192 WGA Geo-Art Mystery Cache
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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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. The answers can be found by visiting http://www.wi-geocaching.com/info-center.
The WGA is a group of fun-loving, enthusiastic, outdoor-minded people who like to geocache and we want to help others do the same. Our purpose is to plan geocaching events in Wisconsin that are open to everyone who wishes to sign up and participate. In turn, the events we plan are designed for:
• Meeting people
• Communication
• Education
• Having fun!
John Sudar is the WGA Historian and this information was graciously shared with the WGA.
Wisconsin Cache Reviewers
Volunteer reviewers for geocaching.com review and publish each cache. The volunteer review team is currently made up of more than 200 individuals worldwide, but in the early days of geocaching in 2000 and 2001, the reviewing was done only by folks at Groundspeak. There were no real rules, so if the listing looked legitimate, it got published. This led of course to many caches being published without guidelines or landowner permission. Later, there were a small number of volunteer reviewers (10 to 20) that handled the whole world. There was a single reviewer “queue” and any reviewer could publish any cache, although typically/unofficially they specialized in and handled certain regions. Most reviewers, or “approvers” as they were originally called, created a different username to separate their volunteer approver account from their player account. The terminology change from “approver” to “reviewer” came later, to clarify that they weren’t there to “approve” caches (which could be taken to mean they would consider cache content, whether it was a “quality” cache, etc.), rather to only “review” that a cache met the Groundspeak guidelines and local rules/laws. In 2002, the WGA petitioned Groundspeak for its own volunteer reviewer position, a dedicated position that would only deal with Wisconsin caches. This position would be filled by one of the WGA Board of Directors, would be chosen by the board, and would likely change from year to year. The WGA presented this to Groundspeak, submitting that as the organization that represented Wisconsin geocachers, they had the best and most up to date information on where caches were and were not allowed. In September 2002 the WGA (rather than an individual) was given an approver/reviewer account, becoming one of the first states to have its own dedicated state reviewer.
As of October 2016, Wisconsin has had nine cache reviewers.
Solve for:
N 44° 3A.BCD W 090° 0E.FGH
A=The year that the WGA petitioned Groundspeak for its own volunteer reviewer position minus 1998.
B= The year that the WGA petitioned Groundspeak for its own volunteer reviewer position minus 2001.
C=The number of letters in reviewer.
D=C minus 1.
E=B
F=The number of the month in 2002 that the WGA was given an approver/reviewer account minus 4.
G=The second or third digit of the year that geocaching was born.
H=G
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Ernq gur fgbel nobir gb fbyir gur chmmyr.