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The Herd

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  1. Also, at this point I will consider trades on a case by case basis. I can only trade the resident coins to Indiana residents, however I will trade the trackables to anyone with a cool coin that I don't allready have.

     

    I'd much rather have a pile of 100 different coins than 100 of the same coin, :blink:.

     

    Where did this lot of 100 coins come from?

  2. Welcome to the addiction, John. Prepare to live, eat, breathe and sleep geocaching. It happens before you know it. Once you take that first one...it's all down hill from there. Unfortunatly at this time, there is no 12 step program to help you recover from this addiction.

     

    Seriously though, I know of at least 3 people that started out caching without GPSrs. They used google maps, etc. to zoom in on the location. They were VERY successful with it, but once I showed them what it was like to hunt with a GPSr, they never went back to the "old ways."

  3. I believe your top picture is of sulfur shelf, it is edible, when young. Found this on it:

     

    "The common name sulfur shelf derives from the yellow color of the edges of the margins.� Sulfur is yellow in its pure form.

     

    A second variant, having whiter margins is a variant known as semialbinus, the albinus referring to the (albino) white features.� It is also called Laetiporus cincinnatus.

     

    The entire fruit body is edible when it is young. However, when it matures (several weeks), it becomes fibrous and only the edges of the margin are edible.� If the margin breaks off smoothly, it will be palatable. If it is stringy (like overcooked chicken) it will not be."

     

    We had a HUGE one of these things on a tree in our yard. The orange is just amazing, especially at sunrise! I'll try to locate a picture.

  4. Coincidence,

    I just co-presented a session on Geocaching Success Stories for the National Recreation and Parks Association annual exposition in Indy last week. We presented two main case studies, and mentioned other agencies doing things with success.

     

    Indiana Department of Natural Resources: 2006 Fall Into Geocaching Contest (22 caches, first to find 10 in the State Parks. A few were adopted out at the end and are still around http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...0a-9365b4b547c7

    2007 IDNR Geocoin Giveaway, 500 special made geocoins hidden in state park caches. Believed to be first state agency ever to produce a geocoin. In 2008 will debut the Spring Geocaching Quest.) Probably the state to do the most geocaching activities in the state parks.

     

    Chicago Naval Station is using geocaching on their base as a recreation activity. These are not open to the public.

     

    A couple other tourism bureaus have used geocaching cities they are not in, to draw those folks over to their state or city.

     

    Do a search on geocaching packages, and you will find scores of hotels offering geocaching packages, complete with GPS unit, and special caches available only to hotel guests.

  5. I agree with you, I hate it when I do a check up on my caches and find nothing but broken junk. But, I just restock it, and move on. But what bugs me even more than that is people that don't use spell check before posting, when they KNOW they need it!

  6. Hi all. I am new to the state of Indiana and also new to geocaching. We moved here after spending all of our 60 plus years in Pa to be near our grandchildren. Hope to be able to learn, awaiting my GPS from amazon.com and doing a lot of reading.

     

    Welcome to the state of Indiana, and congrats on the new GPS purchase. What area of the state are you in?

  7. A cool one we saw once was a small teddy bear that was a jailbreak bear. To move it you had to sneak into another geocachers swag bag after writing a story in his book. No cache to cache moving.

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