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I don’t think mountain bikes are allowed, but if you’re dying for some mountain biking, stop in LaCrosse afterward. The Human Powered Trails are pretty awesome and there are two caches located on them. Not on the same trails, though. One on the north trail system and one on the south.
http://www.humanpoweredtrails.com/
GC12ZW2 Coulee Birding Series-Lesson 2
GC10BMG HPT Human powered trailsWell, since we logged a find not long after DOC in which we both crossed a stream to get to the cache, that seems somehow appropriate.
Congratulation, DOC. We have also enjoyed and appreciated some of the caches you’ve placed! Looking forward to finding zuma’s silver ammo can in your honor some day!
As you said on our thread, we have yet to meet, but we want to add our congrats to a fellow new member of the 600 Club! If I remember from the forums, you had to give some of this up earlier this year, too, so that’s even more impressive!
Hmm, so marc are you suggesting that Mr. TE is trying to right some childhood wrong between Trekkin’ and him? LOL
I cannot for the life of me figure this one out, but to be honest, even the list I set up still throws me for a momentary loop when I want to add something to it. Maybe I’ll just write out a list for Trekkin’ and be done with it!
I found the ones at our Shopko, but they were larger and not the little metal ones I’ve seen. We traded for a Walgreens gift card in a cache the other day, hoping we could use it to buy them at high Walgreens prices, LOL.
Trekkin’ has one, but wanted to know if he needs to get it there by a certain time. He wants to grab some other caches we haven’t done in the area before coming to the picnic. However…..for some folks, our house might be almost on the way. We live in West Salem almost literally right off the interstate. Half mile from the exit, hardly have to come into town. If someone wanted to make a quite side trip, we could have it here for you to grab, and he’ll be sure to rescue his bird at the end of the event.
Yeah, that’s not north at all. Highway 8 at the very southern edge, if that! LOL
But I agree, that was a fascinating place to visit. We visited it before it was moved as well. It may be that it’s still near the site, though. We didn’t get the clue until we walked away from the cache, which made it more fun.
Mile 50 is pretty darn cool, too. Not too far from Mile 49, actually. Maybe one mile away. 😉 Excellent four stage multi in a lovely spot.
Well, we’ll do them all, but ones like this or hikes to interesting locations—-up the side of a bluff, a canoe cache on the river, something requiring a bit of a physical challenge—along with interesting historical sites, are far up on our “cache-o-meter” preference scale. Trekkin’ is just dying to go someplace with tons of lampposts and guardrails to bump up numbers, though. I told him he can go by himself, I can’t think of too many things I’d rather not do!
As for that stretch of highway—yup. It’s a yawner. However, there’s a guy who’s always looking for help for a Christmas Bird Count out there, and it hasn’t worked out for me, but I’m hoping it does this year. He always sees the coolest stuff in there. Wolves, bears, cool birds. Trekkin’s first teaching job was at an elementary school in the Tomah district that covered that area, too. Lots of open country!
Thanks, a colleague of mine who is a specially designed PE teacher got a Kohl Fellowship, which means piles of money, to develop lifelong activities for students. She bought a bunch of GPS units but has done nothing more with them. I offered to team teach with her, since I can meet lots of the kids’ language goals this way, too. Maybe this will be the year we do it. The article will be really handy to help “sell” her on the concept.
I did the same thing with birding. I didn’t want to sit inside the building during migration, so I figured out the parameters birding activities would address that were my job. The kids loved it! I’ve planted a cache kind of in honor of those kids, too.
We’re taking the 5th on this one, okay? We could sound really great saying that we only have about 900 miles on it. Problem is, we just brought it home last Wednesday. And we aren’t back at work yet. We’ll plead that lots of those miles came from heading up north to visit with the in-laws, Timberline Echoes! LOL Go mapquest the distance and see if the math adds up!
It’s a 2008 Saturn Vue. So far, Trekkin’ loves it, especially the xm radio. Methinks he’ll be keeping that once the freebie time is up. Decadence from the company with an ad campaign extolling the virtues of rethinking excess!
EnergySaver, That idea makes sense. Though I’ve lived in cow-rich areas most of my life, I only recently learned about that. I think one of my students was telling the class about it or something.
Someone else told me the nano containers are for nitro pills, so I guess it makes sense that these would just hold more of them. I just placed my first new cache, but I want one of these for one of the others. There will be quite a few when all is said and done.
Get your bikes tuned up. That’s all I’m saying! 😉
Maybe zuma doesn’t want to do those, but I do! Thanks for the handy-dandy reference.
And congrats to the Honeybunnies. Seth’s photo in the other thread is testament to the fitness powers of hitting this high! 😈
Curious to see where yours will be. I’m hoping the KVR caches have survived.
Hot Trot, we still have to do Scratch, so I don’t know where that one is located. If I’m remembering all the hides, the one I’d be most worried about is the one by the launch site in Ontario. Even though it’s not by the water, the water got pretty high. Maybe the Covered Bridge one, too.
I’m putting the earthcache on hold for the moment. I think folks down there have enough to worry about without having to approve a geocache placement! Plus, we’re staying out of the way until things settle down. The river rose again after last night’s rain.
lagrac placed a new earthcache at Sugarloaf in Winona and we’re hoping to go do that one in a few days. The other close one is in Whitewater Valley in MN, which is completely cut off right now. Lots of washed out roads and bridges. We made a wrong turn in Eau Claire last week, or we’d have done zuma’s, too. Another day!
We already did all those, anyway! 😉 Just kidding. Glad you’re okay. What about your new earthcache on Sugarloaf? Is it so wet we’ll die trying to get up there? We were going to try for it today, but Trekkin’ had a meeting at school that went longer than expected.
You know what? You *can* cache without the Palm! Don’t risk pain or arrest! Take care! Hope you can return to the mostly dry comfort of your own home soon.
Brian,
Thanks for checking. We have just plain stayed away from anyplace south and west for now, having seen the mess that needs to be cleaned out. Most of Wildcat is on pretty high ground, though of course the area near the canoe launch is probably pretty wet right now.
The school where I teach is just off the highway on the river that is closed right now. Where the train derailed. It’s just across the county line from Vernon County by a few blocks. Somehow, I just don’t think my vacation will be extended, however!
It’s been kind of freaky, as we’ve driven even around our less clobbered area, to see those little bitty trout streams looking more like small rivers. Usually you can walk through or jump over them. Not right now!
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