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Tsmola

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  1. I once got notifications of someone finding like 5 or 6 of my caches one day, all the logs were one-liners: "tftc" didn't even get TNLN, just tftc I was pretty dissapointed that day to say the least. I always make unique logs and try to say as much as I can. The logs I hate most as a cache owner are the copy and pastes that say nothing about the cache, but just brag about the numbers attained that day. If I add photos to my log, you know I enjoyed that particular cache as I won't add any for a crappy one. I try to lead by example by making all my logs say something about the hide, but a lot of locals still copy and paste if they find over 5 caches in a day.
  2. I lost my brother back in Novemeber and hid 2 in his honor. He wasn't a cacher, but he loved the area where these are hidden. I hid Wild One before the funeral on a walk in the area that he loved so much. Shortly thereafter though I felt he deserved something more so I hid Nautical Star The part I like most about Nautical Star is that we were able to get a memorial bench put in place near stage 1 that has the star on it. It ties in nicely to the cache, everyone who has seen the bench has enjoyed it, there's a pic of it in the cache gallery, I have to add one to the page.
  3. I was amazed to discover the tiny grocery store I work at actually carries them, but I don't get mine there as they carry the round ones and I prefer the rectangular shaped ones. Lock and Locks have really grown on me, at first I was a die-hard ammo can user, but the more Lock and Locks I found the more I liked them, they are a lot cheaper than an ammo can that's for sure. When I bought them they had a 3 pack for $10 with 3 different size containers, just right for a regular cache and 2 smalls.
  4. Every log for my Alien Alphabet and Alien Alphabet 2 has been good, but these two are my favorites: May 20 by FarmBoy&theTeacher (1221 found) After a long drive to get to the cache site we found AA1 and picked up the encrypted info for AA2. Went back to the picnic area and started working on solving the message over a picnic supper. We did a lot of head scratching over this until it started to get dark. Since the park closes at dark we had to move on. We headed out and found a place to camp for the night and proceeded to get settled in while still pondering the code. Well we finally gave in and decided to get some sleep when all of a sudden the strangest bright lights filled the night sky. An intellectual looking Alien suddenly materialized in front of us. Well you can guess that we were stunned. Using his translating device he informed us that he had heard about the AA caches and had come to Earth to see what it was all about. He was monitoring the AA1 site earlier when we were there so now had come to get information from us. You know how hard it can be to explain geocaching to a muggle? Well, try explaining it to an Alien who has no knowledge of earthlings concept of fun. After a lot of communicating back and forth we think that he got the idea because he took pity on us for not being able to decode the message. He would not decode it for us but did tell us of a nearby machine that could do it. We were thanking him as best we could when he disappeared as quickly as he had appeared. After this most unusual experience we had trouble getting any sleep at all. Come first light we headed out to prepare for the days adventure. We located the place where the decoding machine is kept but found that it was locked up until later in the morning. We decided to find a few other caches to take our minds off from this one while we waited. When we got back we were able to use the code machine and got the information that we needed. We headed out to the AA2 site and started looking around. The GPSr circled us around a bit before we spotted the cache. Now what to do? Well, someone had to retrieve the cache and that task landed on FarmBoy. With the Teacher doing the cheering Farmboy achieved this amazing feat with no cuts, scrapes or broken bones. Be careful and take the owners warnings seriously. On top of all this we got to be FTF. What an adventure!!!!! Many thanks to Tsmola for a job well done on such a challenging set of caches! Also thanks to the Alien for the help in getting this decoded. Left a couple of sig cards for future finders and picked up the FTF card. FarmBoy&theTeacher Adventure #780 May 24 by Team_Fitz (265 found) #182 Take heed puny Earthlings! This cache is not for the weak, minded or physical. The aliens could not keep me away for long. After my adventures with AA1 I needed a different tool for the second stage of the adventure. During the wee hours that lay ahead of me in the lab I turned on the trusty transceiver and began to point my antenna skyward in hopes of contacting one of the aliens that had left this encrypted message. Listening intently through the static I began to hear the faint signal from another world! It began as a slight crackle and then an overpowering ringing that took my breath away. After grabbing a power drink it came to me It was there all the time . Or was it really a message from outer space? Now that the message was clear all that was left was the journey back. Today was a beautiful day for an astrobike ride to the trailhead. The birds were singing and many other fury creatures scurried about as I proceeded to the cache. Now this is where you had better heed the warnings. There is much protecting this alien cache poisonous plants abound here. If you are allergic to poison ivy steer clear or wear protective clothing. If you attempt this alone tell someone where you are going and when you should be back. It will take you longer than you think. The aliens were on my side today and I had no trouble retrieving the cache and placing it back. I do however see where someone not so agile or physically fit could get hurt if they attempt this alone. Bring a friend and enjoy. The journey back to the astrobike left me wanting more but it was already later than I had anticipated. I should be in bed by now. Oh well one more stop on the way back to Earth Cache HQ shouldn’t be a problem. These two caches were a lot of fun. Traded sigs TFTC
  5. The Old Car Graveyard close to home is overrated in terrain, depending on the way you go, if you go left as is suggested the terrain is more like 2.5-3 if you go all the way around the pile and the swamp like I did, then yes I'd say the 4 was pretty close. Overrated or not, a great cache none the less. I have a cache that's rated a 4 in terrain that's a short hike back through a park over ground with slight elevation changes, but the final is 15 ft up a tree. So I rated it accordingly.
  6. The Old Car Graveyard comes to mind right away. From the road where you park, you would never guess there was anything back in the woods there, but about 50 yards in there's a steep slope where cars of all shapes and sizes have been dumped over the edge.
  7. I don't care about other people's numbers in the least. Pretty much the only reason I log them is to keep track of which ones I have and haven't done, although the recent thread on Do You remember your significant finds brought up another good point about it, I can't remember my 20th find or my 30th right off the top of my head, having an online physical log is nice for that. Occassionally I go back through all my finds and read the old logs I made, as I am coming up on 1 year in this sport it's cool to look back at my beginnings. It's cool to have a record of all my experiences over this past year in this hobby. (I really appreicate the DNF logs now, I might have otherwise forgotten those unsuccessful trips) I've never understood the obsession with putting all the numbers you've found in your profile, states you visited, one day records, etc that people put in their profiles. I do keep mental notes of the locals numbers because when their number changes I like to look at their recent finds and see what they've been up to, but that's about it. Days like today I was out I had maybe a dozen unfound caches within 10 miles of the area I was in but I only claimed one today because I was bored and didn't see the need to find a bunch more. Heck when I was in DC visiting virtuals I quit looking for the second answer for Mtn-Man's FDR Memorial virtual just because it wasn't any fun to look for the answer just to verify a find when I would rather be enjoying the spot. So I did, I quit looking and enjoyed the spot rather than worrying about another stupid smiley and never once regretted it either. When it gets to be all about the numbers and not the experience is when it's not fun anymore. Most in my area do enjoy the numbers side of it, good for them. I'm more of a hider than a finder anyway. I spend more time worrying about where to find cool new cache locations then I do looking for ones already hidden.
  8. I just did a cache in an old dump the other day, full of old rusty cars and other old rusty junk, to top it off all this was on a steep slope in a wooded area. Needless to say, I loved every second of it, even when my shoes got covered in mud at the bottom and I nearly fell down a slope filled with torn up cars with sharp edges. Of course, I also own a cache that is 15 ft up a half dead tree, a wrong step and you can fall and be hurt in a remote area of a large county park. I have fun with this kinda stuff, some people just don't. It varies from person to person.
  9. logbooks definitely, the past 5 months or so I've only hidden 2 micros because I wanted to place caches that can hold larger logbooks simply because I love reading through the entries.
  10. you only got part of the story here, the police logged it online! here's the cache in question: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...&Submit6=Go
  11. I've seen a varation off of this idea, it was a PVC pipe attached to an old telephone pole, the bottom was a cap glued on with a tiny hole in it. In order to get the film can out you had to stick a coat hanger found nearby up the hole to push the film can to the top.
  12. that pretty much sums up Crab Creek, it's on my "Notables and All-Time Favorites" list, but it falls more onto the Notables side than the favorites one. It was a good cache don't get me wrong, but if it had been anything but an APE, I wouldn't have done it on that trip just because there were cooler things to see in DC a few miles south. I basically just wanted to see a piece of caching history. Which is why I reccomend it if you are in the area, as I bet one of these days all the APE caches will be gone. When I was there the only thing that was original for the cache was the ammo can. All other original contents were gone, the owners removed the logbook with the APE logo on it to save that little piece of caching history for events and such. btw, I have to say, when I was there Crab Creek was full of really bad swag, I mean a LOT of junk trade items. I have to give that cache this, I've never seen so much geo-junk in a single cache before.
  13. Fake-Out is my least-visited hasn't been found in months, but if you read the logs, you'll see some entertaining stuff from people from all over, then see logs by some locals who couldn't figure it out. I'm not quite sure which is my most visited right now, but I'm expecting a large number of visitors for Maple Hill Monster due to it's quick and easy access from a major highway. The fact that it has 10 visitors and it's only 13 days old is pretty darn good for my area, as my oldest cache is just now going over 30 visits.
  14. I can see it now, the cheaters find a park and grab and in the log say nice quick find but log it as 5 hrs of searching.
  15. I did Mission 7 as well on a trip to DC, the aggressive tactics of people even driving even that far out of DC scared us, but we did find it. And yes it is, one huge pile of sticks. It's not the largest cache I've ever found though, that honor goes to Big Orange Travel Bug convention center, which is just slightly larger. Wasn't the best cache I've ever done, but it was a memorable experience, well worth the effort if you are in the area, but if you go in where we did you'll find it's a bit under-rated for the terrain with some huge, hills between you and the cache, the terrain should be at least a 2.5-3 for the hills.
  16. gad, don't scare me like that! I love cemetery caches, they are some of my favorites and I still have some planned for the future for my haunts and legends series of caches. Aside from my Alien Alphabet puzzles, some of my most popular caches have been the cemetery ones.
  17. tonight I just got the email about the newest place my Galloping Goul landed, it's goal is to go to spooky places, I was extremely excited and happy to see it is now at the Moonville Tunnel in Ohio. This location is featured in the Weird US Ohio book. It's a place I've wanted to visit since I've heard about it, so to see my bug land there was pretty sweet.
  18. not yet, I've got some 3/3s but the higest terrain I've gotten is 3.5 I do have a few 4 difficulty and one 5/3 I plan to place a 5/5 this winter, and believe me, it'll be properly rated! The only terrain 5s around here are basicially 5's because of a boat required and since I don't have a hitch to take the boat there I haven't gotten them. My plan is to make a 5 where it's not just a 5 because of special equipment required.
  19. that'd be sweet, I'd be able to attend that one not too far and not too close to home and there are a lot of great caches nearby. Plus with that location you get 2 states for the price of one with MI not too far away.
  20. I love it when people detail their hunts, I can't stand it when they copy and paste logs and I like it even less when the only thing they have to say is mention of the numbers they accomplished on that day's run. I never copy and paste and I'll try to say a little bit about every hide, if you made a hide I enjoyed, you'll know it as I tend to ramble on. Since I'm more of a hider than a finder, I've gone to great lengths to create memorable experiences and unique locations. I have a few that are so-so, but those are earlier hides. With every hide I've done the past few months I've tried to make at least one thing stand out on them, I've been passing a lot of possible cache locations up just because there's nothing that can really be said about them. My goal is to place caches where the seeker comes away with more than just another number for their stats.
  21. it was an add-on for me, as I've lived in the country and played outdoors all my life. Caching has been a nice addition to my hobbies and is right up there with hunting and fishing for me. I've discovered new hunting and fishing spots thanks to caching. Caching did do one thing for me though....it gave me an excuse to get out and explore! Before I started caching I hardly ever went to big nature preserves or visited old cemeteries. I never knew there were so many cool places so close to home before I started caching.
  22. just carve or buy a stamp, from what I hear that's the only requirement to place one. For mine I dual-listed it, it's listed on GC.com and letterboxing.org when I went out and placed the cache I walked around and wrote down clues for letterboxers to find it with. When I checked up on the box it had recieved at least 5 or 6 other visits from letterboxers in addition to geocachers.
  23. About 19 miles out, on Page 10 is 200 here
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