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I can provide a list of about 800 names belonging to Wisconsin cachers that have appeared on gc.com over the past two years. This represents about 2/3 of the Wisconsin cachers active during that time, and includes >80% of those who are currently active.
It’s looking great!
We have moved 39 of the critters to date. Trudy is the TB fan on our team. We do our best to keep our TBs on hand to one or two and their tenure at a week or two. We also try to place them in caches with rather low difficulty and more visits. Trudy feels responsible for the TBs we move. We frequently trace their movements after we have placed them.
That means more math for mama fishcacher.
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That would be 0.0000416 caches per acre.
The link takes me to a story about endangered National Parks. National Parks are off lim its for geocaching. I hope there are no caches in them.
~tbI am inspired!
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Originally posted by jnj3225:
I live south of Milwaukee but have a little place in Princeton.Just bought a GPS and plan on trying it there as soon as I can get away.Anyone in that area??Jon
Jon,
You can try it out anywhere you like. Why wait until you can get out to Princeton?
Give T&tb a call (414) 737-6150 if you need or want help locally anytime.
tbCongratulations!
I don’t know that I can go along with putting Twinkies in a cache. There are rules governing “food” in caches. Then too, there is the question of wether Twinkies are food or not. This has been the subject of some rather serious research at Rice University: http://www.twinkiesproject.com/
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Originally posted by RangerBoy:
The Waukesha Co Parks have a spring and fall special rate of $2.25 for a daily. I thought it could be used at all the Co parks you visited that same day. I will have to double check that.
Also, there is no fee to walk or bike into one of these parks. The fee is ony for entering with a motorized vehicle.
A “special rate” would be no rate at all. Why are they charging for motorized vehicles? Because they can and it is enforceable! Motorized vehicles do not leave the trail, or even go on the trail.
They do less damage than bikers, or hikers with their dogs, or horses.They charge their fee because they can; I visit other parks because I can.
These have amazed me as well. I took a look at “view” “source” from the tool bar on some of these pages and found so much detail that it I couldn’t decypher it. So I resolved to sit back and enjoy the work that other cachers are so adept at. I can give my pages a few tweeks as you have suggested above, but for the most part, mine are rather vanila. ~tb
Many years ago, Trudy & I were sitting around the Weber grill sucking Light beer by Miller and toasting brats on the fire. We discussed where we would take the children on vacation that year and came to the realization that we couldn’t afford to trek much further than Cudahy on our budget. So we bought Topo maps to show our daughters the wonders of our beautiful country.
Then it happened. I spotted a tiny cross on the map with the marking “BM” and some number, like 1504. My curiosity got the best of me. Who’s BMs are they counting and why are they marking them on the map. So we picked some close to home and, with great stealth went and sought them out.
We weren’t sure what to expect. When we arrived at the marked locations, somebody had gone to a lot of trouble to remove all the actual BMs and replace them with concrete pileings topped with brass disks that repeated the data. This was rather curious. We later found that each of these BMs was identified by longitude and latitude. We thought that if we had some way of knowing where we were by longitude and latitude it would make it a lot easier to find all the BMs. Trudy asked why I would want to do that since we can’t take them home. I told her that we could just check them off on the map.
We encountered another set of difficulties here. Since Al Gore hadn’t invented the internet yet, we had no way of conveniently getting the longitude and latitude. Ronald Regan hadn’t invented Star Wars yet and nobody had thought up the GPS receiver. I told trudy we would have to wait for these technologic breakthroughs before we could go any further with this.
Several years later we were out in the woods kicking around some ammoboxes, and we met geoffnsara. Geoff gave me his newspaper from the previous week and told me “here, look at this, and stop kicking our cans.” the rest is history.
~tb
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Originally posted by GrouseTales:
… it’s not worth paying their entrance fees to look for a cache….
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Harumpf, harumpf.. my point exactly!
I can cache in Milwaukee County parks and save the $36.00 [it will buy batteries for my Garmin Map60C].
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Originally posted by RangerBoy:
I can tell you the Waukesha County Parks are open year round and active. In fact the Winter Janboree is this month. The only thing that closes are some campgrounds.
One Caveat ~ Waukesha County Parks have an admittance fee.
Milwaukee County parks are open
Milwaukee County parks are free
Milwaukee County parks are geocaching friendlyWe are with you on the new Garmin Map60C. GPSCity is still saying they will be ready to start shipping on 1/23 and their price is about 20% off list. Trudy & I have our order in.
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