[Cheesehead Dave]

I'm Dave from The Cheeseheads from the north side of Kenosha. (Formerly from the south side of Racine...)

I've been caching since April Fools Day, 2002. Back then it was with Mrs. Cheesehead, a three-year-old and a baby. Now it's with a seven-year-old, a five-year-old, and a sixteen-month-old mountain climber wannabe!

[Mofongo]

Hi, I’m Jack from team Mofongo and I live in Salem. I have been caching since August, 2003 and can’t seem to get enough. I usually geocache with my seven year old son Austin and sometimes even take several of his friends. My wife really doesn’t like to go and claims she gets freaked out in the woods. I have tried to get her to do some urban caches, but to date have not succeeded. Thank you for setting up this cool chat site Dave. It is nice to have another place to talk to others about Geocaching. :D

[rogheff]

Rogheff reporting in. I live on the north side of Kenosha. Heck, I live at a geocache site: GCXB97

I geocache with my son (Master Nai), and my Scouts (Kev507, Raging Thunder, The Icks, and a whole gaggle of Scouts without geocaching names.

We're usually out caching on camping trips. What a great teaching tool geocaching is!

[TK895 Michael]

TK895 here, I have been doing much more caching this summer with my daughters. The wife likes the ones that do not involve bushwacking. But she will join us for most of the rest. :)

My name is Michael and I am up in the NE corner of Kenosha as well. I almost bought a house down the street from Rogheff about three years ago when I was looking for somewhere to live. I must say I got a kick out of your home cache. VERY nice.

I did my first long distance hunting in Scotsdale AZ a few weeks ago. A great time, got to see the desert up close. Lots of pointy things out there.

I am preparing to place my first cache. Just need to find a nice spot to start off with.

If you ever see me around please feel free to say hi. I'm pretty friendly. Just look for the black Aztek with skull and crossbones on the rear window.

Anyone know who has the Jeep Cherokee with a GeoCaching sticker in the right rear window? I saw it at The Boat House the other night.

[TK895 Michael]

rogheff, on Aug 28 2006, 05:50 PM, said:

We're usually out caching on camping trips. What a great teaching tool geocaching is!

No kidding we know more about Kenosha than ever with all of the Historical and landmark Caches. The Unknown park ones as well.

[Trudy & the beast]

Hi all,
Ray here. I'm the other half of Trudy & the beast. We started geocaching in ought-two. We try to get out regularly, but have become irregular. Prunes don't help. We are new to this forum, but realize that that is the normal starting place. We are looking forward to the interactions here. We already know some of the members and we know where you live. So be gentle.
Ray/T&tb

This post has been edited by Trudy & the beast: 28 August 2006 - 06:02 PM

[tyedyeskyguy]

Greetings everyone,

I'm Jay, from TyeDyeSkyCrew (Tie Die Sky Crew) Thought I'd give you the correct pronunciation, as several people at the WGA Geo picnic were so happy to finally meet Mr. and Mrs Tyedyesky (Tid' e ski)! It sounded a lot funnier than it reads. :D I started caching with my wife and son in March of this year. What can I say, we love it.

We enjoy the caching, but I myself have started to enjoy hiding caches as much as finding them. I've placed 24 to date. You may have heard of a few of them like The NEMESIS series, Little Known Parks Series, and my personal favorite, Match Head.

Thanks Dave, for creating yet another site to keep track of! ;)

[Team LightningBugs]

This is Jennifer from Team LightningBugs checking in. We live in Fort Atkinson, which is technically SE WI. However, I lived in Racine back in the 90's for a while and we have been doing ALOT of geocaching in the Racine / Kenosha area lately - thanks to Dave's "?" series.

I can't believe we have driven about 120 miles round-trip once a month in order to get that series completed (almost done)! But we have done lots of great caches in the area and will definitely be returning to do more in the future. (Jay - when Match Head wins COTM, you can thank me for the nomination B) )

I have to include this smiley since I love snakes: :snake:

[tyedyeskyguy]

Team LightningBugs, on Aug 29 2006, 06:57 PM, said:

(Jay - when Match Head wins COTM, you can thank me for the nomination)

I was wondering where the nomination came from. Thank you VERY much Jennifer!!!

[Cheesehead Dave]

tyedyeskyguy, on Aug 29 2006, 09:06 PM, said:

Team LightningBugs, on Aug 29 2006, 06:57 PM, said:

(Jay - when Match Head wins COTM, you can thank me for the nomination)

I was wondering where the nomination came from. Thank you VERY much Jennifer!!!

It got my vote as well!

(Even though I almost died... :P )

[TK895 Michael]

Ok now I have to check out match head tomorrow. :) And some more Nemesis and Clue

[brkster]

Hey there fellow geocachers.

My name is Jeff aka Brkster. I live in the Racine area and absolutely love geocaching. I found out about it 3 years ago while hiking in a nearby park and meeting a geocacher in action along the way. It was a tough cache to find for her so she invited me to help her search. First it was a 35mm container in a hole in a tree. Then it was an ammobox in the brush, and I asked for the website, bought a GPS the next day,and I was hooked.

[CinemaBoxers]

Hello Everyone,

I'm Paula, and I cache in a group with my husband Jim, and son Joel.
(Sometimes we cache alone as well!)

We use the name CinemaBoxers because we own, show and breed Boxer dogs. Started out in Letterboxing, so it just fit - stuck with us when we began caching!

We have been caching since August 14th 2006, and we are at 124 as of this afternoon.
(And plan on caching the weekend away... LOL)

Hope to meet many of you!

Paula
CinemaBoxers

[CacherClan]

Hello to all

I'm Mike from CacherClan.. I live in the central part of the city of Kenosha (near the engine plant)
I usually go caching with the rest of the clan.My wife and 2 kids.
have been Caching since March of 06
and I dont see us stopping anytime soon...
I have really enjoyed those I have met through caching..and hope to meet many more.
This feels like a nice place to visit..and I hope to visit often

Mike

[StarWarsGuy]

Hi all,

StarWarsGuy made it. We've been caching since June 2006. Great new hobby and great people along the way


StarWarsGuy

[CinemaBoxers]

Welcome new folks... Im still new, but sending a welcome to you anyways! Followed StarWarsGuy and family on occasion, seemed to be right behind you one day!

[rogheff]

I noticed that StarwarsGuy hasn't made it out to Camp Kahagon to find the "What's in There?" cache. Man, that one's right up your alley! Right outta Episode 5.

[Knoffer]

Howdy all,

Ken (aka Knoffer) checking in here.

I bought my first and current GPSr a little over a year for a vacation I was taking out west. I wanted to map my trip and note POI's along the way. Plus I wanted to map out some property in Wyoming that my Great grandfather homesteaded on. Never thought of using it for Geo caching until I saw something on TV about it. I did an online search and found Geocaching.com. Registered and went out a couple of days later and now it's too late, I'm a goner.

Wish I had known about this Sport a year ago. So far I have had lots of fun and have met some really nice Goecachers while on the hunt.

I usually seek out caches in the Racine/Kenosha and Waukesha areas.

I live in SE Racine about a mile from the old Case tractor plant. Since I'm only 2 miles north of KR my location is rather convenient for hitting both Racine and Kenosha caches without too much commuting time.

I usually cache alone though I do occasionally take my 12 yr old daughter with me. I'm currently trying to treach her to read the GPSr and what the various required elements are to find a cache. Of course being 12, girlfriends and school gossip are at the top of her list at present. When she does go with me she has a great time, as do I.

I'm looking forward to meeting as many of you as possible either on the trails or at events.

Thanks and Happy caching.

Ken

[rogheff]

Welcome to the hobby that I like to call an obsession.

[Knoffer]

Thank you for the nice greeting and I have been called obsessed a time or two. Or is that possessed?

[StarWarsGuy]

This has been really fun this year. My kids and I enjoy looking. I have set some caches and enjoy watching. My son had a goal of 100 caches in the summer.....and surprise.....we did it. Now my wife and I are expecting a baby in march. in the last month we have had to shorten travel time and be very prepared to get in and get out. This has really been addictive for me. We are just going have to learn to cache with a baby. I see Cheeseheads have a baby backpack. My backpack is always getting stuck on something. I can just see myself pulling the baby of and it would be coverd with burs, misquito bites and 10000 scratches from braches.

oh well........the learning will soon begin. :yahoo:

This post has been edited by StarWarsGuy: 04 October 2006 - 06:01 AM

[CinemaBoxers]

I wish they made something secure enough to tote a protesting 2.5 year old.... but I think it would look something like the cart they wheeled Hannibal Lechter in on the Silence of the Lambs movie.

So.. no dice.. or does anyone know where to get one of those contraptions?

[Johnny Cache]

Johnny Cache here. I live on the south side of Milwaukee, very near Mitchell International. The family includes June Carter Cache and the 3 Cache Crusaders (Twins - Scratch & Rock and younger brother Eagle Eyes). We started caching January 1, 2005. June Carter had heard or read about it a year or two prior and mentioned that it might be something fun for the family to do. The addiction finally came to fruition when I ran out of ideas for XMas gifts for June. Guess what I bought her? LMAO I'm not sure I've let her touch it since she unwrapped it that XMas morning. Me thinks she needs an upgrade this year. LOL

When I'm not caching with the family, I've been know to go solo or in smaller, 2-3 person groups. At work, up in Cedarburg, I usually hit the trails with KCKennelCrew. With a young busy family, there's not too many opportunities to cache, so my brother Al (AAHAAE) and I will do some late night runs. Some of those have been rather interesting and entertaining. We've come to know some of the areas finest. :)

I look foward to meeting you on the trails and at events. In fact, there's one this Saturday that I plan on being at. See you there.

John

[StarWarsGuy]

We have been looking into stolers. I told my wife we need an off-road one. One with hydorlic shocks and mud tires. this baby will have a pimped out ride. I'm looking into track lighting on it and a bumping system.

[CinemaBoxers]

You know what we have had the ABSOLUTE best luck with re: strollers?? The Wal-Mart Bike trailer. Those bright primary colored bike trailers that come with the stroller attachment - they are LIGHT easy to push, and with the big tires are EXCELLENT in the woods or at the beach. They also have plenty of storage room in back! And what can beat dual purpose? Trailer AND stroller - all for about $130 Cant beat it!

[The5Xplorers]

I see a lot of famiiliar names here, and thought I'd join in.

We live in Oak Creek, near the Racine county line, and have ventured south quite a few times (especially when they is a new Star Wars cache out there).

[LB7]

Hiya!

My Geocaching name is Lostby7 but of late I have gotten lazy and often refer to myself as LB7. I found my first Geocache at High Cliff state park on Oct 31ish 2004. Since then I have found another 600 caches and placed 20ish of my own. I prefer to place puzzle caches and have some unique ones; most are easy and fun and one is fairly difficult.

I’m very competitive and participated in Coin Quest III and GPS TheGame last year. If there is a challenge or competition, I’m game.

My geocaching goals for this year are to do the BOB series in IL and to get into, and remain in, the top 100 geocachers in Wisconsin (by find total).

I don’t log temps at events but believe people should make their own choice on logging practices.

I have a few coins and bugs but don’t consider myself a collector.

I used to spend all my time riding my road bike (TREK) until June of 05’ when I came up with an unexplained back injury. Since that time I have been caching more and riding....well not riding at all but pining to get back on the bike. Currently I’m going to attempt to get back on this Spring and log some miles again....wish me luck.

While I haven’t held my own event on GC, I did set up an event and place a dozen temps (multis, puzzles and traditionals) for a local business team building event. Doing this was a great deal of fun (and work), so I can really appreciate all the time and effort event holders out forth to keep the caching public meeting and greeting.

Oh and I tend to ramble.....

-LB7

[rogheff]

Glad you found us.

[brkster]

Welcome aboard LB7. Your ears must have been burning since I mentioned you in one of my most recent postings. I've done a few of your caches in the Oconomowoc area, and enjoy trying to solve many of your puzzle caches. Hope to run into you again on the trails or an event sometime.

[bluesquirtles]

Welcome ABOARD LB7! :D

Greg & Sheryl and sometimes Christopher (aka Bluesquirtles)

[CinemaBoxers]

Welcome!

Glad to see you here!!

[LB7]

Thanks for the welcome everyone....I couldn't let you all plot and plan without me now could I? I saw these boards some time ago but just never got around to signing up. I'm happy to be here.

[Knoffer]

Welcome aboard. Hey, maybe we can get some insider tips on your puzzles now?? :confused: :hmm:
Have to admit I have looked at a couple of your puzzles and they are great fun yet frustrating.
Hope to catch you on the trails or at an event. :D

[LB7]

Knoffer, on Feb 2 2007, 10:39 AM, said:

Welcome aboard. Hey, maybe we can get some insider tips on your puzzles now?? :confused: :hmm:
Have to admit I have looked at a couple of your puzzles and they are great fun yet frustrating.
Hope to catch you on the trails or at an event. :D

I'm pretty easy going about helping on my puzzles, and only two of them are really a challange...well perhaps three :shifty:

[CacherClan]

welcome aboard. :)

[Mofongo]

Welcome LB7!!

[tyedyeskyguy]

Glad to have a new member. These guys are all getting a little boring. ;)