Cow Spots
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I might also recommend the new Tucson Travel Bug Mansion, GCJ418. It is a members only cache, but there's a ton of TB's in there.
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I dig the new look a lot, but it'll take me some time to get used to it.
One minor bug so far:
When I click on individual days of logs under the Geocaches logs... I sometimes get logs for that day _and_ the next day.
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The longest multi cache (time-wise) I did, and one of the best and most informative, is Evergreen's Stories , which I urge any geocacher in the Tucson area to do if they have the time.
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Their is one in a shopping mall here in Tucson that I have discussed in anouther thread, do a search for a topic called "Indoor Caches". I have seen the pages for many in parking garages
WildEarth : I just found the Tucson Mall one a few days ago, and my advice is : don't bother. This cache illustrates everything that can go wrong with indoor caches. The coordinates are absolutely useless, in fact the cache owner admitted he didn't bother to triangulate or approximate at all. There's absolutely nothing of interest in the container.
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Here's a 5/5 I did in the Tucson area.
While it doesn't compare to that volcano one... it's a doozy.
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Now I see a thread for worst day of geocaching.
Anyone care to share their bests?
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Best things I've ever left (OK only 2 things I've left as I have 2 caches hidden to my name) were a Franklin half-dollar and a DVD, both as FTF prizes on puzzle caches.
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I teamed up for a solid day of caching in the Phoenix area on Tuesday, and I simply have to say it was my most rewarding and fun day of geocaching to date. I'm a relative newbie (coming up on 6 months caching) but this was the most fun.
It started out with a Geocaching convention at sorts at The Baron of Arizona cache. My son turned into more of a helper than I would have liked, but we all had a great laugh, and you can check out the logs of the 24th if you want to check out the fun.
I then found the most clever container I've seen yet to date on a cache in Scottsdale, The Feed House. While I'm sure it's not the only one of its kind in the world, it was so different and unique in my eyes that it goes in my personal cache hall of fame.
In all we hit 17 caches yesterday, not a barnburner by any stretch but no slouch when you're towing a unpredictable 2 year old in tow.
I managed to hit 250 caches yesterday on the nose, which led me to be a little introspective on my experiences, particularly on those cachers I've met so far.
Geocachers, and I've probably bumped into 30-40 teams at events or out caching, are on the whole an unbelieveably cool class of people. Not 100% great... like any slice of life you might take, I've run into a couple whose viewpoints I differ with, a couple of jackasses, and a couple who give me the willies.
But on the whole, I've found the caching community to be overwhelmingly friendly, outgoing, intelligent, deviously clever, and just plain nice people.
Thank you for that.
--Mr Cowspot
P.S. Am I no longer a newbie at 250?
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A field I have some input in.
As I tell my customers at work:
If you want to take stills, buy a digital camera. If you want to shoot video, buy a camcorder. If you buy one thing expecting it to do both well, you'll probably be disappointed.
That being said... for the purposes of geocaching, something that takes 1 to 1.3 megapixel stills is more than suitable for transferring the images to GC.com. I just can't see the deep need for a video camera while geocaching.
Well... maybe on those DNF hunts. I can go home and study the video the way conspiracy nuts pore over the Zapruder film
== The Cow Spots
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I have a bug with an interesting goal, at least.... probably will never hit it though...
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As you seem to be in my neck of the woods, Wildearth, I suggest looking into caches by RSArizona and Wily Javelina.
Some of my personal favorites would have to be Wily's Giggles cache and Silny Bako Jeks' No Pocket Protectors.
Giggles in particular is one of the most evil caches I've ever done.
I've got one too : Good Evening
The Cow Spots
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One of my caches "500 Feet from the Pump Station" is hidden on the top of a hill within an illegal imigrant, and drug runner, campground (if you know what I mean). When I hid the cache I spent 6 hours up there carefully moving rocks from far and wide to not only cover the cache but to camoflauge the entire area on the top of the hill, all while not disturbing any rocks that are recognizable to the "campers". After everylog or so I try to get up there to rehide it myself. I find that most of the finders will make a big effort to hide the containter the way they found it, but most will miss the smaller detials.
I can attest to how many rocks are on top of this mountain. It took me twice to find it, and literally, if you wanted to punish someone, sifting through the rocks up here is a great way to do it.
I can understand why though, because there are clearly occasional 'residents' up here. Gave me the willies.
--The Cow spots
2nd Annual Cannonball Run
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Well I picked up the Cannonball Run Transporter TB today and MMM is within my reach. A buddy of mine and I may take it to New Mexico soon, or possibly El Paso, Texas if we're in the mood. NM border is less than 2 hours away from me.