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CASHING OUT ~ Way to go! 300 caches at the amazing rate of 2.5 caches per day…. WOW!
Congratulations.

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Why Hartman Creek in Mid May?
*Hartman Creek is huge – 1200 acres that’s room enough to place a hundred or more temporary caches.
*It offers a wide variety of recreational activities – Boating, swimming, fishing, hiking, camping, horse trails, bike trails and horseshoe pits.
*Hartman Creek is 2 hours from Eau Claire, Green Bay, Madison or Milwaukee and 3 hours from anywhere in the state (think after work on Friday).
*May is the start of the traditional outdoor season in Wisconsin, Memorial Day, Opening day (fishing). Late May brings graduations and weddings. June brings Poison Ivy and mosquitos.

Let’s either agree on Hartman Creek or please make the case for another place or time.

tb

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Sue is certainly welcome to our community. It is great to have enlightened people in positions such as the one she is about to fill.

I am curious about what her take will be on the current Milw. Co. Parks policy on Geocaching:
1) Put the dirt back when you are done.
2) Stay away from the golf courses.

Ken, thanks for bringing us the news.
tb

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It looks like the caches we have found on lands managed by the I-DNR were either placed before the policy went into effect or they were placed under the radar. It also appears that there has been little or no input from our I-peers in the establishment of this policy. No provision has been made for caches other than traditional [in clear ‘Tupperware’] or virtual. I was amused by the size restriction ~ how did they come up with those numbers? And amused by the requirement to list the initial contents of the cache. The items in any cache are subject to change with every visit and without any control by the cache owner. While a maintenance schedule is an excellent idea, 30 days may be too infrequent for a new cache and too frequent for a cache that has been in place for a while. Yada, yada, yada.

My opinion of the regulation is that it shows that the I-DNR is concerned for the welfare of the lands they manage and for allowing reasonable usage of those lands. But this policy was crafted by individuals with no more than a superficial understanding of our R.A.S.H. [recreation, activity, sport, hobby]. There is reason to believe that the I-DNR would be open to input from the geocaching community to develop this policy to a more refined state.

tb

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You know how we feel about this ~ Wish we could have been there too. Kudos Jeff, and to Mrs 03 as well. We know she helped you through a few.

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I want to echo the messages sent so far. Alan’s contributions to maintaining this site are very much appreciated by T&tb as well as the rest of our numbers.

Something that cachers might want to keep in mind is that no matter how sophisticated a system may be, there will always be down time. There will always be hackers. The better the system, the more inviting it is to hackers. It is actually a blessing to discover their presence, activity and their portals. Alan has done a good job of this and kept damage to a minimum. As a system user, I have found these interruptions a bit of a nuisance but understand they are part of the package.

Kudos, Alan your recovery has kept the cost of this hacker activity to our community to no more than time and some of us have too much of that on our hands anyway.

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Originally posted by Geoffnsara:
Can’t say that we’ve ever run into that situation while hunting. We’ve discussed how it must look though to bystanders when we go into the woods and 15-20 minutes later come out looking all disheveled with a look of satisfaction or disappointment on our faces!

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… with Howie in hand

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Oops…I just became aware that wzbt03 made this announcement in a more timely manner; I even responded in that thread….

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We had been watching Mr. B sit on 190+ for quite a while now. It is a relief to see the shoe has dropped. Congratulations P.T. Barnum. This an achievement you can take pride in.

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Congratulations B&S. Our special pleasure is that we were able to share some of those finds with you. T&tb

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Our greatest stumper, You Can’t be Serious took us five tries to complete. Who Wants to Play Clue? is an all day puzzler that has some tough to find WP’s as well.

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Kudos from our corner as well.
While your peers are counting beers, you have set an achieved goals that are worthy of emulation. This is an excellent habit to get into. keep on biking! [and caching].

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Originally posted by wzbt03:
Great job – I don’t suppose the beast knows how many at 100 now?
Keep it up!

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I have a few gaping holes in my data for October and November but, I can point out at least 73 that have made that first centennial landmark. There are at least another half-dozen on the brink of breaking that barrier. I can only estimate that there are now over 1000 active Wisconsin geocachers [at least one find in the past year].
~tb

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Thanks folks for your encouragement. The thing that made this cache so sweet is that we had the opportunity to share the event with so many others and the achievement with Socko and Geotrippers. Then too it was at the cache of The Janesville Cachmeister – wzbt03. ~tb

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