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  1. From my stats page: Longest Slump 37 consecutive days without a find from 12/27/2009 to 02/02/2010 Ouch!
  2. I'm currently at 1291. Find #1291 was a really well done cache that took 25 minutes of searching before I buckled and used a PAF for a hint. So I guess for me it's still ongoing.
  3. I use Repel Sportsman MAX. It has 40% deet and is about the strongest spray I've been able to find. It works really well for ticks AND flying insects, although you need to keep it away from your eyes, nose and mouth. I accidently got some on my lips and they went numb for about 15 minutes. Don't forget about pets! We put Frontline on our dog from March through November. That stuff really works well.
  4. I've seen it happen on occaision. First on this cache and now apparently on this one nearby. There are a few others I've seen around, too. It's sad but it happens.
  5. Here is the highest elevation that I've ever scored a find...I think. Google Earth says it's at 11,800 feet.
  6. Mine is usually a picture of myself, the wife and our dog. It changes from season to season but I try to have the 3 of us in the picture.
  7. For what it's worth I've been very happy with my Garmin Colorado 300. When I bought it I'd never owned a GPS receiver before so it was a little bit of a steep (frustrating) learning curve but once we got the hang of it we never looked back. Also, I can't say enough good things about GPS receivers that allow you to download the information directly to the receiver and cache paperlessly. If you can afford it they are totally the way to go. I'm pretty sure that over the past 2 years my GPSr has paid for itself by eliminating paper and ink costs.
  8. I actually just got back from taking Inga (our 2 year old Black Lab) out for a quick walk and we found a cache. She and I are almost always out together on the trails in the winter and summer. She's usually very patient with me when I have to take more than a few minutes to stop and search for a cache. Check out my gallery if you want to see pictures. I'm sure there's about 100 of her in there.
  9. Along with everything previously mentioned if you are caching on land that has swamps/ponds it will be much more difficult to navigate around them instead of simply walking across. I really love Winter caching but I'm looking forward to Spring.
  10. Same for us here in Minnesota! Not sure how (or if) this fits in, but I heard somewhere the biggest difference between people in the US and Europe is Americans think 200 years is a long time while Europeans think 200 miles is a long distance.
  11. Below is a picture of the 4 of us after snowshoeing up a hill that seemed to go on forever to bag the 30th oldest active cache in Colorado. What an AWESOME adventure!
  12. +100 +101 I think now would be a very good time to retract your NA log (can you retract NA logs???) or risk the scorn of the forum community forever.
  13. -9 this morning in Beautiful Stilly and we're heading for a balmy +8 today. I won't have time to do any caching but I am looking forward to a nice snowshoe hike with my doggy after work. With enough layers I stay nice and warm and there's always hot chocolate waiting for when we get back.
  14. I'll be in Summit County skiing and caching all of next week! Sooooooooo looking forward to our annual vacation out there.
  15. I'll chime in like so many before me: Ammo cans and Lock-N-Lock containers. I'm not much of an urban cacher so give me a nice regular sized container in the woods and I'll be happy forever.
  16. My wife and I were out in the middle of South Dakota on our way to Colorado. We were trying to get to a place in Winner (middle of NOWHERE) and my GPSr (lovingly named "Blinkie") said it would take 3 hours from where we were at even though the paper map clearly showed we were no more than 70 miles away. We were going down the highway and it was telling us to turn on what can only be described as a little used cow trail over some huge hills. We just laughed at Blinkie and kept rolling. After a few seconds it recalculated our route and gave us the correct directions and it took about an hour to get into town. Common sense should be a heckuva lot more common.
  17. I've been able to get out for a cache or two on the weekends but nothing like what I was doing last Fall. I've been spending my time trying to solve local puzzles for future finding (I am not good but I'm trying to pick off some easy ones) and thinking about making puzzles for others to find. I've also been putting some camo on PB jars and creating log books with recycled paper from work. It will be Spring soon enough.
  18. Have you personally found these caches before? If you have and can verify for certain that they are indeed missing then you can post a "Needs Maintance" log on the cache page. Make sure to state that you found it before and went out to check on it and it is MIA. Then wait a month and if there is no response from the cache owner then go ahead and post a "Needs Archived" log. The local reviewer should then give the cache owner a set amount of time (in our area it's 30 days or so) to either replace the cache or archive it. If the cache owner doesn't respond within the aforementioned "set amount of time" then the reviewer will archive it for them.
  19. We made # 1000 a memorable one. It was an awesome cache in the middle of a early season blizzard. Other than that we have not gone out of our way to make any of our milestone caches anything more special than any other ones, although I do keep track of them as a gauge to track how quickly I'm finding them. I have a few ideas for # 2000 but that's a few months down the road.
  20. My wife and I met a guy out on the trail while caching one day. He shared with us that he had suffered a brain injury and Geocaching was a hobby he really enjoyed. If I remember correctly he said it helped his "left" and "right" brains work together. I'm no expert but I think you might be on to something.
  21. Oh my goodness where can I begin? I live in the east metro of the Twin Cities, so I can reccomend a few areas... For starters, check out this series near Knapp, WI. It is free and open to the public and a very strenuous 8 hour hiking tour to get all of them. If you are looking for a hiking power trail, check out this series that starts in Woodville, WI. Some sections of the trail are washed out due to some flooding we had last August, but the entire trail is still open and flat and easy to tackle. This was a fun little series I did back in September. It only took about 2 or 3 hours. The caches are hidden around a mountain biking course, but hikers are welcome as well. Lots of up and down hiking... This puzzle cache is probably the one that got us hooked on caching. It took a couple hours but it was a ton of fun. This cache is easily the coolest cache we've ever found. It's easy to get to (once you find the parking) and can be done in less than 30 minutes. I'm sure there are a few more locals that will have a few more suggestions as well.
  22. Santa brought me a pair of snowshoes. Right now we have over 2 feet of the white fluffy stuff on the ground and more on the way. I used them today and went 3 for 5 and walked 3 miles. I wouldn't have made it 100 yards without my sweet new snowshoes! THANKS SANTA!!!
  23. Team Dennis keeping an eye on things here in Stillwater. 1000+ finds in just under our first year and a half. Bigger plans for 2011.
  24. We drove by today and there is a sign right next to the freeway about 100' from GZ that says "EMERGENCY STOPPING ONLY" and while I'm pretty sure the sign was there before the cache was placed we still found it pretty darn funny. For the record, we did NOT park on the side of the freeway to bag this cache. We snow shoed well over half a mile (one way) through over a foot of fresh snow to get to it. Not that anyone accused us of taking the easy way out, I just wanted to clarify. Stopping on the side of the interstate is a BAD idea unless it is an emergency.
  25. We drove by today and there is a sign right next to the freeway about 100' from GZ that says "EMERGENCY STOPPING ONLY" and while I'm pretty sure the sign was there before the cache was placed we still found it pretty darn funny.
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