TeamK-9

I could use a few things: Trekking polls Mid-size day pack (Last year, I got a day pack, and while it's exactly the one I picked out, it ended up being huge. I could probably live out of that thing for a week or two) Snowshoes Cross-country skis New GPS (without broken screen) A nice sleeping bag New, small tent

After reading the log, I have to agree with what magellan said. It sounds like a bluff, and I'd try beating him to the punch.

Haha, it's funny you should mention that. I'm looking into getting a blaze orange shirt with K9 on the back in large letters (to go with my username) and geocacher on the front.. I wouldn't be mis-representing myself (especially if I have my dog) but I'm willing to bet I know exactly what muggles will think when they see it.

That's really strange, I can't picture that happening around here. You're more in danger of getting shot for not wearing your blaze orange. But I'll watch a bit more carefully when in game lands...

My brother was on the local Red Cross Disaster Action Team for quite some time. He wasn't a fire responder, but he went to major natural disasters. He was pretty much THE ham radio operator for the chapter. I was sort of his assistant. After he left home, I worked with the red cross for about another year, but soon after lost interest...

I used to have two dogs to cache with, now only one. My brother's getting a dalmation though, so it will certainly come caching with us once in a while.

Any extended distance, I try to have something in my bag. Generally, it's one of the following things: - Snickers - Powerbar Peanut Butter Flavor - Power Gel Chocolate Flavor (tastes just like eating chocolate syrup.) - Powerbar triple threat - or the ever trusty-homemade gorp. You are supposed to wash down powergel with a big gulp of water. Maybe that's why it makes you want to hurl?

This may be dumb and get you into more trouble than it's worth, but how about going to your local insurance agent, (or maybe even your lawyer) and running the whole concept by him, see what you'd need to do to cover your butt...

I have to agree with Keystone and a bunch of other people. It seems no more restrictive than a lot of policies in place in different cities. Would you be happier if they just instituted a blanket ban and started pulling caches? I think it's a fairly reasonable policy. A lot of things may sound really restrictive but they're the kind of things that are most likely going to be left up to interpretation of the rules.

I think it's just fine the way it is. A bison cylinder is a micro in my mind. It having a different title wouldn't make me want to find it any more or less. There are probably half a dozen different sizes of ammo cans, and hundreds of sizes of tupperware. If sizes were to be added for every different unique size of container then there would be too many. I like it the way it is now, simple and informative.

As I hinted to in my topic entitled "Excavation" I am actually in need of a metal detector to find a cache. One of my caches is missing, and it's possible it's buried under some dirt, and I plan on using a metal detector to see if it is really buried or whether it just got stolen.

I admit to not checking on this one as much as I should have, but this was in no way a cache in the forest. It's a little surburban park in one of the biggest, most populated townships in the area.

So, today I found out that one of my caches has been ruined by excavation work. It's almost funny. It was more than 1000 feet from the closest trail, and this week, some genius decided to build a nature trail. So they just took a bobcat and cleared out a path. So now, my cache has a "nature trail" about twenty feet above it. The uprooted tree that it was under has been rolled about two or three feet down a hill, and so depending on how the cache was hidden at the time, it was either exposed and taken away, or crushed by a tree that undoubtedly weighed several tons. My name and phone number was clearly marked on the outside of the box and I haven't gotten a call from township supervisor, a random work crew, or the state police, so I assume if it was found it got thrown away. And if it wasn't found it's buried under that tree, and so I'm going back with a metal detector to be sure. A few months ago, I had placed a cache in a very wooded area of an undeveloped park. Evidently, about a month after I placed it, the development began. The spot I picked for the cache was fine, I had actually talked to one of the planner's to make sure, of course, many many tons of dirt blocked you from getting directly to the cache. So who else has had a cache ruined by excavation or development work?

Hey, is your dad on the top side of the bridge that is in the first photo in this thread? Nope. That picture was taken in good 'ole Fayette County, PA...

There is this one from your gallery: *snip* Oh jeez, now I really feel guilty. That would be IV_Warrior and my dad. This would be yet another case where I waited from shore. There was only room for two on the grates, and the boat was taking on serious water when all three of us were in the boat, so I stayed on land and patrolled the shoreline, taking the occasional picture. Of course, I really took this one at a good angle. You'd almost get the impression that they were risking life and limb to simply pick out some garbage. I was standing on shore when I took that picture, and I don't think I used the zoom at all. Quite frankly, the boat was just barely necessary. The shore was maybe ten feet away at most, and I doubt it would go up to a taller guy's chest. But there's no way you could have convinced anyone to go wading in that water....

Found them! I honestly do not think these pictures do the feat that was involved in retrieving the cache any justice. The pictures make it look relatively easy, but one wrong step, and you'd either fall about 15 feet into the very cold spring stream, or fall the other direction onto a huge dam of driftwood and trash from the September 2005 floods, and still possibly get wet. I felt kind of guilty making my 51 year old dad go out and retrieve the cache, while I, an able-bodied 15 year old stood on shore, but hey! I can't swim, and someone had to stay with the K9 counterpart of TeamK-9, because there's no way she was crawling across that. Anyway, here's the pictures...

I have a relatively good one, which has never been unearthed. Up until recently, it would have revealed the "twist" involved in a particular cache, but the cache was changed, so I think I can post it. Let me find it...

Cool..

After the Hurricane Ivan floods, a local cacher got pocket queries for names of all the local caches, and put them on a website. People could then mark the caches as missing, unkown, or verified in place. Maybe something similar could be set up for the areas affected by Katrina. But please guys, let's not start worrying about whether the caches are there until they can actually finish the first stages of rescue/recovery work... The question posted is valid though, and I think it is something to be discussed, even if immediate action is not necessary..

Unfortunately. I am one of those people. My doctor informed me today that at 214 pounds and 5'10" I am overweight and "clinically obese" But he was floored when I told him about all the exercise I do, and the shape that I actually am in... My excercise resume: - Just about every evening, except for the last two weeks, I take my dog for a trip around the neighborhood. I generally do a one mile trip, alternating between a very fast walk and a slow jog. - At least once a month, I go on a real geocaching trip and hike at least three miles over rough terrain. - 20-32 miles on a bike trail in one day is really nothing for me, and if I really pushed myself to the limit I could make it to 50-60 (and I have before) - In June I participated in an adventure/endurance race, and hiked 15 miles in a relatively short period of time over MAJORLY rough terrain. I am definately in a lot better shape than a lot of people of my weight and body mass, but I'm still obese. There IS something weird in this world...

I am in a situation very much similar to Briansnat. At 15 years old, I am much larger and a bit heavier than the growth charts suggest I should be at my age. I'm not too pleased at my appearance, but I am in no way out of shape. I am not in nearly as good a shape as many of my friends, but I seem to have built up endurance. Big ole fat me managed to hike 15 miles in a major race this summer, whereas I doubt many of my friends could have matched that. I agree with what someone else said. I don't know if I've lost any weight or become in any better shape because of geocaching, but I know for sure that if I didn't geocache, I probably wouldn't be in as good a shape as I am in..

Okay, correct me if I'm wrong, this process applies only to categories. If I wanted to post my own WayMark, would the process be similar to a geocache posting?

Trust me, so am I. What I'm *not* for is using my tax dollars to pay for it. I think this is one matter where you sort of have to pick your battles. How much money is really going towards putting internet in these rest stops? Certainly somewhere, there is more money going towards something even stupider. For example, legislators in the state of Pennsylvania can have up to $600 a month for car leases. You know what kind of car you can lease for $600 a month? A nice one. And last time I checked, those guys are all members of the upper class, and I can't say they really need that extra $600 to pay for a car... You need to pick the lesser of two evils. Realize that there are far worse evils in the world than tax dollars going towards putting wifi in rest stops.

A local "prolific" cacher has somewhere near 30 or 40 hides. A good number of them are in really cool, out of the way spots that no one else would find if it weren't for him. They don't always have the best stuff in them, but they're good caches just because of location. This cacher responds to almost all maintenance issues within a short period of time. But quite frankly, he doesn't have many problems with his caches, simply because of the location and manner in which they're hidden. He has forty hides and can handle the responsibility. I on the other hand have three (two now, after archiving one a few weeks ago) I don't yet have my driver's license, and so I rely on my dad to take me caching. I have tons of hiding ideas. Many of them in out of the way areas, a reasonable distance from my home. I probably could hide them all, but I don't because I know that if I were to hide one x miles from my house, it might take my dad a week or two before he can drive me out there. Reasonably, I can handle three or four caches, within a short distance of my home, at least until I can get my driver's license. Other cachers, with driver's licenses and time (that's the important part) can reasonably handle more caches than I can...

I think you'll be happier finding a good job, settling down, getting married. Dang, where's that straight face emoticon. All I need is about a month, the summer before college. If I were to load down my Jeep with supplies, I could live out of it for weeks...