El Diablo

I've been geocaching for quite some time and am not aware of any formal connection between Kokopelli and geocaching. Except for this one...... El Diablo

Hi all, I owe an explanation to a lot of people that have tried to contact me over the last few months. I’m going to try an explain this the best I know how and can only hope that you understand. Almost a year ago I was laid off from my job. No big deal at first, I’ve been there before. However as months passed with no prospects of employment things begin to turn bad. I slipped into depression. This is a deep dark hole that I hope no one ever experiences. Basically my life pretty much stopped. I no longer answered the phone, read email, called family or friends. I just didn’t care. Days seemed like hours, and months like days. Reality just went away. Things I used to care so much about meant nothing to me anymore. I could go on, but I think you get the point. To get you up to date to my present life. With the nudging and the love of my wife I finally started to come around. Even though I found a job, it wasn’t the magic cure that I thought it would be. However life is finally begun to return to normal. To those that I owe hiking staffs to, I will be in touch shortly so we can work out a solution. To those that have been trying to contact me out of concern, I apologize for not answering. I hope that all of you can understand and forgive me. If you don’t, I understand. Take care, Jerry

Maybe someone else knows, but I can't find a way besides searching individual caches. El Diablo

There are many. They are called hydro caches. You'll usally find them listed as level 5 caches because the need of the boat. El Diablo

You'll have to buy the city navigator, or City select. I forget which one they are using now. It comes with basic maps....meaning major roads. If you already have a Tom Tom you might not need to add the detailed maps. even if you do your looking at about 400.00 the last I checked, and that's been awhile. Might be cheaper now. El Diablo

If you can afford that kind of money I would suggest the Garmin 60CSx. It can do auto routing as well as go off road. Very rugged handheld that is water proof. It has expandable memory and very good reception. I don't think there is a better handheld out there at the moment. El Diablo

Hamster caching gave me the idea of cat caching. I have way to many of them and needed to weed a few out. Now stuffing a cat in an ammo can isn't an easy job. You'll have better luck trying to brush their teeth. With the help of welders gloves I finally got him in there though. Here's a note for those that want to try this in the future, don't do what I did....make air holes BEFORE you put him in there. I finally got the cache placed with just a little loss of blood on each side. However when the first cacher found it....not to good. Have you ever heard of the expression "Opening a box expecting a kitten to come out, but a wild cat jumped out instead"? Anyways he made his way back home, and my life is now miserable. I'm also now on the FTF's ignore list. I think I'll take the cat hamster caching to make ammends. He'll like that. El Diablo

I'm a 1. I can go for months and not go caching. I started out as a 9 but as the quaility of the caches decreased, so did I. I turned my interest more towards other aspects of caching. Like helping newbies in the "Getting started" forums, hiking staffs, and at one time a magazine dedicated to caching. Now lately getting into Waymarking. El Diablo

Toggle through the pages until you find the one with the arrow on it. Follow the arrow to the coordinates that you entered. You might want to start off by marking a spot in your yard or neighborhood and then trying to use the GPS to navigate back to that spot. El Diablo

A travel bug can be just about any item that has a trackable number. These numbers are usually in the form of a TB dog tag that is attached to the item. They are meant to move from cache to cache and are not considered trade items. Some have specific goals to reach, others just want to travel. There are also Geo-coins that are trackable. Never pick up a TB if you can't put it in another cache in a reasonable amount of time, or help it along its specific journey. El Diablo

I wonder how many even knew a cache was hidden on the property? It's like a wally world cache. People don't ask permission, they just hide them there. El Diablo

good luck and God bless. I've got it covered until he gets back. El Diablo

I've seen this alot lately. It's like someone starts a topic, but then dosen't post anything in it. El Diablo

Good job tands! El Diablo

Go back and double check what you are checking, or not checking. The problem lies there. El Diablo

they are NOT the caches of days gone by. not while i'm still alive, they're not. every cache has the possibility of bringing you something interesting, even the film canister behind the dumpster. if you can take the trouble to make the trip , even to rack up numbers, you can say a few words. if you are withholding words because you haven't any kind ones, that's another animal entirely. I'm sorry, but a film canister behind a dumpster isn't worth a log, it isn't even worth hunting. Obvisously we are different sides of the fence here. So lets just agree to disagree. El Diablo

A while back I posted about doing the worlds largest hiking staff as aTB. The goal is to go from Greensboro NC to Groundspeak in Seattle. The staff will be embedded with geo coins and has a special tracking number assigned by GC.com It will be completed in about a month. Originally it was 7 foot tall, but after some good advice about the logistics of moving someting that long, it has been cut to 5 1/2 foot. It's still a massive staff as it's 4 inches in diameter. I want any cacher to be able to move it on without owning a SUV or a truck. Of course this isn't a normal TB to be left at a cache. It needs to be passed along personally from cacher to cacher. I would like for it to get into as many hands as possible. Trusting hands. There will be over 60 hours of work into this TB, I don't want it to go missing. The idea way of moving it would be by event to event, but I'm open to other venues. What I'd would like is to preplan it's route so people know it's coming and can log it. So I need a trusted person in the Greensboro area that I can hand it off to, and then someone that can take from that person and move it towards the goal. We'll go from there. El Diablo

Sometimes it's best not to write anything else. If you hide interesting caches, you'll get interesting logs. El Diablo pfft. shame on you. do you really think i'm talking about my favorite key holder in a guardrail at a generic poison-ivy infested pull-off? most recently i got one of these four-letter logs on a beautiful ammo can hidden placed in my neighbor's yard. he has spent forty years building a HUGE rock wall and the cache is in a little niche where he has set up a swing for the pleasure of anyone who comes by. it is a roomy, well-appointed ammo can in a lovely place. i am in the habit of hiding interesting caches. i get a lot of boring logs. i don't care if you're not the barrett-brownings, but it'd be nice if after i have provided you with a pleasant cache you might take the trouble to write a few actual words. Now that I'll agree with. If it's a good hide, it should get good logs. One of the problems is people that power cache and then at the end are doing quick logs and aren't interested in posting a good log. All they care about are the numbers. I have caches that get good logs and then you see "8th cache today. TFTH" And if you go back and see all their caches for the day, it reads the same. I remember when I first started, it was pretty much all ammo cans or full size caches that lead you down a trail. Usually paid no attention to the hike in, but a lot of attention to your on the hike out. When you stopped focusing on the GPS, you saw a whole new world. Those were caches you wrote long logs about. those are the caches of days gone by. El Diablo

I've never met a cacher I didn't like. I've crossed horns with many in here, but I'm sure they are good people. I don't take the debates I've had personally. Opinions can become passionate. I like passion. It tells me alot about a person. El Diablo

As Flask pointed out, it's easier to get in than to get out. As also pointed out, if you've ever had a DUI in the states, don't enter. You will be arrested if they find out. It's unlawful to cross into Canada if you are a felon. In Canada a DUI is a felon. El Diablo

Sometimes it's best not to write anything else. If you hide interesting caches, you'll get interesting logs. El Diablo

Of course as most know, I'm a fan of wood staffs. If it was good enough for Moses, it's good enough for me. Although I might freak out is mine turned in to a serpent. Now for serious hikers, and by serious, I mean those that do difficult hikes, I would probably reccomend the high tech hiking poles. For the normal cacher going a mile or two on a well traveled trail it's not really needed. Unless you live in the mountains, and even then the wood staff will serve just as well on short hikes. They are a little more cumbersome to carry around, but in certain situations are more useful. For some reason wood staffs become very personal to people, especially if they make their own. It's like a part of your history. You can put on trail badges, carvings, etc... to keep a log of your travels. You can't do that with the fiberglass ones, or whatever they make them out of today. El Diablo

I actually don't think that's going to be a problem. From my experience (and I have lots of experience in this field) people that don't feel confident in their writing skills don't normally submit articles. There are exceptions, and with those you have to be tactful. There are people that you would love to have an article from, but they just can't write. This is where staff writers come into play. Anyways I wouldn't worry about about articles with no structure, poor grammer, or no substance being printed in any caching magazine. El Diablo

I have mine set on Auto Zoom. The closer you get the closer it zooms. El Diablo

You can load them from either a computer, or manually. El Diablo