Lady Loki

In the first one, I think they did the background so the answer isn't as obvious without doing the puzzle. The second one... meh. Doesn't seem to be much point except to put pics of snakes on the page.

True. I guess I just figured that they meant traditionals. A multi would make sense. And if your GPSr works inside a parking garage, yay! I'm not sure mine would, but admittedly I haven't tried it anywhere but my house (which is fairly small, and I still don't get great accuracy).

I'm using Firefox. If I right-click on the background, I have a menu option to View Background Image. Not sure if other browsers support this, but at the very least, they should let you copy it, or turn it into your desktop wallpaper or something. Why print the page? And if you do, use the print icon at the top of the cache page. No background will print. [Edit: I misunderstood the question, didn't I?] I'm guessing printing the page makes it easier to do the crossword puzzle? I know I'd do that if I was planning to work on one of these.

The other option is to get your knee replaced and get one that way. (My MIL has one and she's REALLY good with it, but she's in a wheelchair due to a recent knee replacement and a stroke when she was 6.) I do recommend this course of action, though. The medical supply store, I mean, not the knee replacement unless you actually need it. In fact, I've seen reachers at Walgreen's that are really nice; thought about getting one for MIL, actually.

I was under the impression that indoor caches were a pain, GPSr accuracy inside a building being terrible. Virtuals kind of negate that, but I'd be curious if there's any inside near me. I should check it out. (Hot AND humid here, but I guess that's what we get for living south of Lake Michigan? )

LOL! It looks to me like it means signing the log, though I skip the quill and inkpot and just use a pen.

O.O That sounds really interesting... link/GC#? Edited to keep on topic: I think for me, it'd be easier to find an interesting location, but I'm interested in a lot of things. For instance, there's an old and abandoned auto shop building two lots down from my house that has some beautiful stonework around the entrance. I've been considering putting a cache on my property and directing people in the listing that if that's interesting to them, it's a short walk to check it out. I'd also find out the history of the place and put that in. I haven't put out any hides, both because I'm relatively inexperienced and because I'm not sure exactly where/how I want to put one out, but I'm not sure how creative I could get with the container and still have it waterproof. Going off topic but I think an abandoned auto shop if you could get permission would be an awesome night cache....Pretty much any old abandoned building would be an awesome night cache. I doubt I could get permission... it's got new No Trespassing signs and we've seen several people who we suspect were using it for drug deals. I know they weren't geocachers, in any case. But looking at the building and the stonework can be done from the sidewalk and the pavement under the overpass next to it. (It's also in very bad shape, falling down and apparently is a haven for dead tires. )

O.O That sounds really interesting... link/GC#? Edited to keep on topic: I think for me, it'd be easier to find an interesting location, but I'm interested in a lot of things. For instance, there's an old and abandoned auto shop building two lots down from my house that has some beautiful stonework around the entrance. I've been considering putting a cache on my property and directing people in the listing that if that's interesting to them, it's a short walk to check it out. I'd also find out the history of the place and put that in. I haven't put out any hides, both because I'm relatively inexperienced and because I'm not sure exactly where/how I want to put one out, but I'm not sure how creative I could get with the container and still have it waterproof.

Just clicking on the button. I figured it out... I had an apostrophe in the title. Apparently that was breaking things.

me too!!! I'm a big fat log reader!! All of them! I find them very interesting... there's always a story involved, somewhere. The ones I like best are either theoretically ones we could find (within 100 miles?) or ones that are recommended here in the forums. It's almost as good as getting out caching for me!

I really have to agree with the VanDucks; the logs are more a reflection of the cacher than the cache, as far as I can tell. (Yes, I spend my free time when I can't cache reading logs. Seriously.) Some people don't like to write a lot. Some people are responding to the local traditions (I can't think of the right word, but that's close). Some people don't know any better, and some people don't care/are lazy. I've seen TFTC and long logs on the same cache. I admit, if I had a cache out that got a lot of acronyms as the whole log, I'd be disappointed. But I'd probably check the users' other logs before I assume there's something wrong with the cache.

But... but... that would make one book last for at least 100 micros!

I have a stick of bamboo I got from a craft store, and a metal stick I got from Target as a pair. Both work great, and they were under $20 each.

Your standards of "lame" aren't necessarily shared by everyone. Why are you so insistent that COs know that you think their hides are lame? And as for the first quote, that's pretty harsh, I think, assuming that because someone doesn't get smartphone comments his hides are lame. What's up with this? I like logging as a way to remember what happened when we looked for that particular cache. Was that the day that Thorling ended up soaked from jumping in puddles, or when LokiBit tasted his first mulberry? Who found the cache? (Yes, we are Three Musketeers cachers; with a teenager and a small child, that's the only way to keep them interested, though I might try the other version sometime.) What did the kids trade for? (I definitely have room for improvement on that particular aspect of logs.) Who was with us? What was the weather like? The bugs, the ground, the cache condition? I could write a lot in the log, though sometimes I'm too tired to really do as much as I feel. Still, always at least a couple sentences, and I insist that the teenager, LokiBit, write at least two sentences in his logs.

I have a Win7 PC with Firefox 13.0.1. I created a pocket query from a bookmark list but didn't immediately send it to my email, since I wanted to map it first. When I tried to send it to my email, I repeatedly got a 500 - Server Error page. I have a day of the week checked, and I'm not sure what else to try.

I would understand getting puzzle help for a fee, but that's about it. Or possibly hiring a strapping young lad to climb trees for me. The rest of it, though? Yeah, no thanks.

Well, if you mark the location of your car or the entrance to the park or whatever, then once you've found the cache the car or park entrance or whatever just becomes the next place to find your way TO, right? Your answer may lie in the "obediently following my little arrow" part. The arrow and distance need only be glanced at occasionally to make sure you're still on the right track, while you keep your head up and make note of your surroundings. Keep your head buried in the GPS screen the whole time and when you finally look up you're bound to wonder how you got there. Have you ever ridden on a bus or a train but kept yourself busy with a book or a magazine the whole ride? Often when you finally look up, or the bus comes to a stop, you're surprised to realize where you are because you weren't paying attention to your surroundings as they went by. The same can happen while you're staring intently at a GPS screen. It happens all the time nowadays to people who have SatNav units in their cars...they obediently follow the directions and are basically teaching themselves NOT to think about where they are going. Then they drive off into ponds or get stuck on one-lane dirt roads or drive into restricted areas because "my GPS told me to". They get in a bad habit of letting the device do all the thinking and disengage their brains from the process, which is bad. Actually the first instance applies to life in general, not caching in particular! I've never put myself in the position - whilst caching - of not being able to easily retrace my steps or take a wayposted, circular route back to my starting point. "Following the arrow" has given me a bit more confidence to venture out but I know its - and my - limitations. It gets glanced at to check distance to the cache or to confirm which fork in the path, etc., but I'm not glued to it. As I said, I don't have a car satnav, so I'm not guilty of that one. I am capable of navigating using a map, and do so; I just can't get about using any inbuilt geographical sense. Not if I want to get there. Or back. To be fair, also, my lack of a sense of direction long predates any of this newfangled techno stuff! If you can navigate with maps, maybe you could print out maps? Or make sure you have really good maps on your GPS?

I know my oldest was disappointed that he couldn't pass on one of the books he loved when we went out caching the first time after he got here.

But the picnic table is already there. By your own admission, to reach your cache the finder has to bring their own means by which to reach it. You have to increase your elevation by at least 3 feet, with zero change in horizontal position (simple geometry - slope of a line), using something other than your own body. That sure sounds like steep elevation to me. I agree with every part of this reply. Having to bring your own ladder or back up a car and stand on it (really? That sounds really unsafe to me, unless you have excellent balance) definitely would make this a 5 in my book.

We have a bunch of caches placed by our state wildlife association (I think? I know it's something state-related) that I'm planning a camping trip around. I love the idea.

....... .... really? I mean, /really/?

I don't know how it is where you are, but I probably find just as many while looking for the cache as I find inside of the cache. Maybe more. And that's probably where most old golfball "swag" really comes from anyway. Right next to the rocks and sticks. Well, so far, we've found a total of two, one while we were walking to a cache. But you're probably right. Maybe we should aim for caches near golf courses.

I could see something like that in the Field Museum in Chicago, actually. I think it sounds really interesting, and the pictorial museum in lieu of a physical one is a great idea. I'd love to know more about the history, especially stories from cachers in the field.

That's what I'm saying! We need definitions of the terms or the question is meaningless!! (And probably I would take the money and figure out how to keep caching. I discovered today that when it's been almost a week since I've been out, I get really cranky and stressed. Winter will be fun. )

Thanks, NanCycle, for mentioning REI. I just looked them up and not only do they have geocaching classes (which is cool), they also have Camping Basics, which is great because my husband grew up in NYC and has never been camping.