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My very first cache was placed in November 2000 and is still active today. Back when I placed it we did not have the online form that is used today to post caches. Instead we emailed Jeremy with the info and he posted it. I have never updated the info on the page So there is only a short description and no spoiler info. Hehe I’ve been arguing with myself for a while now with whether or not to update the page. Part of me wants to freshen it up but he other part of me wants to keep it in original form. Decisions, decisions… Cache http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=182 Currently 9th oldest in GA out of 454 84th oldest in the world!

quote:Originally posted by Is and Val: We've only found 3 caches so far, but after we've located each, we go home and take a snap-shot of the area and post it to our web site. You can see our collection as it grows. Here's the link: http://www.extremefx.com/geocache/ Take care, Is and Val Yes, I have been enjoying the satellite photo links of my caches you have added to my logs! Really neat to see how the areas have changed since the photos were taken. The one of Stone Mountain is really neat how they got it from the side! Obviously before they built crossroads.

quote:Originally posted by Is and Val: We've only found 3 caches so far, but after we've located each, we go home and take a snap-shot of the area and post it to our web site. You can see our collection as it grows. Here's the link: http://www.extremefx.com/geocache/ Take care, Is and Val Yes, I have been enjoying the satellite photo links of my caches you have added to my logs! Really neat to see how the areas have changed since the photos were taken. The one of Stone Mountain is really neat how they got it from the side! Obviously before they built crossroads.

quote:Originally posted by brdad:Do we care who Superman is as long as he's doing a good deed? Actually, I must admit, as soon as I heard the name, I thought, oh god, here comes another wacko. I am impressed that they verified their info before making accusations, and contacted the appropriate people first. A lot of us could learn from this routine. _Money doesn't grow on trees, but there is cache in the woods._ nice addition to your Avatar there! hehe

quote:Originally posted by brdad:Do we care who Superman is as long as he's doing a good deed? Actually, I must admit, as soon as I heard the name, I thought, oh god, here comes another wacko. I am impressed that they verified their info before making accusations, and contacted the appropriate people first. A lot of us could learn from this routine. _Money doesn't grow on trees, but there is cache in the woods._ nice addition to your Avatar there! hehe

I have deleted only one log on one of my caches. It was a web cam cache on Hilton Head at the Salty dog café. The cache page clearly says. “For a valid find you will need to post a valid picture of you or your group from the web cam.” Unlike most web cam caches, the Salty Dog’s web cam takes, and saves a picture every minute so when you return home you can look up your picture by the date, and time you were there and save it. Rather than having to call a friend at home to log on and save the picture for you. This is and the instructions for retrieving your pictures are included in the cache page. Mostly an on your honor sort of thing since there is no log book to go back and check and I have no way of knowing if its really their pictures. Here is the cache http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.asp?ID=21220 Well early this month someone posted a “find” on it claiming they had found the web cam but no one was at home to get the picture. I sent them an email explaining how to log a valid find and how to retrieve their picture from the Salty dog website. 2 weeks later I had not received a reply to my email and the “find” was still imageless, so I deleted the log. If there were a way to edit it to a “note” I would have. I have also encrypted peoples logs for including the spoiler information in their logs.

quote:Originally posted by thejohnsonz:I recently placed a cache on a hilltop near my home. After I got back, I realized that I can see the hilltop from the top of my back yard. In fact, with the help of a telescope, I can see the trail near the cache quite well. Telescope? Actually you can put the camera lens up to the telescope and it will take a fine picture! Tried it out in the Westin Peachtree Plaza here in Atlanta. The have a spinning restaurant on the top called the Sundial as well as several platforms with telescopes. I was able to focus on things in the park down below and take fairly decent aerial photos. I have been entertaining the Idea of an urban drive by near my apartment. We are at the front end corner of the complex so I was thinking of putting one on the other side of the fence close enough to use one of my wireless cameras (sort of a CCTV freak) to watch would be finders stumble around hunting. Not sure how long the batteries last through.

I goto Target and buy the Rayovac Brick of 24 AA's for about $8 Usually 4 AA's last about 10-12 cache hunts or around 15 hours on the Batt timer

Just wondering what the longest your cache has sat between visits. I have one out in AL, been there for almost a year and has had a grand total of 9 visits, has currently sat for 57days. Some of my older ones go 2-3 months between visits as most cachers in the area have already found them but every now and then a newbie will go out and hunt them. One of my favorite caches that I found and added to my watch list has not been found yet this YEAR. Last find was December 2nd 2001! Don’t really understand why though, only been found 12 times and everyone who found it seems to enjoy it by their logs. It’s a 12 stage Multi with a 4-mile walk at the end. http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.asp?ID=5757

The bug has only been there for 10 days and he has mold? I've had some of my caches sit for 3 months or more without being visited. I know of a cache about 15 miles from here that hasn't had a visitor yet this year! Last visit was last December.

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Scratch that looks like CCCooperAgency does 1160 finds 120 owned

Scratch that looks like CCCooperAgency does 1160 finds 120 owned

BruceS has the highest I have seen! 1012 last i looked.

BruceS has the highest I have seen! 1012 last i looked.

I have entertained the idea of a GPS proposal many times but still not sure how she would react to it. I did go to her school one day (college) and put my GPS in an ammo can and left it in the front seat of her car. Earlier in the day I had gone to a local park and picked a location for us to have a nice picnic lunch and marked the location. Then left it on the screen as the “active goto” but not before erasing my track log. I then picked up our lunch and headed over there. It took her a little while but she finally found me and her lunch. For my Birthday last year she wanted to surprise me and have me find her with the GPS. So she asked to borrow it and after we had lunch at Wendy’s I gave it to her. The next day I woke up and next to the bed in Hershey kisses she had written, “happy b-day find me” with the GPS sitting next to them. So I got up , got ready and headed out the door. Followed the GPS for about 10 miles and ended up at… Wendy’s… I gave her a call on the cell phone and told her I was there and asked her where she was. She was about 15 miles away at Briscoe Park waiting for me. I then realized what had happened! Since I drive with my GPS on the last time it had been on was when I gave it to her at the Wendy’s, she had gone to the park, turned on the GPS and “marked” her location without waiting for it to get a satellite lock… so the GPS thought she was still at Wendy’s! Doh!!!

Band of Brothers http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.asp?ID=8247 Brother Where Artthou http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.asp?ID=20272

Band of Brothers http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.asp?ID=8247 Brother Where Artthou http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.asp?ID=20272

Talked to my friend that owns the wave runners. He charged the battery when he got home and it started right up... What a pain, next time we are taking jumper cables!!!

Talked to my friend that owns the wave runners. He charged the battery when he got home and it started right up... What a pain, next time we are taking jumper cables!!!

Just had to publicly express my gratitude to “jogps”. Here is the story. In June 2001 we went on a trip with our Xterra club to tour the Nissan Plant in Smyrna TN which is where the Xterra is built. While we were there most of the group camped outside of Nashville in a corps of engineers campground. Before the trip I had posted info about Geocaching and asked if anyone would like to put a cache together while we there, several people responded so I provided an ammo box and logbook and they supplied the booty. We ended up hiding the cache in a park on the shore of J Percy Priest Lake. Cache Xterra Plant Tour 2001 http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.asp?ID=3121 It was logged 50 times at an average of 4 times a month from June 01 till May 02. Including some of the famous cachers as jogps, bent twigs, erik88l-r, Markwell, BruceS, & Show Me The Cache. However on May 25th I received a not found log for the cache, which is not unusual for me to receive not founds on my caches (especially “Don’t Feed the Trolls” ), but for this cache it was the first one I had received. Unfortunately I live 270 miles away just outside Atlanta so I could not just go up right away to check on it, so I waited patiently hoping someone else would find it or confirm it missing. August came and I could not wait any longer! On August 5th I posted on the cache page that I was planning to take a trip to Nashville to confirm the existence or non-existence of the cache. I also asked that if anyone who had previously found it happened to be in the area if they could check on it if they had a chance. I received an email from “freetime” informing me that he had attempted to locate it even though he had not previously found it but came up empty. This worried me even more… Then today I get home from work, check my email and I received an email from jogps stating that not only had he gone out and tried to find it. But after not finding it he replaced it with another ammo box, log book, and booty! Wow!! The cache lives on! Thanks jogps!!!

Just had to publicly express my gratitude to “jogps”. Here is the story. In June 2001 we went on a trip with our Xterra club to tour the Nissan Plant in Smyrna TN which is where the Xterra is built. While we were there most of the group camped outside of Nashville in a corps of engineers campground. Before the trip I had posted info about Geocaching and asked if anyone would like to put a cache together while we there, several people responded so I provided an ammo box and logbook and they supplied the booty. We ended up hiding the cache in a park on the shore of J Percy Priest Lake. Cache Xterra Plant Tour 2001 http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.asp?ID=3121 It was logged 50 times at an average of 4 times a month from June 01 till May 02. Including some of the famous cachers as jogps, bent twigs, erik88l-r, Markwell, BruceS, & Show Me The Cache. However on May 25th I received a not found log for the cache, which is not unusual for me to receive not founds on my caches (especially “Don’t Feed the Trolls” ), but for this cache it was the first one I had received. Unfortunately I live 270 miles away just outside Atlanta so I could not just go up right away to check on it, so I waited patiently hoping someone else would find it or confirm it missing. August came and I could not wait any longer! On August 5th I posted on the cache page that I was planning to take a trip to Nashville to confirm the existence or non-existence of the cache. I also asked that if anyone who had previously found it happened to be in the area if they could check on it if they had a chance. I received an email from “freetime” informing me that he had attempted to locate it even though he had not previously found it but came up empty. This worried me even more… Then today I get home from work, check my email and I received an email from jogps stating that not only had he gone out and tried to find it. But after not finding it he replaced it with another ammo box, log book, and booty! Wow!! The cache lives on! Thanks jogps!!!

Nope don't get out and streak much... Most found in a day, 6 Most found over a period of days without striking out, 15 Most no finds in row, 2

Nope don't get out and streak much... Most found in a day, 6 Most found over a period of days without striking out, 15 Most no finds in row, 2