GeoPhishers

Due to laws and restrictions, groups of adventurous and secretive underground cachers will arise. And as for the rest of us, Using programs like "Google Earth" that in the future will have live updating and super high resolution, some will begin to cache hunt from their computers. Anyway...I hate to say it but I dont see how the sport will continue without being banned or highly restricted in some way. This country is to hell bent on making laws or imposing permits and red tape, but more than likely due to the fact the some nim rod or psycho places real explosives in one of these things Scary thought but would not surprise me. Now if we could find some way for the Gov. to make money on this. A tax of some sort or a Geofishers license at $20 bucks a pop, well that might keep them quiet for a little while.

The kids got my vote....GOOOOO STEELERS!!!!

Looks Fantastic but it's not free

Cant beat Topozone in my opinion. If you know how to read them you can find the cache without your GPS and just use the topozone map. Usually pretty accurate.

gives a new meaning to "Stick it where the sun dont shine"

Got this pic from "Trapper The Troll" travel bug http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.as...78-a7dc90fbcd50

"Tour de Fondulac" #'s 1-8 lead you to a final. The tour is alot of small hidden parks in East Peoria Illinois that are all great and I had never been to untill we did this wonderful series. It's a must do in this area

In my opinion the link to TopoZone on cache pages is the best free maps to use in locating areas. Not only does it give you the terrain features but also marks buildings and streets along with the search and mark feature. Actually this was how I found my first cache, just using the TopoZone map

We read a article about it in a magazine that JEEP sends out to JEEP owners. I think it was the spring issue for 2004. Anyway it sounded cool and I asked a friend to borrow his GPSR, found a couple, (actually our first find we used the topozone map from the cache pages) had a blast, and the rest is history or yet to come.

Sounds like a cache we would love to try. And scince you asked for ideas..... An idea I always liked but not able to use was to have a zip line across a lake or large creek to get to part of a cache, or various rope swings.

I like to go against the grain ...."Let's hear that funky music white boy"....."Play that funky music right"

Ahhh...Also a fine idea. I like it.

LoL!! Yes you have a point. Maybe not as much limitations as my ideas but a little something or if people were just more honest on there posted finds. I dont know, maybe lame caches are a good thing...the oil in the Jeep was a bit over due anyway

Yes, this happens all over. Just yesterday we went out for some caching and well our first one takes us to a back road that happens to run through a park but offers no entrance or any views of the park. The cache is basically tossed into a pile of logs alongside the road. We walked up got within 5 feet, I looked at my wife and said "forget it lets go." and she agreed and scince the rest of the caches we had planned were by the same person our day of caching ended there. We have been caching for over a year now and still have yet to hide a cache. Yes we did think about it in the first month but are we glad we did not. Over the past year we have seen and learned alot of great new ideas and also alot of not so great ideas. I think maybe there should be some kind of system to stop lame caches. Maybe a ratings on the logs and once a cache received so many poor ratings it would be erased from the site. Or maybe somekind of experience requirement like one year caching or 200 caches found. Also I think we are about to a point where we might need to limit the number of caches a person can hide in one year. I dont want to step on the toes of good cache hiders but man lame caches really do suck. Due to the lame one yesterday I ended up doing yard work and changing the oil in our Jeep.

Haa! "RASH" Thats great. I love it! And it is the way I see Caching. Or "TICK" Trecking Intesecting Cache Kits. I know it's dumb but ticks are a part of Caching too.

nice download quick and easy to use, easy on the eyes to.

downloading now

I have spy bot and use it at least twice a week, and my computer also automaticaly updates the virus protection and microsoft once a week. The only reason I brought it up here is because this is the only web site or forum that it seems to happen on. I'll be browsing along on this forum then I will notice my Norton anti virus icon in the task bar blinking a exclamation sign when it was not before and every time I check it, its a Trojan horse thats been blocked. I also then check to see where it came from and the IP address is different every time. Although they seem to come from China, Japan, Texas and South Carolina the most. I dont know, I just thought it was odd that this was the only site I get attacked on and wanted to know if anyone else has seen this. Thanks for your replys and ideas to help. Oh and I did use my spy bot directly after the attack today and I came up with only three problems Oh well, I guess as long as they are being blocked.

For whatever reason I dont know, but it seems like whenever I browse these forums I get a warning from Norton that a Trojan horse has attempted to attack my computer. I browse many other sites when ever I get on the computer but it seems to me this only happens when I am on this site. Iwonder how many of these attacks have made there way on my computer? Does anyone else see this on there computer or am I just being targeted?

I love Jeep and all their products..... Fantastic Vehicles!!.....But I am not to sure how this "Land Rover" look alike will go over with the general public. I myself have not really made my mind up about it yet. Im sure it will have great off road capabilities but here in the midwest that is not a greatly used feature by the average Jeep owner unless a winter storm drives you off the road. Which even then almost always takes a tow truck to get you out no matter what you drive. Now on the other hand, the new Jeep Truck that may or may not come out in 2007 is the Jeep I have been waiting for. I am a truck man and this is why I do not drive Jeep, my wife drives a Liberty and I love it but it's not a truck. I used to drive a old Jeep truck for a company I used to work for and let me tell you, that thing was beat up with over 200,000 miles, but it still ran like a champ. I often wondered why Jeep had not gone back to the truck, and they have finally (I hope and pray anyway) answered my prayer. Another Jeep contest!!! Whoo Hoo. Definetly one of the better things about Geocaching. We are into this hobby because of Jeep. Not the first contest but because my wife gets a seasonal mailing magazine from them that had this great article about Geocaching and the next thing you know Im whackin through brush cussing some stranger and lovin every minute of it

http://img.Groundspeak.com/user/78f5167f-a...0bcf95dee7f.jpg This is our geo pup and as the Boxer Crew might very well know, He might be able to lead you to the cache site but once he get's there he'll just keeep right on going, and going, and going. Unless of course it is very hot in wich case we dont take him out anyways. Boxers dont do well in the heat. Even though he doesnt find them, man does he like to go. He also get's very excited just by me pullin the backpack out, and he's startin to learn the word "Geocache". That'll perk his ears right up, almost as if they were cropped. So I suppose if he can learn the word maybe someday he can learn the sport.

On looked on a map to see where the boundries of the wildlife refuge end (because I know you can not hide caches on these properties) and according to the map they end right in the middle of levee between the river and the wildlife refuge. So what I am asking is who owns the land between the park boundries and the river ( which is only about 50', and the river in question is the Illinois river)?

O.K. first the cache is not hidden within the boundry's of the perserve and is only accesed by hiking through the park.....Is this O.K.? Second, the cache would be placed on a levee, river bank, or possibly a very small island or penninsula on the river. Is the river bank considered public land or would I have to get permission from someone or some agency to hide here? Also accesed by going through the park is a well used car path on top of the levee, I think by the locale utilities company. Would the bank be considered their property. Also the only signs I see on the levee are the ones facing the river stating that the land behind them is protected wildlife and water fowel refuge.

I know how you guys pounce on somebody for posting a topic that is already up, but I did a search and was surprised to not find anything on this. If there is I appologize for the repost. Now....Does anybody know what the first travel bug was and if it is still active? If it is not active what was it's story? And finally how many travel bugs have there been to this date, active or not?.....Thanks.

Glasford .... 20 min. south of Peoria.