Mud Puppy

But a bird in the hand is safer than one overhead.

Wouldn't stop me, I'd just wear rain pants over my Jeans and tuck them into my combat boots.

I've got three finds and two DNFs. One find was try number two on a DNF. Biggest clue is to look for things that aren't quite right. Here's a great reason to Geocache

Does this count?

I was wishing for one last night. I couldn't get a strong satalite signal so my GPS wasn't re-orienting the display and pointing to north.

That is awsome. I have been finding caches in Victoria but have not seen one of the whisles. What is signature item? If i find one do I keep it or trade like traveler bugs? A signature item is something that is fairly unique and usually has a signature, logo, or card attached to say who it came from. You trade for them like any other cache item. You could move it elsewhere, but most people either leave them in the cache for others or keep them for themselves.

If you leave a note saying to contact the police for the money and it a homeless person very few of them will do so, even for that much money (which is a lot to them). If it a homeless person who has come back for the money and found it gone they won't come back. I would never leave any contact info that can be traced. My bet is a druggie stashed the money there on the way to get stoned so they wouldn't spend it, then couldn't remember where they left it.

Spent three hours hiking up to a cache, hunting for it, and hiking out. Never did find it but I had a great day anyway. View on the hike up: Me: Hello Mr bear. Bear: Say, you eat ducks during duck season, can I eat tourists in tourist season? Me: Flawless logic Mr Bear, but I live near here. Bear: Oh....Well....OK....Carry on then.

Spent 45 minutes this evening and had to give up so I could get back to my car before dark.

Well written article.

It is to prevent animals from destroying the cache.

If I find one I'll take it on a 4x4 trip, take a picture of it on top of a mountain, and pass it on.

They're part of a puzzle. You have to identify the spice to get the clues for the next stage. By smell or just by a visual? Smell and look

Last cache I did there were lots of muggles. I waited until I could grab the cache unobserved, then walked 200 feet away to open it. Then I simply sat on the grass and opened it up. Nobody looked twice.

I was wondering about those myself. Spices have such a strong smell that I doubt the containers will survive long. Cool puzzle though.

Info is here: http://www.geocaching.com/about/hiding.aspx 5 visits to my chache I'm making plans for my second one. FTF for this one is going to be a bug/snake bite kit that uses a little vacuume syringe to suck the poison out.

Holding a demo at a science center would get a lot of people interested. Especially if it involved basic GPS use. I know four people who have a GPS and don't even know how to save a track-back log.

Interesting coins I like. loose change I don't

The better attachment is to go to a climbing shop and get a small rock climbing cam that will wedge into a crack and stay there perminently.

Good point. It's important to folllow the local regulations as far as sensitive areas. There are a number of areas deemed sensitive around here due to nesting birds, sensitive ground cover, etc. I would never dream of going in there with my Jeep, and I would be very careful about placing a cache there. Unfortunately there are a few fools like the guy in the newspaper article who ruin things. As far as tracks leading to the cache (original question) if you can't locate it in a spot that this won't happen then I would make the container hard to find when you get there. Probably better to contain any possible damage to one spot than hop it all over the place and have lots of lessor damage.

Your butt-prints are probably putting less pounds per square inch on the ground, so they will be erased faster than footprints that sink into the dirt farther. BTW this thread has started me thinking, so I am going to ensure that at least one of my caches will be wheel chair accessable and will say so clearly in the listing.

I tried out a number of "less expensive" radios before buying and found the sounds quality of the motorolas to be superior.

A buddy had a type of Mtn bike tire that has a narrow ridge in the middle and tapers away at the sides. On pavement only the center ridge touches but in dirt or any other soft surface the tire sinks in and the entire tread digs. On really soft surfaces he would let some air out of the tires to flatten the tread. He used a small CO2 tank similar to this one to air the tires back up if a air pump wasn't handy. He also had one of those garbage gripper things to get stuff off the ground or from up higher, but he couldn't squeeze it so he fitted it with an electric servo.

As a 4x4 owner I get the "tread lightly" thing twice over. I finally started carrying a set of photos in my Jeep showing a swamp being filled to build a shopping center, a potential Heron nesting area being destroyed to build condos, a clear cut logged area, and a 40 foot wide logging road that was built to replace a two-track we used to drive on. Every truck in the region will never create the same damage those 4 projects did. Weird thing is that you have to point out the amount of damage that the logging road did to the environment, but people get their panties in a twist when they see 4x4s on a rutted old two-track road.

Good point. I'll use the tower as a hint, but place the cache 1/2 mile or so away from it.