anital76

I was up visiting my mom and dad in Sudbury (RayPaul1) and dad told me about a geocaching event there within the past few weeks. He told me about a young girl who I think DEFFINATLY fits the "addicted" label..... Dad was there as a first aid person not actually caching, and was called to help an "injured cacher"..... dad found this girl laying on her stomach in a field after apparently falling in some thorny bushes.... yup butt full of thorns. Dad tells me he proceded to pull out as many as possible with his tweezers but told her she would have to go to the hospital as he could not get some of them out while she was wearing her pants. I can only immagine my dads face going red and purple with embarrasment as she replies "I dont have anything you havent seen before" and proceeds to pull down her pants so he could continue. Dad tells me he was so embarassed and paranoid that someone would see her with her pants down he kept looking around but noone seemed to notice. Any girl who would rather drop her pants in front of a stranger (first aid worker or not) than miss out on a few caches has to be addicted in my thoughts

Hi Biblelots Have you looked up the waypoints in your area? If you go to Waymarking.com you can find waypoints which are easily findable even without a GPS (both buildings and plaque markers). The website gives the coordinates of the waymark and I know for here in London Ontario there are MANY that are easily recognizable from photos so they are nothing to find. This would let you know how close you are if you compair the coordinates on your unit compaired to the website. Anita

I have a 6 YO and 10 YO who share Bret's feelings on this one. They would rather trade for the sig cards than anything else in the caches we have found so far.

ok this one took me a bit to spot.... he blends in real nice LOL anita

Thanks for the info. I didnt realize there was a different number attached to the bug/coin. The photo I have with them the kids are holding the part with the number in a fist anyway (can barely see the bugs hanging from their fist LOL ) Anita

Question.... Why not let the tracking number show? Does it not show on the bug/coins log page anyway???? Ok heading to a travel bugs page to see if my memory is off now.... lol Anita

My dad (raypaul1 on GC) also uses his for search and rescue in northern ontario. Not sure he checks the message boards though

WOW! Ambrosia beautiful pics! Ok I really need to get out of the city lol. The views look like they would be worth the hike even if you never found the cache!

unfortunatly kids have no sense of how dangerous something like this could be for them nice to know it was you that found it and not one of them!!!

even if you have to buy them from the drug store they are cheap.

used condoms and syringes (sorry for the spelling) are common near some of the caches around my home. (ie in the parks they are located in..... still working on finding the actual caches ) I try to make sure I have gloves and plastic bags all the time to dispose of them, too many kids in these parks to leave them laying there! figure its better an adult picking them up than a kid, at least we know how to do it safely.

also is the trail close enough to the school yard that cachers could look like they were "watching the kids"? Walking trails generally get used even in school hours so the school would likely only be concerned if the students safety looked compromised in any way. If the trail is far enough away this likely wouldnt be a problem, at least on the schools end anyway.

Hmmmm guess that is the unfortunate part of where I live. They HAVE outright banned PB in our local schools. My daughter had a maple spread sandwhich (I know not the healthyest) taken away because it "looked like PB" to the lunch room supervisor. I was not impressed

I agree with Dinoprophet... I have 2 little ones here and listened for 15 min before school started this morning as the kids in the school tarmack discussed where they "had" to go next year (ie where they got jumbo sized chocolate bars, cans of pop, stuffies, etc)

Being in Ontario (Southern, but we go up North often) our main concerns are limited to PO/PI, bees, wasps, bears. When we go north to my parents snakes are added to the list (there has been found the odd rattle in the bush behind my parents) I really do need to get myself a good walking stick (nice and long ) to carry with me on those outings.

I have never hidden a cache (only started looking for the ones here a few weeks ago, my dad and his search and rescue team have a set of private caches set up that I have found also) so I have a question for those who have caches hidden... do you have a convenient way to print the entries written online or are you stuck having to copy and paste to get it should you want a more complete log? I am wondering as it seems that alot of people are commenting they prefer to do the "writing" online as opposed to in the caches log book.

I would have to agree with Archangel, Derrabe, and the few others who posted regarding WHY they got into geocaching. There are lots of trading groups on Yahoo and elsewhere on the web if trading is your main concern. As a SAHM, and homeschooling part time, spending a small fortune on items to trade is not an option. Dont get me wrong, I would not take something that I could tell was high in value and not leave something decent in return, but I also was under the impression that small trinkets was the norm for trade items (and I got this thought from a combination of the geocaching.com site and log entries made by many cachers who have had over 500, some 1000 finds). Keeping in mind that ANY cache could be spotted and taken by someone not knowing anything about geocaching, why would anyone want to put in items of a larger value? Personnally I think if you are putting something "out there" (for lack of a better phrase), you kind of have to expect that it will go on to someone who will need/want it more than you. Regardless of what you get back.

I just read the replies in this thread and cant help but wonder..... why would anyone want to do a sport that takes you into fields and bush if they were that concerned about poison ivy? Sorry I am new to geocaching, but grew up in the bush... PI is a fact of life, if they are that concerned about it they can carry a bottle of water with them to rinse off their hands after handling the cache (ie to wash off as much PI toxins as possible). Also it should be a given to wear long pants walking through the bush which would help to aviod it on your legs. As for bears, snakes, spiders, etc..... they all move so you never know if they will be around or not (bears have HUGE territories, though they also generally wont stay around long if they hear you talking..... you would likely smell a bear though never actually see it)