Team FIREBOY

Have been to a cache in Boulder CO that required the cacher to sit down and draw a picture. Art supplies in cache. The owner would then check the cache, and upload the pictures drawn to the cache listing page. It was a fun cache. Sort of like writing a story.

Got one. Yes, I would buy another. Love it.

I slipped and fell into a deep creek in the early spring and was hypothermic. The embarrasing part of this was that it was my first caching trip and I kept looking even after I was stopped shivering (duh, I should have left after getting wet) and I didn't find the cache. I had to strip down to being nude in the back of our SUV while hubby drove to get me home. We got pulled over by a police officer because he was speeding. It was funny to explain why I was naked and sitting crunched down in the back. We went back the next day and Found the cache.... 30 feet away from the place I slipped on the bank of the creek.

I am so glad you are ok. I am extremely allergic to bees. I ALWAYS carry 2 Epipens. I knew before starting Geocaching I was allergic. For those who don't know, Benadryl is an anti-histamine. It helps to SLOW DOWN a reaction to a allergen. I carry two Epipens because I am usually caching more than one hour away from a hospital. I need more Epi to get to an ER because of distance and the drugs half life. (half life equals how long it takes for half the med to be metabolized and cleared out of your body) If allergic (and know it), use Epipen first, then take Benadryl. After that make your way to the ER. Epinepherine is a strong medicine, it can and will increase your heart rate (among other side effects). Epi is, after all Adrenaline. IF used you must always follow up with a visit to the ER for monitoring. I'm not just saying that because I am an ER nurse and want to meet cachers, I would rather meet cachers at a cache site. Just the 411. Keep hunting for caches though, I have and I am truly addicted.

P.S. you can also buy a personal TAZER.. and take the training. They have new ones on the market now that are smaller.. and colored for a woman's sense of "Style". It's not lethal, and I have seen a tazer take down many a big man.!

I am a travel nurse, part time in addition to my full time ER job. Traveling to do 13 week contracts in WY, CO NE and in Nov to Hawaii (I'll quit my regular job to do my 6 month contract here, It's Hawaii!!!) This leaves me as a solo female cacher.. cause my Team (hubby and kids) are in our hometown. WY. is not heavily populated (nah, really only slightly more than a half million people in the entire state) so I really don't have to worry about too many people while caching in the wide open spaces. While in towns.. I carry a cell phone, a whistle, pepper spray, and a multi tool (with a knife). Don't plan on ever having to use the knife on a person. You won't get a chance to use it if someone sneaks up on you from behind. I try to stay alert to my surroundings. I say try, because it's hard to really concentrate on other people when the thrill of the hunt overcomes me. In the open spaces I also carry a bunch of 1st aid supplies, a PLB, (a emergency personal location beacon) food and water... ect. In CO. it's a whole different story. If I cache in Denver.. I do always expect someone to come along at any given moment.. and I can really move fast if I have to. If someone jumps me, then it happens. I am not going to stop doing what I love out of fear. I can just try to be prepared. What I have found to work well, is to go to events with my Team. I meet local cachers.. and can arrange to go caching with them when I am in their towns or area of caching. I get to know them well before caching with them, and I have had a great time caching this way. I do carry at times... but that is another thread.

We live in a town with an Air Force base. A young man who was PCSing from Cheyenne to Florida owned caches, he put a note out on his cache listing page, one that we were watching, and we adopted the cache just before he left. We have enjoyed his hide immensely, we even changed the cache page to show respect for him by saying., "We adopted this cache from........" Just because you might have to move in two years shouldn't keep you from placing a cache. If you hide, they will come. Good luck!

The reason we only have two ammo can caches is for the very reason of price. We budget to place nicer swag in our caches. It's not hard to do, and it gives the finder a real smile just not the logged smiley. Work within your budget and don't put yourself into debt to place swag. It's not worth going broke.

We keep our caches pretty well stocked with swag that all ages would like. For the little ones we have put in Dora the Explorer and Spiderman utensil sets, croc shoes, matchbox cars, rubber ball/soft rubber jack sets, stickers, kinder toys, coloring books, animal toys For tweeners we have put in bead sets, hacky sacks, hand held video games, pins, pencils, erasers, roller skating coupons, sidewalk chalk, card games For teens: movie tickets, music cds, certificates for ipod downloads, McDonald's food certificates, Starbuck's certificates. (anything a teen would like to get for free, as we have teens and they suggest these items) For adults: maglight flashlights, dinner for two at local eateries, coins and pins, the above mentioned teen swag, tool sets, bungie cords, batteries, camping supplies, first aid kits, tee shirts... ect. All of the swag we place in our caches is brand new. Please note, we only have two ammo can swag caches. One is at the end of a multi and one is very close to our home. We check our caches frequently and they have not been muggled. We like to find well stocked caches, so we do our best to give back to the caching community.

Congratulations on your 100th find. If you get a chance and can get to COLO. consider this as your 200th. mountain tragedy 1 We did it as our 200th and even though it is not an "old" cache, it is a interesting cache!

Nurses = 17 Firefighter = 4 EMS/EMS = 5 Lab tech = 1 OT = 1 Manager = 1 See, I knew that there are people out there who care about their fellow man and who enjoy caching too. I agree that this group of people are great to cache with. Even more so if you get injured while caching.

Sorry, assumed. EMT = Emergency Medical Technician: can be a basic, and intermediate or a Paramedic mostly they are the ones who work with people pre-hospital (not always though) EMS = Emergency Medical Service : anyone who works to help people through an emergency. Like the radio dispatchers, EMT's, Police, Fire ect... Hope this helps.

Count so far: Nurses = 9 Firefighter = 2 EMS/EMT = 2 Lets keep up the count.

Bogleman, What a small world. The Fireboy is also CRASH FIRE RESCUE at the airport where we live. Don't you just love the BIG trucks! They got a new Snozzle about 2 years ago, the one with the piercing nozzle, gotta love when you can poke a nozzle into a C130 and spray the inside without even getting out of your truck. ;o)

Just thought I would check to see how many nurses Geocache. I know I won't get a totally accurate count as there are so many cachers who don't read the forums. Stand up and be counted fellow nurses. And while I am at it... how many FIREFIGHTERS or EMS geocachers. I bet they are the biggest group between Docs, Nurses, Firefighters, and EMTs. One nurse here... ER One Firefighter/EMT Edited for grammar.

Yes, Geoblast I have thought of just speaking with this someone. In fact, I have spoke to one of the someones and gently spoke of behavior not looked upon in a good light by us or others at another event. I know that this someone understands this and has apologized for the behavior. Problem is that this someone comes with other someones who don't or can't understand and the original someone can't control them. I know this sounds weird, but I am trying to not use any names here. No reason to trash these "someones" in a world wide forum. I guess that we are just frustrated. We really like the suggestion to include them in the planning and execution of the event. We are thinking that this will be our best approach.

Thanks for the suggestions. The reason that this is a challenge is not only that we had fun doing this sort of event before, but we get to set the rules. Don't like our rules, don't play. Rules will be posted at the event and given in their game packets. What others and us have interpreted as cheating at other event games will not bloody happen at this event. Disqualification if anybody is found to be cheating. We think everybody should have a fair chance to play along and win. Trust me we are not "old fogies", our parents are. (turn down that music now will you boy)

We have an event scheduled in Sept. Someone who has been going to other events has stated that they will attend. Here is the rub, this someone has not been a welcome guest at recent events here. This someone spoils events by a lot of rude behavior, the loud and obnoxious "friends" they bring and not participating in the spirit of the event games by having a MUST WIN OR DIE attitude. Others have commented about this behavior, it's just not us. What do you suggest we do to ensure a good time is had by all at the event? We can't dis-invite anyone. We just couldn't tell that someone not to come. Should we maybe email the someone and ask the someone to behave? Please any suggestions, other than just plain ole mean ones, will be considered.

For those who might want to make their own logbook that is rainproof and snowproof I found a log in a cache that was made up of a "express mail service", *cough* fed ex *cough* envelope. The owner had cut it into notebook size and used an industrial strength stapler to put all the pages together. Easy to sign with an ink pen. I personally use the old rock and chisel note book in our caches. It takes awhile to sign the log, but it's waterproof and it holds the caches down nicely in the "windy" state.

As a kid I swam in A LOT of Colorado mountain lakes (cold) and as an adult I have swam in A LOT of WYOMING lakes (cold, cold and windy). Drive up north a state or two. I am sure you can find a suitable lake for your friend and you to swim in.

My geo-hubby has taken to calling himself " THE TREE GYNECOLOGIST" because we find so many caches in tree holes. He wears leather gloves while doing his exams, but no speculum. If he did use a speculum I would make him warm it up

Mousekakat. Let me play Devil's advocate. First, I do find the cache name offensive, however, being an American, I believe in FREEDOM of Speech. I think that you are an American too. I know that you are not in the states now. I find it offensive for the Lord's name to be taken in vain. But I also believe in a person's right to their own beliefs and their right to express it, even it it offends me. I would not do anything myself to get the cache name changed. That's me, but you also have the right to complain and to do what you think you need to do. See how that works.... agree to disagree.

Done already. Caches that have a terrain rating of one are supposed to be wheelchair accessible.

Let's see... it keeps the liter of coke in. Make sense that it would be water proof...right? One small problem is that you can't get anything -in- a liter of coke bottle besides liquid and a straw. What are going to use for swag? No swag, using as a redirector, with coke bottle under water. Thinking about taking the label off, placing some fishing sinkers and the laminated redirector coords inside, sealing the bottle somehow permanently attaching a rope of some type and the chucking the whole thing into a small lake. Probably won't do it though because in the winter (very long season here) it would be frozen under the water and thus making it a bad cache hide. See, I talked myself right out of that idea... but you can really put stuff in a 1 liter soda bottle. Little stuff.

Deer, elk, mtn. lions, moose, buffalo, camels, porcupines, raccoons, antelope, eagles, hawks, owls, geese, ducks, snakes, badgers, beavers, prairie dogs, cows, pigs, sheep, horses, goats, sage grouse, coyotes, foxes, ect...... we have seen all of these while caching both here in WY. and in CO. NO bears though, not while caching, only scat. Grew up camping and hunting so we have seen a ton of animals in our lifetime. We realize just how lucky we are to live in a place with so much wildlife.