anakerose

Better watch what you write or some of the "not too brights" will jump all over you. I wrote almost the exact same words in a similar thread and several called me a thief and supporting thieves. I never could figure out their thought process but some how in their wee minds I guess it made sense to extrapolate the statement such as yours (and mine) into "thief". Beyond me how they came to the conclusion tho. (And to think these are the same people juries are made from.) Some seemed to think that after they released a TB that they somehow maintained control over it altho they never could explain exactly what control they thought they had. The life of a TB/coin is often short and mysterious. Sometimes they pop back into circulation many months and sometimes years after being given up for lost. Yeah I know. It's just how I think. For the record, I do not or ever will condone stealing TB's or GC's!!! What's the point anyways of keeping one...what else is it good for?

HEY! I'm from Penticton!!!

I just used Word and made up some personalized stickers. They're small enough to put in micro caches. Also made some stickers with our picture and where we're from for when we travel outside our normal caching area.

expensive stuff is nice, but the things I love finding in caches are things I can use to find other caches. Examples: a compact mirror: used to look under those metal benches CITO bags: always good to cito a wind up flashlight: my batteries always seemed to be dead a compass: for those caches that require you to use one geocaching lanyard: to hold my GPS small sunscreen bottles: you always seem to forget it bug spray: dang mosquitos! hand sanitizer: just in case... 1st aid kit: I always need it. climbers latch: to put on your keychain so you can attach it to yourself and NOT leave them in the trunk....long story. gardening gloves: so you can get those caches hidden by people who thought rose bushes and blackberry bushes were a GOOD idea... believe it or not...a box of ziploc freezer bags: good for caches.

Unfortunately as soon as you deploy a GC or a TB, you're basically saying goodbye to it.

heck I just use an old cut off hockey stick.

There's one in Penticton, BC where a caching couple hollowed out a spot in their fence and rigged up the board so it moves. Got the FTF on that one at 9:45pm and ran into another cacher on the way. I'm not really a huge fan of residential caches. There's one here in Kelowna, BC where it's smack in the middle of a residential street and it's just a junction box screwed to a telephone pole. Not an impressive cache at all. That and it's not in the best area of the city.

I've watched people finding my caches before from a distance. Only because I happened to be in the area at the time. I've even gone up to a few and had a chat. The ones I talked to were happy to meet me.

We in British Columbia (Okanagan Valley) pay $1.39 a Litre. There's 3.785 Litres to a US gallon so we're paying 3.785 x $1.35 = $5.26 <--- we pay that equivalent to the US gallon. It's going to hit $1.50 by the summer I can see it ($5.67 for a US Gallon).

We did some caches in Vancouver and my favourites were out at Granville Island and the Symphony of Fire cache out at Vanier Point.

Does anyone else have the same problem with offset coordinates with the Magellan 210? Seems like we're having to reset the thing on every cache we go to. Then it says we're 10-30m away from where we zero'd out before. Not really frustrating, but annoying. We've had some DNFs that may have been because of the GPS more than our cache sensing ability. Anyone have an idea of what to do? Contact Magellan maybe??

Our area (Okanagan Valley in British Columbia) seems to be doing alright. 10 new caches in the last week and there's probably still more in the works. There are more and more cachers out there and this area seems to be a draw for people when they go on vacation.

I went to Walmart and got myself one of those floressent (sp) orange ball caps and I just keep it in my car and wear it if we're going out in the woods.

The most obscure hint I've ever come across was "Think Nobel" ok you're first reaction is Nobel Prize right? We'll not for this cache. Apparently someone with the last name Nobel invented dynamite and this cache was hidden in some blasted rock in a dynamite drill hole in a tube. Took us forever to get that one.

Another McD's cache. "Mac Trash Cache" (GC1170F) in Summerland, BC. I threw all my old McDonald's stuff in there from when I worked at the McD's it's right beside.

For us, we usually try to zero out and then we clip the GPS to our packs and start looking around if the hiding place is not obvious. If we can't find it, we back out 20m or so and come back in to see if the GPS points us in another direction. I don't know, it works for us.

In my pack I carry: *GPS *Extra batteries *Geocaching lanyard *Notepad *Pens/Pencils *Sharpener *Log book stickers *Mirror *Hand sanitizer *Rolled up garbage bags *Trade items *Bandaids *Extra ziploc bags *Extra car keys *Reflective band for my arm if we're out at night *Extra camera card (forgot it once) That's just in my everyday caching bag...I take more if we're going hiking.

When they finally reach my area (Penticton, British Columbia) I'll have to try one and see, before I make my decision. Sounds interesting though.

Our area has mtn-man as our reviewer (although I could never figure that one out...he's in Georgia and I'm in western Canada, but he does a great job hehe). I've had caches published almost immediately. I must have caught him on the computer and then I've had caches take 4-5 days. Yes it does feel like an eternity. My first one seemed to take forever even though it was only 2 days. If you don't see it after a week, then you can email the reviewer and see if there's any problems.

You can do a virtual drop. Just 'pretend' you dropped the bug in a cache and then just simply pick it up again. It takes 2 logs. I do that with my 250th find GC. I don't want to deploy it, so I keep it in my pocket and take it caching with me. Then I drop and pick it up whenever we get to an interesting cache. When you're logging your find, just highlight the TB of GC in the box as if you actually put it in the cache. Then finish your log. It'll be gone from your inventory. Then you go to the trackable page and log your find. It'll tell you it's in the cache. You just select 'Retrieved from so and so cache' and then you picked it back up again. You never really did anything with the bug, you just gave it some miles and let the owner know it's still out there. Just make sure you actually take the trackable to the cache. That way it's legit that you did the virtual drop.

My all time fav is GC163AM in Penticton BC. Took us all day to do it.

I think you say it "on a steeek" (like Jose Jalapeno....On a Steeek")

Getting them is nice, but it's not the be all end all IMO. I like getting the FTF's on remote caches, did two of those. I've only rushed out of the house once. Only because it was close to where I live.

yeah I noticed that too, but waiting usually sorts them out.

There's something similar looking to that in the greater Vancouver area of BC. They're mile posts marking along the old original highway through the Fraser Valley. You can still see some of them today and most of them have become geocaches.