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@marc_54140 wrote:
I’ll work up a PQ for everyone, and send it around.
Tisk, tisk, tisk — thats against the GS TOS
Just kidding, I have done it the last couple of time Korpl has come with us to events too.
Registration is up, you can click on sites and see who is where before you pick a site
Justin, if you are going to be a closet nascar fan, at least pick a different driver, Im thinking you are going to have some colorful shop rags soon
Justin,
All I have to say is you go in public dressed like that????
Jeff Gordon????
Barry and Valarie of sweetlife
Temps???? at a WGA event thought that was a dead horse
How about help nebies find real caches instead setting up temps
not to add fuel to a fire or even beat a dead horse, but even in a presidential election you can register the day of the election. IMO it should be left the way it is, are not the new members scrutinized to make sure they are not sockpuppets? or multiple IP addresses??
This is only a way to make sure that the incumbents have a better chance of winning.
But again its just my opinon.
Barry of sweetlife
Hayward is still in the states, but it is north of the 45th parallel, so most of you dont have the maps for this area in your GPS
This is a great idea
the wild rose is on Cty W between Wabeno and Crandon
From Wabeno go West on Hwy 52 to W and it is about 5 Miles, from Crandon 32 south to W and it is 5 to 7 miles. Good place to go eat after finding the end of the earth cache it is on Roberts Lake
Another good place to eat in Lakewood is Mulligans Sports Bar
the wings are great 10 flavors to choose from and any other thing on the menu is good too, they make their own pizzasBarry
Stick with Garmin, you will get frustrated with the Magallan Drift.
check craigslist, there are 100’s of cars listed everyday its a little clunky to figure out at first, but its almost like a message board
We do have bears in the Mountain Area, but never have they hurt anyone, They are more scared of you then you are of them, Make noise, talk to someone, or if you really are worried put a string of noisy bells around a ankle (Bear Bells) If you let your presence known in the woods, the bears will be long gone, I have only run into one in the woods and it was way up in the UP of michigan, But if you do the cache in our front yard you might have a chance on seeing one, as we have about 5 a day come to our yard along with about 60 wild turkeys and deer. this is the cache GCXHTQ
Barry and Valarie of sweetlife
I would have to say The NE AND NW anything above the 45 parallel
Barry and Valarie of sweetlife
I know the Candidates corner is not the right forum for this response, but would be hard to understand my rebuttal.
@zuma wrote:
@sweetlife wrote:
Would you as candidates support dividing the state into regions, NE NW SE SW With each region of the state having a BOD member as their contact at WGA. also using this regional division to hold WGA events in different parts of the state, Other states like Michigan do this and their spring event and fall event rotate thru the 4 chapters so at least every other year you have a event in your area. The same rotation could work for the Picnic and the Campout. I think this will help some of dissension of the northern geocachers who think that we are members of the SWGA (Southern Wisconsin Geocaching Association)
In a word: No.
But before I address the reasons for my response, I feel I must address your often repeated assertion that MIGO is in some way better than the WGA. It is not. The premise of your question is therefore incorrect.
While I have met a number of fine individuals from the great state of Michigan, and am in fact originally from Michigan myself and in no way want to run down the fine folks associated with MIGO, it is just a fact that MIGO is not as active in building community as is the WGA. Anyone interested can go to the MIGO home page, and see just how much MIGO does at: http://www.mi-geocaching.org/
By the numbers, here is the comparsion;
Number of upcoming events promoted on homepage:
WGA: 9
MIGO: 0Number of news stories the association posted to it’s home page in 2008:
WGA: 22
MIGO: 4Number of posts by members in association’s forums past month:
WGA: Many, way more than I care to count
MIGO: 0Number of association sponsored events in 2008:
WGA: 3
MIGO: 2Number of people attending association sponsored events in 2008:
WGA: 151
MIGO: 126Number of people participating in association’s Lonely Cache Game 2008:
WGA: 66
MIGO: 0Number of people who have completed the state’s DeLorme Challenge:
WI: 21
MI: 0Number of people who have cached every county in the state:
WI: 14
MI: 1I could go on, but I think my point is made. Your assertion that MIGO is in some way better than the WGA is not valid. So, I reject the premise of your question.
I do look at what other state association’s are doing and am in favor in making changes in what the WGA does, when it is apparent that there is something that folks are doing elsewhere that works better than what we are doing.
However, for the most part, having been active in the WGA for a couple of years now, and reading what other state associations do, I am very impressed with the way that the founders of the WGA set up the association in 2001, and believe that the current structure has served us quite well. The current structure has been very effective in it’s early goal of working with the DNR to allow caches in state parks, has been very effective in building a feeling of community among geocachers in the state, has produced 4 state geocoins, holds first class events, and has the most interesting, lively and useful member forum of any state association I have seen.
Therefore, no, I do not support making the WGA more like MIGO.
zuma
ZUMA, No where in my post, or any other post in these forums, have I said that MiGO is better than WGA. Both are Associations on the same level. We are members of both associations, If we thought one was superior to the other, wouldn’t we just go with that one. We cache in both states equally when we can. My family is from WI and Val’s family is from the UP.
About the MiGO front page, we have just changed website hosts, and only new info since the change is on the front page.
And Your Picking apart the numbers is just pathetic!
Michigan has 10 upcoming events listed, IF YOU WOULD HAVE LOOKED IN THE EVENT FORUMS YOU WOULD HAVE SAW THIS.
1/20/09 Changing of the Guard Flash Mob Event
1/24/2009 Ali Kats 3rd Annual Birthday Bash
2/7/09 Migo winter social
2/28/2009 The Great Dayton Winter Getaway V
3/7/09 – 4th Annual SW Michigan Chili Cook Off
4/03-05/2009 Geochicks 2009
4/24-26/2009 Mackinac Island Geocaching Event
5/29/2009 GCinOHIO GeoFest
6/13-14/2009 So you THOUGHT you were Geocacher Enough Rally
7/23-26/2009 – Midwest Geobash 2009 – Don’t miss it!again about the news stories (see above website server change) but if again you would look at the side links there is a news scrapbook with pages and pages of news info here is a link: http://www.mi-geocaching.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=5&Itemid=34
About the forum posts? Where do u see zero posts???? BTW you have to be a logged in member to access the forums. The former website was hacked and this was added to be a safety measure to stop phishing.
MiGO itself sponsors 2 events a year, but each region has its own events
see 3/7/09 – 4th Annual SW Michigan Chili Cook Off. Each region holds at least 2 events a year so that would total 10 sponsored events a year!About the event totals, I’m not going to check your math, Hopefully you took out the multiple attended logs for the temp caches in WI.
MiGO does not have a lonely cache game, but we do have a cache rescue program (Migo Rescue Mission) which has recovered 451 abandoned caches over the years these would have ended up as geotrash there are currently 81 caches on the mission list as of today. there have been 118 different rescuers of the 451 caches recovered.
Michigan Currently to my knowledge does not have a Delorme Challenge
we do have a UP county challenge (Linda’s Cache Michigan UP GCR7WQ) with 37 finders and a “downstate” challenge (Linda’s Cache Michigan LP GCR7T4) with 29 finders and the final (Linda’s Cache all of Michigan GCR7WR) with 26 findersAgain I am not saying that MiGO or WGA is better than the other. We are pround members of both of them.
Farther on you posted about State coins, Migo has had a state coin each year from 2005-2008 that equals 4 then add in the 4 non trackable season coins for each year from 2005 – 2007 that equals 12 then the 4 trackable coins from 2008 I’m seeing 20 state coins here.
Remember Rusty and Trippy from the Geocoin store were 2 of the founding memebers of MiGO so they have Geocoins in their roots
WGA might have been around a few months more Migo started in April of 2002
Again Im sorry for posting this here but since mud was slung at me, I swing back.
If anyone including you ZUMA would like to discuss this further, you can contact me personally thru emails and not in the fourms if you would like at [email protected]
Sincerely
Barry of sweetlife
This is a great Idea, we have some of our favorite restaurants saved in our Nuvi, one of the latest that we found was in Waukausha it was Jose’s blue sombaro. Awesome Mexican Food.
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