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Geocaching in Mississippi Newsletter Volume 1, Issue 1

September 2014

First Newsletter Publication I have been geocaching since 2005 and have only seen one other organization to promote their organization with a newsletter. I feel the need to share with you that the MSGA.net / MSGEOCACHERS.ORG website is and always will be available to our members. I would like to see more of you using the website to post events, how to’s, creative cache containers, etc.

Over the past few years we have all experienced many difficulties in dealing with the website, and I thank you for hanging in there and being a Mississippi Geocaching Association member.

If you are not a member, please go sign up for free and join in on the discussions already in the forum, feel free to post new topics of conversation.

the upcoming months to talk to friends who are geocachers and ask them to once again log onto the forums and start posting. The website is a family friendly place and children are welcome.

If you have any questions please talk to your District Board Rep who can help to address your concerns.

This newsletter will share with you upcoming news, events, outstanding caches, tech talk, recipes, milestone, comics, kid section, as well as photos relating to geocaching.

I hope you enjoy!

Until we meet on the trail, cache on.

Help us to promote MSGA and get the members numbers back into the hundred, VS the 2 digits. I challenge you in

Lacey Bishop

August 7 Souvenir Geocaching Challenge How many of you were successful in logging all 6 caches and receiving the coveted 7th Souvenir?

Were you the type that went out within the first week to obtain them all?

Because of family or work, did you have to wait till the last minute?

How about spacing them out, throughout the month so that you obtained a

cache souvenir every few days?

I personally love these types of challenges created

by Geocaching.com. You are able to have something on your profile to show that you are a well rounded geocacher, and you have given back by going out and caching. So what types of challenges would you like to see Groundspeak come up with in the

future?

Maybe a souvenir for each season, or holiday, caching with pets?

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Updating your Geocaching profile www.mygeocachingprofile.com/ Ok cachers it is time to update those profiles. Add those new FTF’s, Jazz up your current information.

You can go to Mygeocachingprofile to get statistics on your cache finds to add to your profile page.

Add a new avatar, List out your most favorite caches.

Did you know that you can list what type of GPS device you use?

You can also request other cachers to be your friends.

You can log benchmarks and see those statistics.

Keep track of all your souveiners in one place.

Tech Talk –Field Trip App Fieldtrippers.com Field Trip App Free—Iphone and Android

"Take only pictures; leave only footprints."

I have just learned about this new app called Field Trip. You download to your phone and leave running in the back ground. As you come to something interesting the application will notify you about the place.

From the video on the website. It looks like it would

be very interesting paired with virtual geocaching. You get to site and have to read a monument, it would be cool to have that monument and photos to automatically be accessed from your phone for you, without searching. I downloaded the app and took it around Oxford & Tupelo and did not have anything to happen. I would say this app is a bust until more cities are uploaded to site.

Cache of the month-GC5AE0J– M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I Challenge By. Honey Badgers Hidden-8/7/24

Geocache Description:

Cache is at coordinates.

You will need to find one cache spelling out the letters of MISSISSIPPI.

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That’s is only eleven caches, sounds easy HUH.

You will have to create a bookmark listing along with the Challenge cache to post to your log.

Says you can only use a cache once. Can not start with a symbol, space or #.

All the caches found has to have been placed and found in MS.

This sounds like another sweet challenge cache in Mississippi for everyone to check out. Can’t wait to see the logs. Good Luck.

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Milestone Recognition Congrats to the following for reaching a milestone . I am pulling this information of cacher stats. If you are not familiar with this website, please go check it out.

name and or event information to me and I will post it.

http://cacherstats.com/ Mississippi1.html

5409 $nowflake

I will post numbers of cachers who have landed on a significant # or went past it by a few.

If you know of someone that has reached a milestone and would like to call that person out, please feel free to submit their

9507 craftinmomma 8027 geo202

1717 copeinstructors 1622 macgyver69 $cuteboots 1407 starchild313 1323 outlawmedic 1222 webchimp

3805 Jeep 1979 3508 Rebman 2412 Tag-Along

Submit all events to lacey38655@yahoo.com

2315 steenroller 2314 engineer24 2212 hooligan 1920 z-cobra

MS State Parks Geocaching Challenge I am interested in putting together a series of caches in each of the Mississippi State Parks to help promote tourism within our state. I know that we have several caches in each state park currently, but with this challenge I would like to have a specific cache at each check in office that would be pertinent to this series. I am asking for volunteers to help with this project.

If there is interest amongst our members to help place and maintain these caches, I will head up the North Ms area in getting the ok from Park Managers. I would like to work with the MWDFP to get a coin published for this challenge as well as the challenge listed on the departments website. I know of other states that have this challenge and

feel it would be beneficial for our state to also have something the same if not similar. Mississippi Geocachers do not want to be left behind, we want to move forward and increase our tourism, and by doing so, we should want to create new and interesting challenges such as this to bring cachers from out of state to our state parks.

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go."

-- T.S. Eliot

August Eat & Greet– The Socializer GC5A7EX The job I work for America’s Car-Mart was having its 33 anniversary so to celebrate I asked Sniperchicken to host an eat and greet for the local Oxford Geocachers to come out and fellowship as well as receive the August souvenir. 23 geocachers attended. Car-Mart had a group of Live Action Role Players fighting next to us,

Boca Motorcycle club came to promote child abuse awareness. Advance Auto donated hot dogs and hamburgers. Lacey hid an unpublished cache called Orange you glad you came, that was fun for some of the newbie's that dropped by to find. Overall the day was hot but a successful get together meeting old and new friends.

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Mississippi Blues Trail Challenge– GCTQA0 Hidden by: Various Geocachers throughout the state.

Challenge is to find 50 Blues trail caches hidden anywhere in the state.

The MS Blues Trail was established by the MS Bureaur of Tourism.

Make a list of caches found and log final, then email list to VisitMS tourism director MJONES.

The 100 markers are placed in significance to the blues music heritage.

Each marker tells about a piece of history that happened at the location.

At or near these markers there is a geocache hidden.

There is a geocoin for completion of cache challenge to geocachers and nongeoocachers.

The final is located at: Greenwood, MS

“When you come to a fork in the road, take it”

MSGA Hiking Stick Challenge Photo Yogi Berra The Bearhuntermom from Lena, MS Tilly4399 from Poplarville, MS Giddy Up Geo from Poplarville, MS In 2014 MSGA let out 14 hiking sticks around the state for members to find. Here is a photo from Hub City Cachers with their one of a kind hiking sticks. Go onto the MSGA forum to read each story of how these geocachers found the sticks and where the sticks were placed.

Big thanks to Honey Badger for sending me the information on these lovely ladies.

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Geocaching Novels Did you know that geocaching is frequently referred to in novels and books? It is used as a tool by murderers and to snare their victims, and by the authors to create twists and bring something new and creative to the scene.

The Essential Guide To Geocaching: Tracking Treasure With Your GPS by Mike Dyer

The Geocaching Handbook by Layne Cameron Geocaching: Hike and Seek with Your GPS by Erik Sherman Geocaching Log Book: For Geocachers by Michael Sajdak

Outdoor Navigation with GPS: Hiking, Geocaching,... by Stephen W. Hinch

Geocaching Log Book: Geocaching Log by Michael Sajdak

It's a Treasure Hunt! Geocaching & Letterboxing by CQ Products

It's a Treasure Hunt! Geocaching & Letterboxing by CQ Products Let's Go Geocaching (Boys' Life Reader) by DK Publishing

Geocaching by Markus Grundel Geocaching For Dummies by Joel McNamara

Open Your Heart with Geocaching: Mastering Life Through Love of Exploration by Jeannette Cezanne

Local Treasures: Geocaching Across America by Margot Anne Kelley

The Letterboxer's Companion by Randy Hall Rubber Stamp Carving: Techniques, Designs & Projects by Luann Udell

“Returning home is the most difficult part of a long distance hike. You have grown outside the puzzle and your piece no longer fits” Cindy Ross

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Comics

Recipe– Campfire Bake Potatoes

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Ingredients 4 medium baking potatoes 1/4 cup butter, softened Poke each potato several times all over with a fork.

Smear each potato with 1 tablespoon of butter, then double wrap in aluminum foil. Bury the potatoes in the hot coals. Allow to cook for 30 to 60 minutes until soft.

Geocaching Horror for Halloween edition Next months edition will be Haunted, muah ha ha. I would like for you to email me your horror stories. Spooky caches you have found in MS and recommend for other cachers to find.

Do you know of a haunted place we should check out, let me know and I will pass the information along. Know of any events that are happening in October?

I would also like to invite our members to go out and hide a couple new caches in the month of October. With

cold weather approaching and ticks dying off, you know we will be back out on the trail looking for some fresh and interesting caches to find. Make them interesting and people will come to find them. I have given you a challenge, do you dare take it?

“Getting to the top is optional, Getting down is mandatory”

Ed Viesturs

Where am I?

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This newsletter was published by Lacey Bishop If you would like to submit an article or photos please contact me via: Lacey Bishop Lacey38655 Lacey38655@yahoo.com 662-832-0167 MSGA.net MSGEOCACHERS.COM

Signature Item– What’s yours?

What is your signature item that you leave behind in a cache?

There are a ton of cachers out there like myself who collect your signature items.

I use to make recycled fairy dolls with littlebit when she was younger from thrown away silk flowers found in cemeteries. I have collected bullet shells turned into santa clause, poker chips with cache handles, geocoins, business cards, guitar pics, beaded bracelets, etc.. Maybe it is time to start looking at some new signature items to freshen up your image. Maybe a wooden key, game piece earrings, something reflecting your cache handle. Keep it interesting, cheap and fun.

Kids Page:

Answers to Where am I: Biloxi Light House Tishomingo