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I'm not organized enough to keep all the print outs in line. I lost my pda and ended up buying a replacement 2 days later. I couldn't stand the thought of going with a fist full of cache pages. Lesson learned: Be sure expensive electronic gadgets are in a secure place when you hit the bar following a day of caching. I also had the answer to many virtuals in the pda. I was lucky the cache owners were understanding by my descriptions of the area(s) when I mailed them explaining what happened.

It is up to the cache owner what to do with a log. In the situation described, I don't agree with the deletion of the logs. But, there's 2 sides to every story. I've deleted 2 logs so far. The first was when I was out with a fellow cacher and they logged a find on a cache we didn't visit. I told them they didn't find it and after a week of it not being removed, I deleted their log. The second log I deleted was by a new cacher who disclosed what the cache container was. It was a new style of hide for my area and I asked them to remove the description of what the container was. After 2 days of no reply to the e-mail to remove that portion of their log, I deleted it. The day after I deleted it, they mailed me back apologizing and re-logged it without giving away the cache. Unfortunately we can run into unreasonable people. I hope the pettyness that you're encountering comes to an end soon and you can all enjoy the game.

I am highly allergic to stings and carry an epi-stick with me while caching. A sting could prove fatal to me. I simply avoid the light pole along with various other caches during the summer months and won't put my hands into areas that I can't inspect first. Why would you put yourself in danger?

I guess us premium members get to work the bugs out of it and try to find something positive / beneficial to say. Since I logged in a couple of times and have declared it as lame, I've not returned. Hopefully any bugs will be worked out for those that decide to visit there.

I may not understand what's being said but I am seeing that you want to go 200' West from point A. I use a GPSMap76c and I would leave the waypoint in for point A and travel west until I was showing 200' from point A.

Thank you. I obviously didn't go far enough down to see the post.

I just attempted to run a 3rd pq on the same area. I am not getting the info in the e-mail. Is anyone else experiencing any problems?

Received my coins and they are beautiful. Many thanks to the designer(s) of the coin and the hard work that took this coin from a thought into reality.

I recently archived one of my caches out of frustration. The case of the moving cache was too aggravating to deal with. I spent 45 minutes with a fellow cacher looking for this particular cache. That has happened every time I have visited the site with other cachers. In time we do in fact find it, but it has never been in the same spot twice. Believe me, it's not only frustrating for those hunting the cache, but if a cache owner is fullfilling their responsibilities, it is frustrating to them. Maybe we should attach caches with bungee cord in some manner to keep them where they were intended to be?

I have one that's not been found since it was placed a year ago. Every month I hear at our local caching meeting of people wanting to go for it yet no one has yet. Deep Dam Cache I have thought of changing it to a multi and throwing in rappelling. But after a year of it not being found, making it harder will only keep it as unfound.

I get up to the DC area quite often now and am looking for other cachers up for nabbing some of the many virtuals around the area. Is anyone planning a trip up that way and looking for others to cache with? Drop me a line with the link on my profile.

But being a geocoin will mean you become someone's paperweight.

I found a few caches at Pipestem Park in WV while at an event. They're tough hikes but the area was beautiful. Do a search in the vicinity of GCNN9V

I've stopped at rest areas while travelling and found caches by accident. I figured there was one around but not having the info loaded in the gps, I simply checked the phone booths and picnic tables while taking a break from the road. If you search for 1/1 caches you will probably be able to locate them without much difficulty if you can pinpoint an area they are in with on line maps.

Not vanity..just showing my other true love...scuba diving. As it says At 300' even I have a pretty face. Think nitrogen narcosis. Fellow divers will understand it. But I think it's good to have a real photo because you can identify fellow cachers out on the trails and not mistake them as muggles. How many times have you been involved in a stand off near a cache not knowing the person on the other side of the light pole from you is a fellow cacher waiting for you to leave?

It sounds like a great idea to have a booth to make people aware of caching. Our local caching group hosted a geocaching symposium in which we covered many topics concerning geocaching and also benchmark finding. We ended up with 4 new cachers from the event. It's not a lot but that's 4 new people in our ranks. Those 4 people have hidden about 70 caches between them in the area. So they aren't just cachers, they are also hiders. I never hide what I'm doing when I'm caching. I carry the business card with a brief description of caching on it and hand it out to what most see as muggles but I see as potential cachers. If they express interest in it, I will invite them to find the cache I'm currently looking for and hand them my gps while explaining the functions of the gps along the way. Yes, I've been stopped by the police and even feds while in DC asking what I'm doing but with 1,000+ finds, it's bound to happen. Of course they got a crash course in geocachingology as well.

The Dash for Cache has to be one of the best out there. Another that I enjoyed was the Merci Train Boxcar. GC6389 It was quite a history lesson we learned on that one and a road trip of 5 hours that was originally slated for that cache alone. We ended up finding more caches along the way though.

At least precautions are taken in one respect. With the needles, I would just we wary of it / them. It will stay where it's at until someone moves it. Unlike snakes we have around here it won't move around and although I might just see 1 snake I'm sure there's more around.

It is always refreshing to visit another area. It gives you a different prespective on things when seeing others hiding styles. Everyone should do themself a favor and go caching ina neighboring area sometime.

I guess the gearing is set up differently with truck now or either it's not the 18 wheelers that are being referred to in the original post. I had the understanding that in the gas crunch of the 70's when the speed limit was reduced to 55 that trucks (18 wheelers) actually got worse fuel economy at lower speed.. The reason for that was at a speed of say 60 mps they could shift to a higher gear which gave better fuel economy. My Subaru Legacy gets anywhere from 25 mpg city to 32 on the highway. I just have to fight the temptation to hot rod past people at stop lights thinking I will conserve time. Anymore it seems gas is more precious than time.

Not only no but &*!# no. You could nearly block out potential caches for all of say Vermont with that many legs.

I usually don't hide the fact I'm geocaching. I will explain it to them and if they seem interested I invite them along for the hunt. Maybe I'm lucky no caches I've taken a possible muggle to has gone missing. I started fessing up after a trip to a neighboring city. We were looking for an urban micro near an intersection. We kept trying to be sly about the hunt but we caught a fellow's attention. He kept walking from the street corner to the building while flashing what looked like a log baggie with a white powder inside it. We went back to the car and he left the area. We went back out for the hunt and finally nabbed the pesky micro after some more searching. When we got back to the car we were talking about the potential conversation that could have been had. Muggle "Are you looking for something?" Cachers "yeah, we hope to find something nearby" Muggle "I can help you with a fix" cachers "No, our gps's are working fine." etc. . . . .

Some of us are allergic to bee stings. I have to carry around meds, just in case I get stung. Not sure I woulda been able to made it out as you did. You were very fortunate.

Thanks, the caching has been quite an adventure. But the friendships I've made with my new hobby have been the most valuable thing I could have ever gained. I'm glad you came along, Jenni. You always seem to catch my crazy side on camera. hahahaha

Here's my FTF prize. The local cachers seem to love them and many times my caches are found within an hour of being approved. I like to think it's because of the stickers I leave in there. They also help us spot other cachers out on the road and near the trails. The sticker can be printed at any sign shop and mine is about a 3 x 5 oval costing me about 85 cents. Cheaper than dollar store items but something highly sought after in these parts.