Bud

JoGPS, hands down. His caches are pure hand-crafted evil. One cache comes to mind is one that I had my hands on, looked directly at, took a long time to retrieve, and is still secure despite thousands of people walking by and possibly touching it every week. He's hidden caches all over a multi-state area that are the model of being hidden in plain sight.

Like you, I've got most of my early caching experience out west, living in Texas for a number of years prior to moving to Lexington. We would get a good bit more hiking and regular size caches there than we do here. There are a good number of chances to hike once you get outside of the city, pretty much in any direction. There are a LOT of micro's in town, but if you look at them as a chance to learn the city, they're a little more tolerable. There's a whole series of caches named for me, the Bud Hates Micro's series, so you might be able to guess my view on street corner micro hides. I'm ex-Army too, and work near the UK Med Center, so we should be able to find some common ground. I'm looking forward to any active cachers that we can get in town. See you in April!

The first event that I attended in the Lexington area a few years ago had several event caches (shhh!), and the coords of one led you to the family's goat, General Lee, who had a cache hanging around his neck. You had to charm the goat long enough to get the cache off of his collar, sign it, then get it back on for the next finder. The cache was called "I ain't afraid of no goats".

To quote the Guinness guys: BRILLIANT! Seriously, though, this does sound like something to look forward to. If she gets the funding, and it doesn't turn into vaporware, we may never have to deal with soggy log sheets again.

Thanks to all who've ordered this week, they all shipped out early this AM and should be in your mailbox soon!

ER nurse now, though started as an EMT 22 years ago, then an Army medic, then paramedic and volunteer firefighter, then nursing school through the Army.

No real link to speak of, people have just been sending funds via PayPal to geockycoins@gmail.com and I've been shipping out the coins.

Duh, sorry about that. It used to be on the link that I provided to Geocky.org, but we've recently moved servers, and apparently our images didn't move over with it. Here's the front: and the reverse:

As long as this thread has been around, I can't believe that I didn't see it until now. I joined in 1985 as a medic, was with the 4th Infantry Division from 1987-1990, and stayed in until 1993 as a nurse. I was never deployed, though I was in during the first Gulf War. I know hundreds of fellow soldiers who went over, and know well of the pride that they have in having served. We've got active and reserve troops in our local caching groups, and are proud to have them in our ranks, too.

Dang, after reading the Topic description, I sound like a new car salesman. Everything must go! However, that said, we do have to get all of the Geocachers of Kentucky (Geocky) 2006 coins gone before we even think about making our 2007 coin. So, to that effect, we're dropping the price on them and no longer charging shipping. You can read about the initial sale of the coins HERE and our website information page HERE. Basically, it WAS $9.00/coin + shipping. Now, to help move our last few hundred in to the hands of cachers, they're going to be $8.00/coin, shipping included. We've got about 120 of the gold and 180 of the nickel coins left, and when they're gone, that's all for 2006. Payment can be made via PayPal to geockycoins@gmail.com making sure that you specify how many of each color coin that you'd like, and your mailing address. You're probably pretty safe this week in sending your funds for coins, but next week, you should probably write first to make sure that we have the number that you'd like in the specific metal that you want. Thanks to all who've helped us get this year's Kentucky coin out in to the community.

With only one exception, all of my questionings have been when I was night caching, and I've been completely honest about what I was doing. There was the one time where the officer said that looking for a tackle box with a 1.5 million candlepower light wasn't being discreet enough. Or the time when the officer stopped us and asked what we were doing, and when we replied, "Geocaching!" he asked, "So, what am I supposed to do with that, what's it mean to me?" A brief explanation, and he was off like OJ to find the real killers. All of the other times have been pretty similar, a brief explanation, and they're on their way, and I still get my smilie. I just figure that the cops have a pretty well-tuned BS detector, considering who they normally deal with, and if you're honest up-front, they'll let you be. Or, I'm a deluded optimist.

One of the most tragic logs I've ever read, an actual geocaching death.

Looking over my caches, no matter where I've lived, or who was filling in, my reviewers have always taken good care of me, and only given me crap when I really deserved it: iryshe 9key MaxCacher KY Admin Bluegrass Reviewer (my present admin) MadMin erik88l-r Apologies if I've missed any of my other hardworking admins! I'm glad that I've had the chance to meet some of you, too!

Glad you're back! It's always been an enjoyable read; of course, I AM in the target audience.

True that. The first cache that I ever sought, I got into "the zone", paying more attention to the GPSr than to where I was walking, and ran straight into some old barbed-wire fencing, scraping the skin off of the front of one of my shins, down to the bone. I was hooked, both literally, and on the sport. Over 5 years later, it's still scarred pretty well, but I have learned to watch where I'm going. At least it was worth all of the cactus/chiggers/ticks/thorns/falls/near frostbite/twisted ankles/animal encounters enough to stick around this long.

Our local caching group has adopted a stretch of highway, and are picking up trash twice a year. GEOCKY highway pickup At the last pickup, I found a $20 bill. Strange only in that it was on the side of the road. Mostly fortuitous, as it paid for beer and nachos once we finished our pickup. Our next highway CITO is this weekend. I'd hopeful to find something else of use, though mostly will be glad if we get enough cachers there to finish the job quickly.

Sold this morning!

Yep, still available as of this time! I've had a few inquiries, but no one's purchased yet.

Neat, though I'm surprised that it took so long to be recognized in the local papers. When I first started caching in 2001, I was living in San Antonio. We had found the ONE CACHE in the city, and thought this was a pretty cool sport, so we took a week off, and travelled up to Austin, because they had 13 caches in the area! Spent 4 days there, and found all but one. Very different from now, with 100-cache-a-day runs. The Austin cachers were very energetic and placed some clever caches, and had a pretty cohesive group back then. I hope that it hasn't changed much over the years.

Yes, still about 100 of each metal at this time, but supplies are steadily dwindling. Thanks for the inqury.

My wife used to have a cache in the plaza in front of the Alamo: GCB3D8

Ditto all of the above posts, but this does pose another question: If you place a micro, but don't care enough to put a writing implement in, should it be placed at all? With the exception of the magnetic pico-caches, pretty much anything can fit a cut-off pencil.

My enthusiasm for this sport sometimes exceeds useful common sense. Take for instance the number of GPSr's in my house: 3 with one more on the way in the form of a combo PDA/GPSr. We've got a Garmin etrex Legend which has basically been our backup GPSr, and gets very light usage, so it's up on the block so that someone can hopefully put it to good use. You can read about its specifics here: http://www.garmin.com/products/etrexLegend/ Basically, it has been lightly used, and shows no wear, and is packed in the original box. The cable for waypoint transfer is included. I'm asking $75.00 local, but will send it out for actual shipping if you're not near me. Drop me a line at budophylus@gmail.com if you're interested. Thanks!

Sad to see this one go. We planned a whole vacation around getting this one and doing a big chunk of the Baltimore area, with friends flying in from MA and TN.

Thanks for the link, I've been avoiding taking out my Streamlights because of the cost associated with them running down after a night of caching. No fear now!