That would be '[url=http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GCM899 ]Needle in a Haystack[/url]'.     

Although I've only found about 25 so far, I think my favorite is (and will be for a while) Team Ripzones' +/- 4 meters = +/- 8 meters. An easy find, but with a twist that will keep it interesting for some time. I visited this one within a week of it's posting, and will probably return several more times to add more waypoints. This cache appeals to my gadget side, and my interest in how accurate GPSrs can get.


grnbrg@grnbrg.org

-- Edited by grnbrg at 12:20, 2005-10-18

I tried to do this last night but just cannot pick just one which is why we abandoned our top ten lists a while ago. At this point I could easily tell the most prolific hiders which our favorite ACTIVE hides are.
Polarbeardiggers- Blackout Cache. It is still in place and we enjoyed doing it. Great location you picked, spooky.
Peter and Gloria-Lockport West (stage 2) Hiding in Plain Site - awesome, great hotdogs.
Abeja - Wildwood - clever hide, fabulous location.
Ertyu - Smartpark- 1st webcam - we had fun.
Stuntman-Gees Louise-clever and a plethora of places to hide!
Skaven - Given the Gears - sheer audacity in a place so public. Plus we found it while visiting with some musicians and they never noticed!!! Sheer audacity on our part too!
MHZ - Bison Castle cache- well-hidden, long-lasting (and that counts for a lot for us hiders and travel bug owners), well-maintained and a great location. A good starter cache and we need those desperately to introduce others to the game.
Master Instigator -Sukudo Easy-good puzzle-nice container. We'd list others here but...a couple of his greatest (that we've actually achieved) are disabled. Hey where is that cache we earned the right to try to find by doing Co-ordinate Conundrum It was to be entitled "the Amazing Cache Race"???? We just froze our fingers on that one.
Well there are more cachers but the boys have to be sent off to school so I'll sign off with that. Sorry to screw up your one favorite category.
Hulda Ostman RIP -Tree Top Paw - Finding the road in, finding the grave, finding the cache, enjoying the nature - all good lessons in persistence!

My all time favorite so far is not a local cache so I feel like I can give away some secrets about Hysterical

It's just an ordinary cache with only a log to sign. It taught us a lesson that all cachers should know. When you visit and cache in areas not familar to you, you should know a little about the terrain and wildlife that lives there before you go caching.

Las Vegas is an interesting place to cache. Almost all of the caches we found in Vegas proper were in washes (ditches). These are basically ravines either man made (a lot of work) or natural that run between the many gated communities in Vegas. Most of these are made into parks but you never want to be in one if it rains! A simple steady rain in Vegas causes instant flash flooding in these washes as there is very little soil there and is mostly exposed bedrock. No place for water to soak in. So caching in these areas is like crawling over pices of sharp slate embedded in concrete.

While looking in one of the larger parks (washes) where 5 caches were, we searched for Hysterical. We were lead to a trio of boulders with a small gap in the center of the 3. In the gap was a snake hiding out in the shade from the midday dessert sun. We didn't want to disturb the little guy so we searched all around with Gord making the comment "I hope he doesn't have friends!"

Yup you guessed it, our GPS's kept pointing back at the trio of boulders. So after about 15 minutes of searching elsewhere, we sat down on one of the boulders and watched the little snake. Hmmmmm no toungue flicking in and out. Gord decided to be safe and spent about another 5 minutes finding a stick ( not too many sticks from cactus type plants!). After poking the snake lightly with the stick, I could see a small metal container
hanging out of it's belly.

Not being from the dessert we had no clue what the local snakes or lizards etc looked like or if they were poisonous or not.

We still have a good chuckle over that one as Gord thinks I should setup a cache like this only have a badger that sticks his head out and growls at you when it sees movement. Too funny!

MHz

-- Edited by MHz at 10:26, 2005-10-19

ThreeTs wrote:

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1queenand4jokers wrote:
Sorry to screw up your one favorite category. Hulda Ostman RIP -Tree Top Paw - Finding the road in, finding the grave, finding the cache, enjoying the nature - all good lessons in persistence!
You didn't screw it up at all!  It was very interesting to read all of your favorites!  Feel free to add more as you think of them.  What about the cave one(s) in the Maritimes?

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Oh well I just counted the Manitoba ones since I thought those were more do-able by the people reading this forum. Favorites of all time would include an Ohio one based on the Chronicles of Narnia and two cave caches in the Maritimes and the Titanic one in Halifax and...on and on and on.
Honestly if any of you saw our kids at the picnic on Sunday you'd know that almost all caches large or small end up an adventure cause our boys crawl up on anything they can find or down anything they can find. Like the one in Morden (or near or behind) where they found an electric fence and decided to see how much of a shock it had (my hubby had already tested it having been a farmer in his former life). They just loved it and it got really wild when they decided to pass the shocks along to me (based on a wink nudge from their Dad). It was mild voltage but still made me jump a bit! I found it interesting going back over all our finds and seeing the commonality of those that have lasted a long time (a year is a long time).

That Hysterical one by MHZ makes me want to drive out to the desert sometime!

-- Edited by 1queenand4jokers at 15:28, 2005-10-19