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Wonderful road trip, I’m sure, having seen some of your logs showing up in the recent logs. Congratulations on hitting another milestone, 2500 before you get back??? 😉
Wow, way to go….it took us about 18 months before we ever hit 1000. Congratulations!
What a memorable place for a milestone, congratulations!
That will always be one of our favorite caches, a very worthy milestone choice. Congrats, Nate!
Congratulations…..and to think when we first met you, you were heading off to find, what was it? 200? Way to go on a tricky one!
We like puzzles. We usually read through things before hand to get a feel for whether or not we have some work to do ahead of time, but if there’s time, I like to try and get a couple solves ahead of a trip. I have learned not to rely on attributes too much anyway, because some placers don’t use them they way I would. We found, for instance, that last winter most of our finds didn’t have the snowflake one way or the other, so I stopped filtering for the “winter available” attribute. We bascially like to clean out an area, so I keep ’em all!
Depends on a person’s swimming ability, I’d guess. We can swim, but if we’d tried to swim the over 1.2 miles to the first stage of a multi near Mosinee on wide open water, I think both of us would be the subject of someone’s WSQ by now. As the winds kicked up that day, even the canoe was a workout for us.
It’s easy to get persnickety about what’s *really* extreme, but for cachers, the 5 rating lets them make a decision about whether or not they want to gear up to get that one. We’re usually more often than not very willing to gear up. Others don’t want anything to do with that kind of thing. It’s not science, it’s just a game. For every over-rated 5, we’ve done at least as many under rated 1.5s, so it all evens out in the end. I’m just happy for anyone taking the time and effort to put out caches, whether they’re 1s or 5s.
Also, there have been some pretty nasty attacks in Wisconsin waters by big muskies. Like hundreds of stitches. So maybe not sharks, but danger does lurk in the deep! 🙄
Alex, Don’t you also have a cliff climb that requires technical climbing gear?
Hopes are high that in the next month or two, I’ll be doing such a cache in Duluth. Trekkin’ is coming along to collect the life insurance, LOL. I have seen a really extreme cache somewhere in Australia with straight down drops in narrow slots, more than one. Can’t remember anything about the listing right now, though.
Just pointing out that completing this very worthy cache will also get people one step closer to dinner on us!
Great milestone choice, it’s still one of our favorites.
We did a quick trip up the shore last week and we’ll be going back to do the tough stuff this fall. Check out a series called Hidden Streams. They start with Hidden Streams and then the name of the stream. I think they all have puzzles involved, but they are easy and the areas are really hidden gems in the city.
I’m a bit partial to that area, with my dad being from there and spending a lot of my childhood and youth romping all over, but our feeling after our trip last week is it’s much like Marquette Michigan…even the park and grabs are stunning.
Thanks, that helps me focus my energies better.
Who’d have seen this thread going this direction? Should have a beverage warning on gr’s post….as in, you might spatter your screen from laughing! 🙄
Congratulations, that 1k club key is not very far off now.
Congratulations…..we didn’t have any luck here, so glad your annual trip paid off in many big ways, LOL.
Congrats Pete! Good to see you, even if it was just a short while.
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