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Was at a local event and a bunch of us got ones placed in the park. While walking back to the picnic tables, we spotted a well known cacher standing by a roadside sign. As soon as he left, we ran over and signed the log. The local we had it signed before he submitted it on his iPhone. We told the local reviewer (who was also at the event) that this cacher was going to submit a cache and we had already found it! The cache was active later in the day when the reviewer got home.

Sometimes people have amazing camo. I found a cache under a footbridge. The name was Ben, which told me it was a fake rat, but it had real gray fur on it. It looked so real I had to poke it with my hiking stick several times.

The #1 cacher in the world is in my area. He is les than 500 shy of 100K. He has been retired for his 11 years of caching. Right now he is on the Rhine on a geocaching cruise with others. I have about 9250 finds n almost 11 years. It's not hard (much easier now) to get an average of10 on Saturday and Sunday for about 1000 a year. My best day was in November when I got 63, including a power trail of 55 caches on two roads. With a cache every 528 feet, It took 5 hours with a stop for wine tasting. I travel all over my area for work and in the summer,I will cache after 5 until sundown (I'm single). avoid the rush hour and enjoy the extra sunlight. It is not hard to rack up the numbers and the more you cache, the easier it is to find caches.

I have an etrex 20 (about $180.) It comes with a cable and has a standard USB port on one end. Just plug the GPS into the USB port and the GPS shows up as another hard drive. I download a PQ to my computer and unzip it. Drag the GPX file to the GPX folder on the GPS and voila, it is in the GPS!. Everything is available except the picture on the web page. If that is needed, that can be downloaded separately. When finding the cache, go to the Log Attemptmenu on the etrex and click Found. The cache is then put in a seperate found file and can be uploaded to the field notes section on the GC web site. They are all listed in the order found with a time stamp. If you want to download just one or two to your GPS, download the Garmin Communicator for Mac and click the "Send to My GPS on the cache page and the app will look for the GPS. when found, it will download it directly to the GPS. Much, much simpler than it used to be.

You aren't going to pass Alamogul, so don't worry about it.

There is one cache in my area that has about as many DNFs (228) as finds (236) . It's a badge of honor to DNF it on your first attempt. Took me 5-6 tries and I have found over 8K caches.

I take it as a recommendation not to go for it during the day. I went for this cache Friday 7/13. I pulled up , saw it was a real small playground with a few tables and full of kids. No problem. It goes on my rainy day list. I'll try for it when the weather is bad. Besides, there are tons of caches to get in that area.

They found his remains on April 17, 2012. http://www.buffalonews.com/city/communities/southern-tier/article818601.ece

They found his remains on Tuesday April 17, 2012. http://www.buffalonews.com/city/communities/southern-tier/article818601.ece

I've seen them glued into snail shells and buckeye shells.

The one at the transit police station was placed by one of the officers (since retired). Funny story about that one. One of the people trying for the FTF on that was looking at night. One of the officers came out of the station and asked what he was doing. The cacher hadn't found it. the officer made him open his trunk and got frisked, but was let go. The next day the officer was discussing what happened with another officer. It happened to be the cache owner! That officer became a cacher too. A year later the officer and the cacher he frisked meet up again at night for another FTF. They had a good laugh about it then.

I do environmental due diligence. Part of my job is to take exterior pictures of the property and of adjoining properties. One property was next to a middle school. Before I took any pictures, I went to the school office and told them what I was doing and showed them my paperwork. That way, no problems with the school or the cops. If you are middle aged, don't do anything near a school during the day without telling the office.

Downloaded and opened fine for me (OS10.6.5). Thanks to funkycaching for finding this!

You only need to find 42,109 more to beat Alamogul. But, of course, this increased during the time I was typing this. This Alamogul guy seems kind of fishy to me! He claims a daily best of 917 finds. Dusting off the old calculator, this means that if her was on for 24 hours straight he would have had to have found every 94.22 seconds. Assuming that they were not in violation of the anti-swamping rule, meaning that they must be at least 0.1 miles apart (and of course if they were not then they could not have been official caches and therefore rendering his claim invalid), and neglecting any allowance for actually finding the cache, signing the log and returning it to it location, he would have had to really be moving! I prefer quality caches that are more difficult and require a greater degree of thought and stealth then running around like an ant on crack! Guyfromdenver That best day was from the power cache trail near Area 51. I have cached with him and he finds all types of caches, from LPC to hikes in the woods. When you are retired at a relative early age, you can do that amount of caching. If you dally, he lets you know it.

A local cache is at a Mormon Church. It is in a tree (haven't found the cache yet) next to a softball diamond on the church property. The cache owner stated he got permission from the bishop. No problems with it. Just a good hide I couldn't find on my first attempt.

Miami style- under the dead coke dealer? (Say hello to my little friend!)

One well known cacher in our area accidentally put a spoiler picture up, but it stayed because he didn't know it wsa a spoiler. When he has a DNF, he puts a DNF coin where he looked and takes a photo. Once, he put it right on the cache without knowing it!

There was one in my area called "A Nice Long Screw". That's where the cache was. It was on a 20 ft or so long worm gear.

I'm originally from your area (Cheektowaga) and never saw them until I moved out west. Since the ground doesn't freeze here, the sprinklers have irrigation tubing buried in the ground. They pop up when the water is turned on.

In the SF Bay area, we don't do that at all. There are >190 people with >1000 finds and >100 with 2000 finds. We even have 9 people with >10K.

I know right where that is. I did a job three doors away from it.

55 degrees in the East SF Bay region. Went visiting on Christmas Eve and couldn't go back east like I normally do, so I went caching from noon to dark. Found 14, one DNF. Now need 21 to hit 5K.

OK Mr. Wolfe.

Since you have the password for his geocaching account, you could adopt all of his caches by acting as him on the site.. A local cacher that was in great shape (hiked Yosemite, etc) died of a sudden heart attack last year. His wife did not know his password. According to Groundspeak, his caches couldn't be adopted. Local cachers, including a reviewer got together and divided up the maintenance of his caches. If they get disabled, the local reviewers know to contact the local people maintaining his caches. One of teh parks in the area allows teh dedication of new picnic tables to people. Geocachers got together and got one engraved with a tribute to him. i think it's near where his ashes were spread. Another geocacher died when she lost control of her motorcycle several years ago. The local cachers have been maintaining her caches.

The property lines would come from the Tax Assesor's Offices. Here in CA it's on the county level, in other areas, it's on the town or city level.