Huntnlady

Some of us don't have pdas, and could barely afford the cheapest model of GPSr. If you can go paperless, that's great. If you can't, then its nice to have the necessary cache page with the driving map on the back. I too make notes of what I have found and traded on the cache, to remind me when writing my online logs. I have also given away the cache page to prospective new cachers I have told about the game. The printed cache page would also come in handy if I were ever questioned by police.

To take the printing trick on step further, after you print your cache page, double click on the map, which will bring up the mapquest site. Zoom in to the appropriate map (usually for me that is the second button) so that you can see the streets to the cache site, usually with the connecting freeway or major artery. Then click on the print, to bring up the print map, highlight JUST THE MAP, turn your cache page over and put that sheet back in the printer, print selection, and you have the driving map on the back of the cache page.

Let me teach you a little secret. Go to the cache page and highlight the relevant useful information. (That's done by holding the left mouse key down and moving over the print.) Then at the top of your browser, go to File, Print, which brings up the print window. Click on selection (as opposed to all) click ok, and it will only print what you highlighted. Got it?

Signature business cards are worth what? 1/2 a cent apiece, if that? I sincerely hope that isn't the only thing people are trading with. I tend to throw out the ones that accumulate in my caches after awhile. Feel free to take one, heck- take two or three. After they get dirty and bent they are just another thing to CITO.

I had three really cool finds. One FTF prize was a Magellin 3000 GPS that worked well as my second GPSr. Another prize was a bicycle. It had been abandoned by the cache and was in pretty poor shape. I took it home, gave it brakes, and have been using it ever since. The third great prize, which I found after a day of hiking and mountain biking all around Annadel Park was a Heiniken in one of those insulator cup holders. The cache was hidden in a hollow log, which was relatively cool, so the beer was welcome refreshment which I had with my lunch. It was left by muggles who found the cache and had traded for some other item.

I second the motion for Oregone featured as one of the people, with excepts from some of his logs, especially soapy boy/rinsy boy.

That's a very good question, but I wouldn't lose any sleep over it. In theory one would think that the answer would be yes, but in actual field conditions the geocacher can't actually be in the same superposition from the time that the calculations are first entered into the handheld HP 1295 computer until answer is processed, due to the geosychronous orbit and spin of four or more sattelites, the rotation of the earth on its axis, the rotation of the planet around the sun, the movement of the tectonic plates, and the respirations of the living geocacher; which subsequently compound the errors of the waas reading. To top it all off, the coordinates on the cache page are wrong anyway, just look under the pile of sticks.

I am a solo female cacher. I also hunt big game solo. I just can't find anyone that likes these outdoor activities as much as I do. So rather than waiting for someone else to go with me, I "Just Do It." Maybe someday I will meet my soulmate and do these things with him, but until then I've found that I can have just as much fun doing things on my own. Heck, I even went elk hunting, shot a bull, quartered him and brought him home, all solo. Women can be rugged individualists too. I don't care about the stats, though.

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Yah.....NO!!! I've maybe seen 2 or 3 of these, and yes I do use a cartoon character, as it ties in with my handle. Pleeeeeeeeeeeease don't make me use an anime character!! I second that. Never had any use for anime.

Just testing the frogs

Being a Magellin fan, I went right out and bought one. You forgot to mention the little compartment in the back that has fishhooks and line, and the built-in toothpick. I wouldn't go into the wilds of Alaska without it!

I toast a glass of bloodwine to Og for this cache.

I would appreciate your impressions and information on this cache for the article I am writing in the first issue of Today's Cacher. Many people are very interested in this cache, and if you'll notice there are now 53 watchers on it. Click on my profile and email me, please.

I know the real Fred. His name is Mike Ray, and he is pastor at Hopewell Baptist Church in Napa, CA. A lot of the people in the church are just as upbeat as he is, too. You would be happy too if you were sure you have a home in heaven someday. I know I am.

OH NO! Bring it back, its a classic! When I was working on logos for Todays Cacher recently, I made one with a little landscape, satellite above beaming down coordinates to a yellow jeep.

The worst cache I found was one of those "tossed out the window" caches in the bushes near a library. Thats not the worst thing about it- the worst thing was that bums would sleep there at night. They used the bushes to urinate in, and there were numerous complaints in the logs about the smell until the cache was finally archived.

Hemlock is a great approver. He has worked with me on two caches that were right at or slightly over the boundaries of being too close to other caches. Hemlock approved a virtual for me. He has worked with other cachers that had new concepts in mind for caches, like the Delorean Challenge. If Hemlock had reasons for archiving the cache, I'm sure he spelled them out explicitly. He has always shown himself to be ready to work with you if there are problems, so just calm down, reread his reasons why it wasn't approved, fix the problems, and then your cache will sail right through.

Did you meet up with Oregone recently, Criminal?

I don't know where they got those stats, but a friend of mine is in Search and rescue regionally here in California and he has already been called in on 7 lion deaths. I have had close encounters 3 times with lions. In one I was no more than 10 feet away. Luckily those were face to face encounters and I was carrying a gun, otherwise I might be another one of those unmentioned statistics. When they outlawed lion hunting, the lions got bold. Their population has also been steadily increasing since the late 80's. The save the mountain lion foundation portrays their cute fluffy kittens and makes them out to be an endangered animal, which, in the West, they are not. Animal lovers who have never seen the real thing send them money and vote on legislation to ban the regulated hunting of them. They have no idea what the real animal is about. It makes me mad. If you are going to be out in their territory, in the truly wild places, you had better understand that you are their prey, and you'd better go armed.

LOL! We can only hope Geocaching would be that widespread. There is the possibility that you could get it delivered to your door sometime in the future, but for right now it is an Ezine.

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Want to know what’s new in the geocaching world? Curious about the movers and shakers involved with it? Interested in finding out more about the organizations that make up the hobby? If you have questions, or just want to hear interesting stories, read the new Geocaching Magazine, Today's Cacher!

TAKE NOTE ALL YOU SINGLE MALE GEOCACHERS OUT THERE: I don't have a spouse, but I have dragged my teenage daughter along on a dozen caches. We were trying to find Zero Declination, and I got the coordinates for part 2 all wrong. They led me to an open space area 8 miles away. When we got to the open space area, the coordinates said the cache was 1 mile. Stephanie said she'd stay in the car and read. I optimistically told her I'd be gone 30 minutes. Well, when I got there, the area was really rocky with plenty of places to hide a cache, but the coordinates were wrong, so of corse there was no cache there. I searched and searched, I was determined to be FTF. Time got away from me, and when I finally gave up 2 hours had gone by. When I got back, Stephanie said, "Mom, you took forever, I finished my book!" Okay, so it wasn't really funny, but now she either asks me for realistic time estimates or she makes sure she has sensible shoes on and goes with me, because she never fails to find the cache right of the bat and then says, "Now can we leave?"

LOL, That cache has is a difficulty 6!