bwmick

going three weeks between caching doesn't strike me as that abnormal. I, sadly, have limited caches left near me. So I do most of my caching on trips away from home. They break up the boredom of the ride and let me play in new areas. bwmick

Sensitivity allergies have a nasty tendency to worsen with exposure. first time may be hive, 2nd more hives, third difficulty breathing, etc... Most people have a regimen that they follow in order to treat the reaction. something like benedryl followed by epipen followed by hospital ASAP . And just FYI the epipen is really only effective for 10-15 minutes so if you are going to be far away from medical assistance multiples are required. bwmick

http://www.kindersurprise.com/index2.html link to the Canadian version of the kinder website. haven't looked around much so i don't know if you can order anything from it or not. my wife and I don't even have kids and we love them. bwmick

MOst of my caching is solo while traveling so 5-10 minutes is all I am able to give up to a hunt. (most 4 hour trips now take 7-8 hours, oh well ) When I cache with others caching is usually the reason for going out and we are willing to spent more time at gz. besides it so much fun when you spot it right away to watch you friends look, and look, and look some more before they ask if you've seen it yet. bwmick

Here in Ontario we have Sabrina's law which directs schools to make sure they take all necessary precautions to ensure the safety of children with allergies. Some adult only workplaces have bans on nuts to (if the allergy sufferer is vocal enough) I have plans to use a pair of PB containers one inside the other. I will make sure that the container type is listed on the cache page just as I would any other perceived hazards that one may experience while finding a cache. I know several people with peanut allergies, I know lots of parents with kids with food allergies. It doesn't mean that the parent doesn't get to eat whatever they want, it just means they have to be selective when and how they eat it. You cannot protect yourself from everything, especially food type stuff. I noticed today that a local grocery has disinfectant wipes by the grocery cart pick up. make people aware before they get to the cache site and realize that they don't want to open it. As to the lingering odor of the container, life's a risk if an animal trashes it I will have to go out and replace it. Bwmick

I thought I was the only one who was thinking this

I have found the best way to plan out caches is to do it on a map (I use mapsource) that lets me see where the cahes are rather than just how far away they are. makes it much easier to plan a loop. remember when you do this that you need to keep track of the order you want to do the caches as the gps may say next best is not the next one you had planned. Bwmick

a good list, except for some of the obvious, I think a lot of the things hear have been found in caches. My 1 remove would be the live ammo - I did too many stupid things with it when I was little to want it left around willy nilly. (I don't really want to take off all the sharp edges but just the razor sharp ones. Bwmick

I don't think it is as hard as you are making it. this one could easily refer to the (sometimes) strained relationship between hiders and reviewers, it can also be used to deal with how cachers communicate with it other, listening to and filtering what they are saying and seeing how it applies to their own perspective. and how about when you meet up with someone on the trail of a tough find. Synergize, their strengths and your strengths = quicker find. just my .02 Bwmick

haven't been here for a while but try http://www.goldbook.ca/goldbook/hamilton/S...awasurplus.html Bryan

For me getting the cache while fun is secondary. (try to tell me that while I am hunting for it and see what I say) the primary joy for me is getting there, not just the hike but the whole process of getting to the cache. from planning the trip (I live in Northern Ontario and all caches are a trip) so the planning of the route, to the ride there. (I ride a motorcycle when i cache as often as I can) the pleasure of a new road is as good as it gets.

like the coin there is the possibility that it hasn't been logged into the cache yet. Give it a couple of days and see if it gets logged or not. What you could do if it hasn't been looged in a few days is drop it into the cache you found it in with a note then get it back out with another note (you can delete the notes if you want and edit your log of the cache to reflect what you did) and then the bugs mileage and cache history is correct.

I think they must have found someone new to do there hides in the North Bay Area. They have made some in that last 6 months that require actual hikes and take you to interesting places. On the last on I did the hide was still bungied to a tree but the tree was harder to find than usual. but the hike in itself was exceptional. Walk down a trail with obvious atv traffic for a little while, then beaver dam - find a way across it and then choose your way through a variety of trails to get to the cache site. and when I arrived (fairly early morning) I was rewarded with fog lifting off the river and fast moving water over a small waterfall. I really didn't even notice the mosquitoes due to the pleasure I had in getting to and from the cache (and they were thick). Agreed they could use a better cache page composer but they usually have a decent write up about why they chose the spot they did in the cache. (but again when the bugs are bad who stops to read) and they really need to check out what they rating mean. they have placed several 5/5 containers but you can walk to them and they are in trees, so 1/4 might be a more realistic interpretation of the difficulty.

http://www.radioworld.ca/ 335 Steeles Avenue West Toronto, Ontario Canada M3N 1V7 I haven't been there but their online pricing isn't the worst i have seen.

Read all the logs, sometimes people inadvertently leaves clues there that help me find the cache. when I am really stuck i check the hint. (but I have to tell there is nothing worse than being at GZ only to find that the hint is useless. I don't mind vague but useless...)

in the grade 3 and higher classes that I have worked in I advocate the children using a spell check system. I spell it D-i-c-t-i-o-n-a-r-y. they hate it but by the end of the year they get into the habit of checking the book before they check with me. It also cuts down on wrong word reinforcement as they get to read the definition at the same time to see if its the right word or not. there are several good on line dictionaries too. edit to add a bit.

not geocahing relate but a great border crossing. an old girlfriend, her friend and I had hopped over the border to do some shopping. on the way back into canada the guard asked what we had purchased we told him, you could tell he didn't believe us and really wanted to pull us over by the way he kept looking over at the inspection stations. the thing was he had sent the car ahead of us for inspection and didn't seem to have the nerve to send us too. "have a nice day", as the shoulders slumped

I have read/heard somewhere that a good way to tell who is supposed to get a sig item is that if you are leaving it for the owner place it in the log bag, if it is left for anyone, leave it with the rest of the swag.

Inane conversation?

often thought that this would be a nice idea myself.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/148/4259421...859577217_b.jpg Taken with a HP m425. downside no viewfinder upside truly is point and click. bought it for 90 CDN including shipping. from Source by CC (used to be our radio shack) I wasn't a fan of HP cameras befoe but thios camera is a great travel companion. It's not an SLR but I like the quality

I don't think people should feel on obligation to do anything. too close to guilt. obligation implies to me that other people think I should so I must. I chose to do things at my own pace. I feel an obligation to visit my mother, so I do. That doesn't make it a good visit though. place a cache when you have the perfect spot, a good container and a clear view of the sky hunt them when you want, hide them when you want, do it for the logs that say "WOW nice cache thanks for bringing me here." bwmick

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OMG it's the elusive red herring...

I cache on an 82 suzuki GS650L (shaft drive cruiser) While given the choice I would be all over a V-strom 650 or a KLR (2008 looks like a good year) the suzuki will do everything I ask of it. We have done almost as much gravel road trips as we have pavement, the big difference between the two is how fast I go. Highway I can cruise at the same speeds as everyone else, fresh gravel it starts to get a little squirrelly at about 60km/h (35mph or so) For me that is a fair trade as half the reason I am going down the gravel is to see what everyone on the highway is missing. And believe it or not I have had a few opportunities to head down some ATV trails. I don't suggest it with a dry weight of 466lbs but it was exhilarating. The real thing is to get comfortable with whatever bike you get and drive it at your skill level. I love riding with my friends (who are way better riders than I am) but we meet somewhere in the middle. They slow down a little and I try to ride a little faster than normal. It serves to purposes really. 1) they get to see more less blurry stuff 2) I become a better rider without feeling like I am in over my head. enjoy the journey. http://www.suzukicycles.org/photos/GS/GS65...br_side_450.jpg (link to what my bike would look like if I polished it instead of rode it.) Bryan