Nathan Wert

I went to school (online) with a guy that worked for DHS and you'd never have known it if he didn't tell you. I also belong to a photography web site and there are A LOT of photographers getting razzed by LEO's for taking photo's. There have actually been law-suits filed against police departments for harassment. As for "digging" that was mentioned earlier...the OP said, and I quote, "I dug out the area where the container would be placed just enough to nest it nicely and I placed a large rock over it." He wasn't burying his cache, he was just nesting it. To me that means that he was just making sure that it doesn't move. Kind of like taking a 12 inch tall container and putting it in a hole that is 6 inches. The item isn't buried, just "nested."

I see that you have two travel Bugs...One's a small fire truck and the other weighs 7,000 lbs. I'm guessing the second one is your vehicle. Here's a link for it... Vehicle Travel Bug

The link worked fine for me. I don't know anything about coding so I can't comment on that.

Well, they've changed the snow fall amount again...2-4 inches. Bah!! That's pathetic. As for rural vs urban...there is a HUGE difference. Up here they just plow all the snow off the road and into the trees. When I lived in bigger cities they actually had to truck the snow out of town. When I lived in the Mountains of Southern California they just plowed the snow off the side of the mountain. Good luck everyone that's getting some real snow.

MountainRacer, I drive a school bus for a living. There is no way that they're going to postpone, let alone cancel, school up here tomorrow; even with 8 inches of snow. The last time we had that much snow we had school as normal and we even had a bus get stuck going up a hill and when the snow plow came to get them out the plow couldn't make it up the hill either. I just went around a different way. *grin*

To me it sounds like the location may have changed from when you originally placed the cache. Maybe you could sponsor an event that is a CITO? Looking at the location on Google Earth it appears to be very nice. Any idea who is responsible for cleaning up the trash along that section of road? Maybe you can contact them and see what happens. Maybe purchase a bunch of trash bags and clean it up with some friends? Maybe archive it temporarily, until it's cleaned up.

Yeah, we're supposed to get 6-10 inches of the white stuff tonight. I'm soooo flipping ready for spring!!!!!!

I use firefox and the only ads I see are the small gogle ones at the top of the page.

When I posted mine I didn't enter any coords. I did make sure that I mentioned it was placed on my vehicle though.

It all depends on WHY they "hate" it.

Oops. My bad. I guess if I had actually read for comprehention and not skimmed I'd have noticed that.

From what I understand to use the KML geocaching stuff with Google Earth you have to be a premium member of Google Earth.

I'd heard about geocaching years ago (don't know where) and have had it in the back of my mind ever since. Last year I could have used one during a search and rescue operation and just last week I finally got around to purchasing one. Now I just need to get out and start looking.

Actually, you can load more than one gpx file into Vantage Point at a time. Do not "Import" them. Just open the Vantage Point library then open a new window showing the folder that the gpx files are saved in. Select all the files and just drag them to the library. All of them will automatically be loaded.

For anyone with this problem... www.whitepages.com works great for me.

Actually, it's not necessarily an outside link since Groundspeak sells them.... That's how I purchased mine.

If you're ever in Northern New Hampshire, USA, you can try and grab my Vehicle Travel Bug. *grin*

So, everyone is getting the Clapper for their cars????

I purchased some travel bugs (just received my vehicle decals today). I ordered some customized "finger boards" with two lines of text... "www.geocaching.com Nathan Wert" I also ordered some pencils to put in caches saying the same thing (for caches I'm going to start in the future). Oriental Trading Company has a customizable section of their websites (where I purchased mine).

Today will probably be my first hunt and I plan on wearing whatever I normally wear (plus additions for weather). I'm going to try and hit two cache's near a girl scout camp I'm taking my daughter to. This all depends on if I can get to them while chaperoning. GC1J40P The Moose Brook Walk, and GC1J40Z Moose Brook Walk Series

That sucks. I always have two pairs of keys on me (I also have electronic locks on my door). Now, some of you may wonder why I have two sets of keys on me. Well, I am a volunteer firefighter/EMT and some times I end up going straight to the scene of an accident. In a lot of cases that means I end up leaving on the ambulance and my SUV is left at the scene with all it's lights going. I generally toss an extra set of keys at a firefighter and they will then drive my car back to the fire station for me. That way I don't have to go back to the scene. It looks really silly when my SUV is sitting on the side of the road with all it's lights going and nobody else around it (it happened once and it was a really busy road and looked really stupid when I got back to it). To give you an idea on what lights I have on my SUV you can check out this youtube video (there is a siren on and it's LOUDin the video).

I just purchased a Magellan Triton 1500, and it didn't come with a manual (other than an online version). That manual sucked. I've played with it enough since yesterday that I think I can get it to do what I want now, but that first day of messing with it sucked big time. if I had gotten more than 2.5 hours of sleep in the last 31 hours I'd probably have gone out and tried to find some of the caches near me. I think the one thing that bugged me the most was having to DL each cache individually. Good luck to you, and if you 9or anyone else) is in the North Country of New Hampshire look me up and we can go play.

I used to have a Fuji Finpix S5100, but it gave up the ghost a couple of months ago. I now have a Canon EOS XSi (or 450D depending on where you live). I currently keep the kit lens on it, but also have a 55-250mm lens. I just got my first GPSr yesterday and haven't gone caching yet, so *shrug* We'll see how it goes. I generaly bring my camera with me everywhere (even on ambulance and fire calls).

The number one thing you can bring is situational awareness. Know what's going on around you. If you want an actual physical item...a very loud whistle works wonders.

My winter boots were purchased back in 1990 when I started a job in Outdoor Education in the Mountains of Southern California. I just changed out the inserts this last winter for the first time. I don't remember the model of boot, but the maker is Sorel. They were expensive, but obviously well worth the price after using them every winter for the last 18 years.