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Oh I hate to do this.... there was one cache that she signed only the first stage at.... well... ummm.... my daughter is trying to figure out how to tell her #10,001 was number 10,000.... seems it was my daughter who makes the rules on her caches.... I'll try to talk her out of it.... other than that... CONGRATULATIONS! (Did I scare ya'? )

I did, back in February. Not a single response. On the upside, I met Nashville Joe at GW3, and need to retouch him as he and his wife stepped up to volunteer. They're even going to the same event that I'm going up for.

I hope to see some of these bugs on their way to Homestead. I'll move 'em along when I see them in say... 2008?

OK.... log from the logbook in the "Pit Stop" cache. Maybe we know about Jeff? 1 March Headed to PA 1 month took J. Gordon for trip to Darlington. 1st Cache Take left nothing. Also took Sylvester bug #464966 Mainstream Studio

OK, continuing the abject silliness thread. Just to answer some questions about the event that were asked. The loggers in most cases were over 16, with one being 4. There was an approved event page with statements about the temporary cache runs. Those with older children and those who came without children were urged to do "Agent K's Jungle Dash". On these, most of the eggs would have qualified as caches on the GC website, but she thought it would be inappropriate to make all of them permanant. (See: Whose hiding all these micros in a forest? thread and the "Why are they planting caches so close together in the same park?" thread.) Hey, I thought that was good thinking from a 7 y.o.. Now as to counting all those eggs you found growing up.. how many of those had a GC log in them and would have easily gone in as a 3/3? And if so, had your parents been turned in to DCF for intolerable cruelty?

Well... here goes. My wife was cruising along a section of the Old Dixie Highway with my daughter. They were studying some of Florida's history. They stopped to get pictures of an old sugar mill site. The goal was to have my daughter do some web research on the site. My wife previewed what links would pop up when my daughter ran the search, and one of the links linked directly to a cache page. SHe tried to find t a few times with my then 6 y.o. daughter. A little over a week later, (a week after my daughter's birthday) my wife took me and all 3 kids out to find this "cache" thingy. She brought me out due to my experience with ... well, my dad makes topographical maps. She needed me to help find this thing. I thought the entire idea seemed silly. My opinion remained unchanged by finding this cache. I helped her find 9 more before we finally broke down and bought a GPSr: a Garmin Geko 101. It appeared my wife liked this new hobby. I liked finding a couple of those weirdly placed film canisters. One night (about 10:30 p.m.) I got home from work, and my wife met me at the door GPS in hand. She said there was a new cache that had popped up on the screen, and she wanted me to go get it. I grudgingly consented to go find it for her. Yes I knew the area far better than she did, but I was tired. I arrived there, and found the container in short order. I opened it up to find... a blank log! I had shown superiority in finding skills and area knowledge over all others in the area! (Naw, I'm not the slightest bit competitive...) That was the one that got me hooked. My daughter just had her 8th birthday in April. She hit the 500 finds mark just 2 weeks ago at GW3. We have 600+ and Our family has a combined 120 caches planted with more on the way. BTW.... with our income tax refund, we did upgrade to a Garmin ETrex Legend. My wife is indeed hooked on this sport, but not as nearly as much as me and my daughter!

First I will admit... I haven't read all of the previous 6 pages, so if there is some rehashing of what has been hashed out, I apologize. (Wait a second. I can't say "I apologize" in a forum. That's illegal!) My daughter (Agent K) took some heat on this subject in the Florida Geocaching website. She hosted a kids oriented event in March hiding 24 eggs in a park. 12 were relatively easy finds for parents with little kids in strollers or small walkers. The other dozen were scattered across a little over a square mile in the forest. All the cachers were invited to log their egg finds on a new cache that was planted during the event. She was thinking that way it would show how many caches they've found under the traditional symbol. One of the guests logged the eggs as events, which was OK with my daughter, because they stated that was the custom from where they come from. Other people in the state came across the cache page and cried foul (none of which were at the event and all of them saying that the numbers didn't matter....). Since my daughter hasn't been able to fix her password on FGA, she missed out on reading about it, but she did later on get wind of the controversy, and has since started calling herself "The legendary and controversial Agent K". Ah, I wish we could let all of this roll of our backs as easy as 8 y.o.'s do....

I've hidden one about 1,500 miles away from my home coords. Yes, I've been there.... last time about 9 years ago. OK, someone hid it for me too, but it's a real cache! On top of that it is maintained too! (BTW, thanks to the cacher in the area and the great approver who helped make it happen!) Personally I like the idea, if it is done right. It is the best Mother's day gift I've ever orchestrated for my wife. On the topic as well.... I think.... when are those new virt guidelines coming out again?

And the point of your 8-9 cache adventure (which is SOOOOOO often missed in topics such as these) is that you'll have a great time and loads of fun!

This is my one and only reply as to how caching in cemetaries should be done. It gets people to the cemetaries to see people they might not have known about, without disrupting the cemetary. Daisies.

Based upon their run through our neck of the woods... they just stopped counting.Of course in the long run the only thing they didn't count was sheep.

Seattle definitely has the upside of not having heat indexes in the hundreds.... Sounds like a great place to host Geofest I in 2006. Just don't hold it the same time as Geowoodstock IV in

As for the T/B's that went to multiple of people. A lot of these bugs are designed to be just that, and the owner expects to see it. At GW3, we dropped off our 8 T/B's, logged about 6 t/b's that were walking around (One was a shirt saying "Log me", a couple were dogs... ) and grabbed 6 t/b's and 2 jeeps. They were expecting all these emails. The standard travel bugs that went to GW3 should show up only twice: once that it was dropped off, and once that it was picked up. (Shame on me, I only logged picking up the T/B's today...)

Well,as a visitor (I tried to volunteer to help) to GW3, I can say it was truly about the numbers. There are now nearly 500 faces I can now place with their caching names. I got 500 finds in one of the most important category there could be in geocaching. I got to go pack caching in the park with about 5 other groups. We only found 4 on the packhunt in the park, but it was great getting to know them better.Was it neat getting 22 other finds without leaving the parking lot? You bet! But personally I like the 500 in the numbers of the day a lot better! I like the idea of a committee in the fact that not only does it try to encourage people to step up to host an event, but it gets the hosts ready for what they are in for. Does the host need to be as cache dense as Cacheville and Cacheonville? Nope. But there does need to be more than 1 cache within 5 mile of the event too. As I've said in other threads, I like the idea of a midwest or west coast GW. I also like the idea of an overseas GW event (read, Finland).Otherwise.... GW4 at my place! I got a grill. BYOB (Bring your own beef) My daughter has a cache at the base of our stairs!

I'm not talking for each kid. Agent J loves the ammo cans. I'm speaking generally after interviewing about 30+ kids.

I might have to take that solo attempt up.... (if Agent K will let me go caching without her )

You've got a Magellan?! Get into rehab quick! Geocaching is not your problem!

Ummm.... no. Most of our hides are micros. Most of our finds are micros..... however we have managed to hide a 5 gal. container in the middle of the city (about .12 miles from the very urban Daytona International Speedway). Let the place determine the size. As to the usefulness of micros, they bring you to places you might never have known about in your home town, or sometimes it is just the thrill and challenge of the hunt; it develops stealth, or sometimes makes stealth useless by design to make you look ridiculous in front of a lot of people. I disagree that the era of macros is waning, but micros do work well where macros can't cut it. In one series I did, 3 out of 8 started as macros, but quick mugglings convinced us that micros would last longer, and therefore provide more satisfaction to the cacher. Micros are also more kid friendly. We've asked the kids, and the 6-17 group all prefer micros. They like either a clever container or a clever hide. (The 6-11 group particularly loves anything where they, or more importantly their parents, can look like complete lunatics while hunting. See (oh no, a non-micro example) The Federation must pay! My daughter loved sticking her hand up the posterior entrance of a lion at the middle of a busy intersection.) The future of caching has spoken, and they agree with many of the posters in telling the OP to go find a cache.

Awww, the Federation must pay isn't the most posted? I think my daugher holds the record for most hides by an 8 y.o.

OK... now adding after catching up with all the posts. GeoPirat has posted a few dnf's on some of our caches. A couple gotchas on them and a few shame on us's. Doubters need to learn a few things. First of all, it doesn't take too much time to get out of a car if you have your mind in it. Second, a little navigation solves problems. Hit all on one side of the highway, and swoop back on the other side. Cutting down on left turns on highways really buys minutes. Third, as your experience grows, you develop geosenses, which can really cut into your time searching. Fourth, on the appreciation of caches: me and my daughter (Agent K)have done a lot of number runs only lasting a few hours each. Those at GW3 can confirm she pretty much remembers each cache she has done with great detail(500+). I can't say the same, but then again, I can't even remember what I had for dinner last night. As for those who appreciate the hitting only 1 or 2, I end this by saying we are about to go out and do just that. Hey, that's the way Agents J and E like this game. Agent K likes the park & grabs. Walking and family time. As for number runs.... I am hoping to hit 800 finds this month in Nashville. I'm going up for the Southern Baptist Convention with our church's choir and orchestra, and hey, gotta have a way to kill time!

Didn't you say you were "done" with this thread?

I think I saw the Germans with a handful of the NASCAR bugs....

I have one. Agent K has one. Any team that was at GW3 has one (at least). We release them on June 6th.... after we tell our stories and get our pictures.

The Germans, along with CCCooperAgency are currently feasting on Daytona (see our) caches. I say this because GeoPirat is logging them in as he finds them. If Daytona was bigger, this would be fertile ground for record breaking. I would say we're getting logs about every 4 minutes.... which I find quite believable.

Being a local Jax cacher I have to respectfully disagree with you. I can't think of any caches I have done in town (and if you'll lok at my stats you'll see that's quite a few) that has been closer together than .1 miles (granted some are 528.1' but none that are 527.9' or less) Disagree away. There were 3 in a sams parking lot... um, the tulips one rings a bell, another on a building box and a postal one (I think). All were like 478-490 feet from one or another... for real, lol! Well Agent K and I hit 22 caches without leaving the parling lot of GW3... but those caches were not available to the Germans for their run. All the caches the Germans hit were at least .1 apart.