Milestone Marking

700th milestone for Cacheseekers! 10/28/2012, SLC Utah

     When you know you are getting close to a milestone, it is fun to plan ahead and make a sign with that milestone number on it. It is a good way to chronicle with pictures, your special achievements. We knew my 700th find was coming up so before we went out caching for the day we printed the sign and then picked a larger cache for the milestone cache and set out to reach our goal. When I first started caching I never thought I would forget any of my finds, but once you get past 100, sometimes the finds blend together. The sign is an easy way to make sure they don’t. It is also fun for the cache owner to read the log and see their cache was a milestone find for someone. Even if you forget to plan ahead, find something in your caching mobile to hand write the milestone number with and then hold it up with the cache, snap a photo and you will have an everlasting reminder of your milestones. I can’t believe I made it to 700…Thanks Balkamper13, this has been the best adventure of my life!

McAwesome,s Magic Airplane Ride

McAwesome’s Magic Airplane Ride  GC3VE3Q

 

     Here is a another video post of one of our most favorite hides we have come up with. This cache was a tribute to Cacheseekers! son Ryan aka McAwesome. He was in California with his grandma for a few weeks over the summer and this was his welcome home cache on his birthday. This one took us a few hours to plan and build but was worth every second of time we spent on it. When he landed at the SLC airport we took him and Grandma Char to his special cache. If you read the cache description you will get hints on how to get the log as well as the trader portion of this cache. We hope you all enjoy it as much as those whom have given it a favorite point and found. 

enjoy this fun little video

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=kx0mzVuk7Mw

McAwesome’s Magic Airplane Ride

We really hope that sharing this video will make you want to hide a geocache of your own like it. It was really not to hard or expensive to put together. If you would like to build one and need any more information feel free to send and email or comment and ask.

This picture was posted by Hembreonical who was in the area while on a visit to Utah with the military. Here is what he wrote.
“This is beyond creative! I'm dropping favorite points all over this area!”

Geocaching log sheets

This is just a quick post to let you all in on a great free website I found. While putting together some of our caches I tried making some logbooks using various programs. This was a very long process that always left me thinking all that for a crappy looking lined paper. One day I decided that I should Google it and see what may be online. Thanks to this search I found this great website I wanted to share with all of you.
http://www.techblazer.com/geocaching-log-sheets/

Techblazer.com has saved me hours of work and their printable PDF file logs look great in our caches. The guys at Techblazer have covered just about every style and size of cache out there. From the well loved NANO aka Mr. Magneto and Bison tube style caches up to the great Ammo cans They have a log size to fit inside. They also have made files for colored logo and black and white. There are logs with spots for FTF;s and logs without for good old replacements. They have also gone through the efforts of making a lined page to print on the backside of your log papers for even more space. This site is great so go check it out and make your log books look awesome. Once again here is their link.
http://www.techblazer.com/geocaching-log-sheets/
     

THE CSI AGENT.......GC3YPXG

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Ryshkepr and G&C Lost'N'Found have earned the honor of Holy Sweet Cache without a suspicion of a doubt. This dynamic caching duo has laid to rest the days of ordinary, everyday run of the mill hides and brought to life the ideal of a favorite point worthy hide.
THE CSI AGENT is a cache that involves The CSI Series caches we have been featuring in prior posts. It involves a lot of local cachers and draws suspicion to some whom have found the CSI series on evidence cards. The suspect cards point out the little details about the possible guilty cacher. It also features Picture Evidence cards that capture all of the Crime Scenes so far in the CSI caching series. It has been such a hit among local cachers, it is also jam packed with SWAG, there is so much SWAG it is hard to find all of the clues. This cache has also generated some of the best logs we have ever read.
When it was published we all knew it was going to be a great cache because two of the best Utah cachers teamed up to make it. SO needless to say the first to find race was a true race. TJC852 arrived on scene first and I arrived as he was opening the CSI Agent, then within seconds, Snooby showed up to the party. After we left there were a few others that arrived. These races make caching so much fun. This will always be one of my favorite FTF memories.
This cache is a must find. Make sure you put this one on your caches to find list and get ready to enjoy hours of hard work and fantastic SWAG. Thank You Ryshkepr and G&C Lost'N'Found  this will always be a special cache to us, it made all of the work, time and money we put into the CSI series worth it. Keep hides like these coming.

Preparation for Mazy Days of Fall Event

We are working our fingers to the bone…Ok, the only fingers working here are the ones on the skeleton hands holding the John Grisham Racketeer coins in the prize goblets. We are going to hide 5 caches in the corn maze and in each cache there are a set of numbers from 1-63. When participants find the cache they will pull a color coded number and hope they pick the winning number for the corresponding cache. If they do pull the winning number they will get a wonderful prize goblet with goodies and a John Grisham Geo Coin. We are so excited Double Day publishing sent us 5 coins to award as prizes for our event. We are also giving one of these Golden Coins for the best Overall costume prize…so make sure you are planning on attending GC3Y1T5  It is this Thursday, October 25th at 6:45. Make sure you are dressed up at The Crazy Corn Maze we are sure it will be totally aMAZEing. See you there!

Hungry Anyone?

CSI EPISODE #7 LIVER AND ONIONS

GEOCACHE GC CODE GC3X55J

 This instalment in our CSI series was a lot of fun to build and hide. We had the liver body part and had a few ideas on how to use it but this seemed to be the best idea we had. We found a large cake storage container and painted it silver to look  like a fancy silver platter. We then found plastic lemon slices and painted them white to look like sliced onions topped off with fake flys and cockroaches.

So as if this were not the start to a great geocache Darcey stepped it up a notch and had the local Golden Corral restaurants place it behind the counter. To log this geocache you must walk in and order liver and onions. This also worked out great because we had our geocache reviewer wait until the day of our event to publish this hide. The cache was hidden at the same  Golden Corral our event was at. It was a riot watching all the phones go off with a notification of a new cache only 100 feet away. Another great thing that happened with this hide is that the waitress brought the cache in on a serving tray and served the cache to all of our attendees. I know that this was the first time a geocache has ever been served to a group of people. Its not everyday that the cache finds you.

 The locals loved the fact that we went to such efforts for this hide and for our first event to be so great. They loved the fact that they got two smiley faces on their account just for showing up. This also was a great thing for our series because a few of them got their first look at a cache from this series and it made them want to go find the rest of the hides. I will admit it was not easy to pull off this hide. We had a few issues with the reviewer and groudspeaks guidelines. We actually had to pull quite a few strings to get this one to make it in the lineup. I must offer a special thanks to BLUERAJAH our Utah reviewer for letting a few things slide and publishing this for us. There are guidelines that state you are not supposed to have to speak with anyone to retrieve a geocache. There are also commercial business stipulations that certain info may not be used and may not help promote a business. But with a little discussion and evaluation we were able to get this one published. To get your smily you have to sign the log book inside of the liver. Anyone hungry? A must find for all cachers!

 

 

You know your a cacher when.....

If you have ever done this...you are a true addict

Which would you buy?

Have you ever been buying things and bought them for the container, not the price? If so...you are a true cacher. We are going to start a , "YOU ARE A CACHER WHEN" post. If you ever fill like this let us know!  This is a product of true caching.

Tribute to Amy the caching Terrier

"Ask the beasts (Amy the caching Terrier) and they will teach

you the beauty of this earth." St. Francis of Assisi.

It is with a sad heart I write this tribute to Terrier. Terrier was half of the greatest caching duo I have been blessed to meet. She was the four legged addition of RN&Terrier. Terrier spent many years of her almost 21 year old life by the side of RN making caching memories. RN joked that she was going to take Amy to Las Vegas on her 21st birthday but unfortunatly Amy didn't make it to her 21st birthday. On October 1, 2012 Terrier left this caching land to start her new caching adventure in a better land.

Profile Picture of RN&Terrier

 

 

We all look forward to log entries from RN&Terrier, they always write the best logs, even on those caches it's hard to write good logs on. The logs always include the tales of them sharing their time finding caches together. I always look forward to reading their adventures.  
Terrier has been a focal point in our CSI series. Speculation has been made that maybe Terrier was the L&L killer and a paw print was even located on CSI Episode #7. CSI agents are blaming each other and Terrier was even a suspect. We had such a good time thinking about poor Terrier sleeping with one eye open, just in case her partner is the L&L Killer. Other cachers would write warnings to Terrier in their logs about RN. Due to these alligations, especially the ones from a "Mailman" Terrier was sent a special bag of human shaped doggy snacks shaped like mailmen. The above pics are of her eating them. The series will not be the same without her.

Terrier was a all around cacher...At a Challenge

I am sad I never got to meet her nose to nose, however I do feel like I knew her. I had read so much about her and we had the common thread of caching joining us. We thought of Amy often and even left a few bones in caches for our special 4 legged caching peer. We also felt bad when she was unable to attend our event so we made sure she had a gift as well. It is funny how Terrier made others think of her. I know we did and I am sure we were not the only ones. I am happy thinking of her caching in heaven, with no micros, just great caches filled with everything she loves.

 

 

 

This was the log entry from RN on CSI Episode #9 and I feel like it really says it all.

"I am dedicating this FTF to the bestest geocaching buddy ever - terrier ... aka AMY. She passed away Monday evening and geocaching and my heart will never be the same. She was a few weeks away from turning 21 years old (everyone wanted me to take her to Vegas for her b.d.). She's been with me for half my life - she chose me and I'm so glad she wormed her way into my life, lol." 

 

RN, may peace find you, we are thinking of you and just want you to know the caching world will never be the same without Amy. Thanks for sharing Terrier with us all.

First to Find Race

The race in Utah is on...

Competition is stiff.

When a new cache is published in the Greater Salt Lake City area it is a full on race. In order to secure the honor of first to find, you have to be ready and on your toes. Nothing but an A game is expected from those addicted cachers in the valley. We love FTF's and the race to ground zero is half of the fun because of the competition. The other thing that adds to the fun is the strong possibility one will run into another FTF hound. Often times we have gone to a FTF and ran into another cacher. Sometimes there are so many cachers going for the FTF it is like a mini caching event. Here are some pictures of some of my favorite FTF races and the cachers we ran into.

 This Dynamic Duo met up at CSI Episode #9 Five Finger Discount. 

        TJC852 & RN&Terrier were the first to be spotted at the crime scene and then shortly after G&Clostnfound followed by Ryshkeper. The photo was taken by Balkamper13 and Jax of Cacheseekers! Once they were all together they had a great time and talked about possible suspects. Moments like these make caching so much fun.  After theses mini events, the log pages are so much fun to read.

RN&Terrier meeting Jax from Cacheseekers!

This was a fun first encounter. We were both heading down Redwood Road and i looked over and noticed a Trackable on the back of the vehicle next to us, then the woman driving was looking at a GPS. I knew it had to be a fellow cacher...It was. I tried to get her attention but she would not look over at us. Once I did I rolled down the window and asked her if she was a cacher...she yelled "I know you." RN recognised Balkamper13 & I from our gallery pics. We told her we were on our way to the FTF and she was going the same place. We raced to GZ and teamed up to find "A Drink under the IVY." Another great FTF hunt and meeting.

 

  

 

G&CLostn-
Found

Ryshkeper

Balkamper13

Cacheseekers!

 

  

This FTF race was a given
Fire Elemental called the best of the out on this hide.

He called his cache "FTF Check: ryshkepr" and then followed the challenge with this description:

I know how much that ryshkepr loves going for FTF's so here is a little challenge for him!
Let's see if he can grab the FTF on this one!
Maybe it will be G&C Lost 'n Found or ballkamper13 or maybe even supertbone!
FTF!
So here it is, come and get it!
maybe some unsuspecting cacher will be the FTF!

 

There was no way after that there was not a great race for this one. When we arrived to GZ there had already been an extensive hunt for this one and Ryshkeper and G&CLostnFound were on site. It was so fun to finally meet these two. This was a very special cache because it brought so many competitors out and joined together.

We check our e-mail all day in hopes a FTF will pop up and we can race for it. We hope to see more of you on the FTF trails. We love caching but FTF's are the cherry on top of the caching Sunday!

Vote for Youngest member of Cacheseekers!

Jackson wants to be on the cover of Utah Family Fun magazine and      

we need your vote!

We would love for a geocacher to be the one on the cover and when they write about him, his hobbies will include geocaching and bmx bike racing. Great exposure for our hobby. Plus this would make him so happy. He loves seeing himself on Facebook and the Internet, if he was on the cover of a magazine, it would be better than Christmas for him. Thanks for your vote, you can vote once a day until October 22. Link below...click it, look for this picture, then vote! Remember you can vote everyday until the 22nd. We will let you know if he wins!

                                                www.utahfamily.com/cover12_voting.php

FREE GEO COIN & CONTEST

One cacher to the next...must know

FREE COIN.....ACT NOW ONLY 5,000 available

I am sharing this info from the John Grisham web site. Saw the initial info on Groundspeaks blog and had to check it out and share. This is a must do! It would be awesome to circulate the most number of the free coins within our caching home. It would even be better if one of us could win the final contest associated with this fun caching contest! The below info is from the web site. There is a link that will take you to the form to request your own coin. I am so excited. Submitted my request already, join us!

"The Racketeer needs your help guiding 5,000 golden Grisham Geocoins across the U.S. You can request a free John Grisham THE RACKETEER Geocoin to add to the hunt here (while supplies last, U.S. only). THE RACKETEER Trackable adventure mirrors the book's plot, in which ill-gained gold bars are moved from place to place. These unique THE RACKETEER golden metal geocoins are minted with a tracking code and the tag line, "999.9 Pure Suspense."

When you find a gold Grisham Geocoin, keep it moving by placing it in another geocache. See how far it can travel to keep the mystery going! Then, upload your best Grisham Geocoin photos to the John Grisham Facebook page to be entered to win one of eleven autographed first editions of The Racketeer and a Grand Prize one-ounce bar of pure gold! Hunt for the Gold to find the Racketeer's stash.

The Racketeer Geocoin Photo Contest is solely sponsored by The Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, A Division of Random House, Inc. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Open to legal residents of the fifty (50) United States who are 18 years and older at time of entry. Entry period for the contest commences at 12:01 a.m. (EDT) on October 1, 2012 and expires at 11:59 PM (EDT) on December 15, 2012.Void where prohibited. For details and restrictions, seeContest Official Rules on the John Grisham website."

We finally made 1000 views. We are so happy! Thank you all for making this happen. We made it with in one month of our launch. This was great. We hope to double the views next month. THANK YOU! More posts to come.