Tell us about your caching name
B-Sharps was bestowed upon us during the GC2R3K0 incident. You’ll have to check that cache page out for more details. Our original name was .trabpukciP but we immediately realized how horrible that was and it gave us an idea for our first cache.

How were you introduced to Geocaching and what was the first cache you
found?
Geocaching was just something we learned about through osmosis. We wanted to go hiking one day and so we loaded up coordinates for GCGCCF. It was all we needed to start the addiction full on.

Tell us about your receiver and any other “tools” (hardware and software) that help you cache:
Heather frequently calls me a tool, so I would say that I’m the most important tool aside from our Garmin Oregon 450.

What essential items do you always carry in your cache bag?
Other tools have been, chain saws, napalm, Ouija board. Seriously though, what we bring depends on the day. Sometimes we are extremely organized and we have all of
our widgets in neat little bags. On those days, we each carry a camel back with: first aid kit, multi-tool, tweezers, 100 oz of water each, magnifying glass, cliff bars, lighter, head-lamps, smart phone, B-Sharps stamp logo, flyingmoose coin #69, rain gear, and warm weather gear if needed.

Do you trade items in and out of caches?
Yes, normally just trackables, but we once traded a coin for a sweet set of monkey lights in one of flyingmoose’s caches. The funny thing is that it was Mr. B-Sharps had told FM recently that trading stuff was lame. Kids, remember this, your words will always come back to haunt you. Therefore, I will never, ever win the lottery.

Do you have any signature items or ones in the works?
Yes, we have a series of geocoins with our logo on it. If you’re wondering where our logo came from, there are serious hints in our cache GC36N59. The hints in this cache actually have nothing to do with solving the cache and more to do with what our symbol means. Yes, we are sadistic, and a little egomaniacal, well, Mr. B-Sharps is, Heather is definitely the softening of the team, which is a good thing.

What is your favorite thing about caching?
Trees. Actually, right now our favorite thing is probably the Hot Potato contest. The problem with the HP thing is that you have to share it and it doesn’t move around enough. We’re thinking about starting our own spin off: MD/VA Tug of war, where instead of put in the other team’s state, you hide it in your own. We welcome any feedback on this idea you may have, including “that’s a stupid idea B-Sharps.”

Do you cache by yourself or with another person?
How often do you go caching? B-Sharps is a wife and husband team. We are not numbers cachers, so our frequency swings back and forth. Mostly we’ve been focusing on the adventurous side of caching and less on the park and grabs. Although, we’ll hit a few of those if we’re trying to even out on a milestone, like our recent one at Heir To The Throne. If you can’t tell, we’re a little obsessed with flyingmoose caches.

What is your favorite type of cache (traditional, multi, puzzle, virtual etc.)?
Yes.

Tell us about your favorite cache. If you’ve placed a cache, which one are
you most proud of?
Favorites: Hole in the Wall GC2HKAF, which we made a three part video of our trip there. We are still the only people to find this remote cache.

We just published our 54th cache, but the one we’re probably most proud of is Pull and Pull GC3CQ22. More thought, more construction, more sneaking around and conspiring went into that cache than any we’ve made so far. Ignorance too is one of our favorites also, but that just seemed to fall into place for some reason. Not that it has been easy to maintain mind you.

Tell us about a memorable caching experience that you have had.
Oh wow, this is really hard because we really like to challenge ourselves. I think that we were extremely proud of ourselves for finding Shenandoah Mountain Trail Cache
GC2NVJW. The CO was very sloppy with the coordinates on this one. We figured out that the coordinates were probably good when he collected them, but he transposed one number and it put the coordinates over half a mile off. Fortunately, we were able to muddle through with hints in the cache description. It was also a beautiful day and one of the last caches published in the VA National Forests.

Where (states/countries) have you cached?
Mostly east coast. We went for a 70 miles canoe trip through the Adirondacks in upstate New York in July but came out empty handed. Every cache that we went for was placed in a bad spot that we couldn’t get to, for instance, there were two that were placed near remote lean-tos that happened to be occupied. Others we just couldn’t find and weren’t being maintained by the people who placed them.

If you could take a vacation anywhere to cache, where would you?
We just spent a night camping down on Chincoteague Island, VA and we both left wanting much more. So, we’ll probably head down there for a long weekend maybe next
spring/summer.

Tell us about your other interests or areas of expertise.
Mr. B-Sharps is an expert contrarian and befuddler. Mrs. B-Sharps is interested in agreeing with stuff and getting unbefuddled. Also, we like: canoeing, hiking, dogs, mountain biking (not that crazy get run over by a car road stuff), horses, fly fishing, food, beer, wine, wine festivals, cooking with beer, grilling, steaks, crabs, hanging out anywhere outside, good conversations, Star Trek the Next Generation, road trips. Oh and speaking of road trips, we’re almost done with the The Virginia Delorme
Challenge GCVYD4 and we’re super excited about this one. It has been so much fun! After we finish that, we’re going to follow up with the VA counties, cities and
then towns, all independently.

Have you set any goals for yourself this year related to caching? Is there a certain cache that you can’t wait to do?
Well, we’re on a Blood & Guts team right now. The problem is that we’re both stupid, will I’m stupid and it rubs off on the wife sometimes. Can’t solve puzzles to save our lives. Our other goal though is to start doing a lot of Serrabou caches. There’s a whole army of them out there that keep poking us in the eye. Some day, we’re gonna poke back. Oh, and those Vinnie and Sue psycho caches, those look awesome!