CACHE KRAWLER

Great idea and I feel your pain. I still haven't gotten over the loss of my Garmin 60 CSX that I lost inside Ape Cave at Mt. St. Helens two years ago. I wish you the best of luck. -CK

Personally, I just carry my GPS, a cell phone, a REAL first aid kit (none of that band-aid crap), and an IR strobe for when the you-know-what really hits the fan since 99% of the time pilots will be using NVG's.

Congratulations brodiebunch on your 1400th find!

Just a quick FYI, but I have a bookmark titled NW cache challenges and series that has a bunch of them listed. LINK

Uuuh, PN? Did I miss something? Anyhow, I grabbed my DeLorme map a few months ago and just plotted all of the WA History caches out and had a blast doing it, pinpointing where the caches are at was a blast as long as I had a pot of coffee going. I also have been working on plotting out all of the caches on my Bucket List bookmark as well as adding notes on my bookmark lists that show where on the map page the cache is at like 27 A10 or 33 C6. If for some reason a cache gets archived I just pull it out and erase it. Anyhow, just my $.02.

Well either way, I am back from Afghanistan...again...and am ready for a group hike so I will be keeping tabs on this thread. Looking forward to a great hike!

Go with the 60 CSX. You won't be unhappy with this unit at all.

WOW! I just looked at your profile and your a Premium Member after only one find. Geez, I know some people who after years of caching are not Premium Members. My hats off to you and thanks for contributing to our addiction.

I hear Pixie dust works great for that. Just sprinkle a little bit on each foot and it should be anough to just float you around. Now my serious answer is this....don't worry about it. You will find in time that even in summer conditions that a "Geotrail - a trail made my geocachers in or out of the woods in search of a specific geocache" will form overtime. Have a great time out there and most of all, enjoy yourself.

The whole area, but mostly Atlanta. Not afraid to travel, so whereever your favorites are, please let me know. Thanks!

Hi all, I will be coming to Georgia in July for my Grandfather's 90th Birthday party and since we were doing so my wife and I figured we would do a little mini family vacation there as well. Since I didn't see a pinned topic for this already I figured I'd ask for your help. What are the must do caches in Georgia? What are your favorites? We plan on renting a Jeep Wrangler and driving around with no plans or deadlines to get in the way. We enjoy old history and and scenic locations most, but really just want to explore and see what Georgia has to offer. We appreciate any assistance with this and if you happen to head out to Washington for any reason (maybe GeoWoodstock this year), and want to know which ones to grab as well...look me up. Again thanks, Travis CACHE KRAWLER

DING DING DING!!!! We have a winner!!! And for our next trick/trip Just under 2 months time, we head off on our 2010 holidays. 5 weeks, about 7000km, including an overnight vehicle ferry trip to Tasmania. Our plans include grabbing an FTF, that will require a 4 hr round trip by light plane. The cache page mentions the plane trip, but suggests a multi day hike (I think its 7 days) which we dont have time to do. Plane trip cost will be around $440 for the 2 of us. Hopefully the tally of the trip, including the Mega Event will be at least 378 caches. The cost so far for the trip, mainly prebooked tickets, amount to around the $3000 mark, not including accommodation or fuel, yet. You have my full attention and when I retire in 10 years I will be doing the same crazy and absurd things as well. With a big ol grin on my face the whole time. Believe it or not I've already started a caching fund account that gets deposits regularly from my paycheck and will be used to satisfy my weird and strange caching excursions, vehicles and gear that I so see fit down the road. So tell me (or e-mail me through my account), what FTF cache you plan on finding. Just curious and am in no ways trying to get there first and pop your bubble, trust me, I'm stuck in Afghanistan for a bit. I'm just interested in checking the cache page out for myself. Thanks and happy adventures.

Here is my story from a not forgotten Multi in Washington----- Let me just start by saying that I hate stinging insects, especially Bald Hornets! We came close enough on the final stage to a nest in some Scotchbroom that had them poring out like a freshly tapped keg. Now let me backup here. We drove my trusty Ford Focus to stage one, no prob. I got out to retrieve the Coords. Walking up to them I see the remains of a large Bee's nest on the ground. I inspect it to make sure there are no bees around. Just as I step over it I see two Hornets flying around. They mind there own business. I see the placement of Stage 1 and flip it over and what do I see? Thousands of Red Ants. Insect #2 that I despise. I wait for them to disperse, grab the container and yell the coords for stage 2 to Super10. I replace the cache, leap like a Gazelle over the smashed nest and make a dive for my car door. We drive a 100 yard up the road and decide to walk the rest as the road was becoming too overgrown for the Focus. We hike and find stage 2 without incident. Now heres where it gets fun...not. We are about 140 feet from stage 3 and out of the corner of my eye I catch a glimpse of grey matter, with black liquid pouring out of it. Low and behold it's pissed off Hornets. I yell to Super10commander (since he is deathly allergic to bees), Hornets!!!!RUN!!!! Like a scene out of a movie he runs towards Stage 3. While he's running he looks over his shoulder and sees that the Hornets are all following me. He dives and makes it within 10 feet of the cache and takes up cover behind some huge Scotchbroom. I myself have made it to the road and am running back towards the direction of the car. As I am running my $185 Oakley's are just about ready to fall of my hat so I go to grab them. Just at that point I look back as I am running and see Hornets no B.S. in hot pursuit. I think to myself,"is this as fast as you can run Travis??) I decide to look to my left and see if there are any attached to me and what do I see? A hornet attached to my coat on my left side. I immediately start to disrobe my coat and in doing so I lose my balance and crash into the dirt doing roughly about Mach 1, maybe Mach 2. I manage to crash, do a barrel roll that would make a Judo master proud, get my Jacket off and continue running till my legs are screaming. I stopped about a 100 yards down the road worried about Super10 since I know that he could literally die if he got it from one of these bad mamma jammas. Once I stood up I realized that I had crashed on top of an anthill and was now covered with red ants on my groin area crawling all over and biting on to my pants. I brush them off in a hurry and walk about 50 yards back and yell out to him and he replys that he is good to go, has signed the log for the both of us and is ready to get the hell out of Dodge. I finally make it back to my coat, hat and glasses just as Super10 is getting back to the road. As I'm standing there trying to get my breath back, and find my glasses I see another hornet fly by me, bounce off Super10's hat and go straight to me. I run again another 50 yards down the road. A few minutes later I slowly go back grab my gear and we decide to call it a day. So needless to say, !!!!!ANYBODY GOING AFTER THIS GEOCACHE...USE EXTREME CAUTION!!!!! I will attach pics for all of you to laugh at. Other than the issues I just mentioned, this Cache was a piece of cake. TFTC I think. It will not soon be forgotten.

That's a really cool article. This last summer I found two $20 bills in a parking lot of a church in Norfolk, VA while grabbing a virtual. Talk about a double take. The parking lot was empty and after seeing the first $20 I was like "SWEET!". So I kept looking and underneath a closeby shrub I found another $20. I wished that I had found more and trust me I kept looking but that was all I could find. I did a good deed with it as well by washing down a great day of Geocaching by attending a local Meet & Greet at a Norfolk brewery and listening to them talk about their "difficult" 4 star caches.

I may just have one for you. I've got one that works in evry way except for the fact that I can't get it to locate satelites. Let me know if you are interested by e-mailing me through my profile. Thanks, Travis

You could just make your own Bookmark List is you wanted to. I have a handful of them for differnt purposes. I couldn't cache without them.

Going after Iron Horse and Geocache tomorrow morn. I'm about to hit the maps here hopefully they can answer my question, but is the Annette Trailhead further East than the old parking for the Tunnel when it was open?

That was a really good write-up on the 550T. So good that I think it just changed my mind on getting another 60CSX, (I lost my last one in Ape Cave...somebody got a really nice X-mas present). If you have the time and want the real scoop on the new Garmin 550T, this write-up is excellent and written in a language that even this computer-phobe even understands.

I'll tell you what... in 2003 before I got into Geoccahing my wife and I along with my 3 month old son got stuck in a snow drift in our 2003 Jeep Grand Cherokee South East of Roseburg, Oregon. We were not prepared for this at all and were just out exploring the backroads. We had no food or water with us and luckily my wife was breast feeding so my son never had an empty stomach. After 9 hours of digging out with sandals and a CD case, my wife finally talked me into dialing 911. Problem is, is that reception was spotty at best. After hiking a couple miles down the road I was able to get a bar of reception and made the call. I did my best to explain where we were at and the route that we had taken and after a few more hours the S&R team showed up about 0130 in the morning and were able to get us out. I felt bad having the volunteers come out so late to find us, but relieved that we were safe. We got home to Springfield and went to bed. The next morning I woke up to phone call after phone call from friends and family asking what had happened. Apparently it had made the news, radio and newspapers very quickly. Once I was up I realized that I lost a set of keys up there in the hills and talked a friend of mine (4XFINDS) into driving the hour and a half trip back there to help search for my keys. When we got there, there was an older gentleman stuck in the same exact spot. He had gotten into a fight with his wife that night and decided to go for a drive. When we showed up there was a case of empty beer cans strwen all over and he had been there since 3 in the morning. So we hooked up to him and pulled him out. He also had my set of keys that he found in the snow. So long lesson learned in a hard way. I will always go prepared. We made the dri

Well he is one lucky old man. A 200 ft. fall for a 73 yr. old man is like a 400 ft. fall for some in their 20's and 30's. I'm glad that he was luckily discovered when he was and that he was "with it" enough to be able to call for help. This could have turned out alot worse and on the national news if it were not for the other hiker discovering him. Awesome job to the Sheriffs Dept. as well.

In the HOTM thread, give an indication when you will be around and I'll adjust the schedule accordingly if it doesn't interfere with my family plans. Thanks TotemLake, I will try and give you hard dates for when I will be available, but ofcourse if it doesn't work out, well then it doesn't work out. But I appreciate you being willing to do that for me. Take care, Travis

Not important to me. Getting out is what's important.

Haven't been stationed there myself, but from what I've heard....If you hate the outdoors, your gonna hate life. But since you are a Geocacher you will most likey love it! Cav Scout (user name), would be the best person to shoot an e-mail to. He just retired, or is really close to it, but he placed a boat load of Earthcaches up there and is most familiar with the area. Uhhh, get an engine block heater installed on all your vehicles and get used to Moose greeting you on your door step as you "try" and leave for the morning for work. Oh yah, don't heat your garage at night during the winter, you won't be able to get the door up in the AM. From what I've heard of Riley, Wainright is a HUGE improvement. I've never heard one bad thing of the place except the cold winters, but that's up to how you like the snow. Best of luck on the move and I hope to one day get orders there as well.

Hey Crim. I clicked on your "Real Music" link and have been sucked into watching Harmonica videos on Youtube for the last hour and a half. Thanks, the stuff is addicting. My father plays a little bit, but I think I need to give it a shot, if for nothing else but to give the Coyotes something real to cry about. I liked your write up on the climb and would have loved to had thrown my name in the hat to go with. Listen, I'd really like to do a climb with you this year before the weather changes seasons on us. I told myself last year that I wouldn't let the Winter come before I did a HOTM with you all and, well, Winter has come and gone. So, I will be doing my damndest to make it happen this Summer or Fall. You know I sit over here in my "comfortable" hotel room with room service and all that, but I'd gladly trade it for a an annoying rock or limb digging into my back all night while I try to sleep in a tent while out on a hike with you or Ruck. I live my life vicariously through yours and Rucks logs and write-ups while I'm stuck in places like this or Afghanistan. So thanks and keep them coming. 'Till I get back out West.... -CK

Sweet man! I too am a fellow Jeeper/Cacher Addict so I completely understand where you are coming from. In fact my username use to be "JEEOCASHER". But I eventually got tired of explaining what it meant to people and changed it. But anyhow thanks for the heads up. BTW, if your looking for a sweet drop down tailgate conversion for your YJ...my brother's got a sweet kit he builds and sells at swagoffroad.com which is located in Oregon City. Take care, Travis