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Well, we’re back. What was supposed to be one wonderful night turned out to be two, due to a snowstorm yesterday. I know, tough thing to have to stay a second night at the White Lace Inn, but we made the sacrifice! 😆
We had an incredible time caching up and down the Door, as well as bagging a FTF on gotta run’s great “Birch of a Cache” while cross country skiing, as well as their very fun letterbox series nearby. Just finished logging all our caches, now I have to process and post photos to some of them. All of them were wonderful, but we had one particularly memorably adventure at Europe Bay yesterday. GC65AB Read all about it!
Sorry Timberline Echoes, but this vacation away from the boys was about 17 years overdue! We’ll catch up on the caching trail at some point and hope you and cheezehead have a blast.
Not in Wisconsin, but there is one we did on the Root River near Lanesboro Minnesota this fall. It’s actually a series of four standalone caches, but you have to get the first three to find the final. We had a grand time doing this series in October. They are all called “The Root of All Evil.”
There is also a series we’re looking forward to doing next spring, called “Kayak Adventure,” on the Yellow River near Necedah. I would love to get all the Skeleton Keys ones bandits placed so we can do those on the Plover, but I don’t think that’s gonna happen. So far I’ve got one key and I can’t even find where I wrote that one down.
We loved paddling caches, too. If you run a pocket query for caches with a 5 terrain rating in Wisconsin, a large number of those will be paddling caches.
Well, this time of year no special equipment is required, but I’d doubt that would be true in July. As I read the rating guidelines, they recommend you try and project your cache through all seasons. So, if I placed one in early spring, maybe it felt like a 2, but by midsummer with the brush full grown, it’s a 3. So it’s a 3.
I have seen others like you describe that I thought should be a 5, also.
Actually, West Salem clocked in at 14 inches total. It’s a lot of snow! So are you saying you didn’t get nearly that much up your way? Cause we’re passing through on our way to Door County in a couple days (and skipping over all those puzzles and such until another time!) We’ll have x-c skis in the car, so I hope you have some snow for us!
marc, I think this storm cuts from our corner of WI to yours. Areas north and south of that line have far less snow. We have to keep opening the door and the gate so that we aren’t trapped until spring. Our 6 foot fence? The drifts show only the top 1.5-2 feet now. This is looking very much like the Big Snow of last spring.
And it’s still coming down.
Oh sure, let’s just rub a little salt in the wound and show us how snowbound we are down here right now! LOL At least any who questioned if I was “telling stories’ can see that no, we have anywhere from 8-10 inches so far.
Sigh.
Look up by Eau Claire. Look by Rochester. I was wondering how anyone could get out to cache today. Now I know how. They live somewhere else!
I just checked the weather underground and I wasn’t far off. 11 inches of new snow so far. Trying to decide which direction to head for caching, LOL. Looks like north isn’t so bad.
12/21/2007 at 11:51 pm in reply to: Bandits explode 3,000 with the force of a 1,000 megaton bomb #1882089Whoa! Next week is 4000, right?
Congrats you guys!
Um, don’t tell anyone, but it’s kind of a variation of the Big Woods Ivorybill logo. I’m gonna have to mess with it some more before we can have pathtags made. I think I’m okay to handcarve a stamp like this for a letterbox hybrid, though.
I did draw it myself, though. Thanks!
If you don’t mind trudging up a hill, it should be fine. I think I gave it a 3.5 for terrain, but it’s not that tough. There are two other caches on the top of the bluff after you finish it, too. Getting to those is a bit more challenging, as you have to find spots around the bluff to shinny up, but it’s still not bad. Others have approached them straight up from the parking lot, but then they miss the cool rock wall. It’s a very cool spot to visit.
I’ve got the permission from jenhen, so hopefully it will come through soon. Geoaware was the one who raised the question. As I said, the coordinates are not the same, in fact, it takes cachers to a sheer rock face, on top of which and further west is the existing cache. Only those with climbing gear could make it 500 feet between caches, LOL.
So, where do you put your sons dog when others come over with theirs?
Never been a problem, no one comes over. He’s trying to find his own place, which has been challenging because….he has a dog!
(We told him so!)One caveat is that I have never so much as touched a Magellan. I hear they cause unsightly warts and halitosis in laboratory animals.
Hmm, so maybe THAT’S what’s causing all of Trekkin’s recent dental woes!
Honeybunnies, you know you are welcome to come cache with us, and even stay with us, anytime. That goes for the rest of you guys. Only problem, dog owners, though we love dogs, our son’s dog does not. 😥 Still, we’d take anyone out caching in the area, GSAK lessons or not!
Yeah. Great fresh snow on a day when I can ski it. Why does it drizzle on my day off, anyway?
Earthcaches in Iowa that are like, close to Lansing or something in that tri-state corner–go for the gold!
Someone to get it through our sons’ heads what the true meaning of life is supposed to be!
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On a more serious note…..
Anne, sorry to hear about your friend. Too young, for sure.My thing with having the Palm is this….sure, we’ve found lots of them without any of this stuff, but I don’t like wasting paper. Plus, I’ll plan out a trip, then return home and see that oh look! There was a new one right along the way! Since we might plan a route and then get to it a few weeks later, that kind of thing happens with regularity (although not so often as it would on the other side of the state!)
So if I can load a whole mess of them into the Palm, we can head out and see what’s there to be found. Since the snow is crummy for skiing today and it’s my day off, maybe I’ll figure out just how to do this!
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