Socko

Just to clear things up, each container is a PVC tube aout 2" x 6", much larger than a 35mm. canister, and each is placed within a 30 mile radius of my home, none are closer than about 1 mile from another, all in different parks or sites, and only a couple in parks with already exsisting caches in them, though no closer than .26 miles from those caches, which is why they stand as seperate caches! Also, each has a log book, pencil, and geocache notice page in it, in other words, plenty of room for trinkets and other things. I have already been in contact with the local cache approvers and they have already preapproved 40 of the 50 caches. They have been in contact with the general geocache administrators and have cleared this idea with them. [This message was edited by Socko on May 31, 2003 at 04:02 AM.]

Team Socko, Vincetti, & Mel. Hales Corners, Wisconsin, P.O. Box 823. **** Just to let the geocaching community in general know, sometime around the first week of this June 2003, I am going to be introducing a 50 cache series that will start off as a contest to see who finds them all first. The winner will get the coordinates for a 51st. cache which they will keep, container, contents, and all. After that, they will remain online as regular caches for everyone else to find. Each container will have two screw on lids, one will have a U.S. Postage Stamp on it of one of the 50 states, the other will have my team emblem. Inside one of the lids of each container will be a code word or phrase which the finder will have to email me to prove they found it. (I am using this system since it will be virtually impossible for me to go around and check all 50 caches for sign in's.) All fifty will be hidden in seperate sites or parks within a two county area including Milwaukee, and Waukesha. That way, finding them all gets you 50 seperate finds. These caches go online as a living memory of all the soldiers who fought and died in this and all wars fought by our country and allies. I am proud to be an American citizen and this is a small way for me to show it! dadoflr@aol.com

I am introducing a series of 50 caches in Wisconsin in the Milwaukee and Waukesha counties area called "State of Mind". As a spin off of this project and the adventures I have had finding and placeing these caches, I too am writting a story/book. I will follow your story with great interest, as my project will probably initially fit into a niche market too. If it takes off as I hope it will, it may find more universal acceptance. In the meantime, I will work on it and see what developes. Good luck! dadoflr@aol.com

My team had 7 of our caches stolen on the same day. We just found this out tonight. We will check on the rest of our caches tomorrow. Have you heard of this happening to anyone else?