Zolgar

Naw, safest thing we do is sit on these forums and talk ABOUT geocaching. [Edited by moderator... we talk about geocaching in a family-friendly way.]

More or less: A fellow Toy Soldier (Sgt. Brain), posted on the Toy Soldiers missions forums about Geocaching, expressing that it would be a good way to spread the word of Doctor Steel. (Leaving buttons, manifestos, etc in them) and I vaguely remembered hearing about this hobby ages back, and was like, hrm. So I poked the link out of boredom mainly. figured "Eh, Tucson sucks, ain't gonna be any around here." .. Poked sight some, put in my zip and was like "Oooh." IM'd Roo. He was like "Oooh. We SO need to do this." And I'm like "But I don't have a GPS. But I wants to do it. It would give us something to do." Which Roo and I both work night jobs and are on weird schedules, so we often lack things to do. I get the brilliant idea to steal my dads GPS for the night. We tromped off to find 3 caches. Had a blast.. It's been down hill ever since. Had my own GPSr within a month, premium account in 2, PDA/registered GSAK and Cachemate in 3.

350 miles west in California.

Nobel Prize. Dynamite. Same guy. Ayep. The man who invented Dynamite, (I forget his first name) didn't intend for it to be such a destructive weapon of war. He knew that it would be used for war, he was no fool. But he had hoped that the fear of its destructive power would save lives... Well, when he realized that it didn't work that way, he realized that that would be his greatest legacy, being the inventor of that which killed countless people. He used the wealth he earned from inventing dynamite, to reward people who had done great acts for peace... The Nobel Peace Prize. So, he was able to change his legacy from "being the man who invented dynamite", to a legacy of peace.. As the post above proves.

The severed body parts of my victims. It makes the FTF race a lot easier, I take care of the competition AND get swag.. at the same time. >.> I killed the last thread like this with that exact same comment. Seriously? I leave toys, foreign coins, things like that. I need to make my signature item, well, see if I can make it without much hassle...

1.1 mile, excluding the puzzle cache that the dummy coords are exactly one mile. *could be right on top of me, could be 3 miles away. The 1.1 is a multi, that I attempted once and either got the second set of coords wrong, or just couldn't find. Then there's a DNF, and one that's in a too muggle dense area for someone who looks like me to be poking around without a valid excuse to be there. Then a couple of virtuals, which I tend to ignore. Discount those and it's 1.6 miles.

Yeah. It is a great unit, easy to use and fairly rugged. As was mentioned, you do need to obtain a copy of the City Navigator for it to have autorouting. It can be useful, especially in places you don't know or if you get lost easy (like me.) It also shows businesses. Last month I went to California for a weekend, met with a group of friends going to Disney Land.. Used the City Nav to point me to the nearest Denny's when I got back to the hotel at 1 AM.

An excuse to buy silly expensive toys that you want, but had no reason to buy them before.

I been thinking.. this has to be said: Garmin eTrex Vista HCx and peripherals: $250 Palm M515 and charger: $33 GSAK: $25 Premium membership to Groundspeak: $30 Cachemate: $8 The realization that you've spent $346 on tech gizmos to get you out of the house: Priceless

I couldn't say it better myself. ... Although I wish there were more explosions.

I gotten one of them stencils from Sissy 'n CR. For the cache that has been sitting in my living room for .. a month and a half now.

You know. I've told the bomb squad countless times that when something needs to be blown up, they can just give it to me, and I'll deal with it. No tax dollars spent at all! But they don't listen to me. They seem to think I have some kind of hidden motive.. I just like explosions. It will be something of an honor if any geocache I hide gets mistaken for a bomb and taken by a disposal unit. I can say "Something of mine got blown up by the professionals!"

for under $250 off Amazon, you can get the eTrex Vista HCx. I've been VERY happy with mine. Maps for it ARE expensive. But, we're in the new age of pirates. If you're willing to put a bit of effort in to it, and .. well .. steal them, there are sources. *this entity does not condone piracy, nor does he mean to suggest that you should pirate the maps, he is simply expressing that it is out there. He'll not go in to further detail on these forums, nor will he supply anyone with illegitimate copies of the maps.

Why.. I single handedly found 600 in one day! ... On my old account. that I forgot the password to. And the username.. Why don't you believe me? Seriously, my max for one day is only like 5 or 6. but my hours/transportaion are both restricting.

Tucson is still pretty small time. I think it averages 1ish a month. Half of those being the bi-monthly Alamo Wash CITO

Twiceish. Once, my parents and I were hitting some caches on the way home from California. We stopped for one along side a river "Whitewater". Well, as I usually do, I jogged ahead of them to get to GZ and find the cache. Then let them find it. I remembered a log said "by the orange boulder". And so I look at the arrow on my GPSr, look ahead, see this nice big orange boulder, pocket the GPSr and walk up to it, and find the cache right off the bat. Then I get the GPSr back out and poke around (so I don't show my parents exactly where it is, ya know), when by sheer chance I actually look at the screen, and realize I'm about 500 feet away from GZ. I'm thinking "Okay, some difference is expected, but 500'?" so I grab the cache. Turns out it was Barricade, which my Along Route PQ decided wasn't worthy of our attention. The other occasion. I was looking for the Tail Doesn't Bite locally, my second attempt. I see this rock that's out of place about 20' from GZ, walk over and pick it up, there's a pill bottle underneath it. I'm in the process of opening it when I notice it says "Letterbox" not "Geocache." I replaced it and had me a laugh. Later I contacted the owner of said Letterbox, he was amused there was a cache in the area too.

I personally prefer to leave severed body parts from my victims.. It's especially a bonus on the FTF race, then I can take care of the competition AND get my swag.

Muggle is a borrowed term. Geocachers use it as Frogs said. However to be more appropriate, the term is taken from the Harry Potter book series in which it refers to those who have no magic/are not part of the wizarding world.

Yes. It is absolutely, positively important! If you're not the FIRST finder, don't even bother hunting the cache. eery cache should only be found once, and the incinerated.... >.> Sorry, had to post a conflicting view. Life is no fun without conflict. Truth be told, I've never gotten a FTF, and for a while prolly won't. Unless someone places one withing a couple miles of my house and it goes live at like 3 AM, and I'm not working and I just so happen to find out about it. Would I LIKE to get a FTF? Yes, just one would be fine. Just 'cause.. it'd be fun to beat the people like Shadowace to it. Is it important? Nope, not at all. No more important than making it to level 50 in City of Heroes. It's just another fun way to waste your time.

If I start placing enough caches to be worth while, I may order some of those. They look dadgum good for micros. though I'm not much of a fan of micros so won't place a lot. But they would make good stages for a multi.

Amen! It's a physical, outdoor activity that's fun. And it's better than just going out for a walk/bike ride because.. you have something to do. And besides that, it gave me an excuse to buy an expensive toy

Ain't yet. I'm sure I will though. As the warmer times roll around here in AZ I'll be making sure that I'm careful where I step. Likely using a walking stick to poke the ground. When traipsing through the desert, I'll also be carrying a .22 revolver with snake shot. Not gonna go gleefully killing snakes, no. But I'd rather have the option in case I need it.

I'll take Waymarking .. I mean. "Badge Hunting" in City of Heroes any day

you know. I don't give a <beep> about find counts and competing with other cachers for a number of finds.. But I do think it would be nice if they offered the kind of comprehensive stats that you can get through various 3rd parties. I kind things like # of caches found by X person, # per state, Most found in one day, things like that.. I find those numbers interesting. Does having 20 in one day mean I'm better than the cacher who has only found 15 in one day? does the fact that I've found 30 caches by Cacher-X mean anything? Is it even remotely important that I've caches in Arizona, California and New Mexico, but at least 70% of my finds are in Arizona? (Only one of those is even remotely real) Nope. But they're fun little details to know. As are the average difficulty, the average terrain, how many of what size.. I'm a gamer. I LIKE stats, even if they're meaningless stats. Just like in Fallout 2, I loved my kill counts. 50,000 radscorpians >.>

Never had to use it, but just look at them with a big wide smile, point at a completely blank spot of ground and say "Init it pretty." They'll either assume you're on something, or retarded.