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In between Saline Valley cache and Batman cache, on the 30 degree track going up to a mine. I'd stopped and scouted ahead on foot, because a slide blocked half the track. Since the Jeep had on highway tires and there was only me, I backed down the road. Funny, but I've taken at least 50 pictures of Yellow Jeeps, and that predisposed me to get a Jeep product.

Both: the experience and numbers... but mostly the experience. Wherever I go, I try to stop and take a minute to bring back a picture for someone's cache page. It was way cool to go for this one, a 1950's CIA transport plane. I was quite happy to drive 9 hours for the FTF opp, and do it with good caching company. GCNHJQ That said, this weekend's 15 finds makes me itch a little bit for a bigger chunk of caches.

The promotion must've worked for me. Here's my Jeep Liberty in it's 3000th mile, 100th mile off pavement. Death Valley. I'm thinking the next YJTB is a blue Jeep.

BD and W, congrats on the joyous event. So that math of that is 2900 finds and 86 placements? Pre-congrats on the 1K and 2K milestones that you will be sharing.

Not in the backpack now, but it could be: 18 inch flexi grabber tool with the thumb plunger trigger. If you are willing to carry a sledge hammer, then maybe a 16 inch Eastwing prybar would be okay. Mine's in the vehicle, and I've used it to pry and womp on things. Hiking stick, many uses. Duct tape... of course

In the Bay Area, Beckerbuns and Nurse Dave shared their wedding with geocachers last year. This year, I set up a cache for a couple visiting San Francisco from Chicago. GCN4MG

Thanks. Since I spent a couple of hours on Mountain History, and since it's a choo-choo cache, I think I'll call that one 5K. In truth, I'm about 60 caches behind in logging.

Wow, WoW, this is an avenue that will likely have a good chance of success. If any of those folks are from the Fremont store, I'd consider volunteering for their REI public events.

The photo of the lavendar colored flower is excellent, but the frog foto is marvelous. Wanna be outside too. Here in California, the rain persists. A couple of wonderful sunny days, a couple of so-so days, then a couple of days of greyness and rain.

Love em. I'll throw a shout out for an oldie, GCAA46. It's a tiny spot in Benicia, CA, the oldest US military cemetery in California. In 150 years, a camel corps has come an gone, and refineries and housing have infiltrated the area. The access is a "secret" road through and apartment complex and under petroleum pipelines. GCAA46 has an 1849 Army officer, several Unknown Soldiers, German WWII POW's, a horse, and Tuffy, the only dog to be court martialed.

That's the funniest thing I've seen this week. Looking forward to your Sierra caches when the snow melts. Are you going to do squirrels or marmots?

Pinnacles is a wonderful, curious place, and a geological anomaly, but it's NPS. http://www.nps.gov/pinn/index.htm Really purdy in the Springtime. Since I've yet to go to the WoW Earthcache, I dunno if they need to be a physical cache. If so, Pinnacles would need to be an offset on the log road in.

I was going to split one find between a high difficulty Celebrity Mole (been there and signed twice now) and high difficulty multi Survivor Sacramento (been to most legs, made the steep hike to final). Haven't gotten around to it though.

Oh, a locationless locationless.

In San Francisco, my Columba GCGH5J

Toga toga toga !!! GCB0EB And at NY NY, Sin City gets exciting every 2 minutes. GC8F7F And a drive through Red Rocks to the west of town, sure is purdy. Some caches are car close. Good to hear from you George and Mary.

The cardinals: N: Vancouver, BC, Monuments Plaques GC58E9 at N49 18.266 W: Bodega Bay CA, Rabbits View GC9C at W123 03.513 S: Palm Sprs area, CA, Painted Cyn Ladder Trail GC6B2 at N33 37.818 E: Nashville, TN, Johnny's Cache GCJE17 at W86 35.544 also Up: Mt. Whitney, CA, Muir Was Here GC151D at 14495 feet Down: Badwater Death Vly, CA, How Low Can You Go GCECCB at -280 feet

Those gc.com maps are junky, aren't they. I'm a pan and search visual guy too, and I miss doing the Buxley looking for new blue dots. And the TB maps are a bother too. The old TB maps are more useful for looking to see if a bug has made it's mission waypoints, but even on those determining states visited is sketchy. As for making your own maps, most of the day I'm not at a computer that's mine.

My 3rd anniversary too. That multi on a closed naval base is still up I think. The first bug I found that month went MIA by year end. Go figure, eh? Have a backlog of logging, so dunno real 3rd year number. My yearly rate went from 1 per day 1st year, to 5.5 in the 2nd year, then 7 per day 3rd year. Picture posts went from a few hundred to 5000.

$2.21 in the Sacramento Valley, during yesterday's 400 mile marathon. For 200 miles of caches, it worked out to about 50 cents per cache.

My number 1 number: Caches per hour. Then the number of minutes on scene hunting, and at 5 minutes I'm wondering the number of finds per month for that cache. I used to tally the number of 40-cache days (40 being old school), but I've lost track. The number of 100+ days is 2... kinda proud of that. Have lost track of the number of >4 star terrains, but it must be a dozen. Highest elevation cache: 14495. Lowest -282 feet. Locationlesses: just 24 I think. Miles to FTF: about 350 miles several times.

Now Fizzy, 20 seconds for 3 cachers to log 100 caches is 1 hour and 40 minutes. If I had an extra 1:40, I'd spend it looking for another 10 caches, or solving just one of your puzzles. Other upside of labels-- can add an avatar logo and/or cache run name. Downside-- don't stick to damp micro cache logsheets that we come across. Yet there's an upside-- the sticker is legible whereas ink on soggy paper is not.

Congrats to M&J for being the 11th cachers globally to reach 4K. Congrats too to dgreno for 3.5K, 4Wheeler for 2.5K, Woof (wherever u.r.) for 2K, WoW for 2K, Motorbug for 2K, jimswim and bykenut and TeamJiffy each for 1.5K, and for the 4-digit milestone... payakoi, batecher, budd-rdc, TeamNazgul, and bullit. Thanks for stopping by my Peninsula caches.

I've been interested in a B-17 site near 4 star GCE89 west of Lake Tahoe. Another geocacher has worked with the USFS in posting Antiquities Act signs there. As I understand it, a B-17C Small Tail was headed for maintenance when it went down in a storm, November 1941. The pilot got the crew out, but remained at the controls as the plane broke apart at altitude. Next month, the squadron flew to Hickman Field, Hawaii, arriving Dec 7, 1941. Another 4.5 star I've been to is tragic charter flight 802, east of Bishop, CA. GC382A Tranquill settings from horrific moments in time. TNLN.

1. Waterproof. No wet logsheets. No redundant ziplocks that end up puncturing at the folds, and don't fit into container after day 1. 2. Magnetic = no harm, no foul. No need to disturb nature or property when placing. 2a. Film cannisters don't cut it. Magnets hot-glued, epoxyed, barged cemented, crazy-glued on to HDPE, LDPE, PVC, ABS, PTFE, etc don't stick for long enough. 3. The above plastics or metal should take Krylon Fusion paint for camo, and coverage should last for 2 years outdoors. 4. Interior should be big enough to hold sig cards (business card). Me, I'm all thumbs rolling up log pages for that undersized 1 mil ziplock or a Bison keychain container.