tomfuller & Quill

When "Wild Thing" in SOCAL was apparently stolen I was informed that my TB was taken as well and as TB owner reported it as missing. It then gets the unknown location. I wrote a note in case anyone checks the TB page including the words...You can still do the right thing..You know who you are.

I carry a walking stick with a leather lanyard. (pointed 1.25 X 1.25 X 56 inches long). In 30+ years as a State Forest Officer I was never allowed to carry a gun. I learned how to avoid confrontations with violent people and to call for backup. I've been buzzed by rattlesnakes dozens of times but never bitten. While cacheing, several times this year I have seen cougar tracks. I might have felt safer with a gun larger than a .22. I choose not to own a gun myself, but I do cache with someone that carries.

Use Ed Williams Javascript Great Circle Calculator. I used it for my cache A. Spring GCWE3D. It gives the distance in feet, statute miles nautical miles and kilometers. It also give the true heading between points forward and reverse course. Using a radial from a benchmark is a good idea. Just google: Williams Great Circle Calculator. Use the link with williamsbest in it. Pythagoras doesn't work in this case because the earth is not flat!

The first cache I ever found ( I had a DNF first), was a micro and I was FTF. You may ask, How do you get a FTF certificate in a micro? The note on the logbook said to go into the sporting goods store nearby and let them know you found the geocache "Four Faces" The clerk pulled out a nice FTF certificate for me. It is laminated and I have it on the wall above my monitor. Does anyone else remember a small black & white dog with a stubby tail named Geo? He seems to have disappeared and Signal the Frog showed up. Geo is on my FTF certificate sitting on the north pole of a globe

I have the ammobox for Oregon's last (I think) moving cache. In the 4 years 4 months and 4 days this cache was on the move it was logged by more than 150 cachers. Thank you to the reviewer who allowed me to write the final log for GC33E7 Hide & Seek. I attached a TB to the original logbook and it moves from cache to cache in Oregon. I'm sorry you can't log opening the box but you can still find and read the logbook if you can track down what cache it's in.

I had the sad duty of removing Oregon's last (I think) moving cache. In the 4 years 4 months and 4 days that Hide & Seek GC33E7 was on the move, it was logged more than 150 times. It was logged many times at event caches, but the best logs were by cachers that found it on top of signs etc. I still have the box since the owner does't cache anymore. Thanks to the reviewer who allowed me to post a final find of this cache even though it was technicly archived. The many cachers deserve to be able to read their log and everyone elses. The original logbook in its plastic bag now has a TB attached and travels from cache to cache in Oregon for everyone to read whatever you wish and write a log for the TB. I doubt that if I used the original ammobox that GC would let me have the same GC#.

I've found several hanging in trees from a cord/rope.The cord is tied off to the tree about 7 feet off the ground. I recently hid a cylindrical cache in a broken tree. It has a small LED light in it. I don't know if anyone has looked for it at night. It's called "Is The Light ON?"

At least 8 out of 10 cachers I know use a bag if the cache is more than 100 feet from the parking spot. Mine always has at least 2 pens and sometimes a short pencil to give away if needed in the cache. I have a small case of paper and magnetic buisines cards. I also have some postcards I leave in some caches. I usually have a flashlight and extra batteries. I also cary a combo binocular/digital camera and a onetime use film camera.

I and many other cachers have enjoyed the hike up to see "Patron 'Aint" above Glenwood Springs, CO I took a picture and emailed the "owner" with the secret about Doc Holliday's grave.

I just had a DNF deleted by the cache owner. It was a micro that I looked for about 15 minutes in the right spot. Maybe he didn't have it placed when it was published? I logged it as a DNF and he removed my post the next day. It still needs a FTF! Not angry, just confused.

I just had a DNF deleted! I was trying to score a FTF on a micro, spent 15 minutes looking in the designated spot, went on to the next cache. I came home and logged it as a DNF, owner deleted my DNF the next day. Maybe the owner didn't get it planted the day it was published? Maybe I missed it but why remove a DNF?

I feel that the owner of the cache has final say as to whether you have met all requirements to claim their cache "found". I was prepared to log the cache along the river I waded across a DNF. The owner waded across herself with a replacement cache and placed it in the same hole as the missing cache had been. She signed my name and the name of the other cacher that was with me and told us to log it as a find. I generally leave my card with the date and time in a cache if the log is full or soggy. I feel sorry for those of you that feel compeled to sign in blood. My caching pack includes a good flashlight, pen, spare pencil, extra AA's, my cards (paper, postcard and magnetic), usually maps for several caches, a roll of TP (comes in handy for several uses) and a bag of SWAG (coins and Smokey Bear items).

If visiting Carlisle PA check out Sergeant Molly. Molly Pitcher, only woman to recieve a lifetime pension as a Revolutionary War soldier.

My first geocaching adventure: Translant Chess Cache on the island of Terciera, Azores Portugal. I saw the container (I think) I wan't prepared to ruin a pair of pants to go get it. Listed as my first DNF. Recent experience: walked upstream from an event cache with another cacher attempted to find a small cache on a 30 foot tall rock did't find because it was not there. We brought beer bottles from top of rock back to the cache owner. She replaced the cache and put our names on the new cache log. Logged as a find, owner insisted that we do it since we CITO'd. My last log included-Took pictures Left something. Who knows what you left?

Cemetary caches I have visited: Patron 'Aint GC7C73 Virtual Doc Holliday's marker Glenwood Springs CO. Shine On Doc GCN6VK (just outside the cemetary) Pioneers At Rest GCGMJH Milton-Freewater OR (edge of the cemetary) Lonely Cemetary GCRR7Q (miles from anywhere along US97 in OR). The idea of a virtual (famous or infamous person's stone) as part of a multi is a good idea.

Another North American Egotist

If you DO find a sprinkler head in the woods where you don't expect to find them, make sure you're not in a Mary-wanna patch.

It might be good idea to carry a new (in the bag) one time use camera in your caching bag. (I don't). If the cache owner does not respond to email within two weeks, ask GC.com if you can adopt the cache. If the camera has been in the cache for 3 winters/3 summers the pix might not be very good. Write the date and your caching name on the camera if you replace for a full one.

If you want to send it to me, I'll put it in GCWZF6 Which is on Dead Indian Mountain (Lake County Oregon).

While looking for The Red Headed Step Child (on the barren hilside above Klamath Falls) I found a long tubular steel container (think holiday booze) It has a little switch on the bottom. There is a LED in the bottom. I hung it from a broken tree near home. It is now my newest cache called: Is The Light ON? (GCXENQ) This is the first time I've used a CITO object to build a cache. Tom Fuller Crescent, Oregon

No one has even emailed about my only puzzle cache. It was partly based on Cold Bailey which is in Gilliam County Oregon. My cache is A. Spring (GCWE3D) It involves using benchmark coordinates for 3 objects in Oregon and running a radial (set bearing and distance) for each one. The 3 resulting coords are then averaged for the final cache location. As stated in the cache, using Ed Williams Great Circle Calculator is the best option. Tom Fuller Crescent, Oregon

Un fortunately it was not my Magellan that Kellobytes grandparents found. I lost mine on Sunday 6/25 somewhere near Paraport on Pine Mountain. Most likely if it was found it was by some parasailer. More likely it is in the brush and I will devote about 3 hours to a search of the area soon. Tom Fuller Crescent, Oregon