Troutonthebrain

We just had this happen too. Our cache was in a woods and was a water bottle in a nook in a tree. Now, here is what the area looks like... The building in the background is the next lot over. We archived since there wasn't really a woods left!

I better stop looking at these forums from Vanelle. You keep making me make exceptions of adding coins to my "someday want to get list." Very nice again !

Sadly I can't go to geocoinfest either. This coin is really, really neat. No offense, but I hope they don't sell TOO well at Geocoinfest (so there are some left afterwards )

So not the normal thing posted on this forum, but I did get a geocoin in the mail. I called a coin home about 2 weeks ago of mine that had traveled about 10000 (though the 3700 miles to get to Britain didn't show on the page since we didn't dip it before we sent it over.) It has been two years, gone missing twice, so when someone picked it up after I had marked it as missing, I decided to ask them to mail it home and it just arrived. The coin is America for Me, a Pick Me Up micro geocoin. The Tanny edition below:

One thing that we have noticed is the longer a cache sits out there, the worse the SWAG seems to become. I am curious to see if someone posts a good site for SWAG. We put out mostly toys, hot wheels cars, and golf balls in ours as of late.

Also be careful what woods you use. Most of the hardwoods work ok (but are a pain to drill a large enough hole into, but your preform container shouldn't have that problem) while the softwoods often crack over time. We have made a lot of these type of caches over time (from a micro on top of a long pole stuck way up into a tree to an ammo can in a hollowed out stump) and they are fun to find and hide. Best of luck on yours!

Is it just me or does the link not work? I can't get it to go to the webpage. If you get a new link on here I am intrigued to see what coins you are selling. Thanks, Troutonthebrain

That cache could very well be it. GC27AB could also be it. If they are in fact the caches, I do not think that our friends that brought us along logged it. None of the profiles of the people that found it seem to fit. I'll dig a little deeper.

The caches (I remember now that there were multiple) were in Moris T. Baker Regional Park in Maple Plain, MN. None of the 2003 original caches still exist. The oldest active caches were published in 2007 and have no connections to the 2003 caches. The caches we found were near the currently active cache GC169WZ. Thanks for any help you can give. Edited to add a link.

No, we did not post a find. We were wondering if there was a gsak program or something like that to search by coords.

Just out of curiosity, and I am pretty sure there is not, but is there a way to search an area for a long archived cache? The story is of the very first geocache we found back in 2003. We found one cache in the park and then that was it. In 2008 we got reintroduced to caching and that is where we took off from. My question is, is it possible to find the listing from the old cache? It would be very difficult to search through older cachers' find records since there are not all that many cachers still around from then and most of those that still are have many thousands and thousands of finds. No bother if there isn't a way, just curious. Thanks for any and all help, Troutonthebrain

It was just a recommendation, SS. I'm sure you can go after it any way you'd like. What time are you gonna be there? You could wear shorts if you want to. Go ahead, but don't blame me for your loss of blood. Plenty of buckthorn and poison ivy, not to mention numerous other species of thorny plants. Anyhow, the problem has been resolved. The person who objected the caches placements has written us a nice apologetic email as well as writing the reviewer. I am betting that the example from post #10 did not result in as kind of an ending.

We really enjoy putting creative names on caches. Some of my favorite named caches of ours are "Loctopus Octopus", "Phenarvelous", or "Fuzzy Gnome Cache Home". Another fun thing to do is take a common name and make it unique a (Like our cache "YOu arE HEre -->".)

I log DNF's because there is a challenge in our area (or there used to be) to have logged 100 DNF's.

Signs are nailed to the tree, unfortunately. Then move the trees, too, for crying out loud! Let me state of what the guideline say about that.

If these caches gets archived, it will be our shortest life of a cache since somebody poached beavers by gz (not a cacher, that we know of) and we archived for the park service's sake.

Signs are nailed to the tree, unfortunately. By the sound of things though the cacher would find a way for us to get kicked out of geocaching for it. Oh well, good idea though. I approve!

Ok. It is undeveloped and we were going to hide in the rest of the park but ran out of time. By the looks of things the cacher denies that there is any public land and my words have begun to be twisted by him from the cache pages. I am leaving it up to the reviewer. The cache will not be moved since it is an hour and a half from home. Oh well, sometimes even a nice reply can't make everyone happy.

Ok, so we have hidden and placed three geocaches of which I am co-owner. There were No Trespassing signs, for what reason I do not understand. We entered from a different side and didn't see them until we exited. The caches in question are GC3V3DG and GC3V3E0. The problem we are having is with a local cacher. Due to the No Trespassing signs he refuses to find the caches and is sending us emails and posting notes on the cache pages. Normally we would trust the signs, but so far we have found no evidence that it is not owned by the county other than those signs. The map of the park shows that they on public property, the county map shows that they are on public property, and, since the reviewer published, I am assuming that his map said it was on public property. We have gotten two emails from the cacher since, neither of which really made that much sense to me. Email 1: Just said that we shouldn't have posted the map of the park showing the cache is on public propery. Email 2:This one makes less sense to me since the caches are EAST of the road. What would you do? We don't know whether to trust the signs and archive, or trust the three online sources that say that it is indeed public. We have posted maps on the cache pages and haven't responded to his emails because we don't want to add more fuel to the fire just yet. I guess that we could email the county, but I just don't know what actions should be taken. Help!

This stat saddens me since we were fans of "the King" King Boreas since he lives in our area. He had the title for a long time then someone with a lot of power trail caches passed him. Oh well, he is still in second with over 3000 hides.

My coin came in the mail today. Thanks for the beautiful coin!

I wasn't going to post, but I saw that you are from Canada (or most of your finds are) and couldn't resist adding the final word in this sentence, eh.

Nice! There is a cacher in our area that maintains two profiles. One for when he finds caches with a gps and one for when he finds without. He has like 5 times the number of finds without as with too which is the funny part.

Ordered a coin today. Thanks for the beautiful coin!

I've had some funny ones but nothing that bad. Funny ones include the person in front of me holding back a big tree branch only to let it come back and clock me across the face or falling out of a tree into a colony of itchweed. We do have a caching friend of ours that slipped down a hill and tore his ACL. There is another caching friend of ours who was caching by the Mississipi River in the snow. The snow slipped and he fell off the 20 ft. cliff. Yet he didn't get a scratch, broken bone, or even a concussion to his name. This is the truth. We went to an event a couple hundred miles north of us and the event host has a big old scar on his head. He showed us the picture real of how it happened. He slipped on wet leaves and went sliding down a cliff. He got lucky and ran into a tree. Right behind the tree was a 50 ft. drop off.