lpyankeefan

glens911 posted the link I'd go to. The MGS is a GREAT group of cachers. I'm sure if you posted a thread over there someone a little closer to your home wouldn't mind joining up with you. We would, but we're about an hour west of you. Good luck! Larry (lpyankeefan)

ALL LIES, you don't like puzzle caches do you. I see it, now. (It's not that I don't like puzzle caches, it's just that I stink at them.) My eyes just tend to glaze over and then roll back into my head. Oh! The PAIN!

I'm crushed. I remember the first time I ran across PUC #9. The shock. The wonder. People REALLY did this??? Now my bubble has been burst..... sigh.... WOW Vinny, You got some 'splaining to do! You mean to tell me that not only have we not really found fourteen extreme caches with high terrain/difficulty ratings, but now I'm a figment of my own imagination and don't REALLY exist?!? Ponderous!

I do believe that this is one of the shortest posts by Vinny that I've ever seen. GASP! (NO tall tale here!)

Thanks all! Seems that we need to expand our search radius much further afield. Looks like there's LOTS of caches to the east and northeast! New Jersey and Delaware here we come!!!

Thanks to all who've posted! We actually hit 1000 at 1000 Smilies awhile back, but we did recently hit our 1000th regular geocache find according to our stats bar (not that we're counting or anything!!! ) Heck! if I'm not mistaken I beleive that Gaiter Man, Snurt, Alex of The_Incredibles, and vyper4 were there for our 1200th cache find during the "Cool Yule" event in York, PA. We're still having fun and can't wait to go caching in Mexico, Costa Rica, and Panama as well as Florida in July! LOTS of miles!

Fergus Chain Mail! Fergus is old school....I mean REALLY old school! As an active SCA member and a geocacher he combines the two by placing chain mail balls, pouches, and hanging candle holders as FTF prizes into his new caches and local regular sized caches that he finds (He's not a big fan of the micro hide, but will do them with a group). When a new Fergus cache is placed you should see everyone run! He also brings a few of his balls (NO JOKES PLEASE!) to events for the travel bug table or to hand off to a cacher for some various thing or another. He's been VERY kind to Alex of The_Incredibles and his wife has been very kind to Laura also! Thanks to him for one of the coolest sig items we've come across. There used to be a photo of one of Fergus' chain mail balls on Jeremy's desk at Groundspeak HQ on the front page.

My bug Are we allowed to toot our own horns on here? This one recently made it home after two years in the wild. It went to a lot of events and even made it out to a few caches. Who says big bugs won't travel? It's almost full of signatures so I would like to release a second one and just take the original to event caches. toot toot! Oh yeah, samirsyi, I like your bug! The baby seat is a nice touch. I had thought of doing a bicycle myself (I have plenty!) but you beat me to it. I got to hike Mary Proppins out of the woods on my shoulders! Heavier and bigger than what I thought it would be, but I wasn't going to just leave it part way down the trail. We had fun showing up at CCCooperAgency's "Cool Yule" event to return it to kingsting.

Always willing to lend a hand. I know of at least one team that's going to be doing this one when the weather gets a little warmer. I've also heard rumours of a few other cachers who want to attemp it also, but have not set definitive dates.

Been there, done 'em, got the t-shirt! P.S. If anybody is going to be coming to the Frederick, MD area and would like to meet up for some help drop me a line. Cache On! Larry

Hi there! An event can be as small or as large as you make it. Most of the time it's an excuse for geocachers to get together and talk geocaching, trade bugs or coins, show off coin collections, and (at least in our case) EAT!!! I would find a place that can easily accomodate the size crowd that you expect and then find out if they can block you off a space and time. Take coordinates just outside the restaurant, or pavilion (if it's in a prak) and then submit your event page. A few weeks prior ,on't forget to make reservations, call to confirm them. You may also have giveaways (if you wish), or rafffles (a prefilled ammo can would be a great idea, just don't empty your wallet!) You can also ask others to chip into the pot. ABOVE ALL HAVE FUN!!!!! P.S. Please feel free to check out my profile for events attended and ones that we've hosted. You can also write me if you have any questions. GOOD LUCK!

We do have roving cache police. Thankfully they have not yet formed bands. Already got 'em in my area.

Having done all of Vinny and Sue Team's Psycho Caches (still missing one of Sue's Puzzle Caches though) I can tell you that they're ALL fun. I'm sworn to secrecy about a couple of them, but suffice it to say that PUC#13 is a grand cache. Oh. you can see it all right, from about 250' away, but retreiving and replacing the container intact is the key. I think that that cache was foremost in the minds of about a dozen or so cachers in the area until it was finally retreived on a rainy Saturday morning in September. I'm still waiting for word on when someone else will be making an effort. I'd like to watch and help out if asked. Now, to tackle "Blood and Guts" in Virginia.

Keystone & Lep are the same person. YAY! OMG!!! NO Kidding! Waiting for the flames!

We found out about geocaching in Fall of 2003 through a local full page newspaper article. At the time we were still fixing up our house AND had a two year old daughter that wet through LOTS of diapers, formula, food, etc. etc. etc. No GPS Fast forward to beginning of 2005. Still no GPSr (but I still had the kids!!!) LOL We decided to try it without a GPSr. With a little help from a friend hinting at us we wer able to find almost 50 caches between March and June of that year. Now it's just become an obssession. If it doesn't have a check mark next to it it eventually will. Good luck, have fun, and don't be afraid to ask for help. LPYF

Great, I go out and get a fresh stack of $20 bills, and then I read this. I've shredded them, and I will go back to TNLN. I would hate to stir up any issues. Thanks for setting me straight, Brian. You da man! Papercuts Lep! They're a dangerous thing! I can only imagine the wound once infection or gangrene sets in.....then how will you feel?...all because of your nice crisp $20.00 bills!!!!

VINNY! VINNY! VINNY! Do I need to tell them how much you spent on your last cache?!? I can't wait for PUC#14! BRING IT ON!!

Hey joefrog! I remember finding one of your coins and a joefrog marshmallow gun in this cache! The kids still LOVe that thing! Lots o' fun! Getting back to the matter at hand I find it unusual that TPTB still haven't weighed in officially on these caches. What is the official Groundspeak policy on replacing containers/logbooks/locations of caches? Currently: 1:You ARE allowed to replace containers that are a poor choice/leak/cracked/animal muggled/destroyed by car tires(YES, this has happened to me!) without archiving the cache. 2:You ARE allowed to periodically/REQUIRED to replace full/moldy/damp/animal muggled logsheets/strips/books without archiving the cache. 3:Geocaching.com DOES allow for slight variance or moving of a cache container via the change coordinates log without archiving the cache. 4:SWAG occasionally needs to be switched out (due to geo litter, dampness, etc.) without archiving the cache. What happened if you needed to do all of the above all at once? Questions for thought. What say you? Larry (lpyf)

I LOVE this hide! Well, at the time I HATED it! ALex of The_Incredibles and I searched for about thirty minutes while Mrs. LPYF and Laura of The_Incredibles waited in the car. She eventually walked over and without batting an eye said "There it is!" DOH! She was right! I HATE it when she does that! LPYF

Now as to a serious reply to this thread. In our area we have one hider (You know who you are!) that has elevated the urban micro to almost mythical status. His hides are works of art. Those that aren't ALWAYS take me someplace and teach me a little bit about history. Turns out this guy has a degree in teaching. Joking around with him one day I told him that he didn't have any regular sized hides. I think he was going to cry! Thinking back over his list of hides the largest container that I remembered seeing was a medium sized lock and lock. I knew just how to remedy the situation.....I gave him two ammo cans and DARED him to place them. Long story short he placed a four part multi with one step being a VERY creative small hide, another practically a hydrocache in it's own right, and the EXTREMELY well camoed ammo can! There are other hiders we've encountered who hide nothing but lamppost micros and hide a keys. I am not complaining about the caches themselves (I did after all log them as finds!) just the lack of creativity. I will ruminate upon this topic just a little bit more. In the meantime I have a ODS Seed Cache I have to find a hiding spot for! (DUCKS BEHIND CHAIR!)

RIGHT CLICK, SAVE!!! Too danged funny!

Hey Vinny! It WASN'T cheap beer! It was Mad Dog 20/20! They had a special on it at the local store! A buck a bottle! But with the FTF money that I got out of the cache I can move up to a box of cheap wine! Sigh. . .! Why is it that you are the ONLY local geocacher whom I know who seems to be every bit as immature and insane as me? It is very sad... ...tragic By the way, getting back on topic for a moment... I did some math last nite, based largely upon some numbers which were reported to us by some of the members of Team Psycho. Counting the time which your team spent in evaluating the site, strategizing, purchasing and organizing gear, making one long (5 hour) unsucessful initial attempt the previous weekend, and finally, the successful attempt on Saturday (9/23), I estimate that each of the eight team members of your team spent at least 13 hours apiece on this effort. That is 13 hours multiplied by eight persons, and that yields a grand total of about 104 hours which your team spent to pull off a nearly-impossible engineering task; please bear in mind that this is the same method which I had dismissed two weeks earlier as too difficult and too prone to failure and too prone to loss of the cache container during the operation. BTW, the reason why I have employed the math which I did here is that the engineering feat which Team Psycho accomplished required at least seven or eight persons working at it full-time to make it happen; it could not have been pulled off with significantly fewer team members -- although I still cannot see why the team needed you sitting in your car drinking Mad Dog 20/20 and listening to tragic Country & Western ballads on the car audio system (with the 800 watt bass cranked to maximum) while they did all the work out there in the river. . . To me, this investment of 104 hours by a team of 8 persons is amazing! It must surely count as one of the most intensive efforts ever made by a cache finder (or find team) to recover a Terrain 5 cache! Note: Late edit to correct emoticon abuse; forum server had advised me that this post was abusing innocent emoticons. We only let you think that it took us that long! If you add up the number of hours spent fishing for breakfast, growing our own potatos, starting the fire, frying it all up and then taking a nap afterwards you might be close. We didn't want to hurt your feelings, it REALLY only took us about 15 minutes from start to finish. You can clean the dishes if you want! BTW if you hear about any serious attempts, let me know. I think I'd like to watch from the Rumsey Overllok this time!

Hey Lep! Anything there for wild ninja hamsters?!?

I agree about the incredible teamwork on the part of the find team -- I salute the entire team, even Larry (LPYankeefan), who sat in his car napping and drinking cheap beer the entire time! (Larry, why do I feel this sadistic need to pick on you all the time?) Oh, and by "large team", I meant about eight persons, so we are both in the same ballpark. Thank you for all the fun! Hey Vinny! It WASN'T cheap beer! It was Mad Dog 20/20! They had a special on it at the local store! A buck a bottle! But with the FTF money that I got out of the cache I can move up to a box of cheap wine!

WOW! It's NOT just a cache...it's an adventure!!! Now that the cache is safely tucked back on it's lofty perch awaiting the next finder(s) I can reveal a view things both here and in my back dated log entries. Not wanting to give anything away publicly while we strategized we decided to not post any DNF's until we were done. I will say the following for now. I was on the bank the day that Vinny placed the cache and watched with glee and much merriment as the small helicopter flew overhead. I quickly informed some of the other members of Team Psycho and then later filled the rest in. It was fun watching to see what Vinny posted on the thread and to the forums and see what everyone else was guessing. More to come later......