[Ray]

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Originally posted by Buy_The_Tie:
Idiopathic arboreal ambulatory disorientation

That would be a great name for a Geocache, don’t you think?

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LOL
do it!

[Ray]

It’s your bash, you decide. We will try to attend either way. The 13th would be cool because the Chicago group is holding their annual picnic on the 12th. That would make it one big party weekend.
tb

[Ray]

How about a catalog of retirement homes with coordinates listed? With my advancing dementia I am sure that I would confuse the L’s and wind up in the arctic circle at 43°W.

the beast is currently suffering from and advanced case of Idiopathic arboreal ambulatory disorientation ~ we don’t know why but he spends a lot of time wandering around lost in the woods.
tb

[Ray]

Now I think we all heve a general idea of when a cache should be retired.

The next question is when to retire the cacher.

[Ray]

LOL

Poor choice of graphics, I would say. That is intended to be a little light bulb. Or, I had always seen a little red light buld there. Now I see a tick.

tb

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I don’t know that I really intended for this thread to be a “justify your name” forum. But, I have rally been entertained by the responses that have been provided. I guess it is only fair to explain where our geohandle came from. To start, we discovered our logo.. a little girl with her cat. Trudy is a diminutive form of Helen’s middle name which she prefers we do not disclose. The original logo was a bit crude, didn’t look a lot like a cat. So we mulled it over, hashed it out, talked it through. We refined the drawing, enhanced it, and fixed it. We were all set to adopt it as our logo and we took it to our grand children for their opinions. They happened to watching some Disney film at the time. I’m not sure which child it was, but one pointed at the logo and said “it’s a little girl and her cat.” And that’s the story of our geoname Little girl and her cat.

[Ray]

Tony & Rhonda,

Congratulations. We are happy for you and for the mileage you got out of Diamond in the rough. Now come hunt it!

T&tb

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When you get older and suffer from arthritis and/or gout, 2-mile hikes require a bit more planning for. We have done them but usually make them first on our agenda. Later in the day we look to keep our hiking under a half mile round-trip. As long as the rewards are appropriate and we have notice in advance, we will eventually work the cache in.

If a cache hunt requires a long hike in hiking boots or waterproof gear, we would like some advance notice. There is nothing as disappointing as a long trek with multiple waypoints that leads through a semi-active landfill to a pill bottle with a soggy piece of cache register tape in it.

tb

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Gads! we have missed 40!

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Were the other Miatas geocachers too?

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I think that Soco showed us with This and that, Pins & Needles,etc. that we can put quite a few cachers in a relativelly small area [one square mile] and still keep it interesting. Check the number of caches in the area of Cheesehead Trivia or at one of our events, you should see that it is going to take a lot of caches to reach the point of saturation.

Caches get old when the frequency of your maintenance visits exceeds the frequency of finds. these caches should probably be retired. Virtuals with merit should probably never be retired. We have no intention of retiring Bonito vista al mar. We are finding that any given time, about half of all geocachers are newbies [less than 6 months]. These caches will always be interesting to them and help them to develop some confidence in their newfound skills. Drive-by virtuals should never have been placed and should be retired as soon as the placer comes to the realization how lame they are.

Some caches are seasonal. Jingle Bell Rock comes to mind, and should be retired when the season comes to an end.

Disposable caches, pill bottles indescriminantly strewn across the landscape only serve to boost numbers. They should be retired as soon as the placer realizes that they are just as lame as drive-by virtuals. Havenwoods 1-5

Some physical caches should not be retired. Pike Powder Hike, Covert Cache or The DEATHTRAP have special historic or creative merit that should be shared with the geocaching community as long as the placer can continue to maintain them.

Who got me started? You shouldn’t have asked.. next time just buy the tie.

[Ray]

I just discovered another interesting fact relating to our growth. 50% [269/538] of the active Wisconsin cachers joined us after January 1, 2003.
tb

[Ray]

Good work wzbt03. I hope you took the opportunity to make countless shameless plugs for activity and organization, or perhaps to recruit a new member.
tb

[Ray]

Yeah!

We’re in!

[Ray]

Wish we could be there.

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