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-- and now I've got wet paint all over my hands.

ahem

I want to use it as my avatar but I can't get the darn thing to scan properly. Or save. Or something. If anyone wants to carve their own stamp, there are all sorts of tutorials and helpful information at the carving consortium. Just google for them.

Sorry if this is too basic but how will this race work? Do the bugs get released with destinations attached to them and hope that random cachers move them along? Or do we go out and try to move our teams bug?? little foggy here, any clarification welcomed!

Salvelinus nee Smoochnme had a general plan to meet up and seek some caches but we kept missing each other that day. We both ended up at Boxer's but still managed to miss each other! So we went caching another day and that was fun. (see http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=39011) Right now I'm hoping to put together a fox hunt. That will allow cachers to meet each other and nab a cache or two. It would be fun to get together with other cachers in a foody-type place but this time, I'll let someone else take point!

They've been posting their find maps, too.

quote: Are you planning on advertising that you placed a card somewhere, such as in your find log for the cache you placed it in, or is it just going to be luck that someone stumbles upon one? I say in my on-line log that I've left one and if I could get a cache page for these, I'd note in which caches I've placed FK cards. But I wouldn't post coordinates to the web. They need to collect the card to find those. quote: If you are announcing that you placed a card in a particular cache, then I'd support doing it in the style of the Photographer's Cache above where you would edit the cache coordinates each time to that of the cache you placed the card in. (Not the coordinates where you hid the micro.) ummm, little awkward what with having a few out at once. I'll think on that.

quote: I agree that you should not have each micro set up as a separate cache. I do not want each micro set up as an individual cache. Also, I don't want to post the coordinates for each available FK on a web page because part of the point of this type of cache is to get other cachers out to the site. Sort of like a travel bug. Just wanted to clarify. Thanks!

My email to the approval folks sounding them out about a different sort of cache got this response: "Perhaps you should post this in the forums and see what others think? Considering the volume of caches and the amount of time it takes to approve them for listing, I would say no to one time caches." So here's the situation: I have been placing micro-caches on the way to other caches. I write down the coordinates on a specially prepared card and leave this card in the cache when I find it. The next cacher to the site has the option of taking the card and seeking the micro cache and when they find the micro, they take it with them. Thus, the name of the caches: Finder's Keepers. I would like to have a cache page for these micros so I have a place to say where all the unsought Finder's Keepers are and the finders can put another notch in their GPS. I can certainly understand how it is not worth the approver's time to bother with one-time caches, however, I tend to have two or three of these out at a time and I'm asking that the collective of Finder's Keepers be treated as *one* cache. One page for all the Finder's Keepers out there. (A note about the process. I average out 7-10 sets of coordinates for the cache, write those coords on a card explaining what the cache is and set a deadline for seeking it-- I don't want to leave these things out there indefinitely. Along with the card explaining Finder's Keepers, I include a pre-paid postcard for the seeker to send stating that they've either found it or they haven't and they need more clues. These cards go into an envelope and then into the cache when I find it. Then it's up to the next willing cacher to continue the process.) So what do you think? Should I get a cache page for these??

just sent you an email. Any joggers or runners in Central PA who'd care to volunteer to be the fox??

quote: Also, what happens if the fox spots the hounds, hides, and the hounds get ahead of the fox. Then the fox is, well, screwed. All parties must go to the caches in order. If the hounds and hunters come to a cache that doesn't yet have the foxes marker in it (proving that the fox hasn't yet arrived) then all they have to do is wait for the fox to show up and nab 'em! quote: Do they win if they get to a cache that the fox has not yet visited? Pretty much, because they win when they grab the fox (I'm thinking maybe the fox should wear a tag a la "tag football" to discourage any actually tackling!) and the fox *must* visit each cache order. So must the hounds and hunters. The fox drops off a marker in each cache to prove s/he was there and the hounds and hunters collect those markers to prove they were there, too.

I hadn't really thought of running the course ahead of time to gauge the head start (I would need an hour's head start!): good idea. Guess I better start mapping out a route!

I probably shouldn't open this can of worms but... "You will be in violation of federal regulation by placing a cache in any area administered by the National Park Service (US)." (geocaching.com) "... a summary of the rules and regulations set and enforced by the National Park Service (NPS) for the NPS-acquired A.T. corridor — approximately 500 miles along the length of the Trail." (http://www.appalachiantrail.org/hike/hike_info/regs.html) Anyone else see a conflict here?? (Wait a sec, let me get into my asbestos suit... there! Flame away!)

I heard of a Fox Hunt using GPS but before I could find out exactly what it was, I'd come up with my own idea. Before I try to organize this, I'd like to see if any of you kind folks out there can point out some problems I may have missed or give suggestions on how to improve it. Before the hunt starts, 5-8 mini-caches are hidden (not posted to geocaching.com: one-day event). Each cache has the coordinates of the next one. The final cache is the "den" and if the fox gets there before being caught by the hunters and hounds, the fox has won. One cacher is selected (forced to volunteer?:^) as the fox. The fox knows where all the caches are but must proceed on foot and follow the same order of caches as the hounds and hunters. The hounds and hunters only have the coords to the first cache but they also have mountain bikes. The fox gets a fifteen minute head start to get to the first cache where s/he leaves a marker to prove s/he was there. The hounds and hunters follow to catch (cache??) the fox. If at any point they sight the fox they are allowed to pursue it and if they catch it, the hounds and hunters have won. If the fox eludes them, however, their only option is to continue to seek the caches until they again spot the fox (and the fox must still follow the sequence of caches and leave a marker in each cache). I imagine this game would take an hour or two and I can see it being played from a large park to a slightly commercial/residential area and ending at a pub or coffee shop so the hunters and the hunted could celebrate their victory. Ideas? Comments?

Maybe the same place I heard about Burning Man (cause I don't remember where I first heard about that, either). Smithsonian? Cardhouse.com? Googled??

what about a wymyncott? Huh?? so dadgum sexist.

If I understand correctly, there are ten items to be taken (not traded) and the cache will be archived after the tenth item is "cached-out." Why not just send an email to 20-30 local cachers telling them of the cache?? They have a chance to seek the cache and you don't have to bother with approval. It'd also be a good way to meet folks in your caching community. Just a thought...

...in damage to my little Honda. First there was just the road and the evening commute through tiny little Stormstown. Then TWO deer sprouted up from the road and WHAM! Deer attack. I generally feel quite miserable for road kill but strangely, in this instance, I could find little sympathy for the deer.

quote: I agree, much like my rule that I would never eat or drink anything I found in a cache. I *so* didn't need that combination of mental images, thank you very much!

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"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!" - Samuel Adams When did we turn into consumers, customers and resources? When did we stop being citizens? Why did only 30% of the population in my county vote? Why aren't people angered into action???

check your email.

AY-meeee. Is that really so difficult??

Could you include a pronounciation guide for that name??

... is he related to the Watch Children??