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    Idea for Family Accounts

    in Website

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    I love this idea. :) We have four people in our family and each person has their own account and we all have slightly different find totals. This idea would be perfect for us and it would help clean up the cache log pages a bit too.

    Bagged our first 2 today and a benchmark

    in How do I...?

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    Hi- We just bagged our first two caches and a benchmarkner downtown San Jose, CA. We are ex-adventure racers that were looking for a map and compass sport to do with our daughter. We have tried orienteering events but they felt very rigid so we didn't go back. Our local knowledge helped with the first two caches and thank you to airshadowshow and rowanf for creating them. We look forward to bumping into others out there. We will be easy to spot, the two of us, our ten month old daughter and our 100lb. newfoundland Millie.

     

    It is fun, isn't it? We recently started caching with our 2 year old and 4 year old and we all love it. My two year old cried the whole way home from Home Depot yesterday because we weren't going caching. "more treasure, more treasure!" That is the refrain I hear from him these days!

    1st cache find

    in How do I...?

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    Hi, I'm a new GPSer and tried looking for first geocache yesterday with my daughter. We were excited when we started, but tried to find 2 and were unsuccessful.

     

    Any tips?

     

    We're new at this too and having a great time. Make sure you're looking at EASY caches to start with. Maybe 1 star difficulty and 1-2 star terrain. Also, I would avoid the micro category for a little while--some of those are teeny tiny and although the standard micro hides will become easier with time, until you get used to them, they're tricky for newbies.

     

    Have fun! My two children love treasure hunting!

    Nubby pencils

    in How do I...?

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    I like these mechanical pencils we found somewhere. Each one starts the size of a normal mechanical pencil, about 6 inches long. But it's really seven individual ones connected together, and you can separate them and snap them back together into any length you wish. Unfortunately they only came with one cap (it's on the pink one in the pic above). And even more unfortunately, I forget where we got them! If anyone knows where I might get some more, let me know :)

     

    I just bought some similar to these at the Target dollar spot. They're dinosaur ones--a ten pack for $1. They also had Strawberry Shortcake ones, but I passed on those because they were scented.

    COINTEST: The Stop Lurking and come Introduce Yourself

    in Trackables

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    I'm Sarah / MamaOdy and recently started geocaching with my two young children (ages 2 and 4) and, occasionally, with my husband. Currently I have no geocoins although I've been eyeing some on eBay that I just love!

     

    As for how my username came to be--well, the first part is self-explanatory and the second part is Ody...yes, I'm a "minivan mama" and drive an Odyssey. So we drive around in our Ody-mobile to get to caches. ;)

    Lots of caches in a walking loop?

    in Northwest

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    North Creek Trail in the Mill Creek area (Snohomish County) has a bunch of caches. GrievousAngel has a NCT bookmark list of them. I haven't hunted for them myself, but I'm looking forward to doing them with my small children in tow.

     

    Clear Creek Trail in the Silverdale area (Kitsap County) has a number of caches too.

    Recs for first caches in North Kitsap? (Washington)

    in Northwest

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    I have two small children (ages 2 and 4) and want geocaching to be a great activity for the whole family. I've been looking at the caches in North Kitsap and there are a good number! I'd appreciate some recommendations for good ones for a young family to start with--I want the children to be involved and excited about this. I have a feeling that nano caches would not be very exciting for them.

     

    Thank you so much for your advice!

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