Mad Bee

Like others have posted, I have always found cemeteries to be very interesting. A respectful cache brings two interests together in a neat way. Fortunately, I've never found one close to the markers. They have always been placed on the perimeter of the grounds. I did have to suspend a multi-cache hunt on Memorial Day weekend. The final stage was in a cemetery and there were many people there to pay their respects. I didn't want to intrude so I left and picked up the final stage a couple of weeks later.

I like cemetery caches that are done respectfully and with a sense of history. All of the cemetery caches I have found have been well away from any markers and the cache pages do a good job of trying to point out significant markers (veterans, local forefathers, etc.) and the local history. I have always been fascinated with genealogy and cemeteries. To me, the geocaches in these cemeteries usually take me to one I never would visit otherwise, give me pause to reflect on my life made possible by those that have passed on before me, and allow me pay my respects to those who might otherwise be forgotten by the general public. I will never search for a cache if I feel the search will disrespect the dead and/or disrespect those who may be there to visit a loved ones grave.

I had heard about Geocaching from my sister , but quickly dismissed it. A year or so later, a friend of mine was talking to me about how he and his family would go out caching. Interested , I went to work the next day and checked out gc.com and looked up caches around my work. Later that day, without a GPSr, I found my first cache and was hooked. I found about 10 more before I purchased "Ole Yeller."

Aside from not having the needed hiking, climbing, wilderness skills to tackle one like Last Will and Testament, I would not go after a cache of that difficulty when the owner only has 1 find and 1 hide in almost three years. That's just my opinion!

GCVQCN is a cache in the Indianapolis, IN area that was hidden 04/29/06 and has not been found yet. According to the logs, it is not because of inactivity that it hasn't been found.

The Indiana Spirit Quest series is top notch in my opinion. Like Metaphor said, cemetery caches, if done like the ISQ, allow cachers to visit a place and pay honor and respect to those people who have passed on before us. Whether miliatry veterans or local townspeople, these people laid the foundation for our communities today and it is nice to contemplate their lives be it ever so brief. The ISQ caches emphasize the history on the cache page and are placed well away from the graves. All in all, they are respectfully done. Several cachers are attempting to duplicate the ISQ with a Kentucky Spirit Quest series.

There is an ammo can cache in my neck of the woods locked shut with a combination lock. On the ammo can are several different number combinations to try. There are about 13 total, but at least you know (hope) the right one is there. In your case, maybe you could set up a multiple choice in the cache page or in the hint. Or, better yet, add a small piece of paper with the different choices to the first stage (with enough copies for all cachers to take one with them) to make sure people did not bypass it altogether. Something like A- 300 Green, 200 white and 50 red. B- 200 green, 250 white and 75 red, etc. You could add as many possibilities as you would like. This way the cachers might have to spend a bit of time on the cache and trying to count the marbles would help in figuring out the cache, but those who were counting averse, would still have to find the first stage and know one of the choices would yield the right answer and the right place to search. Good luck!

Mad Bee hails from the initials of the first names of all my family and B is our last initial.

I found Cache-bert's Simulated USA Geocoin in a cache in the Gatlinburg/ Pigeon Forge Area and brought it back to Kentucky. It has certainly made the rounds and is now in Virginia. The owner made a color copy of both sides of the coin and had it laminated. Finders still get the icon on their profile stats, but are less likely to remove the "coin" from circulation. Cache-bert's Simulated USA Geocoin