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@Timberline Echoes wrote:

Winter is our favorite caching season… we just have to travel so far to find any and have less time for travel in the winter our numbers go down.

We made our own snowshoes over 15 years ago and still use them regularly even if not geocaching. The bummer is when the caches are down on the ground. Most of the caches we have out are very winter friendly.
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We too very much enjoy winter caching. We love it in the Nort Woods. Over the past two years we have participated in the Great Northwoods Treasure Hunt hosted by the C of C’s in St. Germain, Minocqua, etc. That’s always fun. Great exercise. And no bugs, poison ivy, or foilage to contend with.

We also have found numerous caches via snowmobile. Ourwinter cache GC19YQ6 for snomocaching also inspired a bookmark list of the same vein.

We love caching with snowshoes in da North Woods which is about the only way you can move about. We also have a winter geo-kit of probes, huge spoons, etc. for finding those buried LCG caches.

After a winter of that kind of caching summer caching was a breeze! Caching up in Timberline Echoe’s neck of the woods is very challenging and fun. Getting to one or maybe two caches in a day is a good day.

First and foremost you have to have the right gear and need to have a solid outdoors sense about you. Half stepping through hip deep snow in the woods is the norm. For us it’s a year-round sport which works out great for us because we are out-of-doors in all four seasons.

Try it!

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Way to go Frizz.
Thanks for visiting our cache GC1GZTC and making it your 1200 Milestone.

Kudos!!

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Congrats!
Welcome to the 1K club to all.

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Congratulations to Cachelovskys!
WELCOME to the 1K club.

SGH & BB

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@marc_54140 wrote:

@Cachelovskys wrote:

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@Cachelovskys wrote:

As long as we are venting on this issue. My problem with my GPS (eXplorist 210…I know, but it still finds caches) is that if two or more caches have basically the same name (for example, another walk in the park 1 through 4327), then it automatically deletes all but one, because it thinks it is a duplicate.

Does anyone know how to fix this? a solution that doesn’t cost money?

I don’t know if I ever noticed this problem on the 210, are you loading using the Magellan geocache manager software or GSAK?

I use the Megellan software. But I could use GSAK. I use GSAK with my Palm so I can do paperless.

I have never heard of unique cache names? How is that done?

Go into GSAK. Click on Tools, Options. Smart name fields in lower right. Change to 6 characters.

Then Click Display. Find smart Names field, and put a check mark in it. Then Click OK.

Smart Name will show on the display screen, along with cache names, etc. You can move the field to any spot in the line up by click and dragging.

Come to my Paperless class to find out more!

Hey, whataya know….that works neat. Excellent! Thanks Marc, I learned something (once again) about GSAK. It works like the Swiss!!

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@Mathman wrote:

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh….

My answer was going to be Marc 5 digits. Then I realized it was asking for oldest cache… not cacher! 😆

Wait, (this is Kinda of Off Topic) here a little bit because (Guards have been posted……) but we might be considering the oldest Cartographer??

Or, some kind of a Gerrymander.

Er, no?

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OK. Great, thanks for the help. Pike Powder Hike (GC3B1) dates to 3/2/2001.

We just completed the last two (Wisconsin) DeLorme (Challenge) pages (81 and 81 A) up in Door County. 😆

Interestingly enough we came across what perhaps could be (maybe) the second Oldest cache in Wisconsin up in Door County.

It’s called Door County Cache (GC4C4) which dates to 3/17/2001.
We found GC4C4 which is kinda neat as it goes back to March of 2001 only 15 days younger than GC3B1.

Thanks.

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Now, that is righteous.

So many puzzles, so few solves.

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Kudos! 8,000 and climbing! Cool THB very cool.

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Keep on truckin’ and keep on caching bugsmasher69.
That’s a big 10 – 4.

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Congrats to you.
Number 200.
Way to go!
And a great puzzle cache to boot!

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Jim,

Myself and The Blondie Bloodhound REALLY had alot of fun moving TB’s out of GC17508 along with GC13EA5 last year! (We are just big kids still.)

Good to hear the students had fun too. Looks like a great inventory of interesting TBs this school year. We will be more than happy to help move some along again. And, we too love watching them as they travel about.

Thanks for the feedback and stats on last year’s crop of TB’s.

Why didn’t we have fun projects like this when we were in school?
Oh, that’s right we didn’t have computers then (or much else).

Keep up the great project! Kudos!

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Thanks!
I also see the bookmark link for oldest by state.
Nice.
Maybe the second oldest is in Door County?
Anyway, we are headed to DC way in a few weeks.

Thanks for the prompt reply.

SGH

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WoW!
WTG Zuma!
Kudos on getting to such an awesome milestone!

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Sehr gut! Eine Tausend. Prima.

Welcome to the one kilo club
shrek & fiona!

So many puzzles, so few solves!

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