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Oh man, I haven’t been to one of those since I was like…college maybe? They used to have them in my hometown where there were generally some pro team members playing community people, like the mayor and city council. They were hilarious.
We visited Durward’s Glen again on Friday…there is a virtual and now an EarthCache there. I was curious about the retreat center there and went on their website when we got home. On July 9, they invite you to bring lawn chairs, a bottle of wine to enjoy the sounds of a bagpiper…homage to the Durward family’s heritage. If you’ve been there, you can imagine what a beautiful setting that would be!
I recorded almost three hours of stories from my dad today. Also took a walk down memory lane (sort of, it’s changed a lot!) when I wandered on the U of MN campus to complete a couple ECs. Lots of new buildings there, but Northrup Mall looked pretty much the same.
Thanks Susan. It was at Navy Pier for a couple years before it came back for a bit of lasik near Sparta!
Mr. GT, I don’t know where that went. It used to show on our little box next to forum posts and it’s not there now. It’s not on our profile page, either.
I’m shot. We did some more hiking in the KVR, about six miles. Those of you who’ve been there know it’s never out and back on flat trails out there, and we found, to our dismay, that the trail we’d chosen to hike has been getting logged out. Ugly, ugly mess! Mud up to our knees! We kept thinking….it’ll get better. It didn’t. Plus the trail signs are all gone, so we went for about a mile the wrong way before realizing our mistake following a logging trail. We’ve hiked that trail before, but with all the trees gone, it looks completely different.
We’d hoped to do another trail segment, but navigating that slippery and sometimes icy mess was plenty enough for today. At least we got it done now, and on a day when the logging trucks were silent.
Where’s it at? I was told it was going to be in Dallas for a couple years.
Sorry. Doing other stuff today. I was out watching the comedy of every crow in LaCrosse county, it seemed, harrassing the many eagles below the spillway. Until the snow started and I couldn’t see much of anything anymore.
I had to google that one, bartrod. Looks like fun, though I myself would totally suck at it. Anything that requires me to use some sort of tool to connect with some flying object……bad news. I played on a tavern league softball team back in the day with the assurance that “we just play for fun, you don’t have to be any good.” I enjoy those games, but know I suck. Well…..they lied.
That’s actually something we enjoy doing. When we put out our caches, we pick places where a day’s hike to maintain them will be a pleasure. We’ve also begun a hiking challenge offered at the Kickapoo Valley Reserve to hike all 60+ miles of their trails this year. We’re hoping to do another segment or two this Saturday. It is just harder and harder after almost ten years of caching for us to find the nice hiking caches within a reasonable drive. We have adjusted our “cache thinking” and seek out things, caching or not, that drew us to the game in the first place.
And we’re venturing onto the fat tire bike trails, now that we have those toys to play with! 😀
You must be getting the weather we had yesterday. Today it is overcast here. Have fun on your milestone! Think of me while I pick through the requirements for one last stupid challenge cache I found yesterday. I know we own a few of them, but I really have come to appreciate….no new challenges. I should just pass on these.
I am being reminded of WHY I got sick of finding goofy challenge caches….all the data mining and listing. I found one today that requires one to find 50 caches, each with the name of the 50 different states. So now I’m sorting through, listing out GC #s, cache name and the found date. So far I’m on the 11th state and ready for a break.
On the upside, I had a few really nice hikes in the woods in different parts of Minnesota….with just the sweatshirt, no jacket! One of the state park caches was a good three mile round trip hike. And I got to meet a cacher with whom we’ve corresponded. I guess he used to live in Middleton….MasterSergeantUSMC. Nice guy. His two kids were along for the long muddy hike and having a blast.
Someone out here has been working on that series too. Not sure how far they ever got with it, but I haven’t had time to really look at it.
We’ve been looking at getting a bigger dog (my avatar is our biggest dog, at 20 pounds. The other one is 8 on a heavy day.). My daughter and I visited with this guy after I picked her up from school. He’s 2 years old and 200 pounds, but he isn’t done filling out yet.
A friend had a Great Pyrenees. They had to say goodbye to him last year. He was a shelter dog, too, and the most gentle fellow.
So you have to learn new clients and routes again? I guess the upside is….you survived the cuts. Bummer!
I’ve been working on an involved puzzle cache. I won’t finish in time to look for it tomorrow, but there’s always another day. “International Man of Mystery.” The premise is….solve different puzzles from all over the world, twenty in all. Once you’ve solved the first one, enter your solve in the checker on the cache page and it tells you which one to do next. I’ve finished six so far. I completed the 7th, which was a jigsaw puzzle, but now it’s presenting me with a new puzzle. The coordinates make no sense, so probably mixed up numbers, but it still doesn’t really make any sense. So I’m taking a break!
GC5MZDB between Rochester and Owatonna MN.
Along the lines of the State Park discussion, another thing the committee had discussed briefly was figuring out a small number of state parks that could be designated as demo parks. Parks with some GPS units to loan out could connect with a couple of area cachers as contact persons to offer some geo 101 workshops, thus helping toward the WGA mission of working with local agencies and the general public to build awareness.
I think the photo albums are gone, too. There were individual albums as well as one maintained for WGA events.
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