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I ripped through Harry Potter the beginning of this week, and now my older son is eschewing his usual routine of PS2 after work to read it. I’m always most drawn to character in any story, and this one answered some questions about the one character I have always thought to be the most complex in the whole story arc.

Now I’m reading “Return to Wild America,” by Scott Weidensaul. He retraced a journey undertaken 50 years ago by Roger Torey Peterson and a pre-eminent British naturalist of the day across America’s wild spaces. In many cases, of course, that wildness has vanished, but the hopeful part is all the instances of improved habitat from Peterson’s time.
Fifty years ago there was the time of making suburbs and strip malls and all things modern. In the intervening years, enough folks have mourned the loss of what we had and worked to regain some of it. Of course, mostly they mention birds of the regions!

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I couldn’t even get it to the the point of trying to log it. Clicked and nothing happened. I was using IE 6.0.

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Congratulations, it won’t be long before there’s one of those “Mathman Finds 1000” caches for the rest of us to find!

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May I congratulate you on this impending landmark AND thank you for asking this question? I’m sure a few of us are taking note of all these great caches to be found!

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Congratulations, what a great way to reach it, in the company of others who enjoy the hunt!

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I guess I needed one of the buttons on the top to be different. It’s weird, I was working with the same map, and actually had changed my map size to make it zero in even more, but I guess I was supposed to be zooming in a different way to get more detail.

You learn something new every day!

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Go figure. My map from topozone didn’t seem to have as much detail as far as names as the little hint just pm’d me. So now I can sleep tonight, thank you, LightningBugsMum!

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I cannot believe how many times I entered a different version of that name! I still can’t find the one on my map that was right, but I know I had the right part of the map. Well, now I can sleep. Or at least I can say *this* won’t keep me up at nights.

Let’s not discuss the four whiffs on caches we’ve had the last couple weeks, though. It sucks to be the only one to whiff on a 1.5 hide! LOL

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Thanks Doug, I missed that step of extracting the new one. I know I had the overwrite message, but just didn’t go the next step.

It’s really kind of cool to look at all those numbers. We think we’re pretty tough with all the big hikes and hills and all that, but really, the majority are still 1.5/2 terrain! LOL

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Have fun all you guys! We’ll stay here and get all the FTFs and cool geocoins while you’re gone, LOL! 😈 \

Safe travels to you all.

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It’s really worth the trip. We went there last month. If you link to my blog under my sig line, you can go back a couple entries and read about it (without any give-aways about the hide, which was half the fun!)

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Yep, Trekkin’ isn’t a real Canadian, although our son’s friends all think that and refer to him as “the Canadian.’ He’s just a Yooper, but close enough to feel lagrac’s pain!

Those photos are incredible, but as a birder myself, I can take the step beyond them and imagine what that encounter must have been like. Wow! We did a canoe cache with Pa Ruby and his family here visiting from North Carolina a few weeks back, and the kids were so excited to have a Bald Eagle kind of “guiding us along” the river. They had never seen one before.

Around these parts, Bald Eagles are incredibly common, but I can remember seeing my first one, too. I was almost 30 when I did. A great success story. And yes, they do like roadkill. And fish. Maybe the eagle thought that goose was a really funny looking muskellunge!

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Just wondering if any dates have been firmed up on this. We’d like to come if we can, but our weekends are getting full with one thing or the other. TIA

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Steve, There’s a red jeep in one of ours right now. You’ve got to work to get it, though. GC126RC

Cool to see the shuttle launch, too.

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We won a prize? I’ve been in St. Louis at the national storytelling conference since Thursday, so I’m just starting to go through email and stuff. Cool!

Now I just need to figure out my location. My brain is just not getting it. I hear it’s supposed to rain today. Maybe that will force me to really sit with that stuff and crack the puzzle!

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