Blue Power Ranger

I am looking for some advice. I collected geocoins from about 2005-2008. Then, I started staying home with my kids, and just didn't have the time anymore. I would estimate having 200 or so. Looks like a little over 100 activated but in my hands. Honestly I haven't sat and counted them all out but it is a nice big pile. I have found myself in a situation where I need to sell them. I guess this is the advice I am looking for. Do people like to buy whole collections in bulk? Obviously these could mail in bulk good because they could fit into a flat rate box. Or do people prefer to have them broken up all individually? Do people buy activated ones that would be available for adoption? I also have a large number of non-trackable ones? Do people collect these? They are coins, just untrackable on geocaching. I also have a bunch of pins, and stuff from Oakcoins. Help......

We are heading to Europe in a couple weeks, and thought we would see if anyone had any trackable items they would like us to put in a cache over there. We will be going to the Netherlands, Germany, and Austria for sure. Hoping to set foot in France and Belgium long enough to find caches there, so those are other possible locations. We have had good success with our trackables in Europe. They seem to stay around for a lot longer. Let us know if you would like is that do this. Thanks! Valerie

I'm taking a little trip overseas and I'm looking for a reasonably-priced used copy of Garmin - City Navigator Europe on SD. Thanks!

I've had access to one as part of my job. It is not suitible for Geocaching. Don't bother. IPhone is a MUCH better option, no comparison.

I took two of my sons (ages 3 & 10) hiking up to the old forest fire lookout on Tolmie Peak in Mt. Rainier National Park this past Saturday. It was a great day on the trail to see the seasons changing. We were hiking in our first snow flurries of the season.

If you can tolerate a bit of shameless self-promotion, my Twilight cache in Forks has grown to be quite popular (27 watchers) since it was placed back in March. This cache is based on the Twilight Book Series (and now movie series) that is set in Forks. In case you have not been to Forks lately, the whole town has gone Twilight crazy. If you or any of your companions are at all a fan or these books or movies, this would be a must-do cache in the Forks/La Push area.

I looked at the page and this looks like a great cache. I'd love to find it but I'm not sure it would be a great fit for this series as a nano. The strong preference is that the cache be of "regular" size (also strongly prefer a standard rather than a mulit or puzzle), and feature some information about the local lore, history or some reason you think this location is interesting or represents your state. Take a look at some of the other CAA pages for some examples of this. Webscouter.'s Missouri page is a good example of this. If you have something that you think would fit the bill, we'd love to have you onboard!

Thanks Haffy - we'd love to have you. I'll keep watching this thread and my email. If I don't get another volunteer in the next few days from NC, maybe we can figure something out. Again - to NC hiders, let me know if you would be willing to either hide a new cache or repurpose an existing cache for this series. Thanks!

Hi – I am looking for a new hider to help out in the Cache Across America series. We need a new CAA cache owner in the state of North Carolina. The current cache has unfortunately been archived. Even though we currently own none of the caches ourselves, we are the organizers of this series and work constantly with cachers across the country to keep all 51 caches up and running and ready to be found. If you are a North Carolina cacher, this is an opportunity to showcase one of your favorite locations in your state to those working on this series. We think this has to be the most challenging series to complete in all of North America. In a nutshell, you have to find a particular cache that has been placed in each of the fifty United States, collect a number needed to solve a puzzle that leads you to a final cache in Washington DC. Believe it or not, five caching teams have already completed this challenge. For the current caches in the series look here. You can see the series final here. Let us know via PM if you would be willing to take this on for North Carolina. Thanks! -BPR

This is NOT it. After this and a few other experiences, we got our hands on one of the nice three-wheeled jogging strollers which I have found works great on all kinds of terrain.

Spent last Saturday climbing to the top of 12,281ft. Mt. Adams in Washington State... Of course, the cache at the summit marker was found ...

I headed up Adams yesterday myself. What an adventure. Left camp at 4:05am by headlamp and arrived at the summit at 10:30am. If I had anything I could change, I would go up much earlier in the summer and use the snow to my advantage as a sturdy surface for climbing and more importantly as a way to glissade down. As it was, the snowfields were mostly melted out and what was left was sheets of ice and rock. Along the way we faced snow, hail, wind, fog, sunshine and just about every other weather imaginable. Coming down was much more difficult to me than going up, as we picked our way down endless loose boulder fields. We finally stepped back into camp 11 hrs and 20 min. after we had departed. This was an amazing challenge and I'm glad we were able to get these caches done. What a great part of the country we live in to have places like this to visit and adventures like this to be found right on our doorsteps. More pics to be seen here.

Yes, this is correct. The Idaho hider is no longer in the area so we need a replacement hidden.

Webscouter - that is a kind offer and I could definately use the help. I'll send you an email. Love - I still have no takers on either Oregon or Idaho. If you think your dad would be a real option, it would be much appreciated.

Hi – I am looking for two new hiders to help out in my Cache Across America series. We need new CAA caches hidden in both Oregon and Idaho. Even though we currently own none of the caches ourselves, we are the organizers of this series and work constantly with cachers across the country to keep all 51 caches up and running and ready to be found. If you are an Idaho or Oregon cacher, this is an opportunity to showcase one of your favorite locations in your state to those working on this series. We think this has to be the most challenging series to complete in all of North America. In a nutshell, you have to find a particular cache that has been placed in each of the fifty United States, collect a number needed to solve a puzzle that leads you to a final cache in Washington DC. Believe it or not, a couple of caching teams have already completed this challenge. For the current caches in the series look here. You can see the series final here. Let us know if you would be interested in taking on either of these two states to keep the challenge going. Thanks! -BPR

St. Helens was great. It was easier going up than I had expected but harder going down. PLENTY of snow to be had up there still all the way from Climber's Bivouac to the top although certain areas are melting out. The snow was frozen so hard on our climb that crampons would have been a good idea for certain areas even though we didn't have any with us. That meant, we stuck closely to the rocky areas of Monitor Ridge, away from the snow. Glissading on the way down was out of the question for us again due to the snow conditions. We had a great day up there and I'm sure you will too. We had so much fun that as we sat up at the top and looked over to Adams floating above the clouds, we started making our plans for that too. All the pics from our climb are here.

I'll be watching this thread with interest. Having done St. Helens last weekend, I just finalized my plans last night to head up Adams on 8/29 with a couple of climbing partners. We have chosen the "long and grueling" one day hike in order to maximize our potential for fatigue. Should be fun.

I just climbed Mount St. Helens (yes, that one) in Washington this past Saturday. It was a fun and challenging hike!

Woo hoo! Just registered for June 20th. Hoping to stay on snow most of the way up. We did our climb this past Saturday. What a great time we had. Our log is on the Above the Clouds cache page. We had a fantastic time though and will likely make this an annual adventure. Having now done this, I can say that this was kind of a unique experience. I was a bit surprised by how much of a boulder scramble this actually was. Hiking on trails in training didn't really prepare me for this. The decent in particular was really a knee-jarring event. Thanks for this thread putting this on my radar for this year!

We are there - we will figure out our team very quickly - but we are counting down the days!

It isn't my picture but it is my favorite critter shot from a cache that I own... This was taken August 18, 2008 at Scrambled Leggs.

Woo hoo! Just registered for June 20th. Hoping to stay on snow most of the way up.

Has someone created a bookmark list of the final route yet? I want to save myself the time if this has already been done.

I'm sorry, I though this thread was about Gecacher Magazine and what hasn't worked with print magazines. We know of course that here are many sites and blogs online to read articles about geocaching.

Well of course the magazine is destined for failure if it is written off from the outset as non-viable. I’m an optimist. As you mentioned, the risk of investing is really minor but still I did so in hopes of taking a leap of faith and supporting someone trying to publish a magazine about a hobby I enjoy in hopes that the idea might blossom. The initial issue was pretty so-so but new enterprises usually are. It is a bummer that that small investment is in all likelihood gone and I wish the publisher would have handled their communication better. It bothered me that they didn’t let subscribers know what was happening more than the fact that they were not publishing. In the end though, I guess it really isn’t that big a deal. If somebody else gives it a go, I would probably subscribe to that too. Now forgive me, I need to go to the bank to cut a money order to a Nigerian Prince that just emailed me.