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It is along the Idaho Wyoming boarder. GC1ZY4W This is a relatively well traveled road. I was surprised it had been so long with out a find.

This was at a cache that I got a First to Find on a cache one week shy of four years hidden. And this one was from the night before.

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There must be some one who works for the news in Salt Lake on here. I just saw this story online. KUTV news story

My two newest coins I traded for. Thanks again nevadanick and drneal!

Hiding a cache is an option not a requirement to earning the meritbadge. As part of this option the scout is to present to the meritbadge counselor a maintenance plan for the cache. If the counselor isn't making sure that the scout has a plan or that they understand the responsibility of owning a cache then I blame the ADULT counselor not just the scout. That being said I see plenty of bad caches by other people too, not just scouts.

I would think that your geocaching name would be fine because you are gaining anything from and the title itself is based on an old English proverb but if you were to use it on a coin or other items then it could possibly be a problem. I am not a lawyer so this is just my opinion based on reading a little bit about copyrighted material in the past.

I know caches are not allowed in national parks but I know on top of some prominent mountain peaks that are frequented by mountain climbers there is a log to sign, usually in an ammo can. When I first started caching I remembered find one on top of a famous peak in a national park over 20 years ago. I think it should be OK to cache in many wilderness areas as long as the land managers give permission on the location. What is the difference between a geocache container and the mountain climbers log books?

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I was curious about something similar recently. I wanted to know which city/town in Wyoming had the most caches. I ran a pocket query with a 50 mile radius from the approximate center of each town. I looked at not only the total caches but also how many caches per person. A couple of mid-sized (for WY) cities actually had more caches then the larger ones. I don't think the size of the city has as much to do with the number of caches as it does the number of active cachers.

I will get my coins out later this week.

I would prefer the Thursday or Sunday draft. I have to be on the road Friday night.

I recently moved from a larger town in a neighboring state to a small town. The big difference I have noticed is the approach to "First to Find". In the small town with less caches, it can sometimes be a race to be the first to find. In the bigger town an easy to get to new cache could some times go days before it was found. I think this is not so much that people want to be the the first to find (though there is some of that) but more that there are fewer caches in the small town and most of the regular cachers have already found most if not all of the caches in the area so a new cache close by is a big deal. I have also noticed that in the smaller town cachers (me included) tend to have a larger active caching radius. It is not uncommon around here for someone to drive 50+ miles just to go get a cache. Again I think this is due to the fact there are less caches in the immediate area.

My thought is if you attended and event log it. Just because you planned it you were still there participating.

I now have to change my list! I just received a trade for #2 Scout Knife Red. Thanks Roy and Darcy.

A new season? I am game.

I don't mind front yard caches as long as it is very clearly stated in the cache description. One of our favorite front yard caches mentioned in the description that they had spoke to and had permission from his neighbors just so they wouldn't be too suspicious. In fact as we were walking up to the cache the closest neighbor came out of his house and told us good luck and to enjoy the cache.

Here is my list of the top 5 (for now)- #1 Moun10Bike 1st Ed #2 Scout Knife Red or Blue #3 Golden Spike #4 Pennsylvania Train 2009 #5 Tardis Geocoin

I wish I had any coins worth trading for one of these coins. Great looking coin.

A joke I heard while living in Saskatchewan for a couple of years - When they were trying to come up with the name for their new country a group of politicians got together and after much debate they decided to pull letters out of a hat and name their new country based on those letters. The first person reaches into the hat and announces his letter "C, eh" The second reaches into the hat and announces his letter "N, eh" The Third reaches into the hat and announces his letter "D, eh" There you have it CANADA! I am sure this is funnier hearing it then reading it. Now for a fact: Cut Knife Saskatchewan is home to the worlds largest tomahawk. [/url][/img] I don't have any of my photos from Canada on my computer so I stole this one off the internet. I loved this one because of the goose sitting on top of the tomahawk. That is one big tomahawk, eh!?!

After the kids and dogs are safe I would grab the baby books / photo albums from the book shelf. Next would be the computer and external hard drive with all the digital photos and records. Shortly after I was married we had to evacuate my parents house as a wild fire was moving towards it. We were grabbing every thing we could and throwing them into the cars, but it was the photo albums, baby books and pictures off the walls that my mom grabbed first. The fire ended up going around the house (only about 20 feet away at one corner) but it helped us to realize what was important to us and what wasn't.

The Idaho office of the BLM (Bureau of Land Management) has gotten on board with geocaching and put together a state wide challenge. http://www.blm.gov/id/st/en/prog/recreation/what_do_you_want_to/Geocaching.html

What irks me is caches that break the rules/guidelines. Some have been mentioned here already but specifically I mean these two: 1) hides on private property with out permission or acknowledged permission on the cache page. 2) buried or partially buried caches.

I don't know if it is state wide policy but I went to our local state park superintendent and just asked if it was ok. There already were caches in the park and he said sure and just to let him know where we were going to place it to make sure it wasn't a sensitive area. He also asked that we keep an eye out for the moose in the park and if one of them is frequently in the area to move our cache to a new location. This last instruction wasn't to keep the moose safe from the cache but to keep an unsuspecting cacher from startling one of them. In return for his easy cooperation we held a CITO in the park as a thank you. By the way we are in Wyoming.