NeoAddict

1) how many do you have in hand...6 or 7 I think 2) how many do you have released...4 released coins, all in circulation still (i just released them, lol!) 3) how many have been given away to those who don't "Do" coins...none yet to people who aren't into geocaching or coining, but I've placed one in a cache as a FTF prize. They loved it! I'm just getting into the Geocoin world, admittedly.

I'm a fan of signature swag, like Pathtags. They can be a tiny investment, but certainly not as expensive as Geocoins are. Other than those, all the above mentioned trade items are pretty nifty. Especially the CITO containers that Tagleberry is planning. Those are crafty, and really smart.

Reading this thread makes me want to have a spring loaded can or snakes in my safety deposit box when I die, as well as hiding a night cache with scary sounds!

Congrats! I had heard of a person in a chair wheeling the torch in UK, but never knew it was a cacher! You didn't get shuffled onto a bus or anything, did you? I think that was in France anyway.

I agree. Kudos to all the VOLUNTEER reviewers.

In my personal opinion, I like hiding caches and seeing the FTF logs, especially if I leave an interesting or unique FTF prize. I almost like that better than being a FTF! The happy feeling that you get when someone really appreciates your cache and the stuff that is in it is better than your own personal FTF dance at the cache location, I think. To each their own. Some people like getting up at 3AM to get that FTF from the cache that was published at 1AM.. others don't. It's not my bag of chips, but from what I've seen there are those that enjoy it.

Thank god I've not gotten into Second Life. Looks like fun for rainy days.

I have a hard time believing that an unsuspecting person would accidentally make off with a bag full of tags, and then they mysteriously started showing up logged all over the country. Sounds like a rouge tagger to me!

I would LOVEEEEEE to get a "5.12a" coin. I'd give it to all my climber cachers, they'd get a massive kick out of it. As would I! One thing of note- In my personal opinion, I would say that you don't need the 'cache location ->' bit on there, but that would only be because I understand the 5.12a rating and know exactly what the coin is about. Other people who are not immersed in the climbing world would not get it, as the person above stated. But on the other hand, I've seen plenty of coins that have some sort of inside meaning to them, so I would say get rid of that bit of writing and make this coin a climber's coin!

That is absolutely rediculous. That someone actually had the gall to steal it from an event is even worse, and goes to show that you can't trust people to be honest anymore, even among a community such as this. I hope there was a name list of attendees, and if I were the one in charge, I'd be interrogating them under a swinging light in a dark, empty warehouse! I do hope that this gets resolved. It's such a bummer.

So that was that little tube I found the other day. Nifty.

Someone needs to close this thread. It's turned into a patriotism competition, it seems. The topic isn't even being discussed anymore, and as Keystone said earlier, it's even been resolved.

I'll agree that these forums are filled with all sorts of undesirable feelings and sentiments, and I was taken back when I first joined in on the discussions- I thought, "Man, these people are jerks!" But since I have a thick skin from years of internet use, I stayed and can now filter out the nonsense and somewhat enjoy my forum posting. I'm gonna go out geocaching now.

I've never had trouble shipping even a dual capped chunk of PVC pipe through the mail- as the X-ray expert above me stated, you'd have to have it looking like a pretty convincing bomb with all the right materials to have it stopped and inspected more thoroughly/go boom courtesy of the local bomb squad. Postal service always takes a while to send me packages. Could be the same issue for you?

I just spent the last hour and a half reading this thread. Wowie. Short and sweet: OP vs Rude Commenter: Commenter could have refrained from using 'lame' and 'lazy' to describe the cache and the owner. OP could have easily used more discretion in replying. But that's not the matter here anyway. OP vs Groundspeak: I think a simple re-wording and moving of sentences would solve the problem here. Yes, she wanted to thank her kids for doing what they were doing. Bravo. But the fact of the matter is that we are all customers (of sorts) of Groundspeak and they have rules/guidelines to follow, and we as community members have to abide by them. This isn't Battledome after all, where you can do anything you want and get away with it! My conclusion: Get over log comments with short emails or ignorance, and rework the wording to the log page. And sing Kum-ba-ya around the campfire when we're all done!

I use cachemagnet to get my PQ data to my iPod. Works like a dream.

I think it would be nice, and have dual purpose. Assigning the attribute to micro caches would save some people the trouble of bringing TB's along if they're not sure they'll fit or not, especially if the description isn't accurate. However, not everyone uses attributes, so it could be useful or not.

I'd actually pay off my credit cards if I didn't spend money on geocaching accessories such as Geocoins and Pathtags.

100 feet seems pretty far for fishing line to hold a box... better be 30 pound test...

I don't mind themed caches at all. Puzzle caches on the other hand...

Here, here. We need more happy responses like this in these forums.

I've never quite been able to work out what I like to call "Power Runs"; where cachers do 20 or 30 caches in a day- it's just mind boggling for me! So I understand where you're coming from. I've never done an event, so I don't have personal experience in doing the heavily saturated caching. People earlier in the thread have offered great advice pertaining to paperless caching. If you're unable to do that, do some work before going out. Look up caches in an area, write them down in the order you'd like to do them (say, in a small journalist notebook) and then load the coordinates into your GPSr. That way you sort of have a route picked out, and you know the ones you want to try. Could be 10, or it could be 40. It also depends on how fast you are with logging or trading; not trading, only signing the logbook really cuts down on time.

Not cheap at all. As said above, I'd much rather find those than an ammo box full of McToys and golf tees.

I know certain people who truly enjoy hiking naked. Not something I'd up for, but to each their own. They say that it gives them the experience of being "closer" to nature. They're also very adamant about doing it in very remote areas, so not to scare any unsuspecting hikers. Seems you're off to a great start finding 2 dead dogs already, with only 16 finds! Welcome to Caching in Minnesota.

Making it a multi sounds better, but making a ferry ride (that costs money) integral to solving the cache might be breaking the commercial guideline. Sounds neat, but questionable.