Cow Spots

Tucson has quite a handful of puzzle caches, yes, but hundreds upon hundreds of non-puzzles. Many more larger caches than you'll find in the Phoenix metro area as well. Like Phoenix, you may have to visit a Mountain Park or other off-the-beaten trail area to get to some of the larger caches. Good suggestions include Tucson Mountain Park, the Mount Lemmon area, and the Pima County Trail. A while back I made a bookmark list of cool caches in Tucson, the types of which range all over the map. A Taste of Tucson - Bookmark list If it's helpful, great! Hope you enjoy the visit. ==The Cow Spots

TT's nephews enjoy geocaching a bunch. You just gotta pick and choose when and where to take them. Here's some pics of TT's nephews. 4 month old Jason at the Florence Arizona area Campout Event cache last month (where I met Thunder-4!) My son Colin at a desert geocache

Heck, I did that one in the morning in March and the heat almost killed me.

Quick and simple answer : I live in/near the desert, and people have placed caches out there. Therefore, I must find them. Q.E.D. Long answer : Me after a 4200+ vertical gain hike. The ruins of a fort from the 1870's. Cowspot Jr. finds a Geocache in the desert. It's a long way down from on top of Golden Gate Mountain in the Tucson Mountains. That's why we cache in the desert.

Heck, if I'da known you were out at Kitt Peak, I mighta drove down the road a piece to say hello.

There's always this cache. How Accurate is YOUR GPS?

Here's a bookmark list I put together for Tucson a while back that includes some good local caches. No puzzles are included in this list. http://www.geocaching.com/bookmarks/view.a...a5-d4c758740733

I agree. Which is why I made: Just say NO to Sudoku!

I received a Lowrance Eagle Explorer GPS as a first finder prize in a puzzle cache a couple of years ago, and at that time it was a fairly old GPS. I don't use it on a regular basis at all, but it's nice to have as an emergency backup.

The Paul Forbis Travel Bug was one of the very first travelbugs I encountered. It was a logbook with a pinch of ashes. Sadly, it vanished mid-2004.

I often play a game called "Where the #@$&*^ did I leave the GPSr and Palm Pilot?!?" The game lasts as long as necessary.

Well as i said this one is in a particularly aggrivating spot. I pulled up the suggested parking coords on an arial photo and it is only about 10 spaces down from MY parking spot. Well as I said before, i dont particularly want to post it in here because the owner has posted in here before that he sees that as bad (and I dont blame him, i would be the same way) but here is a bookmark list of all the challeging puzzles i am faced with (just for those of you who are curious) bookmark As for asking the owner I think it is a little early to ask for hints strait from him (there are still one or two "usual suspects" who have not found it and i have only been betting my head on the table for a few days now I feel your pain, and I'm pretty sure which puzzle cache of mine is the one aggravating you. I agree that the cache page description does not appear to even admit the existence of a puzzle --- however, not all is as it seems.

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The week I taped WBSM was Jimmy Kimmel's last week. The staff was a little shellshocked since he apparently just dropped the decision on them like a bomb. Nevertheless, he was a cool guy. Both he and Ben were very cool. Enough about WBSM anyway, back to the Jeopardy! props.

Congrats! I was once on "Win Ben Stein's Money" (tied Ben at the end) , but since that predates my geocaching involvement, it's not nearly as cool.

For $12 bucks a coin, I'd also want a collectible "The Making of my Personal Geocoin DVD" and a maple display case.

If you read the logs, the puzzle provides information helpful for the original location of the cache. But then that hiding spot was damaged by Mother Nature, so the owner moved the container to a new spot. Rather than re-doing the puzzle, the owner asked for finders to e-mail the answer to the puzzle in order to receive the coordinates for the new location. So, that was all added after the review process, if I'm reading the history correctly. (Note: I did not attempt to solve the puzzle.) Yes, you actually read and interpreted what happened accurately. The Cow seemed to have skimmed over and did not fully understand the history before mooing about whims. An alternative would have been to provide offsets to the new location from the old solution, providing cachers with a way to get the coordinates without your input. Not having solved the puzzle, I don't know whether this is feasible, and back in 2004, the rules about emailing the coords weren't in place. Thanks for the suggestion to more fully read your cache page. It seems you narrowly were able to provide the coordinates in a timely fashion once already. (3/27/2004 log -- after waiting a day, they went for it anyway, and luckily [for them] you SMS'd them the coordinates 4 miles into a 12 mile hike.) I wasn't trying to judge your cache ; but this perfectly illustrates why this coordinate delivery system doesn't seem to be allowed anymore. Moo.

I didn't think the "I'll email you the coordinates" type of puzzle was even approvable anymore anyway. My interpretation of the puzzle cache submission guidelines is that the coordinates had to be determinable from the information provided on the cache page -- not at the whim of someone emailing them after the fact.

I thought about that very tactic... poisoning the well, so to speak... but found that it wasn't worth my time.

If this is the same site I became aware of a few months ago, please don't post a link to it. I've seen it, and I don't ever want to see it again.

Jason Christopher Thompsen (TT's new nephew) 8 lbs 5 oz ... 22 inches DOB : November 17th, 2005 3:24 PM MST

Wasn't the first puzzle cache you placed , in fact, poached, Jeff? Pay Homage to the Master (now cared for by Dr. Boggis) vs. Good Evening

Good. My vending machine at work's getting a little low.

The long way to do it is to visit the URL: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest.aspx?state_id=3 (using my home state of Arizona) and clicking the double arrow to go to the last page. For other states, replace the number at the end of the State ID URL. I believe they go from 2 [Alaska] to 51 [Wyoming]

Puzzle caches _are_ geocaches --- they contain a logbook and a container. They just happen to have additional twists before you can find them. Things that got moved over to Waymarking were caches defined as not true geocaches --- typically without containers or logbooks. If ya don't like 'em --- hit the ignore button. You'll never see 'em again.