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I cache with a young fellow that did not log his finds on line for several weeks do to computor problems. When he was able to get to my house to borrow the comp. he logged them. He likes to read what others have said about the area and the sites and also pass on what he saw.

You are addicted when everything seems to be an annoyance that gets in the way of Geo caching. you are also addicted when you leave extra early for meetings and family visits just so you have time to stop and Geo cache. You are also addicted when you go with 50 band students to Florida and can't wait to check out the caches instead of the amusement parks rides.

This cache has not been there for a lot of people and the area has been heavily changed since the last time the cache was located. The cache according to the owner has also been muggle on many occassions. I do not want to be told where it is only that yes it really is still at this spot somewhere. I even resorted to moving the brush that at been stack in the co last hint area.

Thank You all for your help. I do not expect the co to find the cache for me. This cache has not been found for a long time with everyone discovering the same thing problem with not finding it. The area has recently been very cut down with many large brush pile with one in the gully that is mentioned in the new hint, Also the 6 foot wide wood chip pile does not exist. My concern is that the area has been altered so much that the owner may not know this and the hints are not valid.

Please do not start blasting me because this topic has been covered before. Please give me the information on : 1. finding already covered topics 2. answer to the above question of finding a reviewer in my area or 3. some other helpful information. My reason for making this request is that I have made many trips with a group to find a certain cache and have not been able to locate it as well as others that have tried to make the find. The Gps divice puts us into the middles of an unacceptable area Under a 10 foot pile of brush. I ask the co to help out and they gave me additional hints a the main one does not exist. It is suppose to be off the hiking trail 10 to 15 feet-(meets brush pile), to the right of the fire ring near 6 foot pile of wood chips-no wood chips, near lake, lake is about 50 feet from fire ring. I would like a reviewer to check on it to make sure I am not wasting my time because my brain will not say stop let this one go if it is still there I will accept the challenge.

I have never heard of a Power Trail cache system before so I checked it out. I thought it rather strange looking a the map of the caches,until I looked at the satellite one. A person could really make this interesting my finding a patern to hike from one to the other instead of the st. line method. Since I live in Wisconsin I guess I could not give it a try.

I am thinking that they do not have access. I tried gaining access without using my log in member info and it comes up with all question marks and says you need to log in. Being still fairly new however I could be wrong.

I recently tried a puzzle cache with the grandsons. We solved part of it and were stumped on the last part to give us the coords. We emailed the co for a hint, but before it arrived we solved the puzzle and were off to gz. No I would not have wanted the co to have just given us the coords. We made this a family fun time solving the puzzle and that was almost more fun than finding the cache in the snow so deep we almost lost the grandson in a snow drift.

We should all start watching garage sales and such for missing travel bugs. Before I started geocaching and learned what a travel bug was I just thought the ones the kids picked up at a garage sale were just weird dog tags. I wonder how many more have been lost this way. Now I look a little harder in stuff at sales and auction to see if I come across anymore.

If it will not be accepted as a earthcache could you not do it as a regular multi cache. My family of geocacher newbies went on a multicache that involved covering the trails and sites in the area around the falls in a forest area. we needed to read all the informatiion on the life of the area geological, biological and chemical to get to the final cache. The whole family learned a lot and enjoyed the hike through the area more having gained a much better understanding of the falls area. This cache you have sounds like a great one like this, that I know we would be excited to try. Don't give up on it.

I use this terminology when I have found a cache sitting out in the open with the contents getting wet or ruined. We also followed the same cachers one day and every cache was left laying in the path or just dropped on the ground beside a tree. We have tried to put them where it looked like a co would have hid it and as close to the coordinates as possible. I indicate that we did this so if the co wishes to check on them they can or can contact us about it. We also found one that had not been found for two years that needed maintenance. It was very easy to fix a new containor exactly like the original one and replace it. After doing this others seemed to take note of this cache in this lovely park and it once again was having visitors.

As a fairly new cacher, all I can say about your responses is wow. This information include in the geocaching information when I started would have helped me so much. Keep up the great work and I hope this is used for us newbys. We really do not like getting chewed out for making a mistake from lack of knowledge. Thank you again for your time and thought to this learning tool.l

As a camper we needed a camp name. I took the first part of my first name and the first part of my last name and came up with dibug. It was very relevant to the camping experience with bugs a plenty. I also tend to bug people so I am dibug with a short i sound.

I found a TB in a difficult multi cache that had been lost for 17 months. It was not even logged into where I found it. It was a great feeling when the bug owner emailed a thank you and his excitemnt at its moving again.

tHE SEVEN AND TWELVE YEAR OLD GRANDSONS WENT OUT CACHING THIS WEEKEND IN 20+ INCHES OF SNOW. We did not mind digging in the snow as much as digging in the ground when a shovel you did not bring in the summer. The snow was much friendlier to move around. We did not even think to check if they were labeled winter accessible or not. We knew the area was safe to travel in even in the winter however.

The eleven year old I cache with knows about condom's and the protection theory, but he found the graphic picture and text that went before it more than a little overwhelming. He was not prepared to discover the x rated geo cache swag. He felt it was totally inappropriate for a family game.

Many of the co in our area that have a lot of hinds put a lot of thought into them and they are quite good and lots of fun to look for. I think lnew cachers like myself do not have enough experience with the types of caches and containers to put in our own caches. My suggestion would be for community ed. programs to do what ours did and have a class on geo-caching that covers finding and hiding. Our teacher showed us many types of containers to use and where to find them. He showed us different camo type items to use as well.

Northern Wisconsin has a great one on the Gandy Dancer trail. They start near St. Croix falls, Wisc. and run to Superior, Wisc. You can walk, bike or drive from cache to cache.

I first heard about it through the Girl Scouts of Minnesota, Wisconsin River Valleys. Then our community Ed. program offered a class about Geo caching and I was hooked.

Most of the fun of Geo caching is the exercise,company of a family member, friends and the challenge of the find. They are certainly not getting any of those unless they are together laughing over this crazy act. I have found several caches where the log was signed but they have never recorded them as found on the site. This is probably because they usually do not close the caches or return them to their special spot. On drizzly days this really is annoying since everything gets wet and trying to dry it out isn"t easy.

I have a small GS back pack that I carry GeoCaching. I started this after finding some caches that previous cachers had left open and were now getting wet inside or ones that just leaked a little bit. In it I usually have some very small notebooks, Zip lock baggies, swag, pens pencils etc. One of our first finds had a container that was in very bad shape, being rusty and wet. I had many containers like this one so I went home found one and camoed it like the one at the hide put a new log book in several baggies and returned to the site to drop it off, putting the old log book in a new baggie as it had been aroung for a long time and was very interesting to read. Being new I hoped that the owner would not mind my doing this as long as everything remaind in as the same type he started with. I really appreciated his or her cache and did not want them to lose anymore logs from others finding it.

I have been working on one that has had many dnfs and the last finds were in 2008. the owner assures me that it is there and ok. I am beginning to think it is buried and we need to dig. They even gave new clues for us but the items in the clue are not around the important part of there clue. why do I go back because I hate admitting defeat. The thrill will be in finding it and discovering it right under my nose all the time.

I would much prefer having the kids find the McToys than the condoms that my 12 year old grand son thought were really crude. I assured him that the good thing was that they were new.

Craft Fairs that have wood working artists at them are also a great place to find good walking sticks. If you visit Wisconsin and Minnesota you can find them at many of these events.