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TeamK-9

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  1. I can be your rep for Pennsylvania. I live on the outskirts of Pittsburgh. ---- Extra batteries for GPS, don't leave home without 'em.
  2. Yah, there are some interesting statistics in there. Also, if you go into the url and substitute geocaching.com for Groundspeak.com, it will give you a traffic report on this site. Or you could just click here ---- Extra batteries for GPS, don't leave home without 'em.
  3. Yah, that would be nice too, but at least now we know we have a little bit of variety, instead of just the crayon ones. ---- Extra batteries for GPS, don't leave home without 'em.
  4. At first I was a little concerned about wether they were licensed, and I questioned wether I should post the link, but I decided to. I'm surprised that no one has ever posted about this. I looked, with no success, if there was a post about this website would someone markwell it? ---- Extra batteries for GPS, don't leave home without 'em.
  5. I was recently reading in a lot of posts, that people said that if they could have anything come back to the Groundspeak store, it would be the older t-shirt that have the big colorful grid type thing. I've found them on sale and I'm pretty sure it's what everyone was talking about, but anyway, don't take my word for it, see for yourself. ---- Extra batteries for GPS, don't leave home without 'em.
  6. Pro to moving to a small town/new town with very little caches: More room to place tons of caches, and make a name for yourself, as an innovator/jumpstarter of the sport in your town. ---- Extra batteries for GPS, don't leave home without 'em.
  7. I know some people will probably disagree with this, but planning is EVERYTHING. Try to work out an average of how long it takes you to walk a certain distance (with help of your GPS that is) and figure how much time it will take you on average to find a cache, and throw in an extra five or 10 minutes or so to allow for rough terrain, and/or adjust accordingly due to the terrain and difficulty ratings on the cache page. This allows you to figure out how much time you'll probably spend at a cache, so you know how many caches you can hit in a day, maximize your daily cache finds... And if all else fails, (and/or you don't agree with heavy planning) just have fun... ---- Extra batteries for GPS, don't leave home without 'em.
  8. I don't think Maporama lists the coordinates any more, or at least according to the FAQ at Markwell's website.. ---- Extra batteries for GPS, don't leave home without 'em.
  9. I'm primarily a blabber until I get my GPSr. But even then, I'll still do quite a bit of blabbing. ---- Extra batteries for GPS, don't leave home without 'em.
  10. My Golden Retriever puppy, (4.5 months old) is not quite ready to be a caching dog, but she's really sweet, I'll try to get some puppy pics soon. ---- Extra batteries for GPS, don't leave home without 'em.
  11. I believe that unnatural rock and stick piles are definately overused, but in some cases it always seems like people overlook the obvious spots. Hollowed out trees are almost always used, but how about something lying out in the open (a good deal away from a path that is.) One of my first searches with a group of friends, we walked past a unsuspicious looking bottle just thinking it was rubbish. It was not until later that we noticed that it WAS the cache. ---- Extra batteries for GPS, don't leave home without 'em.
  12. I think the cool thing I could think of to want in a cache would just be a nice new swiss army knife. ---- Extra batteries for GPS, don't leave home without 'em.
  13. Just wandering who all had signiature items for dropping in Cache's and if so, what are they? I myself don't have one but I've been looking at Ice Cream Cone Shooters at Oriental Traiding Company, and I think they might be my signiature item for larger caches, still looking for something for smaller ones though. So what all do you use? ---- Extra batteries for GPS, don't leave home without 'em.
  14. This is not a spam message. I, (K-9CacheSeekers) erased what I had written myself because of the stupidity of what I said.
  15. Crap, Team GPSaxophone you keep beating me to answers. I guess I should start refreshing the page before I add my post, I can't delete this topic, so it'll just stay here unless a mod decides to erase it. I understood why the topic was locked right after it happened, but I agree with Mark 42. Moderators should give some kind of notice of why they're closing the topic before they actually close it. I moderate at several forums, and there it is standard procedure... ---- Extra batteries for GPS, don't leave home without 'em.
  16. You beat me to it, but I didn't notice until after I posted, and I can't delete it, so I guess this will end up here forever... If you're referring to a post, just find the URL to it, and post it, that's the easy way, but you can also use the little URL button on the post window to make a nice link... ---- Extra batteries for GPS, don't leave home without 'em.
  17. Yay, here comes a markwell from me a newbie!!!! Anyway, I believe the topic he was refering to was this. A topic Hydee recently closed. ---- Extra batteries for GPS, don't leave home without 'em.
  18. I haven't gotten my new GPS yet, so I've only been on a few Caches with my parents, but right now, we have my mom's minivan, for urban, and places with more or less developed dirt roads. We have my dads special edition grand prix, which is specifically for urban/well maintained dirt roads. And my dad is also a car dealer, so if the need for something 4x4 comes up, I can get him to bring home a used blazer or with 4wd. ---- Extra batteries for GPS, don't leave home without 'em.
  19. If I remember correctly from one of the bug faqs, grabbing a bug is what you do if you placed the bug without posting your drop, and then someone else logs that they retrieved it, and so the original person has to grab it back so they can lock the drop off. I think.... ---- Extra batteries for GPS, don't leave home without 'em.
  20. I don't know if this was said, because I skimmed quickly through the replies, but even if it was said, I'll probably be elaborating on the idea. I think having a dog friendly feature on the cache pages would be great. But you guys are taking this differently. In my area, most caches are in city, county, or state parks, and not in random wilderness. And rules very with different parks. Such as the fact, as one city park in my area goes as much as to have a dog park, and allows dogs all the time, another prohibits dogs during any special events, and yet another prohibits dogs alltogether. I think it would be very simple to just include something on the cache page about whether dogs were allowed or were not, cause no one wants to travel to what seems like a cool cache in a nice park, a good distance away, only to find out that their faithful friend is not allowed to help them find the cache. I think at least from now on people should be encouraged to use The Selector at the Texas Geocaching website, or maybe geocaching could adopt it's own for use by members.. ---- Extra batteries for GPS, don't leave home without 'em.
  21. I think that's a great idea, I was thinking about putting together a list of pointers on what you guys consider good form and bad form, but if we put these two together in their own little faq type thing it would be really great for newbies... ---- Extra batteries for GPS, don't leave home without 'em.
  22. Hi my name is Jon Adams, I live in Delmont Pennsylvania, which in case none of you know where that is, basically in the very far outskirts of the greater Pittsburgh area. Out in Westmoreland county. I've done a few small orienteering competitions before, and I've known geocaching was out there but I had never really tried it or anything. Than the other day one of my friends brought it up, and that sparked my interest. I found this site, and was very quickly being sucked into the greatness of geocaching. I'm now hoping to buy a Garmin ETrex or other entry level GPS and start caching. The only reason I never even gave geocaching a second though before, was I still thought it was sort of a richboys game where you had to buy expensive GPS and there weren't many actual caches and the ones that were around, were hard to get to. But obviously, the sport has evolved into something more weekend warrior friendly. I hope to order my GPS sometime this week or the next, and get my butt out there and start finding some caches... GPS works for when your lost, or searching for hidden treasure, but when you're hurt, call 911, having a cellphone for backup truly is a pleasure.
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