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"Just for fun he says, "Get a Job'"---Bruce Hornsby

Man, is that some weird Freudian slip? especially with his screenname (pork king...porking?)

Well, this phenomenon is a shame, but not unexpected. As geocaching grows in popularity, more people want to do it because it is a fad, not necessarily because they really WANT to do it. They don't want to be taken out of their comfort zone. With any sort of activity like this, there will be that element that come in and advocate the "wussification" of said activity, because they don't want to get their hands dirty. Ignore them and stay extreme, if that's your thing. Wussification. I may have coined a phrase...or maybe not...

Ok. These are our 3. Nacho, our male, is our avatar. Sierra, our older female is at the top. Penny, their daughter, is at the bottom. They occasionally cache with us, but typically not.

You can only imagine what I was thinking when I saw the title of this thread...

Yeah, awhile back when I was researching GPSr's, I posed the question to AG and she raved over her 76. I have a good compass, so I decided to forego the cs. I really wanted the extra memory and such. I am really jazzed about this. Can't wait for it to get here.

Of course the price you quoted her included City Select, didn't it? City Select will be showing up for Christmas (I hope)!

I ordered my first GPS (baselevel Maggie Sportrak) thru Amazon and had a good experience. I had shopped around and found a good price on the 76c throughGPSNow. Right at 400, including 2 day shipping. I ordered it yesterday and am awaiting its arrival tomorrow. Quite excited to get it.

Well, yesterday I placed an order for a 76c. I am really excited about it. I am upgrading from my original GPSr (base-level magellan sportrak), so this is going to be a huge leap. I was struggling with justifying the cost, wrestling with whether I needed the 76 or could just get by with the 60. Wife finally told me to treat myself to the extras. I decided to go with the c as opposed to the cs because I knew I really didn't need the compass or altimeter. It will be arriving tomorrow and I am jazzed.

For what it is worth, my first GPSr was/is a base-level Magellan Sportrak. Nice little unit, did everything I needed it to do. I bought it because the price was decent. I wanted to get a GPSr initially that I wasn't going to have to spend a lot of $$ on because I wasn't sure if I would really enjoy caching. Well, 286 caches later, I am preparing to upgrade to the Garmin 76c. I will still keep and use the Sportrak as a backup unit.

Aw, jeez...makes me want to lose my lunch...tell me he was using something to scrape the feces off other than his bare hands...

So, let me get this straight. You have high school kids as police officers in your town? That's...interesting... Sounds like a "badge bunny" had arrived and that patrol car was probably fixing to commence rocking...

Is that legal? Seems like it would be impersonating a construction worker or something. Is there a law against impersonating construction workers?

Or, when the cops arrive yell something about not being taken alive, and run off into the woods yelling "Attica!"

yikes...yeah, i would have definitely beaten feet out of there too...Have you thought about talking to the police about this guy and the mysterious "walk-in safe" in the basement of the building? Something is up with that. Like the previous poster said, god only knows what or who is in that basement

every time. They're there for a reason

yep...lure them in slow, tempt them with a treat, talk softly and slowly to them...and then BASH THEM OVER THE HEAD REPEATEDLY!!!!!!

Scrapbooking works great in my parts also. We have several separate hobby's. I buy ammo cans and gpsr's, she buys die cuts and albums. I buy batteries and swag, she buys stickers, and 12x12 paper. 2 weekends ago, she went to a scrapbooking retreat, and I saw more woods than carpet. She goes to "crops", I go caching. Only drawback, every time I go to an outdoors store, I also have to go to a craft store. Small price to pay for a wife that lets me cache whenever I want, unless she says otherwise. dadgum family commitments She and my friends wife are both into Scrapbooking big time.......helps a little. yes...Julia caches with me sometimes...most times it is just me...she scrapbooks, though, so she has her thing that she spends time and money on, and I have mine...works very well...

I did a cache last summer in a normal, wooded area. There must've been a yellowjacket nest nearby because, right when I was reaching for the cache container, I got stung on the right ear. I don't know if anyone has ever been stung on the ear, but I don't recommend it. LOTS of nerves. I aborted on that one, but, with the cache owner's permission, logged a find. If I had looked back in the logs I would've seen I wasn't the first to be stung.

This person was going to their cache every morning and putting ICE in it to keep the water bottles cold? Was this cache just a big coleman cooler? That's definitely different.

I disagree. I think if you got to the site (or what you thought was the site, anyway) and hunted it to the best of your ability but could not find the cache then, yes, log a DNF. If circumstances permitted you from not effectively hunting the cache, I would say post a note. A DNF could potentially be used by the cache owner as an indicator of problems with the cache. If you never reached the cache area, I would think a note would be better.

Try to get a virtual approved nowadays...

Ha, I hope not! Actually that was a big concern of mine (and other cachers had noted it in the log book), but I'm decidedly itch-free today, so I don't believe there was any poison ivy. I consider myself pretty lucky. I don't react to poison ivy or poison oak. Granted, you can develop a reaction to it, so it may not always be so...but, 2 years into caching, and many traipses through poison ivy and nothing...so, I am pretty happy about that.

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Yep. This works great. I work for a Sheriff's Dept and this is how one of our local meth dealers was trying to hide his stash. He used a round Altiods tin painted to match the bottom of his car. We found it in a search warrant of the car. It was actually in his pocket when he was stopped and he had stuck it to the seat frame before he was arrested. Thing looked beat to heck but was still watertight and the magnet was in good shape, would stick to the bottom of a moving car just fine. For doing a good deed to society by getting that dirtbag off the streets, you should get credited with an additional smiley for that find. Maybe classify it under miscellaneous or something.