Hot Pepper Crew

Received my book today. Excited to read it. I'm still a bit bummed that the place I ordered from didn't have the coin included. Either I missed that info (that some sites included the coin) or it wasn't available. At any rate the book looks fantastic. I've thumbed through it but haven't had a chance to read it yet. Is there a way to get the coin separately since I already have the book?

Really like the coin! If you'll be selling them if most likely be in for one!

An Irishman named Murphy went to his doctor after a long illness. The doctor, after a lengthy examination, sighed and looked Murphy in the eye and said, "I've got some bad news for you...you have cancer and it can't be cured. I'd give you two weeks to a month." Murphy, shocked and saddened by the news, but of solid character, managed to compose himself and walk from the doctor's office into the waiting room. There he saw his son who had been waiting. Murphy said, "Son, we Irish celebrate when things are good and celebrate when things don't go so well. In this case, things aren't so well. I have cancer and I've been given a short time to live. Let's head for the pub and have a few pints." After three or four pints the two were feeling a little less somber. There were some laughs and more beers. They were eventually approached by some of Murphy's old friends who asked what the two were celebrating. Murphy told them that the Irish celebrate the good and the bad...He went on to tell them that they were drinking to his impending end. He told his friends "I've only got a few weeks to live as I have been diagnosed with AIDS." The friends gave Murphy their condolences and they had a couple more beers. After his friends left, Murphy's son leaned over and whispered his confusion, "Dad I thought you said that you were dying from cancer? You just told your friends that you were dying from AIDS?" Murphy said, "I am dying from cancer son, I just don't want any of them sleeping with your mother."

I'm pretty sure this isn't it. I'm in the Seattle area (an hour north), where it just stopped raining last week (while the rest of the country was having heat wave after heat wave) and will be nice for approximately 3 weeks before the rain returns (okay that may be a slight exaggeration but you get the idea) and nearly all of the ammo cans I find are bone dry inside. If they can stay dry here, they'll stay dry anywhere! (I'm also not sure why I used so many parentheses in this post) (see, here's more!)

We went caching yesterday with some friends and got on the subject of shooting. We were talking out trying to find a place where we could go trap shooting. After we found our 32 caches together we parted ways. They called us about a half hour later, excited because they went to find a cache named "Take Aim" and it was a shooting area as you're describing. We're heading back there together next week to go shooting.

We had a near miss the other day. We just got our boat out for the summer and since crabbing season just opened, we planned to go and drop off some pots and while they were soaking run out to some nearby islands to grab some 5 star terrain caches. Our boat is a 19' recreation open bow boat that we usually use for water skiing and tubing, a great boat but not really made for the Puget Sound. The sun was out and the water calm so we headed out. We've had this boat for several years but this is our maiden voyage into the sound. We dropped our first two pots and I tried to start the boat to head to drop the third, and it started a little rough. Our boat has been super-reliable so this gave me pause. It started though so we motored over and dropped our third pot. I left the engine running this time but it died. I tried starting it but it wouldn't start this time. Just then our 9 year old daughter says, with panic in her voice, "Dad, there's A LOT of water back here!" I pull the engine cover and sure enough we're taking on water and the engine compartment is full. With no bilge pump and no VHF radio I'm wondering who I can call on my cell phone before we sink. What to do now? Luckily we had stayed in a high traffic area and I was able to flag down a passing boat who towed us to shore. It turned out to be a broken power steering cooler so we only took on water while the engine was running, so the engine quitting actually helped us. Lesson learned though, we won't be going on the water again without a working bilge pump AND a VHF radio so that we can call for help if needed.

So you show your contempt by archiving a cache that the poster of the NM log has already found? That'll show 'em! I can't help but think that if someone is willing to archive their own cache because they received one NM log, a lot of time and effort couldn't have gone into the cache in the first place to be willing to give it up so easily. I actually do something similar. When someone posts a NM on one of my caches, it makes me so angry, so you know what I do? I run right out and maintain my cache! Then I go back home and post an Owner Maintenance log on the cache, so that NM icon goes away! Boy, doesn't the cacher who posted that NM log on my cache feel dumb when they look at the cache page later and see that I maintained my cache and the NM icon they put on my page is gone! And by "dumb" of course I mean appreciative...

Next year, we could have a multi event at 08:09:10 on 11-12-13! This looks like a winner for next year! The following year, 12-13-14!

Thanks for the clarification. You may want to clarify what the last two are so others aren't confused when they order, unless you already did it somewhere in the thread and I missed it. This is my first time using cacheaddict.com. I made an account and it said it added the geocoin to my reservations but did not take payment. Is this correct? It makes sense but I just want to make sure I didn't skip a step and I'm supposed to pay now. Looking forward to getting this coin! Any ETA on when they'll be ready?

Which version is the one with the ring of blue on the outside? I'm interested in reserving one of these but it doesn't list anywhere which is which and I don't want to order the wrong one. Thanks and beautiful coin!

It's for sale on the internet. Google "puzzle box" and look at the images. Yeah, after I posted that I remembered they have this new website called Google that makes it easier to find stuff on the web. I should use it more often! Thanks for the help though!

Shaved Ewok hit it right on the head. One minute she's complaining that if a cache isn't what you were hoping for, you shouldn't complain about it, just move on. Then in another rant she's complaining that she can't meet the requirements for a challenge cache so the CO shouldn't have created that cache. Which one is it? Apparently her rants only apply to others, not herself. Overall it sounds like she does not particularly enjoy herself. Perhaps she should be the one to hang up her gps. After all, she may come across a cache that is no longer maintained and needs to be archived. Oh wait, "The cache owner did not promise a cool breeze, or solid gold swag, bug repellant,or rest facilities at the GZ" and "to all those cachers with entitlement issues who whine ' your cache make me walk 3km to find a soggy logbook torn to pieces' Remember; you chose to go find that cache, you saw it on the map, you knew it was a vitamin bottle, and you knew it was an extremely hot and humid day in the middle of mosquito season." I'm so confused!

Put me down as another "sign the log" vote. It is a puzzle cache. You treated it as a puzzle and found it, albeit not as the CO intended. Come to think of it, how do you KNOW this isn't the intended method of solving it? No coords, right. Still, a find is a find and you sir, have a find! Enjoy your $10. Buy his favorite ice cream with the money and eat it in front of him.

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Put us down for an event in Burlington, Washington!

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Finally broke 70* here today (an hour north of Seattle). We found 9 caches today on a 5 mile hike. We can't wait for the warmer weather to get here and summer to finally start!

I just finished posting in another thread about this exact thing. My wife and I both have an iPhone 4s and I have an eTrex Vista HCx. We've found 600+ caches, 95% of them exclusively on our iPhones. You will eventually learn battery management, ie turn on your phone, figure out how far the next cache is, turn off phone and walk until you're almost there before turning it on again. We only use our gps when we are caching in heavily canopied woods, and then only when we are close to narrow down ground zero. We still log from the field using our iPhone, including photos and I honestly don't think we would cache nearly as often if we had to use a dedicated gps exclusively. I couldn't imagine having to log everything once I got home! Today we hike 5 miles and found 9 caches, all in heavy woods, and only took the gps out twice when the iPhone plus hint weren't enough to get the cache.

Forgot to add, a lot of people bring up the fact that the iPhone isn't waterproof. If we're going to cache in the rain, I put it in a snack size ziplock Baggie. It is now waterproof, the touchscreen still works fine, and you can even talk on the phone with it like that. It's what we do when we take our phone on our boat too. Works like a champ!

Both my wife and I use an iPhone 4s to cache. We've found 95% of our 600+ finds on an iPhone. The only time we even take our dedicated gps caching with us is when we are going caching deep in the woods because the gps isn't very accurate with a heavy tree canopy above. Even then, we use our iPhone to get us in the general area of the cache and then use the dedicated gps to narrow the search. If I had to pick between my iPhone and my gps (eTrex Vista HCx) as my exclusive tool for caching, I would pick my iPhone hands down. The maps are better than anything out there for a gps, no downloading caches, ability to read logs on the fly, etc. make it worth it's weight in gold when caching. Plus I log every cache when I find it, before I set out to find the next one. The only drawback is the battery life. It does eat a lot of battery when caching, but if I'm caching in the car I just plug it in between each cache and it'll go all day and night. If we're in the woods caching I do have to do some battery management, but can make it last for a 4-5 hour hike pretty easily. Today my wife and I went for a 5 mile hike (4 hours, 1000 foot elevation gain) and found 9 caches on the hike, logged them all from the field, and had over 40% battery left when we got back.

Don't tell anyone... but... JBweld IS an epoxy! (A very good one) Haha, now that's funny! I guess there are different types of epoxies. What I meant to say was don't use whatever type of epoxy I used first, because it doesn't work very well. Instead use JB weld, which is a much better epoxy! Lol Thanks for the clarification.

How would I go about finding out if anyone in my area is already planning a 12-12-12 event? We would like to host one, but don't want to step on any toes if anyone else is already planning an event in our area. It would be in the Burlington/Mt. Vernon area. I tried emailing Three Lashes, who hosted the 11-11-11 event last year in Bellingham, but haven't heard anything back yet. Thanks for any advice or suggestions!

The problem you're going to run into is that you're brand new to the caching community. Even if you were to set up these caches, make them available to everyone, but then set up a separate page for the contest and only allow so many people in to the contest, how many people are really going to trust you enough to give you their entry fees that are going to total $1000 (or more) with absolutely no reputation, no finds, and no friends? If this is something you're serious about doing, I would think your first step would be to start caching and do it for a year or more, go to lots of events and make lots of friends in the caching community. Once people know you and trust you, then MAYBE you could pull something like this off. Even then, I'm not sure sure. Of course, that's assuming this isn't just a scam to try to get people to pony up some entry fees before you're never heard from again...

I tried using epoxy to hold a magnet to a piece of metal one time for a cache and it broke free after about a month. I then used JB Weld on it and it's been out in the field for about a year and is still holding strong.

Of course it is. The CO 'served up' the cache, and now they are blatantly soliciting a reward for doing so. Do I need to be reminded that I can tip the waitress? NO. Do I need to be reminded that I can award a favorite point? NO. It might not be as tangible a reward as monetary compensation, but it could forward their ability to qualify for a challenge cache or two. No matter how you do it (publicly on the cache page, or privately in an email) begging for favorites points is totally not appropriate. Woah, take it down a notch there hot rod! No reason to get worked up over my reply. While I tend to agree that either way isn't really appropriate, I just thought the analogy was a bit off. A cache page isn't addressing you personally, but rather every person gets the same text on the screen. In the same way that a "suggested tip" is printed on every person's bill that goes to an establishment that has that format. An email to a finder is a personal communication directed at an individual finder, in the same way that a waitress would address a diner personally when reminding them to not forget to tip her. But as I stated, you won't find these type of reminders on any of my cache pages. When I pose a question like this in a forum, I generally have my own opinion formed but try to phrase my question as neutrally as possible. In this case I'm not fond of the practice, but it probably wouldn't stop me from leaving a favorite if I was going to already. It also would not sway me to give a point if I was on the fence.