PastorJon

1) You found 22 caches Safety equipment only works if you use it properly.

Got life? Live it... safely! 2) You cached in Ohio and Michigan

There's safety in numbers, but please share the road! 3) You cached for 7 hours and 13 minutes.

I apologize for my response to your initial post... it was not intended to be rude or ignorant... just funny. I apologize for the humor which may have been at your expense. Welcome to the forums... and thanks for your story... It's a good reminder to be aware! I also suspect that there may have been something suspicious going on there...

Knowing your GPS unit might help. I use a nuvi, which isn't really suitable for caching in the woods, but I make it work.... some of my hints might work for you: 1) pay attention to your overhead cover -- whether trees or buildings, or anything that blocks the skyline. 2) when you have less cover, pay closer attention to what the GPS says... it's more accurate then. 3) I find that my GPS gets confused when I make a drastic change in direction, going at low speed... in other words, if I'm walking one way, and then do a 180, it takes a while to catch up.... complicated if I'm under heavy cover. So I try not to do that. 4) I also find that I have better success if I'm traveling at a consistent speed... at a good pace. once I start pawing around off the trail, my speed gets cut down and my accuracy does as well. All of that said, I have better success when I can make a note of where Ground Zero OUGHT to be before I get there. Once I'm within 100 feet, (hopefully I'm still on the trail, with a good view of the sky) I'll make a visual note of GZ, and then look for trails that might lead me there. Once I'm within 20-25 feet, I stop looking at the GPS, and start looking for good hiding places.

It does sort of cause the reader to come up short of breath, doesn't it?

It's funny... I had the exact same observation this morning... and thought that there obviously must be some people who were not logging their finds... or their DNFs. And then, as I got closer to GZ, the ground got muddier and muddier, and I realized that the trail I was following was not a geotrail... but a game trail. I'm not saying that's what you saw... but that's what I saw.

and if you're quite lucky, lucky like me sometimes in these forums a cointest you'll see where some trivia, or riddle, or simply a quest will drive you to figure and guess at your best if one of these cointests you're lucky to win you'll rush to your mailbox and look all the way in for there in an envelope, of padded manila you'll find there a coin that won't be vanilla!

Bewildered, am I, at the tone of this thread, for rhymes and neat verse do not spin in my head. Perhaps I should exit, while still I have time, for always I have such a hard time with rhythm.

A forum thread is sort of like a travelbug... or even a cache. Once the owner sets it on its way, s/he has to relinquish some control, recognizing that others will interact with it on their own terms.

Not only am I not interested in taking and/or placing a travel bug here but I don't think we will even do the cache. Go move them bugs... and don't worry about leaving any in their place. Their owners will thank you. Imagine if everyone looked at that cache page and thought what you thought... those bugs would never move!

Congrats to fuzziebear3! Also, thanks to SgtMikal for the TWR coin that arrived in my mailbox today as a result of his first cointest. Seems like I own a couple of these already, but have never actually seen one! Last night, I ran out to the grocery store to get some ice cream (seems we were out, and... well... dessert is probably one of my vices...). On the way home, at 7:03 mind you, I met an adult male, following three children, on bicycles, on the wrong side of the rode, without any lights to be seen on the lot of them. Arrgh! (At least they were wearing helmets...)

Well... that's great! Because TBs and geocoins aren't trade items anyway! Glad you took one so it could move along!

If that's how you feel, my suggestion would be to simply not bother place hides at all... next you'll be back because your cache got stolen... or someone stole the logbook... or kept the pen... or whatever... The reality is that hiders must be prepared for their caches to degrade over time... whether it is swag or the container itself. But, since my opinion doesn't agree with yours, you'll probably consider it to be an unhelpful post.

That is the most idiotic response in this whole thread. The car was in package. Anybody with any level of intelligence knows you can't buy that for a quarter. They should have left another unopened hotwheels car, a dollar, an unopened McDonald's toy or something like that. I even listed the value in the page. A little less value I wouldn't care about but they left less than 25% of the value of the item's value. It is not about the amount of money it is about the low percentage of value. The way I see it your part of the problem. Please don't respond to me anymore your post was clearly idiotic. Aside from the fact that your retort was completely uncalled for (you asked for opinions... that means you have to graciously accept the opinions that are given to you).... Aside from that, I consider myself a reasonably intelligent person, and I have no idea what the going rate for a hotwheels car in the packaging is. Was the price tag still on it? I think I might have thought it was worth more than a quarter, but I would have no idea if it was worth $.50, a dollar, or 5 dollars. Seriously... I'm not making this up. The fact is, once something is in the cache, value becomes very subjective. That frosted glass starfish that I left behind might be considered junk by one person... and someone else might think it was the coolest thing they'd seen, and worth about 2 dollars. In reality, it's probably worth about $.30 retail, and I got it for less than that. The hotwheels car you left behind might have been bought at a toy store in the mall... or it might have come from a bulk merchant who sells them at yard sales for much less. To the cacher who traded, it was (apparently) worth about a quarter.

#5 KaBoom found the most caches. Use lights at night!

Today I ate lunch with some friends (no... not geocachers)... at one point, we commented on how well two of them (who have been friends for many years) got along. The dialogue went something like this: a: yeah... but we can really get into it sometimes too... b: really got going the other day b's wife: what was it you went nose-to-nose about? a: I don't really remember what it was. b: Let me think and try to remember. Me: perhaps we'd all enjoy our lunch more if you didn't try to remember what it was? My point? Perhaps (now I could be mistaken here...) we'd enjoy the forums more without hashing out disputes that had their origins off the forums... just maybe...

Would you consider opening your land up for the public? Some towns have public greenbelt/walkway systems, that rely on easements (and potential tax write-offs). In those cases, I imagine that the town (or greenbelt organization) would handle the liability insurance.... (but I don't know... I'm not a lawyer!) In either case, your town might have an answer to your question...

I think it's cool... as long as it's in a muggle-free (and mosquito-free) area with a nice view and good place to sit. I don't know how hard the puzzle is, so i don't know if a 2 is appropriate or not. And I bet you'll have a few numbskulls who write on the maze with a sharpie... or put in an extra logbook... or simply log it as a find even though they didn't solve/sign. Hopefully they don't break your puzzle though...

/me waits on pins and needles... Oops... dinnertime for me too!

Eh... I don't see the harm in discovering something. Let's say that I know I won't be going back out for several weeks (or months?) Or I simply don't have space for a larger bug... In those cases, I might discover the bug (and yes, I use the cameraphone method mentioned earlier). I figure that if the bug does go missing, it gives the owner a reference point for tracking down the TB. (Of course, he's going to contact me first... thinking that I should have logged a "retrieve" instead of a "discover"). I also like to watch bugs travel... and even if I don't pick a bug up, I'm interested to know its story, and might even come back later to see where it's gone. But... should I see one of BD's bugs, I'll do my best not to "discover" it!

use mirrors 3) 5:30

use lights at night. you will win by 3: 9-6

ride safely. KaBooom will win by 3: 9-6.

look both ways! 3) 3:45