Geocaching in the month of May

[Kate]

Do we really need a weekly thread?

I am sure this will be ok!

Any fun plans for the spring? We are running out of local ones and gas is ouchy :(

[Michele]

I think I'm going to attempt that multi with Jordan this week while Emmas at school. If he finished his schoolwork...maybe I can use it as incentive.

[Michele]

We are running out of local ones and gas is ouchy :(

:(

[Lisa]

:(

We are out of ones within walking distance.

Well, there is one left. I would like to go do it today if the weather cooporates.

[Alie]

*I dont know anything bout geocaching but thanks to you ladies I ordered Geocaching for Dummies for my library!*

[Lisa]

:cry:

It's gonna rain.

[Lizz]

I want a GPS [/veruca]

[Lisa]

Lizz, go buy a GPS. Target.

[Lizz]

:nono: Can't do it just yet. I was lucky I got to go to Columbus.

[Kate]

:(

I told the kids I would pick them up from school today to go caching. But I will have to drive 25 min to get one.

I am on-line looking for any cool spot that has more then one.

I am approaching my library this week aobut hosting a geocaching class-- maybe if more people knew about it there would be more local ones.

[Sonny]

:(

I wish there were more around you. You have hidden quite a few (I think) hopefully that will encourage more people to hide some.



There is a boyscout troop up here (not close to us) that is a geocaching team. They find/hide them together. Maybe your G.D. troop could gt involved in that, then maybe the other families would get involved and they would hide some on their own as well. :)

[Kate]

we have hidden 3 and have 3 ready to hide.

we have a BS troop that is maybe 30 miles south of us-- but I stay clear of thier caches, last one was on accidently on private property and the FTF cacher (who didn't realize it was private property) was confronted by an armed farmer :eek:

Let me see if I can dig up that log-- it was a funny read (because it wasn't me, I wouldhave wet my pants but he handled it really well)

[stacyspace]

We were on a roll since last Wednesday :rock:

Look!

http://www.geocaching.com/images/icons/icon_smile.gif4/30/2006Weather Station at Rocky Nook (http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=9658a0f1-0539-486e-a69a-3ef944d9f958) Massachusetts [visit log (http://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?LUID=cda431a6-b41b-4583-b3ae-1029c96de325)]
http://www.geocaching.com/images/icons/icon_smile.gif4/30/2006Breakheart Redux: Phoenix (http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=77c7260e-db47-4ad4-9f71-fe0cc4fb2803) Massachusetts [visit log (http://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?LUID=4b84d4dd-a4f6-4299-b0e7-54c3aca44924)]
http://www.geocaching.com/images/icons/icon_smile.gif4/30/2006Hard Cold Cache (http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=488948de-78a8-4be9-873a-08cee1eeef44) Massachusetts [visit log (http://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?LUID=24bd97a7-a053-4a0c-9695-5eb1c30863a6)]
http://www.geocaching.com/images/icons/icon_smile.gif4/30/2006Pearce Lake Cache at Breakheart (http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=66d9b20a-169e-46ab-9c9d-6319827298a2) Massachusetts [visit log (http://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?LUID=3bc50482-2b64-4c39-b9b2-0d36e9ea78c6)]
http://www.geocaching.com/images/icons/icon_smile.gif4/30/2006Eric's Adventure (http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=aca0836c-ee6c-425d-b77f-a77b1d7efcad) Massachusetts [visit log (http://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?LUID=21884992-3c94-4579-ac5c-5674c834f824)]
http://www.geocaching.com/images/icons/icon_smile.gif4/30/2006Off the Beaten Path (http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=b1ebd632-08bd-4343-a473-0ad1a21f768d) Massachusetts [visit log (http://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?LUID=77ca6ff2-c549-455a-8d1a-23538a049dd2)]
http://www.geocaching.com/images/icons/icon_smile.gif4/30/2006X700 (http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=a63d372a-9a88-4c49-aae9-68f97854831e) Massachusetts [visit log (http://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?LUID=84a7ad13-e037-4f63-ac7c-35f659f66706)]
http://www.geocaching.com/images/icons/icon_smile.gif4/29/2006Into the Mystic – Easy Puzzle or “1st Governor” (http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=d5472924-97d9-4a2e-b299-9e83ba4ead41) Massachusetts [visit log (http://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?LUID=fa8a0fcf-4229-47bd-b723-d4bd0da7c1a1)]
http://www.geocaching.com/images/icons/icon_smile.gif4/29/2006Into the Mystic – Hard Trad or “Gee, where is it" (http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=acc26329-2679-46c0-ad08-134880b97e31) Massachusetts [visit log (http://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?LUID=96e359e3-262f-4cb6-b982-ded3203a0e80)]
http://www.geocaching.com/images/icons/icon_smile.gif4/29/2006Broken Corner - Stoneham Coins (http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=b3023175-b04d-4f8c-b289-0ae9b729dec0) Massachusetts [visit log (http://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?LUID=4f3cde63-acbe-43bb-a069-697278316e00)]
http://www.geocaching.com/images/icons/icon_smile.gif4/26/2006Flag Day Too (http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=bf5a675b-d0b5-4f81-9d36-b592f084487c) Massachusetts [visit log (http://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?LUID=b753e8ab-2e22-463b-bcb1-07003a858038)]
http://www.geocaching.com/images/icons/icon_smile.gif4/26/2006ARABICACHE (http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=b7791bbd-b933-486a-850a-b3a180f70090) Massachusetts [visit log (http://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?LUID=cc992a0d-a57e-4a20-b219-a4479395315f)]

Sunday was a 5 mile hike....ouch We're trying to go zip code by zip code. There are tons around here. I wish you guys had more!!!

[Kate]

:rock: you are jamming Stacey.











(ok, I am a tad jealous!)

[stacyspace]

I'm jealous that you can do it during the day - our wednesday & friday caches were after dark....that just freaks me out!!! and the weekends are so crouded in the parks.

[Kate]

I have 2 hours to cache 3 days a week (mike is in preschool) but not enough close enough. Now my closest is 12 miles away, and then 14.5 ect. :(

But I will force this county to get into it :D

[stacyspace]

rock on Kate! :D

[Lisa]

How do you go about getting permission to hide them?

[Kate]

I called the land manager of the state forest (found phone number on-line) and asked I really stressed Cache-In Trash-Out.

He asked about me hiding them in the cave behind the waterfall-- when I assured him that I cache with kids he relaxed (very steep slippery dangerous path) so he said no problem.

My other hides? The Ashland county and Wayne county parks are very relaxed about them.

[Lisa]

K. Greene County already has a bunch in parks, so they know what it is, etc.

I just didn't know who to talk to, etc. There is a park in this neighborhood, with a huge tree with a hole in it. I figured that would be a nice place to throw a micro.

[Michele]

I'm itchin to go today...if Jordan would just hurry up with his work. :nono:

[Mary Ann]

I was just looking at where some local caches are and I never realized that some of them are practically in my backyard. Now I'm starting to get interested in trying geocaching.

[Michele]

OMG...we just finished that Multi. 6 part. It was CRAZY.

Power Cache was the name. And now I know why. All of the micros were by power line posts.

First one: Remeber the clue "vinyl raincoat" Kate? It was a padlock on a telephone box, with a vinyl cover to protect it from the rain. So you remove the cover and the coordinates were etched on the lock.

Second one: There was an iron thing covering a telephone line running up the post. At the top, Josh happened to notice a tiny string tied to the hole. Sure enough, pull it up and the cache is attached to the string.

Third one: You know those yellow plastic things that cover the steel cables that seem to hold the posts up? (this is hard to describe, since I don't know what I'm talking about.) The coordinates were engraved in the top of one of them.

Fourth one: Some power box WAY UP high had the coordinates on the back. Big enough that you could see.

Fifth one: CRAZY. This one takes us in the woods somewhere where there is a power line. It was really swampy, so we had to build a bridge out of sticks to reach it. :nono:

Anyhow, we get there and Josh can see it way up high...but how do you reach? :dunno: There is a phone box down below with a long black tube extending up from it. The cache coordinates are at the top. Josh opens the box and there is a spool of string in there. He releases the string and the micro comes down to us.

The 6th and final was your basic cache hidden in the woods...but it had tons of great stuff. Emma got a large Skully from Monsters Inc. and Jordan got two handheld games. (He brought tons of trading items because I told him there would be a good stash :) )

I'm sort of stressed out from this one! :D

[Kate]

woot!!

that sounds awesome!

I thinkthe harder you have to work for them the better it feels when you get the final box.

The one we got today? :indiff: In the middle of a HUGE state forest with tons of hiking trails. And it was literally 20 fee from the parking spot. WTF?

[Michele]

woot!!

that sounds awesome!

I thinkthe harder you have to work for them the better it feels when you get the final box.

The one we got today? :indiff: In the middle of a HUGE state forest with tons of hiking trails. And it was literally 20 fee from the parking spot. WTF?

Yeah, that's not right. Why even hide one if you don't want to try? :nono:

[Michele]

I didn't like how this one was so...uh....power line-ish. Sure, nothing was hidden anywhere dangerous. But when you're looking around, we sure were tempted to tamper with dangerous things. :dunno:

That person must have worked for the telphone company or something....how do you get a cache that high!? And who has the tools to engrave coordinates in steel?

[Kate]

I would be a bit wierded by the power lines too. Maybe he is a lineman?

[Lisa]

Mac, that sounds cool as hell.

[Kate]

Oh-- Happy Birthday Geocaching.

Today it was started in 2000.[/total geek]

[Mary Ann]

Ok, I've been looking at various websites at the different GPS unit recommendations, models, etc. But I was wondering which ones do y'all use/recommend? The more and more I read about geocaching, the more anxious I am to try it.

[Lisa]

Target. Either $99 or $149.

[Michele]

Oh-- Happy Birthday Geocaching.

Today it was started in 2000.[/total geek]

Wow. I can't believe it is this widespread in 6 years.

[Kate]

a basic model will get you there--

If you need one less then $100 then Mac, Stacey, and I all use the Magelligen eXplorist, i have a 200, they have a 100. I got it for about $90 on ebay. It is an ok one, sort of a pain to input everythign by hand.

If you have about $130 to spend then the recommended model is Garmin Legend.

[Michele]

Mac, that sounds cool as hell.

It was. The fact that Josh stepped in dog crap and seeing a dead possum with it's eyes wide open were just the icing on the cake.

[Michele]

a basic model will get you there--

If you need one less then $100 then Mac, Stacey, and I all use the Magelligen eXplorist, i have a 200, they have a 100. I got it for about $90 on ebay. It is an ok one, sort of a pain to input everythign by hand.

If you have about $130 to spend then the recommended model is Garmin Legend.

I have been fine with mine. :dunno: It definately gets me there. You can't download the coordinates...that's the only drawback. But that doesn't seem to be a big deal for me.

[Michele]

Oh, and I got mine for $90-something dollars at Meijer.

[Amy]

If you have about $130 to spend then the recommended model is Garmin Legend.

I got this one from Tiger Direct for $121 including shipping.

[Sonny]

Michele, that sounds like a really fun multi. We haven't tried any multis yet, Pat doesn't like micros, and that's usually what they are until they get to the final, so...

[Lisa]

I have the Legend and love it.

[Michele]

Michele, that sounds like a really fun multi. We haven't tried any multis yet, Pat doesn't like micros, and that's usually what they are until they get to the final, so...

I would have NEVER gotten past the first stage if it weren't for Josh. He found the first two. After that.....I kinda got a feel for how they were.

micros are HARD! We did have to rely on the clues for most of the stages.

[Lisa]

Some of the micros we have done were difficult, some were simple.

You just have to sit back and look for something odd.

[Kate]

or you could bring Manda with you :D

[Michele]

or you could bring Manda with you :D

Is she that good?

My kids are NOT into micros. They just fooled around and I ended up wishing they were not with us.

I think I'll just stick to regular caches or maybe a 2-3 part would be ok.

[Amy]

:D Or Anthony.

[Michele]

Btw, should we know each other's geocaching names? I mean, it's a huge ol' forum. I'd like to know someone. I am Lou, Lou and the Verns.

[Lisa]

I'll give you 3 guesses what mine is. :D

[Sonny]

I'm huggies...but I haven't posted on the forums there.


We could all go into that forum and chat away like we have been there forever. :D

[Lisa]

I have never posted in the forums there though.

[Michele]

Me either, but Huggies has a great idea. :indiff:

[Kate]

I am kateiam.

Yes, Manda usually find them before me. :indiff: But I beat her today.

[Amy]

I'm ATeam. Not The A Team or The A-Team or even A-Team, because apparently I'm not as clever as I thought. :rolleyes:

[Michele]

LOL!

[Sonny]

Amy! :killingme

Poor Russ and Maggie--they're not part of the team. :(

[Amy]

I know. :cry: Although Maggie's middle name is Anne. :D

[Lisa]

Send me Maggie, she can be part of my team.

[Amy]

HA!

[Sonny]

Send me Maggie, she can be part of my team.

Such persistence. :D

[Michele]

Send me Maggie, she can be part of my team.

If she's anything like Emma (and I think Emma is usually quite the tomboy) you don't want her as a geocaching partner....unless there are swings nearby. :rolleyes:

:D

[Amy]

Ya, Maggie's not much of a geocaching fan. She likes to go, but she does a lot of complaining about bugs, dirt...

[Lisa]

I will take Emma too. :D

[Michele]

She was not fun today. :nono:

[Kate]

Emma, Mike and Maggie need to play at a park together. I was ready to stuff himin the cache and leave him there :nono: he was so awful that he lost all electronics for 2 days.

[Michele]

Emma, Mike and Maggie need to play at a park together. I was ready to stuff himin the cache and leave him there :nono: he was so awful that he lost all electronics for 2 days.

Did I tell you I took Jordan's PS2? He now has to earn it.

The first morning...when I woke up (he always wakes up at 7am or earlier...me, not so much) to 5 original spaceships out of legos I knew it was the right decision.

Usually, he would just play PS2 until I woke up. I didn't think that was a such a big deal. But now, when I see what he can acomplish. But I digress.

[Michele]

Emma, Mike and Maggie need to play at a park together. I was ready to stuff himin the cache and leave him there :nono: he was so awful that he lost all electronics for 2 days.

What was his deal? The walking?

[Amy]

Maggie is funny. Her complaining doesn't bother me. She says stuff like, "I'm not sure we should be out here. It's awfully dirty"

[Michele]

Maggie is funny. Her complaining doesn't bother me. She says stuff like, "I'm not sure we should be out here. It's awfully dirty"

Normally Emma is fine...but she was a PITA today.

I don't blame her....the multi, despite it's challenges was mostly driving. :dunno: And then power lines. I found myself thinking "this would be fun on a date"...but with the kids, I'd rather go for a nice, scenic hike.

[Lizz]

Maggie is funny. Her complaining doesn't bother me. She says stuff like, "I'm not sure we should be out here. It's awfully dirty"
She sounds like she should be my child :D

[Amy]

:right: Get your own girly girl.

[Lizz]

:right: Get your own girly girl.
*wrinkles up face*

[Lisa]

See, Lizz was just hoping that your girly girl would come with a GPS.

[Michele]

*wants to take lizz geocaching*

[Lisa]

We stopped and did an Off Your Rocker one on the way home. :D

And I told my Dad about it, he wants to try it.

[Kate]

fun! we did a nice multi today.

There were lots of cool little cabins along the water and lots of Blue Herons in the Lake.

[Lisa]

I am going to search for some in a local large park. Has a gorge or something. I am sure there are some there. Hopefully we will get to do that tomorrow.

[Kate]

We are going inthe afternoon with my sister tomorrow. I think there are 11 in the park (1/2 way to Cleveland)

[Lisa]

I found 7 in the park, and 1 outside of it.

And I just discovered the "find nearby caches" thing.

:slaphead:

[Lisa]

:laugh:

This was on one of the cahces.

YOU MIGHT BE ADDICTED TO GEOCACHING IF.....

10. You'd rather cache then shop!

9. You look at every known cache spot for other cachers!

8. You never leave home without a pen or pencil in your pocket!

7. You check to make sure you have your GPS before you leave home, but forget the cell phone!

6. You have ever held your GPS up to your ear to look like a cell phone during a hunt!

5. You've answered your GPS instead of your cell phone!

4. You check for new caches more then you check your emails!

3. You look at every container as a possible Geocache!

2. You write your return address on bills in co-ordinates!

1. And the top You Might Be Addicted to Geocaching If... You hide the kids Easter Eggs and then give them the Co-ordinates to find them!

Kate!! I immediatly thought of you.

[Mary Ann]

I'm going to look at GPS devices tomorrow. I've been researching and have gotten good recommendations from y'all so I'm just going to see what's out there for myself.

[Lisa]

Target has them in the sporting goods part.

[Lisa]

Have you gone to geocaching.com yet?

I currently have folders in my favorites listing ones on the way when we pick up B, ones by my parent's house, and ones in a park here, which after we find those I will change.

/not obsessed

[Lisa]

We tried for 3 today on the way to Brandon's house. One was in a movie theater parking lot, one was in a resturant's parking lot/outside foilage, and the other was a 2 part in a park.

We only found the movie theater one.

[Kate]

I hate DNFs.

I emailed the last 3 finders of the one we DNFed Sat. I was inthe right place, and they said it was an easy one-- most likely muggled. :(

[Lisa]

The one in the park the coords took us right to the park sign. We couldn't find anything. :dunno:

I haven't read thru all the comments yet.

[Lisa]

Who is good at figuring out the puzzle caches?

This person (http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=865d7387-aaff-4850-8682-48215a440540) and this person (http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=c27038a7-f565-49a7-84c7-1cc53131f8b2) I suspect are husband and wife. They have a ton on the way to Brandon's house. A lot of them are puzzles. One is bar coded. :stars:

:dunno:

[Kate]

I stink at puzzles but those look fun. Maybe Sonny can help. the second one :stars: no clue

[Lisa]

Almost all of theirs are like that.

If they aren't puzzles they are really vauge.

[Sonny]

Who is good at figuring out the puzzle caches?

This person (http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=865d7387-aaff-4850-8682-48215a440540) and this person (http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=c27038a7-f565-49a7-84c7-1cc53131f8b2) I suspect are husband and wife. They have a ton on the way to Brandon's house. A lot of them are puzzles. One is bar coded. :stars:

:dunno:


The first one :nono: That's not a clue at all, I don't think. There are just astericks where the numbers should be, no pattern at all. :dunno:

The second one, I would guess that the numbers are based on the gem hardness scale? That's where I would start.

[Kate]

oh gem hardness scale. Sonny is good!!

[deputycoz]

We haven't done any puzzle caches yet. We did do our first nightcache on Saturday, OMG it was soooooo fun. Around 10:30pm on Saturday night the 4 of us with our flashlights tromping around the State Forest, it was really fun.

[Kate]

I have a night cache on my watch list-- for a warm summer night!

[Niki]

Maggie is funny. Her complaining doesn't bother me. She says stuff like, "I'm not sure we should be out here. It's awfully dirty"

:love:

:killingme

[Kate]

Lisa-- that gem cache-- would N 39.11.166 sound right? I was having trouble with the hardness of the secondline of gems.

[Kate]

or would it be 39.74.xxx ?

[Sonny]

You're doing great Kate! I'm too lazy to look up the scale. :laugh:

[Sonny]

Okay, I used this website http://www.24carat.co.uk/hardnessmohsscaleframe.html

and got:

N 39 14.825 or 975

W 084 85.056 ----but the 85 could also be 80/90/08/09 :stars:

[Sonny]

Oh, and it could be based on something else, but one of the log entries said something about finding this "diamond"--which is what the scale is based on, so I am betting that it is based on the mohs scale of hardness.:)

[Sonny]

The first one is really bugging me!/can't just let it go :screwy:

[Lisa]

The first one :nono: That's not a clue at all, I don't think. There are just astericks where the numbers should be, no pattern at all. :dunno:

The second one, I would guess that the numbers are based on the gem hardness scale? That's where I would start.
Thanks.

You should see some of the others. I think one is in braille, one is a bar code.

While they put a lot of thought into their caches, I don't want to. KWIM?

From the comments, some people in that area love them. Me, I am doing them on the way to or from somewhere. I don't.

[Lisa]

Wow guys. You are all so cool.

The coords sound about right. I would have to look up one close to be sure.

[Kate]

WE are off to go http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=0d1a61a7-0c31-42d1-86ee-6baccc133355&log=y&decrypt=


It is a 9 stage multi :stars: but every stage is in a different park in the same city, so I told Mike we could go play at 2 playgrounds today, and do the rest later. He thought it sounded fun :D

[Amy]

I think we are doing this after co-op...

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=94d73770-0332-4b13-93ed-6d44d32ca63d

[Kate]

that one looks like fun-- but read the logs, it looks like it might be tough to make sure you are looking at the right spot through the "spy glass"

[Kate]

we had fun-- found the first 4 of 9. They are just metal dog tags with the coords to the next one.

#1 was on a tree base, in a FUN park in a residental area I had never been to before. Mike played for about 20 minutes on the playground.
#2 was in a really cool nature preserve next to the high school. I had never been there either
#3 was in a lame little pitiful city park on the boottom of a slide. There was only a slide and a merry go round (the kids you push)
#4 was in a "memorial grove of trees"

We will do the rest later this week.

[Amy]

:right: THAT was fun! I had some difficulties at first. I had pretty much given up and brought the kids to the playground. I handed Anthony the GPSr and told him to look around. He found the first waypoint in just a few minutes. :rolleyes: The coordinates for the next waypoints were on little brass peices, which were nearly impossible to find. The clues were great, but I kept making wherever I was fit the description. :rolleyes: Thank goodness Anthony was there. :D


Maggie said this was her mad twin. :right: She would NOT smile for a pic in the daisies. :nono:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v284/amy1000/IMG_2786.jpg

One of the markers, this one was hidden under the hand rail on the dock.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v284/amy1000/IMG_2788.jpg


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v284/amy1000/IMG_2789.jpg

These bridges made me more than a little nervous. :cry:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v284/amy1000/IMG_2793.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v284/amy1000/IMG_2799.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v284/amy1000/IMG_2802.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v284/amy1000/IMG_2803.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v284/amy1000/IMG_2804.jpg


My camera went wonky and I lost some pics. Including one of the BIGGEST toad. I'm so pissed. :nono:

[Amy]

I'm never going to live down the fact that I thought that the "poop deck" was the toilet area. :indiff:

[Amy]

Oh and halfway there Maggie had to go to the bathroom...BAD. No amount of begging/bribing could persuade her to go in the trees. She's such a girl. :D

[Rebecca]

Where is that Amy?

[Amy]

Wapato Park in Tacoma. It is RIGHT off of I-5 and just a few blocks from our co-op. I had no idea that there was a huge park there, although apparently the other moms did...some of them go there every week after co-op. :dunno: It's a beautiful park.

[Lisa]

Cool pictures Amy.

You need to take the Beakers next time you go.

[Amy]

That would be fun. Only they'd laugh at how bad I am at it. :D

I looked up other caches hidden by the person who did the pirate one, he also did the phobia ones. :cry:

[Rebecca]

We wouldn't laugh. We've never done it. :dunno:

How weird that I've never heard of that park and it's right there. With a lake and everything.

[Kate]

great pictures! did it give you any trouble?

[Kate]

We wouldn't laugh. We've never done it. :dunno:

How weird that I've never heard of that park and it's right there. With a lake and everything.

:agree: that is my most favorite part of geocaching! Today's cache was a tour of 9 city parks. I only knew about 3 of them. I have lived 10 miles away for 10 years.

[Kate]

Amy-- you know your boys would TOTALY love those phobia ones, right? Could Russ take them?

[Amy]

We wouldn't laugh. We've never done it. :dunno:

How weird that I've never heard of that park and it's right there. With a lake and everything.

I know! I was amazed. I want to go back, we may go next week after co-op.

Anytime you girls want to join us, you're welcome. :D :love:

[Amy]

great pictures! did it give you any trouble?

All of my trouble was self created. I was reading too much into the clues. I was POSITIVE that I was in the right place twice and absolutely wasn't. I need to not trust my instincts. :D

[Amy]

Amy-- you know your boys would TOTALY love those phobia ones, right? Could Russ take them?

:eek:

:D Maybe. I was really impressed with the cache today, I'd love to do more of the ones he/she created.

[Kate]

I couldn't do his really fear of hieghts one. :eek:

But some of the others looked fun.

I talked 2 moms at t-ball practice into trying geocaching :D

[Michele]

Amy!

Your kids are so cute. I want more boys.

I'm serious.

Josh just laughed at me when I said that, so I guess I'm SOL.

[Lisa]

Kate is such a trendsetter.

[Kate]

:banana: there was a new one hidden last night just 8 miles away.

I am sneaking out and doing it while Mike is at preschool.

Then taking the kids later :blush: Manda says it isn't fair for me to go while she is at school[/addicted]

[Lisa]

Manda is right. She wants to have fun too. /Manda's addicted too.

[Amy]

:right:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12689690/

[Kate]

:wave: this has been quiet for a while.

If you have any desire to change you r geocaching.com user name you MUST do it by midnight tonight. All names are locked after tonight.

I went from kateiam to kateiam & kids yeah-- real creative :jack:

[Sonny]

It's been raining FOREVER! So we haven't been able to geocache. :(

[Kate]

we went in the rain yeseterday. we tried 4-- we DNF'ed 2 :blush: and found 2.

[Lisa]

Rain here too.

[Lizz]

:right:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12689690/
I htought you couldn't hide them in Nat'l parks.

[Kate]

that lodge is outside of the park-- and those caches are all outside the park.

I can't understandy why they are going to let mountain bikers back in to the parks but not geocachers. I am sure we are less damaging to the enviroment.

[Kate]

:bang: we tried to finish a 9 stage multi today. It was really fun-- a tour of all the parks in the city.

But the multi at stage 8 was gone. :(

But the kids played at 5 playgrounds and even ate from the ice cream truck.

[Michele]

But the kids played at 5 playgrounds and even ate from the ice cream truck.

Isn't that such a luxury? :D

I know the whole time you're thinking "I could get a whole box of popsicles for this price". But there's just something so special about buying from the ice cream truck. :love:

[Kate]

:agree: we never have the ice cream truck because we live in farm land, they were amazed! A truck, with music and ice cream :love: And I only had $5 in my pocket, so everyone got $1 to spend-- they still had about 10 thing to pick from.

Even I had a fudgesicle-- it was 75, sunny and beautiful.;

[Michele]

I'm glad you bought them ice cream from the ice cream truck.

:love:

[Sonny]

I love the ice cream truck! :love:

We haven't geocached in soooo long. :( I thought about it today, but there is just so much to do around the yard/house that we hadn't had a chance to get to yet. Hopefully next weekend. And for sure a lot this summer. I'm done with daycare June 16. :rock:

[stacyspace]

we only did one in the last two weeks :cry: freaking rain!!

It was in Winthrop, MA right on the water. I had no idea this little park even existed! I had to walk down wicked steep stairs to the water (johnny went down the side of the cliff - he's a nut) Right when we got to the bottom the sun came out :)

[Lisa]

We have not gone in forever. Too busy. :cry:

[Kate]

I got spooked in the woods today :cry:

We ran out for FTF this afternoon. It is in a woods next to a city field (they use it for the ballon fest, soccer, ect so it is huge)

No big deal, we park at the school only 490 feet away and go tromping though a really nice pine forest. It takes us a while because there really isn't a path.

We find it and take the easy way out-- straight to the van.

On the way out in the middle of the trees is a 1/2 built crude log cabin http://www.geochums.com/forums/style_emoticons/Geochums/unsure.gif that is obviously in progress of being built. 3 sides are done and one is open. It is crude, but not middle school crude, there are 2 stories and a log ladder connecting them.

They had dug a pit, lined it with bricks and dirt for their cooler.

I was nervous as it was me and the kids and it looked like a homeless shanty. Of course my kids wanted to run right up to it-- but I was able to get them away quietly.

I posted my log and the owner emailed me back that she had seen it too, but it seemed ok because some teenage boys were building it the day she hid the cache.

I really hope it is just a boy scout project (but it sure didn't look tidy enough to be any sort of oraganized project)

I planned on called the parks dept tomorrow and reporting this (they were closed bythetime I got home) It just seemed very strange.

[Lizz]

That is a little odd.

[Kate]

yeah-- it did seem odd to be building a house in city owned woods.

[Kate]

One of our caches went missing :cry: We are off to the forest to check on it this afternoon. I am hoping the cacher was mistaken, but they have over 500 finds and my clue was really obvious-- they said they could see were it had been but it was not there anymore.

[Sonny]

:mad:

People :nono:


Or, maybe an animal carried it off! :laugh:

[Kate]

That would have been one strong racoon-- it was a big ammo can :rofl:

[Sonny]

A Bear!??! :eek:

[Kate]

:eek: maybe we won't check on it

[Sonny]

:rofl:

Go check! :D


Max and are going caching tomorrow, as long as it doesn't rain. :banana:

[stacyspace]

I did an emergency solo geocache on Saturday :right:

I just solved an insane Suduko puzzle and got the coords to the cache on Friday night...on Saturday morning the owner posted that he just dropped a Jeep travel bug into the cache!! I ran out of my apt like a maniac and got it :D

On Monday we found a few more micros on a 4 star multi. That one is going to be tough!

[Kate]

ohhhhhhh

I have never found a jeep!

My cache was indeed muggled :rant: I replaced it.

[deputycoz]

Kate, sorry your cache got muggled.


Well we did 15 caches in the Outerbanks while on vacation. It was great, we saw places we never would have thought to go. We even did a web cam cache which was cool. A friend of ours in Jersey captured the picture for us.

[Sonny]

Kate! So sorry! What is wrong with people? :nono:


DC--Cool! :rock: Anyway you can share the pic with us?

[Kate]

I am going to attempt the bethany beach web cam one of vacation.

I can't wait for more pictures DC!

[deputycoz]

Here is the pic, we looked like such idiots waving at a camera that most others didn't know was there.

http://img.geocaching.com/cache/log/display/4bebfad9-ed6b-4930-8072-d5615bd3f9c9.jpg

[Sonny]

So funny! That's a busy area for a geocache, where was it hidden?

[Kate]

the cache is the camera-- you have to submit the on-line photo as your proof

[Lisa]

the cache is the camera-- you have to submit the on-line photo as your proof


Ahhhh. I wonder if we have any of those.

But wait. There has to be someone on the other end to save your picture, right?


We haven't been in so long. :cry:

[Sonny]

the cache is the camera-- you have to submit the on-line photo as your proof

Ahhh! I am so clueless about everything today. I blame the long weekend. :indiff:

[deputycoz]

Ahhhh. I wonder if we have any of those.

But wait. There has to be someone on the other end to save your picture, right?


We haven't been in so long. :cry:

Right, the description of the cache explains that you should have a friend you can call, or this one said you can take a picture of yourself at the site and submit that if you can't get anyone to save the picture for you. We were lucky and my DH's friend was at home and he is computer savvy enough to figure out how to capture the picture.


We did our first micro cache too, this one was like the size of a bullet, but it was hidden in a sign at an ice cream stand, it was a nice break during a long day a caching. The guys at the stand knew about the cache and we were talking to them about it. They were really cool.

[Sonny]

If I had an ice cream stand, I would hide a geocache there. Because then a lot of people would come buy the ice cream stand, and they would probably buy ice cream while/after they found the cache. Genius! :D

[Lisa]

If I had an ice cream stand, I would hide a geocache there. Because then a lot of people would come buy the ice cream stand, and they would probably buy ice cream while/after they found the cache. Genius! :D


:agree:

That is why Cracker Barrel supports it. It is the Off Your Rocker series I think.

[deputycoz]

:agree:

That is why Cracker Barrel supports it. It is the Off Your Rocker series I think.

Cool never realized that about Cracker Barrell, we have one near us.

[Lisa]

Off Your Rocker (http://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest.aspx?key=off+your+rocker)

See if it is listed. One on the way to pick up Brandon is. We found it. :D

They are minis and take stealth. CB is ALWAYS busy.