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Woohoo! Great news! (although I haven’t seen the submission request yet!)
You mean this isn’t the Wisconsin iPhone club???
Woohoo! Nice job, guys!
Welcome to the club. Feel free to ask any kind of questions you like. Unlike many other message boards you might be familiar with, you will find that people here are very friendly and always willing to lend a hand. If you are interested, there is a beginner class at Greenfield on October 4, so this would be a good chance to meet some people and learn the basics.
Great work, Zuma!
Woohoo! Great job, onto 10000!
Please be patient with our DNR contacts. They do have other responsibility besides approving earthcaches in SNAs. Note that the approval processing time will depend somewhat on the sensitivity of the area and the expected amount of traffic. Wet areas will take longer than dry, steep areas will take longer than flat, and areas along the road will take longer than areas requiring a 5 mile hike. It also depends on how active the local area managers are, i.e. a cache in a small freestanding area run by the county office will take less time than one in an SNA within a state park or recreation area with active management. If you are concerned and it has been 4 weeks or more since you submitted your request, feel free to send a followup request.
Note also that the DNR people really don’t like it when the first time they hear about a cache is when a reviewer asks them about it. Ask for your permissions BEFORE you submit the cache!
@Lostby7 wrote:
@Timberline Echoes wrote:
…It will be listed as a cache at Geocaching with coords and as a letterbox at letterboxing.org with instructions….
I’m curious if anyone knows if this is the typical way these are listed (with coordinates on GC and word clues on Letterbox.org)?
The latest one listed near me (and the only one within 50 miles) is listed with word clues only on GC.
After lots of debate on the reviewer boards, here is the final (for now, until they change it) rules on Letterbox Hybrid.
1. A letterbox hybrid must have a stamp and a stampbook.
2. You can make the cache like a regular geocache with the coordinates listed at the box.
3. You can make it like a mystery cache, where you follow the word clues to the cache. If you do this, you need to make at least part of the cache involve use of a GPS to find the starting point (no parking lots, trail junctions, crossroads or other other locations that you could obviously find without a GPS). You also need to use the additional waypoints feature to list the final location, which can either be hidden or unhidden by owner preference (will usually be hidden, I would think).
4. You can do BOTH 2 and 3 and let the finder decide which method to use.
5. You can crosslist on letterboxing.org or any other letterbox listing agency, but this is not required.
6. Multistage letterboxes are ok, and only the final need have a stamp and a stampbook.Basically, a letterbox hybrid is either a traditional or field puzzle mystery cache with a stamp and a stampbook. Of course, you still have to follow all the other guidelines as well.
@K0rpl wrote:
Well, I know for my mom and I, MWGB 07′ was awesome. I took off of work on Thursday and Friday. We Left Green Bay, at about 4:00am. I think we got to GeoBash at about Noon… If I remember right.. had an absolute Blast. Wish we could Wipe Chicago off the map though, as it would make Driving Much easier!!!
Justin
You actually can! Take the ferry from Manitowoc to Ludington (or from Milwaukee to Muskegon). It costs about $100 per person and $60 addtional for your car from Manitowoc and $130 for your car from Milwaukee. The Milwaukee trip takes 1.5 hours, while the Manitowoc trip takes 4 hours (they have a $5 discount if you help row!) I’ve often thought it would be a good business to run a ferry from Kenosha or Waukegan to Gary, IN, which is really the only reason anyone takes the ferry in the first place.
As far as you want, as long as the new location is good.
And the answer to the question you are really trying to ask is: I believe the system will let you move the cache 300 feet on your own. To move it farther, just email a reviewer.
Adding on to Tie’s comment, for multicaches which start with a “landmark” as the first stage:
If you call the cache a multi, this stage will be subject to all the distance requirements, and will prevent other caches from being placed close to the first stage.
If, on the other hand, you call the cache a mystery/unknown cache, the first stage is not subject to proximity rules and it will not prevent other caches from being placed close by.
This is a decision that can be made by the cache owner. Similarly, if you have “landmark” stages for your multi, other than the first, you are allowed to call these “stages of a multicache” and they will take up space, just like a regular physical stage. As I’m sure you can see, designating “virtual start” multis as mystery caches will take up less space, just like properly designating virtual waypoint will take up less space, but this is the owner’s decision. If you want to take up a lot of space, you are allowed to do this. Note that when the reviewers have to add waypoints to caches which were not updated properly, we only add the physical stages.
If anyone want to change their existing cache’s type from multi to mystery (or vise versa), just email me.
Nothing official yet. We will let you know.
Woohoo! Congrats, Justin!
@Lostby7 wrote:
@Cheesehead Dave wrote:
I have a section of the trail mapped out as a route that you could do a PQ on to get some of the caches.
I have been looking for something for Waukesha county but havent come up with any good street level maps of the trail……anyone know of a decent street level map of the trail in Waukesha / Jefferson County?
There is a book out called the Ice Age Trail Atlas, which has Topo Maps of all the current trails. You can get it from the Ice Age Foundation for $20 and they also carry it at some of the DNR “shops” like the Ice Age Center in Dundee. These would need to be either scanned in or manually copied to a standard route file. Then they could be uploaded. Note that this book is about 60 pages of very detailed maps.
Sad to see this one go, but I understand. This was first big series we ever hunted, and it went a long way towards hooking us on geocaching. TFTC!
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