Webfoot

As others have already stated, probably posting a note would be the best. I've created a standard note that I attach to bugs I put in caches while on vacation. It reads: None of them needed it apparently this year, but in years past it worked perfectly.

Another thing you could try would be to dump your photo, and place a table on your page similar to the one on this bug. You could then place the picture in that table along with your map anywhere you want to.

Maybe we should get Doug, I lost my Head together with that one.

That is just plain sadistic. Seriuosly, you have a great imagination. I've found two like that. When is a cache not a cache? Pine Nut The only giveaway was the clip that attached the cache to the tree. Other than that, pure evil.

Don't give up hope. Biker Bunny went MIA for a year and four months and then resurfaced. Be patient.

I found out about Geocaching while chatting with Seamus in the Where's George? official chatroom. Go figure. He had been discussing about a find that he and Fergus had attempted the day before and I was intrigued. He did a search for me and said the nearest geocache to my house at that time was 7 miles away from me. This is Southern California in March 2001, so it was still pretty new. The area is now a lot more saturated than back then. Anyway, I went out and bought a GPSr and that weekend took my boys out and found Wilderness Park Cache. I've been loving it ever since.

I see she made it out to California, but now is in Arizona. She's coming back Ed.

same here. They all happen to be virtuals. Any of those that show up on my nearest list are instantly ignored. After that last response I decided to look at my filtered finds page. Rather than stopping after the first 10 pages, I went out to page 25 and removed another 28 virtuals from my nearest unfound list While I understand your reasonings, I still think you can find some virtuals and enjoy the experience at the same time. This cache is one of that particular example. Virtual, inside a National Park. 1.7 mile hike to get to it, so it's not like you're going to a plaque and reading something to get information off of it. I haven't found many virtuals, and the ones I have found, many could have been turned into micros or small caches in the local area very easily. The one above can't, but it gets people out to areas of the park that might get overlooked. That's what I've always liked about geocaching. It gets me to areas, even in my own backyard, that I might not have explored before. Since I'm going to be camping up in Sequoia next month, I'll be doing that virtual, as well as a couple of other virts that I know you wouldn't go near with a ten foot pole. That's ok. We agree to disagree.

I am totally unignorant at the moment (is that a word?). If I were to be ignorant, I'd put this one puzzle cache near me on my list. Not that I don't like puzzles, (I've hidden a puzzle cache), but it's an evil urban micro. If I'm going to go through the trouble of finding a puzzle cache, I don't want it to be an evil urban micro, with next to none ability to find it without bringing attention to myself.

I thought Biker Bunny was lost for good, having been picked up in March of last year. Once my bugs get out there, I send a polite thank you note to the cacher who picks them up and a polite note when they are released again, plus every 6 months or so (usually June and December), if they still have it, I'll send a nice reminder note asking if they would kindly move my bug along. I sent my notices out to cachers who had my MIA bugs in June. I didn't get any responses back, but Biker Bunny showed up again after a year and 4 months. Hope he keeps going.

I'd launch one like that, though I suspect that even it might not last long.

You can't drop a bug in Webcam caches, Locationless caches, and now, apparently, Earthcaches. While I agree with locationless caches, I disagree with webcams and earthcaches, since you have to go to a physical location to find those. Although, you also have to go to a physical location with a locationless, there's only one set point on the cache page and whoever sets it up could set it up in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

So go back and backtrack those. It's not that hard. Write a note, backdate it on the cache page explaining what your doing to the cache owner. Then grab your bug backdated as well. You can go back and delete the backdated note on the cache as well.

I back tracked all of my logs for my personal bug, only because I had less than 50 cache finds at the time. Was pretty easy to do. It would be harder to do now though.

I've put 5420 miles on A Walk with Webfoot. I don't get out of Southern California much.

A whistle. My five year old son saw it, wanted it, blew the heck out of it when we got home. What a mistake that trade was.

Excellent markwelling. The thought process is still interesting, though. Virtuals and webcams are much more similar than locationless caches and webcams. I would think that (especially with a webcam shot of an actual handoff of a travel bug from one cacher to another), that the webcams would be MORE logical than virtuals. Of course, I agree that locationless caches are right out. There was also a proposal a LONG time ago of having the possibility of saying that you dropped a travel bug at a particular location for a handoff that was marked by coordinates, but not a cache. In other words, if I met Webfoot at N 36° 10.247 W 117° 05.054 to exchange a bunch of Travel Bugs the system would allow it. Obviously, I'd be dead after that hike and climb, but at least I'd have travel bugs to show for it The problem with with free-form coordinate handoffs is - of course - made up miles, and errors in coordinates. So - bad idea. Agreed on all counts Markwell.

Although it hasn't connected with its partner, A link to the past - left at least made it to its cache goal.

You are correct. I didn't know that before. I've been able to log my personal travel bug into this webcam cache, yet have been unable to place it into my own webcam cache to get the proper mileage credit on that travel bug. It's very frustrating. As Harry Dophin pointed out, it would be a great opportunity for people to post some interesting pictures of travel bugs. I'm hoping TPTB see this thread, as it was suggested I contact them first, and then if I got a generic response to post it hear so it could be discussed. As I stated originally, I understand the no bugs in locationless, because even though the bug is in a particular location, the locationless caches moves around depending upon where one finds it and there's no way to put your coordinates in and have them stick for a particular bug. However, with Earthcaches and webcams caches, there are physical locations that one has to go to on the cache page. One could argue that multi-caches shouldn't allow travel bugs to be dropped there due to the fact that the cache isn't at the coordinates listed on the cache page. I'd just like to see webcams caches and now earthcaches to be treated the same as virtuals so that people can drop their travel bugs in them if they so desire.

At one time, we had the ability to drop travel bugs into webcam caches. Now, for a while, it has been impossible to do and the question that comes to mind is, why? Bugs can be dropped into virtual caches, and regular caches. So if you're taking a bug for a ride, you can drop that bug into a virtual cache and then grab it again, so it gets some mileage credit. Why not the same for a webcam cache, which is, in reality, a similar type of virtual cache? I can understand not being able to drop travel bugs into locationless caches, since the direct physical spot isn't the same with those as with virtuals, webcams or traditionals. But can anyone tell me the rationale behind not allowing travel bugs into webcams?

I'm not sure.

There's a story about these. At our school, one of our teachers has a bunch of "Baby Think it Overs," the kind of computerized babies that are given to a kid for a weekend to let them know what parenting is sort of about. They cry at irregular intervals and the kid has a wrist key they have to insert in the kid to stop it from crying. They have sensors that determine whether the baby's been abused, etc. These batteries have enough juice in them for one weekend of Baby Think it Over, but not two, so she's constantly buying new batteries for the babies. Consequently, she has lots of batteries that are perfect for digital cameras and GPSrs. I told her that anytime she wants to drop a bag off to me, since she usually ends up giving them away anyway, I'll take them. That's one of two bags (2nd one is fuller) that I have right now. Set of batteries last through several day-long caching expeditions.

Good point. Every time I look at stuff in a cache that I find, I think about whether it might make a good travel bug or not. Right now I have a spark plug (used), that someone placed in a cache, and I'm trying to come up with a good goal to make it into a travel bug. Use your imagination. You'd be surprised at what might happen. California County Cacher was a keychain that I picked up at a local store which gave me the idea of having it visit every county in California. I was going to suggest you try that in your state, but just looked at your profile and realized that you live very close to me. I even went and attempted Just Ducky yesterday, but there were too many muggles around.

I'm going to choose this one, because of the story behind it. An event cache, my first and only thus far. All three of the people in the picture in front of me are former students of mine who came to see me. Made my day. Pizza Night with the Saxman

Oh no. Everyone knows that the best wineries are on the North Fork of Long Island, NY. Oh Please. The best wineries are in California.