je4wdep's wife

[ I would hate to see the cache in the San Juan's get archived as they currently are not allowing any new geocahes there. I would adopt the cache, but it's too far away for me to maintain it. You may want to post your note over on the GCCO forums also. A few more Colorado folks will see it there. Edit: Actually, I just checked and your caches are all outside the San Juan National Forest. Yeah the main one I would like to have adopted is outside of the Forest, thank goodness, but its in such a great spot, I would hate to have it archived. Thanks for the advice about the Geocachingcolo site. I will go there and see if someone would help me out.

I have a geocache or 3 I would like someone to adopt. The main one I would like to have adopted is on Corkscrew Gulch in the San Juan Mountains. We are having to move out of state, and to be honest cant get to the cache to take it with us. If you are interested in adopting this one or even the 3 caches we have placed, please contact me.

Being from only 35 miles north of Ouray, I can tell you there are some nice caches up there. Please be warned, not alot of the trails are open, there was 150% of the annual snowfall there. They are working on the passes now, but several of our favorites are not expected to open soon. Animas Forks is awesome, you will love it, be sure to get the caches there! http://www.ouraycolorado.com/Jeep+Road+Conditions

5 miles-40 10 miles 48 25 Miles 100 50 miles 315 just for kicks 1 mile 12 100 miles 1226

There is a cache series here that is sorta a multi, since you have to find the first one to get the correct coords to the rest of them, if you answer any of the questions wrong, you find a container, but its not the cache....I am just waiting on the first leg to be replaced so we can finish out the rest of the caches. Here is the link to the first cache of the "series" http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...98-c2c00ddc98af

That cache makes me wish we could look for it, but we are too far away, it looks awesome!

I have run across fellow geocachers twice, but they werent geocaching at the time. The first one I was looking for a micro at a cache called "The Ambulance" we were having a get together at the building next to it, and the pizza delivery guy arrived, telling me I was close. The second one, we had just found and logged one called "Just pulling your leg" and the guy who lives in the house next to it, beyond the fence was doing yard work, his dog barking like mad, asked through the fence if someone was over there, and hubby replied yes and what we were doing, (we always do and if the person sounds interested we explain the sport), turns out he is a geocacher and didnt know that one was hidden so close to his house, since it had just been published a week or so before that.

Actually it is posted, since it is a puzzle cache, and you can not technically claim the spot. Sorry, but a reviewer would tell you your cache is too close to one in the area.

I just read through all 4 pages of this thread, and I agree with the fact this cache should be left alone, I also agree the reviewer is not at fault at all. To me the universal ruling of GS to tell all reviewers not to publish Support our Troop caches is what is making me upset. There are many caches out there that support an agenda. Just recently I read about one that required you to go in a establishment and dine, to be able to get the correct coordinates to find the cache. To me that is one that has more of an agenda than saying "I am proud of my kids" and then give history about the American Leigon. I would let the cache stand. My husband was a Marine, his father was in the Army, his mother was a WASP, my father was in the Air Force, I could go on and on and on with all the people I know that served in the military. And I am proud of them all.

We have no teen children but I have cached with my young adult son. When my stepdaughter comes up we plan on taking her caching with our grandson.

I would travel from the Western side of Colorado to do those! Let me know when you get them ready, and I will have to plan a road trip! on topic, I have not a creative bone in my body, but a cache in an area that has something that is interesting to you would be creative to me.

You dont have to be a premium member to see coords of caches, unless the owner has made it a premium member only cache, but you do have to be logged on. Check to see if that is your issue.

There is a cache placed at a school I intend to find while in Texas visiting soon. It was placed by students in 2006 and still appears to be going strong. It was placed by a geocaching club. http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...7b-f6e9267a85f7

Why not just email the owner and ask if your coords are correct?

We will be making a trip to see our grandson for christmas, and I have several caches planned out for the route, I just wish there were more along the highways, so we could stop, stretch our legs and cache! I have planned a few, I just hope we find them!

1. How did you first hear about geocaching? Hubby was on a mountain and some cachers came up, he told me about it and I wanted to try it. 2. Tell me about your first cache? A micro, LPC, it was a test to see if the GPS was the one we wanted. 3. Have you had any bad/scary experiences caching? Not really....we have seen wild animals but they stay clear of us. 4. What is the #1 reason you geocache? We see places and things we would not have seen just staying on the trials, roads. 5. Do you prefer to hunt or hide? so far hunt, we have some caches planned to hide next summer. 6. What was your favorite cache place? Why? I really enjoyed the caches we found at Animas Forks, Colorado, we saw the town from a perspective we had never seen before. 7. What was your worst cache? Why? Can't say I have a worst cache yet, except for the one we went hunting and was muggled. 8. Have you ever attened a cache event? Nope, if there is ever one we can get to I am sure we will though. 9. Tell me your best caching story? My favorite is the one where I decided to follow the GPS, not the directions in the listing. We did find the cache, but took the hard way up the side of the mountain, after crossing the river 4 or 5 times. The thing it taught me is to look at the directions, and make sure to follow them, but I did get a good cardio workout that day!

There are alot of cachers that have fixed broken caches, to me its just a courtesy, maybe the owner is ill, or just cant get to it to fix it right away. If you can replace a broken container, then I am sure the owner will appreciate it.

We talk to people while we are geocaching, if they look interested in seeing what we are doing. If they get it they get it, if they dont they dont. The way we got interested was pretty much like that. My husband was up on a trail, some people came up with the GPS, and they found the cache, explained what they were doing, and showed him the container etc, he came home told me about it, and the rest was history.

While it would make me pretty mad if someone stole my caches and I knew who it was, I don't think giving them the attention they seek is a good idea. Its pretty much like rewarding bad behaviour. Has your friend talked to this person about what is going on? That in itself could help to solve the issue.

I totally understand how some people would not want to do cemetary caches.. My husband and I actually like them, we have always been ones to go look at headstones and see when people died, if they were in the military, etc. I have found 2 caches in cemeteries, one was at a potters field, the other was in a cemetary that had alot of history. I had never known we had a potters field in our town, and there were people buried there as late as 1980, and for the other one, there is a historical marker there and in reading it I thought it was pretty amazing.