Team Perks

That's dependent on many, many factors. How many people will you carry? How severe do you expect the terrain to be? Will it be your daily driver? Does that include heavy mud or water crossings? The most important thing to keep in mind is that every extra part you put on a vehicle will add weight and cut down on your mileage...so don't go overboard and get everything you can, just because you can. Some essential modifications: - Off-road tires - Improved skid plates - Extra lights, including a rear spotlight - CB or other longer-range radio, with hard-wired antenna - Portable air compressor that can attach directly to car battery - High-lift jack - Recovery hooks, front & rear Other recommendations, depending on how far you'll be travelling and much you plan to beat it up: - Lift kit & larger tires (with full-size spare) - Lockers - Winch - Exterior jerry-can mounts (NOT the kind that sit in front of the rear bumper) In my opinion, brush guards and snorkels are rarely necessary...Grille guards, in particular, will add a LOT of extra weight for minimal benefit. As for me? I love my cachemobile. I just wish it had two things: air conditioning, and a lot more power!

Wow...Good thing I did!

I'm with the group who will generally refuse to look for a cache in someone's front yard. I don't care if you're sure all the neighbors know why I'm there...*I* can't be sure all the neighbors know I'm there, and I'm not gonna be harassed by the cops again if I can help it.

I've got a whopping five consecutive days with a find. I had a 50-some day drought last January/February. I was surprised to learn that I have the second-highest "finds per caching day" ratio among all registered itsnotaboutthenumbers.com users, so I suppose trying to find one cache every day would kinda kill that number.

Of my 40 active cache hides... 26 of them are on 13 different public bookmarks. A few of them are on multiple bookmarks, for a total of 31 individual bookmark listings. I was pleased to see that a few of my caches are on "favorite caches" bookmarks, including Kit Fox, Team Snorkasaurus, and Webfoot.

I think the rudest cachers I've met have been in these forums. Jeremy & his crew seemed to do a pretty good job of dealing with them quickly. I'm really having trouble thinking of any cacher I've met in person who was an out-and-out jerk. I think they're a generally decent bunch of people.

If that is indeed the cache, the fact that 1) the cache owner's handle appears to be a ham radio call sign and 2) his stated occupation is a radar tech, it would seem entirely plausible that he had permission to hide the cache there. However, if this is the case, I must agree this should be clearly stated on the cache page.

Hey, even Kermit knows that clothing is sometimes appropriate. Now THAT's yuppie. Though I can't say for certain whether he was actually wearing pants.

Soon, Marty, I promise that I will find that cache, and congratulate Elin for her accomplishment--which you are quite correct, has absolutely nothing to do with how many finds she has.

I bought 44 of the 30-cal's on eBay for $2 apiece plus shipping. The shipping costs (from Virginia to California) brought the cost up to a little over $4 per can. Not a phenomenal bargain but still cheaper than I could find anywhere else.

Forget the dancing baby. Show me some of these!

Wow. Oh, wow. I just clicked on the "See the forum posts for this user" button. Umm...yeah. I'm speechless. Wow.

I spend considerably more time viewing cache listings in GSAK and Cachemate than on GC.com, so the most appealing cache page layout is the type that doesn't leave me frustrated while looking for the cache because I can't view all the pretty pictures...

So, a cache in a Wal-Mart parking lot would get a "parking lot" attribute, but not a cache in/near a parking lot for a vista point or a county park? I'm not sure I follow your logic. If the idea is to weed out uninteresting caches, I don't think a "parking lot" attribute is necessarily going to be all that useful. I've been to plenty of cache sites that made a shopping center seem appealing by comparison. I think it's pretty well established that people use the attribute functions very differently from each other, if at all. I think it's already pretty easy to decide whether a cache is likely to be in a parking lot...Using your examples, if I saw a cache that had a really low difficulty/terrain rating, without the "scenic view" or "off road vehicle" attributes selected, and with the "parking nearby" attribute selected, it's a pretty good possibility it might be in a parking lot.

How about a job that requires you to work only the occasional evening, while leaving you completely free during daylight hours and plenty of time to sleep at night? My vote goes to professional singer.

So, what type of cache would be worthy of a "parking lot" attribute? The grimy asphalt slab behind the local auto parts store, the scenic vista point next to the fascinating historical marker, and the wide dirt clearing at the end of the 4x4 trail could all easily be considered "parking lots." How close to the cache would I have to be able to park? 10 feet? 100 feet? Would it have to actually be IN the parking lot? What if it was just barely outside the parking lot? Would it have to be at the same elevation as the parking? What if the cache let you park right next to a cliff, but you had to climb your way down to find it? Would it really be that useful to you (that is, the collective "you") if cache owners had to ask themselves all those questions in decicing whether to use that icon? I bet I'd answer them differently than you would.

If that was your truck you're standing on, I could understand why!

Yep! The photo was taken where I had parked my Jeep for one of the Hardcore caches, so it couldn't have been more than a couple hundred feet from the cache (I forget which, though!).

I'm not sure which scenery I enjoyed more.

But why would I want to do that, when I can stay home and cache?

Some caches have hundreds of logs. I've seen a few virtuals with well over 1000 logs. In addition to stressing the servers out, I would have to wonder what the utility of downloading all that information would be. I think having the last 10 logs (whenever they get around to that) is more than adequate; if they don't help me find the cache, those logs from 2003 probably aren't going to help much either.

Being geocachers, aren't we strange by definition?

I think these are the kinds of things that nutlady is talking about. I think it's quite clear why poking around these could be construed as intending to vandalize or contaminate. I've found a few caches on these and similar pumps--though never on active farmlands (the area where I used to live had a lot of disused/abandoned agricultural lands). Usually they're right by the side of the road, and are unfenced.

You'd probably have a tough time convincing THIS Officer Williams to give permission...

I don't have any strong feelings about it, if the cache owner made it easy to google the information. I suppose it's kinda silly (what's the point?) but if others want to play the game that way, I can still have fun playing the game my way.