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Wow, people were claiming the kayak cache? That one appeared to be at least 100 feet out surrounded by water no sane person would attempt to walk through.

Did you do the individual competition at this year's MOGA? I did, and many of the permanent caches I went after were much easier than what I went through during the 2.5 hour competition. I found a whopping 10 caches during this time. If I wanted to go after numbers I would've probably done better spending the 2.5 hours hitting up the park & grabs around the area. The permanent caches placed on ACoE land were in huge lock & lock containers, many of which could be seen from several yards away. The punches were placed in camoed pill bottles, and many of the ones I encountered were hidden very well. I got hung up in more thorns during the competition than I did during my casual caching. I definitely worked harder for my 10 competition finds than I did for 10 of my casual finds. I knew that the punches were in different containers than the permanent caches associated with them when I signed up for the competition. I had it in my head that they were actually going to be near the permanent caches and were separate just so casual cachers would be able to find the permanent ones during the competition time. I didn't learn that the competition area was a completely separate area until I showed up for the competition. I found 10 caches that I feel were comparable to the 10 caches by the same owner I got to log. Claiming finds for volunteering? That's another story.

I had a good MOGA weekend. My previous best was 18 and I found 25 on Friday and 30 on Saturday. I don't do copy/paste logs, so even 18 can be a challenge to log. I haven't logged everything from the weekend yet, so we'll see how that goes.

My 8 year old and 4 year old daughters love going out geocaching with me, so it would be heartbreaking if something like this happened to us. I guess it may be best to look at this from the other side. If someone did take one of them and someone saw them and thought things were suspicious, I'd be thankful that they called the police.

I didn't think there were Topo 9 packages without the PN series DVDs, but the product description definitely doesn't mention them being in the box. I'd be all over this if not for that. Edit: I don't know where I got that idea, but there's definitely two different packages. It's too bad this isn't the PN-Series Edition.

I have the hope that someday Android phones will support USB host mode out of the box(without having to make a special adapter to trick them) and have kernel level USB drivers that at least support some generic mass storage devices. I think it would be awesome to be able to download PQs to a phone and then transfer them to a handheld GPSr.

Motorola Atrix

Low 60s is pretty warm compared to the teens. I'm probably not doing any caching this weekend unless I take an early morning trip with a step ladder to a tree.

I personally would not pull the Needs Archived trigger on a cache unless there was a problem with it. Did you try to find this virtual?

Yay! I've never placed an EarthCache, but I enjoy finding them.

My climbing gear begins and ends with a chainsaw. Actually, there looks to be some good info in this thread. There's a cache ~25 feet up a tree that I don't even know where to start. There's one ~12 foot up a tree that I thought about starting, but chickened out after I snapped a branch. I could do that one with a ladder, but muggles would be an issue.

My friends and I used CB radios back in the early 90s when only one of us had a bag phone. We got pretty good range with them. We stopped using them once we went to college and more of us started getting cell phones. Had some good times with the CB back then. I don't see geocaching going the same way. Overcrowding isn't so much of an issue. You don't have to hang antennas off of your vehicle. There still is the opportunity to PO truckers if you're caching near truck stops, I guess.

Micro by far, even though it doesn't feel like it should be that far.

Comments?? sigh... Actually, I do have one thought. If I find a cache placed by someone that has posted a blank log I will be sorely tempted to give that cache a blank log (and my logs tend to be pretty long.) For those "blank loggers" that haven't placed any caches I don't see any recourse. I've noticed someone who posts pretty much the same log to every cache they find. I thought about posting something similar when I found one of their hides. In the end, I couldn't bring myself to do it. I guess a blank log may be better than "logged from my mobile device".

I can't get to youtube right now, but when I saw "Best part was brett rocking his tarp hat", I figured it had to be CYBret.

Find Farthest from Home GC1KX0G - Behold a Cathedral (Arizona, United States) 1379.394mi Find Farthest North GC1M2R9 - Home Improvment (Illinois, United States) 67mi It's kinda sad that my farthest North find is only about an hour and a half from home. I need to fix that sometime.

A Fisher space pen.

Just pull over, poke a hole in your tire, find the cache, then change the tire. If it's snowy/icy out, you can stop to work on your wipers. I actually took advantage of poor visibility once. My windshield was icing up and my wipers weren't doing the job, so I pulled off on an exit where there is a cache I never had a good excuse to stop for. I hopped out, worked on the wipers, went for the cache and then went back to working on the wipers.

Just pull over, poke a hole in your tire, find the cache, then change the tire. If it's snowy/icy out, you can stop to work on your wipers. I actually took advantage of poor visibility once. My windshield was icing up and my wipers weren't doing the job, so I pulled off on an exit where there is a cache I never had a good excuse to stop for. I hopped out, worked on the wipers, went for the cache and then went back to working on the wipers.

That's another issue, the new firmware made Topo 8 unusable. Guess I can't load the detailed maps and sat photos anymore without buying new mapping software. That means my map subscription is worthless. I understand not supporting old software forever, but come on, Topo 8 is barely over a year old. I don't think that's the case. You should still be able to cut maps and copy them to the device. It's my understanding that you can't use Exchange to load maps, but I thought you could still copy them manually.

They do. I'm thinking these problems being discussed here would be better served if discussed over there Oooh, they're even using vBulletin. Fancy.

Hmm, they supposedly have an open API. I'm not a Garmin fan, I own a DeLorme. I could be the first person to list a cache in my area, though. Hmm.

Available means the query has to have been ran in the last 7 days and needs to show up under the Pocket Queries Ready for Download tab at http://www.geocaching.com/pocket/default.aspx If the PQ doesn't show up as being ready for download, you need to select it to run that day. Once it shows up under the Pocket Queries Ready for Download section, it should show up in Cache Register(may require a restart of Cache Register). I haven't used Cache Register in a long time, especially now that I can drop PQs downloaded from here directly on my PN-40 and have them work.

I wouldn't buy steel toe unless I had to. I used to get a pair of steel toe shoes every year for work. I found Red Wings to be the most comfortable and they lasted well. Now I have to wear static dissipative shoes when I'm on the production floor at work. I tried some brand that fell apart after a few months. I went back to Red Wing. I've had a pair for 2 and a half years that is still holding up pretty well, but I sometimes have to walk around for awhile before they'll pass an ESD test, so I just got a new pair. I've got an old pair of steel toe ones that I wear when I do yard work. I haven't worked at the job I had those for in over 4 years, so my guess is that they are 7 years old. They aren't pretty, but they work.

He probably ran the Pocket Query between the time the cache got published and all the drama happened. I'm guessing that he didn't find out about the drama until he went to log the find.