Coyote's Girl

I'd thought of that. Unfortunately, the only other cacher I'm aware of locally is someone I pass on my school bus route. They drive an orange boxy car with a Groundspeak sticker. I can hold off. Next weekend is the big sci-fi convention and I'm busy anyhow.

I ordered the TB earlier today, and I'm going to hit the cave after it arrives. Thanks for the input; It would be a shame to rush this one and not have it be right.

So, I'm very near 100 caches. I wanted to do 100 in the first year I was at this. But that didn't happen for me. I wanted my 100th cache to be something special, and I thought of the very perfect thing to do. There is a local (sort of) cave that has a deeply special meaning to me. It's connected to my husband, my all time favorite teacher, a generic hound known only as "Cave Dog" and Armin Krueger (the cave's caretaker). It's full of special and wonderful memories, too many to list here. I have made, and intend to release a fimo figure of my Geology teacher as a travel bug, and I want to begin his caving adventure here where it all began for me. Burksville Cave SO, my question is this, do I go ahead and hit this one for my 100 tomorrow and drop off my travel bug at a later date OR do I (As my husband suggests) go ahead and order my dog-tag and lay off caching until it arrives and THEN make it my 100 (Please not that this would only work if I could get him to order the dog tag [i cannot get a bank account because my ex screwed up SO bad, I'm on Chex systems until sometime next year or I'd order the thing myself]).

Seeing new places, re-visiting special places, meeting new people, spending time with DBug, my #1 son. And that small feeling of superiority I get from knowing something exists that not many other people know about.

Thanks for all the advice! I've got lots of ideas now. I'm gonna make and test one tonght and see how it goes. OK Scratch that. It's making me angry. I'll try again when I've had some sleep.

So, I'm planning an evil micro. I'm a big fan of Monarch butterflies and a big fan of geocaching, so I thought why not make a chrysalis micro-nano sized cache? Obviously I'd base it around one of those weeny bison tubes everyone loves to hate. But But to make the chrysalis part, I'd like to use sculpey as A) I have it lying about B.) It's easy to sculpt into the desired shape and C) I can paint it to resemble any of the stages of the Monarch's life cycle. At any rate, does anyone know how it does in the wild? P.S. Where do I get those little bison tubes everyone loves to hate?

Just checking.

It was my half-birthday, and I didn't know it but I was only 13 days away from having a baby (he came early). I didn't have a GPSr but I did have google maps and and intimate knowledge of the area. I was SO bored and a little curious about the sport, so I signed up, logged in and went out. It was pretty awesome.

My excuse involves a screaming 10-month old and not nearly enough sleep. I just tried to nap while he was down. Yeah... not so much. The Bitty One must have some kind of radar. I think that tomorrow I'lzzzzz z zz zzzzz What?

And cell phone, wallet, MY tools.... My glasses, the diaper bag, anything I've removed from my spice rack in the past week.

My son has invented a game of indoor caching. It's rather like the treasure hunting games I'd play with my sister when we were kids. We'll draw up a rough map of the house and he'll fill up one of his bags or boxes with toys and ask me to hide it. Then I put an X on the map where I put the "cache" and he finds it. Then he looses the map while he's placing the cache for me to find. I find it, and then hide it for him. It's great fun for the younger ones on a rainy day!

Yeah, I've got 2 slings. I love them. And I left them on my dresser. I was totally beat when I got home this afternoon. Wish I had that jeep one, though, way more my speed than the Maclaren. I like the idea of a humvee, but I doubt that St Louis County would have appreciated me tearing all over their sculpture park!

I was out caching with DBug and the Bitty One today and the stroller was a nightmare. Admitedly it was a Maclaren umbrella-style that was meant more for cruising through your local Mall than for hiking in the woods. I go caught on everything. The smallest rocks became as formidable an obsticle as gigantic boulders. So I'm on the way back to the car; bruised, sweaty and defeated, and I got to thinking. Is there a stroller that's made for rough terrian? If there isn't, then there probably isn't much of a market for it other than to wierdos like me. If there isn't... how would I go about building a large-wheeled independant suspension all-terrain stroller? Should I just leave the baby at home with his Daddy from now on? Will Lassie save Timmy from the rattlesnake???

I was out caching with DBug and the Bitty One today and the stroller was a nightmare. Admitedly it was a Maclaren umbrella-style that was meant more for cruising through your local Mall than for hiking in the woods. I go caught on everything. The smallest rocks became as formidable an obsticle as gigantic boulders. So I'm on the way back to the car; bruised, sweaty and defeated, and I got to thinking. Is there a stroller that's made for rough terrian? If there isn't, then there probably isn't much of a market for it other than to wierdos like me. If there isn't... how would I go about building a large-wheeled independant suspension all-terrain stroller? Should I just leave the baby at home with his Daddy from now on? Will Lassie save Timmy from the rattlesnake???

I like to leave: Seashells, Charms I've made from crystal beads in the Geocaching colors, Small figurines, quartz crystal points if I can find them cheap, toys for the kiddies (Not used from McYucks) I've left earrings I made and bracelets. I'd like to to find a way to leave books (our collection of these is holding up the ceiling in places) but you know... mildew. Being unemployed over this summer has made it near impossible to come up with good trade, so for now I'm just leaving the charms I've made and only trading them for something if my son is with me.

I found some back in April. Around here they start popping up around late March. One guy in our town woke up and found he was the Morel King of southern Illinois with quite a large nuber of them growing in his own back yard.

Just got back from putting them out for review. They're two traditionals. Thanks for all the input. Have fun out there!

I never thought of that! Cool, thanks!

So I've found a couple nice places for a cache. They are both on top of a large hill at a local park. They are the obligitory .1 mile apart. Do I make them two seperate caches, or do I make one multi-cache? They both offer stunning views of the surrounding area, one is accessable very easily to stollers and even a person in a wheelchair if you bring a buddy to reach under the overlook (I'm working on a way to make it accessable without a buddy after some very innovative stuff I saw in Florida). The other is off the paved trail and could require a bit of a bushwhack depending on the time of year you visit. So, is it "A Pair of Kings" or "I'm King of the World!" and "King of the Hill" ?? Also any help on contacting a local reviewer would be great since I'm apparantly a bit of a dunce on these things.

I cried a little. Then I bought swag for a couple caches I want to get out. I came home and tried to log on so I could submit my caches. Whined a little to my muggle husband. Wondered if playing Warhammer 40K with him would be a sufficient trade to get him to cache with me. Then we went to see the fireworks in a great new park with a lovely view of the Arch. Needs a cache. Came home and went to bed.

Thank goodness everyone's OK. I knew something serious had happened. Great job on the fas respose.

The first thing I wondered is how vertically challenged is the OP? I'm 5'2"... 5'3 1/2" in my hiking boots. There have been a couple I had to jump to get (being a shorty working in a book store, I've become an exceptional jumper). One.. I KNOW where the dumb thing is, but I can't reach it, and my 6'3" hubby doesn't cache. Grabber, pointy stick, jumping, or bringing along a freakishly tall buddy are just a few options in this great game we play. Sometimes it's better to be short; there's a local cahce I'm not going after without a flashlight. It's in a storm drain. I barely have to tip my head. But I digress... If I can't sign it, I don't log it. Now, I've "signed" a log with some mud and a bit of a stick before. I went to the Clinton Presidential Library on President's day and there was so no way I was hiking back to my car for the pen. But if you can't leave a mark of some kind, I wouldn't call it found.

I don't know if you have, but You could enter this ina cointest about end of the semester Yeah, except that the end of this semester was 15 years ago

If I'm with my son, he usually takes a car or some other toy. If I'm alone I won't take anything uless it really tickles my fancy. We leave nice polished stones or seashells, I've left earrings that I make. I'm going to start making charms with swarovski crystals in the geocaching colors.

85, none of them are mine though. And I need to get more of them.