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Learn from the past or be fated to repeat it. Incarcerated caches.... A favorite log entry. MC

It is a good idea to know what it is in order to avoid it. I react to PI (no PO in the east) and have noticed something over the last couple of years. A heavy dose of sun block seems to provide a barrier. Two weeks ago I found myself in quite a thicket of ivy. A couple of hours before going out I applied sunscreen lotion (cream not liquid/spray) and when I returned home washed with soap. The ivy was ripe with oils and glistening in the sun but I wound up with only one blister on my leg, smaller than a pencil eraser.

Finding a Black Bin Liner Bag in the woods can kill you. Meth Labs and Death Bags

The kids both say, to enter today, without delay. Midway Cafe

For those in a short piece of pipe or hole, roll up a piece of paper (cache page printout) to make a tube, slide the tube over the cache and gently tighten the paper, slowly extract the container and claim the cache. MC

And we don't have to over-react: not every piece of jewelry in a cache needs to thrown, just the really cheap stuff. Watch out, you would be surprised at what goes into costume jewelry! There are four primary alloys that are used in the manufacturing of white metal jewelry that may contain lead; 1- 4 Metal, 4% trace elements with the remainder being lead. The bottom of the barrel used in the absolutely cheapest junk. 2- 36 Metal, 36% Tin and trace elements, 64% lead. Fairly common especially in the major junior retail chains. Commonly found in items at flea markets. 3- 88 Metal, 88% Tin and trace elements, 12% lead. Higher end retailers don't mind spending a little bit more for the quality of 88 metal. 4- Lead free, Rarely used for production outside the UK until about six months ago, when several major retailers began to request it along with lab certification on each batch of items we send them. I'm pleased about the turn away from the lesser grade metals, I have to work with them! MC To keep this Geo related, I use lead free in my Sig Pins!

It shows coordinates! Very cool idea. Try slightly un-focusing your eyes and slowly moving away from your monitor. I found that the B&W was easier to get a lock on but once I had it the color was very easy. MC

Last weekend I tried to find a Duky BM but didn't want to tresspass, so I had to settle for a Savage BM (1870, 2 Thumbs Up!). MC

Here are two that are very easy to get to by foot. The PogiCache at Deerfield has convenient parking about 150 feet from the cache. The Trash Cache is listed as the closest to your car on the Rhode Island Geocaching website. I'm sure that there are many others but these are the first two that come to mind. Enjoy your visit, Midway Cafe

I just bought one from these guys: http://www.internetrubberstamps.com/ Sent 'em a .tif file, and they made a stamp from it (crudely reproduced at left). Lots of places do this, of course, but this place charged twenty bucks and turned it around in, like, three days. It's a Yahoo merchant, too (I've had really good luck with those, I guess Yahoo keeps an eye on them). AuntieWeasel, If the rubber stamp is half as good as your hand drawn picture I saw in the Wolf Cache log, It must be beautiful. Don't give up on Smithfield Sunrise , I want one in my log also! For those of you who might want to carve your own stamps, check out this group, The Carving Consortium. They do require that you sign up to read most of the board, but they are a wealth of information on supplies and techniques for carving your own art stamps. MC

That would be Maryland. Town of Chevy Chase, MD Hey, I like this thread! But I think I would go broke. I work in the jewelry industry. I'd have to hide a bunch of gemstones on Diamond Peak in Oregon. MC

You might try contacting these cachers my3sons . They dropped a Geocookie here, Where The Devil Did It Go??? and here, Populus trichocarpa and here, Clatskanie Fire Tower and here, Rogers Landing and probably other places, but have to go to work now. You can take it over from here. Midway Cafe

Nice Find! I can't wait for the weekend of the 4th. We have a hike set up with the kids and a couple of their friends to go after a BM set in 1870. I'm confident that we will find it, weather permitting. My Father spotted it a couple of years ago and is going to lead the way. At the very least we have a family+ outing, at the best a great historical adventure. MC

You left out the part about Charter Members having free access to the geocaching.com LearJet, and the GC Resort on Martha's Vineyard. And, of course, their's the secret Charter Member handshake. Hey, this sounds great! Don't need the Lear and I'm close to MV (do they have a pool?). Can an active Charter Member who wants to retire sell his membership like they do at exclusive Private Clubs? MC

I believe that this is the one you are looking for. Goodbye Hollywood Here is a list that you might find handy. It's all the active locationless caches by category. Locationless Cache Checklist MC

Hey krn187, I get what you want to do. A series of chips all with a common link, collect the highest total of combined points over a year period. One may be a chip valued at 50 points and the next may be valued at 5 points. I think that you would need to set some limits to keep the same chip from being held and claimed multiple times. That would be a problem. Easiest would be to make each chip into a travel bug. If it's found, log it, then move it along. If it comes your way again, then log it again. You don't get to claim a find unless you move and leave the chip at another cache. It would also help people who get into this hunt if you set a distance limit on the chips. If you specify that they are to stay in Illinois, players won't have to worry about heading around the globe to pick up chips. Game sounds like fun if you can get it all together. I don't think this would be banned. Chain Reaction was a TB that was to be cloned and deposited in other caches and then repeated as others found the clones. I think that it was overloading the system with found notes. A great experiment, too bad it ended early. Here is a link explaining the banned bug a bit. Chain Reaction

Hi jelindas, 1. There are a couple listed here along with a lots of really good information on how to keep your TB alive. Snoogans' Tb Longevity Clinic 2. You can use the "Print Bug Sheet" link in the upper right hand corner of your travel bug page (in the options box). 3. These people also have a webpage that performs a similar operation. WSGA Travel Bug Sheet Good Luck and have fun, MC

These personal travel bugs are pretty handy! Not only for keeping track of mileage but I do a cut and paste with my logs from the caches. It gives me a single place to go to review my caching adventures. Midway Cafe

Hi Noob, These four caches were located on property that is owned (I believe) by the RI Audubon Society. Owl Cache Pond-Or-This Pond-Or-That North and West of the City Notice the common link? I don't have confirmation but It doesn't look good from where I'm sitting. You may have better luck as RIAS is not affiliated with the National Audubon Society. You might be able to build the cache around birding so that there is a crossover interest. Keep us posted on how you proceed/progress with this one. MC

After the first year they are $3.95 yr. to track. Considering the frequency that Travel Bugs go missing, I'd bet that not many get renewed after the first year. MC

I had the Magellan GPS315, and with the GPS loaded with Version 3.15, it was a very good GPS, and led me to the caches ok, but of course it didnt have mapping. The 315 behaves allot nicer with software version 3.15. Before that you had to walk 2-2.5 mph before it broke out of the averaging feature, with the newest version it is down to .5 miles (same as the meridian and sportracks). Wyatt W. Ouch! That is a tough speed to maintain in thick underbrush or while bouldering. MC

But have you been reading it? I'm proud that I don't have the time to wade through all the past pages. MC

Posters on Tiki Central have had good luck with this site. Shutterfly I've considered setting up an account, but have yet to run out of space through my ISP. MC

Although I have only used Garmin products I did have a revealing adventure yesterday. I hooked up with two other cachers that were both using Magellan GPS 315 units. Over a period of several hours I watched them do the drunken bee dance while trying to get a good lock under tree cover. On several occasions they walked a considerable distance in the wrong direction while my Garmin GEKO 201 showed precise direction and distance (I know it was my cache they were searching for). Based on this experience I would avoid the 315 unless it was for use in deserts or on open water. Six months of use, several drops and numerous charges of the batteries and no problems yet with my 201. BTW love bons Magellan = Lost analogy! MC

How about an anagram such as "It a inch, yup"