radical geezer

On a similar note, I recently came across a live bullet in one cache and a flare in another. I took them both and they won't be seeing the inside of a cache again. I also recommended to geocaching.com that they expand their list of verboten items to include anything flammable/incendiary/explosive in nature and they recently replied that they are in the process of doing exactly that. I mean, who wants to see something like the Julian fire happening and have the source traced back to a butane lighter left in a cache? That would go a long way toward getting a great hobby regulated or even banned. The best idea is to try to use a bit of good ol' fashioned common sense - both in the placement of caches and the stuff we put in them. Peace, Radical Geezer

Just wanted to post a note to say thanks for all the fun the past couple of days. I just started geocaching two weeks ago and am a real newbie - but what a great time to start! It's been almost as much fun reading everyone's posts as it is hitting the trails. Gotta admit that I wound up a tad frustrated with myself - I was seriously, seriously considering doing the Top of the World the first morning since I'd never been up there, but I turned the other way to hit #11 and a couple of other caches in Oakoasis. Turns out I could have bagged a brand new Magellan! Oh well, the wildflowers and views in Oakoasis were certainly worth the trip, and since Iron Mountain is the toughest trail I've tackled in a while I'm not too sure I would have wanted to take on Top of the World all by my lonesome anyway. Been kind of surprised that I've already met several people on the trails...hope I get to meet more of you in the future. Take a stab at my first cache when you get a chance - already thinking about what to put in another one - and thanks again! Peace.

Had a great time wandering around the Sea to Sea today, but something very strange has happened. I was the second to #11 San Vicente after Splashman & Splashette and cadged the T-Shirt. I was so happy with the find that I put it on right away and wore it to go scrounging for #9 (you can read about the misadventure in my post). Anyhoo, while slogging through the underbrush looking for #9 my brand new T-Shirt got kind of, um, icky. So when I got home I immediately put it into the wash to see if I could reclaim it. Fortunately, it came out just fine, but with one startling problem: when I took it out of the wash, it said "TRAIL DAY 2002"! Not only did I get all the stains out, I TOOK AN ENTIRE YEAR OFF THE COTTON' PICKIN' SHIRT!!! So here's what I want to know: Did I use the wrong kind of bleach? Is it possible that the spin cycle spun that sucker right into a time warp and shucked a year off of it? I'd really like to know, because if I can find out if it was the spin cycle for instance, I plan on taking about thirty-five trips in that puppy myself. ...and if it is the spin cycle, maybe I could reverse the wiring and ADD a year to stuff. If I can do that, I'm gonna put tomorrow's sports section into the thing and exactly one year from now I'll be richer than God...or even Bill Gates! My wife always said I didn't know what I was doing around the washer - boy howdy - you gals been keeping some big secret from us menfolk all these years? Where's Einstein when you need him?