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Easy clean up. Using gloves, collect the syringes. Burn them in a hot fire until only the steel is left Collect cooled-off sharps and drop them into a paint bucket full of wet concrete drive to the middle of the ocean and pitch now-hardened bucket overboard.

I was thinking about this today. I think a simple question such as "Are the stars out today?" would be a good one for cachers to agree on as the universal cacher greeting. (stars = satellites) A non-cacher would simply nod and smile and move along.

I pretty much named myself after my cachemobile. There were a couple reasons, but the best one was, if a fellow cacher were to see me, they would know who I was by the logs.

Yeah, it's called rubbing alcohol. You can buy it at the drug store for about $0.79 a quart Don't be fooled by everything you see on MTV

I would tend to agree, IF he had used the information to go straight to the final leg, and never bothered with the first two, but that is not the case. The facts are that all the information given to him could have been found out by finding the first and second legs of the cache, which he DID. Even if he found all three legs in reverse order, using the info from the approver, he still found them all, and has demonstrated that he could easily have found all three, given only the location for stage 1, which is standard multi-cache practice. IMHO, he has earned a find log.

I enjoy creative caches more than bland ones.

Just things in the dark. Things that instantly go blind when hit with 120 lumens right in the eyes

Be sure to bring a Surefire Personally I carry 2 Surefire Nitrolons, one with a p60 and one with a p61 lamp. Also, an led headlamp for backup, or stealthiness.

"Fiendishly"? Hardly covers it. . . I have gotten to the point where I believe I can solve the cipher if I can just discover the code key, Which is supposed to be in the letter. . . although I can't find it.

In the page that lists geocaching software for various OSes, found here, there is one missing for the Palm OS list, which I believe is the best palm os cache software available. CacheMate allows you to view cache descriptions, information, hints, even other cachers logs right on your palm pilot in the field. It makes printing out cache pages obsolete. It can even navigate you right to the cache if you connect the palm to your gps via serial cable or bluetooth wireless. It will also export waypoints to other palm software such as Mapopolis for easy driving to and from the cache site. All in all, a wonderful caching program, and a value at $8 US. I am not afiliated with the cachemate project, just a happy user.

I use Mapopolis and Cachemate. Cachemate is nice because it gets the cache description, previous logs, hints, info, pretty much everything you need, right out of your pocketquery .gpx file. You can read the entire description of the cache, then hit "NAV" and now you have a gps-like screen with a pointer to the cache, speed, distance, etc. The best part of using mapopolis to cache with is the fact that cachemate can export caches to mapopolis as waypoints, then mapopolis can tell you how to drive there. Since mapopolis can interface with your palm-compatable gps as well, you can get real-time driving directions to the site. The palm actually speaks to me: "Left turn, one tenths mile" etc. My gps is a Globalsat BT308 reciever. It communicates to my palm pilot via Bluetooth wireless connection. 99% of time I am caching, my gps unit never leaves my backpack! And I've never printed out a cache page either, thanks to cachemate.

On a map, it would look like 30 feet, yes. Cache spot would be about 15 feet down the cliff though

There is a waterfall in my area called Carpenter's Falls that is not only one of the most beautiful, semi-secluded areas around, but a perfect place to go rapelling. I took my wife there on our first date and we went rapelling down the cliff adjacent to the falls. Two years later to the day, we relived our first date, but this time, halfway down the cliff, I asked her to marry me, ring and all, 40 feet in the air or the side of the cliff. Well, it just so happens that in this particular cliff, there is a horizontal crack in the rock, about 2 feet deep, and maybe 6 inches tall, 10 feet wide. It's a ledge with a natural roof, and the perfect place to stash a class 5 terrain cache. Excluding class 5 caches that are only rated as such because they require boats, it would be the only class 5 cache within 96 miles. I was thinking I would call it "Marry Me" or something similar, but there is one problem: There is already a cache nearby. From the top of the cliff, directly above where I want to stash my cache, there is another geocache, not more than 30 feet away. So I ask the questions: 1. Do you think the approvers will let me place it? 2. What are the odds that someone will mistake a 2-terrain cache for a 5, or vice versa. 3. If someone hikes into the woods with a backpack full of rapelling gear, looking for my cache, and instead accidentaly finds one that they can just walk up to, what are the odds they will think they found mine? Also: 1. Someone looking for a class 2 cache couldn't possibly find mine by accident. 2. Did I meantion there are no 5-terrain caches in almost 100 miles? What do you think?

As for me, I don't use batteries. Both my devices, a Palm Tungsten T3 and a Globalsat BT-308 have internal Lithium-Ion batteries. They plug into the cachemobile

That's every D-cell There's a AAA in every AA too. And 6 of them in every 9V

In a story about using GPS with Linux, Linuxforums.org mentioned Geocaching, and provided a link to geocaching.com. The story was linked directly from slashdot, which some of you may know, is a huge news site.