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kingsting

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  1. Ah yes, I know that one. The last person to log it had a DNF but he mentioned that he found a rubber snake in the area and he used it to scare his fiance'. I remembered this log while searching for this cache. I found the snake and was going to take it home with me. When I went to put it in my pocket I noticed the nitro container in it's mouth. Doh!!! I signed the log and put it back where I found it. The cache owners have temporarly archived this one because the fiance' scarer guy put it in a different location and they couldn't find it. I emailed them and told them where it was. I hope this one gets opened up again soon.
  2. Has anybody ever found or placed a practical joke cache? I was wondering how a cache would go over that contained some spring-loaded snakes like those old joke peanut brittle cans.
  3. That's me! If I have a new cache hide idea brewing in my head and see the perfect container on ebay, I'll just have to have it now!! Yep, that's me too!! I bought a bunch of ammo cans on eBay that I just couldn't wait to have. We have a few very active geocachers in my area. If I find a good spot I want to get my cache in there before somebody sticks a hide-a-key with a log on a nearby road sign.
  4. The survey marker in the bridge is about 30 feet from this cache: "You are clear for takeoff" cache. I saw it after placing the cache. It's not a cool benchmark, but still something neat to find - and it's an added bonus for geocachers visiting my cache. I have a picture of the disc in the listing.
  5. Oops, I'm new at the whole benchmark thing. Here's the one I found in Ocean City, MD. And the coordinates are : N 38 19.587', W 075 05.331'. ELV 20 ft. I saw a couple of these things while visiting the Ocean City area. I'll go get a picture of the one in the bridge later today.
  6. Do benchmark hunters like to look for these? There's one in the corner of a nearby bridge where one of my caches is hidden. I also found a few in Ocean City MD.
  7. I bought some from eBay last month. Look for the auctions where they are selling 5 or 6 in one lot. I got 6 big 50 cal cans for just under $30.00 shipped. Some were a little dirty but they weren't beat up at all and had good seals. I even had enough left over to buy a cheap can of flat black and red oxide primer. (Did you know they card us young looking thirty-somethings at K-Mart when buying spray paint?)The young girl working the register actually asked me if I was over 18.)
  8. Now wouldn't it be great if there were a micro hidden somewhere on that sign?
  9. My latest TB, "Our Boss Needs a Vacation" is an actual photo of him stuffed into a luggage tag. I want to get some photos of him as he makes his way around the world. Has anybody done anything like this? Before I turn him loose I would like to know if there are there any problems with using actual pictures of somebody as TBs?
  10. This one was pretty neat. It was an old historic steel bridge that was moved many miles by truck and repositioned at a school. click here
  11. I like this. I reminds me of one of the first mountain bike rides I took my wife on. We came to a split in the trail on the way back. The map showed that both trails took us back to the parking lot. One trail was called something fluffy like "Happy Sunday farm nature trail". Of course this sounded nice and easy so we went that way. It ended up being the nastiest, rock-infested, bottomless mudpit, downhill, singletrack I was ever on. -And yes, the other way was a nice gentle cruise through a meadow. (Maybe that trail was called "Black poison bike-eating danger death valley")
  12. And the animals are gonna smell that candy no matter how well it was washed. They have a snap cap. They should be OK if they inside or under something. If they're being used as fencepost hides, hungry critters shouln't be a problem. I wouldn't put them close to the ground or out in the open. I have one hidden in a pipe that makes up chainlink fencing along the side of a bridge. We'll see how it holds up.
  13. I just found another interesting container. It's from a new Tootsie Roll product. It looks a little like an M&M's tube but has a mechanism in it that pushes the contents out with a slide lever. A rolled up log and pencil stub fit in it perfectly. Open the cap, flip the lever, and the log pops out of the tube. It's silver too. Perfect for that urban fencepost or baseball field aluminum bleacher hide. Here's a link to the product: http://www.tootsie.com/spyStix.html I soaked my used container in hot water to dissolve the remaining candy inside. The sticker was little tough to remove. Some Goo Gone and WD-40 got rid of the sticker residue.
  14. I had one of those fake wall sockets when I was a kid. I think we got it from a Miles Kimball catalog. I thought it was the coolest thing. The problem is, where would you put it as a geocache? It requires cutting a hole in the wall and you need the "key" which resembles a straight screwdriver to open it.
  15. I'd say that would be a good thing. I left behind two highly travelled bugs recently because I know at this time I won't be able to move them very far. If they're still there next month when I go on vacation, I'll head back and grab one to take along. I also may place another TB in a cache I visited before. I've seen two that were well hidden and nice and dry. A perfect drop off point for a TB.
  16. Thanks for the input on this. I wasn't going to do it if it was in bad taste. I recently picked up some Livestrong wrist bands and thought one of those would be enough incentive for someone to take my bug to their next stop.
  17. Would this be a bad thing to do? I was planning on placing a new travel bug in a cache that already contains some other TBs. I was going to include some little treasure with it for the person that moves it to the next cache to keep - kind of a "thanks for getting this thing going" gift.
  18. I had that covered. I was thinking about using a metric sized allen head set screw. To make it even more fun, the correct size allen key would be hidden someplace else. You will have to find that first.
  19. I need some type of hardware to keep the cap from being stolen. The screw would keep the local kiddies from "borrowing" the cap.
  20. I was visiting my parents a few weeks ago and went to visit a park I used to hang out in as a child. There is a chain link fence that surrounds one of the fields. I noticed that many of the support posts were missing the decorative caps. Would it be legal for me to buy a cap and put it on a post with a micro-cache in it? It would be held on with a set screw to lock it in place. You would have to be real sneaky to remove the screw to get to the cache. Would removing the set screw be considered defacing public property?
  21. OK...first attempt at posting a picture... The custom high quality blue house paint was probably applied with a barn broom many years ago. I left it alone. It makes the bike unappealing to would-be thieves.
  22. I like seeing the classics pictured. The 68 Lemon Peeler, The Raleigh Twenty, The Raleigh Chopper and even the new Schwinn Classic Cruiser. My ride is a 1941 Schwinn DX that I originally customized to use at swap meets with 15 speeds, disc brakes, spring fork, Brooks leather saddle, and aluminum rims. It should make a good Geocaching cruiser...
  23. Newbie lurker here. You'll probably see more of me after I get a GPS and start looking...
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