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I have a Gerber that is fine for the feature I like best. It's the series that the plier slides out of before it can be opened for access to the other tools. The best feature is the saw blade which is replacable. It comes in real handy for cutting PVC pipe. Although it is large and a bit heavy it is a good tool. I also have a Leatherman "Pulse." It's a little tight in the plier action but, it works just fine for light stuff. I can't mow my lawn without it. My multitools, including my cheap Wallmart version, are indispensible tools. I use two of them occationally and the Leatherman daily. To answer your question, "what is your favorite multitool?", I have to go with the Leatherman.

I like wood items, especially if they are made by the trader. I make scroll sawn clocks and bird houses which are too big to put into a cache container. I take the scrap wood and cut out animal shapes and trade them as my signature item. But, I like anything that is hand made from any material.

If you wear shorts while caching your arguments against kilts are invalid. You have bare legs sticking out of your shot pants and critters and thorn bushes can do their attacks on you in them as well. Additionally, men wore kilts a long time before they wore trousers. Look it up, you'll see Alexander the Great, a lot of Greek soldiers and the Romans wearing kilts. If you're embarrassed to wear a kilt then don't wear one. If you believe that you will be vulnerable to critter attack under the kilt, then don't wear one. But, there are those of us who are quite comfortable in kilt and we,re not any different than you. Just my 2 cents.

The guy in the picture above has his utili-kilt on backwards. The pleats go in the back. I sometimes wear my kilt while geocaching. It is comfortable and on hot days is cool. I'm not crazy about the utili-kilts for myself, but they have been gaining popularity in the past few years. If you want to wear a utili-kilt... go for it. Oh! whats worn under the kilt? The pride of Scotland.

The high desert of Southern California 92311

What is GSAK and where do I get it?

It's like golf. Some shots anger you to the point of breaking clubs. But, when you hit a 280 yard drive or chip one into the hole from 50 yards you have to come back and try it all over again. Caching... DNFs and missing caches anger you to the point of quiting, but the hard finds bring you back tomorrow. I LOVE IT (golf and Geocaching).

It depends on which way the earth moved. WAAS enabled GPSr's could be more accurate by an inch (tongue in cheek).

I'd like to chime in here with another word of welcome to the geocaching community. Welcome

I have made up business cards that state that , "I Found Your Cache." I leave one in every cache whether there is a log or not. I also take pictures of the cache and it's location (I cannot log these on the web site) and put them into my personal log book. Being a pilot, log books are important to log all of my flight hours so, I keep one for all my cache finds too. The cards are easy to design and print. All you need is a version of The Print Shop or something similar and printer business cards that you can get at any Walmart. This will make the find a fact with no room for speculation.

I can't see what all the hulla ballu ia all about. Companies advertise their products and services on T.V. and we don't run out an purchase all of them. If a cache asks you to come see the antique store down the street all you have to do is go on by and don't stop. Advertising in the forums is a different story, but still the same principle applies. If you don't want to be influenced by advertising, don't participate in the forum. Advertising requires two things. You must have a story to tell and you must have an audiance. If either one of those is missing your advertising is ineffective. All we have to do is deny the advertiser his audiance in the forums if that is what you want to do. On the other hand, you can read the ads and it opens up another resource to you.

Merry Christmas

I make my own signature items. They are wood animal silouettes. They don't cost anything because I use scrap wood from other woodworking projects. I put each one in a plastic bag with a business card size "Certificate of Authenticity" that says, "I personally guarentee that this is a genuine trade item found in a geocache in the Mojave Desert of Southern California." Then there is a date line and a line for YOUR name. I also leave a personal card that says, "I found your Cache." These are my signature items. The cards can work for everyone because they're as personal as your distinct personality. I collect cards so I wish everyone used them when they find my caches.

I'm never without mine. I have made a half dozen or so and they all have a Turks Head knott tied around them. I like to tie that knott because so few people do anymore. I even have a mini Mag Lite that I tied one around. The sticks I use are those I have picked up in the desert of the forrests of Southern California. My digital camera was stolen Monday so I can't post a photo.

I make my signature items out of wood. They are mini animal silouetts. Each one goes into a plastic bag along with my "Cirtificate of Authenticity" It is then identified as, "a genuine trade item found in a geocache in the Mojave Desert of Southern California." I'm working on a sig card declaring my visit to a cache.

I think it's both and I'm not stradling the fence on the issue. Caching is thought consuming, an obsession and enjoyable enough that I spend as much money as I can on it. It's the best of all worlds when life is your hobby and that's what geocaching has become for me. I run the emotional gamut over it.

Here in southern California, we wern't affected either. I have never seen the Northern Lights. It has to be spectacular and someday maybe I will.

How do you do that?

I'll remember that one in case my train stops in Finland on the way from Albuquerque to L.A. dry.gif If your traveling from Albuquerque on the weekend your train may stop in Barstow, California. There is a cache connected with the Route 66 museum in that station building. I don't know how to link you to the cache but its, "Harvey's House," in zip code 92311. Even if your train does stop, it may not be long enough to hunt a cache.

Thanks Bret, I used your suggestion and I guess I pushed the right button because it is now corrected. I can't use it for golf yardages, but is is working again for caching. Amy, excuse me for horning in on your thread.

Very well done article. It made me want to run out and buy another GPSr and start all over.

The wife and I are both retired EMS personel. I was a firefighter/paramedic and Ems instructor. My wife was a registered nurse/Mobile Intensive Care Nurse (MICN) in the begining of the San Bernardino County EMS program. I was in the 4th class of paramedics at Crafton Hills College (1979). All good memories.

I have another wonky problem with my eTrex Legend. It bounced off the dash into the floor of my Jeep. Afterwards it showed everything to be 85 miles away. Coordinates that I knew to be only a couple of miles away were shown as 60 to 85 miles off. I have checked everything I know to check and the Legend can't find anything wrong. Are there any suggestions????

My Garmin eTrex Legend has bounced off the dash of my Jeep numerous times and I dropped it into a rock crevice once. I really had to stretch to get it back. The only thing that has happened to it when it bounced off the dash is the arrow I chase changed from "Heading" to "Bearing" or vise versa. That spoiled my hunt only momentarily. My Legend is a rugged piece of equipment.