Sol seaker

:drama: Read this whole thread and ate WAY too much popcorn. Yeah, I agree if Team Yanni is upset, it's up to them to do something about it. I reported a post that was insulting to someone else, and that's exactly what Groundspeak told me. I'm glad Team Yanni is not too upset. I'm not the best at it myself, but sometimes you've just got to let things roll off ya. It's more about the other person than yourself. Have a good laugh about it and move on. this is my all-time favorite cache (no I haven't found it) Extreme 104: there ain't no "F" in whey It's a 5/5 that (the CO says) will have you saying the name of the cache again and again before you're done with it. :laughing: :laughing: I love it!!! I'm so glad GS has left it up. It's been on these forums before or I wouldn't mention it.

I found 70 or 71 or 72 or something in a day once. It was with a big group. It was January 2nd, maybe, so we could have been out a lot longer if it had of been in June with more light. It was a lot of fun. Really a blast. I doubt I'll ever do it again though. I'm really glad I did that once. Now I'm happy with a few caches a day. Now and then I still like to do number runs, and find maybe 30 in a day, but that is plenty for me. I really don't like city caching as much, but I do it now and then, and get bored of it, and go back out in the woods where I belong. I found four today. That's all I needed.

The more the gas prices go up, the more area I've cleared out around my house. I guess I'm just going to have to move. (just like this thread. IBTM)

Wow. Magor problem.

But you know, I think we've left off the most important part here. For some caches one smilie is just not enough. 5/5 caches really ought to get two at least, since they are in no way comparable to a LPC. Caches found with boats or after a great deal of bushwacking should get more too. A good bushwacking cache should at least get a smilie and a half. Then there's caches found in the rain, or in the snow: an extra half a smilie, and 3/4 respectively. How about standard caches found by people in wheelchairs? I think we've only begun to touch upon this subject.

And then there are the mult's. I just went to a multi yesterday where a lot of people couldn't find the first stage, but still managed to find the second stage and/ or final. So we'll need different smilies for one stage out of 3, but then another for 2 stages out of 3, then if there are a different number of stages... Phew!!! Maybe we can get Ambient Skater to work on this on a spread sheet. He did such a great job with the forum schedule, this is right up his alley.

OH NO puzzles are a whole other ball of wax all by themselves. There are those who didn't solve the puzzle but found the cache. Those that solved the puzzle and found the cache. Those that solved the puzzle but had help on the cache. Then there are many combinations of "had help with the puzzle" "had help with finding the cache" then different types of help on each of these. Was it a hint, or did they just get the solution? Or how much of a hint was it? Was it a good hint? Did the hint really help? I can see this is going to take a while to work it all out.

So I want to know how come a family rates more than a friend. I don't have an immediate family as many others don't either. And many people don't have immediate family that caches. I have many friends that qualify as family to me. Then there are good friends, or just friends, and then there are acquaintances, then there are good acquaintances, then there are people I've just met at the cache that happen to be looking at the same time. Then there are cachers I've run into a few times, such as at first to finds, so I kind of know them, so they are more than acquaintances, but less than friends... I think you're going to need to get some more smilies.

The "nothing buried" rule includes things that are partially buried. In fact, rumor has it that the cache that inspired the "no digging with sharp objects" was a partially buried cache. The rule says no digging with sharp or pointy objects to place your cache. I would suggest one thing that can dig without sharp pointy objects but I might get in trouble. I've been against sprinkler head caches since I found a lawn in a park with 6 sprinkler heads disassembled and left lying all over the ground. And no, TAR, everyone doesn't know how to put them back together, so they should not be taking them apart. If one is taken apart in a park, it turns into an instant fountain when the auto sprinklers go on. Since the sprinklers are often automatic, there's no one there to see what has happened and even if no other damage is incurred, there's a huge waste of water. Here. Dig with this. Nothing pointy.

Caches need to have physical locations and paper log sheets. Virtual caches have been disallowed. The topic of digital logs in other forms has come up a few times on these forums. In all of those discussions, it is something that Groundspeak does not allow. Hate to just sound like I'm just shooting this idea down. I'm really glad to see people "thinking outside the box" (as long as it's not a cat doing the thinking). There are some parameters we have to stay within. There really aren't many, but a physical cache and a physical paper log are two of them. Take some time to read over the guidelines. That will answer a lot of your questions and solve a lot really quickly for you(link posted by previous poster). You'll get a better idea of the rules so you'll better know how you can be creative within them. Although this particular idea may not work, don't give up on new creative ideas.

Welcome Barking Frogz!! Thanks for all your hard work to come! (is there something shorter you go by, like BF or something?) Hope to run into you at an event one of these days and say Hi.

Love Knowschad's reply. :laughing: I gasped when I read the newsletter. I'm glad to see other people not just taking it at face value. I'd be willing to bet it was written with damaged cache containers in mind, but I do wish it had of been clear about that. Perhaps someone who doesn't cache wrote it, so wasn't clear on the distinction. Yes, and I agree with someone else. They really ought to have us guys on the forums review these newsletters before they put them out to the general population. :laughing:

I never post here.

You may have the wrong shape boot for your feet. Every boot is made from a different "last" which is the cast they make the boot from. If you go so somewhere like REI, they have well trained salespeople who can look at your foot and tell you what brands have the same shape as your foot. REI will also take back the boots no matter what. It doesn't matter if they are muddy or scruffed up. You can return them if they don't work. Not all stores will take back shoes like REI. I bought a pair of hiking boots once that the store sold me two different sized shoes. The smaller one caused major problems with the small toe on that foot. They wouldn't take them back at all, even though it was clearly their fault. I had worn them outdoors, so they wouldn't take them back. Always check on the return policy before buying boots. I always get boots at REI now. They have good brands, knowledgeable sales people, and the best return policy. (I have no affiliation with REI) Good luck.

I have had encounters with hundreds of deer over the years, and there has only been one incident where someone got hurt. That was at a place where the deer were fed daily by humans there, and the deer were very much used to humans. My brother (we were young) approached one deer aggressively and the animal raised up and hit him in the head with it's hoof. He didn't get hurt, it just scared him. He was probably between 6 and 8 years old at the time. The deer didn't have to raise up very high. Since then people have learned the dangers of letting wild animals too familiar with humans. I haven't been back, but I'd be willing to bet they no longer allow people to feed the deer at that place. My most recent close encounter with a deer was about two weeks ago. I was hiking alone, and came up on a deer. I was indeed out caching but was between caches. I saw the deer and it froze, just as you reported. I knew this was because it didn't want me to see it, and their first instinct is to freeze to blend in. It usually works, but I saw it. I kept walking as if it didn't matter to me, and glanced at it now and then, but kept my eyes forward the rest of the time. I didn't want to disturb the deer. I was never concerned with my own safety. I walked right past the deer, and every time I glanced over at it, it's head had swiveled to follow me, but it was still perfectly still. The last look I took back at it, it looked at me and then it took a few licks, grooming itself. Grooming is only done when animals aren't afraid. I knew the deer was afraid, but perhaps it was telling me that it saw that I was okay and not going to hurt it. It may have been it's way of saying we could be friends. I knew it was still ready to bolt though, if I made one strange move. Deer are more afraid of us, then us of them. The rule with most wild animals is to slowly move away from then in an unthreatening manner, yet if they attack, we are to fight back. Deer are a bit different because all you have to do is take a short lunge toward them and they are gone. If any animal is protecting it's young it can be dangerous. Just always move slowly away. I've been hiking alone in the mountains for many years, even at night, in areas full of deer, bear, and mountain lions (cougar). Just always stay alert and make noise and generally they'll leave the area before you even see them. If you are alone, sing. Don't be afraid. They can pick up the scent of fear.

Having an electronic compass in your watch won't help. The point of having an electronic compass in your GPS is it will help the GPS find the geocache easier. If you've got a GPS without an electronic compass you have to keep moving and keep it very level to get it to work. I've heard that if you've got an electronic compass then you don't have to be moving for it to work. Your GPS compass points the way to the cache. Your watch compass does not point toward the cache. It does not have the coordinates programed into it. When you're looking for a cache, the arrow on the GPS compass will point toward the cache. It's really nice (but not necessary) to be able to stop moving and have the compass still work.

Looks like an awesome cache! But life is a beech, and this one is going to have to be disabled until you can find a good access route, which may be after the park is built. A cache has got to have access. If you are going to leave it enabled then you need to tell people on the cache page how to get there. I see that you've said that they can't go through the private property, which is good. As I see it, the property owner probably put up those signs after a lot of geocachers came trooping across his property. He's got full right to put up those signs if he owns that property. We need to keep good relations with neighbors. If there is another way to access your cache that people can find, then the "no tresspassing" signs should do it. People should know better than to cross private property. Remember, a lot of people don't read the cache pages before finding a cache.

Do you have a link for the C:geo Facebook page? I'm reading this from my Android so a link would be very useful. I have the Groundspeak app, and would prefer to use that, but the maps aren't good, showing only a few caches at a time. I find it frustrating and tedious. I would prefer Groundspeak fix theirs but until that happens I need more functional maps.

If you're wanting to buy from REI, try these Nalgene bottles You might be able to get these cheaper right from Nalgene, I didn't check. These are leak proof, and come in about 4 sizes. The four fluid ounce size is $1.70 US They make great micros. The problem with containers with O rings for seals, is they need to be periodically replaced. I've got some of these nalgene bottles that are 25 years old. I've been using them for shampoo and stuff for traveling and they go on airplanes still without leaking in my luggage. Now, granted they haven't been outdoors, but still, try that with anything with an O ring. Not gonna happen. I just cut the log to be as tall as the rim of the container so you don't have to worry about fishing the log out of the inside lip of the container. Nalgene started out making containers for laboratories. They make good stuff!! (No, I'm not associated with them in any way)

Bison tube could have gone missing, and film can is a throw down. Either that or they wanted the bison tube because it is a much better container than a film can. The film can will never be waterproof. The bison is (at least for a while). PS I would have been pretty irritated about the cardboard box too, but now it is pretty funny. I would have loved to see the look on peoples faces who were finding it... "What the heck...????" If I were you I would definitely make the attempt at waterproofing a cardboard box to use for your "geo coach". You can try some sort of shellac on it. Try an art supply store. Or maybe some sealant they use to waterproof wood. You can always put a cardboard box inside of a waterproof container, but that would take away some of the charm and it would still absorb moisture.

The Department of Redundancy Department thanks you. Two positives cancel each other out. I don't really a pile of 1700+ cache containers. (i was really tempted to put, "I don't have no containers")

Watch out, that tree will eat your cache

geocaching.com usually has them but is out of them right now. caching stuff The advantage of getting them there, besides knowing you're supporting a good cause (home of your favorite hobby)but you can also get the logs and other good stuff at the same time.

I have been wondering what to do with all these containers I've been collecting. over 1700 finds, they're beginning to start to pile up here... Just kidding. Something a bit different happened to me. I was caching with a friend on some trails. She was not much of a hiker. The trail had a closed sign on it, due to maintenance. Not that i would ever go down a closed trail mind you. Of course my first thought was, "Hey, no one else on the trail!" the sign had said "bridge repair". So I walked through every creek, next to every bridge, in my waterproof hiking boots, to check out each bridge to make sure it was safe for my friend. Turns out they had completed the work, and just didn't remove the sign yet. While looking under each bridge to be sure it was safe, I found a cache that I did not have in my GPS. I always load pocket queries and don't load disabled caches. But I found a cache, so I took it out, signed the log, and noted the name on the log book. Later I contacted the CO. He said that the container was gone when he checked it. He was really excited to have it back. I described exactly where it was to him. He said that's where it belonged, that the park maintenance people must have removed the cache to repair the bridge, and then thoughtfully put it back when they were done. Really nice!!! And he said it was fine for me to log it even though it was a multi!! It was a find that he was really happy about!!

As in prim and proper??