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Or you could just tape 50 travel bug tags to the inside of the different books.

You can if you want, but you don't have to. I don't in mine. I just print out a mini note and some strips of paper for the log. If you don't put one in though, you should note on the cache page to "bring your own pen or pencil."

I have found most of the caches within about 20 mile "driving" radius if my house. A few new ones pop up from time to time. Most of my caching trips take me about 30 to 45 minutes or so of drive time each way. Not as bad as some folks.

You dont need to know the name of the TB to log it. You can go to the travel bug page and enter the serial number found on the tag into the box in the top right. That will bring up the TB page.

Woohoo! Way to go HFJohn and Brother Larry!! And I must say its always a treat when you find my caches, because even after 1k finds you still type more then "tnlnsl" I appreciate that and enjoy reading your adventures! Here's to your next 1000!

Sunday, 16 May 2004: "Cardio Event" (Binghamton, NY Area) Saturday, 12 June 2004: 2004 New York Area Cachers Picnic! (Rochester, NY Area) Saturday, 14 August 2004: Second Annual NYGO Picnic (Syracuse/Albany Area I think) Saturday, 18 September 2004: Second annual Capital Region Geocachers Picnic (Albany Area 2 day event) Saturday, 16 October 2004: Letchworth Fall Gathering III (Letchworth SP)

I just cached my way down to Jacksonville (from Rochester) at the beginning of April. Prior to going to Jacksonville I had approx 130 finds, and approx 100 of those were ammo cans hidden in stumps or fallen logs (and I enjoyed all of them), 2 or 3 were micros under a bench (I had fun on those too). I found 70 caches in about 2 weeks down in Jacksonville. Most were micros. The ones that weren't micros were hidden under inches of pine needles, palmettos, or other things we don't have up here. It was great expierencing such a different terrain and way of caching. Jacksonville caches were not the same as NY caches. Alot were micros, some in very public places, or off to the side of shopping centres. Was I extremely dissapointed? Heck no! I had a ball. I DNF'd alot of caches the first few days, and the local cachers emailed me inspiration and tips. I conversed via email with several people. The caching community is great! I learned lots of new and interesting places, ways, and camo to hide caches in and with. Not every cache can provide you with history, a great view, or an amazing adventure. Every cache can provide you with fun. Even the ones hidden behind dumpsters (cat food comes to mind here). Since getting back to Rochester I have hidden about 8 or so caches, and 5 were micros! I got some great ideas down there that haven't been seen up here until now. I even "borrowed" their Cracker Barrel themed caches, and have had positive responses to it here. I agree with what someone else here said, there is something for everyone in Geocaching. In my opinion we don't need more listing catergories, rules, regulations, or voting on which caches are "worthy." Most people who hunt caches probably don't know the circumstances or conditions the cache was hidden under. Why purposefully upset or hurt someone when you can simply abstain from comment and move on to the next?

The other day while doing cache maitenence I saw a man peeing on a tree and lady taking a dump behind it. They were on the down a path from a road right near an orienteering post. The lady was really embarrassed because she was squating down without pants. heh. I headed off to the cache. They weren't hidden or anything there were no real trees or bushes or anything. It was gross.

Way to go Rusty!!!!!!!!! Congrats!

Very nice.

NY had one CITO listed as a cache in the Southern Tier of NY.

I always thought that was a picture of Mike Myers, I still think that.

Personally, I think we would want to avoid $25 and liability insurance as the standard we set for NY State. We don't want that to be the case study that falls into the hands of everyone else. Next we will be buying permits, and specified containers from them. One of the CITO Events in the Albany area I believe, were told they they would have to get insurance to hold there clean up event, and that insurance would start at $300. That was just to clean up! Can you imagine what would happen once that was the blanket policy for everyone? Geocaching would grind to halt, except for the Grandfathered caches. A pro active approach is a great one to take, however 50 angry, unprepared cachers calling up there local DEC office (or state park, or whoever) does not make us look like the most organized bunch of people! We do all need to work together.

Nice job JMB, congrats! Now, on to 500!

I got my first GPS, a ST Map new and unopened, for $130 on ebay (inc ship) over a year ago. It works great. If you buy one off ebay make sure it has all the orginal packaging then if anything is wrong you can exchange it at most local stores.

NYGO (http://ny-geocaching.org) is, and has been, working with and developing plans for contacting these agencies, and hopefully getting some good groundwork laid, and reversing these 'unfair' policies. It is a slow process, bugt we are making progress. If you are interested in working with us drop a us a note. Just because there isn't a lot of talk visible over there, don't assume nothing is being done. We will need people from all regions of NY on hand at one point or another.

You bring up good points. I am a Christian, and I am very secure in my faith, I know what and why I believe what I do. I have seen literature for non-Christian religions in Geocaches. It didn't scare me, it didn't upset me, and I did not feel violated or have an overwhelming urge to throw their literature away. I do carry the Gospel of John, and I have added those to some caches, including ones where I have found material I don't agree with. I have seen crosses, Bibles, New Testaments, and tracks as well as "new age" beads, candles, oils and books, etc.. Just because you don't agree with certain material doesn't mean you have to take it upon yourself to dispose of it. If it is "hate literature" then that is a different matter, but most religious material isn't hateful. Leaving a booklet isn't exactly "pushing your beliefs on others." If I were to set up a cache that when you opened it, it recited verses or something, that might be pushing it. You have the choice to read the material or leave it for the next person. We are all adults, and like AmishHacker said, if you feel threatened by a little booklet, maybe you should pick it up and read it.

Think I would have rather attended your event! Temps dropped to 40's and below and then it rained, here in Rochester, NY! All that aside we had a great turn out, and a fun time! Even cleaned up a bunch of trash from the shores of Lake Ontario. The most interesting thing someone found was a purse with credit cards, ID, but no money. It had been stashed under a rock (it was turned over to the police later) and a few other things.

Why not?

yes. in mirc type: /server irc.slashnet.org once you are connected: /join #geocache

My quickest approval time has been 2 days. The longest was 5 or 6 days. WE are getting to the busy time of year again (at least around here) so I expect approval times to start getting longer again!

I don't understand. Why unarchive the caches just so someone else can adopt them? Why not just have the "new owner" submit it as a new cache? Is there something I'm missing here? Cache history. It's nice to have older caches intact so you can see the users passing through. Yes, I could resubmit the caches and link to the page, but it just isnt the same. We will see what happens. Still waiting to hear back from an approver or other Groundspeak persona. I hope everyone had a great CITO Day, the event here in Rochester went over pretty well.

Not really.. Some people can't cache all the time. There may be weather reasons, time reasons, personal limitations, no more caches around, no money for gas, etc, etc... Typing words is relatively easy. You can make a few posts between tasks at home or work. You can make tons of posts during the winter months while the snow is deep outside, you can make tons of posts while your two broken legs heal, etc, etc.. Do some people post too much? I will refrain from answering that!

Myself and one other local cacher have offered to adopt the caches he has remaining in New York. In fact I emailed the appropriate channels months ago. Of course it went through on Navicache right away, as Navicache is based out of the town we live in, so there wasn't any doubt this was legit. That has nothing at all to do with the listings on Geocaching.com. Being totally reasonable, very few people will ever see the listings on Navicache. When I asked Keystone about the caches in question I was told I needed to email again about the adoptions. Note: Keystone is not the local approver for here, just a nice guy. Around this same time I was going on vacation, Duane emailed me he was archiving the caches for a while. I figured, fine I'll just ask about adoption when they are unarchived. Mistake I guess. Meanwhile, four caches sit idle. They are fun, well thought out caches. Pity to lose them. Seems silly to have to discuss this in public. Who knew four caches could cause such a big disturbance. Could a Geocache approver, or other Groundspeak employee please explain why they can't be unarchived and adopted? Thanks!

There is also an informal Southern Teir Group in NY. They have a yahoo board. So that's Five.