GnOArmyChicks

Here you go oh my goodness!! thank you so much!! it is perfect! i posted so long ago, i wasn't really sure if anyone had seen the request. thank you thank you thank you!!!

it was no problem! we had a very interesting and eventful day.

the other Chick and i need to get that page on our Delorme challenge, so i will check with her and the next time we do a full day caching hunt, i'll see if we can head down that way. i've got the cache page on our watch list, and hopefully we can get down there in the next couple of weeks. it is a bit of a drive, but i will keep you posted, OK? kat (of the ArmyChicks)

on the Hide & Seek a Cache page, there are links for the "stash notes", both the standard and for micros hope this helps

don't know if anyone is still taking requests, but if so, i have one please: GC ID: GnOArmyChicks we leave little plastic army dudes, green and orange, as our sig item and would like an avatar with one of each, in different poses. you know, the traditional poses that you see these guys in. i have tried to put one together, but i am not artistic and my clip art book, amazingly, does not have images of little green army men. 1400+ pages of images, but not the ones i need in this case. thanks in advance to anyone that responds. the Chicks

a couple of months ago, we were using "Ready-To-Go Micros" that we made, as trade items in some caches. just a small pill bottle or film canister with a bagged log in it. what was fun was that out on a cache hunt about a month ago, we found a very recent hide ... that was one of out RTG micros! (recognised the sticker we had placed on the lid to cover up the store name where we got the bottles)

things i have learned in just over three months of geocaching (along with all the other things folks have mentioned): 1) a really great hunt is not as much fun without someone to share it with (won't go out without my partner) 2) we are only the most stealthy when we are *not* hunting a cache. 3) you always remember your first: first find, first hide, first event, first TB picked up/moved/launched, first cacher met in the feild, etc. 4) i am not as much of a wuss as i thought, marching through briars in capri pants or shorts, determined to wear tank tops in the heat and not stressing about sunburns 5) mosquitos these days seem to love the taste of bug spray, since no matter how much i use, i always end up with the itchies 6) no matter how many caches i find, i will never stop enjoying the hunt, and marveling at the next most creative container i see 7) nanos are only cool the first time you find one

possible solution to bring back what seems to be an interesting hide (and avoid all the "no container" and "defacement" issues): get your own phonebook (one that is out of date and up for recycling maybe?) glue half the pages together and hollow out a section of the middle to fit a container for the log (and secure it to the inside so it does not fall out.) with any needed permission granted, attatch the whole *container* to the phone booth/area and mark it with a geocaching sticker/logo on the cover. no defacement. log is in a container (you could even make it large enough for small trades and trackables.) and the interesting placement is back. all within guidelines. just some thoughts

it was in a mirco (a magentic key holder) and was pretty well crammed into it. i'm really surprised that it fit, but yeah, we were looking at it as a trackable, so we didn't trade, although our usual trade items would not have fit in this particular container we are usually good about trading even/up. now i feel bad.

that's the one! so even though it looks like the code is scratched off, it's not really? cool. guess it can go in the collection, or another cache thanks

while out caching (naturally) last night not far from home in Georgia, we stumbled on a coin from Michigan in a micro. we pickied it up to move on it's way, only to find, when we went to log it, that the tracking code seems to have been scratched off i am hoping that someone here may be able to help on tracking down the code, or the owner, or some kind of lead to figure out how to log it, since it does appear to have been trackable in the past. the side of the coin where the code should be is an image of Michigan, devided into four areas, each in a different color (yellow, green, blue and orange), with footsteps passing through each of the four areas. the top edge says "Four Chapters * One Community", and the bottom edge says "Michigan Geocachers Organization" on the other side of the coin is an image of a light house shining light in four directions, with a green edge that says "Fort Gratiot Light" on top and "Port Huron, Michigan 1825" on the bottom. i know it's a long shot to find out any info on this coin, so i am not holding my breath, but if anyone has any ideas as to the origins of this coin, i would be so greatful. i am hoping that i can atleast add a card to the coin pouce with the code so that it can keep on being trackable. thanks much an ArmyChick

our Garmin GPS V (that we "inherited" from some parentals when they upgraded) is called "Fiver", after the character in Watership Down. he usually has a vague idea of where we should be going and tends to freak out when he thinks we are going the wrong way. will have to see if the Ique 3600 we got on ebay today will aquire a name

we have talked about this type of cache camo between the two of us before, and we both agree that, while on the outside it may seem like a neat idea, it just invites too much possiblilty for over zealous cachers to cause undue distruction. while most of the folks on this forum seem to have good heads on them, there will be those cachers that might get nutty about the "it might be the birds nest" idea, and go around disrupting real nests. the whole idea behind caching (at least from what we can tell) is to hunt caches, while being respectful of the environment they are hidden in. if we were to find one of our hides was a detriment to the surrrounding area, you'd better beleive it'd be taken down ASAP. better to err on the side of caution and leave the nests to the birds.

well, my partner and i seem to follow the trend of finding the hard way in to the cache, then seeing an easier way to get back out. happens with or without a set of coords for parking. however, we have gone back to some of our earlier cache hides and added parking waypoints, usually as a result of logs indcating there was a dificulty finding parking. prime example being a couple of caches we hid on a *very* long trail (the Silver Comet Trail in georgia, for those familiar with it). we walked a 10 mile stretch of it one day and hid 4 caches along the way, not thinking that most folks were not gonna do the same trek to get to them that we did to hide them so we went back and found some parking waypoints for a couple that needed them. i agree that it is usually more of a courtesy on the part of the owner, no need to make it mandatory.

had a caching trip cut short when we got a call that our dogs had gotten loose! after recovering from the heart attacks, we high-tailed it home to find them, and thankfully they were ok.

my partner and i are fairly new to caching, but we have been having a blast, both hunting and hiding. while we were out doing some upgrading on one of our hides today, it occured to us that we don't really know what to do with the old log. we don't want to just throw it away, since folks went to the trouble to sign it and all. so i guess this question is to folks who may have been hiding caches for a while. what do you do with your old logs? thanks for any advice