dagger dog

Yeah, Impg has the ticket with the zip lock baggie duct taped, you can cut them to the size you want, works real well with velcro, to stick them to about any thing, real nice to slip into cracks and are a %$#& to spot if done up with the appropriate cammo

Did you ever get your tongue wrapped around your eye teeth and couldn't see what you were saying? Well it goes something like this. On a brainstorm to hide the perfect one, started out to late and darkness fell. We were a couple hundred yards in the woods following a dry creek bed back to the vehicle, after hiding an envelope container under a flat rock. This was in a state fish and wildlife multi-use area, with lots of horse activity on the trails. As a matter of fact there was a boarding stable across the road where the creek crosses. It was very dark and we were using our flashlights to navigate the loose rocks lying in the declivity. A pair of automobile headlights appeared at the acess road to the stable and were pointed down the creek bed directly at us as we emerged from the woods. You could make out a figure standing by the car. So trying not to arouse any suspicion walked toward the car to put this inquisitive mind to rest with a little GEO PR. The driver inquired about our saftey, and said she saw the lights in the woods and thought we had lost our way and might need some help, so I stated every thing was ok we were just looking for some place to, HIDE THIS CACHE. The lady gave us a real strange look, I'm sure she heard CASH, didn't say a word just got in the car and LOCKED the doors, and LEFT! It took acouple of minutes for it to sink in. We laughed for hours. So what have you said that did't come out quite right? Com'on now 'fess up

We have another hobby, metal detecting, mostly coin shooting, and we find quite a bit of the old silver coins all silver not the clad, and some jewelry, so we drop those off in the caches, along with carabiners (stole this idea from following a cacher whose handle was carabeener,) these are very handy items with multiple usage.

Found two we weren't looking for, my very first didn't even have a gpsr, was still a muggle then, but it got us started in the hobby (thanks Deermark) the second we were lookin' for a place to hide one and drove up to this small cemetary, and was checking out this knothole in a large cedar tree, Hey look what I found! So we logged another, and moved on to another place.

we had heard of those hollow" rocks" ,you know the ones they sell at the key shops, but had never ran into one. well we were going for this particular cache done by a well established cacher in our area ,the kind of cacher that allways gives you a run for the money. it goes like this, gpsr settled down, we're thinking geeze he couldn't be that far off, make another circle, its gotta be here, yeah he's devious . all the time we got the hiking staff and moving the the debris , rocks limbs,now it's going on 45 mins. don't know what made us reach out and actually pick up one of the rocks. that was it one of those hollow jobbers painted to match the real thing! develish deception love it!

i think the signal rejection theory (bounce) and the type gpsr is enough to set my mind at ease may try some other maker in the near future many thanks to every one!

i think the signal rejection theory (bounce) and the type gpsr is enough to set my mind at ease my try some other maker in the near future many thanks to every one!

IsoK 'n' briansnat, the cache written about was tied to a tree branch, couldn't move unless some one remembered to bring zip ties. we can go with the discrepancy between gpsrs, and the "migration" theory. answer us this ,is the occulsion ( hilside being very steep along this ridge i mentioned) of the satelites behind this north to south ridge enough to throw off not only the gpsr of the owners but mine also? we have had a couple othe caches (flatland) that always give the same coord's , but the cache still eludes us. the only common factor in the two mentioned is trees and leaves. i know from having satelite TV that signals can be affected by weather and atmospheric conditions, don't know if this is true of gps frequencys.

deep down at heart i think most people enjoy history! yeah don't get me wrong here but history plays a big role in most caches, even those micros splattered like paint drops from a sloppy painter. the local caches are the actual history teachers. you just pick up so much that you didn't know about the locale in which you live. then the "adventure" caches where you have to leave the area where you live and take that "small step where none have gone before" they are the ones that jolt the senses awake with the spectacular views. ain't it grand!?

we are still new at his game 104 finds but are working at it. getting down to business have you ever made that 2nd or third trip to locate that elusive cache that just doesn't want to give its self up? we're not willing to give up easy and take it as a challenge! one cache had us running up and down the slope of a ridge in the dog days of summer no breeze, you know the type. three trys that summer never did locate. got 2 Magellans trying to round this thing up zip, nada, no, nix, zero!( i don't want to turn this thread into a hardware software thing) so any way we go back in the winter no leaves, heck we could see all of our scratchin' from the previous searches. standing there about to throw in the towel again look about 50yds south east of the coord's here's the bugger tied to a tree. good lord you could give a boy scout a compass and a map and get closer than that , it was a relativley older cache done by a cacher that has close to 10,000 on his found list, so i don't think it was" pilot error" on our part and especially on his , due to the experience! what gives? sure would like to hear from others on this subject. could it be alien ufo related bend my ear with your accounts!

yeah the milspec is usually cotton with a rip stop fabric i glommed onto some German mil surplus that was flecktarn cammoed and better than 60% polyesther. they dry alot faster than 100% cotton and are durn near bullet proof try www.CheaperThanDirt.com. 100% cotton is great for hot summer days it holds the moisture against the skin for cooling but they are not for winter. used to kayak in cold weather and there was the saying "cotton kills" as in hypothermia!

are military surplus trouser available in the UK? they are great, plenty storage etc, and cheap. if not ty L.L bean Freeport Maine USA they have all types

it was a hundred degrees in the shade and the humidity was so high you alomost had to cut the air so you could walk. lookin' for this cache in a large pine grove, breeze was dead calm noseeums and blackflies buzzin' an bitin' sticker vines wrapping round your ankles, i stumbled fell foward over a downed log, liked to poked out my right eye! if i didn't wear glasses i would have. picked my self up unwrapped the vines off my feet pickin' the stickers out of my ankles got po'ed pulled off my pack threw it on the ground reached out to get in the pack and i had THROWN THE PACK ON THE CACHE!

after being sucked dry of blood by hordes of miniscule vampires of the insect world,dehydrated to the point of looking like a piece of jerky from the 7-11 snack rack,poked lacerated, bruised and confused, thrashed bashed,and trashed on my way to the cache. i can still remember (how could that be?) most of the FUN that i've had chasing down the 100 in my found list. can i survive the next 100? haven't been snake bit yet! just think 10,000 finds, mygod they must look like King Tut. have fun always

most of the time the greeting we use is, EXCUSE ME , when we bump into each other. thats because both parties are walking around aimlessly looking into a hypnotic 2 1/2" lcd screen and not watching where they are going. the handshake comes next, this is a autonomic reflex, derived from the cachers instinctive habit of inserting the hand into any crevice large enough for the appendage. its kind of a jabbing forward movement, of the hand with a tweedeling of the fingers.

it's a work of art, the leather handle and hand guard, kind of a cross between a boarding cutlass and one of those billhook things the peasants carried when the're hunting down the Frankenstein monster. man you can pound out a chicken breast filet, cut the wood to cook it with, hold off the wolves that come to the scent of the raw chicken all with one tool! i give it a ten

only on the map, usgs are true they show the declination on the rosette, the red lines are grids, the borders are true. the old addage east least, west best was used to remember whether to add or subtract the declination, depending on which side of the agonic you were located. also the magnetic lode in the Canadian north that deflects the compass needle also "drifts" so the declination changes over time . the usgs maps have the "drift" calculations in the legend. what modern marvels will be seen in the future? all the old ways are slowly fading away. whooda thunkit?

I carry a semi-automatic Leatherman .22 on a semi-regular basis. When we go hiking in Bear Territory, I carry the Swiss Army .357. good advice : when hiking in bear country and carrying a .357-44 mag. make sure to file the front sight off. it makes it much more comfortable when the bear shoves the barrel where the sun doesn't shine the ticket for bears and other varmints two or four legged is 1 1/8 oz lead slug or shot of appropriate size , emanating from the working end of a 12ga. 20 inch bbl. smoke pole, preferably of the bicycle pump type (no jams here) hanging inverted from a sling over your shoulder. a little heavy, but your bettin' yer life on this thing when the chips fall wrong! OOPS the little red fellow on my right shoulder got to me!

congested suburban area ! huge under statement ! sometimes the idea for a cache hits us first, maybe the cache handle, or the name of the area where the cache is to be hidden. other times the type is the deciding factor, if it will fit the hiding place or if the cammo' will blend with the area, some times the size of the container. then there is the insant recognition of the "perfect" cache location! and you just got to stop the car to check it out, and can't wait to get online to check and see if it's already taken! so many variables it's just mind warping ain't it? have fun always dagger dog

nish, i have seen (in print) the Chicago Cutlery 12" butcher knife used for scraping hides. the author says the shape is correct for two handed use, and he even dulls the edge a little to keep from being too aggressive so you won't cut through the hide. the price is right too. dagger dog

large as in a 60mm rocket box, thought it was a small coffin, small as in a magnetic nano masquerading as a screwhead about 1/4 in diameter

while searching for a cache,( near a popular restaurant, wandering about aimlessly waiting for the gpsr to settle down ) was approached by a couple with two small children and told "we couldn't find it either." thought we were being stealthy too!

ya just can't beat the old original Power Bar, for being able to wad the whole thing up and stickin' it down the pie hole in one piece. gotta chew onit like a Gurnsey chewin' her cud, takes a minit or two ta get it real good and soft then ya can get a swig of water, get it kinda liquified 'n' swallow it! it takes me longer to type it than ta do it. these thing weren't made for the gourmet types, just for that quick energy burst to make it to that favorite camp. right?

after eyeballing a few posts, i carry a Cold Steel Tanto 6" blade about 12" overall. it's good for chopping and i guess you could use it for self defense if you were the ninja type. it's also a good prybar and you get ferocious sparks when struck against one of those fire starter flints. i also carry a Swiss Army knife for the everyday chores you know, spreading p-nut butter, cutting those mylar bags in which a lot of the "trailfood" is sold. i keep looking at one of those Woodsmans Pals, the oddball looking machete-bill hook kindling chopper that are manufactured in Pennsylvania. has any one had any experience with one of these? like some input if so. i got this thing about packing what you want, don't care much about weight.

the history found in the cemeteries,( especially if you are living in the area of the caches),is enough to out weigh any thoughts of sacrilege! there is a local cemetery that was in disrepair, a local grade school(see GCPMJR) took on the task of seeing that those interned there were not forgotten and placed a cache in their honor. by doing such there is a forgotten piece of history that is now known to the local cachers, and is passed onto non-cachers as oral history. our first cache was in a cemetery, the same one in which my family and one day yours truly will be resting eternally.