Hydnckr

Actually all the Jeeps were released, those not showing mileage simply means that they were taken as souvenirs right away and never placed in a cache. Groups of cachers received 40-60 jeeps and distributed them to their members who did with them what they wished. The Jeep game is all over, the prmotions are done, what's left in the wild is there for people to find if they can.

I would. How he decided to devote his career to a website, how he feels about how geocaching has grown under "his watch" and just some info about the man himself. I'd be very interested in finding out more about Groundspeak in general. How they get ideas, how they grow, do they really make money in this business, where they see things going in the sport. I, like others, have devoted a large portion of my life and free time to geocaching because unike any other hobby I have been involved in this one fits me to a T and I truly love it.

I knew what I was getting beforehand because I purchased it myself the day after Thanksgiving (saved 50 bucks). But the anticipation of actually having it in my grubby little hands was unbearable. I got a Palm Zire 31 PDA for Christmas -my first PDA- I'm all excited about paperless caching and using cachemate !! Hope everyone had a great Christmas, it sure sounds like it in this thread. Happy Caching

BUT - and please correct me if I'm wrong Keystone - if you went to school there maybe you still have friends there that you could co-own the cache with ? That way they can pose for the sample photo as well as be the designated maintainer.

I'm thankful that I've had a succesful year of caching with no injuries or mishaps and that I've spent some quality time with my 4 year old son on our caching adventures. I'm thankful that my wife has even gone out on a few caching hunts with me.....maybe a trend ? But I'm happily thankful that even tho I'd cached clean my immediate surroundings a year ago, there's a new one that popped up today, on a trail, in park, only a couple miles from my house Perfect for that Thanksgiving Day Cache Hunt. HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE !

We have an army surplus place in Perrysburg, Ohio (metro Toledo) where we can get .30 ammo cans for 3 bucks plus tax and I believe the .50 ammo cans are 4 or 5 bucks. Guess we're pretty lucky and I never knew it.

I bought my Garmin eTrex Legend in June 2003. I wasn't exactly sure what I was going to do with it except that I knew it'd be cool for navigating while driving. I was looking thru the icons that you can assign to a landmark and I saw "geocache" and I knew I had heard that word before....(still don't know from where.) I was interested enough to put the term in a search engine and a day later I was out looking for my first cache on a hot, humid day during my lunch break with one of my co-workers in tow. We didn't find it that day and it took me 3 trips to locate it but I've been hooked ever since.

I gotta say the Parade article is doing a good job. I live in NW Ohio and I heard from a friend in Spokane, Washington who I had been kinda nudging toward geocaching and this article may have moved her one step closer to trying it. PLUS, at work a lot of people know that I geocache and then the article in Parade comes out and this 6o year old co-worker of mine all of a sudden wants to know more about it after reading the article, so I showed him the website and the closest caches to his home, etc. So this thing could really do a good job if little ole me has heard 2 responses so far from potentials. Positive press is a great thing

There's a geocache in a police department here in Northwest Ohio. Accessible 24 hours a day. It's a small town and a police cacher is the guy who placed it, he's now a county parks ranger.

CookCrew You have my full support. I think you were in the right game with the wrong person watching you unfortunately. I hope it does die down quickly for you, I know how a story can run and run and run. AND I think you should darn well log this sucker as a find, it's the hardest anyone has had to work for a cache in a while and it's a well deserved find. as far as whether you geocache again or not, that's understandable, but take a break, and see how you feel in a week or 2. Again, I'm sorry you had to go thru this, but I offer my support to you and I think that you were a responsible geocacher just trying to have fun sharing a hobby with your kids (and their friends) do your kids have show and tell coming up at school ??

We can discuss all day about cache owners relations to property owners and police (which I'm sure we will) But the part that actually makes me angry is how this geocacher who FOUND it is being put on display. They have his name, his age, his job, how many kids he has, the name of one of them and his quotes. Plus, the audacity of the sheriff to even consider making this guy responsible for the charges is beyond me. (I doubt it will happen, but the sheer fact that he mentioned it to the reporter is unprofessional in my opinion) I work in a TV station and am close to a lot of reporters, anchors and producers and I'm sure we'd approach the story in a similar way but for the sheriff to give the impression to the reporter that the cacher who found it is guilty means that the reporter is going to automatically run with that angle. grrr...

Since a few people are getting confused, here is the link to the cache page again. The owner DID get permission as stated in the description page. The Tin Lizzy Also got another google alert this morning: Because the Muncie newspaper got the story and it's interesting, I'm sure it's popular stuff on the AP wires and an Indianapolis TV station placed it on their website....it's the exact copy from the paper so that does NOT mean that it was on-air at this station, just a web report. Indianapolis Channel 6 The hits just keep on comin'

I believe I located the cache online it's The Tin Lizzy (GCJZD7)and according to the cache description the hider had permission. Perhaps he just forgot his NOT A BOMB sticker, I forget that darn thing all the time. another urban bites the dust...err, another urban bites the bullet. hmm, another urban eats a bullet ??

Well, it's all lined up. Team Hydnckr and BlackBrownDog are venturing west from the Toledo, OH area into Fort Wayne, IN to pass the hiking stick on to "Paws"itraction in some part of Fort Wayne (yet to be determined) This'll take place sometime in the morning on Saturday October 30th, so if you'd like to join in or stop by or just have a comment, leave a note here.

That's for sure, I have a TB that seems to just roam from event cache to event cache up there....plus I've heard other stories from cachers about TB's being stuck in our neighbor to the north

The caching folks here in NW Ohio feel that we've held onto the Caching Karma Stick long enough so we are looking for someone to help us out. We live in the Toledo area and a few of us thought that we'd enjoy taking a daylong caching road trip to Indiana to pass off this fine hiking stick. For convenience, I think we'd prefer someone that is in or around or would travel to the Ft. Wayne area to meet us. Post here, or feel free to email me thru gc.com Thanks, Craig Northwest Ohio Geocachers Caching Karma Stick Travel Bug Page The stick also has a topic posting in the travel bug forum Caching Karma Stick Travel Bug Forum Page

The caching folks here in NW Ohio feel that we've held onto the Caching Karma Stick long enough so we are looking for someone to help us out. We live in the Toledo area and a few of us thought that we'd enjoy taking a daylong caching road trip to Indiana to pass off this fine hiking stick. For convenience, I think we'd prefer someone that is in or around or would travel to the Ft. Wayne area to meet us. Post here, or feel free to email me thru gc.com, I'm also going to post a similar thread in the midwest forums to find Indiana cachers that post there. Thanks Craig Northwest Ohio Geocachers

plus I suppose had I looked at the bug history I would have gotten a clue there as well.

OH, well how bout that.... Thanks very much for solving the mystery, it had been bugging me for a few days now. Yeah, the identical name is definitely what threw me off, I didn't bother looking at the TB#

Hopefully somebody can help me solve this problem.... I just snagged my first USA Geocoin from a cache. I logged it into my account and it shows up in my inventory, on my stats page as an icon and my log entry is in the coin's online log. But, the coin icon still shows up on the cache's listing, as well as showing that it's still in the inventory of the cache. If I go to the geocoin's "webpage" thru my account, my entry is there and everything looks good. But if I access the geocoin's webpage thru the cache's description page my entry is not there. I thought maybe it was just this coin, but for the heck of it I found another that looks like it's still in the cache but in reality was taken out over a month ago. The cache in question for me is GCK0NB - Cache Off the Railhead. The other I found was GCK5C0 - Qwerty's Reunion. Strange....anyone have ideas ??

I have taken my children lots of times, they are now 6 and 4 but my 4 year old son has gone with me since he was 2 1/2. I never used a child backpack for geocaching (he was too big by then) but we bought a cheap (meaning 60 bucks) model for normal use and the straps pretty much sucked. If I had it to do again I'd definitely buy a Kelty they are absolutely worth the money. But kids love caching, just not too many in one day, you have balance your desire for "just one more" with the whininess of the child which will ruin your good time trying to geocache. Good Luck.

A few months back Backpacker Magazine started printing coordinates for hikes in UTM and they also offer some of those coordinates online. Their tagline: World's First GPS Enabled Magazine I've been a subscriber for a long time and this new feature only adds to my enjoyment.

I'll do it I live less than 10 miles from the cache...I've already found it previously but I'm hoping to do some caching this weekend and I can grab it up regardless. I'll even do ya one better. If you want to compose a small goal paragraph and email it to me, I'll print it out, laminate it and attach it to the TB. How's that for NW Ohio hospitality

I've seen that rusty old can of beans. Team 360 brought it to an Event Cache at Cabela's in Dundee, Michigan last December. I took a picture of it too not knowing at the time what significance it had, just knowing that since he had taken such care with it that it meant something to our hobby. It was suspended by a magnet inside a clear acrylic box, rusty as all get out, with holes, (needed the magnet on top of the container to keep it from collapsing on itself) but just like anything else, it doesn't have to be pristine to be part of history.