[Trekkin and Birdin]

Glad you guys were able to make it back safely. I looked at the caches in our 50 mile radius, and except for two in the marsh, not a single one was found since Friday. We have just a few left to do, all of them at the outer edges of that 50, and in really remote locations. Like, with bad roads when the weather is GOOD!

Dick is getting twitchy after a week without caches. 🙄

[Trekkin and Birdin]

We’ve got ice. On everything. Including the initial layer of snow. I wish we were up north.

Sigh.

[Trekkin and Birdin]

Yeah, well the lovely snow here has now turned to icy sleet. That’s not so great. We probably got about 3-4 inches on the ground before this stuff started.

As a cross country skiier, I wanted just the fluffy stuff!

[Trekkin and Birdin]

Hi Team SidneyB. We’re hoping the weather is decent and heading down your way this weekend if it is. Two earthcaches outside Dubuque are calling us! Can you recommend others down that way for people who enjoy hikes, interesting terrain and maybe some wildlife?

[Trekkin and Birdin]

So…….what cache ended up being the lucky #500, anyway?

Congratulations on one heck of an impressive milestone, Ralph! Finally!

[Trekkin and Birdin]

Hey, you are cruising along there, I remember meeting you at the BRF event this summer, when you were heading to Saddle Mound for another milestone. Congrats!

[Trekkin and Birdin]

We’d agree with you on these two caches….and of course, we came up the hard way! This is one my favorite birding areas, I have spent an entire day birding those trails on more than one occasion, so it was nice to approach the trails with a different mindset.

Add to these two another brand new one in the area, hang glider hill. GC17MNC We got back a little while ago from doing this one after work, and the sunset from up there was incredible tonight. All three of these are to our minds, anyway, great examples of what great caching in the Coulee Region can be.

[Trekkin and Birdin]

That is totally awesome on both counts Heather, congratulations!

I cannot believe how much bigger Lily is since just the picnic, either. Wow!

[Trekkin and Birdin]

Thanks everyone…we had great company with drhaas one day and lagrac the next to help give us that push to 1000! To celebrate, I went out this afternoon and placed two new caches not far from home. That way, someone else around here has a chance at a FTF! 🙄

We aren’t going to be caching at that rate in the near future. In fact, next Saturday we aren’t caching at all, not unless someone puts something out between here and New Albin Iowa, where we’re going to a potter’s open house to see them fire up their wood fired kiln. I told Trekkin’ we needed to diversify our leisure activities for awhile now.

[Trekkin and Birdin]

Holy crumb-o-lee, Justin, that seems even faster than our last milestone. Way to go!

[Trekkin and Birdin]

The OCD thing doesn’t surprise me. Part of our team could probably meet that diagnosis in a borderline sort of way, and would probably even admit it. The flip side of that is that for folks who lean that way, this is a healthy way to channel those behaviors.

I didn’t see the program, but I’d guess the park managers are concerned about the environmental impact of volunteer trails. That happens here on our bluffsides, and the disastrous rainfall this summer has left huge gashes in bluffsides where a “trail” of sorts was created, not by geocachers, but in some cases, weather runoff or manmade trails…like roads. There might also be fragile plant communities or animal habitat that gets compromised, which is why it’s a good thing we check with the DNR before placing our caches. I’m sure geocachers don’t intentionally set out to destroy habitat, but unless we know that this area is the last nesting ground of the Himalayan Snowcock—no, I did not make that up! LOL—we could place those poor birdies in danger’s way.

I wish I’d seen the program. I wonder if they will rebroadcast, seems like PBS often does that.

[Trekkin and Birdin]

Wow, what a great day, Dave. Just so happens we know a little about days like that, too. 😉

Congratulations, couldn’t happen to a nicer guy!

[Trekkin and Birdin]

Well, we’ve altered our plans a bit so that we can get the milestone in actuality. We’re saving Felsenmeer for another milestone when the deer season has passed, and heading Iowa way in a little bit. There’s this cool cache planted by some guy in Rushford that looks worthy, and there is the exact right number of easy ones along the way to make it work. Plus two more after.

Thanks for the input, everyone. We agree, the game is played however anyone wants, but given the level of borderline OCD it attracts, we’re trying to swim in that same main stream! [;)]

[Trekkin and Birdin]

I know there is a scary one in Eau Claire. Last weekend lagrac did a pine tree climb of about 30 feet in Waterloo Iowa. And there is one that isn’t too terribly tough in a gnarly old oak that he put out in Winona that I actually climbed. So they are out there. I guess it would be good, as others said, to give some sort of heads up so cachers are prepared.

[Trekkin and Birdin]

Have you done the Twin Bluffs caches over by Camp Douglas yet? One of those is a really cool cave, just enormous if you go all the way in to explore.

There is also Lair down in Reno Minnesota which is a really awesome cache, but I’d be careful right now, as reports in the past suggest big animals denning in there in the winter.

Have fun, we love cave caches.

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