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Congrats!
Yes, it was a blast. Thanks to everyone in the group! And yes, I did hit 1300. 😀 Congrats on your milestone as well.
The Friday Night Pre-Ba$h Meet & Greet Event is now published. (GC1RB4Q)
It will be held Aug 14 from 6 to 11 pm at the Old Courthouse. I strongly encourage everyone to attend this fun night of socializing. Bring your trackables to discover and swap! We’ll have downloading equipment available to get the caches pre-loaded for Saturday’s event.
Additional Highlights include:
**Walk Down Main Street Multi-Cache
**Night caches (you’ll have to drive to those)
**Free Admittance to Old Courthouse Museum, Old Jailhouse Museum, and The Museum of Wisconsin Art
**Drinks will be available for purchase
**Coupons for area restaurants over the weekend😀
congrats!
@lone_gunman wrote:
I know wywrdsn is looking for that one and FRMR and I plan on hopefully tagging along. So, the more the merrier.
Awesome. Count me in.
Would anybody going to the event be willing to search for the following cache either Saturday or Sunday (I need it for a T/D Square)?
Joker’s Hole (GC17EQ7) D4/T4.5
It’s a little south of Davenport in Rock Island in the Black Hawk State Historic Site. There are also 2 Earthcaches and various traditional caches there. I’m not sure how difficult it really is, but a 4.5 makes me think I probably don’t want to do it alone.
Congrats!! So do you have plans to get to 19K and 20,000 this year?!
I lost my car key somewhere at a rural cemetery cache near Jackson and had to call my dad to come get me. I never did find it, and it was one of those darn $300 smart keys. I’m just glad I was only 10 miles from my house and not 100 miles. I lost my blackberry phone while caching and had to retrace my steps from cache to cache until I found it (and I did! WHEW!). Things like to jump out of my pocket. 😕
But the biggest mishap was when I fell down a cliff (cliff might be an exaggeration…but it was quite high) along Lake Michigan at USS RASHER – Manitowoc. I don’t think I accurately conveyed how completely ridiculous and embarrassing the situation was in my log. But I was a new cacher at the time. I had taken a young cousin with me because I thought he’d enjoy caching. As we bushwhacked on non-existent trails, he was getting more and more worried. I assured him, “Don’t worry; this is normal!” 😆 We finally got to GZ, and couldn’t find it, but my GPSr was pointing slightly down the steep bank, so I thought maybe it was a “tough one” down the side. I took a step or two down a “trail” which was actually a water run-off which was slippery because of the snow/rain mix that day, slipped, and fell on my butt down to the shore. I had trouble climbing up, and kept slipping back down because there was nothing really to hang on to and my feet would just slide down the mud. I had to grab clumps of tall grass and hoist myself on my stomach using what little arm strength I possess. Meanwhile, my young cousin was atop, completely scared out of his mind, not sure what to do. I eventually got back to the top, coated from head to toe in mud. My cousin did NOT want to continue looking for the cache, so we headed back. And I hadn’t marked my car so of course we got a little lost, and my young cousin started crying because he was convinced we’d be “stuck in the woods forever.”
After I dropped him off at his parents’ house, and they had to give me clean clothes to wear back home, and he’s telling them about how I “fell off a cliff,” I’m surprised they let him geocache with me ever again. And I’m surprised he WANTED to! 😯 😀
Congrats! That was a fast 100. Addicted yet? 😀
Hey congrats! Geocaching.com must have been down when you logged that because I didn’t get any of the cache owner logs from your finds. I hope you had fun in West Bend. 😀
Okay, I’ve decided to go. Looks too fun to pass up. 😀
I’ll probably drive down on Thurs/Friday, depending on my route.
Questions:
1. I saw a couple people are staying at the Days Inn. Is that where everyone else is staying too?
2. Mind if I tag along on Saturday with some group for event and/or after-event caching? I prefer caching with people than solo.Thanks,
AnnieHmmm. This looks fun. Maybe…. I think I will.
Yay! 😀 😀 😀
Thanks to all who signed up early and got us to MEGA status! I’m looking forward to seeing you all there!
I’ll shoot really, really high and say 750 just for kicks.
There is no doubt that this will go MEGA this year…it’s just a matter of WHEN. We’re already at 500 combining the Chamber signups. They just need to get those people to sign up on geocaching.com. Once that happens and we get the MEGA icon, I think we’ll see a boom. I think it would draw a lot of neighboring out-of-state cachers. Plus, I’m banking on good weather again this year. 😀
Welcome! Thanks for introducing yourself. I’ll have to make a trip to Fond du Lac soon to try to find those new caches of yours. Perhaps we’ll see you at the Campout (or the West Bend Cache Ba$h?! GC1KZHZ). Hope you’re enjoying caching so far. 🙂
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