NevadaWolf

Coins and Tokens GCY5B5 is the trailhead we used.

Course you folks from San Diego are secretly invading Nevada on a scouting mission for a California take-over? FTF hunts are just a cover. Congratulations on the find, sounds like it was a beautiful hike - but, what? No pictures?

Yes! Got mine today "Skillings River (ME)" in Carson City, NV.

I love my profile/gallery! I get soooo many comments on them. The one under the bridge in Lockwood is tough, we ended up calling John on that one (he's a good lifeline!) before we were able to find it. Event then it took some creative reaching. My boots are Nevados (from Big 5), solid leather and waterproof and run around $50-$60. Big and clunky at times, but have really good grip and lasted me a couple years before the tread wore down and the sole seperated from the shoe. Those boots helped me get the unofficial nickname of Gazelle from GeoJeepers and Mamma Gravy. Though I prefer Mountain Goat. The Tonopah thing is going to be my Statewide Meet & Greet to give all Nevadans and our neighbors a chance to get together in one central location (since Reno and Vegas tend to be north / south heavy). It'll be Saturday, October 20th. The event page isn't listed yet as RoadRunner advised that *all* important information must be on the page from the get-go. So I've got a friend calling and finding out info on food for me. I hope to get it up by mid-July.

Speaking of CharlyBaltmore - just before I called you for help on that <bleep> micro at Stage 1, I got a call from them asking for helping in locating an ammo can (turns out the can is gone). When I asked where they were, they replied "Um... well, Oregon." "Oregon?? I've only done two caches in Oregon." "Yep, and we're at them." CONGRATS TO CHARLYBALTIMORE FOR THEIR 400th FIND!!! AT THE ORIGINAL STASH TRIBUTE PLAQUE!!!

If that M word get's anywhere near my event, you and I are going to be having a long discussion very soon on just how two people are going to pull off overrunning a town of only 2030 people.

So it's Angel? Nope, Angel is very much a she (though where she was most of that event, I'm not sure). You were close with your answer of "Lil Devil", very close, but not right. I thought J&J were looking for the answer Lil Devil, that's why I gave the hint GW6. That's what is misleading.

That was my fault, I didn't realize what answer J&J were looking for.

Smartaleck answer - Honk! Jodi! She's not a figment of someones imagination!!! Okay, that makes more sense up here in that we've only ever met John and Jodi is rarely seen.

Why do you think I didn't just name him?

I dunno how to play this game, but I know who it is! (well, I even know all four in the shot!) ---- edit: removed my hint as it wasn't leading in the right direction.

Speaking of Bookmarks - I notice that when I receive an email on a cache I have bookmarked, if anyone else has that cache marked as well, I receive the email for them also in one very long email. Below is one example I received yesterday. The one titled "October 2006 Nevada Caching Trip Plan" is not mine, my list is "My Delorme Cache Finds". This is the shortest one I received, I have one cache marked that at least 15 other people have bookmarked... that email was insane! I began noticing this shortly after the upgrade as most of my bookmarks are for caches few people would want to watch.

Um, if you're talking ODL - according to habu! last year was from Cave Rock-ish to Emerald Bay to somewhere down 89. He said about a 15 mile radius. Not sure what this year looks like. If you're talking White Hill - it's above the Forest Service Maintenance Station just south of the Hwy 50/28 junction at Spooner Summit. Okies, dinner time.

Hurm, any plans for Sunday after White Hill?

Gah, make it sound like I'm kidnapping you! Well I guess I am! Lost - I'm going to figure out how to get MM out on the PLANK!

Nope, your feet end up in various places. There are caches in trees, in rivers, in lakes. They can be anywhere - from easy to hard.

Well shucks, here I was going to answer and Spyder jumped in before me! How's the Jeep, Spyder?? Northern Nevada is split between the three groups (NGA, GBES, and Groundspeak) GBES has the highest percentage of N. Nev, but there isn't much activity on it and lately it's just been a lot of announcements about the Rally. Though - when something big up here does happen with that group, they buzz for awhile, before settling back down. Here is a small percentage of N. Nev, but is more active than GBES. NGA is about the same percentage as here (cause it's the same people) an we talk all over the forums there. Don't just look in the Northern Nevada thread, that forum is active all across the board. Since you're here - keep posting here or jump over to NGA. Oh they will, there are some serious caches out there that take several trips to puzzle out. We have some wicked hiders around here. ::looks at geospyder:: GPS units all have varying levels of accuracy. Even if yours is dead on - the hiders may have been 15 feet off. Occastionally you'll luck out and stand right on it, but more often than not, follow Spyder's advice and once you get close (I usually wait till about 15-20 feet) stop and look for awhile. You'll start to see the piles of rocks/leaves/pinecones/sagebrush that nature never intended. Course, smalls/micros/nanos are a completely different approach. You get close and you start looking EVERYWHERE. "Burying" a cache is against guidelines - though it all depends on whoevers interpretation of that word. You won't ever have to actually dig down into the ground to retrieve a cache. You may have to uncover it from rocks, a light coating of dirt, or reach down into a natural hole to get it. But a shovel won't ever be part of your caching equipment. Yep! Well, technically - High in the trees.

Ahh, glad to know this isn't just my unit. My original eTrex Legend was replaced due to the band coming off and now my Legend cx has the same trouble. Glue and desert sun don't get along. I tried superglue, but it only held for another week or so. Thanks for the advice to email Garmin.

Nd has shot past her goal of an average of one cache per day in that year - Congrats Holly!!!

I agree with Jodi, until you get some (a lot) of caches under your belt, Byjer isn't the best cacher to start with. He stumps "us pros" as you call us and he's been named a Machavellian Cacher for his evil hides. Um, if you insist on trying his, 90% are small altoid breathmint tins with a super strong magnet on them. The rest are usually small containers than may or may not hold items. He does have a few ammo cans, but they are the exception. His are easy to get extremely frustrated over - ANY help you need, please ask. Of the events this weekend - while the Rally and ODL are all day things - I invite you to come to the White Hill event. All it is is a picnic lunch party on top of a hill - pure socializing and telling stories and hanging out with others who share this obession. No worries, no stress, no nothing except being around people who are at various stages in their caching careers - some who've been at it for years, others who started this year. You will always be welcome to any event, please consider it.

And, just in case you don't know what those are, here's the links:

Now John, hisgrace1 is new - be nice. Just cause you two ended up having a prank pulled on ya, doesn't mean MM isn't a perfect gentleman to everyone else. Course, I know the guy - so I know better! I'm really asking for trouble this weekend, I just know it... To quote someone else "Never piss off a geocacher - we know all the good places to hide the body." And Lake Tahoe is rumored to hold a bunch....

Congrats on Gooseneck - told you it was tricky, especially for newbies! You done good! Which ones in Wadsworth? There's a cacher named byjer who is devilish in his hides, get anywhere near Pyramid and you will run into his. MooseMob (moderator both here and on NGA) should be able to help you out with that email - check any Spam filters you have as the email may have been sent there. If you still can't find it - try this -- HEY MOOSEMOB - NEED SOME NGA HELP FOR HISGRACE1 and then watch as NevadaWolf runs for her little life. There are now three "groups" for conversation - this one (Groundspeak) is the least used, but good for getting ahold of the few of us who post here - and a lot of the San Diego cachers for some odd reason... NGA, though primarily Southern Nevada, has recently (this year) had a surge in Northern Nevada members. It's a link, sort of, between South and North, and the ones who frequent here are also on NGA (with only a few San Diego cachers having made it to NGA). The immediate area (Say from Gerlach, to Fernley, to Fallon, and down to Topaz) has the Great Basin and Eastern Sierra Geocachers (http://www.gbesgeo.org) and that email group is on Yahoo (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GBESGeocachers/). While a lot of locals (and some Californians from all over the state) are members of GBES, the emails are rather quiet on that end. Eastern Nevada - to the best of my knowledge - doesn't have a "group' nor do they have a regular online pressence. I think the cachers on that side of the state are scattered. But hopefully I can draw them out in October with the StateWide Meet&Greet I'm going to hold. If you have the time and interest, I'd suggest becoming members of all three - gives you a well rounded picture of what's going on where.

Oh ho! Don't feel bad about DNFing The Gooseneck - it's very cleverly done. Mamma Gravy and I were only able to spot it because there's just something slightly off about the board. The clue tells you what to do, think about the motion required by the hint and see if you can find something that would move in that way. Hope that helps! I saw you picked up ICN2U - that's my Dad's cache. He always get's excited when someone finds it as it's one of the few ammo cans in town, the rest are micros or small containers. It's hard to get burned out on caching - as long as you vary which caches you go after. Finding only one persons hides get's repetitive (depending on the hider). But, if you move around enough, each cache is it's own unique work of art, a different style, a different twist, a clever trick to hiding it. And yes - it is EXTREMELY addicting!!

Welcome to the sport!! Good job on finding the 6, which one did you not find? Some are clever enough that a DNF (did not find) is expected until you take a couple stabs at it. If you have any questions or need help with anything caching, just post here and we'll get you an answer. And happy anniversary, you two!!