NBC is the repeat of this week’s “L&O: SVU” that starts out with the geocachers. A friendly reminder to all and to ourselves. 😉
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