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The owner of the cache placed the bug in it. Return to Shady Ridge A cache by Bill and Evan Almighty When you hide a cache you have the ability to use any name you want. They just used another name. Click it, though, and it goes to their own profile. No harm, no foul.

What about with Big Brothers/Big Sister type organizations? A series of 3 to 4 hour weekend hikes combining the ideas of CITO and caching, as well as teaching about latitude/longitude? You could do a different group of kids each week and maybe end it with a picnic somewhere with caching contests that are more just a treasure hunt than needing coords and you might even see it one of the wooden nickel makers would donate a few as keepsakes?

Sorry Skettimonster, I didn't look that far back... Feel free to whip me with a wet noodle if need be! I'll learn, I promise

Doesn't always show, to be honest. I'm not in the US, I'm in a country the size of California with approximately 9 million people total. Google Earth doesn't give me clear pics of our area at all at a close distance enough to see parking or whatnot. All the same, would it be so hard to have a check box to indicate that parking is at the trailhead or that there is a distance to walk? Why are you so opposed to that, out of curiousity? What damage or harm does it do? It certainly is less "electrical help" than "researching" it on Google or whatnot. I honestly have documents with the caches in different directions from my house and the printouts are in our geocaching bag. That means that I don't always sit here and look up other particulars, I just go with what is printed from the website here. Spontaneity is a good thing... especially when there are bored kids driving you ape sh*t nutty in the car and you want to get them out doing something

Nothing illegal as of yet, but that black bag with the decomposing small dog or cat in it was definitely nasty!

If I'm not mistaken, isn't it either the shoulder area or the area of land between the two lanes of an interstate or highway?

Hmmm... why do I get the distinct feeling there is a story behind that one, lol!

I just put in my first preorder for a GC and I'm emailing with a couple of other people in private about getting a couple more. I can sense an obsession in the making I see that some of you have literally hundreds of them (how the heck do you afford them all) and I was wondering if anyone wanted to share what their favorite coin is, and why? This is the coin I ordered... our family is a Christian (albeit very open minded) geocaching family, so this one just kind of made sense to us

I just want to know if there is parking at the trailhead or if I'm gonna be hoofing it a way before I even get started. GoogleEarth and other mapping software/sites like that... seems to me almost like cheating, I mean, if you think I'm wanting to make it easier because I want to know about where parking is - or isn't, lol, what the heck are you doing, using everything under the sun to "prepare" yourself before the hunt? I take and use no more information that what is found on the search page here and of course, our GPS'r.

I think I just found our first geocoin to buy! Email sent for 2

argh, maybe next time! Thanks for the cointest!

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I had a double post due to server problems... strike that last 18.30 post and let me put in 18.23 instead, please!

18.30 *prays she has it since she has no geocoins at all to her name!*

18.30 *prays she has it since she has no geocoins at all to her name!*

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My pleasure, holler if you need help again

It's in Norwegian, similar to Swedish. I'm an American in Sweden and my Swedish is ok, so I'll give it a shot... hopefully someone will come in and correct my boo-boos.... one benefit of living here is that Danish and Norwegian are both fairly understandable if you can speak Swedish! 8 på veien til gardemoen flyplass.Grabbet med meg 3 TB og 1 Geo Coin.Skal finne noen fine plasser til dere snart. 1 av dem allerede i dag. TFTC botta 8 on the way to Gardemoen Airport (in Oslo, Norway). Took with me three tb's and 1 gc. Going to find a nice place for them soon. One of them already left today. Tftc.

Grandfather them.... make it a requirement, or at least an option, on newer caches.

Parking and distances to cache make a big difference to people who cache with their kids. We cache with our 7 1/2 year old and 14 month being carried in a patapum carrier. Longest we've done is about 2 miles round trip, and it was in rocky, hilly terrain. The terrain ratings don't always give enough "clue" to things. For example, we did a 4 terrain rating a few days ago where the parking was right at the base of the trail, and a 2 where we had to hike twice as far to get there, and on an almost equally tough, rocky terrain. The rating system is a little too subjective. What's a 4 to a novice hiker may be a 2 to someone with more experience.

Cache stash bag full of swag, repair items, and other things you need when on the trail; a light jacket for everyone in the family, 30m rope, folding water bowl and extra leash for hou(n)dini, 1.5l water, shovel/pike/pick/compass that breaks down for storage and has its own little bag and ummmm... I think that's about it!

Fy fan! *mild Swedish cursing, used for situations like this and at some of the stuff they have to eat/do on Fear Factor*

If they were the tiny little deer ticks you need to keep an eye on where they had bit you. Google borelia or lyme disease and familiarize yourself with the symptoms and signs of it. I HATE ticks. Here in Sweden they are coming out with a new way to kill and remove them that involves some kind of aerosol that freezes them so you can remove them easily. HATE ticks... whole family caches in long pants and high socks just to try to steer clear of them, and Hou(N)dini gets checked over carefully after every trek. Ticks not only are bad here in Sweden, but borelia/tick borne encephalitis is so common that there is a vaccine for it! *shudders* ticks... urgh!!!

Another positive vote for vista print!

We have a winner! Both the kidlet and hubby like the Patapum... Now... where did they put that cache???