Team FIREBOY
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I guess these were before our time, but, OMG VTMT... love your links because us noobs can see what went on before. I thought I would fall out of my chair laughing at the "BobTroll" and his "proscription" med cache idea. Too funny. Made my day. ;o) Anti Spell Check.. tee hee
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Spunkmeyer, Great info. I am glad someone put the right info out. People, use bug spay, cover your legs and amrs with clothing. If you have an allergic reaction to mosquitos and know it, where netting hats around your head too.
West Nile can be DEADLY! mosquitos, mostly Cullus mosquitos in COLO and WY can carry it.
Cellulitis from a bite that has been itched and scratched can be taken care of if you get to the doc, or ER in time.
MRSA is VERY hard to fight in the hospital.
It is call a noscomial infection if you get it while in the hospital. We just use to many dadgum antibiotics for non-bacterial infections, (but doctor, my son/daughter always gets the pink stuff when his/her ear hurts).
COLDS ARE VIRUSES! You don't need antibiotics.
This causes antibiotic resistance, as well as changing/evolving DNA of bacteria (superbugs).
I know I am on my soapbox again. But, hey I just got done with a 12 hour shift and I had a patient that was close to death and will probably loose a leg due to a mosquito bite she didn't take care of at first sign of infection and now her whole leg is infected and has gangrene. I work in 2 ER's in COLO. We don't mind when you come in for the right reasons!!!!!!! Thanks all. Off soapbox. Take care !
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Fairly noob here, but with just over 300 caches we have found them in so many different places. Most interesting (and funny) was under a clown's nose toy attached to a stop sign. (out of place), to the bottom (belly) of a metal statue of a dog (our dog sniffed it and the magnetic case fell, we gave him the find). My hubby says he feels like a tree gynecologist after placing his hand in soooo many tree holes. Electrical looking caches ( we hate these). Under a sewer clean out lid (in the middle of a field). Underside of a laminated leaf (had redirector info). Hope I did not give out too many hints and tricks... as there are many more, just trying to help a fellow noob out.
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Hmmmm, Events at Scottsbluff,NE., Cheyenne, WY., Ft. Collins, CO. Could be done in one day. Starbrand, wanna try it? Or anyone else from this tri-state area? I know cachers from all three states, some might wanna do this.
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We have an old E-Trex Vista, black and white. Does a good enough job getting us to the caches. But, I just bought a new E-Trex Vista CX. It's color. It does turn - by -turn. Has a electronic compass, has expandable memory (with a micro disk, it comes with a 64mb, although I had a 2G one at home) and does other things I haven't tried yet. (Just bought it 4 days ago) After I loaded City navigator my hubby (my old navigator) and I don't argue anymore when he sends me down the wrong road (which is usually a dead end). BTW you can bid on a GPS on E-Bay, there are plenty, most of them are refurbished, but work just fine and come with a one year warranty. Some guy/gal in COLO. sells a lot of them and he ships fast. My friend bought one this way and he spent way less money than I. Good Luck. Cache On!
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When you spend days making and hiding new caches instead of mowing your 8.5 acres of waist high weeds.
HEY!! What idiot would want to mow down 8.5 acres of great cache hiding spots?
The neighbors would have a sh*t fit if we put a cache on our property.(About 50 houses on 400 acres in our subdivision, all lots sold, no more houses going up.) Too much Geotrafic on our dirt road would make the neighbors think we were dealing drugs with all the cars parked in our driveway. However, they wouldn't see the cachers on our property cause the weeds are about chest high now. Tee Hee. Need a brush hog now.
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We are so enjoying reading these "scared while caching stories" Keep em coming. We love the laughs. Not laughing at you, but rather, with you. Thanks all.
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We call them "Cat P*ss bushes" and here is how we deal with them,
LEATHER GLOVES !
We "don't need no mo' stinking attributes"
edited for spelling.
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Starbrand, I did some of your caches today. Paperless. Vista CX (gives turn by turn directions), loaded by GSAK, plus my laptop to view cache pages offline. Then I pull up to a hotel or a restaurant with free wi-fi and post my finds. Nice set up, and I would be willing to help you figure it out if you can't get to a class soon. Sometimes I do also use my Palm T-5.
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When you are getting ready to sign a six month contract to work as a travel nurse in Hawaii so you can actually cache on your days off.
When a new guest to your home asks where the bathroom is and you give them coords.
When your teenagers say, "Aww mom, but my friends miss me"
When you respond to fires by GPS (hubby does this).
When you spend days making and hiding new caches instead of mowing your 8.5 acres of waist high weeds.
When you fly to another state and forget you GPS, but know if you can find a Cracker Barrel you will find a cache.
When you get home from caching at midnight, and you log your caches and check the forums before going to bed.
Many Many More!!!!
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Here in Wyoming we do have a "phone-a-friend" thread on our forum at WyoGeo.net. Participation is by those who wish to participate, not because they are forced to do so. I get calls from other cachers who are from other parts of the state who are coming to Cheyenne to cache and they want info on HOTELS, and places to eat here. Wyoming is a big state with lots of land between towns, you almost have to spend the night after driving to get anywhere to cache outside your city that you live in. If a cacher wants a hint to one of my caches, they email me for a hint. If one of our members called me for a hint on my caches I would give it because I personally know all the members. I won't give hints on other owners caches, I direct the "hint askers" to the owner of the cache for a hint, unless that owner has told me beforehand I can give hints.
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I'll second the motion on that. I've had many encounters with rattlesnakes. But the one that sticks in my head is when a caching buddy of mine got a large rattler really pissed. It freaked us all out when it suddenly popped up his head and ratttled super loud. It would have stuck him had he not quickly jumped straight back out of harm's way. I was right behind him when it happened and shuddered at the thought of whether or not I would have jumped that quickly if I had been in front.A couple encounters with these guys have scared me pretty good . . .
What I do know is that if you ever do get bit, you need to call 911 ASAP, unless you want permanent damage to the area that was bitten. They'll send in helicopters if need be...
And then they fly you to a ER and give you CroFab ( I am a RN, I work in a ER) that cost about $30,000 for the average weight person. YIKES!
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We were finishing up a day of caching when the sun had set and we had 2 more caches we planed on doing. We parked at a parks parking lot (it was totally dark) and went about our search using flashlights. We found the cache, signed to log, replaced the cache and headed back to the geomobile. As we were putting our CITO bags in the trash can near our car, a bike rider zoomed past us, scared us and the biker. The biker almost ran into a fence post. My hubby yelled "oh Sh*T" , and he scared me by yelling , I almost peed me pants. Has anyone out there had something happen to scare them while caching? Do tell!
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Our Path Tag, which is also our Avatar.
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We own 2 Garmin E-trex Vistas. One is 5 years old and still working well. The other I just bought 2 days ago, a E-trex Vista CX. It is color, and has an expandible memory. We are currently saving for two new Rinos, 530Hcx. About $595 per unit. They are handheld, color, expandible memory, and the are two way radios to name a few features. While Geocaching in Estes Park, CO. my hubby went for a cache while I stayed at the truck. He was standing on a cliff that gave away and he fell down and went boom. We had no cell signal and I had no idea where he was or that he was hurt. Luckily, he was able to walk out and only had some large bruises and abrasions on both his hips and thighs. Thus the two units. Garmin has said that the release of the new Rino 530hcx will be "second quarter" of this year. We found out that they have released them on the 19th of this month. They are very hard to find. That being said, we really like our 2 Vistas, they have been very reliable.
P.S. I paid $299 dollars for my new Vista CX. It does come with a SD card too. Now we can load City Navigator along with MapSource western USA TOPO. We have had no problem using pocket queries with either Vista. We also use GSAK and a laptop while caching.
Edited for spelling errors.
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We have to drive close to a hundred miles to get to caches because we have found most of the ones here in Cheyenne. We load about 100 caches into our GPS. Then we drive to the area we are about to cache in. If we actually looked for the cache and could not find, we log a DNF. If the coords are just in our GPS and we did not even get to look for it because of time limits, weather, ect.. we don't log a DNF. We just put it on a new list for the next time we are in that area.. Different people play the game differently. No skin off our noses because anyone elses stats don't matter to us, just ours. We think the DNF is really for when you can't find a cache you looked for, that way the owner can go and look to see if it is still there if they get a couple DNF's in a row.
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OK, Here's ours:
But first I would like to say I grew up dirt poor, my mom raised 4 kids by herself. I had to go to work at the age of 9 while going to school. I helped my mom support my brothers and sister.
Camping
Trailer : $25,000 (can't sleep on the ground any more, got hit by a semi, 16 spine surgeries to fix me.)
SUV to pull trailer: $35,000
Gas : OMG it's $3.20 a gallon here and my SUV takes 25 gallons. At least 2 fill ups to get where we are camping.
ATV's: 2 @ $6,000 each
Truck and trailer to pull ATV's : $30, 000
Insurance on vehicles, and trailer : $600 monthly
Generator : $3,000
Camping supplies each trip : $300
Teenagers entertainment while camping: $100 (movies to watch on the computer, TV, or a sat hookup)
Geocaching while camping ( free, but really $3. 00 a month for PM)
Weekend with family : PRICELESS
We also ski, hunt, fish, vacation in foriegn lands, collect firefighting patches, volunteer at Cheyenne Frontier Days, volunteer at the homeless shelter, collect cans and donate the money to our homeless shelter, foster dogs from the dog shelter, teach American Red Cross and American Heart CPR. Teach First aid, first responder courses (for free). Attend trauma conferences... ect.
We work odd hours as I am a nurse, hubby is Firefighter, hence our schedules do not mesh well. We work hard for the things we love. So we can go and do stuff together as a family, because soon the nest will be empty. No flaming me, please, please, as I am not trying to offend anyone here. We can afford these hobbies because we went to college and have worked in our fields for over 15 years. Really, you can do anything you put your mind to if you prioritize your wants vs. your needs. IMHO It just seems to me that people (kids of the 80's and 90's) today want everything handed to them immediately at birth, like they are intitled to it as a birthright. The "microwave" generation, wants everything right now! You have GOT to work for the things you want, and quit yer bitchin if you someone else has what you want. P.S., NO, I AM NOT BUYING MY TEENAGERS THEIR CARS, they have to work for them. I am, however, paying for their college educations because I believe that is how you get ahead in this world. STEPPING OFF MY SOAPBOX NOW.
Geocaching is a very reasonably priced hobby. The time it allows us to spend together is well worth the price we have paid for our GPSs', swag, and gas to get to the hiding places. Plus we get to meet so many wonderful people when we attend events. We will be CACHING on well in to our old age.
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Our dog goes caching with us. His name is KYO. We do sometimes call him KYO the GEODOG. He is a Pembroke Welsh Corgi. Sometimes we have to pick him up and carry him (low ground clearance) when we bushwack. LOL http://img.geocaching.com/cache/log/da0d18...b3b08054447.jpg
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We put out some travel bugs with their goal attached to them via a laminated card and a zip tie. Should we expect cachers to move these towards their goal, or just to move them cache to cache? We drove over a hundred miles to drop one in CO., with a goal of going to the Caribbean islands, and someone picked it up and brought it back north to WY. When we find a TB that has a specific goal, and we can't help it get closer to that goal we leave it in the cache for someone else to pick up. What is the "norm" for this? How do other people move TB's with goals?
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Wife = 40, hubby = 36, teen1 = 17, teen2 = 15.
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Ok, so maybe we are noobs in this arena, but here I go. We have placed 12 caches in our area, we maintain them every other weekend. When we had a more experienced cacher write a "needs maintenance note on the log, we immediately drove to the cache. He also emailed us via our profile. We found that our very 1st cache that we had placed was GONE. We always carry new caches to replace our caches should they come up needing something, or replaced. We welcome it when someone takes the time to tell us that something is out of order. That being said though, we have never "replaced" a cache we thought was "missing", too pretentious to think we are the seekers with the best skills. We have placed new log sheets, plastic ziplock bags, and yes, even replaced a container that was ran over by a lawnmower. We will then post our find, mention our repairs, then email the owner that we did maintenance. There is an guy here that can't get out to his caches because he was in a car accident, and we have helped him keep them going until he recovers from his injuries. We would not have known that he needed help if we had not emailed him that we did some maintenance on one of his caches. We have always been thanked for doing maintenance on others caches. Some people play differently, we are learning that the "rules" we play by might not be the "rules" that other people play by. Not wrong, just different than our play. No skin off our noses.
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Cream filled = exudate. Not offensive when typed, very offensive when you are in the medical profession and have to incise and drain. YUK!
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Ariat Cowboy Boots for urban caches. Lowa for the mountains. Both cover the ankle, which is important when it comes to rattlesnakes.
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When we start a cache we load it to the brim with stuff bought from Target, Hobby Lobby, Walmart...ect. We got great reviews on Dora the Explorer and Spiderman utensil sets and giftcards to local eateries or stores. We usually place a mini-mag flashlight for the FTF. Stickers, bubbles, bracelet and necklace building kits, magic growing towels, balls, erasers, kid themed pencils, temporary tattoos, jacks, hotwheel cars, beanie babies are the usuals for stuffing our caches. We check our caches twice monthly to ensure good stuff. What we leave at caches are some of the same swag as what we place in ours, plus mini multi tools, emergency rain gear, whistles, glowsticks, CITO bags in film canisters, toy animal figurines, our Pathtag, , quarters, foreign money, 550 cord, bungee cords, glass repair kits, key chains.... ect. You are only limited by your imagination.. we try not to put the same stuff that everyone else does. Too boring that way. When the kids are caching with us, we trade stuff. When the adults are caching, we leave stuff and sign logbooks, rarely trade.
FTF Ettiquite
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Not too much of an FTF hound here, but if I was trying for FTF and someone else showed up to look, I would ask if they would like to search together and be co-FTF's. If they were the person searching first and I showed up, I would wait and then be STF. It's a game after all. No skin off my knee if I am not first. ;o)