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  1. I own a segway, and I use it on the trails at times. I also walk, or ride a bike. I think of it as a tool, like a canoe or kayak. I could swim out to the island, but canoeing is easier. I have the gen 1 XT which has the large off road tires. It has a maximum range of 20 miles. They work great on the multi use trails, but are very difficult if not impossible to ride on a single track mountain bike trail. Steep hills and/or narrow trails are not friends of segways.

  2. I've found at least 4 glass jars, one of them has been in northern MN since 2003. Glass will not break when frozen, if it did, all the windows in MN and other states would be broken by now.

    I won't state how many glass containers I have hidden.

  3. It does not need to be PNG. I do not mind doing some hiking. Even an area with several nice trails with interesting caches would be great. I really do not expect anything near the number of caches or speed of the ET ones.

    I haven't done it, but it might be something to look forward to. This one is somewhere in the middle.

     

    GC20J05

  4. I spend a lot of time outside in spring, either mushroom hunting, camping, or geocaching. In the last 20 years, I can count on one hand the number of times I have had to remove a tick that was firmly attached to my skin. I usually just pull gently, but I have heated them slightly as well. One day last week, I removed 93 ticks from myself, and my clothes in a 2 hour stretch.

  5. I just picked up a United for Diabetes TB as a FTF prize on a new cache. I entered the UNXXXX number into GC tracking page, but it is not found. I then went to the alphabetical list. There is a handwritten name on the TB that starts with Al-Nxxxxxxxxx Iraq, but that name is not on the list either. What is my next option to get this moving.

  6. Sprinkler systems in cold weather climates are installed the same as in warm weather areas, with one slight modification. A method to blow the lines out with compressed air is added. Every fall, the water is shut off, and the lines are blown out. Simple procedure.

  7. I don't always log a dnf for a couple of reasons. If you get to GZ, and there is no "obvious" place to look, I don't start moving snow from a 30 foot diam, because that is too much work. Sometimes in the woods, coordinates are off, which makes it harder. Chances are, a CO is not going to check til spring anyway. Caches on the ground at the base of a tree that looks like any other tree can be found without snow, but snow makes it impossible without a lot of time, so I don't waste a lot of time, just go on to the next.

  8. I'm working on a century streak, so I've been out all winter. I am also in a rural area, so I have to travel farther to get to caches. I was doing about 50% finds when I discovered the "found in last 7 days" option, since then, I have done much better. Sometimes though, I think I would rather be the first to find after a snowfall. Once snow is moved, it sets up, and is hard as ice.

    People throw snow back on top to cover the cache, it sets up, and is tough to find. I don't trust the snowflake icon anymore either. 4 of us looked for one for over 1/2 hour, only to read the logs, and one person said "winter friendly if it doesn't snow", another the day before that, was under a pile of snow from a plow.

  9. In 8 years and a bit over 1000 caches - I've run into another cacher at ground zero no more than 10 times. So it is rare.
    One word: Nebraska.

     

    :mellow:

     

    (just teasing, of course. I know that you get up into the well populated state of South Dakota every now and again)

     

    I'm closing in on 1000 finds also, and I have run into no more than 5 cachers while out searching. I am not in Nebraska, Minnesota

  10. When I first started caching, the snow really got me down. I DNF'd a few, and thought I might have to quit until spring. Then I went with my son, and together we were able to find most caches, if you move enough snow. I have found 90 already this month, and just came back from northern WI where I was able to log finds on the majority I looked for, and except for one newly placed cache, none had been found since before the snow fell. Cache On

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