Thank you for your part in planning the Geocaching Contests of 2007 and 2008.  My friend and I participated in the 2007 contest and were up there again this weekend “power caching” the 2008 March Warrior contest. We enjoyed your sites and even earned a March Warrior prize bag!  Thanks!

Was fun coming back to find this one!  I spend quite a bit of time at the restaurant that was formerly close to this location!

WOW - think this was the smallest cache we have found so far! Actually touched the cache twice before I realized what I was touching!!

This is one of the reasons I don’t live in Hodag Town any more. Even though this mill has provided much needed employment for people in this city for generations, I couldn’t abide the emissions, which, especially on Sundays, drifted down our lovely tree-lined street, and made even sweech cough and ask, “what is that bad smell, daddy?” I was told that if I didn’t like it, I was free to move…so I (we) did. It’s still fun to come to the home of the hodag … where I spent several years “on the air” at WOBT, playing vinyl records, and broadcasting the “Macker” as he did the Hodag play-by-play. “Win or lose, it’s always a good idea to back those Rhinelander Hodags!” The radio station is torn down, our old house has vinyl siding, DeByles is for rent, and there’s a super Wal-mart where the field used to be, but the mill steams on. SL / TFTC

What fun. Perfect setting. Excellent weather. And, most of all…. GREAT geo-folks!!

This was my first Geo event and the second one for the Blondie Bloodhound. Our thanks to the Boulder Junction Chamber of Commerce for hosting this first class event. THANKS!

Also, a huge THANKS for the “Boulder Bucks” which we used that evening (after watching the Badger basketball team notch another NCAA tourney victory) at JJ’s in Boulder Junction. Tasty food. We had never been there before but, the Blondie Bloodhound wants to return for more.

It was my pleasure to meet so many folks and to put some faces to geo-names.

Best to all,
Sparse Grey Hackle and The Blondie Bloodhound

Shr was in town to get braces on her teeth this morning (!!!) so I had a couple of hours … of course, I loaded up the Garmin to help pass the time. (I think my wallet is more sore than her mouth) This is our old neighborhood! I used to push sweech down these very sidewalks, oh, 25 years ago (yikes) and when I was a Jaycee, we did much of the landscaping, benches, paving stones, and yes, WE planted these bushes that I am now scrounging through looking for a geocache. It all comes around, doesn’t it? Felt a bit odd as cars and people went by, wondering what that dude was doing in the bushes. (Thanks, Cgadoh!) But, I finally came up with the nab. No log, so I added a slip of paper until one can be placed in the micro. SL/ TNLN / TFTC!

Our early homestead is three blocks north of here. The former Montessori school was across the street. This neighborhood brings memories of sweech and peejabob in their lovely innocent snot-nosed days, where we’d walk and laugh and sing our way to “the train park”. Curran School is still lovely. Built when quality and aesthetic were important. When the old world immigrants brought a love of their trade to each project. I’m seeing some of this today at the new clinic on the North side of town. Curran School is a survivor … when many others have been dumped in the landfills, this lovely school remains. Cache was awesome, fun to find, and clever. SL / TFTC and the memories.

Even though this mill has provided much needed employment for people in this city for generations, I couldn’t abide the emissions, which, especially on Sundays, drifted down our lovely tree-lined street, and made even sweech cough and ask, “what is that bad smell, daddy?” I was told that if I didn’t like it, I was free to move…so I (we) did.

It’s still fun to come to the home of the hodag … where I spent several years “on the air” at WOBT, playing vinyl records, and broadcasting the “Macker” as he did the Hodag play-by-play. “Win or lose, it’s always a good idea to back those Rhinelander Hodags!” The radio station is torn down, our old house has vinyl siding, DeByles is for rent, and there’s a super Wal-mart where the field used to be, but the mill steams on.

Tricky! Walked by this one a couple of times before I saw it.  The hint really helps. Thanks for my first nano find! SL

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