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Was this the Borg's goal or the other bugs? If the other bug has it's own goal perhaps attaching it to a Borg is not in the best interest of the other bug's owner...

I have not actually tried it yet, but it looks an awful lot like 3 of 9 code to me. We have bar code scanners at work and the software to read most of the common formats. Next time I am down in the fab I will see what I can come up with.

Well since they skipped Texas and will have to go back and then on to Florida again, I guess we are all still on California folks. Some of us though are wondering if our bugs will actually be allowed to race, being still locked in the hands of those that retrieved them from the starting line. Seems like they would actually move the bugs along quickly, being a race and all At least I can safely say I am in the lead for one of the prizes

Bummer dude!! No Texas... No Prize . May as well still be in California...

I most often ignore bugs at an event. Occasionally I have grabed one and taken it with me, in that case I log it and nobody else there does. An event is just another cache to me. Only one person can find, remove, and log a bug from a cache be it an event cache or a traditional cache. At least that is how I learned to play the game. Besides all this talk of bugs at events is making me wonder whether I should get a shot before or after

Depends on whay you call easy, Canyon D'Chelli in Arizona is a very cool "echoy" spot...

Is not so bad... While I have not found the cache yet, I did grow up out there are have been on that catwalk while a train passed by overhead. Now THAT was scary. Remember the warning on the cache page, the tracks at the final location are active. Mostly, I believe, because caches are actually banned on the Banks-Vernonia State Trail that is now what the old logging tracks have become. Really too bad to, I had a cool, but VERY short lived cache at the horseshoe trestle. Spent many a summer afternoon up there in my youth. On a side note. We were in the process of working with the ranger to adopt a section of the B-V State Trail. In exchange for performing trail work on it we would be allowed to hide a couple caches there. We were looking at the mile 7-8 stretch, which is where the horseshoe trestle and Tophill Trailhead are. I hope to follow up on this again soon and see if I can make it happen .

Once activated it is always activated. You can edit the page and change the name and/or goal at anytime...

I have place 20 Oregon Geocoins. I have 5 left from my first batch and just ordered 20 more. We have 500+ out there and the order I placed for folks today was another 500. Most of us EXPECT that these will end up in another cacher's collection. That is why we put them out. Beats heck outta finding McToys all the time

The "group" thing would be the ivy pulling and the potluck that follows. Plus usually some cache type activities and of course Apparatus III (right Soup???)

Seems to me that the only true ways to retie a bug are to get it back into your hands, or request that the next finder never place it again. As long as there is a tag out there in the wild there is always the possibility that it will move on. Of course now that it has achieved it's goal you could remove all goal statements and just let it enjoy a happy retirement by travelling the world, just as many retired people do

Cool! Made the top ten posters AND found 5 caches and a benchmark. 5 more caches, 2 TBs, and a locationless (that I only log as a note, not a find) today. And this is somehow making you feel important??

Just log it as normal. Has always worked for me. And as an added advantage an non-member can actually log a find on an archived members only cache

500+ bugs in just over 500 caches??? Average of about one bug per cache?? How does one do that? Man if bugs were that thick around here I would carry Off to more caches...lol

Actually I have rather let this slip. Been working on research for a new challenge cache in my area for this spring. It is the type of cache that needs several scouting missions and thorough planning as there are no trails and no clear easy route to the location. It sure is great to live in an area where caches like this can exist I do not know if/when I will actually get a HGTTG cache designed. But if I do, maybe then I will work up that list...

Now that option could look very cool as well ...

Your car is that far away? Hmmm my car is never that hard to reach. But then again, I can usually remember which bugs I still have so I do not have the problem of being unable to look them up at will (sometimes that good memory seems like a curse ). I also have very little concern if people feel I am a deadbeat or not . I cache on my terms, for my pleasure, not theirs. Sometimes we all forget things, if others have a problem with that, tough tiddly winks...

Not that I know of, I have been doing this multi bug drop for well over a year...

Bons - be sure that your "self inking" stamp uses a solvent based ink. The others most commonly used with these stamps will not stamp or dry well on wood.

You can drop as many as you want in the same cache using the same found it log. The instructions are on the log entry page and there is no rule that states only one drop per log. That would be rather silly. I have often left 2 or 3, since I carry a personal TB that I log in and out of every cache I find.

Of course you could just enter their numbers on the TB home page and look at their actual online pages. May not be "quick" but it accurate and you do have the numbers after all

Either way it does not matter. Grabbing your own bug will not add it to your list of found bugs, it just puts it back in the hands of it's owner. Many of us do this on a regular basis with our personal tracker bugs...

Sure are a lot of popups on that there site. And the install prompt rather disappointing . Does anyone ever really fall for that?

Did it have a goal tag? Does it matter? Could it not see a Bulls game in Seattle? Last time I checked the Bulls were still playing the Sonics . Did the goal on the bug page specify that it wanted to attend a certain Bulls game in Chicago?

I guess I have to agree that in some areas, with the right rules/concepts, bug hotels can be useful. It is the rules/restrictions that can cause bugs to stagnate in them. In my area there are many new caches every week, lots of room to run for bugs, a couple of hundred active cachers and new ones starting everyday. The US Pacific Northwest is after all the birthplace of geocaching. So there is very little reason for overly restrictive TB hotels around here IMHO. Bugs will move, it is that simple. It really does not matter if they are in a simple drive-by cache 1/2 mile from the airport, or in a tough puzzle cache hidden at the end of a 6 mile hike through the forest, they will be grabbed in very short order. As I said in my previous post, it is the concept of having to trade bugs that is the biggest downfall of the hotels around here.