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Letterboxing is quite popular here. Unfortunately, the most prolific hider is the least good at box maintenance. I have found two letterboxes accidently. One was on my first day caching with hubby. It was quite a ways from the coords, but since we didn't find the cache, we had expanded our search pattern. The second was two feet from the cache and had been listed as missing for several years! The person who logged FTF on the cache had actually found the letterbox and as a new cacher, didn't realize it. One would think that logging FTF at the end of a hundred stamps would give one a clue. Oh, well. Honest mistake I suppose.

Actually, our Pike County officers are pretty savvy to geocaching. One of them is a cacher!! Hi, Mugshots!!

Hmmm....Let's see: 1) I'm just in southern Ohio, so I'd come 2) It's an event, I'd come 3) Food? I'd come 4) Prizes (even if I don't win them), I'd come 5) Geocoin, I'd come Heck, I'll be there!! Long as it doesn't interfere with the other events we have planned for this year (Fragglestock, Smoky Mountain Geoquest, and my Harry Potter Hogwarts Holiday).

My latest shopping find is nowhere near as huge as any of the above, but for a bigger-than-average cache that you can still reasonably haul out to the woods without a forklift, I found a really cool container. It is bigger than an ammo crate, but somewhat smaller than an APE cache. It is a military food warmer/cooler. Looks basically like an army green metal cooler, maybe a bit taller than wide, so it is pretty deep. It contains three metal containers with lids (non-sealable), that fit inside. It has a nice rubber gasket around the top and two latches on the front, two hinges on the back, handles on both ends. I plan on using the inside containers for craft storage and put the big outer container out in the woods. There is an old moonshiner's camp along a horse trail in the nearby state park that has a dozen or so abandoned cars scattered along the trail. I plan to drop this baby in the back seat of a '39 Ford and let y'all have at it! It was $20 at the surplus store I discovered the other day. It's part of the ceramics/cake supplies/dollmaking store. Not an odd combination at all!

Mine seems to be working fine. I have a first stage that has a list of all the caches divided up by suspect/weapon/place, including coords, clues, and GC#'s. Oh, and I used clear packing tape to adhere the game pieces to the inside of the cache to prevent loss/theft. Then one entire cache was promptly stolen! Oh well, at least it didn't have the 'dunnit' piece in it. The FTF on mine did it in one day.

OK. Tell me how to get there from Chillicothe.

Still nothing? Everyone else has really cool avatars but me.......

I'm sorry, but I don't see your huge problem. Is it the cache density? Not a problem. All of my game pieces went into existing caches. Most were mine, but I did get permission from three other cachers to put pieces in their caches. The game pieces that you get from Sir Gerald are 1" metal washers, but you could use anything. If you had to use micros for your game you could write the clues on small pieces of neon colored cardstock, laminate them, and stick them in the containers. One of my washers is magnetted (is that a word?) next to my magnetic micro. I put a cache at the starting coords with worksheets in it for those not using the cache page, but you wouldn't have to. As long as there is an actual cache at the final stage. Oh, my game went online Sunday and was found Monday!! They were some busy cachers!! Some of the pieces were about 20 miles apart. A couple involved a pretty good hike, too.

I have released two red handed coins, a USA coin, and a Coin Club FTF coin.

39 with TWO acl replacements! And getting around better than I have in years! Hubby is 30 (call me cradle robber). Take your dog with you. You'll feel less conspicuous.

I see myself as more of a social worker than a cop. My job is to reunite, not arrest and convict. It would be interesting to sleuth out how he got here, though.

I like the one someone had that was something like-- I used to complain that life was unfair. Then thought how bad it would be if life was fair and I actually deserved the terrible things that happen to me, so now I rejoice in the general hostility of the world.

My wife and I each have accounts and log separately, even if we found the cache together. That seems to be pretty common for couples with two accounts. Yup. Us, too. Wafflesdad and I usually cache together, but not always, so we have separate accounts.

I finally got my cloo game active! That last hike just about did me in. I had to climb the hill (a mile on trail?) a bit faster than I am fit for due to pending storm activity, but the geo dog and I prevailed! Waverly Ohio Cloo Game #6 is up and running. Somewhere under the passenger seat of my car is one of the weapons game pieces, but for the time being, five weapons is enough. I'll get it out there after I disassemble the car. In order to get it approved, I had to delete all references to any kind of code words being put into a computer. The whole thing has to be completeable (is that a word?) without going back to the computer. So on one of each of the suspects, weapons, and places I put a sticker with a number on it. The number plugs into the final coords. The other pieces say "sorry". After most of the locals have had a chance to play, I'll change around the 'whodunits' and the final site and let everyone play again.

I recently found an item in a cache that looked like it was intended to be a TB. It was in a plastic baggie and had a zip tie around it's neck. I took it home and did a search on the TB page for Clifford, since this was a toy Clifford the Big Red Dog. I found one good candidate out of many, but it has been listed in a cache in California since 2002. I am in Ohio. I emailed the owner anyway, and the bug I found is most likely Clifford - Let's Go Tubin' I wish this little guy could tell his story. How did he get to a cache in Ohio, still in his baggie, but without his tag from California? I just love happy endings. (sniff)

yup. I got a phone call from a deputy when one of my caches was seen being logged by a neighbor of the cemetery. Now the deputy is a cacher!! I also have a cache in the advertiser box in front of the house. We live in the country. If there is someone in front of our house, they are a cacher!

Road trip!! It just so happens that I have a vacation coming up and no where to go. Might even get some caching in!

I found a bunch of disk mailers for 3 1/2" floppies. They work great for 1 or 2 coins. I tape the coin (in its plastic pouch) to a 3 x 5 card, then tape the card inside the mailer. I haven't heard of any problems.

Would like to buy 2 or trade for 1 coin.

Congrats Harry! Our weather went to crap shortly after contest started and to find more than the three types that I found meant driving a long way alone (hubby out of state), plus the flu had me sidetracked, and my shoes hurt my feet, and the GPS batteries went dead, and the digital camera is smarter than me, and..... Anyway, it was fun hunting the few I got out for. I want to do more when the weather is better. I got a new GPS for Christmas! So Harry, what are you going to do now?

If you ever want to cache where the LEO's won't bother you, go to Pike County, Ohio. One of our most active new cachers is a sheriff's deputy. And since our largest (only) city is only about 10,000 people, there are only a couple dozen LEO's in the whole county, so they ALL know about geocaching, now. And we're even up to 15 cache hides in the county! Woo hoo! We're big time now! sorry....gettin' tired.

Hope all turns out well. It is nice to know what a supportive "family" of geocachers you have, isn't it? Prayers coming at you from Ohio. Let me know if you need anything, I'm just across the state line.

I drop a wooden nickel that I make into almost every cache I find. (note to self: get that next batch done--I'm out!) It doesn't matter to me who takes it. I like finding sig pieces from other cachers, so I consider it a trade item good for another sig piece. I have almost as many wooden nickels as I have coins. AND they are cheap enough to leave in caches, not collections!

I'm willing to bet that as long as the sign continues to work, no one will do a bloody thing about it. This is scary, but probably true. There is a bridge closed in Columbus Ohio due to a lamppost shorting out onto the bridge decking. A 10-yr old boy was electrocuted and killed walking across the bridge in the rain. Someone else had reported getting shocked on that bridge sometime earlier. Engineers couldn't figure out what was wrong because they were checking it in good weather. That was over a year ago, I believe.

Completely ignoring the gambling aspect of the game, the fact that email is involved after the initial outing will keep it from being approved. Check out the geocaching adventures forum for the Cloo game. It does sound like fun, though.