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070 WGA Geo-Art Mystery Cache

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Wisconsin Geocaching Association: On 11/30/2016, the WGA GeoArt was published. The 2022 Board of Directors along with BigJim60 who is the trailboss of this awesome GeoArt have made the decision to retire the WGA GeoArt starting 09/01/2023. Thank you to all that have made the trip, or multiple trips to find these 192 caches over the years.

The cache containers will be picked up and will not qualify for the WGA Cache Rescue game.

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Hidden : 10/23/2016
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Welcome to the WGA Geo-Art Series! The cache is NOT at the posted coordinates. Please solve the puzzle below in order to find the final.

Wisconsin is made up of 72 counties, this cache is focused on Marathon county. Marathon County is a county located in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2010 census, the population was 134,063. Its county seat is Wausau. It was founded in 1850, created from a portion of Portage County. At that time the county stretched to the northern border with the upper Michigan peninsula. It is named after the battlefield at Marathon, Greece. Marathon County comprises the Wausau, WI Metropolitan Statistical Area and is included in the Wausau-Stevens Point-Wisconsin Rapids, WI Combined Statistical Area. Here are a few stats about Marathon County, courtesy of Wikipedia. You can learn more about Marathon county at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon_County,_Wisconsin

This county's oldest geocache is GC112D The Three Bad Ribs placed by Good Dogs.

You will find this cache at N44 36.ABC W90 01.DEF

A: Congressional district

B: The oldest geocache is GC11BD .

C & D: The county has a total area of 1,5DC square miles.

E & F: As of the 2010 census, the population was F3E,063.



SOURCE: Most of the information on this page was obtained from Wikipedia's page about this Wisconsin county.

CHECK SUM: A+B+C=15 D+E+F=12

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