Skagway330

Following up: The "Old" Ohio 88 County challenge took us to a residence in the Youngstown area about five years or so ago where we found the lock on the final container rusted shut. We contacted the CO and he allowed us to log the challenge and we have those smilies (Skagway071, my partner, and me.) This conversation jogged my memory. It looks like the final log for the NEW Ohio county challenge is located south of Dayton. Not likely we will get down there anytime soon. We live in Richland County.

Thankyouthankyou! ...for the prompt and comprehensive answer(s). Really appreciated.

Is there such a list? I am particularly curious about a challenge for finding caches in all 88 Ohio counties.

Thanks Millions! for the prompt and very helpful responses. HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Anything special happening (like a souvenir, etc.) for caching New Year's Eve?

I've been noticing a third line under the D and T indication on some cache pages. What is that all about?

I am considering starting the Ohio State Park Challenge. Naturally, with nearly 3,000 caches logged, I have cached in many of the state parks already. Is there any way to extract this data from my logs so I can add them to my challenge list and avoid duplications of effort?

Why no souvenir for the Bahamas?

When my compass is acting goofy I walk directly north (or south) until I arrive at the correct coordinate for the cache. I repeat that maneuver going east (or west) while insuring my N/S line isn't changing. When I have squared my current location with the cache location in this manner I know I am at GZ (within the limits of my instrument's accuracy, of course). I can do this with both the Groundspeak Android app and the C:geo Android app on my smartphone. It is my experience this saves a lot of meandering around chasing an erratic compass needle. Seeing both your current lat/lon and the cache's lat/lon in adjacent panels on a GPS would facilitate this technique with that instrument. In summary; the compass needle and distance read-out are marvelous--when they are not bouncing all over the place. I cannot explain why the numeric readout often appears more stable than compass and distance indicators.

Is it possible in the Oregon 450 compass mode to display lat/lon data fields for both current position and cache position simultaneously? How about the GPS MAP 62 series?

Thanks. I took a peek at your linked page and still failed to identify the marker I saw recently. It was located southwest of Attica, OH just east of State Route 4 and immediately adjacent to geocache #GC1V2QJ "Blink and you will miss this one!" I failed to note the name of the local road but it likely was Township Road 44. The coords for that cache are N 41 02.236 and W 082 53.996. The local Zip code is 44807. The marker was a USCGS disc secured to a slightly eroded, concrete monument about a foot square and the unique inscription was "Roadside #2 1959" with an inscribed symbol looking like an arrow with a short cross mark centered on the arrow's shaft and pointing generally WNW. All other information on the disc was that routinely cast in such discs.

We logged a cache in Ohio today which was right beside a USCGS survey marker. That reminded me I should start logging these. How and where do you do that? Thanks!

My follow up question please: Bought myself and my hiking/geocaching girlfriend hiking medallions for Christmas. If I log a TB "visit" to a cache, what happens? Is my mileage from logged cache to logged cache somehow compiled? I am a premium member, she is not. You may attach the TB dogtag in some way, or engrave, woodburn, or paint the TB number directly on the stick. Cachers may log "discover" on your TB, and you can log TB "visits" on caches. Picked one of these up for my walking stick http://shop.geocaching.com/default/trackable-items-2/geocoins/trackable-hiking-stick-medallion.html or what you could do since you have an unused bug if attach that to the stick what I would do is drill a hole up here the top of the stick than run a cord through and attach to the TB

Thanks for the creative thought. I'm still chuckling.

Newbie here. I bought a trackable medallion from Geocaching.com and will install it on my hiking stick. What is the etiquette for its use?