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About the only set that I'd like to get all of the coins is the National Park Coins. I don't have the Grand Canyon coin, nor the Acadia Coin, but I have the Yosemite, Yellowstone, and Joshua Tree coins. I'd love to get the others, but if I don't, it's not going to be the end of the world. As far as other coins, if I like the design, then I'll get one, but it'll probably end up travelling. The only ones that aren't going to travel except with me are the NP coins.

Pictures are linked to cache pages.

It wouldn't surprise me if I go out caching today (day off, whoo!) and come back to find them all sold out... That's exactly what happened to me. Waiting for that email.

Thats' about the size of the largest cache I've ever found. Unfortunately, some paint ballers muggled it.

Country caching. I like the hikes. I like getting the urban micros, but I'd rather spend my day hiking and getting 3 or 4 caches, than getting 15 urban micros.

Due to circumstances beyond my control, I was not able to go camping with the Tadpole this year as we usually do. To compensate for that, I took him into the city, via the Metrolink, Subway and electric train to the Long Beach Aquarium of the Pacific. I got this picture of him enjoying a 250 lb. seabass with only a pane of glass between them, albeit a very thick pane of glass.

Dang. Where were you two weeks ago? I have aquariums, have used the stuff and it never even occured to me that it would make a good adhesive. Sometimes you need a two by four between the spectacles to see things more clearly. Thanks.

Depending upon your area, if it's offered that way, people might like that, but I can see where other areas, the coin might still disappear.

Geez, you live north of me, but if I ever get up that area, I'd love to find an unactivated coin, just go give it some history and a nice goal. A friend of mine says that most geocoins cost approximately the same as a travel bug once you factor in the cost of whatever you're attaching to your travel bug, so that's my thought process on this. I have one more travel bug and am seriously thinking about releasing some of my geocoins into the wild next.

What's the success rate of your geocoins actually staying in circulation? Do your coins disappear rapidly, or do they move from cache to cache?

Should have taken pictures of this one. I still have the red mark up near my wrist, but I literally scrapped off the skin of my right arm from wrist to elbow.

Map created using TigerMapping. Reds are finds, greens are hides, blacks are DNFs that will probably not be rectified, either because they are gone, or I won't be getting back there in the near future.

As long as you don't look like your avatar I've met him. He doesn't.

Dang. Where was this post last week when I really needed it. Situggles on a bench, 10 feet away from Ground zero. Problem being ground zero was 10 feet above the ground as well. I walked away, found 7 other caches, came back over an hour later and the same two situggles were still there. Oh well. Cache saved for another time.

Maybe that's the beginning of his/hers first cache page. He/she hasn't hidden a cache.......yet.

Keystone got your tongue Bro?

Wow, they allow toothless helper monkeys named Mr. Bubbles in Pennsylvania? The thought of a toothless monkey gives me the shakes.... does he smile often? Don't bring him to California. The next thing you know he'll be insisting on his right to vote, collect social security and you'll have to pay extra taxes in order to feed and cloth him (I'm assuming he wears clothes?). Now THAT is a scary prospect... Bubbles has had all his shots, and I have his pedigree papers. He is not one of those undocumented toothless helper monkeys that I hear about on the news. In any event, the wonderful geocaching benefits of having a toothless helper monkey have a long history here in the forums. I believe the secret was first let out of the bag way back in 2002. Other early examples can be found here and here. And even Goofus and Gallant have one. Unfortunately, not all Gold Members are good at keeping the membership benefits a secret. The first rule of Gold Membership is that you don't talk about Gold Membership. Oops, I guess I just did. Looks some of us other Gold Members are going to have a secret meeting to decide the Leprechaun's fate.

Sounds good. I have a couple of travel bugs that I'd like you to take on road trips. If you have a couple to trade, great, if not, still ok with me.

--> QUOTE(R.O.B @ Jun 28 2006, 02:40 AM) 2308137[/snapback] I thought it would be interesting to see how far people have to travel to get to their closest unfound cache. How far away is yours...? The closest unfound cache for me is currently 2.4 miles away. 2.5 miles. After this weekend, it will probably be farther, since a couple of us are going after that one and its four closest caches that we haven't found.

When we go camping/caching, I always wait until I get home to log our cache finds. In the past, I've attached a small paper note to travel bugs that we've left. The note says in essense to please wait until such and such a date to log the travel bug so that it can be properly logged into the cache that we put it in. In only one instance has that note been disregarded and it was because the finder was going to an event cache with it and the event was going to happen before we got back. The finder grabbed it from us, logged it into the cache that we'd placed it in, then retrieved it to take it to the event. So, the notes have worked.

Best day - July 2nd, 2005 - 31 caches found. I was exhausted after the day was over. Second best day - June 20th, 2006 - 27 caches found. Was a fun day out with a friend. Best day single hike - Memorial day, 2005 - 17 caches found. Second Best day single hike - Memorial day, 2006 - 13 caches found.

I met GPSaxophone through the bulletin boards after he'd found my All Aboard, for Anaheim, Azusa and Cooooookamonga! cache which I could see from my backyard. He lived in New Mexico at the time and I wondered why he was out in Rancho Cucamonga caching. Through various posts and subsequent emails, he told me that his wife, when she was younger, used to walk along that trail behind my house to get to her school. Yep. Saxman's wife is a former student of mine. Another time I was camping up in the Bay Area in California. We had planned several caches, one of which had a nice healthy hike to it. When we got to ground zero, we started looking around and didn't have much success. About 15 minutes into our search, a family came up the trail, led by a young girl of about 13 or so with a GPSr in her hand. She saw us at approximately ground zero and froze. I could almost see the wheels turning in her head - MUGGLES! Yet, once I stated that we were geocachers also, we got to look together. We never did find the cache, but discovered that we had both driven over 300 miles to find a cache and we lived only about 10 miles away from each other in Southern California.

Here's mine. Thanks for the link BrianSnat. Avg. Difficulty = 1.55 Avg. Terrain = 1.54 Avg. Challenge = 1.78 91 hard caches (13%) 1 countries 4 US states 0 multiple finds (0%) 160 (22.0%) archived First log: 03/10/2001 Last log: 06/20/2006 Most finds: 31 on 07/2/2005 Maximum one-day distance: 107.7 miles on 08/1/2005 From N 34 59.328, W 118 56.589 to N 36 31.539, W 119 17.221 Oldest cache: #258 (GC102) Newest cache: #412285 (GCWKTE) Difficulty: 1.0: 268 (36.8%) 1.5: 245 (33.7%) 2.0: 136 (18.7%) 2.5: 44 ( 6.0%) 3.0: 29 ( 4.0%) 3.5: 3 ( 0.4%) 4.0: 2 ( 0.3%) 5.0: 1 ( 0.1%) Terrain: 1.0: 333 (45.7%) 1.5: 209 (28.7%) 2.0: 67 ( 9.2%) 2.5: 49 ( 6.7%) 3.0: 50 ( 6.9%) 3.5: 18 ( 2.5%) 4.0: 1 ( 0.1%) 4.5: 1 ( 0.1%) Cache types: 2 ( 0.3%) Earthcache 1 ( 0.1%) Event Cache 1 ( 0.1%) Letterbox Hybrid 25 ( 3.4%) Locationless (Reverse) Cache 14 ( 1.9%) Multi-cache 640 (87.9%) Traditional Cache 18 ( 2.5%) Unknown Cache 26 ( 3.6%) Virtual Cache 1 ( 0.1%) Webcam Cache Containers: 11 ( 1.5%) Large 218 (29.9%) Micro 28 ( 3.8%) Not chosen 21 ( 2.9%) Other 235 (32.3%) Regular 168 (23.1%) Small 47 ( 6.5%) Virtual US States: 1 in Arizona 688 in California 3 in Nevada 11 in Utah

Hmmmmm. Having problems logging in as Jack. Here's a link to his profile.

Jack will log in here in a minute or two. He goes out with me occasionally, but not as often as either of us would like.