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Hey Mark, I don't know if anybody told you or not but to those southern California mountain lions, geocachers taste like chicken and I've seen bobcats out there the size of German Sheperds. Nice kitty kitty. BTW, that looks like one of your "little" hills.

Hey everyone, Friday is opening day for WCNut's Octoberfest at Windy Rock. I have been assured by Mr. Nut himself that this year is a guaranteed good time. For a more wordy post on this subject, please go here: Windy Rock

Once again it's that time of year. Time for the annual Octoberfest at Windy Rock. This year's event will be 3 days beginning on Friday the 13th of October and continuing through Sunday the 15th. For those of you unfamiliar with Windy Rock, it's a farm owned by our host's aunt. I know this is a little late getting out but I didn't know I was the event publicist till recently. I have been assured by WCNut himself that this year is a guaranteed good time. Among other things planned are a chili dump, night caches, a Geo-Scrabble game and lots of nifty door prizes. And let's not forget the Sunrise Breakfast on Sunday morning. (I seem to recall sunrise last year came about 9:00a.m.) People from at least 4 different states attended the last one, So, come on down (or up, as the case may be) to historic Bardstown, Ky and hang out with some of the nicest people you'll ever hope to meet. For more information, visit the cache page here: Annual Octoberfest At Windy Rock

Indiana is anywhere from about 130 to 160 miles wide and close to 250 miles long. It's a decent sized state. By the way, I live just across the Ohio River from Louisville and our last pq showed several thousand caches within 10 miles.

A big CONGRATULATIONS to Kikster on hitting the 1K mark.

Unless they have a different property manager at Charlestown, there won't be any caches there. We were run out along with about 50 caches. I don't know of any cachers that have been back since.

PIC-NIC! PIC-NIC! PIC-NIC! PIC-NIC! PIC-NIC! PIC-NIC!!!

I'm into fossil and rock collecting, playing music (guitar, bass, some keyboard), birds, and fishing. Also, any time I can be around BIG water I'm a much happier person.

I'll post a SBA if I see the need, but I don't see that here. It appears that the cache was begun by a relatively new cacher and a group of children as part of a geocaching lesson put on by the college (Treasure Hunting: Adventures in Geocaching class at UTEP). It probably needs to be moved, but it doesn't necessarily need to be archived. Archived implies shut down, done away with, closed for business, put away, done away with, etc. It apparently a nice cache in a nice place that just may be causing some damage to the area--or may not, since the second person to post a find was already commenting on the damage--the day after the cache was placed, it could be that they chose a spot that was already a bit scruffy. In any case it's on campus and was made as a campus activity, so it shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone on campus that the cache is there. I think this one can wait a bit for the owner to get back over there and take a look at the cache area. I notice that the cache owner only geocaches sporadically. When they do notice the notes, they will probably decide to move the cache just to ease the mind of the people who come to find it. If there isn't any reponse or action in a reasonable amount of time, the local reviewer might step in. Someone does need to tell the family that picked up the geocoin on August 5th that they need to log it out of the cache, though.

Congratulations on 7K Mark. You are a caching machine!

Wow! That's a lot of rocks! Not rocks silly pig! Five hundred won't even begin to cover just the front yard. That isn't even counting the back yard, the living room, the hallway, the bedroom....

I agree with the lovely and talented Neos2. If a special metal coin for residents only were available, I would like to have one of my very own. After all I am a resident and of all the coins we have, only 1 has ever left our possesion and it was given as a gift at a Christmas party.

In spite of her caching partner, Neos2 quietly eclipsed the 500 found mark last weekend. Way to go honey!

Hi Karen, I assume you are referring to logging a cache. Go to geocaching.com and log in. If you have the GC# for the cache, the easiest way for me is to click on the Hide and Seek a Cache option on the upper left. When that page loads, you will have a number of options to choose from. In the field named "by waypoint" just enter the GC# and click go or hit your enter key. Assuming you have entered the correct waypoint, that should bring up the cache page. From there, on the top right you will see more options. Click on "Log Your Visit". I hope this helps.

Only if you're looking from "behind". By the way, I tripped over some new rocks on my front porch on my way in from work while ago. NICE! I'm sure Sherri will thank you herself if and when I relenquish the 'puter. Hello. My name is Chris. <Hi Chris.> ...uh, hi... um .. uh and ... <It's okay, Chris. > <It's cool, Chris> <Go ahead, man.> ... thanks ... and, um .... I'm ... I'm ... I'm a Rock-oholic! <That's okay, Chris.> <Way to go Chris> <We love you.> Wow ... um ... wow ... thanks, guys ... ... It started when I was a teenager. I thought it would be cool to , you know, have a few pebbles at prom ... and then, it became a few after school ... next thing I know I'm picking up cobblestones downtown .... ... ..... Actually it's worse than you think but not as bad as a certain science teacher we know. It started at about age 11 when I used to walk rail beds to get from place to place in the west end of Louisville. I don't know where the K&I railroad used to get their gravel for the rail beds but I used to find arrowheads and other flint tools quite often. And lest you think the teacher is kidding, I'll vouch for the rockorama. Probably 40% of them are/were mine anyway. By the way, who was that cacher that carried that 12 pound piece of fossil coral from the canoe ride at Rose anyway?

Only if you're looking from "behind". By the way, I tripped over some new rocks on my front porch on my way in from work while ago. NICE! I'm sure Sherri will thank you herself if and when I relenquish the 'puter.

I own a Legend and a 60cs and had much more luck with my Legend when close to a hide. I tried to use my 60 like I had my Legend and it gave me fits with the compass either swinging wildly or not moving at all and the pointer page not updating. As previously stated, when you get within about 50 feet or so it's time to quit watching your unit and start looking at your surroundings. As for the accuracy of the unit, there are a number of factors to consider. Aside from the obvious factors such as cloud cover, tree canopy, buildings, and other obstructions of the sky, you should think about the person that hid the cache. You will see the estimated accuracy of your unit displayed on at least one page. If your accuracy is say, 20 feet and the person that hid the cache had approximately the same accuracy, even at zero on you unit you could still be 40 feet away from the hide (+/-20 and +/-20). With a little experience you'll be able to find some of the easier hides from 20 or 30 feet away. Just look for stuff that doesn't occur naturally.

I hope that you will put copies of the photos on the TB pages, also. I know that I love to see photos on my TB pages. If you revisit a cache just to pick up a TB and move it to another cache, just post a note instead of another found it log. You can also log a note if you want to revisit a cache to drop off a TB but can't get out to find new caches.

Yours will improve as you keep doing them. El Diablo's are great. I got my husband one for a Christmas present, and he loves it. It makes a great conversation starter when you run into other cachers, and is decorative in the living room, too. Edited to say that this post was made by Neos2 using Neos1's account, which I didn't notice until just now....Since Neos1 is the male half of Team Neos, for I while I thought he was married to himself!

C'mon Sing, what could possibly go wrong. They let us do your much celebrated poker caches. You know N2 and I are ready to hunt peanut butter jars

I scan an image of the tag with the number showing and the item it is attached to to keep in my files--I label it with my imaging software with the "use this number to reference the TB" info and the URL for the TB. I scan it again without the number showing (or photshop the number out) to have an image for the TB page and the laminated page I attach to the TB. And then I write the name of the TB on the sleeve that it comes in as well. I am bound to be able to find one of those when I need it!

I guess that Indiana isn't the crossroads of American TBs! Funny, I have moved many TBs out of Indiana and into Kentucky, many of them from Illinois.

Here is another one... CHS Generals TB TBHB99 Reported: 8 Jan 2006 Owner: Neos2 (actually, Mrs A's 2005 Biology class) Released: Friday, September 24, 2004 and has logged over 9000 miles Stuck in: New to the Area since Nov 25, 2005 I realize that the TB hasn't been out of circulation long, but it is part of a classroom project, and the tag on the TB as well as the TB page ask that it be put somewhere where it will keep moving. The goal of the TB is to travel to many locations, so that students can track the movement, and try to determine what type of biome the cache has visited. Last year's class had a grat time tracking the TB through the southern US, Alberta Canda, and Alaska. This year's class is supposed to keep tracking that TB, and send out their own TB so they can compare the travels the two TBs make. It is exciting for the students to interact with the TB in real time--and the days we got email were always thrilling. We would download any photos, look up the places on the map, track it on our own map, figure out the biome (high desert chapparal, black gum swamp, tundra, pine forest. scrub forest, etc)...and try to guess where it might go next! The cache is near Lake Hugo, near Hugo, OK off I-70 and has been there 2 years and has only logged 29 visits. The cache owner has not logged onto the geocaching site since January 29, 2005, has only 6 finds and the one find. The next nearest caches are over 8 miles away, and were adopted by a cacher in Texas. The cachers who placed the TB in the cache apparently traveled about 150 miles to visit the cache. Here's hoping that someone will be traveling near that area soon, and be willing to detour slightly to help out the class!

I agree with the others who say pick them up if you are willing to help them along. I really don't understand why anyone would want to put a travel bug out in a cache that rarely got visitors.... If I find TBs that have been sitting awhile unloved and unmoved, I grab them and take them somewhere else, just to get them going again.

Just noticed that I spelled "advice" wrong in my last note.... but... I looked up the code today, and if the place that you want to put a geocache is an official historical site, managed by the DNR, the answer is "You can't" DNR policy on geocaching 4. General Prohibitions, Limitations, and Requirements The following prohibitions apply to the placement of any cache and to any geocaching activity: (1) A person must not violate 312 IAC 8 or another state or a federal law. (2) Properties administered in whole or in part by the following divisions of the department do not qualify for geocaching: A) Division of nature preserves (including any property dedicated under IC 14-31-1). Division of museums and historic sites. C) Division of outdoor recreation.