geoSquid

I was just at sandbanks this weekend (family cottage there) Search on caches near this point: N43 54.1, W77 14.0 for proximity to Sandbanks. I've not done any in that area though. The closest one seems to be about 10 km away.

I guess it would be considered difficulty 5 "special equipment required"

And here I sit, after returning from caching in niagara. now I have the willies. ugh.

I put a cache here, but it doesn't get visited often: The cache is located just left of the big circular thing in the lower right. Seriously though, I agree that some major hike caches have the potential to be very cool.

woot! congrats. With the three I found on saturday, I made it to 20 total finds. 20 down 485277 to go

Look what I brought home dear! I think it's a bomb! I'm gonna throw it in the recycling and we can call the police after dinner. sheesh. ... On one hand, I can understand the concern of a non-cache aware person finding such an object. That he took it home because it found it interesting even makes sense. That he thought it was a bomb and took it home anyway befuddles me. That he even touched it if he thought it was a bomb is pretty amazing. Now, try to imagine the cops, who bring out their robot, blast the thing with a water cannon, and sploosh! little plushies and rubber toys all over the place, and the shards of a log book That's got to be an embarassing moment

I ordered a 4-pack from Calgary and they came to me in Ottawa in about 5 days via canada post. I'm happy with that.

I was at a convention in Wisconsin, and enthralled a group of 20-something year old americans with the tale of snow snakes from the great white north, and the migrations of their primary food source - the 25 lb arctic squirrel. Just as the story was wearing thin, another military friend of mine walked in the room, caught the tail end of the story and carried it on, thoroughly convincing these people that furred reptiles roam in the hills left by the snow plough, picking off unsuspecting cats, small children, and dog-sized carnivorous squirrels. I live in Ottawa. I was once asked by a customer at work if he could take in the West Edmonton Mall in a morning trip the next day or if it would take all day to drive there, see it and drive back. I used to sell Dickie Dee ice cream as a teen ager, and I lived in St. Catharines. One fine July day when the temperature was about 40 C, a car pulled up with New York tags, with skis on the roof. The driver rolled down the window and asked how far until he got to see igloos. This rocket scientist had driven 20 whopping kilometers in ludicrous July heat to ask an ice cream vendor where he could find igloos. So I sent him to Ontario Place in Toronto, there's a big Cinesphere ball thingy there. I hope he was happy. Ever try to explain the crossing of Canada to someone from Switzerland? I had that conversation on a business trip. This guy wanted to fly to Halifax and drive across Canada to Vancouver. I said sure, plan on about 10ish days of driving 8 hours a day, assuming you don't do much other than eat, sleep and drive. The concept of driving in the same general direction for 10 days is lost on the Swiss. It has absolutely no meaning for them.

We're in agreement there. I think the point has been made on all sides. Anyway, it is good to be here, and with regard to my search on eTrex legend which brought me to this thread, I did find some good info elsewhere in the forum, and that is very nice. I opted to buy the Legend, so my Garmin GPS II plus now stays in the car. re: marks on the road Where I live the Girl Guides go out and paint little fish near the storm drains on the road every spring to remind people not to dump crud (paint, oil, whatever) down them, so seeing weird marks on the road is not grossly uncommon around here.

I wasn't slamming anyone that plays D&D, persay. "Quit with the Dungeons and Dragons crap" is a pretty direct slam to everyone that plays D&D, worse, since D&D has NOTHING to do with making marks on the road, finding geocaches, or messing them up by marking them, your statement is also an expression of remarkable ignorance about D&D. D&D is played with a bunch of books, a lot of paper, some polyhedral dice and usually a case of beer and a few pizzas. No roads, no marking, and no geocaches. Seemed very odd and the first thing I thought when I saw his post was that it was some kid playing his own weird version of a geocaching character role-play game. On this we agree: it does seem very odd that you thought that. I can't imagine why you would have thought so. Role playing games (of which there are many besides Dungeons and Dragons, incidentally) have nothing to do with inscribing marks on the road. Marking the road is called vandalism where I'm from, unless you work for the highways department and get paid to do so, or have a special permit. I'm new to geocaching. I came to the forum and found this thread by doing a search for information on the eTrex Legend, and what do I find but some ignorant person slamming one of my other hobbies. If I said that maybe you should quit that backwater Missouri hick crap, would you consider it fair commentary? Because the first thing I think of when I see some person from the southern US taking shots at D&D or any other fantasy based game is less than complimentary. But I won't go there. Best to let this die off now. I offer my apologies to everyone else. I shouldn't have responded in this thread.

You know, I've played dungeons and dragons since long before there was such a thing as GPS and geocaching, and I know better than to mark a geocache. I'm going to take a wild guess that I am at least as educated as Pandybat, and probably more gainfully employed. Overall, I'm probably much more grounded in any reality than Pandybat. Perhaps someone, Pandybat, needs to realize that geocaching isn't any less nerdy than dungeons and dragons and that any perceived crap likely comes from within. Odds are, it's coincidental graffiti, or as noted above, a trail marker for a race. If it isn't, all it shows is that geocaching attracts its share of asshats like any other activity. It's kind of unfortunate for the person who put this cache here. On a lighter note, any D&D player would know that when you mark a path, any referee worth his dice is certain to have some wandering critter move or erase the mark so a D&D player wouldn't waste the time making such a mark. My apologies for the small rant, but I get so sick of geeks pouting about gamers and their alleged misantrhopy/grounding in reality/inability to relate to the rest of the world/whatever. SSDP folks. A lot of people think geocachers have too much time on their hands.