[Searching for someone who helps me to get my TB to the US (from Germany) by receiving it by post]

My sister is in Utah and I'm sure she would be happy for you to mail it to her.  I can forward her your username.

[signature items - do people still collect]

I didn't see this post until now when zenpei replied.  I'd also be interested if you still have them.

[Need to Upgrade, but Only a Little -- Advice?]

The eTrex 20 and 30 are both good and I'll always recommend the Dakotas and Oregons if you can find one used.

[Padding word count for statistical challenges.]

I've seen logs like that before.  I think it's lame, but it just goes to show that everyone plays the game differently.

[Best US GC Cities???]

In the Midwest:

 

St. Joeseph, MO

Cedar Rapids, IA - dazedandconfused has pretty good gadget caches.

Marshalltown, IA has a couple very creative hiders (and a GOOD trail you should look at regarding your "power trail" post)

[Hidden Creatures? Say Wha...]

On 5/30/2018 at 8:36 AM, hal-an-tow said:

And I do hope the estate of the late Terry Pratchett notice the use of what looks like a very derivative turtle ...

 

The earth on a turtle's back is also from Native American mythology.  

[Illegal things in a cache]

18 hours ago, Manville Possum said:

 

I've got issues about touching drug items. 

I always keep bags on me for CITO'ing.  If I was out of bags, I'd have to get creative and use leaves or attempt to chopstick it with sticks.

[Illegal things in a cache]

Just throw it in the trash.  Take action because so many other people wont.

One cache near me had a steak knife "stabbed" into the ground nearby.  Three or four people wrote about it on their logs and mentioned that it shouldn't be there.  There was a dumpster about 10 feet away.  Not that difficult to take care of.

[Seeking GPS rental (borrow?) devices for Summer 2018]

Check with your county extension office.

[Planetary Pursuit?]

20 hours ago, cerberus1 said:

Don't you need to "activate" your friends list if you want to participate?   I looked for a way to enter myself, but it seems I need to "activate" that friends league thing to enter.  Isn't that so?

On the setting  "Find Friends" mine reads... "You are not allowing friend requests at this time. You can update this setting by unchecking the 'block friend requests from other geocachers' checkbox on the Account Preferences page". 

 

Legit question: Do you just not have any friends?  Because I just turned off friend requests but it still allows me to see my friend league.  The link is right under "You are not allowing friend requests..."

 

 

[Planetary Pursuit?]

2 hours ago, Max and 99 said:

2. I'm told to go to my Friends link to activate, but there's no activation option. So as long as I have friends, I'm good to go for the Friend League?

 

I don't think you have to "activate" anything.  They're just trying to sound like NASA --  "activate your scoring control board and prepare to lift off".

[Why smiles disappear from map when cache is archived?]

The map would get very cluttered.  You can still look back in your logs to see the ones that you've found that have been archived.

[Tree climbing for the older generation, not a good idea]

I enjoy caches that involve climbing.

Did the cache in question have an appropriate terrain rating?

[Geocaching workshops??]

Here's a link to the MI Geocaching Organization:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/998788826825831/

 

and here's the Southern MI Geocaching group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/138836589614356/

[Geocaching Organizations in the Midwest]

New to the hunt, would love to find some geocaching friends in the area of Central Iowa (Des Moines, West Des Moines, Waukee, Adel,...etc.)

Any organizations or people?

 

-JSmiles07

 

The Iowa Geocachers Organization

http://www.iowageocachers.org/

FB page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/440952802592323/

 

Also, generally a lot of events in the metro area. Hit up some of those.

[Geocaching by Bicycle]

I need to clarify something. When I refer to geocaching by bicycle I am talking about you start the entire journey, trip, from your starting point, ride to the geocache locations or the general area and ride as close to the cache's as you can, then of course search by foot.

 

I am not talking about driving to the general locations of the caches, unloading your bike, then riding.

 

The only caveat to this is if you have to transport your bike across a body of water. For example if you are attending an event in another country across the ocean. But if the event is in the same country or continent you are on there is a way to travel entirely by bicycle to the event. It is called self contained touring.

 

It can be done with careful planning and logistics and I would venture to say it has already been done by geocachers.

 

My very first time geocaching I used my bike to transport myself to and from each cache and it was not on a day I was commuting to work. At the time I still had to use my unloader brace on my left knee because of a problem I have with it that a surgery helped fix last August. Thankfully I no longer need the brace.

 

Most of the bike caching I have done is far from home. An hour or more car drive. That's my excuse. Also, most of my life I've lived in the boonies and biking would require traveling on highways or gravel roads and neither of those are appealing to me. Now that I live in the city, I'm just not in good biking-shape.

[Geocaching by Bicycle]

I don't get out on the bike very often. I once went to a Bike N Seek event in which we rode 17 miles on a rail-trail grabbing caches along the way. Otherwise I've only biked and cached a few other times.

[CITO Event games?]

You don't need to spend a lot of money. Simple gift cards for a local coffee shop, $1 camping matchstick holders from a bigbox store that already have a logsheet in them so the winner gets a ready to hide cache, something hand made that can become swag, etc.

 

These are good ideas. Food is always good too!

[CITO Event games?]

I've been to cleanups (non-CITO/Geocaching related) that have awards for largest trash, most artistic trash, most useful, etc. Though these were river cleanups with lots and lots of trash to be found.

[Must do geocaches]

But my favorite St Louis attraction was the City Museum. There was a cache nearby when we visited, just another container, but it gave me something to mark a trip to the Museum and have a great beer.

 

If you have time you should spend the day at the City Museum in St. Louis. So much to climb and play on, even for adults! Good for someone that enjoys art as well. Also, there's a lot of caches at Forest Park. The Gadget Cache series that GC530CH is in was really good, but it looks like they were recently flooded out. Maybe they will be repaired.

[Must do geocaches]

GC202RG in Pella, IA. It is probably the most favorited cache in IA. I feel that Eastern IA near the Mississippi River is really pretty. It's been a while but the caches in the Le Mars, IA area used to be fairly creative. Search the St. Joeseph, MO area by favorites. Western NE has cool rockformations and good hikes. GC32VZA near Elkader,IA

[E.T. Lodging]

I like the site www.rvparkreviews.com

[Carrying GPS while hiking]

I use a lanyard. Works well. I've lost (then found after a panic) GPS's a couple times after they fell out of a pocket.

[Pollution because of geocaching]

I would say a fraction of a percentage of the daily pollution. There are some offsets when Geocachers help beautify areas by picking up trash at CITOs and elsewhere. You could probably make an event to plant trees to further offset.

[Soaking in Permethrin]

I use the Sawyer brand and I don't recall it specifying to put it in the dryer. I normally air dry.