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Mine started while registering for a Hotmail account years ago. As usual the first ten names I tried were taken, so I took my profession and added a number. Most people never figure out the number, so I will let you all in on a secret. 8766 = the number of hours in a year 365.25 x 24 = 8766 (don't forget the leap year, add 1/4 day) Pilots log all their hours flown, so to reach 8766 hours means we have spent one whole year of our lives flying. I have about 1/2 a year under my belt so far. The most ever is around 60,000 hours or almost 7 years . I actually bought a Lowrance Airmap 100 GPS in April 1999, before Geocaching. You can see from my photo posts that the marker is a plane. I never expected I would use it more for Geocaching than I do for flying. I found out about and originally registered with Geocaching in January 2002. At the time there were few caches and I never really got into it. Lately I am back into it and am having a blast . I really enjoy using my job to add mileage to travel bugs (check this out). Not to mention it is a great thing to do while stuck in a city on an overnight.

I probably had to travel 2500 miles to get the last 100. I spent the last month or so in FL and TN on business and managed to snag a few in AL and MS and VA along the way. With some free time and in new territory it's not too hard to do. I was worried there for a while that I wouldn't make my goal of 365 in a year for two years running, but now it'll be a relative breeze, especially with another trip to RI in December. Congrats to GaiterMan on #700 as well, it seems like we have stayed fairly close in numbers for quite a while. GLM, good job on passing 400 as well. It's tough to keep up that kind of pace without putting a few miles on the odometer. I'll have it a little easier in Chicago with a whole new playing field (once it stops snowing).

You know, my posts are at almost the same number as my finds. Posts: 365 Caches: 378 I think I've gotten more bruises and scratches from cahes than posts, though. Cin

Have to agree. If all you are concerned about is numbers, who the heck are you trying to impress ? I could care less how many caches you have. A local cacher ( T-Prints )achieved 300 caches in his first 365 days of caching. Others get maybe 12 a year, or less. T-prints owns his own business and has the time. Others are elderly, have children, or other time constraints. I 2nd the previous thought : If your after #'s, don't do the multi's. Go for the ones meant for kids and physically impaired. When I see someone has two 4/4's and 100 2/1's, and whining about #'s, I really have no interest in meeting that person. I have a cache that requires a long walk, with the final stretch up an agressive incline. This log made me happy to see - Z-trekrs (48 found) We camp at Linesville with our friends C-chasers who are not registered at this time. This is our first cache of the day and going to Crossingville later. The hill was steep but weather was good and hot. Found cache easily, took cassette & left a necklace. We are four seniors 64-73 years of age so it was quite a walk , but fun. These folks didn't whine about the length of the walk and only getting 2 caches that day. They enjoyed the experience. To me, thats what caching is about. Two roads diverged in the woods and I, I took the one less traveled, and that is how I found the cache.

I served in the USAF '63-'67 and had that picture. Thought it was great especialy since I was in SAC for awhile that had nuclear armed B-52's flying on alert 24/7/365 because of the cold war. I thought the line was "Sleep peacefully, the U.S. Air Force is awake." but my memory isn't as good as it use to be. Thanks for picture. Alan

Caches should have to be monitored 24/7/365!!! Obviously, these coords changed after approval. Somebody (maybe Pharmadude) needs to send an e-mail showing him how to put the coords into the top. Geesh. To think Nudecacher went to those people's house... Is this guy poor, or does he just not like wearing clothes? Send him to Nunavut for a year, that'll cure his anarchy. Admins are not responsible to monitor caches for these small things. Some people type in run on paragraphs with bad spelling on purpose.

Why do we have HOT water heaters? Wouldn’t you rather heat COLD water? Why do stores that stay open 24/365 have locks on the door?

Good job A.! It looks like Magoo nailed his 300th on NJ Statewide Cache Hunt Great hides! Great find logs! The ultimate search engine; 1 star or 5 stars he's there! At a little less then a year of caching he might just be on pace to hit a cache a day. Let's see if he can hit 365 finds by Halloween! In addition he’s found 400+ benchmarks, (you should read some of those logs ) Keep up the good work and thanks for putting so much back into the game!

I want to get some weather protection for my Handspring PDA+Magellan Companion hardware. I have pretty much narrowed my options to a protective waterproof bag/pouch. I'm not looking for complete shock protection like an otter box, just basic rain/splash, dirt/sand, light shock absorption and scratch resistance while allowing for full functionality of the PDA. I found two cases that seem like good solutions and would accommodate my PDA which is quite bulky with the Magellan Companion installed. Aquapac - very good reviews but a bit pricey http://www.waterproofcases.net/365.html SealLine - economic but not sure if vinyl is clear enough to get a good view and operate the PDA properly http://www.rei.com/online/store/ProductDisplay?storeId=8000&catalogId=40000008000&productId=9610824&parent_category_rn=4501504# I would like to hear some opinions if anyone has used any of them or could recommend a similar product.

quote:Originally posted by Mark 42:Spend a week or two planning, then call it one day of actual (C8H10N4O2 saturated) caching. In my case I usually spend few days planning and then go caching for a week or two. In last 6 months I have done 2 extended caching trips. A 2 week trip to Ok and Tx with 365 finds. A 1 week trip to Chicago/Milwaukee area with 205 finds. My planning/preparation time has been greatly reduced with the use of pocket queries and gpx files.

From a webpage I was sent: Can I decompose 'n' to the product of prime numbers, like 'pq'? The answer is probably NO. For n = 77 as above, it is very easy to do it, {p, q} = {7, 11}! But in general, it may be a hard task to examine which it is a prime number or not. It requires a large number of divide operations. For instance, if p and q are 1000-bit integers, then n becomes a 2000-bit integer. To factorize it in prime elements, we must examine by dividing with every prime integer in { 2, 3, 5, ... , SquareRoot(n) }, which is known to be about n / log(n) members from the famous prime number theorem. In this case that n is a 2000-bit integer, the number of prime integers less then SquareRoot of n to be examined must be about 21000 / log( 21000 ) = (103)100 / 1000 log(2) = 10298. Alas, what a big universe number! The 10298 times division will take about 10281 years (Can you imagine it?) even if the 1 G (=109) operations-per-second extraordinary-tough machine works strongly throughout 24 hours a day, 365 days a year! Oh, how old will you be when the calculation has finished?

I would like to see the "status quo" totals on the user profile page. It's getting old hearing the "purists" say something to the effect that "it is not about the numbers". I just reached (and surpassed) a goal of mine of doing 365 caches in my first year of geocaching. I have 370 caches found with 6 days to go. I am proud of my accomplishment. How could I have reached that goal if I didn't keep track of the numbers? Healthy competition is friendly, motivating, and fun in itself. There is nothing wrong with it. Cache on dudes! Jim

He had to go to Illinois to get it. I took him a whole year to accomplish this feat too. I know he's disappointed not to get to 365, but 300 is a major accomplishment in one year. RobAGD also has the best cache containers in Northern Virginia too. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ War is God's way of teaching Americans geography. -Ambrose Bierce, writer (1842-1914)

quote:Originally posted by fractal: Oregone: Good times these last 365 days, and I think that sharing the knowing glance at the Rogue was the peak… Either that, or OREGONE RULEZZ! Hey fractal, i don't think that i'd be over-exaggerating when i say that geocaching itself should be celebrating your two-year anniversary. The Contact Cache, The Game, and Elegia should pretty much put you in the geocaching.com hall of fame. But you're right: The best parts have been the people. From the human sudial to the calamari, from the the CEO to the Dairy Queen sign to the hippie bar to the fountain-peeing to that understanding half-glance at the Rogue, you've made an indelible mark--on me and the geocaching community [idahogirl-)]. I haven't been doing this as long as you have, but i can honestly say that you're the reason i get the words 'geocaching' and 'cassidys' mixed up as often as i do. all rights reserved, all wrongs reversed

Way to go JOe, I happen to know he has the same goal I did for 365 in a year. So he has to be getting close Good Luck Joe -Robert

new price and NO MORE RESERVE! starting price is $335 and Buy it Now is $365 won't be going any lower then that Can't think of anything real clever to put here, but one thing I know, if you put your trust in God, you can't go wrong.

Thanks guys Between rain and snow it put a crimp on most people in this area ( Bigcall and GaitarMan being the major exceptions ). I did want to reach 365 but the weather just was not playing nice. Paintballing actually got me to Chicago and a few other places that I managed to get a few caches. Now I can relax and get to planting so more caches -Robert

Yeah... I've got some time on my hands... MME#02 N 45° 31.500 W 122° 53.365 This cache is MAX accessable... So that's sort of a hint as to the best way to approach it. The container is a plastic 'bubble' or 'acorn' that you would get from a 25cent machine. It's perfect for holding something about the size of a radioactive marble This is a TRADE ONLY cache. No TN/LN. There is no logbook, so please log online the item that you took and the item that you left. (No rocks!) If the item you brought is too big, you can't log it until you get an item that will fit. Sounds fun, doesn't it? If the cache appears to be missing, please look around on the ground. Enjoy! -fractal -=-=-=-=-=-=- N 45? 30.ish W 122? 58.ish

quote:Originally posted by regoarrarr:I checked my logs, and it looks like my high is 295 caches in a 365 day period (5/17/2002 to today). Though I only did 2 caches from 5/17/2002 to 6/27/2002, so if I do more than 7 before June 27th, then I'll go over 300 for a year period. I think I can handle that [] You're already a concachetador! Sngans The greatest labor saving invention of today is tomorrow....http://www.texasgeocaching.com

I checked my logs, and it looks like my high is 295 caches in a 365 day period (5/17/2002 to today). Though I only did 2 caches from 5/17/2002 to 6/27/2002, so if I do more than 7 before June 27th, then I'll go over 300 for a year period. I think I can handle that []

if you want to camp: There are no campgrounds at Blue Marsh Lake, but several are within a 10-mile drive of the project. Unfortunately, I cannot speak to how good any of these campgrounds are, as I live near here so I have never camped at any of these places. Links to the websites for the following campgrounds are available. Appalachian Campsites Box 27, Shartlesville, PA 19554, (610) 488-6319 or (800) 424-5746. Eagles Peak Campground 397 Eagles Peak Road, Robesonia, PA 19551, (610) 589-4800 or (800) 336-0889. Mountain Springs Camping Resort Box 365, 3450 Mountain Road, Shartlesville, PA 19554, (610) 488-6859.

quote:Originally posted by bigeddy: quote:Originally posted by Nurse Dave & LKay:Just got back from our Bend trip. 365 miles and somewhere around 15 caches. Good job! You did them all in shorts? In general, how might the caches you did be improved? OKay, you got me. I was a little worried about strange animals and wore sweats. I know it wasn't much protection, but it was a mental barier between me and a 20 foot snake. The only thing I wasn't really enjoying were the ones that were under rocks where there were rocks everywhere. But it's just a different style of caching I guess. In Portland the standard is bark arranged around the ammo box so those tend to be easy to spot. It's more about finding the area it's in. In the case of the rock ones, it was more about actually finding the cache once you got there. I think being used to the other kind I got frustrated too soon. I was thinking that if my reading is off by 30 feet and the hider was off by 30 feet, then that's a 60 foot radius of just flipping over rocks. I might not have thought anything of it if that's what I was used to, but it was frustrating for me. Otherwise a good percentage of them were in different type of places with good views. Very enjoyable. ---Real men cache in shorts.

quote:Originally posted by Nurse Dave & LKay:Just got back from our Bend trip. 365 miles and somewhere around 15 caches. Good job! You did them all in shorts? In general, how might the caches you did be improved?

quote:Originally posted by Nurse Dave & LKay:Just got back from our Bend trip. 365 miles and somewhere around 15 caches. That's all the mileage you racked up? Over our Sisters/Green Ridge Lookout weekend 5/3-5/6, we racked up over 700 miles! But then again, caches north of Sisters are fewer and far between. Plus, we did some major tooling around on 4WD backroads for fun! Looks like you got more caches to the gallon. We got 10 last weekend, then went back this weekend too (to celebrate our 12th anniversary today), and got 5 more. We're looking forward to visiting the Bend area sometime this summer. --laurak Temporarily French Polynesia's most prolific geocachers!

Just got back from our Bend trip. 365 miles and somewhere around 15 caches. I need to round up the pages and will log them in over the next day or so. A big THANKS for the folks that hid all the caches we found, and even the 2 we didn't. I'm still not sure how I feel about a hint that says it's under a rock when the whole city is covered in rocks. We had great weather, met another cacher and were treated to great views. ---Real men cache in shorts.