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I always go for the weird stuff. Some of my favorites have been a used, frayed fish stringer, a two-legged jade elephant, a spent bullet casing, and of course, the head of a stuffed turkey (I kid you not!) I often said I'd be the one to take the left arm of a Barbie doll if I found it. I'm really kinda disappointed nobody's left one for me yet!

Freezing and bursting can also be a problem if it's still there in the winter.

There are quite a few caches in the Grenada Lake area. Be sure to visit "Old Fort", one of the state's oldest caches and still one of the more physically challenging in the area.

Is Judge Wapner busy these days? Or better yet: Tomorrow on Judge Judy: "They rejected my cache because they have a grudge against me."

Hi CBC. Welcome to the addiction. Both Oxford and Jackson have more than a day's worth of good, easy caches. Other hot spots include Starkville, Laurel, Greenville, Laurel, Hattiesburg, and of course the Gulf Coast. I invite you to swing by the Mississippi Geocachers Association website for some personalized guidance from the cache hiders themselves.

uh yeah. Suction darts. Shoulda figured those rascals had a name!

Go somewhere where they still sell toy guns with rubber stopper "bullets". Moisten the bullet tip and press to container. Works like a charm.

Yes, I was able to read the coordinates pretty easily. I'm one of these that's blessed (cursed) with the images staring at them in stereograms without trying to look for it. However, to tell you what it says would defeat the whole purpose. The last number in lat. is 2 and the last number in lon. is 6. Enlarging the images will make it much easier.

I was one of those who placed a cache before ever finding one. I read about geocaching and hid The Little Brown Bottle as a lame experiment. It turns out it was also the state's first micro. Everything about it screams early plunder: It's clearly visible from 25 feet away - It's in a very public spot - It's incredibly easy to find (as evidenced by 88 finds and 0 no finds so far). However, somehow it's survived over 2 1/2 years so far and has been the introductory cache for a large number of locals. Comparing it to others I've hidden and found, it ranks in my opinion as one of the lamest. However, it's popularity seems to speak otherwise.

Sure. Add me too!

Looks like a red fox in early stage of sarcoptic mange. The hair follicles in the tail usually let go first.

QUOTE (krn187 @ May 31 2004, 06:00 PM) Ill add to this informal survey I started and ask this besides a million dollars and a bunch of other stupid stuff I can come up with what do you the person reading this want to find. Go ahead somebody say I really want a barbie doll arm. Believe it or not, yes, the barbie arm is probably exactly what I'd take. I tend to trade for the weirdest thing in the container. My Wall of fame now holds among other things, a spent bullet casing, an elephant with two legs, the head of a stuffed turkey, a british red cross chiropodist badge, a bar of soap (Irish Spring if you're curious), a used fish stringer, a rather risque' coin ,and a stuffed flea. Small radios and the such sound like great trade items. Don't forget though, the ultra cheap and ultra tacky are just as fine for those of us for whom the trade isn't the thing but the laugh we can get out of it. Yes, I do expect some of the locals who read this are going to start peppering me with doll arms! I tend to leave a wide variety of items including old coins, 70s and 80s baseball cards, and the like. For the turkey head, I left a $40 pair of binoculars, which the owner of the cache promptly took.

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Only if you're sure it's gumf. Remember, one man's gumf is another glixba.

While Indian Mounds are interesting, there's certainly nothing unique about them, especially in the South. There's hundreds of them. While I personally wish virtual rules were a little more loose, thought I'm not a big fan of virtuals myself, I can see several reasons for turning these down. 1) Caches (even virtuals) don't need to be where placers can't regularly check on them. Let the local cachers handle the local caches. Both will be there eventually. 2) Most historically minded people would already know about it, so it's not drawing people there. 3) With careful planning, the mound could be used as an offset for a physical. For that matter, I have a full-size ammo box cache (yes, with permission) ON an Indian Mound placed in a way that did no damage to the mound. Don't let a couple of rejections bother you. My love life's been rejected more than that (and that was just yesterday).

Isn't that guy (the green one) the one that posed for the head of a buffalo nickel?

For some reason, my GPS does not do well with rechargeable batteries - it will shut itself off every few minutes. I use batteries from Homier distributing that I can get in a 12-pack for 72 cents. One set of four will generally last through a good day of caching. However, the same batteries won't last five pics on my digital camera.

No problem here. I'm paid for what I know, not what I do.

Happened to me while logging a find. Looked up and spotted an elderly man looking straight at me. Certain that there was no way he was going to grasp the concept, I went ahead and explained geocaching as best as I could. When I paused, he replied in a British accent "Ah! Much like letterboxing, I would say." Uh, yeah.

Maybe we should get in the practice of mentioning in our "find" logs that we're uploading picture either immediately or in the future.

Well, first you're going to have to deviate your variances. Then you'll need to variate your deviances. Next, determine whethera free and democratic institution such as our could eventually consider evolutionary humanism as a prerequisite to the insipidness that prevails today. After you've done this, run it through cmconverter, GPX Spinner, Watcher, then cmconverter again. I checked my answer with my broken magic 8-ball and got the same results. The answer is no. With a handheld HP1295 the best you're going to get (with any accuracy) is 1/4 centimeter.

Sure. I left a $40 pair of binoculars in a cache once. The hider of the cache took them.

usually wit me, it's "Ouch! I just stepped on something!"

I have a photographic memory. Unfortunately, it's usually out of film. I can remember some detail of the big majority of finds. Of course since I display all my different trades on my office wall, it's kind of a daily reminder of my hunts. It's also a great conversation starter for folks who come by my office and a few got into caching as a result.

I've been a MIM certified judge for about 10 years now. Yes, I went to a school to learn how to eat BBQ. Normally the MIM folks send a list of recommended "official sponsoring" hotels. However, by the time they get around to sending it, most of the rooms are already booked. Maybe this year, they'll also send a list of recommended caches. Are any IN Tom Lee Park?