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I once dropped the lid of a nano while trying to extract the log and somehow it fell into the door panel of my truck. Two hours later and after doing some serious work in the parking lot, I had both the cache and the door back together. I was hoping no one would come by looking for the cache while I was there taking my door apart... I learned a valuable lesson about being careful with caches that day...

Using your definition, this one: GC1A11F would fit the description as one of the "worst" caches yet one of the best ones I've ever found. My kids and I could see it from the road (it was simply sitting next to a fence post in plain view, although 100 feet off the road) and as I was signing the log, the CO's pulled up. They were there to feed their farm animals and invited my kids to help them. For the next hour, my kids fed horses, cows, sheep, chickens, goats, and a zebu. they were super nice people and my kids had a blast. they told us they kept it in plain view to make it easier for novices to find...

I've participated in the American Royal BBQ cookoff in KC and they make a fair 'cue. However, an an NC native, I have to say that no BBQ challenge can be complete without representing the Old North State and it's heavenly hog...

This one has a bit of a surprise to it... GC263QP

Having worked for a surveyor for the past 12 years, I probably spend more time in the woods than the average cacher, hence that's why I've noticed it more this year. Also edited to sound less condescending...

Or has the poison ivy been especially bad this year? I've already had two major outbreaks and it's not even June. I even passed up a fairly simple cache today because the PI looked to be really bad. I'll come back in the Fall or some other time.

I've made a handful of FTF's but have never found anything really fancy. I occasionally hear about the gold coin, or the $20 gift card to a popular store or restaurant but I've never been lucky enough to find those...

You guys ever complain in the winter when there's a fresh snow trail leading right to the cache?

I got a FTF on a cache last week that the CO sent to the reviewer in March. Be patient, it will be published...

I use a Garmin Colorado 300 and have been paperless since January..

Do you just go to the nearest cache that can hold a coin or will any cache work? I should be getting my first personal GC in the mail in the next couple days...

If a cache that you've already found now has a geocoin inside it, is it in bad taste to retreive it and move it along even though it's been months since I last went there? It has a set of instructions that I could help fulfill by moving it along on a trip I have planned in a couple weeks...

First, my condolences for your loss. Now the trip... 1989: several of us college students, along with a professor loaded up a van and proceeded to drive 37 straight hours from Boone NC to Santa Fe New Mexico with the intention of spending the next 4 weeks driving thorough the American Southwest. Most of us had never been east of the Mississippi River so this was a great chance to see a part of the country we've never seen. The trip out was an adventure in itself. In Nashville, we were filling up the van and playing hacky-sack when an errant kick sent the footbag into the back of a pickup that was pulling out of the station towards the interstate. We never saw it again. Luckily we had more. Later that night as we stopped at a rest stop in Arkansas, we watched a guy get held up at gunpoint and called the police as the thief sped away. We passed the police cars a few miles down the road after they had pulled the man out of the car and were slapping cuffs on him. We kept going. At dawn, we stopped at Billy Bobs truck stop in Henryetta OK and saw people that would make people featured in www.peopleofwalmart.com look normal. We swam that afternoon in the reservoir that gave OKC its drinking water. That evening we ate at the Big Texan in Amarillo and one of our party tried the "72oz steak" challenge. Needless to say, he didn't make it. While using Santa Fe as a base, we spent the next few days exploring canyons and deserts, washed out riverbeds and hot springs. The "clothing optional" hot springs were rather interesting, especially for some of our female road trippers. I was dating someone at the time and wasn't tempted by this...mostly. The second week we headed up to Durango Colorado and rode the narrow gauge rails to Silverton and back, reveling in the wonder of the Rockies. We rode mountain bikes at Telluride, went from frost at the campsite in the morning to 120 degrees at noon at Chaco Canyon, and explored Anasazi Indian ruins at Mesa Verde. One of our party was attacked by a flock of peacocks. No, I don't know how it happened either. Or at least I don't remember. I'm sure there was some drinking involved. The third week was spent in Utah, primarily around Canyonlands, Arches National Park, and Dead Horse Point. I've never had a better time mountain biking on slickrock. One of our guys lost his luggage off the roof of the van and we had to pool money to buy him some clothes at Family Dollar for the rest of the trip. I remember going swimming in the Colorado River near Moab and watching a family of deer not 10 feet away coming out of the brush to drink. What an amazing moment that was. The last week was spent leisurely going home. We hiked a 12,000 foot mountain in Colorado, watched the KC Royals win a game without George Brett, saw the St Louis Arch at 3:00am and made it back to Boone where I got in my car and drove 2 more hours to my girlfriend's house and proposed to her on the spot. That was the coolest road trip I've ever been on. the girlfriend and I were married in 1993 and are still together. We take plenty of shorter road trips but I'm not ready to subject her or the kids to another month long trek like that one...

If I was to carry bacon to a cache, it wouldn't make it there, even if it was a PnG...

I had this happen today. The previous owner placed a TB in a cache before a GC event and I picked it up before he logged that he had dropped it. I assume he'll log it in tonight and everything will be hunky-dory. (I hope)

Congrats to all the recipients. This is one of my absolute favorite coins that I have ever seen....

In fact, I just ordered one...

I've bid on a couple coins. Please don't snipe me...

That is one BEAUTIFUL coin...

Without reading too much more into the article, perhaps you should submit an editorial to the local parer expressing the FACTS about Geocashing, both positive and negative, and let the public form their own opinions rather than this sheriff. Letting this go unanswered may seem like a good idea but someone will remember the sheriff's words and report the next cacher spotted hanging around a park waiting for Muggles to leave an area and result in more negative publicity. Refer them to the website and show the community how it can be a positive thing...

I've not tried this one yet, but most people I know who have say it's quite the adventure... http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...67-f9fed7922a94

I step into a steaming hot shower with a steel wool pad and a bottle of rubbing alcohol. Scrub the infected areas and then pour the alcohol directly on the skin. After your screams fade away, you should be fine in about 24 hours. It will scab up but it does get rid of it rather quickly. Unfortunately, I get it all the time. Virginia Creeper and Cedar trees can also make me break out so I keep a bottle of rubbing alcohol handy. There have been times I've used a knife blade to open the rash and when it's good and weepy, zap *scream*, and it's over...

GC18H63 I have to say there's one near me that I just couldn't find even after 3 tries. I had taken my kids to look for it and they couldn't find it either. This one weighed heavily on me because it was supposedly a 1.5/1.5 and had several finds. Finally I went back and discovered it was in a hole that the CO had dug with posthole diggers, placed an OPEN jar inside and covered with two trash bags and sticks to make it flush with the ground. It was also about 30' off GZ. I really hated that one...

I have taught my 8, 6, and 6 year old kids that the whole concept of Geocaching (or 'treasure hunting') is to discover new and interesting places that they might never visit and to come off with a new respect of the world in which we live. They would now rather spend an afternoon looking for treasures in the woods than to sit in front of the TV wasting electricity and time. My 8-year old now reads every book she can get her hands on regarding the planet and wants us to take trips to faraway countries just to go treasure hunting...