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I always try to take a look at the cache page text for any type of historical or other information that may be given. A lot of times nothing useful is given, but there have been quite a few times where reading the cache text has proven beneficial for me.

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@Todd300 wrote:

Anyways…do any of you puzzle creators give a sample puzzle to a friend or relative and say “Hey, can you figure this out?”

I am willing to take a look at it if you like, of course I don’t live too far from Menominee. 😈

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@JimandLinda wrote:

Would it be possible to nominate caches that have a MINIMUM of 6 monthes published, and a MINIMUM of, say 20 finds, before it can be nominated?
Or is it better to get cachers seeking it before it’s muggled?

(Just food for thought).

This is a good idea. I recently did a cemetery cache west of Green Bay that I thought definitely deserved to be recommended for this award. Problem is, it has been active for a few months (2-3 months I believe) and I was the third person to find it. No way would it have a chance right now, so I decided not to nominate it, but it was one of my favorite caches I have done in quite a while.

At least by putting in some requirements or even suggestions for a minimum number of months active and finders it will give people a point of reference for when a good time to nominate a cache would be.

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I work for an Indian tribe up here. There is a guy with a truck on the reservation that says “Vegetarian, Indian word for bad hunter”. It makes me laugh every time I see it.

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While caching in Appleton with Marc & Benny I spotted an unpublished geocache a few hundred feet from one of Marc’s hides. That one never did get published.

About a month ago in Lansing, MI I was walking back to the car from a cache along a trail and saw a hollowed out stump that I thought to myself would be a good place for a cache hide. I was looking at it as I was walking by when I noticed that there was something hidden there. It was a mystery letterbox I found out later.

I also found a letterbox last year while in Perrysburg, OH. It was almost exactly where the coordinates pointed for the nearby geocache. A LOT of cachers had signed the logbox in this box. We never did find the geocache.

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Here is a GSAK macro that I have found to shorten series names automatically. I have found it very useful to make waypoint names more manageable for me.

Shorten Series Name Macro

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I wish Michigan would get with the program on this as well, but it doesn’t seem likely any time soon. 🙄 At least I will be able to enjoy not smelling like an ashtray walking out of places when I visit Wisconsin.

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@Timberline Echoes wrote:

A different icon for puzzles done on site verses ones that have to be done at home first.
TE

Amen, I love them both, but they are two different types of caches IMO. It sure would make things a lot easier to handle.

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Well, another semi-invasion planned for tomorrow, this time to (north) Mathatopia. We are nearing the 2,000 find mark and wanted to include CJ in it, which limits the caches we can pick for the milestone since he is only 18 months old and I don’t want to carry him up any of the extremely large hills in Marquette.

We finally decided that we are going to try to make Pirate Pete’s Plunder our milestone and take CJ aka The Mighty CJB on his first trip to a zoo. Hopefully the weather will be as nice as they are calling for and we will be able to find it.

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Oh yeah, I forgot. I also managed to get a first to find while down there Friday. We were going to one of Marc’s puzzle caches. As we were walking down a hill I noticed a container hidden up under a lookout, but the coordinates still said we were over 100 feet away. With that I proceeded to give Marc crap about his coordinates. He told me that it was not the cache, but I found it said “geocache” on the side. We signed the logbook inside the container, which I believe said that it was hidden on April 7th. Obviously it was not published because it was too close to Marc’s hide, but I thought it was awesome that I got a FTF on an unpublished cache down in the valley. It was one of many highlights of the day.

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Thanks to all those who hid all the great caches down in the valley and to Marc and Benny for showing me around. There were a lot of awesome puzzles that I had solved that it was good to get out and find. It was a beautiful day to spend outside geocaching, and I really enjoyed the company. I even managed to get my first (minor) sunburn of the year. Had an awesome sandwich at a Pizza King in Appleton. I am not sure if that place is on the recommended places to eat list, but it should be…yum.

It was a long day for me, I left home at 4:50 (Eastern time), arrived in Freedom and found the first day of the cache at 7:14 (Eastern). I did four caches before meeting up with Marc and Benny at 8 (Eastern) and caching the rest of the day. I found my last cache of the day in Little Chute at 8:34 (Eastern) and pulled into my driveway at 11PM (eastern). I had originally planned on trying to hit a couple of night caches in Marinette on my way home, but I was so wiped from being in the sun I decided to head straight home after parting ways with Marc and Benny.

The original plan for this trip was for Lynn and I to come down on Saturday to work on finding some of the puzzles I had solved and attend the CITO event. We are in the process of looking for a new house right now, and we ended up having an appointment to look at a couple of houses on Saturday, so we had to change those plans. Lynn was unable to go on Friday, so she told me I could head down on my own. I contacted Marc at the last minute, so I was very happy that he was able to tag along and get a hold of Benny as well. The best part is that Saturday turned out to be a great day too. We found a house that we really like, and got to do some caching over to Iron Mountain and Crystal Falls in the beautiful weather.

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X
Near Skanee, MI – X marks the spot

Z
Marquette area, MI – ZZEG

Any one of the Zoe Bro Coup sudoku series in Appleton would be good for Z as well.

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@marc_54140 wrote:

As an incentive, it looks like we will be hunting 20+ puzzles in the area.

I did have a busy fall didn’t I? 😆

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@hogrod wrote:

Anyone try a Permethrin based repellent? from what I heard if a tick crawls on your treated clothes it dies within a few seconds. your clothes with remain treated for up to 6 washes or weeks.

I have had good luck with Permethrin repellent on my pants and boots with normal Deep Woods Off for my skin and upper body (mosquitos). I very rarely pick up ticks using this method, and they can get quite bad up here in my neck of the woods. I would definitely recommend trying Permethrin repellent on your clothes if you are worried about picking up ticks.

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Just a small note to anyone thinking about attending, all times on the cache page are Eastern time. Hopefully we will see some of you there.

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