Lady Loki

Looks like it's happening today at 2 pm Pacific time. Yay!

I am 100% behind finding golf balls in a cache. The kids love them and when there's more than one, I don't have to listen to them fight about it!

Sure. I'd buy an RV and visit all the good places in http://www.roadsideamerica.com/. Just to be clear, the terms need to be defined. Like, define "geocaching" for the purposes of this exercise. Of course, there's always the option to just... not log the caches, I guess... ETA: I could in theory hand the offer over to my husband, who would take it without hesitation. Then I could keep caching with the kids and Silvertongue.

You may have to install a driver to get it to work. Did you check the Magellan site or the discs that come with the unit?

I stay away from Coors Light as a rule anyway...

Try http://thegba.net/resources/gba_glossary.php?subtab=how_tos and http://www.geocaching.com/about/glossary.aspx

From one of your logs on the cache page: One point I'd like to make about that, is that if HailHoll was very careful to not break any guidelines, there wouldn't be much that this vendetta holder could do about HailHoll's caches, is there? It seems you are a doglover by your pic. maybe you wouldn't feel like that if you memorial cache to your beloved pet was going to get removed because the bottom half was in the ground and all you had to do was lift the lid which to access the cache but apparently it qualified as buried Another grey area lots of caches out there like that but if someone has a bone to pick with you watch out Maybe he wouldn't feel like he had to follow the rules if he placed a cache that broke the rules that was for his favorite dog. What!?!?!? So far this is just complaining that people are getting caught for breaking the rules, and trying to justify it because they don't like the rule. Now you throw a guilt trip on somebody? FFS. sorry didn't mean to throw you a guilt trip that was the pre nail event this is the nail that broke the trees back lol! Anyhow yes this was for his deceased dog at the last cache that they found together and it was a memorial cache must've been his grief that blinded him to the fact that someone would take offence that a foot of dirt was removed Nice to see that soo many people never break the rules and are such hardasses. BTW; for all you perfect people out there show me the nail holes .I always thought the last perfect person got crucified! I thought this topic /wasn't/ about nails in trees??

Once you release a thread into the wild, you really can't control where it goes. Much like a TB, I guess.

Darn! You're too far away for me to come find them when they're published! In other words, given that stealth won't be necessary, these sound fun!

I take the family on rails-to-trails, since we have a large number of them in the area. We typically plan a section that's 4 to 7 caches long, which works out nicely because it's not too much for the four-year-old, but it's enough to tire him out so he sleeps at night. The other nice thing is that quite a few of the RTT are paved, which means my mother-in-law can go with us in her power chair when she comes home from the nursing home (on Thursday, yay!). I like them, but I don't "do" power trails like most people apparently think of them. And the caches we find aren't all the same, but then again, the cachers around here seem to be doing a lot of things right.

I've been encouraging the 13 year old to write good logs. So far we're getting roughly two sentences, but they're unique to each cache, which I think is good. I can beat him into longer logs when he gets more experience.

For those of us in the US, here's the telepen at ThinkGeek. Or there's this one, even smaller. Or this one, which is similar to the first but somehow more expensive. And a classic. (I'm not employed by ThinkGeek, I just love their stuff.)

Loki would offer all sorts of possibilities to make the hide difficult....

I have a GPSMAP 60csx and I typically get accuracy of 15 to 30 feet. You can see on the sattellite page what your accuracy is, but 30 feet isn't unreasonable. The GPS is meant to get you close; rarely will it get you exactly to the cache.

I find it interesting that there's another very active thread about logs that are too short. What's the happy medium?

I've worked in several fast-food restaurants, as well as several sit-down type restaurants, and I can almost guarantee that standards of cleanliness are more closely followed in fast food, but no restaurant is likely to do well if they're actually dirty. Whether individuals feel dirty in them is really kind of that individual's issue.

Very cool, I remember reading about that being planned and I wondered how it went. (edited for better word choice)

If you have a Michael's or a Jo Ann near you, they have poly zipper bags of various sizes as well. Really, any craft store should have them.

I try to log all my DNFs, but I've probably forgotten a few, or just been too tired to log them at the end of the day. (In fact, I just remembered to log one we actually /found/ today!) I try to leave descriptive logs anyway regardless. But I do log as many of them as I possibly remember.

We passed a (homeless?) guy sleeping on a bench, with one boot off. It was a little unnerving, but he didn't even notice us, I think. Didn't help when the 4 year old asked loudly, "He IS dead?" I hadn't heard his first question so I just nodded, and then he came up with that one. Yay stealth.

I'm thinking that sounds like a bad idea to leave in a cache. It's still an edible/drinkable/food-type item, and even in sealed packages, animals have much better smellers than humans do.

I write about what we did that day, and who was with me, and anything interesting that happened (for my definition of "interesting"!), but I have no idea if anyone, CO or otherwise, reads them. Wait, I take that back, one CO did mention something I'd written in a log when I emailed him about a different cache. I'd love some feedback, even if it's just a CO saying, "I'm glad you liked it." But I'm still going to write longer online entries; we do at most three a day (though we're shooting for the big leagues sometime and aiming for FIVE in one day! ), so it's not too hard to write out what happened to us. I will admit that when I'm logging for everyone else in the party, since they're big poopyheads who don't want to do their own logging, that I skimp a little, but at least one of our logs is wordy.

Anyone up in the northwest corner of the state?

I saw these at Walgreen's the other day for $3. Even thought about getting one, since I'm unlikely to find one as a sig item.

But why? Why would you use geocaching to promote any agenda other than geocaching itself? Leave your agendas & commercialism at home, 'K? Thx. Like I said no plans nor want too, just posing a question. Although they allowed planet of the apes to whore their movie and that seems to be one of the biggest caches out their I think you even get a souvenir from going there. So evidentially there is a HUGE market for those types of caches. They did that while working with Groundspeak, which is different than a CO deciding to promote an agenda. Not to mention that I believe all but one of the APE caches are archived now (I could be wrong, but I know it's most of them). Now, a cache with a story that ties into a show/game is something I find really cool, like the Assassin's Creed caches. But I'm sure there are others who would disagree.