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LOL! Maybe not lamppost caching, but i did just find a show on their listing that highlights travellig to different areas of the country to sit down and eat.... Man v. Food. NEXT EPISODE > Minneapolis > Wednesday, March 25, at 10 E/P Now if only he would eat that hoagie while hiking up Mt. Rainier to pick up a smiley on Vinny & Sue's PMC (Psycho Mountain Cache)#268 "LOSE AN ARM GAIN A SMILEY"

I'm with you Kit! The only thing that is hard for me is carrying that 40" flat screen, reciever, and satellite dish while I am hiking and not sitting down, while watching the travel channel. Hit POST to early -- edited to add the following... Regarding the original post - I am relatively new, but I don't fit the mold in the OP. I ordered a bunch of clear 6 mil bags when i started and carry them with me. I also printed off logs of different sizes to carry with me, in case i could help make a cache better along the way. I have added numerous logs, replaced numerous leaky bags, and even some cache containers along the way. I usually don't post a sperate note, but siply write what I noticed/did in my found it log. I figure if I fixed the problem I don't need to file a needs maintenance log anymore, but I want the Co to know whatis happening in case they want to check it themselves. I guess I still have enough noob in me to expect that the CO cares to maintain their cache, and i do get annoyed when I see that a cache has a series of DNFs and requests to check on it by people with many finds, and over the course of months the CO does nothing about it. When I start placing caches, I plan to think of them as children (sort of). If I can't take care of them, I shouldn't have them.

I was getting ready to say "Rodents Of Unusual Size", but then I realized that this was ROUS not ROHS.... INCONCEIVABLE!

That is awesome!!! I have even found birdhouse and birdfeeder caches made from plastic feeders. with areas hollowed to hold the 35mm film canister. It took me forever on that one as I thought it was a real bird feeder.

First of all, thank you. Second, I picked this activity up in the hopes that it will be a family thing. Right now, with my son about to turn four, and one on the way, it is not quite a family thing yet - my wife and son come along, but he is not really into it yet. I hope that when my son is 6 he will love it, and it will get better as he gets older. The sad fact is, that no matter how much we might want them to like it, it is really a crap shoot if they do. I wish you luck, and welcome home. For the record, I think it is cool that you want to have some "man" time with your son. My wife recently took her first trip away without us this past January to visit her parents in Florida for a week. I taught my son to say some fun stuff while she was gone.... when I would ask him "Logan, what time is it?" he would reply "man time! and there's no chicks allowed!". Ladies, please don't be offended by "chicks" it was done completely in fun. Anyway it was really cute, and yes, I am sure that it will come back to haunt me someday We had to make an exception for Grandmom, since she watched him while I was at work

Wouldn't that be every cache, until you look for it? Why.... you would have to DNF more than 745,790 caches!

Agreed. But my point is more about the relationship between the lands management and geocaching in general. If I were a park ranger walking a trail and I see a painted rock and I become aware that it is related to a geocache, am I really going to take the time to find out whther the rock is indigenous or a transplant? And does it really matter? It stills LOOKS like a painted rock in a natural area. My point is, that the Park Service wouldn't differentiate their opinion of geocaching, regardless of whether the painted rock was carried in, or was "born" there. They are still going to assume that someone painted a rock in the park, not "well, perhaps it was carried in..." How is that aspect any different?

If I get out of the cachemobile at all, I log the DNF. If I drive by and find that there are way too many muggles at that location at the time, and I never even start the hunt, then I do not. I love logging the DNFs, because then i can go back through my own cache logs, and look for new logs on that hide that might provides new clues....

No problem hiding them at all - just bury most of it in a hole you dig and paint the closest rock to match the color of the ammo can! JOKING! No PMs Required!

The cache is hidden off the yellow trail in Ramapo Mountain State Forest on the western side of 287.... Thanks, it sounds like you are referring to the Hoeferlin Trail. I have an interest in that specific area because I'm the Ramapo Mountain State Forest trails supervisor and in a way, the eyes and ears for the state in that forest. I haven't found every cache in the area but I know nearly every cache hider who has hidden one there and I doubt any of them would use spraypaint to mark their cache. It's a heavily used area and non geocaching related graffiti is common. I suspect that the hide used existing graffiti, but if you can give me the GC# I will check it out. If you are referring to the cache that I think you are referring to, those rocks were taken from the CO's yard, carved, then lugged into the woods. A lot of work, but not a guideline issue. Actions that could jeopardize geocaching as a sport are unconscionable. They might not rise to the level of rape or murder but not every unconscionable act does. The middle section of this discussion really interests me -- if carving some rocks from my own property and then carting them into the woods and leaving them is okay, would painting some of my own rocks and carting them into the woods be okay too? How in the world would anyone ever be able to tell? I am sure it is not tha case in the OP's situation based on the first hand knowledge of graffiti in the area, but what if the CO painted his own rock and took it into the woods to use for a clue? Any innocent bystander or park personnel certainly wouldn't be able to see any difference. I am not trying to challenge anything, just curious how it would be any different to an official... It still looks like a painted rock in the forest. edited for bad typing skills!

Actually it was fine when it told you that you were in West Virginia - it was just wishfully thinking!

Well, except for those muggles with the pretty flashing lights on their cars. Yeah... but even they are pretty tame once you wrestle their guns away from them!

I don't know about the Triton, but I can say that I have a Vista HCX (Garmin) and I didn't have any startup troubles understanding how to use it like wavector suggested. It was my first GPS, and it was working and easy to use right away for me -- so naturally I would recommend it.

Micro or Regular? Regular Traditional or Multi? both Mystery or Earth? mystery In a group or alone? prefer small group - usually alone Hiding or Finding? finding Virtual or Webcam? virtual Letterbox or Wherigo? haven't done either yet Favorite GPS? Garmin Vista HCX Social(event) or not? not yet FTF'er or not? not Podcast listener or not? not Out of state or In state? mostly in "Extreme/Hardcore" or Layed back? layed back Urban / Rural? rural

I get more angry leaving the site of DNF than I do logging it. I think every honest cacher has a closet full of DNFs, and only those that are worried about their image don't log them. I log every one. Actually, over time I have found that logging the DNFs makes me feel even better about the smileys! The smiley is especially smiling when it is logged after a DNF on the same cache. I think it shows that you were beaten once, but came back to win! Just think of it this way - plenty of NFL teams have won the Superbowl, but very few of them have done it with no losses during the regular season. No baseball team has ever won the world series without losing some games during the season -- you get the point. Overcoming the DNF is more important than hiding it! Don't be ashamed. Nobody's perfect! Log that frowny with pride, and then feel good about the fact that you have owned every success and failure equally.

For urban micros I have found that you have to "FEEL" everything. Carefully run your hand on the least visible side of whatever you are searching around. Most often the object will not be visible, but will move when your hand brushes against it giving you that "Wait a minute..." sensation. Another common suggestion people say is to think like you were hiding it. Where would you try to hide the cache in this location? Learn to distrust everything. Many times when I first started (which was only a year or so ago), I would look at something and say, "oh, that is just a bolt." After a fake bolt cache container, i learned that there is no such thing as "just a bolt" anymore. Don't take anything for what it appears to be. Some hiders are very creative.

About 30 feet, before he keels over from all of that weight! Headlamps are awesome when caching at night/dusk/dawn. Magnet epoxied on the end of an old collapsable radio antenna (from a broken boom box) GPS and PALM Sanford PhD three way pen/pencil/stylus Swiss Army knife with tweezers some extra logs and 6 mil resealable plastic bags to repair caches with.

As they find it, each person walks away from GZ and puts their finger on their nose, but says nothing. When you are down to the last moron cacher, you know who is buying lunch that day! Really we usually just say "found it", and then everyone runs over. Kinda boring really. Although if you are my wife, you yell "I got it" seven or eight times before you really have it, because she suffers from premature exclamation.

Yes, I was really struggling with the whole bigger/better argument when I was holding both of them.... Bigger is always better, but not (I concluded) at the expense of clarity and especially brightness. It was very hard though, knowing that I will only blow that kind of money once in a great while, and wouldn't get teh chance to get a different GPS anytime soon. (edited for spelling)

Agreed, my VISTA HCX is awesome. I wouldn't trade it for anything! CRISP screen and bright!

AND.. don't add an ALR that stipulates that in order to claim a find the cachers must post a picture of themselves with your cache while wearing a deer costume

While I am not at all competitive with regards to numbers or FTFs, I will admit that logging a find online is a "reward" to me. I love to see my own numbers climb, although I regularly pick one cache that is more aesthetically pleasing over 10 lamp post caches (but i will hunt those too). I think the idea of order is why i like logging so much. I am one of those anal retentive types that likes to "check that one off my list" and move on to the next area with some ridiculous notion that one day the entire US map will be smileys (ok not really). It is for my own satisfaction that I find smileys a reward, but I certainly don't play the numbers game. For myself, if a friend ask me to do a test run on his/her cache prior to publication, I wouldn't claim a FTF, as I don't think that is in the spirit of good sportsmanship. I would not sign the log or log it, until after it had 3 or 4 other signees, so that those who go in for that wouldn't have their FTF party jeopardized.

Nevermind -- I realized that I can't remember what mine did after I clicked reply! I always delete all my GSAK files before I unzip the new PQs. I am thinking at one point before I started that practice that the files were duplicated, not replaced, but I won't promise that is correct. It would be easy to try it and find out though.

WOW that is a steal - I paid $220 for mine a year ago!

Even disabling may not go far enough. The cache could still pop up on someone's PQ if they don't have "is active" checked. I would list in your cache page description that this is a hunting area during whatever the specific times are, and even suggest some blaze - just to feel that you have completely done everything you could to inform, and warn others. I am not a hunter, but live around/in hunting areas, and I am own several firearms. I personally wouldn't object to hunting the cache, depending on location even during hunting season, provided it was mid-day and i was wearing blaze. You can never be too safe when dealing with firearms.