[Newbie question: When you sign..]

I use my real name (I have never met anyone with the same name, its metis)

[What motivates you to Geocache?]

1. It gets me outside

2. I learned to use my GPS this way

3. I like to exercise

4. I like the hunt

5. I like to be a first finder (competition)

6. I like to have more finds than others competition)

7. I like the mind work of a more challenging cache (map work, route planning, navigational skills problems)

8. I like to trade items

10. I like to do this with friends or family as a way of bonding

11. I like the adventure of a rural/wilderness hunt.

12. I use it to meet people

13. I use it to boost my ego or feel important

14. I like to write entertaining cache logs

15. I like to visit the places that I would otherwise never get to

16. I like the views/sites I am taken to.

18. I am a compulsive people by nature and I just can't stop! Help!

 

Travois

[Southern Ontario bombs for number of caches ...]

Try 64 caches in 100 miles as the Crow flys in central BC(Okanagan) usually half again the distance added to go around Mountains, and about a third are in Washinton. Slowly but surely the # is creeping up as new people start into the game. My wife gets upset when I take the car up logging roads but is starting to get the bug to so I may be able to get the ones farther out soon.

 

Travois

[Good Bye........for now]

I have to wear my gps all the time, or check on it every five mins. One time I wasn't wearing my compass and left it in a cache by mistake(got to find it twice that day).

Travois

[Which forum member would you most like to meet?]

Any

I have not met any geocasher during my hunts I'm starting to get paranoid(am I the only one out there?)

Travois

[How messy is your car?]

A wife and two teen daughters? My car is always a mess.

Travois

[Hitting on the trails alone]

I used to go alone, but now my wife and kids come to help me choose the loot(i just like to sign the book)

Travois

[what have you done with your gps]

I got my etrex to stop my wife from fretting when I go hiking. Ialso use it to mark things that interest me, and on long drives I use it to mark the speed traps for the trip home( has saved me at least twice).

Travois

[Chrismas present cache?]

I was toying with the idea of hideing my kids gifts this year but they said(with a look of shocked fear) that they would hide my gps. Next year my wife wants to decorate a tree in the woods nearby and leave some presents for the finders.

Travois

[Disregard, poll won't record votes - **POLL** What brand of GPS do you use?]

yellow etrex

Works just fine gets me close and then I get to russel around in the bush thinking where would I be if I were a cashe(but dear god I would like to have a download cable, Such is life )

Travois

[Merry Christmas]

I got my etrex yellow two years ago for christmas just as a safety tool when hikeing(my wife felt it would help stop me from getting lost as i tend to just wander around in the bush to see what i can see). Found out about cashing about a year after that. Not to many cashes in my area (52 in 100 miles), but now my wife and kids actually come with me on some of jaunts.

[Dragging Families Caching]

I'm not affecteted by poison ivy, but I don't think its presence would stop me as I have happilly cut myself up good looking for cashes in thorn bushes. Such is life for the insane .

[What do you all do for a living?]

Machinist, love to hike and caching is a great reason.