The Marathon Man

I would say initially to just try a simple get together at one of the restaurants near where you live. Maybe at your favourite restaurant or at a unique one A simple get together to discuss geocaching - past experience / future caches/ puzzles caches. etc. If you post - they will come. If you look at the current listings in Ontario, you will get some ideas for a simple event, e.g. like my event coming up like "GC22DAH" and "GC22C8N" , etc. or even review the past "Pub Night Events" held in your area - you would have to go through someone's profile to see them because they would archived by now or even go to the event in Toronto today if you can find a ride if it is too far. If you send a message out maybe someone will pick you up to help you get there. Have fun - this is a good way to meet people - hope this helps

Google 550 Paracord and you will find what you need I did and found lots of places selling it

You got it. I have included information on Lake Superior "Seiche" in the write-up for my cache GC13HNB - Heron Bay Harbour / Trian Wreck. The last geocacher to find this cache experienced a Seiche while they were looking for the cache. Seiche on Lake Superior is more affected by wind conditions then anything else - see the write-up for the cache Great - back to you.

Answers to 1 and 3 are good. 4 has a better answer available. For 2, But there is a specific word that I was looking for Word starts with a "S" and has 6 letters I will give another clue if no one comes up with the correct word After the correct word is given, I will provide the cache listing that describes this phenomenon

Happy New Year's Eve Here is my question(s)? Are there "tides" on the Great Lakes? What is this phenomenon called? What Great Lake has the highest "Tides"? How and why do they occur?

How about: Blue Moon on New Year's Eve?

There are many explanations why this is so. The most common is that when the tracks were being laid, Toronto wanted to prevent the running of freight on downtown streets. This was common practice in places like New York and Hamilton. For a while freight used to run on Welland Avenue in St. Catharines, ON also. I think it was Welland Ave. West of Geneva St.

Best thing to do at the start is to attend any of the MBGA Pub-nights which seem to go on about every 5-6 weeks or so. Although I am back in Marathon, Ontario, I spend from April to October this year in Manitoba, and went to most of their events when I was out there and even met a a few members while out geocaching. My sister Tracama lives in Winnipeg and geocaches. The group makes you very welcome and after a few events, they get to know you and you can get a lot of help for various caches if you have problems finding them. Great group to be associated with. You will have fun. They also periodically get together to do mass geocaching. Also go into their website http://www.mbgeocaching.ca/ you will get a lot of information, especially on the forums. Merry Christmas and Happy Geocaching. jleecollins

This was exactly what I was looking for. I downloaded the file into my Oregon 200. And the trails show up great on it - even the trails up my way in Northwest Ontario. I was particularly looking for the Bruce Trail maps - so this helps out greatly. Thanks for your effort on this matter.

Here is a post I made in a slightly different topic regarding "Winter Friendly" caches I just spend the past two weeks geocaching around the Brampton, St. Catharines, Port Dover areas. I is amazing how many caches were classified as "Winter Friendly", that were on the ground. (and there was snow on the ground when I was there). A comment I added several times was "Well the cache would be winter friendly if it was in a place that gets no snow like Florida". If I see a "Winter Friendly" cache I would expect to find it in the snow. Any "Winter Friendly" in Northern are definitely "Not-on-the-ground caches" and are elevated well above the snow so they do not get covered in snow. Any on the ground are definitely "Not Winter Friendly" There have been a fair numbers of caches in Northern Ontario, where I have needed snow-shoes to get to the cache. Another big benefit of winter caching is no bugs and you can most likely walk to a cache where you would need a canoe or boat in the summer.

I spend the past two weeks geocaching around the Brampton, St. Catharines, Port Dover areas. I is amazing how many caches were classified as "Winter Friendly", that were on the ground. (and there was snow on the ground when I was there). A comment I added several times was "Well the cache would be winter friendly if it was in a place that gets no snow like Florida". If I see a "Winter Friendly" cache I would expect to find it in the snow. Any "Winter Friendly" in Northern are definitely "Not-on-the-ground caches" and are elevated well above the snow so they do not get covered in snow. Any on the ground are definitely "Not Winter Friendly" There have been a fair numbers of caches in Northern Ontario, where I have needed snow-shoes to get to the cache. Another big benefit of winter caching is no bugs and you can most likely walk to a cache where you would need a canoe or boat in the summer.

Canadian Tire in Marathon, Ontario has Garmin Colorado 300 currently on sale for $349.95 - $200.00 off. Sold out but taking rain checks They also have a Magellan Triton 200 on sale for $79.95

There is also a very active group in North West Ontario http://nwogeocachers.com/

If you have a phobia regarding ticks, don't go geocaching in Manitoba or in fact any state immediate to Manitoba, especially in the late spring and early summer. You will certainly pick up ticks if you are in the bush or long grass. My sister and her dog and I were geocaching in Oak Hammonk Marsh area in Manitoba. We managed to get near a nest of ticks. I think over the next days or so we picked off about a total of 150 ticks. Generally in the tick season we generally picked up 5-10 ticks each time we were out. We did a tick check every time we got back from geocaching. Ticks in Manitoba are basically Wood Ticks (or Dog Ticks as some people call them) Ticks in the late spring and early summer are a way of life in Manitoba, so they just live with it.