tomfuller & Quill

"Geo trails" leading to physical caches in the Oregon Badlands is a blatant lie put out by Molly Brown of the Prineville BLM. I own a cache in the Horse Ridge area. It has had 95 finds in the 7 years that it has been there. There is no trail from the parking area to the cache. I also own a cache in "Crack-in-the-Ground". I would guess that at least 3 times as many people visit the crack as come to look for my cache and Earth Cache. The myth that virtuals and Earth caches cause any less damage to the environment is just that-a myth. You will have to visit my Earth Caches on foot to get the answers. Arm chair logs are not accepted. The day that I went out to hide the cache in the bottom of the crack and gather the info for the questions for the Earth Cache, I met a cow walking out the well established trail. You can guess what was dropping behind her. I did send a tweet to Sally Jewell Secretary of the Interior asking that she talk to Molly about geocaching in Central Oregon. I'm hoping that I will get a favorable response soon. The day that I remove my Stalag 13 Revisited and archive it, I will write an archive note blasting the BLM.

I know a few mothers that take their kids caching when the weather is good. Usually the kids spot the cache before mom.

Contact either or both the cache owners of the caches you found to see if they remember an abandoned cache near theirs. If either of them is a premium member, they may be able to click on their cache to see nearby caches that have a red line through them (archived). I include a "stash sheet" with my name and address when I hide a cache. You are well on your way to becoming a great geocacher if you can find archived caches without having them entered in the GPS.

If you have ever logged a "moving" cache, it may have originated from California. (There are still a few of these dinosaurs roaming around.)

Someone found two of my Earth Caches yesterday. They have found over 150. I tried to see what others they have done. Even after typing the name in carefully I still don't get results. Why change the programming when the old one worked so well?

When I got my first EC published, I put a peanut butter jar cache in "Crack in the Ground" 250 feet from the posted spot for the EC. You do not need to find the physical cache but if you tell me the color of the jar lid I know that you were there. You still have to get 3 of the 4 answers right to claim the Earth cache. I give the number of steps into the crack since you can't get a GPS signal inside the crack. My second EC was developed when I found an ammobox in another fault a few miles away and decided it would be great for another EC.

No I will not be taking the month off. I will not go out of my way to find a physical cache on all 31 days. I may find virtual and Earth Caches to fill in a few dates. I am going to add a new state to my icons - Wyoming. I will find a few virtuals and Earth Caches in Yellowstone. I will be working on a project for 5 days where there is only 1 cache available. I am attending an event on IGD in Idaho on my way home. I will find a cache on August 31 since that will be the 8th anniversary of my first cache find.

If you are going down into a deep canyon, please carry a good compass. My compass saved my life at least once. I found the cache down along the Rogue River 5 hours after I started down. I knew the cache was along the river. Next to the river I could get 4 sometimes 5 satellites. As soon as I got over next to the steep side hill, It would only capture 2. I got back to my truck 13 hours after I left it. The 2 essentials that I had with me were a good light and the compass. I learned how to use the compass long before GPS was invented.

I used a LORAN unit before I ever touched a GPSr. The drawback was that it required an external power source. The government finally shut off the signals in 2010. http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/?pageName=loranMain I started using a $5000 CMT MC-GPS in 1996. It had a full rubberized keyboard and rechargeable batteries. For accurate waypoints, I took 3 3 minute readings at a property corner then took the unit back and downloaded it and used Differential Correction to put corners into GIS (ArcView).

Several year ago I was asked by a reviewer to remove a archived "moving" cache that had not been found for several months. The cache was a good ammocan which had a great spiral-bound notebook log. All of the SWAG was trash. I gave the ammocan to the host of an event. The host was one of the names in the logbook. I took the logbook and attached a TB to it and released it as "Lost & Found Lives On" The reviewer opened the online log ability for an hour to allow me to be the last logger of the cache. In my log, I let people know that the cache was no longer in the wild.

If I am looking for a good Mystery (unknown) cache, I would like to solve 2 or more and do them on the same day. I usually remember to click on nearby "caches of the same type" at the bottom of the cache page.

Quill and I were FTF on a cache inside a library. There was a good clue (Dewey Decimal). Is there a good place on the outside? I do have a cache of my own in Crack-in-the-Ground where you can not get a GPS signal. I give the number of steps from the start of the crack. You could also make a hybrid geocache/letterbox giving directions from an identifiable location. If you go with the letterbox option, you should put in a stamp so that letterboxers can stamp their book.

Last month I got a FTF om a cache that was placed one year and 2 days before. Should I have waited until someone else went for it? I have a puzzle out that I doubt that anyone will get before winter. I have an Earth Cache in a rough area where no one wants to go.

The "underground" cache that comes to mind is Bloody Fingers Dirty Diapers http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=51afef6b-da65-473f-99d0-560cde81eb45 It has over 250 favorite points in about 1500 finds. It cannot be located using a GPSr. I own a peanut butter jar cache that is more than 50 feet below the surrounding countryside. I put it there so people would know that they were in the proper place to answer the questions on my first Earth Cache. Try to come up with a unique cache container that is all more than an eighth inch above the ground. My caches range from 12 fl. oz to about 8 gallons. My 12 oz. screw top container cache is named minimum size.

Arrived in good condition. Had fun getting the little screw out so I could download the MapSend. Thank you so much Chris.

Email sent with an offer.

If Tedcache didn't buy it I'm interested. I lost one (same model) recently. Contact me through my profile.

For those interested in Geo Art and Power Trails, the Idaho League of Cachers is in the process of installing nearly 2000 caches on BLM land in southern Idaho. The kick off event is "Do the Locomotion" GC3RWCC which will be held on September 28. Last month I was over to an event and helped them manufacture quite a few. They all have reflective tape on them so that you can spot them at night and not run over them. Those who attend the event with their laptops will get a CD with the .GPX files so that they don't have to wait for all 1900+ to be published.

My friend Elkjim has 24,254 finds logged as of today. He is the top geocacher in Oregon. I found my 100th cache on the first anniversary of my first find. Several years ago I tried to get my son interested. He has less than 10 finds logged. I hope that you will continue.

I hope that you do your product testing in your local car wash. Make sure it is watertight. If you can mass produce at a reasonable price, I'm sure Lookout Lisa would be interested. She is the owner of Cache Advance.

I have seen cases where a hider posted the wrong coordinates by one degree or 1 minute and had the reviewer correct it rather than make a new listing. Take care when you post a new cache for review. If the stump you hid a cache in got bulldozed out, it's time for a new listing.

The OP has logged 3 caches all 1.5/1.5. Perhaps he/she walked past a badger hole on the way to one. BTW we have badgers, coyotes, bears, rattlesnakes, cougars, spiders and Poison Oak in Oregon. I fear the Poison Oak the most. I just got my average terrain back up to 2.00. I like logscaler & Red 's disclaimer the best. I have copied and pasted it on a couple of my most dangerous caches.

Now that I have logged 20 Earth Caches in 8 states, I have get another published to become a Platinum Earth Cache master. Too bad no one has visited my second Earth Cache.

So sorry that my camera failed and you did not get a picture of the sign. The area that you are asking the Earth Cache questions about is not inside the National Park. It would be possible to see the Goat Lick from GCGGG5 "Beside a Creek". Develop questions that could be answered from near that cache and tell seekers how to find the sign if they want to know more. There are Earth Caches in several of the National Parks I have visited. I never heard of a fee before collected from the CO by the Department of the Interior. If you want to put an Earth Cache on the east side you will have to ask permission from the Blackfoot Nation.

Are there any signs on the outside of the museum with geology lessons? You can develop questions of your own without signs. Put the coordinates within sight of the unique geologic feature outdoors in a an area with 24 hour public access.