horsegeeks

I had the same problem. The date activated doesn't default to today's date anymore. You have to click on the date and the calendar comes up as June. You have to toggle over to October and hit today's date. A bit of a change from the norm

Very poor idea. The more the better. In 17.4 sq. mi with some creativity there can be a lot of caches placed. I've never been there but there are, I'm sure, county and state parks around it for caches too. If you have a good idea at a certain place ask a cacher with a cache there if he will share the space with you. I have archived a few of mine to make way for new ones at the request of the other cachers. What we don't need are more rules and limitations.

Just for the heck of it I bought two extra GeocoinFest NC coins and would like to trade for two from any of the other events yesterday. Any takers

Find a good weight loss program. Exercise is good for stress relief. You might try Geocaching - A great activity that involves get to the great outdoors. This is good advice but don't think simple drive-up micros will help the stress. You will have to do caches that are a little more extreme than that. You may have to get used to that type of cache (more extreme) but they will settle you down a bit. I do agree some people take the events and the logging of them way too seriously. Your logs should have not been disallowed

We had, just as an estimate around 90 - 100 people in North Carolina. Lots of coins flying back and forth and first and foremost the launching of the Hippie Bus race to Sacramento. It was glorious as all of the old jalopies smoked out of the Jordan Lake Educational State Park. Talk about pollution but it was a blast on this gorgeous day. Thanks dflye and creacher.

I broke my ankle while caching in Franklin, Tennessee. Not fun but it didn't stop my caching after I got the walking cast on.

We had a great time at all four events. The folks in LA are so hospitable, the caches are great and the scenery is first rate. I hope AOI '08 will happen and we will be able to attend.

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Sure there is !!! To trade them in Idaho , HMMMM Idaho sounds great too

That's a real shame, we enjoyed the OYR's on our trips

Nothing could be finer than to trade geocoins in Carolina

I don't have any that run weekly. I just have several that I run when needed and the results come back quickly.

First, in AA battery terms, what is a "wrapper" and second, how do you know that one isn't present? the "wrapper" i was talking about is what gives you information about the battery on the outside of it. you know, the part that might say "duracell" or "energizer". in the video that is given, each battery is jkust plain metal, no wrapper. I believe that you would find that quite ordinary in commercial or industrial applications such as this. In typical over the counter products there is an obvious need for such labeling. In commercial or manufacturing that is not true and the use of components in "plain brown wrappers" is quite the norm. The fact that no labeling in cases such as this would be the expected condition. I'd expect that the potential for leakage in these batteries would be no different than over the counter except I can see where they might actually be built to a higher standard due to the dense packaging, but of course I really do not know about that. Further it is highly unlikely that the labeling has anything to do with the prevention of leaks in batteries. I'd think that that would more likely a function of the case that contains the metals and chemicals that make the battery function properly and safely. And since there appears to be no labeling, how would you know what you are getting in terms of materials used, life expectancy or anything else? It's a lantern battery. BJ's has 48 good alkaline batteries for around 11.00. They last a long time in my 60cx, 60c and all of my other flashlights, remotes and 2-ways

The fraygirls are very inventive and can do things most frays can't do. The word here locally is the frayguy does all of the rowing and the fraygirls sit with their parasols.......NOT.

The sounds of the smileys ringing up. Seriously only classical for us

I have never known Wimsey to let his overweight state interfere with his geocaching. He squeezes in some way.

I'm very poor at debate so I guess I'll bow out. I'm just about to finish preparing for our caching trip tomorrow out of town. It's taken me about an hour and I can guarantee I won't find any I'll walk away from and the four of us will have a blast doing our caches. It could be because I spent that hour preparing our caching agenda. Maybe we're just lucky in North Carolina and Virginia and Texas and Florida and the states in between to not have many lousy caches that you forum folks gripe about all of the time. Happy Caching to all and to all a good night.......horsegeeks

This was brought up already. There are many micros that are very fun.... And there are thousands that flat out suck and are not very fun either. How would you know there were thousands? I've cached extensively in four states and haven't seen thousands that I would walk away from. There have been some definitely but thousands????? Well its kinda like this: of the 80 or so that I searched for prior to not searching for thme at all because they suck so bad, I have performed a mathematical interpolation approximation and determined that there must surely be several thousand that suck. Real scientific like.....numbers do not lie. Actually I think that my numbers are on the conservative side. HMMMMM

This was brought up already. There are many micros that are very fun.... And there are thousands that flat out suck and are not very fun either. How would you know there were thousands? I've cached extensively in four states and haven't seen thousands that I would walk away from. There have been some definitely but thousands?????

Somehow, I managed to get every unfound cache within a hundred miles onto my GPS. (Don't ask me. This is what geeky brothers are there for!) (Actually found one 74 miles away last weekend!) But! I plan what I want to seek before I set out. Read the cache pages, and make decisions. The problem here is that people want to go 'paperless', and yet have only interesting caches on their GPS. (Interesting to them, that is.) They should invest in a Ouija board. Or take the time to read through the cache pages. Sometimes I do caches that are major hikes. Sometimes, I do the 'short walk in the park' caches. I plan in advance what I plan to do. Sometimes I run out of them, and turn the GPS to 'nearest' and take my chances. Can be very interesting with no idea of what I'm looking for! Here is what I would like to filter out: Caches in cemeteries Kayaking caches Caches that require climbing trees or abandoned railroad trestles. Caches hidden by cache owners ABC or XYZ. Hey! I know how to do this!!! I can read the cache pages!! Duh! But reading the cache pages involves putting a little effort in planning your caching day (or night). We cache for anything we are in the mood for by merely reading a few logs but that seems to not be the norm for the folks that complain incessantly about not being "entertained".HMMM how did three posts happen?

Somehow, I managed to get every unfound cache within a hundred miles onto my GPS. (Don't ask me. This is what geeky brothers are there for!) (Actually found one 74 miles away last weekend!) But! I plan what I want to seek before I set out. Read the cache pages, and make decisions. The problem here is that people want to go 'paperless', and yet have only interesting caches on their GPS. (Interesting to them, that is.) They should invest in a Ouija board. Or take the time to read through the cache pages. Sometimes I do caches that are major hikes. Sometimes, I do the 'short walk in the park' caches. I plan in advance what I plan to do. Sometimes I run out of them, and turn the GPS to 'nearest' and take my chances. Can be very interesting with no idea of what I'm looking for! Here is what I would like to filter out: Caches in cemeteries Kayaking caches Caches that require climbing trees or abandoned railroad trestles. Caches hidden by cache owners ABC or XYZ. Hey! I know how to do this!!! I can read the cache pages!! Duh! But reading the cache pages involves putting a little effort in planning your caching day (or night). We cache for anything we are in the mood for by merely reading a few logs but that seems to not be the norm for the folks that complain incessantly about not being "entertained".

Somehow, I managed to get every unfound cache within a hundred miles onto my GPS. (Don't ask me. This is what geeky brothers are there for!) (Actually found one 74 miles away last weekend!) But! I plan what I want to seek before I set out. Read the cache pages, and make decisions. The problem here is that people want to go 'paperless', and yet have only interesting caches on their GPS. (Interesting to them, that is.) They should invest in a Ouija board. Or take the time to read through the cache pages. Sometimes I do caches that are major hikes. Sometimes, I do the 'short walk in the park' caches. I plan in advance what I plan to do. Sometimes I run out of them, and turn the GPS to 'nearest' and take my chances. Can be very interesting with no idea of what I'm looking for! Here is what I would like to filter out: Caches in cemeteries Kayaking caches Caches that require climbing trees or abandoned railroad trestles. Caches hidden by cache owners ABC or XYZ. Hey! I know how to do this!!! I can read the cache pages!! Duh! But reading the cache pages involves putting a little effort in planning your caching day (or night). We cache for anything we are in the mood for by merely reading a few logs but that seems to not be the norm for the folks that complain incessantly about not being "entertained".

I got my turtles today, three of them. Thanks so much dflye. Now if I could only get a First Finder's Dance. Anybody???? I might be willing to trade "almost" anything in our collection.

I would absolutely love to get a First Finder's Dance geocoin. I have wanted one since they came out and have been unable to trade or buy one that is affordable. Binary J donated one for GW5 that I planned to bid on but totally forgot to bid because of feeding all of the hungry hordes of geocachers.

With any spare engine you get be sure to torque the heads down properly. I'll never forget my hippie bus and most others back in the day could be heard popping from way down the road