This month, SEUSA members hiked to the summit of Crane Mountain in the southern Adirondacks. The mountain offered fantastic views of  the southern Adirondacks, of which were all lower than the summit. To the west, Gore Mountain was visible and to the north, members got their first glimpse of the Adirondack High Peaks, where they will be trekking in August for Expedition Marcy. Peaking out between two trees was the majestically snow-covered giant that is Mount Marcy. The hike was a tough, and moderately steep to the top and much more fun on the way down to Crane Mountain pond than down to the base of the mountain. Luckily, the snow that was on the mountain was packed down and frozen enough to allow walking without snowshoes. All in all, it was a great day to be hiking!

A video has been added to the videos page and podcast about the trip and photos have been added to the gallery and downloads section. If you were there, please vote in the new poll asking "Was Crane Mountain Your Fevorite Hike We've Done?" The results should be interesting!

As a sidenote, you may have noticed that there is a new look to the SEUSA website. This is due simply to a common change in the template. Everything is still here. Let me know what you think! 

Join your hosts, StillwaterGeoff and Gabebond008 in SEUSA's monthly audio show covering topics like geocaching, GPS reviews, events, SEUSA news and so much more! The SEUSA GEO-Cast Podcast is produced entirely by SEUSA members and recorded on the trail during SEUSA meetings. We try our best to deliver a quality show that is as informative as it is entertaining. We hope you enjoy!

We need your help! All of the ideas and topics discussed on GEO-Cast are supplied by listeners and the few SEUSA members directly involved with the show. We really need your help collecting cool stuff to feature on the show. Please, set up an account on our website and post on or forums or e-mail us at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it . Thanks a lot for your continued support!

Next month will be the one year anniversary of the creation of www.seusa-geocaching.org. Before that we used www.freewebs.com/seusa as our first website and than went to http://seusa.wetpaint.com. Along with both those sites, we used http://seusa.forum5.com as our forum. Boy, have we come a long way!

Now that we have been using HostGator for one year, it is time to pay for the site again. We just paid for the domain name. The domain name, which costs 15 dollars, is seusa-geocaching.org and everything under that. This is really our "name" on the internet. We also pay for the hosting. The hosting holds all the files under the domain name. Everything that you see is saved there. This costs about $85. We have not yet paid this. This amount of money is a stretch for our group to come up with. We would greatly appreciate any donations. If you are willing to dinate, we will need them very soon. Thanks a lot!

As of today, we now have two new SEUSA websites up and running! At http://marcy.seusa-geocaching.org/, there is a website dedicated to SEUSA Expedition Marcy. Here you can find gear, links and a forum all dedicated to this August's trip to the High Peaks. We also have a website running at http://admintrainer.seusa-geocaching.org. This website is for a SEUSA Administrator Training Ground (SATG). Here, those who are becomming website Administrators, Managers, Editors, etc, can get used to the CMS we use. Check there every once in a while to see what they've done and to bug them! Treat them like they can do anything. Part of training is learning how to deal with the members. Tell them what you want to see. I'll have more info on my trainees a little later.

EagleO-10, The REAL SEUSA Administrator & Webmaster

The month has ended and that means that once again, we have winners to annonce for the Bloggers Competition.

1. EagleO-10 - 1432 views
2. LupeFreak - 1221 views
3. StillwaterGeoff - 1209 views
4. Gabebond008 - 364 views
5. saratoga lake pirate - 316 views

For more information on the contest and view links to the other blogs, click on "Bloggers Hall of Fame" on the main menu.

If you're wondering about website statistics for the month, there was a small issue with the collection. The data was sligltly corrupted enough to not give a good comparison to December. It will be fixed for this months stats. Thanks.

As you can see, we now have a new look and feel to seusa-geocaching.org! We recently installed a new Content Managemant System called Joomla! rather than PHPNuke, which is what we have been using. There are a few differences. Joomla! is more focused on content and pages. It is now much easier to view and publish a page. What I mean by page, is a normal page with only type on it, as opposed to a component like the forum, links, downloads and calendar pages. Joomla! allows much more customization of the website. There are also a lot more components available to allow us to have pretty much everything here. If you want, feel free to find a component that you may want to see integrated into the site. We are running Joomla! version 1.0.

NOTE TO PREVIOUS MEMBERS: Unfortunately, we were not able to save the database from the old website. Because of this, we could not save the member information, links, downloads and forum posts. Things may be a little different until we can get it all set up again. Therefore, all those people who were members on the old site, will need to set up their account again in order to log in. We are very sorry for the inconvienence. As always, if you have any questions, comments, concerns or ideas, feel free to contact me at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it . Thanks!

EagleO-10, SEUSA Website Administrator & Webmaster