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    Cachin' Fashion

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    Gore Tex, high top hiking boots.

    REI Convertible Sahara Pants (Lightweight, quick-drying)

    These have not yet to be torn by thorns and sticks.

    Poly-pro long johns*

    Tee shirt

    Fleece vest*

    Fleece jacket*

    Carhart hip-length coat*

    Rain jacket

    Baseball cap

    Large fanny pack w/the usual.

     

    *Winter specific

    in summer I wear a long-sleeve shirt.

    Dnf Question

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    Yes. When you head out to find a cache, two things can happen. You can find it, or not find it. The "Found It" option is there for the former and the DNF is there to cover the latter.

     

    Hmmm. I always wondered how that worked!

    Geocaching Anonymous

    in How do I...?

    Posted · Edited by mihiker

    Oops! I missed the meeting, 9th grade geo-son's band concert!

     

    Hi. I'm mihiker and I'm a geoholic.

     

    I've been too tied up with work to cache for thirty days!

    (Do I get a coin?)

     

    Here I am at work, looking at a new cache listing, wondering if I should leave work to go bag it.

     

    That's a clear sign of addiction, right?

    I've left work three times in the past month or two in order to log a find on new caches.

     

    My wife is now used to the sight of me bolting out the door with my caching bag, with no more than a "Bye, new cache-gotta run!"

     

    Now, I've got three more days of Boy Scout related activities and I'm wondering if I can ditch any of them to go caching......

     

    Where's my sponsor when I need one?

    Ghettocaching?

    in How do I...?

    Posted

    I spent $80 on my GPS at Target. It's the lowest of the low (Garmin Geko 101), but I've found 107 caches with it so far.

    Hey-Another "budget cacher!"

    I've got the same one from the same place!

    I thought I was the only one!

    Where Else Do You Use Your Gpsr

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    Bought my Geko in Nov '03 when I saw it on sale.

    Wanted it for hiking, remembered that I had come across gc.com a year or so earlier, now I'm hooked.

     

    Used it when scouting summer camp for 2004 for distance & travel (walking) time so that we could help the boys determine merit badge schedules.

    Geocachers

    in How do I...?

    Posted

    Finally responding to this thread.

    I'm a 44 year old man.

    My wife enjoys caching (on the weekends only) but does not want to log online.

    When she is with me, she usually spots the cache first, she's really good at that. She does not like long hikes or inclement weather.

     

    The 11 year old daughter loves caching with me, but as yet does not log online.

    (She can't seem to decide on an appropriate id.) The daughter is game for any terrain, any weather.

     

    When either is with me when the cache is located, I always note their presence in the cache log and the online log.

    How Old Are Most Geocachers?

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted · Edited by mihiker

    I'm the primary cache-r in my family and I'll be 44 in May (I.m also the geekiest in the family)

    The whole family likes to take part though, when their schedules permit.

     

    Wife: 40

    Son: 14

    Stepson: 14

    Stepdaughter: 11

     

    If my mom's health permitted, she said she'd like to try it.

    She'll be 70 nest month.

    Did You Leave Something Forgotten After Caching?

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    I once left my hiking stick (an aluminim EMS 2-piece) at one cache on an early Sunday morning while caching alone.

     

    I proceeded to hit two more caches withour realizing I had left ir behind.

     

    I got to a third cache, a multi which I was sure would be at least a 1.5 mile hike in the snowy wood and realized I had no staff.

     

    I mentally retraced my morning and decided I had left the stick at the first cache of the day.

     

    It was waiting for me when I returned to the cache, which had not been heavily visited since the fall.

     

    More recently, I inadvertently left a TB in a cache. I didn't notice it was missing untill two hours later. I was still in the same park, so I went back and retrieved the TB. I would have just left it in the cache but I wasn't sure if it was beside the cache or in the box!

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