BadAndy

Monkeygirl, Pay no attention to the bickering forum junkies. Check out www.idahogeocachers.org We often hold pizza parties at Idaho Pizza on Kimberly road to work out those Skinguy puzzles and you're most welcome to join us. We usually post them on the IGO site under the Magic Valley subforum. Skinguy usually attends and tosses us bones if we get in too deep. The meetings (if a puzzle is solved) are followed by a night trip to the cache in question. See you there!!

I'm in the same boat as Jeremy. No PI rashes in decades, but nettle reaches out and grabs me.

I've attended 17 posted events and hosted 2. Add to that numerous puzzle solving pizza parties. Events are a blast. I won't miss one if I can help it, and have been known to attend events solo when out of town on business. It didn't matter that I didn't know anyone, I was welcomed as if I was a local regular.

""Allegedly, after the rescue squad found the little girl, one of the squad members fired a shot from a small caliber handgun," Hicks said Friday. "We don't know whether the bear was hit or not. There was no blood, but it chased it off."" It's too bad the girls family was'nt packing.

When I export a region using mapsend topo3d to my hard drive, it's saved in .img format instead of .imi. as a result, the conversion manager ignores the file and I can't copy it to my ex600. the 600 needs it to be in .imi format, and I know ir *used* to work because I loaded a number of regions before the firmware update a few months ago. Did something change?

Some of my favorite Geocachers are gals. My wife recently caught the ftf bug and now she goes with me just about every time. About 40% of the active local cachers are ladies also. I even know a few from the forums, but they can get a bit curmudgenly from time to time.

I appreciate the compliment RK. It took my wife and I almost two episodes of "Law and Order" to tag all 500 coins, not bad at all.

Rattlesnake Subaru driving Amateur Herpatologist Kabobs ~ 1 rattlesnake Subaru driving Amateur Herpatologist, cut into 5 - 8 sections ~ 1 bell pepper, cut into 5 - 8 sections ~ 1 red onion, cut into 5 - 8 sections ~ 1 bottle of A-1 sauce Place rattlesnake Subaru driving Amateur Herpatologist sections onto a metal skewer with bell pepper and red onion sections between each section of snake. With a brush, generously apply A-1 sauce to snake sections. Place skewers over an open flame, preferably a campfire. Cook for about 15 - 20 minutes rotating halfway every 3 - 5 minutes. Serve and Enjoy!

Looks like the Groundspeak crew finally upgraded to Magellans......

I am usually pretty good at puzzles, but I have no clue where to start with this mess: Anyone have some ideas? This is a SkinGuy puzzle. He's fairly notorious in my neck of the woods with difficult puzzle caches. We all get together every few months over beer and pizza to try and solve them. Skinguy occasionally feels pity on us poor souls and will drop us a hint from time to time. Colors of caching isn't his oldest unsolved puzzle. Undisclosed Location has been in play for over 2 years and while the cache has been found (by dubious means), the puzzle remains unsolved.

I wish there was a skirtlifter attribute so I could filter those as well.

Rattlesnake Kabobs ~ 1 rattlesnake, cut into 5 - 8 sections ~ 1 bell pepper, cut into 5 - 8 sections ~ 1 red onion, cut into 5 - 8 sections ~ 1 bottle of A-1 sauce Place rattlesnake sections onto a metal skewer with bell pepper and red onion sections between each section of snake. With a brush, generously apply A-1 sauce to snake sections. Place skewers over an open flame, preferably a campfire. Cook for about 15 - 20 minutes rotating halfway every 3 - 5 minutes. Serve and Enjoy!

It is the leatherman variant of the public domain geocaching logo. I don't recall that it had any religious overtones or implications. The X isn't a cross...it's an X as in X marks the spot.

Looks pretty realistic to me. Like RK said...if it is fake, it's a dandy.

Apparently, the McDonalds policy only applies to corporate owned restaraunts. Our local franchise owned restaraunts will rent us a cooler filled with orange stuff for $8.00 a day and won't even discount the food...let alone donate it.

I believe we all share a responsibility for quality caches. When we find a cache, we should make an effort to leave it in as good of shape (or better) than we found it. Cache owners should make periodic visits to keep the cache in good shape.

If I had actually said that...you'd have a point. Since I didn't..you don't.

This sounds alot like a suggestion to remove any cache that doesn't meet your personal expectations.

Heres the deal. Magellan is a small portion of Thales, the parent company. Thales manufactures much more electronics than handheld gps units, as a result their focus is not limited to McToy locators. As they delve into other areas, they focus on whats really making the bucks, and gpsr's ain't it. Last winter I was repairing a GE digital flouroscopy system and found that the optics assemble needed to be replaced. It's made by Thales for GE and lists for around $50,000.00. How many gpsr's do they need to sell to generate that kind of revenue?

Swag is the common stuff you might find or drop in a cache ie: mctoys, golf balls, keychains etc. If it's a personal sig item, it's called Mojo.

I've received many requests for info on our nickel/pokerchip project and instead of repeating it over and over, I'll put together an instruction sheet to email to folks....and post it here. Watch this space....

After you login to your account, click on the "hide and seek" a cache link on the lefthand menu. Near the bottom of that page you'll see where you can search for the cache you found by name or by waypoint id (GCXXXX). Once you're at the correct cache page, click "log your visit" in the upper right corner menu. Congrats on your first finds and welcome to the addiction.

I have: 2006 Idaho BadAndy Seeking: Anything with an Icon I don't have.

Embroidered leather swagbags and geocoin wallets. They seem to go over pretty good.

Many people do not log their DNF's. After you place a few caches, compare the logbook to the online logs and you'll find that many cachers also do not log their finds online. Different strokes for different folks.