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To find them, take Route 37 south of Eau Claire, then turn west on to Highway 85. We started seeing the sunflowers just west of the wayside area, and they continued off and on on both sides of the highway till at least the Dunn County line, which is where we turned around to continue on our travels. The flowers are past their prime now.
Here are some pics that we took on Wednesday of the sunflowers just SW of Eau Claire:
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Go to an event that J&L is hosting.
Done, done, done! Logs, emails, photos…done!
And now I have 25 logs to write, plus 3 DNFs… 🙄 Well, it’s the price I pay for caching where the caching is so good. 😀
BTW, we took a short side trip on our way north to see those sunflowers SW of Eau Claire… Took pics that I can post later.
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CTQ: We always try to get off the highway to get “up close and personal” with the sunflower fields when we travel through the Dakotas, if it’s the right time of year.
BBG: Heading north of Highway 64 tomorrow for a bit of Cheeze, and if we get going soon enough, we might take a little detour down Route 85 SW of Eau Claire.
I agree, Bartrod. I would log each 100 milestone (we had a nice little list going on the old site), and I would check to see who had recently logged one, too. There have been a couple of comments also about the page where one could note the counties/states that they had cached in. I never used that, and there are other sites that keep track of that for you now, but it’s something some people liked.
I like the WGA COTM because it is Wisconsin cachers who pick those, not a bunch of people who attended a Mega or brought a tour into town and gave out a ton of favorites to Wisconsin caches. I also look at the COTM as more of a reward than a shopping list of good caches, although the winners all should be that, especially when there is competition.
I don’t mean to come across as sounding critical, and I certainly appreciate all the work that the BOD and others do to keep this site and the WGA running smoothly, but I’m feeling a bit nostalgic for the activity we used to see here. Heck, even the useless drivel is drying up! 😯
“Unspoken” is the operative word. We did not know we were being tested. I, for one, refrained from commenting on what I thought was a glitch lest I sounded like I was harping on something that was being worked on. The perceived problems with the COTM had been reported, but were never publicly commented on, nor privately, in the case of a PM I sent.
Perhaps the COTM is not so much a victim of “favorites” as a victim of social media, as the whole WGA website appears to be. I see all kinds of activities and get-togethers being planned on Facebook, and people are sharing their caching adventures there rather than in the forums here. They even ask their questions in the UN-official WGA FB group, and they make their comments about the WGA website on social media, not here.
I frequently check to see if the COTM page is working so that I can nominate or vote, and when it’s the “broken” page, I move on to some other part of the WGA website. How persistent do you want me and others to be when we see that it is not working? I have brought it to the attention of those who may be able to do something about it, and this is the second time that Bartrod has brought it up.
Perhaps a well-publicized vote on keeping or dropping the COTM is needed instead of an unspoken test.
Discuss…
Just did some research. You can go to the WGA GC “profile” page, and under “lists”, each biome has its own bookmark list. If you’re not sure how to get there, just find the cache page for a WGA SP cache, look on the right for bookmark lists, and you will see a WGA bookmark for all the SP caches, and another one for the biome that the cache you are looking at is in. Then you can click on the WGA as the CO to see the profile and find the whole set of bookmark lists.
Not sure if it’s listed anywhere, but this is what I had in my files from when we were doing the committee work:
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You must be logged in to view attached files.Lab caches only count for Lab rats.
I suppose they count for labzone, too.
Just finished logging our weekend finds. No EarthCaches.
That woodpecker sure knows how to… “cheap”. 😉
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