woody_k

GC.com is part of a big Government cover-up. Those bar codes are info on you. You remember filling out a profile???? Then you get hooked and purchase a TB tag???? There was this movie where this kid plays a video game. Well he got the highest score so he was recruited by a space society to fly their fighter jet/rocket/ship. This "bar code" on TB tags is similiar. When the right combination of finds, TB releases and TB finds gets alinged that cacher will be recruited for area 51 projects.

I agree. My coins have a very high lost rate. But I do with the coins as I do with the TBs. I find a different coin such as a good luck piece etc. and make a laminate tag with the coin # and attach it to the new "coin". I say on the coin page and on the tag that it is a replacement.

sbell111, It's obvious you have a problem with me and authority mainly police. I have yet to see a post by you where it was positive toward police. Maybe it's your job...I don't know but I do not like the way you characterized me. You don't know me. I don't care for how people play this game and last time I checked we live in a free country where I can say in cache logs that the cache is lame. Apparantly according to you I am not allowed to do that. So when you say that I want people to play by my rules it's clear that you want people to play by your rules. You absolutely exhaust me with your logic and post.

Hey what GPS do you use that take you to exactly the spot where a micro is and that you "never" have do to any searching. This particular cart return is in the parking lot where people park right next to it. Yes if you're getting a cart sure no one pays attention to you. I don't mind urban micros. Just don't think ones should be placed in the door of a 24/7 business. Seems we said the same thing or did we not or did you miss what I was saying because I really don't understand your response. Never said other cachers don't get stopped...all I said is that I get an abnormally high contact with police while caching. Plus I have heard from other So cal cachers that it didn't matter that they were playing this game. I have been lucky. One recently was taken to the station and questioned for 2 hours. Another was looking in a bush and was ordered out at gunpoint and cuffed. Kind of would ruin one's day don't ya think!!! Never said anybody should be afraid of police contact! You got something to hide!!! Been a cop for almost 20 years. Jaywalkers don't get a second look from me so why should I get excited. If you are searching for a cache near a front door of any business...you look suspicious...unless you have some super stealth thing going on where you can't be seen. Tell me how not to look suspicious looking at things that even a homeless person doesn't do. Please!!! You are right it wasn't that way but if you took it that way it seems you have problems with cops. Cool. You ain't the first. However anytime anyperson has a contact with a cop I.D. will be asked for. I carry a weapon I think it's prudent on my part to let the cop know that I do have a weapon and am allowed to have carry it. It seems you took a personal interest in the part about being a cop when the original post was the way newbies hide caches.

For a while I collected sig items. Then realized I had way too many. So I got an ammo can and glued all those sig items onto the outside. I had some neat logs by the people whose sig items I had glued on the can. They all seemed to enjoy it.

First off I hope to find one of your TBs. It would be an honor for me. I too have a minor medical problem that does hinder my caching. I can't take long walks or hikes. About 2 miles is all I can do. I get very nauseated when it comes to extreme exertion. Although nowhere near the calamiity you have I do feel for you. BTW I became a Grandpa this past weekend. I hope I am as good to my grandson as yours is to you.

I will never ever understand the placement of some caches...especially the newbies. Today the coords led me to a major grocery store in my area and a micro placed on the shopping cart return area. There is no way i could get that during the day and I won't go to that area at night and I will mention that I am a Deputy Sheriff and carry ccw. I don't get the draw to hide a cache in front of a store's door. I know the hider went there at night and spent less than a minute snagging the coords and the only time you could get the cache was after hours. Now what would you think....you have a lone male looking at or near the front door of a closed business in a KCA (Known Crime Area). Here in So Cal there are more newbies than OG's (old geocachers) and the plethera of lame lamp post hides and muggle infested hides is out of control. I am surprised that more of these don't get blown up...which seems to be the favorite way of So Cal dept. to deal with caches. I have over 700 finds and have been stopped and questioned no less than 12 times. Once in Paris France. I am so luck to be a cop that I show my I.D. and all is cool. Then I think what if I weren't a cop. I digress. The post that mentioned LOCATION etc got me to thinking.

I went out to a particular cache 5 times before I found it. I logged 2 DNF's on the cache page. This cache would have been a mile in and out in a 1.5 to 2 terrain rating. Easy enough to do but very time consuming. I had a dual sport motorcycle that helped. I will say this.....I DO NOT go back out second time anymore if I have given the cache the old geocaching search try. I don't need a number that bad.

I reported the one I found in another post here. Fairly simple process.

Since you are talking about them being free (but I would pay for one) I think it should be kept simple. The bronze colored BM pin is kind of cool but the pic of the US BM chisled in stone is even better. A square pin with the top letters being US or USGS. The bottom letter could be BM with 2006 in a bit smaller letters in the middle. Have the face of the pin have that split rock look. I am not an artist nor am I creative.

I only use 1 WP for every cache find and that's #001. I just update the WP coords for the next cache. I know somewhat low tech but I cache from my motorcycle and I am happiest when going to a cache.

Do a "needs archived" on the cache and when it it does get archived go place you own there. Really no sense in maintianing a cache that isn't yours and the owner doesn't care what happens.

I think your idea would be approved if you nixed the idea of an "entrance" fee. If you held an event where the main theme was to make others aware of this condition, sold items at auction to go for this charity and maybe had an locked ammo can with a slot cut into it for donations. It would hurt to have a rep from the foundation there to answer questions and take all the procedes at the end of the event. Keystone, would something along this line be O.K.?

That one is my 2005 Yamaha FZ6 I got for Christmas. I have 2. The other one is a dual sport BMW F650GS.

Klemmer, Will the BM page say it's an intersection station? Or is steeples/towers automatically intersection stations for this contest? More newbie Q's....You and I are in the same area so can we both log the BM for the contest or is it just the first finder? What if we took a day and went out together, would all of those count? I may have more ?'s so please bear with me. Ken

If I recalculate and then go to the page listing all my TB then it shows the improper mileage. Only when I recal is it wrong.

Newbie question... What's an intersection station?

Paul & Ros, I did the same thing but I had about 100 finds then. My suggestion is when you "write note" to drop your personal TB write the note so the owner knows what is going on. Then delete the note when done with that cache. Also don't forget to change the date on the drop but that's not mandatory. Expect a few e-mails from owners asking what you are doing especially from owners in which you have found multiple caches. I got 2 e-mails from owners asking what I was doing but once I explained they were cool, hence why I say to write in the note what you are doing. Hope this helps. Ken

You are no longer a newbie when you realize that lampost hides are no longer clever. When you despise bush hides. You have more altoids tins that one could ever possibly hide in ones lifetime. When you realize that you hate altoids tins. Your GPS points you to a wall of ivy and you say "crap". Have I mentioned about hating bush hides! You are on a first name basis with the dollar store cashier. You buy a chainsaw to cut down every bush with a 20 mile radius of your house. You stalk the owner of that last bush hide. Anybody else want to help me out????

O.K. I am going to pipe in here for a second. I have read all the posts and it seems that the original poster (sorry don't remember the name) might think that the GC number given to a cache should automatically tell the GPS what the coords are and that having to input the coords in himself or d/l them isn't needed. That's what I am getting from this. But I could be wrong.

Well that would be every one of mine. When I recalculate my TB's mileage it shows double what it should be. Like my personal TB coin shows 15,000+ miles but when I recal it will be 31,000+ plus I don't think the original 15,00 is right. It should be over 10,000 and maybe 12,000.

Go ahead and sign me up too. Since I am new to BM hunting I may have an advantage of the newbie desire!!! LOL!! Ken

BuckBrooke, I do plan on going back armed with coords and printouts. It has been raining off and on for about a week or so. That whole Redlands Blvd road between Redlands and Moreno Valley is full of BM's etc.. The hills are not all that tall so snagging more than a few over a weekend should be kind of fun...plus that road is about 15 minutes from my house. So now that I have found one that was lost and reported it...what will happen now...if anything?

When an owner says that X number of TB or coins must stay in the cache are considered TB prisons. If an owner wants a TB hotel the it is of my opinion that they maintain it with TB's of their own.

I was out looking for future cache placements. I usually don't go hunting for benchmarks but if I find one I do log it. So today I found one that the BM page siad it wasn't found in 1974. I went to the NGS web site and filled out the form to tell them that it is still in good condition. I don't know if it really matters in the grand scheme of things but I still thought it was pretty cool.