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I’d love to try.
Try this link to Fire Tacks. They sell these tacks that are brown in color and almost invisible on trees, but at night they are unreal bright, and can be seen no matter what angle you come at them from. The pyramid shaped ones anyway). I bought a set, and tried them out in my local forest, but have yet to set up that night cache.
And, I have top share this series of posts from PolskaQueen on her visits to several of our “Boyd” caches. They have quite a relationship going!
PolskaQueen found Boyd visits Bristol Woods (Traditional Cache) at 4/18/2007
Log Date: 4/18/2007
Boyd……international man of mystery. I’ve heard he is so suave and so sophisticated that he can charm the female cachers and drive them wild in the woods. I excitedly start the hunt, seeing the rather recent GC number he has to his name. That and a comment from Bushwacking Queen has my juices flowing. I hit the trail at breakneck speed, rushing so fast that my GPSr signal is still 1.2mi behind me. Is he here? Will I see him? Will he fulfill all my darkest secret desires?? Will run away with him and live a life of fantasy in some hollow tree in the dark woods of Kenosha????? But alas, it is not to be. He left his calling card, which I duly signed. Sob. My heart breaks. PQPolskaQueen found Boyd visits Van Patton Woods (Traditional Cache) at 4/19/2007
Log Date: 4/19/2007
Thwarted in my quest yesterday in Bristol Woods, I take a lesson from John Hinkley and do my homework. Could it be? Is he HERE so close to home and heart?? Worried that my eagerness would cause him to bolt, I carefully negotiated the trail through the dark and dismal swamp. Slowly, I peered around the corner. And there he was. Boyd. And he was everything I had heard about: a hardbody of the highest degree. He called me over. “Hey Dollface, let me show you what I’ve got.” How could anyone refuse such a scintillating offer? I crossed the moss-encrusted ground and knelt before him. With great pride and ceremony he uncovered his treasure. I gasped in glee and anticipation. Lovingly, I took his prize into my hands……and signed the log. Afterwards, lounging on his soft red jacket, he pulled a bottle of Veuve Clicquot from a rotting stump. He apologized for the “rotgut” explaining that his vintner was on holiday and now his cellar was running low. “Over there, swee
theart…” I reached behind me and pulled out a pair of ornate hand blown Venician flutes. While sipping the champagne, we spoke of love and war, Sartre and pork futures. Then he pulled out a book of Haiku and recited his favorites to me. All too soon it was over. Gently I prodded him about our future. He took my face in his hands and kissed me long and hard like a man should. “Sorry Dollface, but my life is not my own.” Sobbing, I asked if I would ever see him again. “Possibly. On some dark night on some dark street corner, look behind you. I’ll be the one in the pointy hat. Thanks for the memories, baby.” Tears streaming down my face, I ran, heedless of the brambles and branches whipping and cutting at my body. Now I sit, alone, a box of tissues in hand and Snow White on endless loop. Au revoir, my love.PolskaQueen found Boyd visits Sanders Park (Traditional Cache) at 4/21/2007
Log Date: 4/21/2007
Boyd? Honey? I know I’ve been bothering you a lot lately, but did you really need to place a restraining order on me?? And why were the cops staking our place out?? Do you know I spent the night in a Racine holding cell?? Do you know that ALL they give you to eat is two slices of Wonder Bread and a slice of bologna? NO MUSTARD! And there was some woman named “Ralph” in my cell. Her arms were bigger than my thighs, and covered with skull and crossbones tattoos. Can we just get together one more time and talk? Please? Baby???She has yet to find Boyd at his new location. I can’t wait to see what she has to say this time. This time, Boyd has a reply!
I’ll get the ball rolling with the log that is still my all time favorite. This one was posted by Rogheff after doing “Match Head”.
September 21 by rogheff (575 found) @ Match Head
Boy do I owe you one Jay. I did not take a really close look at the cache page, nor did I zoom in on a map. Oooh, big mistakes.
I parked downtown. I remmber you saying something on the cache page about a little hike and I parked .58 miles from the cache (AS THE CROW FLIES). So out I go, first I go to the North. I can see people climbing on the rocks about 1000′ east of me – ahhh, that must be it. So I go to the South. I walked around to the tippy end of the rock and – wait, the GPSr signal isn’t pointing to where the people were…I’m on the wrong side of the river.OK, chalk that one up to my mistake.
So then I get back to my truck (I’ve got about 1 1/2 hours and 2 miles in already) and drive on the other side of the draw bridge. I had done a cache up this dead end road that leads to a little park last year – so I parked in that same parking lot. I could see the lighthouse – wow, was it far away! But again, you said there was a little hike.
I strolled therough the Yaught Club parking lot and the boat launch area, I wander through their yard, and I decide to take the hike along the beach – lots of stinky garbage, but the walking is easier. I hiked along there with the pile of boulders to my right until the beach ended, so up on the rock I go.
I hiked upand down, and over those goofy rocks until I was out about 3/4 the way to the lighthouse and finally got to the very top of the pile. I look over to my left and what do I see? Fisherman sitting on a nice, flat, smooth concrete seawall. I bushwacked over 1000′ of boulders for nothing!
By now I’m about 2.5 miles and maybe 2 1/4 hours into this little adventure. I sure hope I find this blasted thing!
So along the paved surface I go whn I run into this fisherman. He’s (I KID YOU NOT) wearing a tye dye t-shirt.
OH sure, Jay’s out here waiting for suckers…er …um…geocachers.
After I get away from this character (advice: do not ask a fisherman along here how the fishing is going unless you REALLY want to know).
I climb out to the end of the rocks. GPSr is giving me goo accuracy – about 25′ woohoo.I’m within maybe 50′ of the cache and I went to pull out the cache page with all the previous logs…….I left it in my truck…….
Well, I remember seeing a photo of some kid in a cave – there’s caves EVERYWHERE! I remember seeing something about slippery rocks and squishing water sounds – well, now there’s a really good thing to remember here – THERE’S SLIPPERY ROCKS AND SQUISHING WATER IN EVERY CAVE !!!
OK, so here’s what I do…I’m a little hesitant about laying my GPSr and hiking stick down – will I find them again? I get to ground zero and lay them down and crawl below ground.
I’m sure your 7 year old loves rocks – but he’s 7! He can handle the spelunking. I’m not 7 and when we go to Eagle Cave with the Scouts so the boys can crawl through the cave, I stay above ground…but I digress.
All I kept thinking was,” I hope the rocks don’t fall on me, they’ll never find me – I’ll have to wait here for the next geocacher”.
There’s quite a network of caves, slippery rocks, splashing and dead animal sketetons – oh yes, and spiders down there. After maybe 30 minutes, I found the goofy thing. It was an ammo box Jay, I could’ve swore I saw something about some unique container…oh no, that was for a different cache – I’m looking for the wrong container!
I place the cache back and see there’s a large opening right above my head – I come up RIGHT NEXT TO MY $%^&*( GPSr and hiking stick! UUUGGGHHH!
Long story short I was looking for this cache for a little over 3 1/2 hours and hiked something like 3 1/2 miles!
I wouldn’t know which ones to start with. There is a thread similar to this one on another caching website that contains some (probably 20 or more) of my favotie logs.
If you don’t have money to burn, try downloading Netscape. And, like Lostby7 sasys, read “HTML for Dummies”.
Yeah, and if anyone wants to give them up, I’m looking for some Packers tickets to ANY game. 😀
C’mon, I’ll be tyour best friend! 😆
I’m reading two books right now. “2061” by Arthur C. Clarke (this is my third attemt at reading this one due to the confusing way it was written). And, I’m reading Star Wars Last of the Jedi “Secret Weapon” with my son. We read it together every night before bed.
@GeoPink wrote:
All of this makes me want to scream! Geocaching.com needs to have a rating system so that finders can rate crappy caches as such and recognize good caches as such.
Ugh.
Brilliant idea!
@benny7210 wrote:
@shine_like_a_star wrote:
@tyedyeskyguy wrote:
Don’t forget that when the main site is down, you can still log your finds through this one.
That’s news to me as well; thanks for the link! 8)
Hey thats pretty neat… Where did you find this link??
Cheesehead Dave snet it to me not long after I started caching. I’m not sure where he found it.
What do you call a man with no arms and no legs who is lying under a car?
Jack
Don’t forget that when the main site is down, you can still log your finds through this one.
Damn Matt, where do you find the time?!?!? Congrats man!
Congrats to you and yours John!
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