popokiiti

There was one on a beach near where we live that we didn't find....and then one night I dreamed we did. Sure enough, it was one of those evil hides, behind what I had tapped with my hiking stick on our first trip. The dream came true.

Haven't taken the second canister of bear spray out since the incident on the back roads with the first. We were in the area where we had seen bears while caching part of the VLH series and after signing the log at a cache the canister dropped into the dust on the side of the road. That was it - orange spray came out from a pinhole in the can, choking us and entering the car through the sunroof and open windows. I would hate an animal to go through what we did, and the fact you have to spray so any wind is coming from behind you makes it tricky. If I hear a rustle, I make noise for now. It would be just my luck to pepper myself - seasoning for the beast!

I'd rather seek the money than be caught in possession of pot. The pictures in the article reminded me of a great brand of catnip from the lower mainland that our cats love, and that has earned the mock title "BC Bud."

Firefox seems to work fine. Have you downloaded the Garmin Communicator? If not, do that, log out of geocaching.com then log back in and you should be set. I had to restart my old computer for it to "take" but it got there in the end. If you are still having issues, let us know....there are others here who can probably help you better than I.

Name on the card: Parents Billing Address: Parents Member it is for: Your caching name (but I think the system will know that) Being a Premium Member: Priceless Welcome to the PM Crew!

Oooh, nice big truck! Ours are just as shiny, but quite a bit smaller.

Glad you have had good service folks, but sorry you still have issues slant88. I use the 62s, and I am happy with it. Still learning every time I use it...but there's no joystick! Let Garmin know your frustrations, and maybe they can point you in the direction of a unit you'll be happy with. If you are honest and polite, who knows - they may give you a deal? One can dream.................good luck!

I find your know-it-all attitude hilarious especially as we're still not sure it was my cache. Obviously you are insinuating the above is what I should have done, knowing full-well that I didn't. I did what I thought was right under the circumstances. As I have no idea whose cache it is and still don't, I find it strange you should be under the impression that I think it is yours. I do not know if it is yours, nor have I insinuated that you are the CO. You are reading things into my posts that aren't there. In answer to questions 1,2 and 3 - no. You may reclall that in one of my posts, I stated that my original post was placed to serve as a reminder to us all - ME INCLUDED - to label our caches. So glad you had a chuckle at what you mistakenly thought was me being a know-it-all! That made me laugh - thanks.

Between us we have a few out there. After the events in Moncton NB, I thought it may be an idea to place a reminder for all of us (me included) to do this to give the RCMP/police something less to worry about. I see no problem with that in this free world of ours. I feel for the cache owner - even though they are anonymous - I am sure it upset them with all the kerfuffle that occurred. We didn't see a cache at that location on the map, so it may well have been a multi. Maybe the it was the CO who called the police and described the container and location accurately, and gave the GC#. If so, good for her.

Oops! Major street shut down in Victoria, BC when suspicious item spotted. Luckily, someone who had found the cache recently called the police and the Bomb Squad were stood down. We had jokingly said that we wondered it it was a cache, checked the map, couldn't see anything listed and thought no more about it....until just now when local media reported that the road was open, and it was a cache! A reminder to us all to do what we can to identify our hides..........on the outside.

Had a few at my personal email address a few years back. Just love the delete button. The ones supposedly from my bank saying my web banking password had been compromised were laughable - at that time I didn't do online banking! Printed out the emails, took 'em to my bank and was thrilled to see the "From" line had a email address attached. Big grin from the tellers, and to the bad guys - hello fraud squad!

Where I would love to go caching if I won the lottery....."All Over The World" by Electric Light Orchestra.

edit to add: Maybe it worked as location services were turned on?

Welcome to the fun, forums and the PM club! Try the Off Topic forum....just for us PMs. Basic Members (I nearly put BMs but thought better of it) are unable to post there.

If you see the container low down, pretend to tie your shoe and grab the cache. Walk away a few steps to sign the log and to replace - repeat. That helps with smaller containers. For a sandwich sized Lock and Lock on a boardwalk trail near us, I pretended to be eating from my "lunch box" even mumbling a reply to the greetings from the muggles. You'll get creative! If someone asks point blank what you are doing, and seems in a position of authority, or a neighbour - always tell the truth. One neighbour was pleased to learn about geocaching, thinking that the ivy which concealed the cache was a drug drop!

I don't like the idea of anyone forcing their views on me, be it religion or politics. I don't like seeing advertizing either, but it isn't my cache so not my job to clean it up of these things. However, if I came across something pornographic, that I would dispose of in case kids were the next finders of the cache.

The worst thing with any container is if any of the contents get caught in the seal as you close it. If we are caching in the rain, we sneak the logbook out and put the lid back on the container to keep it as dry as possible. We shield the log as best we can while signing also and on replacing try to ensure that nothing is caught in the seal. We use Lock'n'Locks by StarFrit mostly, but do have some other containers we are trying to place and thinking of evil ways to do so.....

I see previous DNFs as challenges....maybe the difficulty should be higher, maybe others do what I frequently do and over think the issue. The only person who can say a cache is missing is the person(s) who placed it. We had searched for something that was "within six feet of the ********" and come up with nothing. Warmed up in the car, had a drink then back into the cold and I found it - ATTACHED to the ********! Hiders are crafty, so you have to crafty in your seeking skills - think "where would I hide it?" The travel bugs I have released are missing in action, so I don't bother with that anymore, but do have a bug on my vehicle for others to discover.

You can use the Send To GPS button with that unit - I had that one - but I am a premium member. You can print out the cache pages, including 5 or 10 of the most recent logs. That gets old fast, uses a lot of paper and ink, and I could only recycle so much! You are doing the right thing in deleting the preloaded ones. You may also find that you have to log out of geocaching.com and back in again for software to take, and in my case, I had to restart my computer! If you have any more questions, feel free to ask! Welcome to the fun and the forums.

Main thing you can teach possible newcomers is not to divulge the location of the caches you seek to all and sundry, show photos of good and bad containers, and explain that geocachers leave no trace. You may want to get a small group together (6 or so) and then do lunch/dinner. Perhaps the best thing you can do is read the sections on "Hiding/Finding a Cache" on the main site. That'll give you some facts you can pass along.

You can do paperless caching with the smartphone app - the free version allows 3 caches per 24 hour period, or the paid app is $10. Not sure if your Garmin has paperless capability, but there are quite a few GPSs out now that do. Welcome Back!!

There's one like that here. Took me many passes to solve. Who Learned U How 2 Rite?? I kept getting a headache every time I tried that one!

You already know this, but kids have a shorter attention span than us adults, so the pre-finding idea is good. The reward for trying, ice cream, I love! Some parents have a chart on the fridge - who found how many, but I prefer Team Kids against Team Parents, where you can hold your tongue when you spy the cache first, so they can beat you by at least one or two finds. We didn't find a cammoed film canister on one trip, and ran into another cacher with 5 year old daughter on the way out. 3 adults looking, the 5 year old found it lickety split. Those young eyes are great and I bet it won't be long before you don't have to pre-find!

One of ours is called Popoki Iti's Dream. Yep, my name in the title and I am proud of it. My dream came true when I became a Canadian and I wanted to celebrate that fact. Nobody around here is offended by it, or thinks it rude, quite the opposite in fact. My GPS only shows part of the longer cache titles, I have yet to get it to stay on the GC#. I think the trouble the OP has is that the caches show as the same....I found it recently with some "B.C. Parks - " and the number or name of the series doesn't show on my GPS. The answer is to use the GC# which is unique, and shorter. I am working on it!

First thing I thought of, having grown up in the UK, was some "District Cricket Club." The M I am stumped on - pardon the pun! Marylebone?