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Hey don't forget my brother BiggeekJimbeau! He's a Reno-ite, or whatever it is you guys call yourselves

This is an easy one that you can get to after a short walk from the golf cart: Off Tour in Avalon Biggeek Ben

I dunno, you never can trust those seniors! If you'd like, I can stash my paperback copy of "Digital Fortress" in Central Coast Seedbank and you can hang on to it for a while (no rush--it's a good read). I can stash it in there around 9:00 AM tomorrow at the earliest. I'll keep my eyes open for the E. Garison multi. Gotta beat those Plunketts!!

Hey speaking of Ft. Ord caches, keep your eyes open for a new CODED cache poppin' up soon!

Hey BuckyDef, I'll see what we can do. I've been telling my self I'm going up to Jack's peak to get all those caches, but...you know. LIFE is always interfering with my caching! Touchstone You DIRTY DOG! 'Murietta' kicked my rump (almost) I was up there for almost two hours. I crawled all the way up to 24, and I couldn't believe my ears when I heard someone back at my pack/bike say "woah, were did this come from?" I made a big scene of a lot of coughing and sniffling, to alert them to my prescense, but by the time I got back to check on my bike, new lap top, GPS, digi-cam, CD player, and 128M scandisk they were gone. What a relief that all my junk was still there! "Who needs knee pads and gloves" I said. I'll just wear this sleevless shirt and shorts. Sometimes I can be slightly stoopid. I'm covered in scratches. All complaining aside. What a great cache!

Today's the day! Phil's Event Looks like we'll have a good little group: JPP crew, Touchstone(?), Hotrod crew, surveyvest, and Coralgeo dwn from Santa Cruz. We're looking forward to good times and great eats! Be there or be square!

Hey Geo_cats, Just so you know, there's already a CCGC (Central Coast Geocachers of California). We've been around for about 2 years. But most of our members are in the Monterey Bay (from Carmel to Santa Cruz)as opposed to SLO-town. As far as I'm concerned we're not looking to be rivals or anything But I thought this might affect your decision of calling yourselves CCCG. CCGC for life baby! Biggeek Ben

Date Change! If Touchstone can't make it...what's the point! Back to Thursday Aug 26th!

Alright! We're all set up, just waiting for approval. If anyone cares to proof read, I'm open to constructive criticism. An Evening at Phil's

Is the construction of a geocache a MUST at event caches?

I'm thinkin' Monday or Thursday at about 7 PM, but maybe Saturday? I wouldn't really be hurt if it were just a handful of local cachers that could make it. Or maybe I'll just bring enough biggeeks to have a good time regardless Okay, I'm going to decide on time for sometime next week and post it. "If we it, they will come" Phil's website I'll have to roll up there to get to coords and maybe snap some pictures, they don't seem to have many good ones on their site

Although maybe one of the Live music night's would be better. I've never been there while they were playing. Can people still talk or is it super loud.?

Yep, We still haven't made it to any event caches yet. Did you say Wednesday nights were good for your crew? If so how 'bout the 25th?

hey hammerjane, A lot of the great caches in Monterey have been 'muggled' lately, but any cache by Touchstone, or the Plunketts or us are pretty safe bets. Have a great time in Monterey. If you go to the aquarium, do yourself a favor and go as early as possible...oh, there's also a small micro called MBA in front of the aquarium. It's temporarily out of order, but maybe it'll be back up.

dadgum muggles. That's some tough luck Touchstone. It must have taken some work to destroy Euclid and Nemo. It was hard enough just to sign the logs! I hear you on the Snowy plovers though. I felt a bit ashamed when I was huntin' Euclid, because those dune plants and animals are pretty fragile. The whole area that Dora was stashed in has become pretty seedy. Did you here about the latest body that popped up in that area, from some Marina gang activity? Maybe you can replace it in East Salinas

Sure, I think the types may be defined better on the home page, but here's my 2 cents. Basically there are 4 different types of caches 1. Traditional Cache: This is usually an ammo can or a similarly sized tupperware container. The minimum that a cache needs is a log to sign, but almost everyone tosses in some trinkets to swap for.(Here's the last one we found by Westlog Griffin's Lair 2. Multi-cache: The only difference here from the traditional cache is that, the player that sets this cache up will have the finder go to multiple locations. At the different locations (with there own coordinates) the hider will either set up a puzzle for the finder to solve to get the final coordinates or just give clues that lead to the final location. (Here's one we hid called Johnny Cache) 3. Virtual cache: These posts are actually just coordinates that someone has posted of a site that they think others should see. Also, physical caches are banned in certain state and national parks. I think all national parks, but I'm not certain.(I just did The World's Largest Artichoke" today...you can't die without seeing it!) 4. Mystery Caches: I like to think of this as the cache all for the creative caches people come up with that don't necessarily fall into the other categories. But PUZZLE caches also fall into this category. And those are caches set up that require the finder to solve a puzzle (math equation, riddle) (Here's one we found by a buddy cacher called Touchstone: Dora's riddle) Everyone who plays this game was a novice once, who cares Hope this was helpful. I got a little creative with the pictures and all, but what good is a hobby if you can't WASTE time on it! Biggeek Ben

Sounds good. I'm leavin' for Japan for 18 days here, next Sunday. But after that I'll get serious about planning something. I think the key here is CASUAL, no stress just some geeks havin' some good food and talking geocache shop. I've been pondering a Euclid like cache to set up in Fallon, NV for quite some time. And I'd like to pick your brain. Well I didn't want to call you out or anything I think the cache needs a little maintenance. From what I hear, the cache was moved into the deepest part of the 'pool' and the caribiner was replaced by a strong knot I'm in!

Well it looks like the Monterey Bay thread dropped off, as usual. Of course with only 3 people that really check (you know who you are) that's to be expected. Anyhow! I just wanted to see if any of the Monterey Bay cachers think an event cache in late August, around the 20th or so, at Phil's Fish Market would work. We always seem to have prior engagements for the event caches, so I thought we could just host a little impromptu one of our own. What d'ya think? Biggeek Ben ATTN: Touchstone!

Hey DeDee! How's the article comin'? When can we expect to see the product of all your hard work? I hope BiggeekJimbeau was helpful!

Woops, NORTHERN CALIFORNIA cache. I thought it was a long trip from Reno. I think my bachelor party was a little too fun. (if you know what I'm sayin'....wink wink gulp gulp.) This cache is right off of 80 in TAHOE national forest. I dare you to try and go get this one Touchstone I double-dog dare you! Don't let winter beat you to it!

Waterfall Jump Check out my brother BiggeekJimbeau's awesome new cache. The voyage to this cache is the destination. As this area, this time of year, is flippin' gorgeous! Biggeek Ben!!

I think it was a one shot deal. But maybe if enough people were interested another order could be placed. Touchstone should know...he bought a bunch

Check out my brother's caches. He goes by BiggeekJimbeau. I don't let him put out LAME ones Here's one PMCO 9020 (Upgraded) Team Biggeeks Rules

Biggeeks Henry and Roger! We'll try to take some more ACTION shots! Let's see your dogs in action!

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