Hydnckr

yes, that's right officer....the fig leaf went that-a-way !!

Interesting thread here - I am from NW Ohio but was visiting the Cincy area and doing some caches. I was searching for a cache on a river embankment in a local park and pulled out a container that was hidden "cache style" opened it up and found a letterbox instead...I was a bit surprised, replaced it and found the cache about 30 feet away. I had no idea that it happens this often tho....crazy.

As someone else said, you can't win if you don't enter. I love my avatar, Chris from the avatar forum created it, I didn't know exactly what I should use for my name (Hydnckr = Hide n Seeker) but he came up with this and I asked to have Ohio placed behind it with a flag in NW Ohio. But I think everyone will agree, there are some great avatars out there now. Thanks (and in the long shot that I win, the state of Ohio can simply be an outline)

I used to just drop my sig cards into caches without lamination. Now I laminate them and when I grab others sig cards I laminate theirs as well for my collection. I used to think lamination "sleeves" were expensive but then I looked in WalMart and this isn't the accurate count and price but it's something like 30 sleeves for $1.60 (they are for heat sealing laminators with no insulating sleeve) I'm sneaky and use the lamintor at work for free. Also, as geocaching "evolves" we are going to see changing sig items. Scook from Detroit leaves Cincinnati Chili Recipe magnets, and he's on a 2nd version cause he couldn't find anymore of the original. SerenityNow used a block for last year's version, this year it's a style of domino. Victory Mike handmakes chainmail keychains and he has a couple versions out there. Also, if anyone can't/doesn't want to make their own sig cards on the home computer, you can order some great professional looking ones at www.vistaprint.com. They say you get 250 free if you use one of the 30 selected free types, but you pay 6 bucks for shipping so it's 250 cards for 6 bucks. These were my first sig items and cachers liked the way they looked. The big trend currently here in NW Ohio is using a wooden nickel of sorts for sig items. There are at least a half dozen cachers using them. One cacher, Team Soaring, sandblasts small tiles for sig items, they are quite superb items. anyway, cahe on and keep on collecting

I too collect sig items, currently they are all in a box. But if I could do what I'd like I'd put up a decent size corkboard for non business card stuff like pins, patches, buttons, flags, my own TB "copy" tags, pics of events or memorable caches and then have a couple shelves near it for the larger items that need to be displayed on their own. For cards I think I'm gonna just put em in a nice index card box cause I have about 20 now and I can't see that number doing anything but going up. I've thought about the baseball card pages but I don't think I'll do it. I love collecting sig items, they are practically the only thing that I grab from a cache.

ummm, has anybody thought about the actual physical caches in the Geo-Woodstock location ? I know SerenityNow and they told me that they found around 200 caches at Geo-Woodstock 2 (as well as on the way there and back.) It practically necessitates the change of venue every year. If it's in the same area again will there be enough caches for people that just attended this year's event to find ? Fellowship and fun with a group is great, but c'mon, people wanna go caching ! Just a thought edited to cahnge my point around a little

I don't have a top 5 yet (maybe someday) Here in NW Ohio everything is flatland so we have to be more ingenious in making cool, more difficult caches. One here in the area is A Birds Eye View created by a good caching friend of mine Good Dog. I hope to do it in the near future.

I tried to access the case files also and am not having luck. I got the log in page twice and it stalled from there, and now I can't even get to the log in page. I suspect it's traffic tho.

Whoops. Sorry about the typo. Feel free to suggest any tweaks you want. I like this one a lot, can I get the same thing without my geocaching name on it ? Thanks

hydncker I really like your current avatar, but here's something different that would work well as a stamp or coin. EDITED I hate to be a pain in the a** but since this is sooooo close to being exactly what I want.... Can the arms be a bit thinner ? more like the ones in the black and white figure Can the outline of the state be larger and be "around" the entire stick figure ? or more centered around the GPS body ( the words/cities don't have to be in the outline ) and finally can my geocaching name be spelled correctly ? Hope I'm not being picky Please and thank you

I would love a cool avatar that I can use here as well as for my sig cards, profile page, etc. I chose the name Team Hydnckr (as in Hide n Seeker) because it represents Hide and Seek, basically the game we play with our GPSr's I'm open to all kinds of ideas, I like the idea of something as a mascot instead of just a graphic. But I don't necessarily have a mascot in mind, perhaps an animal ? I was never able to come up with an animal that plays hide and seek. I use a Garmin eTrex Legend Thanks in advance for any ideas people come up with.

I own 3 cemetery caches, each of them multis. One starts at a baseball HOF player's grave marker for which I loaded the cache page with info and website links about him. Another starts at a Medal of Honor recipients grave marker where again I loaded the cache page with info. The third uses a memorial marker for war veterans as the first stage. All 3 have been received well by area cachers with many thanking me for bringing them some history at the same time. HOF player The Duke of Tralee Medal of Honor Gumption Stumption

Yaay !!! My postman dropped off a box at my house today....anyone guess what was inside ? a schload of Yellow Jeep TB's for Northwest Ohio Geocachers So that was great but we're not going to be able to distribute them till June 26th at our Northwest Ohio Geocachers Picnicin' and Cachin' Summertime Event So if you'd like to come, please feel free until then I'm gonna bask in the yellow glow coming off my desk

ummm, just curious, since it's the 24th of May and this Yellow Jeep Travel Bug thing (which has gotten decent advertising in print and etc. ) is supposed to start in about a week, is there an update on progress from the Groundspeak folks ? I, for one, sent in our organization's info and I'm sure others did as well but I've heard nothing about delivery. [if some were delivered I feel like I'd have read an excited posting here in this thread] So, what's up Jeremy and Hydee ? any little nugget will do as far as if we can look for them in our mailboxes this week or maybe next ? Thanks

I ran out and got a copy of Bicycling on my break from work. It's a cool ad, 2 pages, centerfold. The left side gives all the details about how to enter the contest to win the vehicles as well as how to go find a travel bug (by using geocaching.jeep.com, not GC.com) and the ad on the right side is a print ad I've seen before for Jeep, but the copy has been modified to reflect geocaching. Note: Geocaching.com is never mentioned in the whole thing, just the word geocaching and the website mentioned earlier. BUT, I like it I think it's great publicity. Likely to show up in all the Rodale magazines I imagine.

The Northwest Ohio Geocachers NWOGeo.org recently adopted a 2 mile section of highway thru the Ohio Department of Transportation. We are responsible for cleanup 4 times a year. Our first CITO event is May 22nd. ---> GCJDW0 They posted nice signs for us, one on each end of the section of highway and provide orange "men working" signs and give us plastic safety vests and trash bags as well as pick up the trash when we are done. I'll hopefully post some pics when we are done

Concerning the above message from Jeremy some people are never happy, eh?....even with free stuff ! I am quite happy with the way things are progressing concerning the Jeep stuff and I'm sure that it'll all work out, people get too worked up over the inconsequential things of life.

Boy if ever there was a forum topic that fit my marriage this is it. I even told my wife what W.A.G. was and she thought it was perfect. It doesn't EXACTLY fit my scenario, she doesn't mind that I go out occasionally but taking off for a FTF when I'm supposed to be doing yardwork isn't looked upon kindly. My wife calls it "geek boxing" and that's what my 5 year old daughter calls it too. My 3 year old son tho, is cool with caching as long as we don't do too many at a time. He knows he's my "caching buddy" and refers to himself as that He loves getting little toys out of the boxes so he doesn't like micros all that much.

I have a large head, hats never fit so I kinda doubt that the GC.com hat will fit me so I'd like to have a patch that is smaller than the current one offered. Perhaps 1"x3" that I could iron-on to a hat of my choice or iron-on to a denim shirt above the pocket...there are lots of uses for a smaller patch: jackets where you don't want a huge patch, smaller cache bags, kids clothes, etc. Does anyone ever read these fantastic suggestions ?

Number of caches found: 254 Number of locationless caches I've done, both for fun as well as to boost my stats (even tho stats don't really matter): 67 Number of caches I've placed: 16 Number of caches I've placed that I intended to have as a 2/2 cache which a fellow cacher did at night approaching from the totally opposite direction which amounted to a fantastic cache log and some pictures of cut and scraped legs: 1 Number of caches my W.A.G. spouse has found with me: maybe 5 Days that I've ditched yardwork to go caching: umm, I guess about 30 Number of Night Hunts: 13 Number of night hunts for the purpose of obtaining a FTF: 4 Number of FTF: 10 Number of Forum Posts: this makes 4

I'd really like to see these logged as a special Jeep TB instead of a regular TB (with a special icon in my profile like the A.P.E. Project caches had) Just another way to make things competetive among cachers yet fun.

I'm excited as all heck about this new Jeep/Geocaching.com relationship. I was gonna go grab one today, sheesh, now I gotta wait a whole month. I'm in the Toledo area where all the Jeep Wranglers and Jeep Libertys are manufatured (Grand Cherokees are from Detroit) so it's gonna be really cool to get a few moving around this area. ps....Jeremy, the Northwest Ohio Geocachers would be happy to help distribute them, we can even start a bunch from caches right near the old and the new Jeep plants as well as a cache located in an area where the WWII Jeeps were stored prior to loading them on ships to head overseas.....anyway, it's just an idea. Later

Obviously cachews are the best food to eat while hunting geocaches.....plus the salt from the nuts help replace the salt I lose while sweating my a** off in unpleasantly humid Ohio It's true that not all who wander are lost, but if I left my GPSr at home, sometimes I am.