getson

it's currently -20C (-4 F) here, so not exactly prime caching weather. stupid canadian winter.

my first TB was only picked up twice and has been idle for just over a month now. No replies to my emails so far so I really hope whoever has him will get back into caching soon and drop him off. They were brand new cachers when they picked him up, so hopefully they haven't given up on caching altogether. It's sad because he was a home-made bug that we were hoping to pick up ourselves at the end of his journey. Hopefully our second TB will not get held up like his brother.

Anyone around Winnipeg know WELOOK2? They've had my travel bug over a month and don't respond to emails. Just hoping someone knows who they are and can find out the status of my TB, or grab it from them or something. Thanks.

I always use UTM. It's how i learned to use a GPS, it's what we use at work in the field, and it's just so much easier with everything based in meters. I haven't a clue how far a minute or second or whatever is... but i can look down at the UTM co-ords and know exactly how many meters i'm off etc. Sometimes it causes problems with geocaching since we use UTM and NAD83 at work and sometimes i forget to switch datums. But no major problems so far.

ummm... i might like it more if it wasn't blatantly ripping off the trailer park boys. some more original ideas would help.

It's not kicking... it's tenderizing... for the BBQ celebrating the end of this thread.

in your own words....

...so are we to assume your son was adopted then?

I don't think there's any right answer to this debate. You could write a test, set a minimum number of finds and I think there will still be a problem with bad hides and poor numbers etc. It's part of the game, and I say deal with it. The worst idea I read was boycotting newbie hides, which I think is just mean spirited and solves nothing. If you really want to help people hide caches then go try and find the newbie caches and *IF* there's a problem you should kindly make some suggestions. I just placed my first cache less than a week ago, and I only have 13 finds under my belt. Based on the comments I've received so far, I'd say it was a good hide. The only thing that boycotting my hide would teach me is that there are some seriously stuck-up snobs in this sport who think too highly of themselves. Of course, seeing as I use my GPS every day for my job and I was trained to use a GPS in the field before I even knew geocaching existed, I might not be the best example for a typical newbie.

I see many other people are having this problem. So, I decided to check the cache my TB was last in today to see if anyone mentioned it and there's a note saying that someone picked him up today, but they did not log it. They also mentioned that they dropped one off in exchange, but did not log it either. So now the TB they dropped off is still in their inventory and the one they picked up (mine) is still in the cache. Funny thing is that they logged the first TB they picked up correcty but only left a note saying they dropped him off without logging the drop-off. I don't understand the method to their madness. How long should I wait before emailing them to see what's the deal? I don't want to seem pushy but it doesn't make sense that they would be waiting to log the TB's after they've already logged the cache find.

I figure this is a good place for a first post. Me and my girlfriend (getson and zabby), 26 and 25 respectively, do all our geocaching together. We haven't found that many since we only go out when we both have the same day off, which is quite rare. I guess that happens when we've both been working 3 or 4 jobs between the both of us. Thank god we're both down to one a piece as of this month. I am an archaeologist and slooowly finishing up my MA. During the spring and summer I work up north doing archaeological consulting work. Basically, we load up our GPSrs with waypoints, tracklogs, and shape files and head out into the deep bush to various forestry cutblocks and/or oil and gas pipelines and start digging around looking for archaeological sites. Sounds kinda familiar don't it? My brother actually told me about geocaching because of the similarity to my job. During the fall and winter I attempt to finish my thesis and do some lab work off and on. Zabby works at a call center (boring) to help put me through grad school and volunteers at the textiles museum here on campus (University of Alberta). Once I'm done my MA, it's her turn to go back for a grad degree in something anthropology/museum/textiles related. Since we have both done our share of archaeology it's fair to say that we both love the outdoors and everything it has to offer. Hopefully with our somewhat reduced schedules this fall we can do a lot more caching. We're actually planning on hiding our first one tomorrow, weather and laziness permitting.