Team LaLonde

We found a wallet once and turned it into the Michigan State Police. Never heard if the owner got it back though.

LaLonde, found this pic of Perlman. Hope you're not looking like him in Quest For Fire. Ummm, yeah, kinda. . .but my hair is shorter.

Link to a List MM MM Good! (GC4CE1) is a tasty one!

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I feel for ya, OP. In another thread that encouraged people to post photos of themselves, somebody told me I looked like Ron Perlman! No, seriously. Good thing I'm not easily offended. I also get accused of looking angry because of my heavy brow. Just act like you belong there and if that doesn't work, invite them over to help you identify that huge spider you just found.

. . .you visit a zoo two and a half hours away and get IN the wolf habitat so you can get pictures of someone else's geocoin with a real wolf.

We picked up a Steve Irwin Fundraiser geocoin whose goal was to get close to animals, so we took it to a local zoo. The owners were gracious enough to let me inside some of the habitats for photo-ops. Here are a couple of shots of the coin. The first and third shots are wolves and the center is a coyote.

Here's one (GCY7AT) that went unfound for 13 months, and we're proud to say we're the only finders. The difficulty in this cache is a combination of the hike and hide.

had to spell it three times tonight. I spell by sound and always see cemetery as cementary. Thank the Lord for spell check I hate caching in the middle of a huge park and all of a sudden I feel a poo coming. At least you have parks. Parks usually have restrooms. Around here you better think twice about what could be under that pile of rocks in the woods!

I'm confused - are you saying that you would pay good money to rescue activated travel bugs from dishonest Ebayers? Very noble, if that's the case. A waste of money, but very noble. Even more noble is letting the owner of the TB know you've located it and let them address the situation. If you are on a mission to liberate the unactivated TBs from Ebay, then you will have a great mission ahead of you. There are also a lot of TBs that need to 'freed' from the Groundspeak store.

We haven't found anything of considerable value in a cache, but we found $20 on the ground at a trail head once. As far as filling caches with rewarding swag, we had a Sony Playstation in a cache but it never made it to final placement. It was too heavy to carry (a mile and a half!) so I gave it to some young campers to lighten the load. The look on their faces was priceless. It must have been like Santa Claus came walking down the trail.

In order to discourage front yard caches, we are about to release a travel bug whose mission is to ONLY travel to front yard caches or be traded at events. It's a pair of tacky plastic flamingos (with an invitation to add to the flock). You wouldn't want to wake up with a flock of plastic flamingos on your lawn, would you? Before I get hate mail, I should explain that we had a BACKyard cache and it's now archived. The road dead-ended in our back yard and that is where we placed a gimmicky cache - a huge log (fallen tree) that you signed with a sharpie marker. It was very well received by the cachers who found it, but many would not look for it because of all the reasons already mentioned by others in this thread. On a positive note, we met many people from all over the country! If you do decide to place the cache in your yard, make it painfully obvious and maybe even silly. Be prepared for visitors at any time! Look at caches like "Big Boy" by Team Desert Eagle in Jenison, Michigan. That was a perfectly executed front yard cache. Good Luck! Big Boy cache page

You are close to getting it figured out. There should be a menu screen with an icon similar to "FIND" or "GEOCACHE". Highlight and click the icon and choose your target. Your Garmin should now direct you to the cache. Good Luck!

A 5-foot long tubular device for extracting gasoline from from holding tanks so I wouldn't have to pay for it? (Just kidding. . .sheesh. . .)

We found #500 a couple of weeks ago on Mackinac Island.

Interesting thread! We recently obtained permission from an author to hide some caches based on her stories. She travels around our state interviewing witnesses of unexplained events, including ghost stories. We'll be hiding two caches: One based on a tale of ghosts in a graveyard and another on mysterious orbs of light in a forest.

I've done one of these caches and I had a great time doing it. Here's the log: "Mrs. L had to work for a few hours today so I decided this cache would be a good time-killer. Took about 1.5 hours. I went to where I thought it would be which is where it wasn't (but I was close!). Then I went to the library to use a computer to get the info I needed. The one I chose wouldn't let me do what I needed to do. I went upstairs to the reference desk and asked the librarian if she knew what the coordinates were for the center of Harvey. She stared at me with a puzzled look on her face. I asked her to go to geocaching.com and then showed her how to look up the coordinates for the center of Harvey. I told her that some men in black overcoats might come looking for me and that she was to say nothing of this to anyone. I'm pretty sure I'm on a government watchlist now. Armed with the GZ coordinates, I proceded to the real location - about 150 feet from my previous hunting grounds. Your clever little cache is no longer a source of frustration!" Good luck with your adventure!

Fastenal.com or your local Fastenal store.

Fantastic shot, by the way. Do I sense a pro shooter caching with you? You are half-right. . .it's a self portrait using a tripod and a remote. Thanks for the compliment!

I've biked a bit for caching. We've found almost everything on a local level so now we drive.

We try to name all of our caches after songs or lyrics. Your ideas were all pretty good along the 'Norton' theme, so here are a few more. Norton Else Matters Norton Better To Do Norton Really Matters To Me For the record, Norton Hears a Who is both timely and timeless, and will bring in lots of families.

Here's a few of our favorites. . . Lake Superior Shoreline Deadwood, SD Upper Michigan Waterfalls Lake Superior Shoreline (again)

I believe I am about to get revenge for you, Harry. We are going to release a pair of pink flamingo lawn ornaments on Sunday. Their mission is to travel to FRONT YARD caches. Also in the instructions is an invitation to add more flamingos to the flock at will. [insert maniacal laughter here] Let the fun begin!

I have advice, just get over it. Is it that big of a deal anyways? I'm sure it happens alot. So you're saying to lower your standards to avoid being frustrated? Sounds weak to me. I say do what makes you happy. Uphold your standards and set an example for the rest of the local cachers. There's nothing wrong with being a leader.

Thanks for the tip on the proximity circles! It has many more uses, as well. For instance, you could check the proximity of a cache to railroad tracks, etc.