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Same here. Actually, I found my first seven caches without a GPS unit, my next five or six with a borrowed unit, then got one for my birthday. I still hand-enter waypoints into my little yellow eTrex after 250+ finds. Welcome to the fun!

My 100th cache was in a February in 20° and ten inches of new snow at a terrain 3 cache where we had to cross a stream to get the cache container! This was in western PA. We don't let a little cold weather or snow stop us here. Welcome new cachers! If you need assistance with your new GPS units, look on the GPS forum or look for a nearby caching event. Most cachers are happy to help new folk learn to use their GPSrs.

Welcome new cachers! Our oldest daughter told us about the game when she was a senior at Penn State. And here we are still caching over 250 finds later. We have found caches from Maine to Florida!

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I have met and cached with Keystone.

Many of the merit badges require special equipment to complete so I don't see that as a hinderance. I'm not sure what the process of getting geocaching approved as a merit badge entails, but I think it'd be cool. This is true. Where would the canoeing merit badge be without a canoe? Or the riflery badge without a rifle?

That is one awesome coin! As a former cubmaster and now a troop committee member and a new charter org. rep for a new cub pack, I love the symbols on your coin! Nice work!

I have determined that I can find cache containers faster when I use a magnetic compass along with the bearing reading on my GPS unit (yellow eTrex). JMO.

At the top of this topic there is a thread called state and local geocaching organizations. There may or may not be a Virginia organization in your area.

En que parte de Nueva York vive su hermana? En La Ciudad de Nueva York? Y cuando es su viaje?

Great log, LadyBee4T! Congrats to you and to Ammoman for finding the GeoLep coin!!

After reading the first GeoJellies thread, I'm hooked! These are gorgeous! What is the average number of coins being ordered?

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Congrats to Big JohnP for his surprise find!

Congratulations to all the finders of the GeoLeprechaun's lovely coins! I am thoroughly enjoying reading the adventures of the coin-searchers! Be careful out there trying to be the first to grab the coins! If I found the "pot of gold" at a nearby cache, I'd give it to my daughter who introduced me to geocaching. She's a PhD candidate at Trinity College Dublin, and we are very proud of her. Maybe you'd like to see where our Punxsutawney Phil sees or doesn't see his shadow on Groundhog Day??

I just got back from the Penna. National Quilt Extravaganza going on this weekend in Harrisburg, PA. Gimme more quilt blocks!!! Great designs on your pins!!

There is a multi cache in my area that was approved and published in March that is a 5/4.5 and is extremely difficult to do. The first stage is a container with Uno type cards in two baggies. You have to unscramble the numbers to make the next set of co-ordinates. I was first to find the first set; but didn't get anywhere near the second stage. All subsequent stages (who knows how many there are?) are similar containers except for the final which is a regular cache container. It has yet to be found.....thought there have been 11 attempts. The name of the cache.......Hope You Have All Day....GC11JBJ. With the cost of fuel these days, I don't think it will be found for a while. Who has time and gasoline to drive around all day for one cache??

Yep, one awesome cake! And buttercream is the best for decorating.

Done. Interesting topic for a doctoral thesis. My daughter has completed a re-write of hers on Viking architecture/history for Trinity College Dublin. We're just waiting for her to defend it a second time.

There're a bunch of new caches in the Bell Gap area. Are they yours? We drove up 453N from Tyrone last week on our way back from Huntingdon. I suppose we drove past a cache or two on our way.

Hearty congratulations on your 1000th find!!!

Okay, then. That's a good warning! Another cache I'd like to do eventually in that area is the Mountaindale Cache placed by a troop of Boy Scouts.

Oddly enough this peaks my interest. (Is that a dump for road kill or something?) Thanks for the suggestions! Will check them out. Yes, road kill.

Read the descrptions of some of Jamie's hydrocaches; they sound like good stuff! NFA caches