EscapeFromFlatland

I ended up with an avulsion fracture at the talus after meeting with other geocachers for happy hour after caching the other week. January saw me finding more caches than all of last year. February has me finding 4 so far. Stupid ankle.

The Delorme PN-60w w/SPOT usually gets me closer in accuracy than the Garmin 60CSx in tree cover.

Um- a few months ago they finally hit 1-million caches. I think 1.2 million has been the true number for awhile now. Somewhere in this forum is a thread that has graphs showing the current cache-count. I highly doubt 1.7M active caches was reached, as I'm sure Groundspeak would have posted something about hitting 1.5M.

I have a few caches near the downtown Portland area to possibly put up for adoption. I'm moving and fractured my ankle, so not sure about when I'd be able to get out for maintenance on two of them that are disabled right now (like me!). Please send me a PM if interested.

Do Not Resuscitate pasta on the boilerplate.

FWIW, I've heard that the best vehicle for this numbers run trail is a 4x4 vehicle with the doors removed. Opening and closing the doors gets old quickly. Yeah but I am going for the gas mileage to see how that works. I hate to double back to town for gas. Gas cans are pretty cheap at any convenience store or Chinese goods big-box chain.

Find a stump or stump hole that it can fit into. Add dirt/rocks around to stabilize, thus not needing any pointy object to hide.

Seeing how the United States was started with the plotting of rebellion in a bar, yes- it is family-friendly. As did Nazi Germany. Godwin's Law. I win. Back to the doghouse you go!

In Fort Dodge, Iowa half of the "kid friendly" caches are micros. They just happen to be in a park. My 5yo niece and 5yo nephew thought those were boring. They loved the regular/ammo-can caches that we found. Those were the "secret treasures" they told their mothers and grandmother all about. They really loved GC1X1TX The Tooth Fairy because they were able to each pick out a brand-new toothbrush (yay for dentist offices that get in to having a cache behind their building!) So I have to second the call that kid-friendly holds swag. If nothing too exciting for kids on the way to the cache, then hopefully the cache container is exciting like this was.

Apparently Kuwait is farther from home than Iraq when it comes to caches that I've found. But there were no McDonalds in Iraq, only in Kuwait, so I argue that Kuwait is closer to home.

I have 70 favorite points for sale.

loved the editing and music on that. And the ending was classic. Its pretty often that I find a cache and realize "oh, I could have parked right by it"

Hillsboro Trap & Skeet Club http://coord.info/GC1J465

That llama looks like a guy I went to Iraq with. I've delayed putting out my fake skull geocache in the spot I found for it, because the little boy who was murdered by his stepmom in the area has yet to be found, and I don't want to upset searchers by having them find a geocache that looks like a skull.

That;s one long river if it goes from Texas to Winnipeg.

Seeing how the United States was started with the plotting of rebellion in a bar, yes- it is family-friendly.

So we're going to get rid of the favorites system?

It only seems fair if we get points to say we like a cache that we get points to say we hate a cache. Please implement.

Can we just archive yours since you seem to be about bragging how you consider your hides better than other cachers' hides? Now, to play the game: 7:15 0.466 01/20/11 Not surprising that 2 of my caches would have 0 favorites as they're standard Iraq cache hides- bison tube or altoid tin. Surprised that for all the nice cache logs I've gotten on 3 of my hides that total over 400 finds I only got 6 favorites. Only one of my hides in the Columbia Gorge has more than a handful of finds.

Groundspeak's smiley problem on the Google map doesn't bother me as much as the constant mistakes Google puts on their maps and weeks after I alert them to mistakes and get the "you were right! we'll fix this right away!" email the mistake is still on the map.

I'm sure you could modify it to look like a giant blinky. Get a big spool of paper for the log and everything.

It also forgets the Big Sioux river by Sioux City (Sewer City), where the Missouri River curves off towards the lands of the Mandan and Hidatsa.

randomly down on a thursday afternoon? what is this? aol?

I saw the polymer clays at the art supply store the other day. I also saw latex for making your own latex molds, and liquid plastic for use in the molds. Several ideas went through my head for swag ideas, but I couldn't justify buying anything beyond some items to upgrade a cache and work on 2 killer TBs. Here's a pic of the mini-cards I've been putting in caches:

I ordered mini-cards off of moo.com using pictures that I have taken on my travels and caching. I'm able to order a pack of cards that have different pictures on the back instead of the same picture on every single one. Unfortunately I'm only allowed one set of text for the front, so I'm not able to list where the picture was taken.