Escapades

The cache must still be there someone logged it as found today.It says no need to leave the sidewalk so it must be within reach of the sidewalk. I also read it is a really small container that blends in well. This one should probably be rated higher for difficulty. If you were on a Median with a bench listed as a park you were in the right place. Don't give up. You could got to cache page and click on the person who found it today and ask for a hint. Good luck, once you find a few it gets esier. Mike

There are no stupid questions, we all had the same questions when we started out. Lots of little things to learn that everyone takes for granted. This is the best place to get all your questions answered. Mike

I don't think anyone would complain. Most TB owners like to see the movement. Mike

Find the cache page you found. In the upper right corner click on "Log Your Visit" Select "Type of Log " click on found it from the drop down menu. Enter date cache was found. Write your comments or a little story about your trip to find the cache. Scroll to bottom of page click "Submit Log Entry" it will bring up what you wrote with a edit entry or delete entry. If you like what you wrote you are down. You can exit out or click on the link back to the cache page and you will see your post on the cache page. Good luck. Mike

Are you sure your e-mail adrress is correct, I know sometimes I forget to add the @yahoo.com ect. just a guess

Here is a link to some of the terms used by geocachers http://www.geocaching.com/about/glossary.aspx Hope this helps. If you don't find the answer here just ask on the forums. Mike

Find the cache page you found. In the upper right corner click on "Log Your Visit" Select "Type of Log " click on found it from the drop down menu. Enter date cache was found. Write your comments or a little story about your trip to find the cache. Scroll to bottom of page click "Submit Log Entry" it will bring up what you wrote with a edit entry or delete entry. If you like what you wrote you are down. You can exit out or click on the link back to the cache page and you will see your post on the cache page. Good luck. Mike

Caches are not suppose to be burried. Usually a 1/1 rating is pretty easy to find. Your GPS may not be set up with the right Datum use HDDD MM.MM Make sure you are looking for a cache that was found recently, maybe one could be missing. Ask on your local forum if anyone wants to meet up with you and show you how it works. Geocaching is a relaxing fun hobby, it can seem confusing at first but once you find a few its easy. Read the clues and other finders comments sometimes there are clues in them. Good luck let us know hiow it goes. Mike

The Yankee's are the team everyone loves to hate. Probably the rest of us are jealous, we have Peter Macgowan as owner of the Giants, never willing to bring in a couple more players to give us a good chance to go all the way. The Oakland A's are the same way, you become a great player they trade you away. We can't afford them anymore. We don't really care for Boston that much either. It was just a great story last year and this should be a great game. I just want to see where Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Mickey Mantle and all the other great Yankee's have played. If you could take your son's on one trip and your all baseball fans what could be better than Yankees-Red Sox after last year and the baseball Hall of Fame. I have never been east of Reno so this is a major trip for us. We just want to see all we can in a short time and geocache too. Thanks everyone for their help. Mike

I loved my childhood, BUT I didn't have a GPS or Geocaching...which one would I choose if I could only have one....

You did everything right. The edit or delete is if you want to change or edit what you just wrote. You will see the cache name highlighted just click on that and it will take you back to the cache page with your log on it. Don't hit back. Hope this helps, welcome to geocaching. Mike

We have a Ford Escape for our geocaching adventures.

I would really like to see the Red Sox beat the Yankee's one more time!

What cities are near the Meadowlands? I want to look up Hotels. How far is Cooperstown from this area? Thanks for the info. We are really SF Giants and Oakland A's fans, just always wanted to see Yankee Stadium and the Monuments. Thanks. What else should we try to see?

We became premium members soon after we started geocaching just because we wanted to support the site, Geocaching is the best form of entertainment we have found for our family. We have made more friends through geocaching than we ever thought possible. Thanks for a great service.

My two son's 26 & 23 and I there father are flying to NY from CA for opening day at Yankee Stadium vs the Red Sox. We will only be in NY for 4 days. We have never been to the area before. We want to spend one day at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, see the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty. Any suggestions on which area we should stay? We plan on renting a car to go to Cooperstown, but would probably rather use public transportaion to see NYC. We also want to so some geocaching. Just looking for any suggestions you can give to make our trip better. Thanks Escapades Oroville, CA

On your PDA open Mapopolis, click on tools, click on choose map, highlight the pocket query you have imported, click OK and your maps should appear. You may have to exit from Mapopolis by going to tools ,exit then reopen it.

Here is a really good link. This is how I learned to set up and use my PDA http://www.mdgps.org/modules.php?name=pocketcaching I use GPXSonar and Mapopolis for maps on my PDA, they work great

Make sure you pick a cache that was found recently. Also sometimes if you read the logs of previous finders clues can be gathered on placement. Check the size of container your looking for also, if it is an ammo can look for something out of place eg. pile of rocks, sticks, ect. Good luck, they get easier once you find a few.

I think the counter is broken seems to be stuck on 1153, maybe everyone should check it out to see if I'm right...

The first one is the hardest. Have fun!!!

We use GPXSonar and Mapopolis. They are both great. We also bought a PDA car mount holder and a small GPS with it. We get voice and visual routing with it. It is great for taking a trip. http://www.seidioonline.com/

Good Luck, Let us know about your first find tomorrow

We went to Vegas in October for our anniversery and found 28 caches. We liked Presidential Suite, a virtual, and Wanna buy a bridge was my favorite. Have fun!

Here is a cache log from Gary & Vicky cachers from Folsom, CA about there encounter with a Bull Elk Many of you are familiar with the Delorme Challenge (GCHANH). Vicky and I cleared several pages on Sunday and Monday. The following is our log from the "Looking into the Whale's Mouth" cache (GCKE5K) located on the "Lost Coast" of California. _____________________________ This was an unforgettable cache. We’ll not forget the anticipation of going to the Lost Coast for the first time. We’ll not forget the unbelievably winding road down to Needle Rock. We’ll not forget the rustic Visitor Center at Needle Rock. We’ll not forget the beautiful hike to the Whale’s Mouth. We’ll not forget writing in the log book that we wish we would have seen a few Elk on our way to the cache. We’ll also never forget to be careful what you wish for. We were about 15 minutes into our return hike along the narrow trail as it goes through the trees. As we were going around a blind corner we came face to face with a 1000 pound Bull Elk. The elk immediately charged at us. The huge antlers were coming right at me. I don’t normally carry a walking stick but I’m sure glad I did that day. I swung the stick wildly at the great beast while yelling at the top of my voice to “Get Back”. The huge Elk stepped off the trail a few feet but started displaying the aggressive behavior of clanging its antlers in a nearby tree. A few moments later, the Elk started vocalizing its displeasure with strange elk bugling. All the time the elk stood between us and our only way back to our car. He continued to stare us down for 20 minutes or so. To one side of us was a steep ravine, the other side was thick forest, behind was miles and miles of the infamous Lost Coast. With no way around the bull, we hoped he would move up the trail so we could slip by. Needless to say, we were definitely worried about our predicament. We’ve been hiking in the wilderness for decades. We have come across all manner of wildlife before. Without fail, the wildlife was always as interested in getting away from us as we were in it keeping our distance from them. But, not this time. The Bull Elk continued to stay just down the trail from us. Slowly we would tip-toe down the trail only to see the Elk was still there. After about an hour of playing this hide and seek game, we could no longer hear or see the elk. We moved down the trail a little further. We peeked around a blind corner, only to come in full view of the elk again. Once again the elk came charging at us. We backed off the trail a short distance and a stood behind some short manzanita bushes (hardly protection from a charging bull elk), all the time we were backing up, I was swinging my hiking stick and yelling at the beast. He backed off a few feet. I picked up a nearby stone to throw. When I threw the rock at the animal’s rear-end, he saw it coming and moved quickly up the hill a short ways. Seeing that the rock throwing was moving the animal in the right direction, I tossed another in its directions. Again he moved further up the hill and away from the trail. Finally, we saw an opening. We ran as quickly as we could down the trail, looking back occasionally to see if the elk was going to hold a grudge over the rock throwing incident. Fortunately, that was the last we would see of that particular animal. As Vicky ran through the nearby stream (not worrying about wet shoes this time), she did not see the elk just on the other side of a tree just 15 feet off the trail. This elk probably wondered why the two strange humans were in such a hurry. We walked cautiously and quickly for the next mile and a quarter. We came to a ravine that we needed to cross. On the other side of the ravine was another bull elk a short distance up the hill from the trail. Since this elk was sitting down and was not startled by our presence we moved carefully across the ravine and down the trail. That would turn out to be the last elk we saw that afternoon. But, not wanting to be surprised while going around blind corners on the rest of the trail, we began announcing loudly at every corner that we were there and all nearby elk should be ready for our presence and we mean them no harm. Finally, around one last corner, we saw the Needle Rock Visitor Center. A sight for sore eyes if there ever was one. A cache we will not soon forget. Oh, yeah. Thanks for placing a cache on the infamous Page 62, we sure appreciate that. Took only pictures. Left with our lives.