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Hey wait a minute… Doesn’t that Earthcache require that you stand IN the pool in the picture?…..I think you better go back and get another picture…..
Seriously, great job!
Good job, guys!
Great job, guys!
Woohoo! Great work, Mary! You sure are making it hard for us to catch you.
Woohoo! Congrats Brian and Mathew! Great to see you hitting your numbers.
I would be in favor of this.
I have several ideas:
- Revisit the ban on Geocaching in SNAs and hopefully arrange for a more reasonable approach.
- Develop communications programs for law enforcement/fire departments and put together a program for regular delivery of said programs to departements throughout the state
- Develop a communications program for local parks departments.
To be honest, most of us don’t get to other parts of the state as much as we would like. I personally think the best way to ensure the board represents all the state is to have board members from all parts of the state. At one point, I would have suggested that we modify the bylaws to mandate a certain number of board members from each region of the state. This was before I nominated numerous people from northern and central Wisconsin, all of whom apparently declined to serve (except Zuma, of course). I still think it is vitally important that the board have representatives from across the state, but if no one from those areas is willing to serve on the board, changing the by laws would just paint us into a corner. I would love to say that someone from SE Wisconsin can fully understand all the issues faced in other regions, but none of can understand these as well as the geocachers from those regions. Northern Wisconsin people, its still not too late to nominate your friends to the BOD.
1. Place a couple more in Honey Creek WA.
2. Place a steganography oriented multi puzzle cache.
3. Have fun geocaching.
Thats enough to keep me busy.Its easy enough to add the bookmark to the web page (just email Jeremy). I’m sure no one even considered it.
We can get a pocket query of terrain 1 caches in a given area, but given how loose some people are with that 1 rating, I, for one, would be hesitant to call a cache handicapped accessible without actually visiting it. I just did a quick check of our finds which have a 1 terrain rating. We have 83 finds with a terrain rating of 1, but at least 22 of them should be rated higher.
Examples (All have a current rating of 1.0) : Look at that View – 1/4 mile hike up a rough trail
Pins and Needles – 1/4 mile bushwack to the cache
Wanna Be a Rock – Bushwacking down a ravine
Caledonia Tiny Park Tour – Need to descend a steep slope to get to the final.
I’ve got lots more. We always contact the owner when we find these rating problems, but usually we get no response.So, how would we put a set of lists like this together? I suppose someone could contact finders of each cache and ask them if the rating is legitimate. Is this a job for the board? Maybe someone on the board could coordinate it, but you need a much bigger group of volunteers to maintain a set of lists like this. Maybe you guys could coordinate it and ask for volunteers. I’m thinking one person for each county. (Maintaining bookmark lists is not a trivial job, due to the continual change in caches.)
I think it goes without saying that you would get lots of help with an Intro class, whether or not the board got involved. You just have to go to one of these to see how many volunteers show up to help the newbies.
As far as being WGA determining the state rep for MAGC, this isn’t our call to make. MAGC should determine who your successor is, regardless of WGA involvement.
01/18/2007 at 3:26 pm in reply to: Why do you have to be a cheesehead to be part of the WGA???? #1768430Minnesota has their own COTM contest, so there is really no need to nominate a Minnesota cache for the Wisconsin honor. Maybe you should discuss this with the PTB in GONIL…
Alright, Beast, you caught me trying to be politically correct. This just my opinion, of course, and I am sure other have different ideas.
To be considered active, one must:
1. Maintain an active geocaching.com account (not exactly a challenging requirement).
2. Log at least 24 finds or DNFs over the prior 12 months, or place at least 1 new cache over the prior 12 months. I know that some will say that they don’t log their finds, but part of the sport is logging your experiences to shared with others. (Logging on alternative sites (terracaching, etc.) would also be acceptable.)
3. NOT own any caches disabled for more than 1 month without a specific (dates) seasonal closure note.Maybe an initiative for this incoming board should be to rewrite this somewhat ambiguous section of the by-laws.
@Cheesehead Dave wrote:
@Team Deejay wrote:
But, somehow, I still can’t resist logging the driveups as we pass by them on the way to other caches. Must be the addiction I guess.
It doesn’t matter if it’s a scenic overlook or a key container stuck to a guardrail. Even after five years, I still get a giddy thrill over the fact that I can follow a little arrow in my hand and when I get to where it leads me, there’s something there for me to find. I think that’s what keeps me in love with this sport.
Conversation heard last Saturday:
J: Explain again why we are looking for a nano in the alley behind the Salvation Army.
D: Um, its part of a series of caches and it has a clue for getting to the final.
J: Yeah, so what? This is a silly place for a cache.
D: Well, what if I just said “Because its there”, would that satisfy…
J: Found it!
For me, the numbers are just the result of having the experience of the find (or the hide). They are fun to look at, but not all that important. I am just thankful that I found this activity, which get me off the couch and out into the woods virtually every weekend. Not sure how many finds I had in 2006, but it is somewhere around 650, with 10 caches placed.
To me, being a geocacher implies a willingness to explore the world around us, visiting sometimes beautiful, sometimes strange, sometimes inhospitable locations that few others experience. For that reason, I love the caches where I have to push myself to reach the goal. The first example that comes to mind is Spiders Web, which I sought last Sunday. I would guess that almost no one (other than geocachers) have visited this site since the bridges were washed out (especially during high water, freezing temperatures and thin ice), but I just loved the challenge of getting there. Finding this cache was a great experience, and that is what we look for when seeking (or hiding) caches. But, somehow, I still can’t resist logging the driveups as we pass by them on the way to other caches. Must be the addiction I guess.
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