Schmidt-Family

Okay folks, I have this cache - Urban Legend Geocache.... basically it works like this. You find the first - you pick the answer - if you are right - in 4 steps you have made it to the final. If you are wrong, well then you circle around a little bit but you won't realize you made a mistake until you have hit 5 or 6 of these clues. Here is my problem - the first time I used Zyron lamanted magnets. All of the magnets came undone and things fell apart. I would like to do this cache again but I need the things to last. I realize I could use small containers or film canisters or something like that - but I simply don't want to do that. I would like to do the following: 10 seperate cards, about 1.5"x3" in size. Cards are by themselves, not in anything else. Preferrable magnetic. Can last the test of time with weather, wetness and temp. The difficult in the cache is picking the urban legend correctly...not necessarily finding the card. I would love to see them placed in the open, so I could easily driveby and check on them easily. (keeping track of 10 stages is a bit of pain - but this cache is worth it) I have a little fear of how to keep the a magnet glued to the card. Have you folks seen anything like this? Any suggestions to help make sure it lasts? Any ideas? I recently aquired a hot laminator from ibico which melts the plastic to the paper. These might last longer...and if I use them, the cards would be about business card size or slightly larger. Thanks....

Hey everyone, anyone know what happened with this website: Geocache Treasure. I enjoyed their greenman coins and wanted a couple...does anyone know who ran this site?

Ditto to Team Shredded Bark. I have two daily queries and I haven't seen anything since Sunday. Schmidt-Family.

I just posted some new caches and the last two visits (1 to each cache) haven't caused an email to show up either. And I guess I should say, that I haven't changed my profile or email in anyway. I am getting other email. Last one I recieved was 5:30 MST on Saturday. [This message was edited by Schmidt-Family on March 16, 2003 at 07:09 PM.]

I have a fanny bag....with the following: Small digital camera. Binoculars. Extra Batteries and more extra batteries. Palm with pocket queries. Pen and pencil. Spare ziplock bags. A few small caching items. My personal signature items. Sometimes gloves, depends on the season and caches.

We have a view people around my area who trade rather lame signature items for anything. Personally it drives me crazy. Now it seems that people are getting more interesting with what their sig items are and they are becoming more collectable in my area. I've seen some hat pins, magnets, key chains and items of the such that are really cool and so they become collectable. I think you can leave a sig item, for the owner of the cache....but don't trade for items.... Personally, we did the following, we created a geobuck, a fake looking 1 dollar bill. With our caches and the coords to a hidden cache on the bill as well. Here is the Hidden Cache. So to get to and count this cache you have to find one of our sig items, get the coords, and go get the cache. We then leave a few geobucks laying around in nearby caches we own so others can find them easily. Here you can find a few links to what the geobucks look like...Front side of a geobuck and the Back side of geobuck.

If you have a laptop you can still you the Mobipocket files on the laptop with the PC reader.

Since someone started down this path - - you could always get these as a signature item for this cache -Custom Signature Item

I've done a couple things. One of caches is called "Don't worry Be Happy" and we filled the cache full of bouncing rubber smiley face balls. We got them from Oreintal Trading Company. They were like 5.00 for 4 dozen. We ask that people don't trade stuff but if they take a ball, leave a few coins in trade. It's been a popular cache. It's off a main road so we drop by frequently and pick up any non Happy Face Items that people may have traded and move them to another cache we have just down the road. I once found a collection of foreign paper currency online. Money from all different countries. I was able to get about 100 for 50 bucks. We leave these quite often in the caches. We just take the ziplock snack bags and place them in there. Additionally, when we created our signature item we wanted something different. We created some custom money looking items we called Geo Bucks. It's 2 sided, a little bigger then a dollar, printed on both sides then laminated. On the sig item we've included a little rhyme and the coords for a hidden geocache. To find this cache you have to find one of geobucks first.

I might be a little sick...but I've actually thought about this....on the back side of my own gravestone, the coords, a little box built into the granite.......my find/hidden count....my caching name....why not.

Same here. I first thought it was because I tweaked of my queries. Misery loves company so I'm glad others are having the same problem.

Would it be possible to get my WATCH LIST caches added as an option to the pocket query form? I use the watch list to to track caches that I want to visit. It would be very handy to be able to download all of these in one shot.

We were hitting this cache - Sundace Cache We were all sort of new to caching....and I kept trying to place my GPS in different spots near the front window or side window to get a good reception. So at the current moment I carefully have my GPS wedged between the window and door of the driver side door. So we go up this one lane road and it deadends...and we're still to far away from the cache...so we head back down the road and a truck is coming up. It's a very narrow road with small rock walls...so I turn into a driveway to let the other guy past....in the process, I decide to roll down the window to wave him on. We back up and the passenger in the front seet and I hear this weird crunching sound. Funny, I don't remember any branches being in the road.....a car length farther down the road I go...."where is my GPS." Sure enough, I combined Mini-Van with a Garmin yellow etrex and the van won.

We were hitting this cache - Sundace Cache We were all sort of new to caching....and I kept trying to place my GPS in different spots near the front window or side window to get a good reception. So at the current moment I carefully have my GPS wedged between the window and door of the driver side door. So we go up this one lane road and it deadends...and we're still to far away from the cache...so we head back down the road and a truck is coming up. It's a very narrow road with small rock walls...so I turn into a driveway to let the other guy past....in the process, I decide to roll down the window to wave him on. We back up and the passenger in the front seet and I hear this weird crunching sound. Funny, I don't remember any branches being in the road.....a car length farther down the road I go...."where is my GPS." Sure enough, I combined Mini-Van with a Garmin yellow etrex and the van won.

I started another thread with the stamp idea....click on This Link to go there. I've been going down the same thought lately.....I want something besides a happy meal toy....and this probably starts with myself. Something unique for my box. I thought about coins, you can actually create one in clay and then do a mold of the clay coin....a bit of work but I have a friend who is willing to help. There is a place online that sells wooden coins....you can print whatever you want on them...discounts for quantities...1000 for about $130.00 I thought about a custom branding iron, click here to see what they can do...a little more pricier but would depend on how carried away you got. Then brand a whole cache full of little wood plaques. Design the logo so you could insert a cache number. People find your cache, they take 1 little plaque....if your cache gets destroyed your ownly out the cost of your time and the wood.

Thanks for the input. Yes, this whole thought came from the Letterboxing site. I liked the concept of how letterboxing is done. Certainly this could go both ways....stamping books as you go and getting your book stamped as you find caches. I just like the concept of collecting something besides a trinket. We thought about testing out a self inking stamp...place it the freezer...and leave it out side in a box during the summer heat for a while and see how it goes. As for the stamp being stolen.....you could always attach it to the box in some fashion. Just like spiderlady56 suggested. While I agree it would be difficult to get 19000 caches converted over....you need to start somewhere. Perhaps this could be another classification for a cache.

Hey folks, what about this idea. Have custom rubber stamps in your cache...say your cache name or logo. Then have a a geocache passport...you take this from cache to cache stamping your passport. You could also have your own stamp, leave a stamp in the cache log book as your signature. Sort of a twist on letterboxing...we could even get office geocaching passports with the profits to help keep the site going.