Mr. 0

Welcome to the world of Waymarking. As XopherN71 mentioned, it's nice to see a thread in support of Waymarking. There really is something there for everyone, and if not, one could always try to create a category. I think those that mention it's all just McD's and uninteresting things just haven't probed deeply enough.

Maybe it's just the media trying to scare people, but I've heard locking gas caps are a bad idea. I guess the folks stealing gasoline will just drill a hole in the gas tank to get what they want. To the OP. I just looked to see and Ram Mounts has one specific to the C330. It looks like they have several mounting options for the C330. They can be a little expensive, but they're good mounts. I had a bicycle mount for my old Magellan Meridian and really liked it.

I've found 1346 caches, and I've placed 24. 21 were regular caches, 1 was an event, and 2 were CITOs. Of those, 11 caches are still active. That puts me at about .8%. I don't feel that I'm taking more than I'm giving either. I could easily have placed hundreds, or thousands of caches, but I have no desire to maintain caches that I personally am not interested in. I could go to the local Wal-Mart and hide some lamp post micros, but I don't want to. I take pride in finding interesting, historical, or scenic places. That is the type of cache I enjoy finding, and the type of cache that I enjoy hiding for others to find. Right now I have a few ideas, and containers ready to go, but I'm waiting for proper permission from the landowners. I've also had a few that I really wanted to place but couldn't due to denial of permission. I just like to take my time and make sure all the details are worked out before I submit a cache. That way the reviewer's job is easier. They don't have to study the maps, or send me emails. It also avoids me being the owner of a half-baked, and ultimately, poor cache that disappoints the subsequent finders. I haven't read any of the other replies in this thread, so I may just be rehashing what others have said. Edit: to add specific numbers now that I took the time to look them up.

I tried that once, but I had to break out the vacuum to sweep up the shaved bits all over the floor. Then I had to go through all the half-bits to make sure that I had the correct half of each of them. It was pretty tedious.

If I'm understanding correctly, it sounds like he may not actually be signed in. If it's just showing a bunch of question marks where the coordinates usually show up, then that's probably the case. If he truly is signed in (It will show his username in the upper right corner) then the coordinates should show on the cache page. Otherwise there may be some sort of problem that his account isn't properly activated or something.

I guess I would have to say Quarry Cache is my most scenic. It has the most pics in the gallery, at least.

JustAlan, the above is one opinion of Waymarking.com, and not necessarily true...you might check it out if you haven't done so already. If you like collecting icons, Waymarking.com might be something of interest for that alone. While it does differ slightly from the old Locationless Caches, most of them that were transfered to the Waymarking site are practically identical. In addition, when you post a new Waymark, or visit an already existing Waymark you get a different icon for every category. At this time the stats on the Waymarking site, don't show up over here on the Geocaching site, and vice versa. For example.... THIS is my icon grid currently. This however won't help you to get the Locationless Cache icon. I'm pretty sure that isn't possible anymore.

That's correct. The opening cabin scene was filmed at the Pugh Cabin on Malabar State Park property, and many of the outside scenes were filmed in the small towns of Ashland and Butler. The prison is the Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield. But the rock wall, which was built just for the movie, is on private property.

4461.3 miles for me. TONG WOTONG in Hawaii.

I personally wouldn't be interested in something like that. Doing a Delorme type cache in just one single suburb just doesn't seem as fun to me. But, don't let my opinion sway you. If it's something that you're interested in setting up, then by all means, do so. There are plently of folks out there who would enjoy it. Besides, I personally think folks should place caches that they themselves enjoy instead of trying to cater to the masses.

I'm not even close to that. I'm looking at 26.0625 based on 35028 miles with 1344 finds. Guess I need to take some vacations to Europe and get that number up.

That's always a tough question. I personally find it difficult to narrow it down to just one. My top 5, in no certain order, would be Lone Palm (Nice hike, great views over the Pacific Ocean, and interesting things to see on the way. Also unique terrain....we certainly don't have lava fields in Ohio.) Take it and Break it (this makes my list because it was the cache that introduced me to Geocaching, and I enjoy wheeling my Jeep) Captain McHarry's Vault (Nice hike, great view over the Ohio River into Louisville, KY, interesting to see a burial vault in the middle of nowhere. Also interesting "ghost" story related to the area) The Wood Nymph (Nice hike, great views over Lake Tahoe, especially if you continue up the trail further. I also enjoyed finding this cache on the way to taking this Green Jeep TB to its namesake peak.) Kiedaisch Cache (Not much of a hike, but in a park that's probably not well known outside of the immediate area. Great view over the Ohio River)

I have to say that I agree with you, and some of the other folks in this thread. I personally enjoy visiting old cemeteries, and finding caches there, if they're placed respectfully. Having to climb a tree in a cemetery is not proper in my opinion. Especially after looking at some of the pics on the cache page which show how close it is to some headstones. Not to mention the cache name being disrespectful to relatives. I've already placed this one on my ignore list since I occasionally cache up that way.

I'm quickly becoming an Indy fan. I used to be primarily intersted in watching and participating in various forms of drag racing (only at the track, none of that illegal street racing junk). When I was a kid my father took me and my brother to the Indy 500, so it was always in the back of my mind. Then a couple years ago I got some free tickets to check out the Indy 400 up at Michigan International. Then this past year I went up to a race at Mid-Ohio since it's close to home and I had never been there before. A short time after that first race there I got free tickets to the Indy race there. Seeing racing on a road course really got me interested. Now I've got season tickets to Mid-Ohio this year.

The person who hid that cache didn't read the guidelines, did they? Live ammo isn't allowed. Smallest I've found is a nano like the one posted up top, the largest, I think, was the APE in IL.

I never did get around to updating my stats the same evening as I promised above, but I finally did it tonight. Here is my top 10 Ohio - Franklin - 212 Ohio - Delaware - 81 Illinois - Cook - 80 Tennessee - Davidson - 72 Ohio - Summit - 63 Ohio - Medina - 43 Ohio - Hamilton - 38 Ohio - Cuyahoga - 38 Pennsylvania - Erie - 36 Ohio - Licking - 29 My top 10 in Ohio Ohio - Franklin - 212 Ohio - Delaware - 81 Ohio - Summit - 63 Ohio - Medina - 43 Ohio - Hamilton - 38 Ohio - Cuyahoga - 38 Ohio - Licking - 29 Ohio - Williams - 26 Ohio - Greene - 25 Ohio - Hancock - 24 If you're really curious, my top counties for each state in which I've cached are below California - San Francisco - 2 Delaware - Sussex - 1 Florida - Broward - 3 Hawaii - Hawaii - 3 Illinois - Cook - 80 Indiana - Delaware - 5 Kentucky - Hardin - 2 Maryland - Frederick - 2 Michigan - Roscommon - 4 Nevada - Douglas - 1 New York - Chautauqua - 8 North Carolina - New Hanover - 6 Ohio - Franklin - 212 Pennsylvania - Erie - 36 South Carolina - Dorchester - 2 Tennessee - Davidson - 72 Virginia - Wythe - 1 West Virginia - Raleigh - 1 Wisconsin - Kenosha - 7

Several folks, myself included, have found caches in all 88 of Ohio's counties. I had a lot of fun doing that, there is a wide variety of terrain available around the state. I'll have to look tonight to get my top counties, but if I had to guess I would say my top 3 are probably Franklin, Summit, and Delaware.

Briansnat makes a great point. The KFC category is just one of many hundreds of categories. Some of them are considered informative, like the KFC, McD's, Wal-Mart, etc. categories. These aren't necessarily meant to be WOW categories. They're more to help folks while they out an about to locate these sites. Maybe you're Geocaching, or Waymarking in strange area and you want to grab a quick lunch, and don't know what's around. These categories can help get you there. Other categories, just a few of which Briansnat linked are more for the WOW, educational, historic factors. Waymarking is open to a wide variety of interests. Maybe you or I aren't interested in KFC, but maybe there are folks out there who have a goal in life to visit as many as possible, so they would be interested in all of the KFCs but not interested in visiting some ancient roman ruins. There's no reason why I should restrict someone else and tell them how to have fun just because we're not interested in the same things.

PM sent. Good to see another local parks department wanting to get on board with Geocaching. You may also consider contacting Robespierre, Bacchus_Isocrates, shawn_woerlein, and fred792. They're all fairly active with Geocaching and are from the general area as well. There is also the North Central Ohio Geocachers (NCOG) in addition to the Central Ohio Geocaches that the Moop Along mentioned.

Ohio's can be found in the town of Centerburg. There's a little monument of sorts in a community park there. Coords are N 40° 18.559 W 082° 41.535 Here's the Waymark I submitted for it.

Around Ohio, The Ohio Historical Society has placed several caches at some of the various parks and areas they own, under the name ohiohistory. The Ohio Department of Natural Resources, who manage the state parks, have put out quite a few caches and also have held a contest of sorts the past couple of years. Essentially you find certain caches they've put out, once you've found the whole set you are invited for a free weekend camping Geocaching event. I also know there are a few other local parks districts around the state who have placed caches as well, but I can't remember off the top of my head which ones.

I think that it does depend on the cache, and cacher. For me personally the few micros that I own or have owned in the past require the most maintainence. Logs fill up more quickly, they get wet, or ganked. One example is a multi I had adoped that used 3 micros leading to a final. Including drive time to/from the cache, the walk in, and everything, I spent probably 4-5 hours maintaining it, before I finally gave it up. The micros kept getting wet, I could never get decent coords no matter when I went out there, each of the micros came up missing at one time or another, and the final came up missing once. The cache was originally placed right along a little hiking trail in a local state park. I'm not all that sure why I adopted it in the first place.... On the other hand, a few weeks ago I just checked on, for the first time, a regular cache that I placed about 2 years ago. It doesn't get visited often, but when it does there was never any indication of a problem with it, so I never checked. I decided to go out there just to be sure everything was fine. I have a few other regular caches that I check on once in a while, but again, have never had trouble with....I was just checking to check. Over all, I hid my first cache on 9/22/02, and have owned 21 caches (not including events), some are still active, some have been archived. During those 5 years I would guess I've spent 25-30 hours maintaining caches. This again is including drive time and such. Most of that time was just checking to check, which I do for pretty much all of my caches in the fall, to make sure it's ready for winter, and again in the spring to make sure that it survived the winter ok, and that it's ready for the summer caching season.

I'm not sure what part of Cleveland you'll be in, or if this store will have them in stock, but you might try Dick's Sporting Goods. There are several locations around the Cleveland area. In the link below I used Parma's zipcode (44129) http://www.dickssportinggoods.com/corp/ind...r&zip=44129

I personally don't advocate removing caches or anything like that. What I do, is read the cache page, if I figure it's not going to be something that I like, I won't do it. If I do decide to try it anyhow, I have only myself to blame if I don't like it. If I'm not having fun looking for it, I leave, post a DNF and then often put it on the ignore list....I don't have to find every cache in the world. Just because someone else plays the game differently than I, doesn't mean they are bad people, or their hides are wrong, it's just how they play. I can't make decisions for other people, nor can others make decisions for me, only I know what I like. I realize that Geocaching as a whole isn't all about me, there is a diverse group of folks here who have different interests.....I don't have any right to spoil the fun for others just because our opinions differ. As a side note, here is one cacher's attempt to stop Microspew. Promise Me

Maybe start leaving something nice for the STF when you're FTF on a cache. That may encourage others to go after a cache even after it was FTFed, and it's better than deception, in my opinion. Edit: spelling