scoutfrog

I don't think this quite counts as "weird", but it sure was funny! I work with cub & boy scouts a lot. One of the thinks I have helped them build is a bird house. I have has the same completed one to show a the finished product for over 4 years. Well I had not used it for over a year and decided it would make a cool cache container. So I go out to get it to work on it(my 12 yrs old close behind me, he loved cool caches) when I grabbed it of the shelve in my work shop, I bird came flying out of it! Seems she made her nest in it and and when we peek inside there were eggs in it. So we put it back and let nature take it's cousre. Well, mom and the babies are all gone now and the birdhouse now has a false second floor that is held on by magnets and steel screws. You can remove the floor and take the cache out without opening the house it's self. I'm going to try to place it with a hidden camera near by to see the reaction when some one goes to look and the bird(if any) flys out.

A couple in my local geocaching club (GETGC.org). has 2 names for their 60csx. Most of the time it is called "skippy" for the way the direction arrow skips. The other name is "Johnny" for being "Johnny on the spot".

I'm one of the officials in the GETGC's first travel bug race. I've been the one updating the miles and logs. I have been doing my updates on Sunday for everyone to see on Monday. I had noticed last week that the miles did not update and just figured GS's computer was getting slow, but now i know it is wide spread.

For loading caches into your GPS, try GSAK. IF your a premium member you can run quaries and then load them into GSAK. Then you can sort them all kind of ways and then export them into your GPS.

I'll bet that "nudecacher" would be a hoot at a FLASH Mob Event!!!

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I've come to know a lot of the cachers in my area, but every once in a while I come upon someone I don't know that I think is a cacher. Most of the time I just ask,"What are you doing?" in a nice way. I let them try to explain what they are up to and then I tell them who I am. If they ask if i know there the cache is i say yes. If they ask if I'll tell, I say no but I will give hints. It is a hunt after all.

You can not place caches in cemeteries in Tennessee anymore, active ones were grandfathered in. Law concerning caches in cemeteries, geocaching is a game. Tennessee Cemetery & Burial Site Laws Statutory Laws (Tennessee Code Annotated) Title 46. Cemeteries 46-2-105. Crimes and offenses No person shall willfully destroy, deface, or injure any monument, tomb, gravestone, or other structure placed in the cemetery, or any roadway, walk, fence or enclosure in or around the same, or injure any tree, plant or shrub therein, or hunt or shoot therein, play at any game or amusement therein, or loiter for lascivious or lewd purposes therein, or interfere, by words or actions, with any funeral procession or any religious exercises. ( A violation of this section is a Class E felony. , Class E Felony 1 to 6 years $3,000

I got egg all over my face right in front of a WWFM 3 group. I hosted a Flash Mob event that was 40 feet from a cache I placed at the corner of 2 streets in a park. Dering the event a couple people who had not found it went over to look, No luck. Then some who had found it went to look, still no luck. I was called over to show where it was, I could not find it! Then the smallest of the group got down on all 4ers and found it about 2 feet from where I hide it but with a Diff, of about 3 1/2 not the 1 1/2 I listed. It seems that some of the local cachers rehide some caches better than they found them.

First off, Welcome to the game! Second off, the fact that you choose to be a permemum member helps too. It will give you access to more caches and more maps.I myself am kind of new at this (about 8 months) but it gets eaiser fast. I'm all the way across the contry in Tennessee, so I cheated and looked up caches using your zip code. You too can do this, just input a zip code in the search "by zip code " box on the groungspeak home page. I will list some eaiser caches for you to start with, you can look up the page for each cache by entering the "GC" number in the "view a cache listing" box just down from the top of the GC home page. As for getting started, as with anything, start slow and easy. Don't just rely on your gps to get you there, I look at maps to give me a general idea of where I'm going, what street, a park ,a trail, sometimes there are streets that the won't show, or in the case of a couple here, they torn down a subdivison and put in a Target store, the maps still list the streets! Near the top of each cache's page you will find difficulty and terrain "stars" or something like 1.5/1.5 or 2.3/3.0. A 1/1 should be wheel chair accessable and very easy to find where as a 3/1 will still be 'chair accessable but much harder to find. now a 5/5 means bring climbing gear, lots of water and food and a couple friends to help you with your possable 1-3 hour adventure! As far as a GPS, one will get you started and 2 will, well give you 2 sets of "eyes" (gps eyes that is) lookinh for a cache. For now, if you stick to the eaiser caches 1 will be just fine. I started with a Magellin 400 that I got froma apawn shop for $50 and have now(today) just bought a new garmin 60csx. Most of my caching friends use them and they are great(althuogh a little pricey $300 from an internet supplier) but well worth the money once you get to using them. You might also look for help localy in the form of local geocaching groups. We have a very active group here(GETGC.ORG)and I've learned a lot from the group as well as given back a lot to others. Some of your local groups are the fallowing web addresses, OREGONGEOCACHING.ORG , SOGEO.ORG OREGONSAGA.COM . Most any caching group will be glad to help you get going. Our group is real go about taking new cachers out on a cache run or 2 to help them get going. O.K. now for the caches a propissed you, I entered 97222 for your zipcode and these were the eaisest caches I found GC16RGK GCHFVK GCKGAY GC13Y7P GCMC80. All are regular size(something else to look for at the top of ecah cache page, go for the larger ones first till you get a feel for thr hunt) and should not be too hard to find. And I bet that if you check the cache pace real good and look at the map and hints , you might be able to find 1 or 2 with out a GPS. Well hope this helps, enjoy the game, Frog

We have a cache here that has the same thing going on with it. The owner has not signed in since Oct 2005!! The cache got arcived when it went un-maintaned and then people started logging finds on it again and the reviewer activated it again and ask if anyone wanted to adopt it. I said I would and have yet to get an answer from the owner .

I try to reuse most any container I can(not glass, just plastic). For smalls/micros I use pill bottles (you can get them in all sizes from film bottles size to the size of a coke can), for reg./med I use peanut butter jars(also spice bottles and the ones that the shake-e-chessee for pasta comes in), and I have even been known to buy a BIG jar of pretizals just for the jar! I run all of the above thru the dish washer at least twice to clean them and cover them with camo duct tape. My alter ego "THE CACHE FAIRY", even shows up at most events around here and hands out ready to hide caches to anyone that wants/needs one. I also have a supply cache for cachers to go to and take ready made caches, "lead by example GC17MBZ" , just another way to give back to the game.

What I use for my micros(bison tubes & pill bottles) is J B Weld 2 part epoxy. I use and old metal pie pan, flip it up side down and place a piece of paper on it. Stick the magnets to it and glue. I sand them first and apply glue to container then put the container on the magnet so the glue will encase it. A friend told me if they start to pop off to do what he does, He drills a small hole into the container first then force some glue into the hole and into the container where it will mushroom out and plug the hole plus hold the magnet.

I will confess, I'm kind of gilty of this myself. My local cache group hosted a CITO hike up thru the mtns. Just before we got to where we were going, Two of us fell back and placed a ammo can (GC176ME)about 30 ft up off the trail. On the return trip the cords. were given to anyone that wanted to find it. We were after all about 1 1/2 miles from the only way to get to the cache. So as a group everyone else hunted and found it. I did claim a "find" for 2 reasons, 1. I was the one who carried the stupid thing into the woods. and 2. It was not where I saw it was hidden, the owner moved it on me. No one logged it until it was listed and no one has found it since.

In keeping with my cache name, I try to leave a frog(s). I've got small(1/4 in )frog pins, frog charms, plastic frogs, rubber frogs and lots of frog theamed items. I also leave small cache containers(bison tubes or pill bottles) all ready to be placed including camo, logs and sometimes magnets, But I do this with a twist, when I'm out doing cache maintenance, I place them in MY CACHES TOO! Not all of them, nor all the time, but every so often just to surprize the next cacher.

If you still have room, scoutfrog would love to be added thanks.

How about scoutfrog?

The ones I refuse to get are the ones here localy that are places in limited access areas. 2 are placed in side a nature center and you have to pay $6 to get in. You can park about 1/2 mile away and hike in if you want, plus the 1/2 to the 2 caches. Then there a series placed inside the audubon society that requires a $4 "contribution" to get in. And the latest ones are inside a land trust that the public can only access from 9am - 4 pm the 1st and last Saturdays on the month, they were listed at 8pm on the first Sat. of this month. So anyone wanting to hunt them must now wait 4 weeks to even try. All of the have been hidden by 1 cacher.