Zolgar

Usually that just means that I have to cache alone... As long as I have enough water, I'm game! Less muggles to deal with. Hahah! I know how that goes. Gets hot my parents are like "It's too hot to go out." Roo is like "It's too hot to go out." And I'm like "dadgum it people you're my transportation!" .. Sometimes I will brave the heat on the mtn bike. Sometimes.

Just to chime in, I've had a Zagg Invisible Shield on my Vista HCx for over a year now.. I usually carry my Vista in one of those little soft boot-like cases for them for ease (have a lanyard attached to it). But my Vista also spends most of its time on the handlebars of my mountain bike that's used for commuting. Or sitting on my cluttered desk being shuffled around and having things dropped on it. I've dropped it. I've sat on it, I've fallen on it, I've flipped my bike upside down ontop of it (only once because I forgot it was on the handlebars), the body shows definite signs of wear. The screen does not. A little costly? yes. Worth every penny? Hell yes.

Traveling to exciting new locations.. Seeing strange new creatures.. Killing them and taking their stuff! Peeing in the woods is all well and good, but I prefer peeing off a cliff! Nothing quite like standing less than a foot away from an edge and taking a whiz, hoping that no one is directly under you.. But secretly hoping that maybe there IS someone down there..... >.> The fresh air and exercise is good, too. As is the crusing up to a spot where there's a cache, and seeing someone milling around and thinking to yourself "That's either a cacher, or a nutter... or maybe both."

True, within 1 hour of NYC you have 46,613 acre Harriman State Park, the adjacent 5,067-acre Bear Mountain State Park and the nearby 7,000+ acre Hudson Highlands State Park and their beaugiful, rugged terrain and breath taking views, along with many dozens of geocaches. Same can be said for Tucson. Within a comfortable "day trip" distance from Tucson, you have: Mount Lemon, which is the closest to a forest you'll find in So-AZ, and has some interesting history. Redington Pass, more of classic arid desert mountains. Some nice hiking in the area. Patagonia lake, yes, we have a frelling lake in So-AZ! .. what, why are you looking at me like that? >.> In several directions you get rough, rock strewn terrain. You can hit the Anza trail up, which offers a bit of caching alone a river, and has the dense plantlife expected around a river ('s funny the views you can have sometime. Look one way: vibrant plantlife dense enough that you can't see anything past it. Turn around: brown desert far as the eye can see) And of course, being as this is Arizona, you can find yourself typical arid desert wastes.

Very similar to TC with the exception that if it is a choice between a lame parking lot hide and a lame ammo can near some farmer's field I'll take the lame ammo can. A walk i the woods or some field is better than a walk in a parking lot. Too lazy to type, so this is my opinion, too.

>.> <.< The real reason there are so many micros is because They know that micros will be found more often by more people. You see, all that history about geocaching is just BS, geocaching is really a grand experiment by Them to create mindless drones who do their bidding. Each geocache has a special frequency in it that works to slowly program your brain, every cache you find gives Them just a little more control over you. Which, of course, leads to you finding more geocaches because They tell you to. This is also why those who have more finds seem to be a lot better at finding them. They can sense the frequency emitted by the cache, subconsciously and thus home in on it without realizing it. Eventually the better part of the world will belong to Them. At which point They will send out a signal, turning cachers in to high-grade killing machines and sending them after everyone who hasn't fallen prey to Their mind control! So do like I do, wear a tinfoil hat when you geocache!

Aye, unfortunately in the middle of the desert you have 3 choices: Amusing "plain sight" hide. Custom camo to make it look like a rock, or a log or.. whatever. Under sticks/rocks/dead cactus

In the spirit of teach a man to fish and all that... http://geolex.locusprime.net/ I admit to being intrigued by the last one though. As far as I can figure out, Took Nothing Left Nothing signed Log Thanks For The Cache Georgia Youth Advocate Program International Drag King Extravaganza. Mind boggling. I am perplexed by the G in that last one.. TNLNSLTFTC .. we all know. G(?) Yet Another Park I Didn't Know Existed. Great? Groovy? Gee? Golly? Gorgeous? Gorilla?

's one of the reason I wrap the ones I leave as swag to make sure the terminals never hit anything conductive. It can happen that they rust over time, but the same can be said about anything metal. Anything plastic can become brittle. *shurg* nothing is eternal.

Ahem... Alone on the bike: GPS. Nintendo DS (with DS Cache on it) Pen/pencil. Small swag. Sig stamp. Dr. Steel propaganda. Camel Back filled with liquid refreshment multi tool Spare batteries Cell phone With parents in the odessy: All of the above + Can of mtn. dew (I'm a caffeine addict) about half a dozen multi-tools/pocket knives Compass FAK Flashlight Sharpy Lossa swag Aleve Leather gloves Hand sanitizer Battery-powered cell-phone charger Spare notebooks Aaand I also have my laptop (and everything else that happens to find its way int o my backpack), but that stays in the van.

This is exactly how I see it.

Never put a geocache inside a dead cat. It REALLY doesn't work well. ... do not ask me how I know this....

Would you consider it "appropriate" for a prisoner on a road-side work detail to find in a cache? (Just in case you're wondering why they were banned in the first place.) Maybe thats where all the missing TB's are! Being sharpened into razor blades on a san Quentin floor! Yikes Can you imagine what they do with the snoopy PEZ dispenser that was attached to it? Probably consume lots of yummy PEZ. Everyone loves PEZ, even hardened criminals!

I have to say this: Do not leave neg. feedback if you win the auction. Tempting as it may be, so long as he delivers the goods in proper fashion, as his auction depicts, then he is doing good by ebay standards, which that's all that ebay cares about. Leaving neg feedback because you don't like what he did, is bad form and make US look bad. Like others, to an extent I support him removing, even destroying the cache if it was on his private property. It really sucks for the TB owners though, losing their bugs because of the cache owner placing the cache on private property.

... I have a flamethrower, if you want to borrow it. >.>

I love my Vista. .. The electronic compass is a PITA, I prefer the 'real' compass I carry with me.

So, the Zolgar will be in San Diego from either the 22nd or 23rd, to the 26th for Comic Con International. (Yes, Zolgar is that kind of nerd.) I intend to try and get a bit of caching done while I'm out there so, I'm wondering if anyone has some decent cache recommendations that are within fairly easy walking distance from the convention center. (I could run a PQ, and will do so.. I'm just looking to see if anyone has ones they really recommend) Also wondering if there will be any other cachers meandering around the con? (If so, I'll be pretty easy to find most of the time. I'll be up at one of the fan tables. )

My friend just got himself an N810, and wants to use it for caching, so I'm wondering what programs work well for this. Preferably either free programs, or ones that have fully functional 'demo' versions that just nag you to register. Especially need to know what will work well to transfer the caches info in to the N810 as a waypoint, and preferably a good program for viewing cache details.

Here's what you do, take the wooden slat off the bench, and replace it with an identical looking slat that IS the cache. that's right, the entire bench slat is the cache! (I kid!) A lot of park benches have various nooks and crannies on them that ou might be able to slip the cache. A lot of wooden benches are also held together with metal in various ways, so you might be able to go with a magnetic. .. Or, you could just chain an ammo box to the leg of the bench.

When Roo and I were on night shifts, we did out caching at night. Now, we're on days, and I don't drive.. so.. it's mostly during the day for me. I'd get out and do more night caching, but I avoid riding the bike at night if I can.

I will remember this if I ever go caching in WA.

If the reviewer says "It's too close to another cache." ... just find a new place to hide it. >.> That aside, you probably either underestimated muggle traffic, or your cache got abducted by aliens.

It's about the same with me. I started with my dad's Magellan Explorist, and within a month had bought my Vista HCx, they're a very good unit for a mid-range price.

My general policy too.

>.> <.< most the good spots have been taken eh? The continental US is 3.79 MILLION Square miles. Assuming that it averages out to one "good" spot per 4 square miles, that equates to .95 million "good" spots in the US. That's more "Good" spots in the US, then there are active caches world wide. (.87 million) You might have a leg to stand on if you said "I think most of the good spots in my area have gone."