cudlecub

With the weather I've not been making a lot of long hikes to snatch a cache. Lately I've been wearing flannel lined jeans on my cache trips. Not only are they warm, but they also provide protection from the many thornes I've encountered recently. If they get wet, the day is pretty much over. I will also 2nd the opinion of Campmor. I have purchased from them for nearly 10 years now. They have great prices and excellent customer service.

It seems that I have carried these caches along with me forever. I don't want to place one for the sake of placing it. I've had a couple of ammo boxes, cammoed hide a keys, cammoed lock & lock canisters as well as various micro containers. When I finally find an appropriate area, they will have a new home. Until then, they will keep rattling around in my trunk. My plans are to place some caches on some trails that currently require a 3+ mile hike to just pick up a find. There's not much activity on those caches around here and I'd like to see that change.

The closest cache to my home involves about 5 hours of hiking. I don't mind the hike but there's areas with higher concentrations of caches that grab my attention. We are planning on doing a picnic to that cache this summer. I'm suprised the idiots will attempt to grab a cache that requires a lot of time. I expected them to be a fool like myself and hit those where there's numerous caches in an area.

At least it's an approver and not just a general member trying to be the geo-police. We seem to have that problem in my area.

I'm glad I have a bud at wal-mart that got me 10% off a 76 and was able to take advantage of the 50 buck rebate. It was less than the 60 series.

I will be in Largo, FL for a couple of weeks for job training. I was curious if there's any cachers around that area? I'd love to meet up with some other cachers and pick up some smileys in the area. Anyone nearby?

I think any cache placement should be thought out and not just simply put somewhere. I've been out the past few days with various size caches to place, but couldn't find an area I felt was suitable for a hide. I would personally rather have a challenging micro than go to an area where the ammo box is obviously in the mound of rocks or inside the hollow tree. I like a good challenge and ended up with 3 stitches, a tetnus shot, and an ER co-pay to prove it from a hunt yesterday. I've learned the hard way not to stick my hands down in a pile of leaves to retrieve what appears to be a black film canister. I never realized how similar they look to a black band on a bottle of Jack Daniels that could be (or was in my instance) broken. I feel it's all about the hide.

I was approached by the activity director in the small town I live in, Abingdon, VA. He had asked about the possibility of a geocaching club being formed in the area, which one already exists for a larger geographic area and we are looking to host meetings in each of the towns / cities that the group covers. The director has asked that the group host an event introducing locals to geocaching. Has anyone else done anything like this or heard of anything similar? I have some ideas and have been discussing what we could do with some of the other group members. One of the suggestions was to set up a booth where attendees could sign up for various topics such as gps units, hiding techniques, cache containers, and going paperless. I think there are some great topics but I'm not sure that the total newby might be interested in those sessions. I feel going to the activity center and setting up a group of caches (unnofficial caches so we don't have attendees running all over town) of various types and difficulty levels. We would divide the people into groups and the group that finds them the quickest would win a prize. Of course I am thinking that groups that go later might have and advantage in being able to see foot traffic to and from the cache site. I'm trying to get some ideas of things for the event and would appreciate any type of input on things to do for it.

Wow! You're gonna drive 14hrs to do a cache you can't even log a find on? That's pretty hardcore! The Vermont car is still up for grabs. If the history lesson of it is as interesting as the WV car, I'd nearly walk the miles to it. I have gained a lot of history lessons on the locationless caches. It's all what you look for with them.

I am holding your cache for 1 million in ransom. I will burn a Mctoy an hour until the money is received. hahahahahaha I couldn't resist that, sorry. I don't have the cache, just a feeble attempt at a joke. I had a cache I found to disappear after I logged it. I felt responsible for it being the last person to find but it turns out there was construction that was about to start and the engineers found the cache. They had e-mailed the owner and let them know they had the cache and a building was planned to go over the spot the cache was hidden. I guess they were lucky their cache was held for them in town and not just discarded. So far I'm yet to have one turn up missing but then again, I'm just starting to hide caches in the area. Hopefully your cache will show up again....

I enjoy the locationless caches and feel they are even more challenging than some of the traditionals. Many of them are well done and they require much more attention than a traditional if they are done correctly. My most rewarding find was a locationless. Merci Boxcar I gained a valuable history lesson in my 3 hour travel from home and since there are 3 of the Merci Boxcars still left to be logged, I am contemplating making a 14 hour trip to Vermont to log the next closest one to me. Of course I would be caching the entire route, but that would be my primary target. I feel the locationless puts fun into this hobby. I keep my eyes open for something that might fit a locationless topic while travelling and will post it if it's applicable. People will either love or hate em, but I feel they have a place in geocaching.

Hmmm, maybe I should start hitting the forums earlier in the day. I get a lot of much needed laughs out of them. It is unusual for me to browse them before 1 am.

I am an avid scuba diver, as you can see from my avatar. Yep, that's me at 135'. I also bowl in a couple of leagues, love tennis and online backgammon. I've inadvertently ended up in the middle of a paintball uhhh exchange???? Maybe the gps manufactureres will have new models with micro paint ball shooting capability in the near future?

I once found what appeared to be a tarp rolled up at the base of some rocks. The "tarp" was at the opposite side of the rock ridge from the trail. After stepping down to the other side and a slight nudge of the boot, I figured there was something wrapped up in it. We were on federal property and in no man's land, so to say. Although I have a concealed carry permit, you're not supposed to carry on federal property as this was. I dropped off my .40 and 9mm and we went to the police station for the area. They questioned us on 4 different occasions and would never tell us what we found. Since the area is about 80 miles or so away from us, we could never get any info from the news either. Who knows exactly what we found? It had been recently placed since there was snow underneath the tarp and the temps had been cold enough to freeze / preserve anything that MAY be wrapped inside. I am making the assumption it was a body due to the extensive questioning they put us through individually. They even kept my cache printouts, the pigs!!!!!!

I left one of the listerine packs as a micro under a picnic table. Three weeks after placing it I got an e-mail from a finder that it's broken. I won't be using another of them for a container in the future.

OK, heat wave here the past few days. It's been in double digits and I found 1 more cache today than the high temp. The high temp for the day was 34 and I found 35 caches with 2 dnf. brrrr wooo hoo I've been home about 4 hours now and finally warming up. I don't think I'll be doing this again anytime before spring or summer time.

My mother was in a wheelchair. Because of this I became more aware of terrain and also the layout of businesses. I even stopped going to my fav restaurant because my mother couldn't join me there without being carried up the steps. From what I've seen many of the micros are acessible and I will be placing one in memory of my mother when I find a spot that I think she would have enjoyed the view. I will now be double posting on the handicaching site to help those who's obstacles are greater than my own when on a cache hunt.

I recently purchased a new gps. I started out with an emap that I believe Noah may have possibly used to navigate the Ark with. I looked at units from the different manufacturers and when I got no reply from magellan on any design change or correction to their cracked case problem, it was clearly a new garmin unit for me. I went with the gpsmap 76c, a good friend works for a local distributor so I got his discount as well as a 50 buck rebate. My final cost was around 310 for it. So far I really enjoy it but there's a lot of bells and whistles on it that I will never use.

Very impressive seeing those numbers on the site. I've not been around very long but at the only caching social I've been to, one of those with big numbers was mentioned time and time again. If you subtract out their archived caches (doesn't seem they do maintnance) they are nearly out of the top 10. But, still an impressive number of hides as well as finds for them.

I would like an option to immediately receive an e-mail whan a new cache is placed withing a selectable distance from my home coordinates. I have opted in for the weekly e-mail but I can only recall seeing 2 such e-mails since I started caching last year.

Hunt them down and pelt them with the blasted golf balls!!!!!

My other hobby, scuba, has taken about $7K out of my pocket for tech training and top of the line gear. I got started in geocaching with a used emap for 40 bucks and I recently got a new 76cs for around 320 after employee discounts and rebates, I think geocaching is a great value. I enjoy getting out hiking and getting others involved as well.

I have an underwater virtual that sits in about 60' of water at S. Holston Lake. To me it isn't all that extreme but then again I'm a certified tech diver. Read all about it here Deep Dam Cache I plan on placing another one, only I'm figureing out some type of underwater container for it, in an area of the lake not far from the dam. This one will be in about 80' of water for the more adventuresome diver / cacher.

For me, I get out there every chance I get. But the high here today was 9 with a wind chill of -6. We did get out yesterday when the temp was hoovering around freezing and rain / ice / snow mix pelting us from above. All we could handle was 1 cache as my cach'n bud stepped in a mud puddle that didn't look deep but it ended up soaking his boot. We're going back out on Thursday though. It will be a heat wave compared to what we have been seeing, a sweltering 41 degrees is the forcast. I also have a trip to FL lined up next month and can't wait to get out caching a day away as I sometimes did in the summer / fall here.

Geocaching is growing astronomically. You now find gps or gpsr (whatever your preferred term may ba) with geocaching functions. I don't think the manufacturers would invest the time or money on a function if they felt it wasn't something that was going to be something big for them. Something I look at is how I got started. A friend of mine told me about it and took me out. I was instantly hooked. I've taken many of my friends out caching and have brought 3 others to get seriously involved in caching. As our numbers grow so does our outlet of word of mouth advertising for what we enjoy. So let's not just cache, let's talk cache to our friends.