Strike Anywhere

I was in a class in 3rd and 4th grade that had dead students (and an interpreter) and I dated one of them and still know sign language today because of it. We did break up eventually but I put out a cache in sign language using video... it was fun and I would love to cache with some of my deaf friends. Make an 'L' and put your thumb in your ear and then point the pointer finger forward and that is my name in sign language. I am glad you are here deafhunt... I type much better than I sign. I know you all tried it...

Man this is a harsh crowd... there are many puzzles that need to use online tools and I am sure they have ads on their websites... who doesnt... I am glad to have found the tool and will plan on using it myself now... thanks for the posting of this... very cool! Where there is a will ... there is a way. BTW that man icon gives me the willies... very very!

Yes, but they have never been fully collected in one spot (at least to my knowledge). I did find a site that is attempting to collect them all through user input. They permit downloading of GPX and Google Earth KML files for page boundaries. Also, they let you upload your my finds pocket query and it'll tell you how many caches (and what types) you have found for each state. Online Delorme Challenge Resources Hopefully this will help. NJ now has lots of GPX and more on their new delorme challenge... NJ Delorme Challenge

Green leaf and stylus - I McGyver it. I take my PDA stylus and a nice leaf and then I take the log on top of the 60csx then the lead on top of that and then I scribe my name like gentle tracing and it leaves the date and my initials nicely there... I have gone back to check and it turns from green to a nice brown and has stayed permanently. I like that trick a lot. I know, who brings their pda but not a pen... I do all the time.

We love O.Reviewer and Missplaced in PA and POFE in NJ - They are like one state anyways...

When I started placing caches I made some errors and by many area forum members I still do make mistakes placing caches. I am fairly new at this from this last fall and have seen many new caches placed. I wish, for my sake as a newbie early on there was some sort of guideline or hard rule that you need to find 50 caches or so until you could hide any. I see so many people who have found 1 or 5 or 10 and try to hide one and they cant even get coords close to 400 feet - not because they are lame - they just havent learned or know or have read some for the tips on forums and stuff... I would not have started my 6 micros to a puzzle ending caches had I had to wait for my 50th find. I too have seen the greatness of location verses quick... I like them both, obviously, but you really need to spend some time out in the finding world and seeing it through some well done stuff.. The problem now is that you can travel through any suburban larger city in PA and get 75 caches in one day with 80% being micros... so then all you know how to hide is micros. So what can you do? I like them all but I see more and more people angry about this and that and read logs that I am sure make the newbies and the oldies rather angry themselves. People sure like to bash others in this game over silly things - I know how it is to feel like you have been around longer and know better but it cannot be just about how you liked to play the game before others ruined it... It is sad for me to see so many leaving the game because all of 'newbies ruining it and making it junk for the rest. It's not like it was back in 2001 and you had to travel 100 miles for a cache.' I wouldn't have gotten so thrilled by it then but I love it now. If your micro is crowding out a great cache, you might be asked to move it for a good reason or archive it and that would be totally cool by me... but people just get mad and rant in their forums and that is sad. just ask nicely and explain it... I believe we cache how we like, love those we cache with and ignore all the junk we feel is unacceptable. Words really do hurt and the written word is often received wrongly by so many others. This post has had some tough bashings too... Criticize with concern and care and help us and the new newbies understand why something may be lame so we have the chance to understand more and make a better decision ... I know that an angry word about a poorly placed cache only causes me to respond without much respect either. Two cents thrown in... it would be cool if we could encourage those newcomers and help the old-timers see the opportunity to change and grow but I know we are all stuck in our mudd baths. Churches break up left and right over change and newness - maybe GC.com is headed that way too... I know there is an underground group who boycott caches, cachers and go to the 'church' of the non-logging cachers! I remember being told not to do something by one of our icons here in Philly - I disagreed but have since changed it on my cache pages because I have grown and now understood. He was kind in how he said it and that was a huge difference. Thanks.

I found it covered with tons of pine needles within 10 feet of my Garmin's GZ. It was the first ammo box I had seen on that cache journey - many micros and tupperware... it was about 6 feet from the water and about 45 feet from the road or so... it was totally hidden and just started moving pine needles and kicked the can.

Just one of my favorite cell phone cache pics from Feb 2007

The family out caching... Climbing at 6am in a huge tree with little sisters ladder as fat daddy couldnt get in the tree. Riding a Bison in front of the Phila Art Museum - We love night caching... Hanging in Hawaii - Caching with the cousins. The hardest, longest, steepest cache on Maui - at the top we made it... Just tripping for a guardrail micro.... Just sitting on a guardrail micro...

I love caching with my son Crazy Tadan. He loves to bring his friends... Thanks for having this here... WOOT!! Crazy Tadan at Palmyra Cove doing a Bilbo Recon Cache!!! Baby Sister waiting for the cache swag to play with. Friends all want to hang out and go caching with us now... Cool!!!

One New Philadelphia Ohio Cacher Needed !!!! I live in Philly PA and there is a multi-cache here that ends in New Philadelphia Ohio. The CO allows us to grab help to finish this together. We both get the find but I need someone to head to these coords and sign the log for us. Any takers? Some have already done it so I need a new finder to help with this trek... Thanks... If you are interested email me at NLIH. I have a photo of the ammo can on this end with the coords I can send to you... The cache page is here. Its called Old and New Philly... Thanks, NLIH - Lance Here is a map of the cache area... dead center is the cache...

WOO HOO Crazy Tadan (8 years old - 4 months of Caching) reached 200 caches and 10FTF's on 1.17.06 at In The Shadow of Genius.

If you like nice walks in parks I would recommend doing the caches in PennyPack park by Bushwackin Schmo - you will see others too - in the Northeast of Philly...

Keeps my son interested as we drive from cache to cache otherwise he gets bored... beast hunt is his favorite... but we also like to play the ones outside that we have to use together on both our GPSrs... you just have to let go of what you dont know and let the joy be found by those who find it.. thats what the world does with us geocachers... they just dont get us until they jump in...

America Airlines will not let you use them but I have used them on other airlines and even had stewards ask what it was and thought it was cool that I could see right where were and how fast we were going and when we would get there... Most people dont really know what they are - they think its a really odd big cell phone and feel sorry for me that I cant afford a small one...

I used to cringe at the Muggle word as it just seemed to cliche and ghetto to take it from Harry Potter... I think people who felt like I did used the term muggler to attempt to get away from that feel but as I have been around now a little I just gave up and called stuff muggled or a muggle... it just seemed at first a little weird to use that term - I thought there had to be something more cool and ingenious from this geocrowd but muggle works.

Congratulations to SCHIPS on reaching 900 on Almost Busted 1.2.07 - WOO HOO!!

YOU ROCK!!!

Here is a log entry that maybe not too funny but it was a funny experience that I had to do in order to finally find this leaf covered - right out in front of major shopping mall door cache. Six Gun Territory Cache Acting

Northeast Philly - Caching since 9.9.06... cant wait to visit the parents in Hawaii and in Seattle soon... Wished I had known about caching when I lived there! Not a Philly native - just stranded.

I didnt even know we had Rattlers in PA - this may end my fascination with GCing... I grew up in good ole Seattle Wa and didnt see too many rattlers in my little urban area... but now I am out caching in these places... What do you do when you come across one or "your wife almost steps on one" or your kids get too close to one... Geesh... I didnt like the little snakes at hndlbrs Crazier cache and they were just tiny little g's...

You are all making me scared to release any coins. How do you know when a coin is really gone? Why cant people just do whats right? I think emailing and making a nice request and not a accusatory statement is best. I am collecting coins and TB's to take to Hawaii and I email the owners and ask permission to hold until we go. Most everyone said sure... but then I logged a couple into an event and got terrible emails about being so stupid and wrong and that almost all things are stolen at events... I brought a printout of just the coin numbers and names and a few of my coins in hand and passed them out for people to discover. One guy asked me never to grab his coins or TB's again... this thing makes some people a little skitzy if you ask me. I do like the idea of arc welding some chunk of metal to the coins so they are not as desireable but still cool to display on a desk I guess... Secret sites sound like fun but people are still people and who really knows who the theives are. My coins are out there and I really would like to know when you consider them stolen or not.

You will get it figured out and your life will never be the same... wait to you figure out how to export a route from your mapping software and get all the caches listed from where you are to where you are going within .3 miles of your route... you stop all day long, take hours to get there but have tons of caches, hints, notes and all along the way.

Seems like it would be a little unfair to us newbies who just put ours out there and a tactical nightmare to filter out when they started. But if someone has any cool ideas that would be fun... I know our association in PA SEPAG.US is starting one in January with some tight but good rules for a brand new TB race...should be good.

I have bought a number of coins and collected a bunch out of caches and never thought they were to keep. I think we need to ove them on and stop buying from EBAY... there are plenty of 'sales' people here and online in legitimate forms... if someone wants to pay 30 for a 7 dollar coin let em but lets keep the coins in the caches into the office and home to share and then back to the caches. I dropped my first unactivated coin today... I did apply for the activation code and wrote down the coin code so I can discover it as soon as they activate it... what is a bummer to me is when you get a real cool coin like the new monopoly coin and it has a lame standard icon. Thanks