Jennifer&Dean

What you probably saw was a Peak Book (or something like that) that was placed for folks who made it to the top to sign. They precede Geocaching and quite a few peaks have them. The nearest to me is on Lolo Peak, and it was placed YEARS ago, in a metal container by the forest service or someone who was into climbing peaks and got permission to place it. Essentially, it is a container with a log book or pieces of paper that visitors have signed over the years. Sometimes FS lookouts have them as well. The one on Lolo Peak has a long history of signers from what I hear. I am looking forward to finding it next summer. Currently, there are 3 or 4 cachers planning on being the FIRST to place a real cache on the mountain, but it won't compete with the log book, and will probably give the coordinates for it as well. I don't know of any "list" available of Peak Logs, good luck finding more info. -Jennifer Where am I going? I ain't certain. When will I get there? I don't know. All as I know is I am on my way!

There is a cache in Great Falls, Mt that requires you to read a sign. The problem being that the sign is no longer accessable by trail so you have to be on top of the cliff, looking down, at just the right angle. Binocs come in pretty useful for that cache. Also, our First In Butte virtual(currently unavailable due to being closed for the winter, virtual because it is on private property) has been answered by someone using their telephoto lens! -Jennifer Where am I going? I ain't certain. When will I get there? I don't know. All as I know is I am on my way!

It looks like the closest cache is GC9A9E, in Tibet with a view of Everest. I think an Everest cache would have to be at least a 7 terrain! (I'm in the midddle of reading about several expeditions and their outcomes- very much a place I don't want to climb to!) -Jennifer Where am I going? I ain't certain. When will I get there? I don't know. All as I know is I am on my way!

A few of the folks who cache around here work at the same office, in different depts. When Dean and I started caching, we discovered HE already knew 5 of the other cachers! It has made caching kinda neat 'cause we will meet them on the trails or at the cache and join up with them for the rest of the hikes or searching (Read the first logs for GCBAEE). It is really fun to cache as a group when it happens. -Jennifer Where am I going? I ain't certain. When will I get there? I don't know. All as I know is I am on my way!

GC9253 has been playing in Missoula since it was moved here from Indiana. It is pretty neat. -Jennifer Where am I going? I ain't certain. When will I get there? I don't know. All as I know is I am on my way!

Looks like the Coeur D'alene,ID and Spokane, WA folks may be able to help you also. I'm 80 miles South of that Latitude. Maybe check the caches near CDA and see if anyone has one at a similar lat, and contact it's owner? Good Luck! -Jennifer Where am I going? I ain't certain. When will I get there? I don't know. All as I know is I am on my way!

I HAD changed my colors, several times, but they never changed anything for these forums. That was why I was wondering how a different browsers interperted the colors. I think it is neat that not everyone is seeing the same page that I am. I've got to go to campus to see what the computers in some of the labs there see. -Jennifer Where am I going? I ain't certain. When will I get there? I don't know. All as I know is I am on my way!

I just have to be curious about this...What browsers are you guys using? I use the newest Microsoft IE and I see grey for read forums and blue for unread forums. I just wonder what the rest of the world sees when they are here. -Jennifer Where am I going? I ain't certain. When will I get there? I don't know. All as I know is I am on my way!

Nice Cards Everyone! Thanks for making them available. -Jennifer Where am I going? I ain't certain. When will I get there? I don't know. All as I know is I am on my way!

Neat idea! I love air photos! a local cacher has done something similar with regular photos and coordinates, and they aren't as easy as they seem. (GCA914 & GCAFAA) -Jennifer Where am I going? I ain't certain. When will I get there? I don't know. All as I know is I am on my way!

HI! The Missoula Org. Of Geocachers is having it's first event for this year! GCC72B. We'd love to see a ya! -Jennifer Where am I going? I ain't certain. When will I get there? I don't know. All as I know is I am on my way!

But if you gave coordinates for the courthouse area, why are they complaining? This is an obvious multi step that is not different from many other puzzle multisteps except you don't need the GPS to find the final location. I'm working on solving one right now that is more complex but doesn't seem to require constant GPS use. Just the ability to follow obtuse directions. Yours are much easier. I think this one should be voted on. Make it a ? cache if it it the letterbox that is making it unapproved. -Jennifer Where am I going? I ain't certain. When will I get there? I don't know. All as I know is I am on my way!

Weird! I just had the same problem pop up! We placed a note on one of our caches on Friday, and recieved notification that the cache had something logged on it on Sunday! And a copy of a note I had written to another cacher on Friday also arrived Sunday. I hadn't noticed they were late because I had figured Dean had already cleaned them from my account (we share it). So, SeaTrout, You Are Not Alone! Later, Jennifer Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. (JM Barrie)

In the universes I am already deceased in, I am creating caches located at the remains. In the universes I still survive in, those with the technology which my alter self can use get a lesson in geocaching. Alternately, the universes without the technology get a lesson in letterboxing. When I am deceased in this universe, my tombstone/memorial will have a cache located within it..... Gotta make sure Everyone of me is participating! (I really wish I could DO all that!) Have a Great Weekend! -Jennifer Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. (JM Barrie)

I believe that in several parallel universes, I may actually be a non-geocacher, but I am in the process of hunting my selves down to change that. Is that what you want to know? -Jennifer Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. (JM Barrie)

I've used hotmail since we joined up and have had no spam and no problems. I DID have to add Geocaching.com to my safe list thingy. Also, I made it so my Junk Mail folder did not empty automatically, so I could see what I was throwing away. My recommendation, go to your hotmail account, send a note to another account. Go to that account, copy the address from your hotmail account's message. Go to geocaching.com, sign in and update your account (put in password so it accepts changes) with the copied account name. Then post here that you did it so we can all E-mail you sometime this weekend. -Jennifer Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. (JM Barrie)

You might want to talk to the Geography Department. The Univ. Of Montana Geog. dept has a habit of taking students out "looking" for stuff around campus as part of it's Geography courses. I'm sure that your school does also. Maybe you can find a teacher who can be a faculty touchstone type person. Most universities will even slightly fund a club if you have more than 5 intrerested people. Good Luck! (My first intro to GPSrs was a day making a track map of a local island, I signed up with Geocaching.com almost immediately after I finished that project! An idea- Get the local Geography group to help, or set up as a subset of the Geography club.) -Jennifer Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. (JM Barrie)

Seen those.... copying some of them, with our own twists. Got new ideas recently also.... but can't tell until they have been placed/found a few times. Favorite container that I have heard of is a drilled out rock. Can't wait to find that one! -Jennifer Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. (JM Barrie)

Thanks, you guys are Great! Sounds like the new setup will be really nice, I am looking forward to it! -Jennifer Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. (JM Barrie)

Is there a way to change our membership to an auto renewing yearly membership? We paid for the year, and now enjoy the site enough that we want it to auto renewal, but can't figure out how to change to that without cancelling and re-upping before the year is up. Will Pay Pal contact us just before the membership lapses to inform us that we can renew now? Or will it just be a suprise sometime next fall? Also (whole different subject), will the New site still be as easy to use as it currently is? We don't use the GPX or other apps that use it and would find it confusing to wade through new stuff to get to the cache page itself. -Jennifer Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. (JM Barrie)

One of the local (Missoula, MT) cachers is a SAR volunteer, and at one of our first caches we found a business card from someone who does SAR who wanted interested cachers to contact them. Cachers could be a good resource if you need people who have been into certain areas and have the ability to read maps and the such. Not all cachers would qualify, and not all would want to, but if they get a few more volunteers who are also cachers, it can't hurt. -Jennifer Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. (JM Barrie)

I agree! I would be royally upset if someone did that and I started loseing logs! I use my log list to read new logs & check on caches I enjoyed and if some started disappearing I would probably wonder what bug or database problem the site suddenly had. What cache ID was it that got recycled, and have you asked the Powers that Be about it? This type of thing would probably really upset people if it started happening a lot. -Jennifer Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. (JM Barrie)

A recently placed virtual in our area was going to have something written on the back of the Hwy Dept sign (GCC063), until the group overseeing the virtual found that the Hwy dept already had a code back there in sharpie. So they used that one instead! If the Hwy Dept writes codes in sharpie, really big and circled and everything, I am sure that most passersby won't know that Your code is for something else. I could read the sharpie code from 10 feet away, in the dark with a flashlight. And it wasn't "offical" handwriting either, just someone with a pen in a hurry to # the sign for some reason. My point is, as long as you don't be blatant about it, and don't ust 26 inch font, and don't write on the front of the sign, or over any other writing back there, go ahead. Use common sense, and you never know, sometimes the codes on the back will work as good as what you had planned. -Jennifer Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. (JM Barrie)

With permission, it sounds great! We'd definitely try for it... It's a good idea and we may have to borrow it for a cache if it works out for you. -Jennifer Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. (JM Barrie)

There can be only ONE! Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. (JM Barrie)