Gonna git MFF at about 4:15PM today!!! Yessirree! I R! :D Won't have anything to put in there, but can sign log and always go bock and put in marble and bead. I drive rite past the cache more nites'un I don't!
Ian, could you send me, please, the link for "Tub O'Silver? THANKS!!!
Hammyster samich JOE!!!
[Edited 2 times. Most recently by on Mar 2, 2005 at 11:00am.]
If I go to that thing Sun, do I get to 'log' it? Can it be considered in my total? Like if I find one tonite *and* go Sun, can I say I've *two* finds?Â
But you've sent me the links before on the members only ones... Isn't there a story about it, like the "Strike" one and all the others? How will I know what I'm looking for? What about the logs at the bottom from udders? The map?Â
Maybe I don't need it, it being close to the udder one... I'll see what happens. Yeah, and I can log whenever - as long as that's otay and not against the rules or sumpin'.
If you want to delete the above post, go ahead. I've copied the coord.
It was way super easy, so I'm kind'a embarrassed to claim it. I noodled it rather than GPS it... But it still counts because I saw the TC and all the SUPER NEAT stuff in it!!! I kind'a boo-booed... I used a green permanent marker and it bled through to the previous page... So there's one log that's kind'a hard to read. I'm sorry, Ian. As soon as I realized that, I switched to a pen. I'm really, really sorry.Â
I had SO MUCH FUN taking everything out and looking at it! I wanted it all, but wasn't going to take anything. But then... I found a deck o'GREEN cards and I took them! I couldn't help it! I didn't have anything to leave (after I'd left I realized I could have left a dollar. Forgive me - I'm on a learning curve...) so I owe you, Ian.
I then started on the second cache that was really, really close by. I didn't find it yet - my toes were getting numb, but I know the two bdlgs ittiz 'sandwiched' between! :D
If I'm using my GPSr rite, I was only 121ft away. So, I think I learned that - about the number decreasing when you're mapping a waypt. I was RITE ON TOP o'it, as I was in the circle and my arrow pt was RITE on TOP of #2, which was the coords o'the second cache. KNEW I was in the right place when I read a sign to the north... Knew I was close to hitting the jackpot!!!
I learned also about which way I'm walking regarding my arrow. Took me a minute or two to figure that out, but when I did, I was off like a herd o'turtles and that one number went from 4XX to the 121 I mentioned above, and my arrow was point in the direction o'the coords point. I ran into snow at that point (when I hit 121 feet)... And so decided to call it quits. I've a pretty good idea where the cache izz, but I'm gonna have to go incognito as a trash-picker-upper. :D
Â
Oh. Note to other Newbies:
DO NOT geocache in high traffic/volume areas ala Leela's avatar, with your nose glued to your GPSr. You WILL get HIT by a CAR!
This is fun! I can't WAIT to DO caches. I want to do neat ones like Ians... History, themes... Mine will prolly be all green. Thass otay!
Did you see the Maratryska, or whatever that doll is? Like FOUR caches you gotta find in one! Wow. That's neat, too!
I gotta buy me some green pens. I wanted to use the green permanent marker sos that if any logs got wet my note wouldn't go away. :(  My heart was in the right place; I didn't know the damn thing would bleed through so you couldn't read what was on the previous page. I feel just terrible about that. Like I hit Ian. I feel so bad - I ruined something of his.
You should SEE my playing cards! They are SO PRETTY! GORGEOUS green/gold design. I'll NEVER place them in a cache as they were my FIRST EVER find! Will keep them always.
Can't WAIT to find neat, non-sig items to put in caches... Besides geocaching, now I'll ALWAYS - no matter where I go or what I do - be looking for thighys to stash in a cache! That ALONE is worth geocaching!
I'll NEVER place them in a cache as they were my FIRST EVER find! Will keep them always.
I think most of us have done the same thing. I know I still have my silly little grasshopper thing I traded for in my first cache. As far as your bleeding marker thing goes, chalk it up as experience. I know I did when I didn't have anything to trade for my first cache so I left a wood tipped cigar that I had. Later I find out that you can't do that. Ooops - I didn't forget after that anyway.
Yeah. LOTS and LOTS and LOTS! Almost got hit three times! Idiots. I gots better thangs to do than pay attention to cars whizzing past me. I gots caches to find!
But ittiz not down the hill, is it? I thought in the depression/little bowl between one O' place and the other O' place; grassy area south o'the leprechan, north o'the clown - but not west down the hill...
My 'me' arrow was RIGHT ON TOP of the waypt dot! :D I'm learning! I'm learning!
Good gods, *why*, Ian? They'd never make any sense!
But, there's clues all over. Sometimes in what's written. Geocaching isn't just about using the GPSr, or so it seems. Maybe I'm wrong. But there seems to be about a bazillion facets to geocaching. So many different ways to approach it...
You'll see what you can do? As far as what? Getting *him* to turn me, or just generally seeing to it I get turned on?
ROFLOL!!!
I sent him an e-mail; he answered and said he could activate me himself, if I liked (but couldn't send me a copy o'the e-mail to work). Told him that was otay, and gave him some references...
Yeah, I know. Thought I read he got locked out, or something. Maybe it was he that was doing the locking. He seems to be level-headed, and had a GREAT sense o'humor.
I NEVER knew when I heard about that guy on the hill in Red Wing (or wherever)... The guy that was up there over 24 hours? I NEVER knew he was geocaching! (Not until today, enkneeweighs... I remember thinking, "Idiot! What do you expect climbing a big, high hill like that [risky terrain] in the middle of WINTER?!!" He was geocaching!)
Ah. Sorry. I thought I read that. Guess I didn't (?). Could'a sworn that's what I read. Oh, well.Â
I'm in at MN! Yup! That Towelbooth feller came right through! Thanks, Ian, if you assisted! Much appreciate. That 'booth guy's nice. And I've read so much o'his stuff that cracks me up! He can come up with a one-liner every once in awhile that's hysterical.
Yeah. I just got my first mngca mail from him, welcoming me. That was really nice/sweet. That - that mail/message thighy - is like our e-gramming here, no?
Benchmarks don't count towards your geocache Finds total, but I have fun looking for them and logging em. Hopefully my next goal will be to get 100 benchmark finds, but I have a long way to go on that.
Some of them are terribly simple, IE, the State Capitol (gold ball on the top), the Cathedral (Cross at the top), many can be water towers, antenna towers, Tall Buildings, etc. Usually you count a find on it if you've seen it, so mark down the date you saw it, then you can log it. Some people like to include a picture of their GPS with the benchmark to prove they were there.
Otherwise, logging one is as easy as logging a cache find. Make sure if your benchmark is one of the monumented Brass Discs (the standard benchmark, about 3 inches in diameter with writing stamped on it, usually something talking about a fine if it's tampered with or destroyed) that you have the correct one when logging it. The reference name should match what's stamped on the disc.
I'd be happy to help identify any questionable ones you find. Also note most of the county benchmark discs aren't on the geocaching.com's database.
Now I know why so few have been logged. They don't count! BIG Bummer! :( If they don't count, I don't wanna find them... just yet.
I've found a couple o'places I may check out tonite.
Say... How soon does one usually use the cheaters (the things in code) on the page at gc.com? Right away? Or after they've been out and haven't been able to find the cache?
Its more of a thing that you can't find them....either on private land, in middle of freeways, GONE 4 ever, overgrown vegitation, etc...
It gets very frustrating when you try 10 to find one....and nothing more then a little disk.... Â b OK that...didn't justify why not doing them...I look for a "little disk" and i'd expect keep looking for a lifetime.
Yeah forgot about the private property deal. Closest benchmark to my house is on a private golf course.
I did find out most bridges have a benchmark disk on their southwest corners, those are fairly easy to nab, if there's a sidewalk on the bridge anyway.
What does "owning," "owned" mean? (The owning - hiding - of a cache I understand. But it seems there's something else about being owned or something...
You know I work there, right?
Yeah. Thass why I asked if you knew him.
Gonna git MFF at about 4:15PM today!!! Yessirree! I R! :D Won't have anything to put in there, but can sign log and always go bock and put in marble and bead. I drive rite past the cache more nites'un I don't!
Ian, could you send me, please, the link for "Tub O'Silver? THANKS!!!
Hammyster samich JOE!!!
[Edited 2 times. Most recently by on Mar 2, 2005 at 11:00am.]
If I go to that thing Sun, do I get to 'log' it? Can it be considered in my total? Like if I find one tonite *and* go Sun, can I say I've *two* finds?Â
Or no?
can I say I've *two* finds?
yes, and more. Because there will be some temporary caches for the day that you can log.
Tub O' Silver is members only, so it doesn't get stolen. The coordinates are:
N 45° 03.070 W 093° 09.386
If you find it, I can let you log it then. Make sense? OK?
But you've sent me the links before on the members only ones... Isn't there a story about it, like the "Strike" one and all the others? How will I know what I'm looking for? What about the logs at the bottom from udders? The map?Â
Maybe I don't need it, it being close to the udder one... I'll see what happens. Yeah, and I can log whenever - as long as that's otay and not against the rules or sumpin'.
If you want to delete the above post, go ahead. I've copied the coord.
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=30993011-ce20-40d9-9dae-f0b6476315ed
http://websports.8m.com/silver.html
I put the coords in my GPSr. That sucker's NOT near as close as I thought it was! LOL!!! That's gonna take some doin'!
I FOUND MY FIRST CACHE!
It was way super easy, so I'm kind'a embarrassed to claim it. I noodled it rather than GPS it... But it still counts because I saw the TC and all the SUPER NEAT stuff in it!!! I kind'a boo-booed... I used a green permanent marker and it bled through to the previous page... So there's one log that's kind'a hard to read. I'm sorry, Ian. As soon as I realized that, I switched to a pen. I'm really, really sorry.Â
I had SO MUCH FUN taking everything out and looking at it! I wanted it all, but wasn't going to take anything. But then... I found a deck o'GREEN cards and I took them! I couldn't help it! I didn't have anything to leave (after I'd left I realized I could have left a dollar. Forgive me - I'm on a learning curve...) so I owe you, Ian.
I then started on the second cache that was really, really close by. I didn't find it yet - my toes were getting numb, but I know the two bdlgs ittiz 'sandwiched' between! :D
If I'm using my GPSr rite, I was only 121ft away. So, I think I learned that - about the number decreasing when you're mapping a waypt. I was RITE ON TOP o'it, as I was in the circle and my arrow pt was RITE on TOP of #2, which was the coords o'the second cache. KNEW I was in the right place when I read a sign to the north... Knew I was close to hitting the jackpot!!!
I learned also about which way I'm walking regarding my arrow. Took me a minute or two to figure that out, but when I did, I was off like a herd o'turtles and that one number went from 4XX to the 121 I mentioned above, and my arrow was point in the direction o'the coords point. I ran into snow at that point (when I hit 121 feet)... And so decided to call it quits. I've a pretty good idea where the cache izz, but I'm gonna have to go incognito as a trash-picker-upper. :D
Â
Oh. Note to other Newbies:
DO NOT geocache in high traffic/volume areas ala Leela's avatar, with your nose glued to your GPSr. You WILL get HIT by a CAR!
THANKS, IAN!!!
[Edited by on Mar 2, 2005 at 07:24pm.]
welcome to the addiction
:D
This is fun! I can't WAIT to DO caches. I want to do neat ones like Ians... History, themes... Mine will prolly be all green. Thass otay!
Did you see the Maratryska, or whatever that doll is? Like FOUR caches you gotta find in one! Wow. That's neat, too!
I gotta buy me some green pens. I wanted to use the green permanent marker sos that if any logs got wet my note wouldn't go away. :(  My heart was in the right place; I didn't know the damn thing would bleed through so you couldn't read what was on the previous page. I feel just terrible about that. Like I hit Ian. I feel so bad - I ruined something of his.
You should SEE my playing cards! They are SO PRETTY! GORGEOUS green/gold design. I'll NEVER place them in a cache as they were my FIRST EVER find! Will keep them always.
Can't WAIT to find neat, non-sig items to put in caches... Besides geocaching, now I'll ALWAYS - no matter where I go or what I do - be looking for thighys to stash in a cache! That ALONE is worth geocaching!
JOE!
Gr8 Jorb g! I'm super excited for you!!
I'll NEVER place them in a cache as they were my FIRST EVER find! Will keep them always.
I think most of us have done the same thing. I know I still have my silly little grasshopper thing I traded for in my first cache. As far as your bleeding marker thing goes, chalk it up as experience. I know I did when I didn't have anything to trade for my first cache so I left a wood tipped cigar that I had. Later I find out that you can't do that. Ooops - I didn't forget after that anyway.
Thanks, Master. But I still feel dumb.
Ian... am I getting warm on that second cache?
Ian... am I getting warm on that second cache?
KNEW I was in the right place when I read a sign to the north...
I was only 121ft away.
You stopped at the lot, right? If you didn't walk down the hill because of snow, then yeah, you'll probably be able to find it.
DO NOT geocache in high traffic/volume areas ... with your nose glued to your GPSr.
You were walking from Twelve Strikes to Tub O' Silver, and there were LOTS of cars coming or going to the "nearby establishment" right?
Heh
Yeah. LOTS and LOTS and LOTS! Almost got hit three times! Idiots. I gots better thangs to do than pay attention to cars whizzing past me. I gots caches to find!
But ittiz not down the hill, is it? I thought in the depression/little bowl between one O' place and the other O' place; grassy area south o'the leprechan, north o'the clown - but not west down the hill...
My 'me' arrow was RIGHT ON TOP of the waypt dot! :D I'm learning! I'm learning!
Ignore above. I noodled more, read more, learned more.Â
Bought a TON o'batteries last nite for use and caching.
Â
You should write clues, green. Heh
Good gods, *why*, Ian? They'd never make any sense!
But, there's clues all over. Sometimes in what's written. Geocaching isn't just about using the GPSr, or so it seems. Maybe I'm wrong. But there seems to be about a bazillion facets to geocaching. So many different ways to approach it...
It kind'a makes The Med Hunt look...
<GASP! Dare I type it???>
Ahh.... Dull?Â
I NEVER SAID THAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Â
blasphemy!
between one O' place and the other O' place; grassy area south o'the leprechan, north o'the clown -
HEH
I understand that.
THANK YOU!!! I hoped you would! *I* liked it... :D I didn't want to just COME RIGHT OUT and say it, you know.Â
When I think o'all the times I've been one o'those whizzing past, on my lunch hour... I WANT TO SCREAM!!!!!!!!!!
This sport/hobby can drive you NUTZ!!!
[Edited by on Mar 4, 2005 at 09:21am.]
Hey green, Do you still have this banner?
[Edited by on Mar 4, 2005 at 01:36pm.]
No. I either gave it back to Caro...
Or it was swiped outta my garage. I've still got the wooden dowl it goes on, tho...
do you know where it was made? I'm interested in making something similar.
No, I don't. But I bet I could find out!
Ian, the MN geo place has the date wrong...
Harriet Island
12PM - 5PM, March 6
(Minnesota C.I.T.O.)
Crosby Park
12 - 5PM, March 22
10AM, April 23
They've got MARCH 22, instead o'April 22...
Ian, could you/would you tell that guy - towlebooth? - over at the mn geo place to PLEASE turn me on?
Else I gotta wait until tonite when I get home.Â
PLEASE? Thanks!
Ian, could you/would you tell that guy - towlebooth? - over at the mn geo place to PLEASE turn me on?
Damn, green that sounds like a personal problem.
I'll see what I can do.
private message sent, it may speed things up
You'll see what you can do? As far as what? Getting *him* to turn me, or just generally seeing to it I get turned on?
ROFLOL!!!
I sent him an e-mail; he answered and said he could activate me himself, if I liked (but couldn't send me a copy o'the e-mail to work). Told him that was otay, and gave him some references...
Like you, Kitch... McLucky...
Hope he likes you guys! :D
Ian/Kitch... Who's Silent Bob? Was he locked out or sumpin'?
silent bob is the forum admin...
Yeah, I know. Thought I read he got locked out, or something. Maybe it was he that was doing the locking. He seems to be level-headed, and had a GREAT sense o'humor.
I NEVER knew when I heard about that guy on the hill in Red Wing (or wherever)... The guy that was up there over 24 hours? I NEVER knew he was geocaching! (Not until today, enkneeweighs... I remember thinking, "Idiot! What do you expect climbing a big, high hill like that [risky terrain] in the middle of WINTER?!!" He was geocaching!)
[Edited by on Mar 7, 2005 at 01:18pm.]
I NEVER knew he was geocaching!
WE DON'T KNOW THAT!!!!
OH!!!!!!!!!!!
Ah. Sorry. I thought I read that. Guess I didn't (?). Could'a sworn that's what I read. Oh, well.Â
I'm in at MN! Yup! That Towelbooth feller came right through! Thanks, Ian, if you assisted! Much appreciate. That 'booth guy's nice. And I've read so much o'his stuff that cracks me up! He can come up with a one-liner every once in awhile that's hysterical.
[Edited by on Mar 7, 2005 at 01:26pm.]
eagleXplorer...is just a really bad troll!!!
is as bad as they come!!!!
not a good memory....god I hope its a memory....
Glad I'm not PMSing...
Hay, Mucky!
Yeah. I just got my first mngca mail from him, welcoming me. That was really nice/sweet. That - that mail/message thighy - is like our e-gramming here, no?
green - i met towelbooth last weekend and he is a real neat guy.
We have 301 registered users
The newest registered user is *green*
outta the 301...I don't recall the REAL #'s........sorry...
Ian, how does one go about logging the benchmarks?
Benchmarks don't count towards your geocache Finds total, but I have fun looking for them and logging em. Hopefully my next goal will be to get 100 benchmark finds, but I have a long way to go on that.
Some of them are terribly simple, IE, the State Capitol (gold ball on the top), the Cathedral (Cross at the top), many can be water towers, antenna towers, Tall Buildings, etc. Usually you count a find on it if you've seen it, so mark down the date you saw it, then you can log it. Some people like to include a picture of their GPS with the benchmark to prove they were there.
Otherwise, logging one is as easy as logging a cache find. Make sure if your benchmark is one of the monumented Brass Discs (the standard benchmark, about 3 inches in diameter with writing stamped on it, usually something talking about a fine if it's tampered with or destroyed) that you have the correct one when logging it. The reference name should match what's stamped on the disc.
I'd be happy to help identify any questionable ones you find. Also note most of the county benchmark discs aren't on the geocaching.com's database.
Thanky much, Kogren!
Now I know why so few have been logged. They don't count! BIG Bummer! :( If they don't count, I don't wanna find them... just yet.
I've found a couple o'places I may check out tonite.
Say... How soon does one usually use the cheaters (the things in code) on the page at gc.com? Right away? Or after they've been out and haven't been able to find the cache?
Its really not a thing of "not counting"
Its more of a thing that you can't find them....either on private land, in middle of freeways, GONE 4 ever, overgrown vegitation, etc...
It gets very frustrating when you try 10 to find one....and nothing more then a little disk....
 b OK that...didn't justify why not doing them...I look for a "little disk" and i'd expect keep looking for a lifetime.
Yeah forgot about the private property deal. Closest benchmark to my house is on a private golf course.
I did find out most bridges have a benchmark disk on their southwest corners, those are fairly easy to nab, if there's a sidewalk on the bridge anyway.
Any comments on the last part o'that post?
What does "owning," "owned" mean? (The owning - hiding - of a cache I understand. But it seems there's something else about being owned or something...
hmmm...that's a tuff one...
But AW is owning US...