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That’s cool! Your first century mark. Give yourself a pat on the back as you deserve it. Congratulations from our team as well.
tb

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There are letter boxes in more locations than there are geocaches. One source states that the sport of letterboxing is about a century old. Most letterboxes are in Euorope and the UK. There is one in Brown Deer Park that at least a half dozen cachers know about. This leads to the question of how many of their numbers stumble on our caches? And, How many “Cross trainers” are there out there?

just curious,
tb

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Add our best wishes to this list, too. Kudos to the whole team.

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Originally posted by Cheesehead Dave:
Heh… they made you give a “real” address and not coordinates?

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Well, we are dealing with geomuggles here.

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We have mixed emotions since four very fine candidates were elected and two were not. We have no doubts that all of the candidates are wonderfully qualified. Congratulations to the election winners and regrets to the two winners who will be allowed more time on the trails.

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Alan,Great going!

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As I recall, the coordinates are not right on on that cache. We found it about 30 or 40 feet off of L/L zero. We found it during summer months, tree cover may have been the cause. You might want to wait untill the snow has cleared before you really put your nose to the ground on this. It may be buried. ~tb

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Cathunter,
We missed you at breakfast. We were able to get to Apple Holler without escort. Now you have to get out to Menomonee Falls on the 21st for “Le petit de jeuner”

Congratulations on your 400th! Good job!

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Hmmm, let’s see…. in round numbers 600 caches in 400 days… that would a rate of just about 1.5 caches per day.

OUTSTANDING!

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Good Point Steve. I added notes to ours today. ~tb

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The number of caches in our forests is mushrooming. It has recently grown past 1500 active caches in the state. I have no fear that we will ever run out of caches. The problem is when caches become geotrash. I would like to see Groundspeak provide WGA with a n activity report similar to a financial aging report. If a cache hasn’t been found within the past 3 or 6 or 12 months (you pick the number) let the owner justify it’s existance. If the owner does not, I see nothing wrong with removing it and archiving it as there is now evidence that it has been abandoned.

The problem of geotrails being formed to a cache is somwhat self-limiting. many caches are being placed there the trafic to that cache is rather low impact and diminishes as the frequency of visits drops off. Cachers tend to go after the newer caches. in time a cache may see no more than a few cachers in a month. Take a look at the breaks in activity for caches that are more than a year old. Some will go a few months between visits. I don’t see environmental impact about a cache as an overwhelming problem.

I will admit that there are occasional caches that draw enough traffic to cause problems. Scarabaeidae Deltochilum… comes to mind. Cachers have an obligation to point this out. and cache owners have an obligation to either move the cache or inactivate it for a time to rest the environment.

I am definately not in favor of automatic archival, nor do I favor forced archival. I think this should be in the hands of the cache owner unless we note that it has been abandoned.

JMHO ~tb

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Thank You Jonathan for all the effort you have put into this project. The stats are looking great and your progress is noted.

~tb

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Steve Johnson is right that Dave johnson is right [For Blazing Saddle fans].

Come to the event caches in the winter. Teaming-up with other cachers will increase you odds of finding these “buried” treasures. You may find someone who has found the cache before the white stuf hit natures fan.

Whe have temporarily disabled our caches that are not winter cacher friendly.

If you can’t find a cache, log a not found with the reason you couldn’t find it or at least a description of how far you went in your attempt to locate it. This may bring you some valuable advice from other cachers or hints from the cache owner. If may also save another cacher a trip for nothing.
~tb

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