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s4xton · Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 12:36 pm Post subject:

Follow Up:

Thanks again everyone for coming out! It's great reading everyone's logs... and I can't say enough thanks to everyone that helped out and donated to the event...

Anyway... picked up all the items this morning (fireoak came later and helped with a few as well)... but was unable to find Bridgeview Box (N46º 50.936' W092º 00.318'). Perhaps it's in Lake Superior now, but if you're in the area and want to wander around the park sometime and find it (if it's there), you get 50,000 bonus points. I don't like DNFing my own caches!

Here's the top finishers from the Punch-Out Challenge:

6 - 2h28m - joe tulips - Titonka, IA
6 - 2h29m - EskoClimber - Esko, MN
6 - 2h38m - Early Starts - Ham Lake, MN
6 - 2h45m - Proton - Embarrass, MN
6 - 2h45m - Proton3D - Embarrass, MN
6 - 2h49m - fireoak - Duluth, MN
6 - 2h49m - KC0GRN - Saint Paul, MN
5 - Pear Head - Duluth, MN
4 - Jillibean - Saint Paul, MN
4 - MNFlyers - Duluth, MN
4 - MSea - Duluth, MN
4 - towlebooth - Saint Paul, MN

Another interesting bit about the event: Almost exactly half of the participants were from the Duluth and surrounding areas. The other half were from the rest of Minnesota, Iowa and Missouri.

I had a lot of fun. Thanks for coming out.

-Aaron

s4xton · Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 12:46 pm Post subject:

Proton gave me a pair of what appears to be corrective glasses he found on the trail. Are they yours? Let me know.

-Aaron

Oneied Cooky · Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 2:21 pm Post subject:

GREAT EVENT!! My only regret is not walking around the park! was planning on running around after lunch but RAIN put an end to that thuoght! It was cool talking to everybody! Sorry for heading out sat night but the rain was starting to suck too much! Had a BLAST! Cool

Thanks s4xton, Marsha and Silent Bob and all the others that helped out!!

ScubaAl · Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 4:52 pm Post subject: Lester Park

Ok, lets see if I can spell "idiot" ok here goes "ScubaAl" well close anyway. Heres the deal. I had not planned on attending the event in Duluth. So did not think about it a lot during the up coming week. Most weekends I go up to Knife river marina where I have a boat. Well I arrive and the weather sucks no fishing today. Not even thinking about the "Bash" I go for a drive, tried to find the new cache at Beaver creek with no luck. I end up driving all the way to Grand Portage and stopping at the casino for awhile. Then back to the marina for the night.
This morning I get up and weather still sucks so figured I'd head home. Doing a few caches on the way. I find "A Place By the lake" I see a few names in the log that I recognize from here in the cities. On to "Anchors Away" and the cacher before me in the log is GoodBoy then it comes to me.
IDIOT=ScubaAl

P.S. Won $23.00 at the casino

KC0GRN · Past MnGCA Board Joined: 22 Feb 2004 Posts: 1424

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King Boreas · Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 6:43 am Post subject:

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JT · Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 6:54 am Post subject:

Sounds like everyone had a great time dispite the weather. Wish I could have been there! As it is.... Still no baby! I am thinking sometime this week.

-JT

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dmnrec · Geocacher Joined: 17 Mar 2005 Posts: 480 Location: Duluth

50,000 points for me!!!
Found the Bridgeview cache..'cept my husband actually found it once we were in the spot..3 y.o. was extremely disappointed that there were no toys in there..
Anyways, it sort of makes up for only finding one on the timed challenge..
Had some water in it, so had to dry out the contents....

s4xton · Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 7:51 pm Post subject:

dmnrec · Geocacher Joined: 17 Mar 2005 Posts: 480 Location: Duluth

I was going to leave it there if I found it and put it in for a real cache, but I thought it would easily wash out in the next storm..it had a bit of water in it, so I don't know if the lid wasn't quite put on right or if it leaks. If you are going to be up here soon, let me know and I'll leave it somewhere for you to find..or send me the coords of your spot, as long as I don't get into trouble....
I couldn't find my own cache last week (Neighborhood Park) when I took the Portman Rec kids caching in Lakeside..so you are not the only one...

KC0GRN · Past MnGCA Board Joined: 22 Feb 2004 Posts: 1424

okay odd request. s4xton, do you have a copy of the info packet you handed out at the lester park event? I'm trying to update my offline finds database in GSAK and I'd like to get the coordinates from the temp caches that I found.