tomfuller & Quill

Head east on I-90 & I-86 through Jamestown to Salamanca. Head south on US 219 to Bradford PA. Stop at the McDonald's and log Penn Grade Crude Oil Earth Cache. Head out of Bradford on the back road across the state line into NYS Alegheny State Park to Thunder Rocks II. There is another Earth Cache that I did not do the research for above Salamanca. There are also many caches including a Wherigo in the Red House section of ASP. Head back to Erie from the exit west of Salamanca (I-86).

If you did get approval for one in Glacier before the $100 fee was dreamed up, ask the reviewer if you are exempt from the fee? Were you issued a GC# pending the answers to questions that can't be armchair logged? If you let me know where you were approved, I will try to help when I am there on June 1. I would be proud to claim FTF on your EC the day it gets published. I would also gladly post photos.

For my as yet unlogged Earth Cache, I say to please find the ammocan cache and give the GC# and cache owners name. I did have a find of my other Earth Cache by people from Germany which I thought was am armchair log since they gave 2 incorrect answers to my questions. I let the log stand since they posted a picture of people in the Crack in the Ground. I have no way of knowing if the people in the picture are geocachers or not.

I put out a cache called "Minimum Size" It is a 12 oz. screw top container. This is the smallest cache that I will ever hide. When I do find a nano, I sign TF&Q as small as I can. If you can fit something bigger in your spot, please use something bigger than a film can.

I recently found Tree Sisters cache GC1M1G7 on the third attempt. The cache is about 50 yards from a hot spring along Salt Creek off Rt. 58 in Oregon. On each of my 3 visits I saw a naked person (oh wait 2 of them were wearing hats)!

I think I remember a campground at Penn's Cave. There is a small campground at Woodward Cave. I don't know if the campground at R.B. Winter State Park is open yet (along Rt. 192). There are many free camping spots in the Bald Eagle State Forest. The BESF District office is near Laurelton along Rt. 45. I used to work there. 570 922-3344

I am expecting to enter the east end of GTTS road on June 1 from St. Mary. I am expecting that the GTTS road will be closed near Logan Pass at that time. It would be great to drive all the way through past Lake McDonald to Apgar. If I could help please contact me through my profile.

On my fist Earth Cache I put a peanut butter jar cache in "Crack in the Ground". It is 250' from the posted location of the Earth Cache. You can't get a GPS signal in the crack so I gave the number of paces into the crack to go to answer my questions. If you give the color of the lid and what is written under the lid in your email I know you were at the right place. You do not have to find the peanut butter jar to log the Earth Cache but getting 2 smilies always helps. My second Earth Cache 2.3 miles away, had an ammocan hidden in Twin Crack. I decided after finding that cache, that it was enough different to make another Earth Cache. My posted coords are about 120 feet from the physical cache. Reviewers had no problems publishing my Earth Caches or the peanut butter jar where there is no signal.

I completed Counting Counties in Oregon within the year 2006 http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GCR9XY&Submit6=Go Some of the best caches I found for this REAL challenge were logscaler caches. The actual cache is at the foot of logscaler's driveway but he won't tell you until you complete county #36.

Keep huggin' that teddy bear TAR. My dad had the quad over 15 years ago. He's 92 now. Still praying for you.

The first 5 terrain cache that I found was on Goose Island in the Wicciup Reservoir less than a month after I started caching. The reservoir was drained down to less than 10% of max so I could walk to the island without getting my feet wet. On the way back from the island, I saw a Sand Hill crane chasing a deer. I have 5 combos left to complete the grid but the nearest of the 5 is more than 50 miles from home.

GlenMart (Glen and Martha) are in their mid-late 70's. They started caching in August 2003 and now have over 13000 finds. Unless one of them is ill, they are out caching. I love their attitude.

In a case like this you could have responded "Don't bother calling the police because I just called them". Talk loudly into your GPSr. Why can't people MYOB when you are not on their property?

If you have a Smart Phone, there's an app for that. Attend an event and talk to other geocachers about what they like and dislike about what the use. When you decide on a unit, shop on Ebay for a unit that has the maps loaded or comes with the software. I recently scored a Magellan Meridian Color with the Mapsend CD for less than $100. Buy the best one you can afford so that you are not upgrading in less than 2 years.

Six days after I made my first find (less than 10 found) I hid my first. At 1.5 years later, I did have to replace the leaking container. I moved it 12' to a drier location. It is still more than 4 miles from the nearest cache. Of the 2 caches that I archived, 1 floated away in a flood and the other was smashed and rolled downhill by a bear.

I wrote a note recently instead of posting a DNF. The note was to the effect of "I saw the cache. I touched the cache. I could not get the lid off the cache. The cache is either frozen down or the big rock it is under settled." This let the CO know the situation and also let anyone after me know what to expect. My very first cache log on geocaching dot com was a DNF log. I think I saw the cache but I didn't want to risk splitting my pants to get down there. My first "found it" log was a FTF on a micro hanging in a tree. If you don't have a clue where the cache is and you think it may be missing, file the DNF proudly.

Try contacting carels through their profile. I just noticed that they have gone over 16000 finds. They do live in the State College area.

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=8773464f-49b9-478d-b53a-ee83d8147959 I let Quill sign her first FTF log on Book Nook in La Pine, Oregon. It is a cardboard box shaped line a book. The clue used the Dewey Decimal System to get you to the right shelf. The CO was helpful enough to post the hours for the library.

Looks like a great place would be to start with a virtual cache GCB5CE New Birds of Jupiter. Play>Hide & Seek a cache>type in address>Start with difficulty 1 or 1.5 caches. Start with caches that are larger than the micros. Check the format of cache pages. Down near the bottom of the page, you should click on nearest caches for other choices.

A few months ago I added a SPOT to the safety gear I carry while bushwhacking. With the SPOT, I have the option of sending an "I'm OK" a "I need help" to a couple of my friends or a real "I need to be rescued" to the SAR folks. All of the messages are sent with your precise location by satellite communication. When I put in a cache that requires bushwacking, I point out dangers that someone might not be aware of. There seems to be a few searchers that pay little attention to the cache page and the attributes.

Quite a difference between 42' and 47'. Typo?

The highest physical cache in Oregon is 9733-Steens Mtn. (GC1EC8C) by logscaler & Red. All of the higher mountains in Oregon are within Wilderness boundaries where no physical caches are allowed. For caching in the Columbia Basin, try the caches up the trail past Multnomah Falls.

The announcement at the top of the page referred to PDT. I thought we have been on Pacific Standard Time for a while.

I do remember moving a TB with attached bison tube that was clearly labeled that it contained human cremains of a US Navy sailor. I picked it up in Bend and I dropped it in Seaside. Someone after me took it into his favorite bar in Seaside. It's a lot less creepy than the plastic box I found this year that I thought was a geocache but had a clear plastic bag inside with about a tablespoon of cremains inside.

Was Santa good to you? I've had my copy of Maphead for over 2 weeks. There is only 1 graphic in chapter 10. The end of the chapter is Ken's experience doing a terrain 5 cache near a series of waterfalls. The 1 minor error I have read so far is that he referred to Dave Ulmer as the grandfather of geocaching. In two paper logs I have seen Dave refers to himself as the "father of geocaching".