DustyJacket

I just "grab" them if the previous person didn't log it. I don't log it into the cache I just got it from.

There are some companies selling repro benchmark disks. I am looking into buying one, pouring a concrete block with a repro as the hindged lid, and making a cache out of it. Having trouble designing the hinge to be totally hidden.

Now, if they just had Ivy Block combined with sunscreen combined with bug repellant !

Now you made a HUGE opening for the next arguement.

How about this one that popped up in my area? GCJVF1 - What the ??? I finally found the puzzle. Now I need the time to solve it.

Oh yeah. Last year I decided to cache all day and hit a city or two north of me. The first 4 or so were all the same cacher who hides micros very well. All DNFs. I think I did two more after that just to make sure I could find any, then quit at 1pm. I was depressed for a good week or two. I got better.

Just jut put up a few more, from: France, Scotland, and England (including from the Greenwich Observatory) On the last two, you get to hunt for the marks in their natural settings. It took me a few moments to find them. Thanks to Jeremy (probably not Jeremy Irish) I like these different markers that aren't the standard disk shape.

Ripstop nylon zip-off pants, long sleeve khaki shirt, hiking boots, and a hat until I lost it somewhere. Even in hot weather. This PI and the ticks and the thorns are killing me. In winter, my favorite time, I add my GC.COM fleece vest and maybe a windbreaker, and gloves.

Last year it was the ticks. This year it is massive poison ivy. And ticks. I am giving up caching in the summer! PS - caching has ruined 4 or 5 pair of pants.

The settings pages/tabs that deal with how deep to spider, and other limits also deal with images. Images make Plucker VERY SLOW and the file very large. I stopped doing that.

Well, I finally got off my rear end, and updated the pages with all the cotributions since May. I added a page for Markers outside the USA (the UK for now, but I hope to receive photos from other countries.) We now have an intact Cairn, and many more. Plust, there are links to two pages of drawings of various disks - images created by the NGS.Thank you for all those who donated. The pages are looking better these days, and will hopefully help those wondering what these things look like.

Did they find the cache?

North side of Colorado Springs (Brookwood, where I lived for years), Falcoln Estates, Black Forest. They are all School District 20 (Air Academy High School - my alma mater). Nice neighborhoods where older houses are becomming available because the original residents are dying off. We already sold my parent's house - too bad. I wish I was going back to Colorado.....

There are a lot og "forgotten" markers that sare not in the NGS database.

Don't delete them, just turn them off - uncheck all days of the week to produce them. I don't know if it still applies, but it used to be that if you kept deleting PQs and adding new ones, their processing would happen later in the day, than if you juct reuse and change your existing PQs.

Well, I am just finishing a dosepack of some sort of steroids. (No, not THOSE steroids.) And, I have a large jar of some huge 600mg painkiller/anti-inflammatory pills. It has been almost a month snce it all started. (I was doing great until yesterday when my daughter's "tube" submerged at 25 mph, and after pulling the 2 girls out, I found the toable had a few hundred pounds of water trapped in it. My pain level is now back near last Sunday. One week lost.)

Doggie PFD at a boating store, or order one from West Marine.

It didn't work. For my first cache, I put 2 photos of the proper cache placement. We have found that cache 5 feet away, or hidden in a variety of places.

I agree, why can't cachers place a cache back EXACTLY like they found it. I have a cache that is intended to be visible from .2 miles away. I check it every day and everytime someone finds it it gets placed behind a guardrail post. So I move it back and again it gets placed where they think it goes. Put caches back just like you found them. Webscouter - I hear you. I put your cache just like I found it. A later finder posted that they hid it so it won't be seen or something like that. (The only way that cache can't be seen is for it to be buried at least 10 feet under very black soil, and then paved over with 8 inchec of asphalt.

No booby traps, but I heard that Criminal will occasionally ambush cachers on one of his night caches....

Did you find the nearby marker ?

OK everyone. I just did a rough reorganization. Now there are separate pages for: - Explanations - Witness Posts - Older (Ancient?) Markers - Disks from agencies on the "federal" level - Private or Local Government Markers - Non-disk or Unusual Markers (This is where I put the "current" rod-type of marker, although it is not unusual. Sometime in the future, I will change the format of the pages, but not right now.

I thought the disks with the arrow were azmuth disks that pointed towards the actual Benchmark disk.

Brownie Point: NOUN: An amount of credit considered as earned, especially by favorably impressing a superior. Often used in the plural. ETYMOLOGY: From the practice of awarding points for achievement to Brownies in the Girl Scouts.

It might invite a one-on-one between a postal inspector and a cache finder. You may want to continue looking elsewhere is these sensitive (over sensitive ?) times.