EscapeFromFlatland

Awesome. I found one of a similar style recently. The clapper for the wind chime is a bison tube.

Don't forget the Project APE cache

I guess knowing a local mason would be good if I want to build a brick wall with a built in cache.

Which ones were off on their day?

too long, didn't read

Old rail line, still being developed into a biking trail: http://www.pjstar.com/news/x50589561/Peoria-County-restarts-rail-to-trail-project

Also: can we convert all these stupid challenges back into mystery/unkown caches or split it off into the wayfinding game?

I say we go all General Sherman and burn the south to the ground. That GeoWoodstock was way too hot and not in a good sexy way.

yes, please.

On a slightly related note: I think I'm going to start copy-n-pasting sections of text from the works of William Shakespeare for my logs on LPCs and guard rail caches.

This morning I hit the 4000 character limit. Took 15 tries to edit the log down.

You can delete out the large logs on GSAK before you send the waypoints to your GPS.

If there are DNF logs going back over a year by veteran cachers on a cache with a low difficulty and low terrain, and I spend time searching GZ, I'll log a NM, as the owner should be checking why 15 people in a row couldn't find their p-n-g that's a key hider under a bench, or a film canister in a guard rail.

Excluding the debate about the phone GPS leading you astray. If you search what is arguably GZ for the coordinates and cannot find the cache, log a DNF. If you get to GZ and dont really search- time was short and you did a quick once-over and left, that's up to you. In cases like that, or where muggles prevent the search, I usually leave a note as my search wasn't thorough and there are some wonderfully evil hides out there. If you get to GZ and hear a rattle and see a snake, do the Indiana Jones, then take a picture to post with a note. :-)

I leave individualized logs for each cache, then paste in a story of the caching adventure for the day/weekend/trip. There's a 4000 character limit to logs.

but BadgeGen won't recognize that as one log. Oh, my first world pains.

I cannot accurately describe, in detail, my caching experience with only 4000 characters per log.

Work on the Iowa Counties Challenge Work on the Iowa Delorme Challenge Attend MOGA 2012 Attend Geowoodstock 10 Solve as many puzzle caches as I can solve Actually find the puzzle caches I solve (moved away from Portland with something like 40 or 50 solved puzzles that I hadn't found) Add 9 more states to the finds category: SD, MN, WI, IL, IN, OH, KY, MO, KS Find more caches than last year, with a goal of 750. Personal goal: ride RAGBRAI, decrease debt, finalize my divorce.

I hid 7 caches and hosted 2 events in 2 countries between finds 75 and 100. Of those 7 hides, 4 are still active. The archived: 1 guard rail cache, 2 Iraq caches.

Winter caching in Portland, Oregon the last few years: dodge the rain drops. Winter caching in Iraq a few years ago: dodge the Egyptian-trained sniper bullets. So far my winter caching in Iowa: dodge the rain drops. It was over 50F on 12/31... I remember my last winter in Iowa we had 4wks with a high temp below 15F. Darn corn, causing global warming. I am NOT looking forward to trying to cache if winter ever rears its ugly head here. Edit: July 2010 I used an ice ax to dig down through 3ft of snow and ice to find the cache was in the middle of a pile of rocks filled up with ice on a cache at the top of Mount Adams. That was my last snow caching experience.

Anyone else looking at riding RAGBRAI XL this year? I've had RAGBRAI on my bucket list for several years now, and with the move back to Iowa after a horrible 2011, I think it is time for me to ride. If you know of a team accepting members for this year's ride, please let me know!

I still haven't placed the skull cache I developed last year about this time. The location I had last year was in a search area for a kid's body (still not found) so I delayed putting it out so as not to complicate an already horrible situation. This fall I couldn't put in another area as I am moving in a few months, but I hope to put the skull cache out in a new place, and with a literary theme.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/30/hart-island_n_1066391.html When this happens, please make sure a nice, tasteful multi is placed there. I would like to visit the famous (infamous?) island resting place of 850,000 forgotten souls next time I visit your fair city.

I love catching up on this thread every couple of weeks. Can't wait to move at the end of the year and then spend the Iowa winter working on a few cache hides to place next summer. Until then, I'm jealous of the creativity on here.

All caches have an agenda. Especially Earth First hippy ecoterrorist CITO caches.