wray_clan

Excuse me, I said it wrong: We walked up to zero, and there was just normal, green grass there, along the side of the street. We didn't try to excavate the benchmark. Sorry for not making that clear.

I would be suprised if many people cared about lost benchmarks, aside from hunters from this website or another like it. We don't really need them anymore, as maps are in great abundance & within easy access. We have found a benchmark baried under some grass. We did uh, nothing. We should've reported it on the benchmark page, but you really can't do anything aside from that, right?

1.) When will people be able to hide locationless caches again? I know that the projected date is April/May 2004, but has this changed? 2.) What, if anything, will change? 3.) When, or if, this type of cache is re-hideable, will a new section on the forums be created? thanks in advance

Our benchmark found list has about 10 benchmaks on it, and we haven't logged any of them, but I do have two stories: -We were hunting for a cache. The trail was pretty easy & went up to the top of a hill overlooking one of those beautiful southern California Freeways. (it was a pretty good view (if you turned around), but it was foggy) We got there, and there were four benchmarks, all within a hundred feet of each other. -My grandpa once was a surveyor, so, before visiting him at his residence in Los Angeles, we printed out a short list of benchmarks. After having success with the first two or three, we got to one right next to a busy street. Somebody had planted grass over the benchmark. The funny part was, as my grandpa pointed out, he could legally dig out the grass to get to the benchmark. (or something like that)

That sounds like a really cool idea. I'd suggest starting another thread on the New Zealand and South Africa sections, if you want geocachers from those areas.

Wow, those are some pretty incredible stats. We've found nine travel bugs & placed three. Hold your applause, please.

My dad has assembled a wonderful emergency bucket that we put in the trunk of the GeoJeep (our name for our official geocaching transport vechile). Its got everything from a hammer to a toothbrush to chapstick to a novel. He even made a little graph to organize the contents (that, too is in the bucket).

Witness thy sig! It lives!

We found this after a few tries. There really wan't a picture that showed how small this was (although other caches on this thread look smaller). Now archived, it was in-between two planks on a bridge, and I don't think it had a lid.

I'm a kid, and its a very rare occasion that I'll see something that I really want in a cache. Besides, most of the time, its just me and my dad, and if we see something cool, we just take it and leave something else. One time, we were caching and we met six or seven fathers all with their 5-7 aged children. I think they all took and left one item (& one of the dads logged it all, in the book). It was incredible. They came prepared and left happy.

rrgh. I'll try later

I logged out, and then back in on both of my windows, so I'm trying again Yes, this is a test

aah! what happened! I feel so outdated to this technology I'm 12 Yippee-dip, post number 50

This isn't an avatar test, its a post count bolster! Sig test 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 here we go

my question: I go to the "Hide and Seek a Cache" page and type in my zipcode (99999) to see if there's any new hides, right? So the list comes up, and the first geocache says 0.3 miles from 99999. What is this 99999? Is it an actual point, if so, where is it? (city hall, etc) If you don't understand, please say so.

what happened that day on the hillside you and I shivered from grief not from weather... what happened that day, so long ago? you laughed at my only suggestion it's hard to keep finding answers to questions -ronnie martin ~note on lyric origin: ronnie IS a synthisizer/vocals only group (joy electric) that is suprisingly loud & darned awesome live. this is part of a song from his side project (he's guitar/bass/vocals, another guy does the drums), shepherd: commiting to tape . I just bought it from ronnie, personaly, last night, after his show. I also saw ronnie's brothers' (jason martin) group, starflyer 59, last night. they are one of the only groups that I hold higher than joy electric. here's part of one of their songs your bet is lost you're fading slow sundown the dark has laid you low your slipping heart.... sundown the dark has laid you low i'm sure we've all had a feeling like this at the end of a good caching day. i'll try to find some more

I think that's a grand idea. I would definitely try to participate. As far as a date, how about between the 26th and the 30th? (my reasoning for this is, most don't have Christmas parties post-Christmas & most don't to something for New Years on any other day than the 31st) Maybe it could be an all-day event, with the battle for the top poster of the day actually turning into a battle.

Oh, yeah...kids like caching. I'm a kid, and I love it! Believe it or not, I'm usually the one who eggs my dad on to go hunting on Saturday, and almost 100% of the time, I print out & log the caches (& post on the boards). My little brother, however, is has a waning interest in the activity, as he's not always the one who finds it.

Yes, I am a lurker. I'm on the board a lot on Fridays & Saturdays. I think I'm considered a lurker because I view a whole lot more topics than I find. That's because I can't really stick my head into anything....I'm in seventh grade. It sure does make me feel grown-up when I speak up in a...."cyber room" filled with at least 50 of those elder to me. Just a random comment, I'm curious why GPSaxaphone is GPSaxaphone. I mean, the saxaphone part. I'm curious because I'm in my Junior High's Jazz band (trumpet), & we kicked some serious booty in our Holiday concerts the past three nights. (I marched at Disneyland with our marching band, our high school's jazz band won first place of the Western US in a comp. in Vegas, performed at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, & will be performing in Hawaii next year, we aren't just any Jazz Band)

I just finished logging our five finds in the Monterey/Pacific Grove area...our family goes there every year to get together....and of course, cache. (I think we've inspired a member-to-be) Anybody else go somewhere to cache this weekend? Monday...you'll never take me..noOOooOoOooo!!!

Some/most of the money that we've seen in caches has been international, but domestic money in caches isn't that great of an idea, as, if you followed proper caching ethics, you would be losing money (even if it may be pocket change), or exchanging the same thing. Sometimes we just put a dime in, if we don't have anything. We've acquired a small collection of foreign money, and its somewhat interesting. Mufashi, Dilbert rules (the best one ever was Ratbert & Timmy the Toilet paper man).

-There's uh...13,000 cachers & a new newest member every time -there is a new post somewhere on these forums about every minute -Have you been to a recent event cache that wasn't crowded? -on the front page, they couldn't keep track of how many countries caches are in, so they just put "over 180." I think its growing

Excuse me...FOUR times (the other two were unregistered at the time) maybe there's more....

Congratulations! You even came down to OC to get one of our caches! That's incredible, how you've got more than 100 caches in three states.

I suppose I thought it was weird how some take so much time on getting the right coords, we took three minutes, and had pretty much the same results In my opinion, you hit the head on the nail.