Hiemdahl

I think this one is in your backyard and might be interesting. http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=79371

ALWAYS take water.

How about: TFTC/LTIITC/TN/SLB? (Thanks For The Cache/Left Trade Items In The Car/Took Nothing/Signed Log Book)

I believe the last given number was 9. TEN

A chipped nail from opening a microcache.

I use the maps mostly to find legal parking spots. From then on, it's just the GPSr.

Retired, US Army Infantry - 32 years Retired, Lockheed ADP (Skunkworks) - 14years Currently fielding Precision Targeting System for Close Air Support mostly in Europe Provides numerous opportunities for international cache hunts.

Try placing a traditional cache here. http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=79377

I will admit that I do use the My Cache Page to keep track of finds and as a quick shortcut to specific caches. This said, I still would have no interest in an overall ranking. I'm not competing with anyone.

OK, keep the stats as long as you keep the virtuals.

I doubt it. I have been geocaching for over two years and sometimes I never get around to logging a find. The fun is in the hunt. In fact, it was a couple of months before I ever got around to regestering on the site.

I stand by my first comment. Seekers vote with their logs. I suspect that most cachers read the logs before they set out for a specific cache. Personally, if a virtual appears to be a lame one, I just skip it. I think we all agreed, after 9/11, to only do virtuals near sensitive areas. Washington DC being a prime example (plus the fact that every bit of greeen in DC is administered by the National Park Service). Further, for very good reasons, vacation caches have gone away. So, if you find an good cache spot while traveling that you would like to share with other cachers, you only have one option. There is a place for virtuals. If you don't like them, stay away from them.

Actually, here in Dallas/Fort Worth we have a monthly breakfast, thru the efforts of a couple of great citizens, Geovamp and MSdark. What I was refering to was the "flash" part.

Thanks for the link. But I just had a vision of trying to explain to the Dutch police what I was doing shoving an ammo box into the support structure of a bridge over the Rhine river near a major military base. They were less than amused when I ended up driving the wrong way down a bus lane into oncoming traffic. The ammo box would be even harder to explain.

Geocaching mascot? Either a mosquito or a chigger!

P.S if you announce one and I am late... go ahead and start without me.

Isn't this called an event?

So what is the big fuss about virtuals? On various business trips I have placed them, 1. at the Berlin wall, 2. The airport in El Centro, CA, the Marine memorial at Camp Lejune, NC, and the Pegasus Bridge in Arnhem Holland. The one at Camp Lejune was a traditional cache until 9/11 and Marine Security removed it. In all of the other cases a traditional cache would have been inappropriate or impossible. (plus the fact that cache maintenance is difficult if you only get back once a year or so.) The seeker has the choice of looking for it or not. You vote with your logs. A lame cache will go away if there is no traffic, and the cacher will expend more effort the next time.

There was a cache in England called the "Flatuent Gnome" a simple motion detector and circutry concealed in a plastic garden gnome. As you were poking thru the underbrush, he would announce when you were near the cache.

They would be very useful doing urban caches. All of that distracting traffic noise while crossing the street looking down at the GPSr.

The dark blue windbreaker with "BIOHAZARD RESPONSE TEAM" stenciled on the back is a definite plus.......

Was it posted as an event cache?

Also, never forget to enter a waypoint where you park your car. It comes in handu if you wander out of the woods in a different spot than where you went in.

What also works is to wander around in circles with a glazed look in your eyes, holding your GPSr to your ear and repeating over and over "can you hear me now?......good".