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I would guess they are at the University in Menasha. If you are able to snare one, I’ll send you money for postage and all that kind of stuff.

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Let me ask Trekkin’. I know he got that one. Those guys have an evil streak going lately! 😆

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Also, if you go to the page listing for your bug, look for “show map.” It will have “pins” numbered in order of drops and pickups, showing where it’s traveled so far.

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Congratulations to both of you, fun way to hit the milestones!

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Pretty much what others said. I think there’s a couple other little gizmos in there, too, but not sure what they are.

Hey! I just submitted our next EarthCache for approval. I suppose it might show up sometime next week, the way things seem to be going. If it comes out during the work day, it will take till evening for me to go in and “pretty” it up. I submit those with the basic info, then fix up the listing once it’s been transferred over.

I’ve been waiting patiently to hear from someone from Devil’s Lake State Park for another one we want to place. Nothing yet.

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I’m one of those folks who can’t operate well with just the GC number. It all comes down to differences in how each person’s brain processes information. Numbers aren’t my strong suit, but words are. Probably why I’m the only non-engineer in my family. The smart names work better for me. I have friends who are number people and use the gc name. Fortunately, if we’re working off the same PQ, all that info is available in the listing in the Palm for us to help each other out.

I know that doesn’t address the issue of those who aren’t paperless. We went for a good 1500 finds before we were paperless ourselves. For us, if we get something that pops up as “nearest” in our unit, we look and figure it out eventually.

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Thanks everyone, we keep managing to have fun….even though Trekkin’ DID fall out of a tree last weekend on his back. He was up a tree the very next day, just ask Seth!

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Dave,

It was a lock and lock. It was placed up in an obvious spot high in a cottonwood tree, within a wetlands area where it makes no sense to place it low. People have found it floating in the marsh, which admittedly could be the result of a heavy downpour or angry raccoon. Someone found it yesterday shortly before I retrieved it, commenting that the contents were all over the ground, with the cache wide open. They put it back together and though it wasn’t in the high branch, it was hidden. Were we to replace it, we’d somehow tether it to that spot, but we’ll just move on to other things.

We do the baggies, all that. When a thread earlier talked about archiving only if the cache is problematic…..well, this was one of those caches. There are a couple area cachers who are, well, careless. We have come to caches after them, finding them unhidden, not closed up completey. In a hurry or something. Unless a person hides some of their own, they just don’t realize the long term impact of their actions, or maybe lack thereof.

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Last year, we had our 700th find on October 8. Right now, we’re sitting with 3021. I think people can subtract! 😯

And Ralph…sure, you’re tapering down like we’re tapering down! LOL

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I’m curious to know what “none of the above” would be. We’re both still working stiffs, but hopefully can change that status in the next couple years or so….depending on if our retirement savings recover from the tanking they took.

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I gathered information for two different possible ECs the other day. Hopefully I’ll get approval from land managers, though of course that might mean they don’t publish during EC week. Still, creating new ones for others to find is a celebration of sorts!

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Lots of interesting thoughts here, and I can see both sides of the discussion. I am one who does have photos on my listings and hadn’t thought about that aspect of such listings. I agree, I’d be thrilled to have people there having fun (respectfully) and exploring the past, but maybe not everyone would feel that way.

Here’s another point of discussion. We’ve talked with these particular cache owners, and they’re rethinking some of their hides, too. There are a few cemetery caches in the area that are very evil hides, like 4.5-5 difficulty. We told them we gave one of those a few tries, but really felt uncomfortable spending so long poking around near the dearly departed nuns from the nearby convent. In fact, Trekkin’ is planning to redo one of ours that isn’t quite so tough, but has had people returning to finally find it.

If a “tough” difficulty is desired, ask people to study information from stones and solve some puzzle that way. IMO, if a cache takes you to a cemetery, it should get you to visit an interesting aspect, allow you to make the find away from the plots in a quick fashion, and move on. Spending hours combing the trees or grass or something to find an evil micro isn’t right.

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Congratulations! That whole series in Crex is on our “must do” list, I’m sure it was a great one for you.

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Door County is our post Christmas tradition now. We stayed at a B & B in Sturgeon Bay last year and spent a couple days caching, enjoyed it so much that we plan to do it every year. I’ll bet fall is a great time, too, the crowds are thinned out. In winter, there was literally no one anywhere near most of the caches we did….other than a couple wolves! There are a couple caches that aren’t accessible, but so many more that are.

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Don’t look for us to land that spot. We’ve hardly played the past couple months, just happened to get a couple finds that turned out to be lonely.
Initially, we thought we “coulda been a contenda,” but we didn’t realize we were up against pros!

Congrats to Alex on his win for September. Way to “retire” with a bang!

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