GRANPA ALEX

DUDE!!!! I have not been able to get my wife to wear one! It is really too bad, cause I keep losing her in the woods . . . but, somehow, she finds her way home, anyway

Don't use un-washed food containers (ie:peanut butter jars) with matches or lighter in them . . . squirrels will start forest fires!

I just LOVE the Dodgers . . . they are like my family and act as a family - a super team! I can listen to Vin Scully for hours, he is GREAT and knows the game so well. I used to sit in the stadium watching the game & listen to him on earphones - what an experience. I could watch the game on TV and listen to the radio and get almost ALL of the joy of being there . . . but, to get the full experience, I had to buy a ticket into the stadium. You can have the full geocaching experience, all the joy, exercise, places, flora, fauna, people and fun . . . but, if you want the FULL experience - you gotta buy a ticket. It is not reasonable to get so much for no cost from gc.com and expect more for nothing . . . good grief, if one can not afford $30.00, they have some serious bigger concerns - like gas to go caching, lunches on the road + real problems, like finding $2.50 per month to log finds .

When a landowner yells at me and takes offense at the cache being on his property . . . I contact the cache owner and wait for him to handle the matter.

I guess I fit categories 1-5, only . . . don't care for FTF, puzzles or trading - "not that there is anything worng wit them" One might add another category . . . team caching!

I use a selection of colors in the pens made by Pilot, extra fine soi that they work for micro logs well . . . the "Precise V5" model. Works in cold, on wet logs and they are rugged and inexpensive.

I use a selection of colors in the pens made by Pilot, extra fine soi that they work for micro logs well . . . the "Precise V5" model. Works in cold, on wet logs and they are rugged and inexpensive.

I am sorry . . . but, in my experience with my cache hides - there has been NO trash placed to replace quailty swag. Of course, one can not know what WAS there in the beginning when junk is found in it today . . . it may have commenced as poor swag and just continued that way. I place a cache that is 'themed' and the friends that visit have retained this theme (childrens books, hand-held games, travel bugs). Maybe that is the solution, keep a theme and it might eliminate miscellaneous swag that one might think is of poor quality.

JUST A THOUGHT ~ you would never, ever, want to make a surviving family member become distressed or become disturbed so that we could play a game, so . . . only use graves that are older than, say, two generations (50 years). Doing this, there will be no more living family members visiting the site to become disturbed . . . for the most part, no one visits great-grandparents old graves and probably never knew them or, even, of them.

Gott vote for WUFFO, it is perfect. My wuffo friends empathize with my affliction, they understand what I am doing, they just don't know wuffo. Even when explained, they have that blank look.

Three hundred and thirty two ticks (yes, I counted) from one trip into the forest near Jordan Lake (NC), the little tiny, almost impossible to see ones.

I have to agree . . . going into an area far from home to cache and have fun only to be stifled by ingenious mystery/puzzle caches that require more than one has in the field (PPC, GPS, laptop) is a real joy robber. Yea, I know I can pass them up and I often must do so . . . but, my personality makes it tough (my problem!). These are fine caches (IMO) but they need not be so creative and intense as to require more time in puzzle solution than in finding the cache . . . it then becomes a puzzle game rather than a geocaching game.

I was LTF on a cache that the owner archived soon after I had found it, he had had some complaint with his reviewer and responded by archiving his caches. Many months later, I was in the area again (out-of-state) and hunting caches that were new since the last trip . . . I came upon the exact same cache by a dfifferent owner name . . . same log book, same container. I was FTF on this "new" cache. Felt funny signing my name, under my own name in the log book . . . still feel strange claiming the find, what should one do?

Mine, too, is an Australian Shepherd I have trained him (easy to train a smart dog like an Aussie) to never let me out of his sight. SO, he runs ahead, runs back and around all day . . . going, probably, ten miles to my one in the woods and uneven terrain. The last trip, I had to actually pick him up off of a log over which he was high-centered on the way back to he car and then again to put him in the car because he was so exhausted . . . he loves the time spent caching but is no help in finding the prizes.

I have made at least a dozen 'geo-sticks' that are ultra light, strong and perfect for the game of poking, raking and sticking into small tight 'snake & spider' holes on the hunt. It is even strong enough to weed whack, if needed. I get the sticks from a golf shop repair person, the metal ones, after the head is broken off. I drill & screw a small bolt that has a narrow flange into the bottom end. The flange is only 1/32" or so but it rakes well. I can really lean on the strong stick when climbing or descending and it is so light, it is like no extra bother at all.

Have met him and seen the quality of his work . . . it does take time and you will be pleased with the gift when/if it arrives. Please be sure all is well with his fine gentleman before going off on him too hard, if he can do well where this is concerned, you can count on being done that way.

It was a grand old oak in the swampy woods near Charleston SC, slimy with algea (or something) on a very rainy day . . . the cache was an ammo can with a combo lock (bicycle chain) way out on a limb, very well placed, high off of the ground. It was a BIG oak, long high limbs - you know the kind, 100+ years old and the like! It was getting dark, I was alone, no one knew where I was. I got up there, tenuously. I almost fell twice going up, again in opening the can . . . but, got it signed. THAT was when I fully realized that the going UP was the easy part. Needless to say, I survived, sliding down the slimey limb doing a balancing act and learning how dumb I could really be at 60+ year of age and wondering if there were gators and other critters who might pick me apart if I fell and could not help myself (they have that stuff there, really). A stupid human trick, for sure . . . unfortunately, I have more!

Bees are good, serve a very useful purpose and are rarely agressive unless you mess with them, except the Africanized ones. They should be protected. This nature-hugger thing must suffer limits, everything in nature is not good and there is another reason the humans are a higher intelligence than just to protect dangerous bugs. We must have the sense to make decisions that demonstrate the wisdom of caring for ourselves and each other, first. Wasps, Hornets and Yellow Jackets are not friendly, are agressive and you do not have to mess with them for them to attack. I have been attacked in mass by them on my bulldozer when I could not hear them coming or see them for the dust - it is not a good thing. I would hate to see a child cacher become a target for these guys and will destroy any nest that I come across. I do not own the cache to move it but I can look out for cachers who follow me . . . the bugs can nest elsewhere, they are not dead just because the nest is destroyed . . . but the children are safe.

Only the one where a large field was burned over and the only thing that survived was the big old oak with an ammo can beside it . . . forced it open - melted plastic, scorched paper and melted small bits of metal. Tossed in a new log in a baggie, covered it with burnt sticks and went to the next cache.

Oh, I don't know . . . if someone wants to really-really insult me and make me very angry - buy me a new OREGON 300 from Garmin and throw in a lifertime Premium Membership with GC.com. I will, honestly, try to be ingracious, selfish, angry, braggarty and blatantly insulting and flaming to the greatest number of people possible. I may even let you all know how wealthy I am, just to throw it into your faces tp make me look good and seem disconnected from need of your gift, after all, wealthy people do not need gifts from anyone - they buy what they need themselves. Go ahead . . . try me, really, I will not disappoint you!

Funny thing . . . I have found a number of these magnetic sheets on metal fixtures and, sometimes, I STILL get fooled by them - sometimes the mind wanders and other targets cause distraction and result in a 'head-slapper' find. I love them! LPC caches are often simply gifts for the cacher in-a-hurry-on-a-tight-schedule - I have one that gets a lot of activity that is appreciated by finders, some are even confused from being less experienced. They are fun hides and do not poorly impact the sites. If the location is one that has 'a reason to be there' other than finding a cache - great! In response to CR, I have a rule-of-thumb on hides - if I feel strange and concerned about hiding/hunting a cache due to it's location, it is probably NOT a good place for the cache. I would be adding potential grief to every hider that visited it and involving authorities, in a negative way, in our game. I have learned to be careful of such hides (& hunts). So, IMO, transformer boxes, circuit boxes and the like, though great for magnetics, would make a cacher look very supsicious and cause concern to an officer charged with premises' protection. Maybe, we should use other devices to attach our hides.

My reviewer works for 'food'!

OUCH!!! It is what my grand sons call me, they do not pronouce the 'd', though I did mention spelling but was focused upon grammar errors . Got me on 'peave' too? Good on you! BTW, it was not a targeted but a general observation of trends in the industry that bother me as education is not evidenced by presentation in the craft. The dumbing down of society is commenced in the schools and continued in the crafts where it should be presented as an elevated skill. Thank you for responding to my post . . . hit my email, if you like, so that the OP can stay on topic.

I have often, using only the GPSr & co-ords, found caches bushwhacking in from a wrong direction, only to find the cache near to a parking lot. I made it a tougher find than it was designed to be. The opposite is true in your case . . . you want it to remain a challenging paddle cache and to be approached in the way that you prescribe (this is fair). It would not be reasonable or fair to enforce the means to the cache by log deletion and impossible to do by 'suggestion' on the cache page. But, it can be done by making it a simple multi-cache with data at each stage that gives final co-ords. This would force the means or egress that you choose . . . you could, to make it fun, make the stages individual smileys, to encourage participation.

It must be great to be so smart . . . I would NEVER have thought of this, thanks for sharing !