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I have two unfound caches just under 40 miles away. One is across Lake Erie in Canada and is underwater, Long Point Bay Cache. The hiders checked on the cache back in July and they couldn't even find it themselves so it'd be nice to archive this one. The other is not an actual cache but a challenge to find four other Tolkien caches, Tolkien Quilt Cache. The coordinates used are actually a spot in the middle of all the caches. The problem with this one is that only 2 of the 4 caches have ever been hid. The last 2 don't exist yet and the time given keeps changing and they may never be hid.

Ditto Ditto. If this will help, the old maps still work... Old Maps

Lexar is supposedly a good brand. Try A local office supply store when they have a sale. I just bought a Lexar 256 mb sd card for $49 at Officemax. On sale for $79, minus $10 with a coupon, and a $20 rebate. Sweet!

Here's my cat when he was just a widdle kitty...

About 150 total caches within 50 miles, of which 14 are my own hides. I've found all of them with the exception of only one new one I haven't tried to find yet.

I don't see the problem with cache machines. Alot of the caches I've found were when I was on my own but I've also found quite a few when with a geo-buddy. You're basically saying that I shouldn't count any finds that my buddy found first even though I was just feet from the cache myself. This could be considered a mini-cache machine and is the same as any husband/wife caching team. If a find is logged at the cache, then it's a find.

By far the hardest cache I've ever found is... What a Long Strange Trip it's Been It has 20 steps of various types, including puzzles, quizzes, and you name it. The entire cache took me about 10 miles of hiking through streams and up & down hills. The total time was around 14 hours.

I have a Bike Cache on Presque Isle in Erie, PA... Presque Isle Multi-Purpose Trail Cache Leprechaun has it on his all-time favorite cache list. It consists of 10 stops all along the paved path where you gather numbers for the final coordinates. You are never far from the path at all so there's no danger of getting your bike ripped off. Once you get the coords you then head for the cache but there is a little trick on getting to it easily. The entire bike ride is about 13 miles and everyone seems to enjoy it alot.

Here's one even worse... What a Long Strange Trip it's Been Only 20 steps (did I say only?) but it took me 14 hours and about 10 miles of hiking through creeks and up & down hills to get to the final cache. Every step was different with some just having a coord to follow next. Some had questions that you had to answer. One was written on the inside of bark. Some were just instructiuons on how to find the next step. One was an actual jigsaw puzzle you had to put together. One you had to follow rock formations. One had instructions that you had to decode by gathering decoded letters along the way. One was even a logic test. Far too many steps and the only reason I did it was because it was close by my house so I had to do it! Keep your multi down to 2,3, or 4 steps if you want more people to try it.

I have two Garmin Legends. My 1st Legend began to have problems so I bought another one from a friend before I mailed my problem unit back for warranty repairs. Never missed a beat geocaching while my main unit was gone for just a few days. Now I have a backup and I keep Metro maps on one and Topo maps on the other.

I'm another that got Lyme disease this past summer. Caught it quick enough that it was't too bad. I actually felt relieved that it turned out to be Lyme disease as I originally thought I was getting hit hard with arthritus all of a sudden.

A friend of mine (Mr Nordam) bought a GPS and showed it to me as we were riding our bikes on Presque Isle. I told him it looked like another expensive toy and it looked like a waste of money. The following week he told me about a "game" he discovered that uses a GPS. It was called GeoCaching and he wanted me to go along and find one. We didn't even know how to use the goto function and just walked around until the coordinates came close to matching the posted coodinates. We found it... I was hooked... and now I can't get him to as much as I do.

Sorry, but it's too late as that one has been archived.

I didn't find this one but a friend of mine did. Actually he didn't find it but did find a blair witch type area near the cache coords. Just think how spooky it'd be to run into this stuff while night caching! Serenity Cache

I own & operate my own screen printing business. I even have a cache in the front yard. The name of the business? Just look at my nickname. duh! I'm closed on Sundays & Mondays which is when I usually GeoCache. Weekdays and nights (before or after I open) if there's any new ones in my area.

... I almost forgot that I met Mr. Leprechaun himself once at Presque Isle and neither of us realized it at the time. We both had our GPS's put away as we crossed paths and just said hello. When he logged the nearby cache he found out I was just there. Funny thing is, I did just meet him again last week at a Pittsburgh cache. Check out Is this "reel"y where the Lizard King is buried? for a humorous story.

Ok Quills, now for a serious response ... I have a cell phone holder that clips to the grill on the dashboard that holds my GPS. I have the GPS plugged into an old P133 notebook that I thought was gonna have to be tossed until I found out that it runs mapping software great. I use the notebook to navigate the streets to the cache area and then unclip the GPS (or use my backup GPS) when it comes to the hike to the cache.

I've run into alot of cachers in my travels. Took awhile before I found my first couple (about 50 caches) and then I ran into a family later that same day. Scared another couple cachers who were on the lookout for a bear reported in the area. We then teamed up to find the cache. Two groups of cachers showed up another time when I was performing maintenance on one of my caches. Two other local cachers joined up with me in the woods for a real tuff cache. There's been many more that I can't recall right now, but it goes on & on...

Hey, it's one of my fellow Erieites! Try posting a picture of yourself under "Post A Pic Of Yourself Caching" in "Geocaching Topics". I just put mine there recently. That'll give ya a good place to practice.

Hey Mastifflover, I just met you the other day but unless my memory is really fading, I don't remember you looking like your photo here!

I live in Erie, PA which is just about 100 miles from Cleveland, Pittsburgh, & Buffalo. I've taken numerous drives to all three areas for my cache runs as I've already found every cache within 50 miles except for a few recent new ones.

Tprints while Night Caching in Erie, Pa.

Quills mentioned my multi-cache earlier in this thread but not by name. This cache is called the MMMM Good Cache and you can find it here... http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=80824 This one's in my front yard which is also my business. That make's it easy to find the correct property because my nickname is on the sign next to the road. I mentioned on the cache page not to try this one at night so the neighbors won't get spooked. Haven't heard a negative comment yet and all seemed to enjoy it, especially the kids. And yes... this may be the smallest multi-cache you'll ever see!

Congrats Brian. What number was that pesky "Steam Power" train cache in North East? That must've been close to your 200th.