Okiebryan

This is actually more common that you might think. A good hiding place will also look like a good hiding place to another cacher, or to a letterboxer. It's happened to me more than once.

I want to make a picture that changes after 30 seconds. I don't know how. Last time I needed this, another cacher did it for me. I emailed him the 2 frames and he put it all together. Unfortunately, I can't find the emails we sent back and forth. Is there anyone who can do this for me?

Back in August, I used surveyor grade static GPS (and Rapid-static OPUS for the post processing) to set the point for the accuracy challenge for last weekend's Fall Fest at Robbers Cave State Park near Wilburton, OK. I occupied the point for almost 2 hours. It was in a valley surrounded by high hills and lots of trees, but the immediate area was pretty open from about 25-30 degrees on up. We had about 50 participants. They each set a numbered pin flag at the position they were given from my earlier work. When it was over, I exposed the point I had set and we measured to the pin flags. The nearest contestant was 1.36' and the furthest was 15 something feet. Just from looking at the cloud of pinflags, I'd guess that the statistical average was something like 6-7 feet. The point of this? Do the best you can to get your coords as tight as conditions permit. The "error" that everyone quotes as up to 30' really is not that high. Average, average, average.

That reminds me... I have a cemetery cache that I hid and forgot to submit. Guess I better go write a cache page

That's the largest one we've found too. Kind of tricky to locate. Well cammo'd and definitely not an easy find. I find the pen even funnier than the cache itself....

Yes, a new server would be nice. I'll tell Jeremy that you offered. Is there any limit on what can be spent for this new server you so graciously offered, or is this just an extra you happen to already have?

Er.... That's not a GPS. That is a total station. 100% optics, no GPS involved.

I've made some really great friends because of geocaching. I also enjoy the time I spend with my daughter away from other distractions. I also learn things, like history and how stuff works.

I've had this happen before. I sent an email to TheCheeseheads and it was fixed the next day.

So as it turns out, the Stillwater newspaper got it wrong. What they should have said was that a geocacher found drug related items while out enjoying his hobby, and notified police, who disposed of the items and the container. Thanks for coming in a clearing this up. All I had to read was the articlette on the paper's website.

Or just email them to yourself at your gmail or other web based email.

Thanks for the explanation. I don't use an iphone, and until you release an app for Android, I guess that won't be of much use to me.

Very well said! I love this line. I'll have to try to remember this one!

What is this feature, and how does it work? Thanks.

And maybe not. Can we just deal with what the situation actually is, rather than some wild strawman fantasy?

That was really fast. the website was only down for a few minutes.

I wish that there was more information in this article.

From what I'm reading, meth cooks sometimes use lithium batteries. I can't find anything about lithium ion batteries being used.

I don't yet know which cache this is, but it's here in my home state. If rechargeable batteries equals meth production, then we are all in trouble. Does anyone understand their reasoning here? Stillwater newspaper article

I support this idea 100%. I've often wished there was a way to attribute that a cache had historic or educational value. Please do this, Groundspeak.

I smell a wet blanket in the room. Jeez, anything else you want to say to screw up this guy's first cache hide experience? Care to gripe about the environmental issues from his camo? To the OP: I remember that moment all too well back in 2006. Believe it or not, it actually gets even better. Being a hider is really a lot of fun.

The 450 miles was the total miles needed to visit every one of the newly adopted caches. They were all within a 150 mile radius of my house. 150 miles is pretty much the limit of where I hide caches, anyway...so no biggie.

Well, the cache pages of everyone of these caches say under hider name: Cowboy Singer...adopted by Okiebryan. I figured that explained things sufficiently.

I cannot imagine what more you think there is to the story. Now I'm curious.