Ramona Retired Snipe

Looks like the Yuma Proving Grounds! Have been there, but not caching yet. I guess next trip to Yuma

Now that's some discipline! Congrat's LuLu499!!!!

If you're looking to draw people to see the ballons and ultra lights place a small cache. Log only, use a film tube / nano / m&m tube. Anything bigger and you have possible bomb squad practice. Highlight the hours for observation in your write up and place some photo's or request finder's to post photos if they're lucky enough.

I was at an event this spring and one of the parts of the event was to check your GPSr for accuracy. You were given a small flag (surveyors type) and a coordinate within the event site. There was 20 sq foot area with flags of all the participants. One flag ended up over 25ft away from the concentration (never did find out whose flag it was), even though it was in a clearing with no cloud cover. Even mine only gave me plus or minus 10 feet using a Garmin GPSMAP 60cx

Looks like some great trails. I'm sure you could plan a whole goecache event (meet and greet , picnic or BBQ) with a CITO (cahce in trash out) event on your trails. For the poker run: Just put out 5 boxes and mark the waypoints. Print out a sheet with those waypoints. In each box put envelopes Lettered P O K E R: P's in one box O's in second box and so on, so you must find all five boxes to have a complete hand. Put groups of evelopes 1,2,3,4 ECT 10 or 20 for each number depending on RSVP for the event. Use little kid playing cards available at dollar stores. When participants register for the poker run each Nick is issued a registration number (mine was 91) and a card series (mine was 8) I had to bring back five envelopes P O K E R all with the number 8 on them. They had to be delivered by a set time 1:30PM and only opened by an event volunteer. My hand then went on a board with my Registration number. Best hand wins. Boxes were picked up during the CITO at the end of the event.

Here is a puzzle cache that you can look at for advice. I just completed it and it was my first puzzle / series cache I've done. GC1FDJX

GeoDC knocked down 100 doing the "Who done it" Puzzle and other SDCE caches. Didn't even know we were that close to 100. Congrats and looking forward to many more finds!

For Camo tape the best I've used is this: http://www.uscav.com/Productinfo.aspx?prod...1&TabID=548 from US Cavalry If you're interested in some paint applications here is a system that you can go nuts with: http://www.lauerweaponry.com/index.cfm

Or place a camo'd digital camera that hunters use and post pics of the skirt lifters on the cache's log

I'll definatley swing by the easy up and fianlly get to meet some of the SD locals.

We're going to arrive sometime Friday and head over to Geodc's 5er first and them check into La Fuentes for Fri and Sat nites. We'll be doing the flash mob event (GC1M2C5) prior to the warm up event too.

If using military surplus for cache containers at a minimum please use common sense (which I know always isn't so common). The best advice already posted is to put the cache on private proerty with explicit permission. The other is place the geocache sticker on it with FULL contact information on the decal. This could minimize potential headaches and/or bad press.

I just started caching a month ago but it's second nature to me. I was a cub scout who grduated to weblow's and then on to scouting. I was working on my Star when I got involved in organized sports which conflicted with scouting. I then went on to enlist in the Unites States Navy where I served for 20 years before my retirement on 2008. One of our summer project was to make a detailed (3-d) topographic map of a pond on a local scout reservation. So we put out rope guides and did the whole project using a jonboat ,plumb bob, and a compass. It took us two months to collect all the data and three weeks to trace the data and layout the pond's topography. That drawing is still in place at the reservation and hasn't been duplicated since 1983.

I just saw this this morning while killing time before the superbowl. I've only been caching for one moth but it's second nature to me. I've served twenty years and just retired last august. 1988 RTC NTC Great Lakes Il BT 'A" school and 6yo advanced operators course 1989-1991 USS Haleakala AE-25 Desert Shield and Desert Storm deployments 1991-1992 FTC San Diego Maintenace supervisors course. 1992-1995 USS New Orleans LPH-11 operation restore hope (aftermath of balckhawk down) 1995 1999 Surface Warfare Officers School Command (SWOS) staff instructor 1999-2003 USS Tarawa LHA-1 Determined Response (USS Cole resuce) and OIF Invasion 2003-2004 TSC San Diego Support Staff 2004 Coalition Military Assistance Training Team (CMATT) Kirkush (KMTB) Iraq 2004-2006 Center for Naval Engineering San Diego staff instructor 2006-2007 Navy Provisional Detainee Battalion II Camp Bucca Iraq 2007-2008 Center for Naval Engineering San Diego staff instructor

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As a two tour Iraq vet I concur. I have the 60cx which does all the above features as the 60CSX. The 60 CSX has altitude and an electronic compass features. Big thing to remember, when going outside the wire nothing replaces preperation! Don't get scope locked onto technology that can fail, have settings changed or have batteries that run out and you forgot to pack spares. Alot of deployed units have policies concerning the rino. See above IE: settings that can be changed. Above all else stay safe and come home!

The wife and I are in and GeoDC and wife will also be attending. We're working out our details now.

Thanks guys!

And yes I tried to perform a seach first. A local cache that had been archived was recently enabled. I got to the cache and inside was a blank log sheet. Is this an offical FTF?

The cache in question is (GC1K5VG) the owner has appealed the BLM's decision due to it's not at the physical location of the historic cabin. She's actively keeping up the caches page and the responses.

Isonzo Karst thanks for the quick reply. I forgot to mention I tried the search feature first.

Why does the movie misery immediately come to mind ?????? Captive... what are the co-ordinates?

Was out caching with a group yesterday and we located a cache with an older pocket query. We found the cache signed the log and placed the cache in it's orginal condition / position. One of our group called me when he went to log the find last night, that the cache was archived. After a couple of other phone calls it seems the BLM has had several issues with caches on BLM land in this region and requested the caches are removed/archived. Can I / we still log this cache as a find even though it's been archived?

Yep friends were out at Ocotillio at thanksgiving and brought back the same news. Always liked stopping there at least once every weekend out there.