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Congrats!!!!

Wow, the TV show leaves nice cache swag!

Congrats!

Ladies and gentlemen, the football team will be playing before and after tonight's featured performance of the marching band. OK. What is 'FTW'? When you used it with the picture of the babe, I assumed it meant "First to Wench", but now I'm mystified. Carolyn Hey, that was no babe...that was my wife! (I'm seriously gonna be in trouble now) (FTW = For The Win) And as I was scrolling, I was trying to figure out why I got a link to this thread from him that just said "hee hee" I cache for the beer. Seriously, I do. Almost all cache outings seem to involve it and I have been introduced to some great brewpubs that way.

And I would have won it last year if I hadn't drank too much of your tasty beer and slept for most of the year.

Not yet. But I haven't exactly given the dogs a chance to do so.

I like to cycle and have done a few caches that way. I would like to do more. Lately I have tried to plan running routes by caches, but I don't want to carry my regular GPS with me and haven't quite figured out how to enter coordinates into my Forerunner 405 and make them stay. The GPS always seems to delete them.

That is all just different pictures of mtn-man

I didn't know that I had one until I read about it after it all was fixed.

I like Wherigo and started slowly developing a Wherigo cache. But I am not really thrilled with using my PDA (a Mio) for it. The screen is hard to see in sunlight and the GPS integration with Wherigo not as good as I would like. So until I upgrade my GPS, I likely won't do much with my plans to make a Wherigo cache.

Another option would be to use a free blogging service such as blogger or wordpress.com to make a site. If you just want a place for basic info and don't mind the blog format, that would work quite well.

For basic free stuff, MySpace or Facebook might be a decent route. For hosting a true website, I think you will find that most free sites limit your bandwidth quite a bit and litter your site with ads that you probably won't want. For $10 or less/month you can get basic hosting on a number of sites. I have generally been happy with bluehost. I have had a couple of issues with them, but they were not of the type that a small geocaching group would likely run into. In general, they are very user friendly and have great support.

Wrong link. That's some sort of Puppy Blog. Are you saying that our kids are dogs? OK, so I guess they are.....

I met my husband solely because of caching. Here is my wedding cache log and Stunod's log for the same cache. Our children are here.

I did a couple of years with the Firebirds drum and bugle corps out of Lincoln Nebraska in the early 1980s. Normally I did flag, but sometime rifle. The group folded a looooong time ago.

Try cycling some. That takes a lot of the pressure off of your feet and still gets you exercising. Many areas also have a lot of caches near bike paths!

I was at an event where we did a huge hike to find 16 temporary caches. The next day my big toe hurt so bad that I thought I had a stress fracture. A week later the nail turned a nice shade of purple. I attributed the injury to my new hiking boots. I had broken in the boots but this was the first major hike that I wore them on. I still don't know what exactly caused it but if it happens again I am going to the doctor. Many large toe injuries occur because of too small shoes or boots (insufficiently broken in boots could also contribute). If there is less than a full thumb's width of space between the big toe and the end of the shoe, the toe will jam into that. This is especially true later in an activity after the feet start to swell a bit. That is why runners often get black toe nails. In most cases going up a half size in shoes stops the problem. If they feel a bit loose before the feet get a bit swollen from activity, thicker wool socks and making a loop in the lacing at the top to tighten the heel area can help.

My puppy herds imaginary goats. Does that count?

I have high arches and get pain under the arch if I do too much without support. I recently tried heat modable inserts (Sole brand) for my distance running. To mold them, they are put in the oven for a few minutes and then worn for a few minutes. They give good support and have a nice cushion to them. For those who need extra support but don't quite want to go the full podiatrist/custom orthotics route yet, those can be a decent option.

Actually, that looks like a Pika. Probably because it IS a pika.... It can't be- there's no lightning coming out of it's a--, errrr posterior. Oops, sorry, that's a pikachu... PIKA!!!!!!!

Nice idea!

I thought you were out collecting the money to pay off those who pretended to be reviewers so that everyone wouldn't figure out that all cache reviews are done by puppymonster pretending to be mtn-man?

Just to clarify, I don't think I (Electric Mouse, sorry, I am too lazy to log out and back in with the other account!) answered the proximity question. Not that I remember anyway. In any event, I also don't remember being concerned about any of the answers given by anyone else. I think the point of the answer given was that there is more to the proximity rule than avoiding confusion--it is also to avoid over saturation of an area. I would have answered it in a similar fashion. I do remember the question also having to do with something about the GPS showing one distance and the web site another. I leaned over to the person next to me and said something to the effect of "we should add some info about typical GPS error," which I think he had the microphone next and did so before the next question was asked. In any event, I encourage the OP to contact her reviewer if she has further questions about the proximity rule and how it is applied.

As I wasn't able to attend GeoWoodstock (maybe another year...), could you name the line up of reviewers in your photo, please? MrsB From Left to Right: Mad Min, Reviewer Jones, 1/2 of Team Misguided, Hemlock, Electric Mouse (myself), Huggy D1, Tennessee Cacher.

I like the idea of trying to get multiple icons in one day. Fun stuff! A Washington pair recently got 13: Wherigo, Mystery, Multi-cache, Traditional Cache, Letterbox Hybrid, Earthcache, Webcam, Virtual, Event, Benchmark, CITO Event, Project Ape Cache, and GPS Adventures Maze. All they were missing was a mega event. They got lucky on the CITO and a regular event on the same day, plus the Ape and Maze being nearby.