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That web page is too cool. I did notice that it marks pages as found for Michigan caches. It might be something to look at.

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Congrats on the 500th, its all downhill to 1000 now!

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Congrats on the milestone…keep it up!

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Wow, we already have 17 pages complete, not bad for out of staters. Of course now that we just finished finding a cache in every county in Michigan 😀 , now you are going to give us enticement to tour Wisconsin, sweet. 😈 Cool web page to see where you are at. I like it.

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I was in college in 2001 when a recent graduate of our geography department sent an email to several of us still in school about this new “game” called geocaching (or whatever it was called at the time). I read about it and thought it sounded interesting, so I did a search, but the closest cache was over 70 miles away from Mt. Pleasant, MI, which is where I was living at the time and I didn’t own a GPS, so I kind of forgot about it. About a year later my sister and my future wife pitched in to buy me a gps for christmas, and I occasionally thought about that game I had looked up, but never got around to doing it. In May 2005, I was working for the city of Mt. Pleasant (MI) when the city planner was talking about this new cache where you had to walk to an island in the river that went through town for one of the stages. This finally got me interested enough to look the game back up, and Lynn and I found our first geocache about a week later. A month later we purchased another gps unit so that Lynn could have one too, and I am still using the GPS that Lynn and my sister bought me in 2002. My biggest regret is that we didn’t take up caching back in 2002 when I first got my GPS, because we both love doing it so much now.

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@Cache_boppin_BunnyFuFu wrote:

The ones that are… well….disappointing I guess I could say(?)…are the TB’s that one person grabs from a cache and takes to “umpteen” different caches, then finally after an exhausting amount of time, drops it off for good in a cache.

Ok, hypothetical. Say I pick up your tb in the morning while on an all day caching blitz. I keep it with me all day, and then at (or near) the conclusion of the caching day I drop it in a cache. Would you have a problem with me logging it in and out of each cache it visited with me during the course of that day? (keeping in mind that it is your tb)

The reason I ask is that I have done this before, thinking that the owner might think it would be neat to see all of the different places that the tb has been with my team throughout the day. I have done this before, and am now wondering if it is bad form.

In this situation we are talking about picking up the tb and dropping it off in the same day, not holding onto it for 2 weeks so that it could come with on our adventures during that span of time. Just curious, thanks 😀

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I posted a link to the event in the MIGO forums for the U.P. chapter. Hopefully there will be some fellow Yoopers that will be able to make it!

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WOW!!! 😯 8) Congratulations on all the milestones. Awesome!!!

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This sounds like fun, and it is less than an hour from our place. We may have to see if we can make it and meet some of you “cheeseheads” 😀 I know for sure we wouldn’t be able to make it on Friday though, it would probably just be a one day appearance.

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@SadowskiFamily wrote:

When I first started using the Palm I could switch the battires while out caching and not lose any info. But, now as soon as I remove the battires I lose it all.

With my old palm m105, I have this problem with losing data when I change the batteries also. I did some research on the web and found out that there is a problem with the capacitor used for battery backup. There was a flaw in the design. I am not sure if this would be the same issue for your situation or not.

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@K0rpl wrote:

Good afternoon:

The reason that I thought it could of been better, was that I had a couple of points that I really stressed about the benefits of geocachers coming to Appleton. One of them was the money that geocachers bring to the community. Also the CITO events. Oh well. 100 percent better than the last one.

Justin

I would have to agree that geocaching can at least bring a little money into the area. Since moving to the U.P. in January, we have already made 2 trips to Appleton and 2 trips to Green Bay caching. Both times, we stayed overnight, shopped, and ate out…but the main reason for both trips down was to geocache. We are actually planning on getting down to Green Bay for another short caching trip sometime in the next few weeks.

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@marc_54140 wrote:

Ok, I think we need to know which cache this is, so we can look at the page. Is it a puzzle?

DeeJay, give us the GC # ?

It looks like it is probably this one… GCX7D4

I’m not positive, but it sounds right.

This series does sound like a lot of fun!

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Congratulations on the 1,000th find. Awesome!

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I read every cache log that I get. Lately, I have noticed a lot more cut and paste TNLN, TFTC logs and they are boring to read. Lynn and I on our last big caching trip decided to make a conscious effort to take better notes and try to leave more personalized logs for each cache we visit. This does not mean we leave a great log for every cache, as stated before some caches just will not produce great logs. There is only so much that can be said about a film cannister under a light pole for example.

I kind of decided to leave more detailed logs in hopes to set a better example to some of the new cachers that are out there. If they read the logs that are better, hopefully this will convince them to take more time writing them up. I also have recently emailed some of the people that have come through our area in the U.P. that left some very good logs to tell them how much we appreciated them. I guess I just wanted to let them know that I appreciated the time put in on the log.

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My wife and I both use IFinders and we really like them. They don’t autoroute, but we look at trying to figure out the best way to get to a place as a good part of the fun.

Anyway, your unit should have come with with a mmc card and mmc card reader. If you use the geocaching swiss army knife you can upload waypoints directly to your mmc card. This is far easier than hand entering coordinates into your unit. The geocaching swiss army knife reads the GPX files that are available to download through gc.com. If you click on the download GPX Exchange File it will dowload this file for you.

With my IFinder, to hand enter coordinates I have to do the following. Make sure GPS is on. Press enter… Scroll down and click on the From Entered Position checkbox… Scroll back up and click create… This should give you place where you can hand enter the coordinates. I don’t have my GPS with me here at work, but hopefully this description will get you through. If it doesn’t, please repost and I will try to give you more detailed instructions when I have my GPS in hand.

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