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Nice job, We haven't found anything really cool in a cache yet, so we figured we'd try to leave better things in caches than what was in there when we got there. and little bags seemed like an easy to make, usefull item. Ohgr

Yes, But mine is FREE. And I'll be making them a little larger than the one shown so other brands of GPSr's will fit in them. Also able to hold Jellybeans, gold coins, small furry critters etc.... Thanks for all the input Guys and Girls.. Ohgr

My girlfriend and I are thinking about making some GPSr bags to drop in caches, and I was wondering about a couple things. Drawstring or Snaps? Belt-Loop or not? Any favorite geocacher colors for such an item? Would you actually use something like this? This is my first attempt, it came out a little small for my legend, we're going to design them so a Magellan Meri-Gold will fit in it. Thanks for any input. Ohgr

You could make it a multi with the first container containing the magnet with specific instructions that the finder HAS to return the magnet to the first box after finding the second. Or you could just let people figure it out on their own. Bubblegum on a stick would work, and everybody has those. The rating is up to you, depends on the hints you give, If you let people know what to bring, then the rating (In my book) go down. If they have to figure out how to retrieve the cache AFTER they get there, the rating goes up. Ohgr

I feel your pain.......

We "cooked" them as per the Sculpey instructions, is there some other curing time involved other than that. Also about what thickness are your coins? Thanks, Ohgr

Only problem I have found is that with the Sculpey clay coins is that they can get soft again after they've been sitting in a hot ammo can out in the sun. Ohgr

This is Nice, now I can add a feed to the geocaching page on my site. If anybody else would like to add RSS feeds to their website, I found a very handy RSS parser script LOCTAED HERE . You can see how it works on my tech news page . No personal plug intended, it's just a cool technology, and this is an easy way to impliment it on your site. Ohgr

While maybe not strange, I've recruited 3 of my fellow I.S. department workers. While none of us has turned into Super Cachers, we all really enjoy it when we can find time to get out and find a few. Ohgr

After seeing the cache I will admit I was very curious as to what was on the film in the camera, and was even more nervous about having it developed. There were no "Bad" photos on the film. I uploaded one of the Funny shots they took while they had the cache at their house. Cache Gallery Page I covererd the kids face, to protect his privacy and to keep myself out of trouble. Ohgr

I'm thinking the mailing of a note, with a copy of the pictures, and the cache log pages is going to be enough to satisfy my need for revenge. I would love to pound them all into a pulp, but in reality it's not going to help anything. I'll just replace the cache in a different area of the same valley and move on. Thanks for all the well wishing, and guidance, being as this was one of only two caches I had hid, it hit me kinda hard to see something bad happen to it. Thanks Again! Ohgr

I have all the cache pictures, not including the Nastiness.... I didn't want to post them here as they all look about 14 yrs old or so. If by chance they found the cache by looking here and printing a map, I thought about rehiding 100 yards. but making it a multi, with the first being a micro with only the coordinates in a micro and the second cache being the actual cache box. as I doubt they are GPSr enabled. The multi would allow me to hide the location of the actual box from anyone without a GPS. And if they found the micro they couldn't do much damage. Ohgr

They left a sealed box in the cache, sealed really well with lots of tape, with a note in the log that stated the box was one item, and if anybody wanted to trade for it, they should take the entire sealed box, and not open it til' they got home. Log also stated that they filled the box with a whole load of *hit....... I'll assume they knew the rules of trading from the GC info sheet I left in the cache, which they had also taped to the top of their box. Being the concerned cacher I am, I needed to know what was in the cache box in order to keep everyone safe, so I cut open the sealed box, and what I found inside the cigar box sixed box was litteraly a whole load of *hit whipped onto some boxers. I didn't know if they'd come back or not so I disabled it, rather than have some poor guy and his kids show up to a cache that would ruin their caching experience. Ohgr

I really like the idea of the Book cache. With a box that big you could also let people drop CD's, DVD's, VHS tapes, and small noisy children. Ohgr

Bear with the first part of the story as it all relates..... Ok, so I go into my favorite down the street greasy hole in the wall Mexican restaurant and I'm waiting for my take out order. I look up to see the cash register wishing me "Good Afternoon!" ?? Nobody said good afternoon when I walked in, so I'm going to assume that the world has become so busy that we've now tasked machines to greet people for us. One of my geocaches was vandalized in a pretty nasty way over the last couple months. I just found out about it yesterday when I went up the mountain to check on it. As it hasn't been found in quite some time. The vandals used the camera in the cache to take pictures of themselves, both at the cache site and at home. They went so far as to take the cache box down the mountain to their house, take pictures of themselves, vandalize the box, and return it to exactly the same spot where they found it including the now full camera. This is no small hike, it's almost 2 miles one way, and it's not flat ground, it's steep. So they walked almost 8 miles for their fun. The other thing I don't understand is how they found it in the first place. It's way the hell out there, and their first log said they found it at approx. 9:45PM. I almost didn't find it myself in the daylight, and I'm the person who hid it! How do I know all of this. I now have pictures of all of them. I have a picture of their house, including address, and they logged their adventures in the cache's log book, and to top it all off, one of them left a school picture in the cache with a note on it stating that if any hot chicks found his picture in the cache they should call him, and he left his phone number. How stupid are kids nowadays? I now have pictures, an address, and phone number. Oh, also when they signed the log book, the used their first and last names. And now it get's weird. So after being greeted with the "Good Afternoon" from the cash register above, I decide to run across the parking lot instead of sitting to wait for my food, as this place usually takes 10 or 15 minutes to get it ready. I walk into the 7-11 for a Gatorade, There are 3 customers in the store including me. One customer was a good sized older man, and the other customer (besides me) was a kid who looked VERY familiar, being as I had just spent the previous day looking at his pictures he took with MY camera, from MY cache box. I really just wanted to wring his neck, but for one, I'm not fond of jail, and for two, I suspected that the older guy was his father. I just let it go and walked back over to the restaurant. As I sat waiting for my food, I could see the front of the 7-11 through the window, I watched as the kid came out and climbed on his bicycle and rode up the street to where I assume he lives as evidence seen in the pictures. My chance to at least hassle this kid had ridden away. I'm open to suggestions as to what I should do about this. Should I talk to the parents, assuming I can find the house? Should I blow it off to kids having a little fun? Should I leave a burning cache container on their front lawn with a note? Ohgr

Isn't it weird how threads twist and turn............ :-) Leaving a new logbook to cover for a now soggy log book would be fine with me. And in a perfect world the person who replaced it would maybe try and preserve the old one by either drying the best they could, or maybe even aranging to send it to the owner. To me the logbook is the very heart of the cache. No matter what someone puts in the cache (within reason) the log book is the most irreplaceable part of the cache. And to see it thrown out and replaced with a shiny new one with no memories, no logs of fun hikes etc. would be very saddening. Ohgr

The most obvious things are the ones that stump me, My brain is looking for Tupperware, or an ammo box. The caches that are hard for me to find are usually things that look like they've been there forever, or look like junk somebody left behind a rock. If you really want people to have a hard time, do like some other people seem do. Say that the cache is at one set of coordinates in the middle of a pine forest, then put the cache 50 feet away, up in a tree, in said forrest, as a mini-micro disguised as a pine needle. Good Luck..

I've only got two caches placed, but I'd be pretty upset if someone replaced one of my containers without at least notifying me first and giving me a chance to fix it first if there was a problem with it. If the cache needs replacing notify the owner first, either through a note on the cache page, or better yet via e-mail. If you e-mail and get no response in some sort of reasonable time, then maybe add a note on the cache page stating that the cache is full of water, that way people know that the cache they're going to hunt might have a soggy log that they won't be able to sign. They can then decide before going to maybe put that one off until the container is fixed.

nicest thing taken from a cache? A hike filled without thoughts about work, bills, problems. worst thing you have seen in a cache? Probably just rocks taken from the trail on the way to the cache, for some reason people think that the rocks that are all around the cache belong inside the cache. What would you consider is the norm as far as cost of an item that you would leave in a cache? 2 or 3 bucks, Dollar store stuff that somehow relates to or could be used by outdoorsy people. And anything that a kid would like to find in a cache because that's usually the kind of stuff I like too. I'm just a big kid. Ohgr

My girlfriend's Geko aquires Sats. way faster than my Etrex, but I've never done the comparison with WAAS turned off on my unit. Both units seem to be equally accurate. As far as under the trees, for me it seems to depend on how close under the trees, as in how close the canopy to the ground, and how close you are to the tree(s). We did an orange grove cache a few weeks back, and both units were dead on. Ohgr

An earlier interview from April 29 2003 is available HERE Ohgr

My geocaching Section Only a little bit of info, and some pictures, I'll be moving to a new host soon, so I'll have room for more pictures, etc... Ohgr

I live in SoCal, and the highest accuracy I've even seen on my legend was on a very cloudy overcast day, Accurate to 5feet. At least that's what it said. Never saw it that accurate again. I will say that my girlfriends Gecko 101 sometimes seems more accurate than my Legend. But I still think it's a great little GPSr, and it has never failed to get me close enough to a cache to be able to find it. Ohgr

I've got a Legend and my Girlfriend has the 101, and since we cache together, I can tell you that her 101 is every bit as acurate as my legend. Also an interesting thing is that hers locks into sats way faster than mine. Must have something to do with mine having WAAS turned on? Ohgr

If you're at a news stand over the next week or so, look for the June issue of Bicycling magazine, Open it to the very center, (easily done because that's where the staples are) and you will see a nice 2-page Jeep/Geocaching ad. It kinda caught me by surprise, even though I knew that print ads existed. The guy with the backpack on looks like me when I go out caching. Ohgr