SnowBird690

Okay, the old web-cover page had a nice listing of upcomming events, and now it doesn't exist anymore. I went to the events calendar, but you have to know what date something occurs to find it. I am not very good at looking at my weekly email. I just found out about a GeoWoodstock IX. Can anybody tell me the date of that so that I can find the cache page for it?

They are all only a year old or less, I have about 4 of them. Should I archive them, or should I leave them, and wait until they get damaged then archive them? I don't want to litter, but at the same time, I hate to remove caches that are still perfectly good. There is no way I can get back here in the future to retrieve them, I have no intention of ever returning to Long Island...ever...again...as long as I live! What would you do?

GC15BQ9 Oh boy, if you can figure this one you would be my hero! It has been on my ignore list over six months now, and I hate having caches on my ignore list, I feel like a failure! It took me literally HOURS to figure out the first part, more hours to finally give up on the second part.

I have three I can think of right now. The first was one down in Houston. It was hidden in some decorative grass, and this grass was tall, like 6 ft, with 1 in wide leaves, and serrated edges, it was SHARP!!!! And the cache was hidden at the bottom, under the previous years growth, you you had to get all scratched up. I went twice to find that one, then someone emailed me saying to use a broom stick. I never got back to it before I moved. Here on Long Island there was one hidden under a boardwalk and the area was covered with filthy trash, dog poop, bear cans, etc. I didn't find that one either, I didn't want to be sticking my hands where I could possibly catch some kind of disease. There is a puzzle cache here on Long Island as well, I hate it. The puzzle is impossible to solve. I have gotten about five hints from the CO and still cant figure it out. I am very glad I discovered the "ignore" feature, it is a wonderful feature! I put all these kinds of caches on it so that I don't have to see them any more.

Seems that the pages are all messed up now. There is extra white space and the left part of the text is cut off so that I can't read the left most words, about an inch worths or so. And the geochecker site isn't working either. Is this all going to be fixed soon?

I would like to go to this and am wondering if you can fly to N Manitou Island? My dad has a Private Pilots Licence and we are looking for an excuse to fly somewhere. It looked like there is a grass landing strip next to the even location. Is this park use only, or can private pilots fly in there?

Actually it is just a wrap, I had to sew because I didn't have a piece of cloth that was 15 ft long! So I cut an old queen sized sheet into thirds, then took two of the thirds and sewed them together end to end to make a single long 16 ft long by 30" wide cloth, and then got the instructions of a couple of positions to tie it from the internet. So far I have had great luck with the hip carry and a front carry. But like you said, this may become a new addiction. There are lots of different kinds of wraps out there. Maybe eventually I will get a couple of rings and try ring carriers.

Your other option is to return the Chicco and find something he finds comfier. For the time being, a good soft structured carrier (Ergo and Beco are just two of the more popular brands) or even a mei tai might work better. You could make a babywearing coat or poncho for back carries. For cool, but not cold weather: http://www.sleepingbaby.net/jan/Baby/poncho.html For colder: http://drmomma.blogspot.com/2009/11/babywe...alteration.html I've not seen the chicco in person, but does he *sit* in it or dangle? If he dangles, he just won't be comfortable. And if he does sit, he might need stirrups to keep his feet comfy. Hi! Thanks for all your advice! I am going to return the Chicco today because I came up with a GREAT solution...I made my own...cost = $0. No better price than that. Found instructions on the internet, and used and old mattress skirt I have had for a couple of years, cut it, sewed it, and now I have a baby carrier that works awesome! It is versitle, adjustable, strong, warm, comfy, he LOVES it, I LOVE it, and it was free. This is the way women have been carrying their babies for thousands of years, who am I to argue? I highly suggest it!

Ummm, thanks but could you narrow it down a bit? Which place is your favorite? Lots of trees, beautiful scenery, great photo ops would be my ideal place.

I wound up getting a Chicco baby backpack from Babies R Us because I needed something fast and it was the only thing in any retail store nearby that looked worth anything around here. I wanted to go on a hiking trip but I realized that the Snuggli was broke! One of the clips for clipping it on me is broken. I really liked him riding on the front though as he was warmer. I would put the Snugli on, then put my coat on over the Snugli, then put him in the Snugli, then zip my coat up around both of us. He stayed nice and toasty like this, in the backpack carrier, I think he gets cold. So I either have to hold off doing any hiking until spring when the weather warms, of figure out some way to fix the Snugli at least do a patch job to get us buy until spring. Also, he doesn't seem to like the Chicco, even though he looks really comfortable in it. I went for a mile hike and the second half of the hike he just started crying and crying and I don't really know why. I regret buying it now.

One thing I learned is to never buy cheap boots! But that doesn't seem to be your problem. That was a lesson I learned the hard way! $20 boots just are NOT worth the money! I do a lot of hiking on lots of different types of terraine. I have a pair of Gore Tex boots that I bought down in Houston for about $80. They work great, water proof, comfortable, but like the other poster said, If water gets into them, then it is miserable, and they take FOREVER to dry out. After my personal experience if you are going to be hiking in swampy muddly places at all, I highly suggest a highter top to the boots, such as the calf height ones the second poster linked to. My feet are constantly getting wet where I live now. And then the boots are wet for a week. Luckily I have another pair of boots I can wear, my insulated snow boots from North Face. Super warm and super comfortable. But not good for summer. Good luck.

Okay, I have a three day weekend comming next month (February) and I just HAVE to get away from Long Island for awhile and it seems like the perfect excuse to go on a mini-geocaching vacation. I look for an opportunity to get off the horrible island whenever I can! I don't really want to go more than 150 mile (one way) away as then it is too much driving. Are there any places that are good places to go geocaching that you can suggest within 150 miles of NYC? Not in cities, but in parks where I can get out in the woods and have a breath or two of fresh air and do some hiking without the constant buzz of traffic, planes, and the like?

Here is the one I was thinking of getting, mainly because it got such good reviews: http://www.childcarriers.com/Sherpani-Rumb...102594ESPRESSO0 It is more than $200, but it hold a child up to 70lbs, and it seems that it can be used for both a baby carrier and a backpacking backpack. I would like to do some backpacking this summer.

Okay, I have a 15 month old son, and am a single mother, so it is just him and I out geocaching/hiking but he is out-growing the Snugli (where he rides on my front). I have been looking at backpacks for kids on the back. He can walk now, but doesn't go where I want him to. Do you have any suggestions about backpacks for kids to ride in? Is it worth spending $200 or is a $50 one okay? I have to beable to load him and put it on by myself and I want this to last awhile as I think that he won't be able to hike on his own with me for awhile yet. And next summer, I want to try taking him backpacking, or at least camping.

Any Long Island geocachers around?

I have three caches in Syracuse placed, two in Pompey area, one in Fayetteville. I live in Long Island though but I would meet you if I was there, my mom lives up that way. My favorite place to cache in the Syracuse area was in Clarks Reservation. You can find all the caches there in one afternoon and it is a really pretty park. Highly suggest it!

Ohh, I love this thread. Three years ago (September 2004) I was working as an intern at a refinery in Robinson, IL. I forgot how the conversation came up but one of my coworkers said something about geocaching, and told me all about it. I think he may have mentioned it because I was talking about what I like to do in my spare time, hiking and such. At the time however, I did not have a GPS yet. So I asked for one from my mom for my birthday, which is in October. At the time I was into jogging and staying in shape (that was when I was 40lbs lighter, now I can't jog for more than a few feet without getting winded). So my mom got me a Garmin Forerunner 101 for my birthday. It really had no way to hook it up to the computer and download caches, at least not that I was aware. I had to plug in every waypoint by hand. Well a week after my birthday I tried it and found the Touchy Feely cache. I was hooked from then on. Now as of today I have 360 finds, and have sinse upgraded my GPS to one where I can download waypoints from the computer. Makes things go a lot faster. But I found nearly 200 caches with that first GPS. This weekend will be the first time I will be actually taking a vacation for the soul purpose of geocaching. I am going to drive 10 hours to Big Bend NP here in Texas and find all of the caches in and around that park. I am so excited!

I do most of my caching solo. I tend to be a loner anyway so I actually prefer it that way. But sometimes it is nice to cach with others. The other weekend I went out with some newbies. But they got tired after only finding about 5 cachs, but I was ready to go for more. But I stopped with them. Usually when I cach with others it is at events. But the person in a previous post is right, taking pictures when solo is kind of a pain. I just got a tripod so plan on taking it with me from now on, but I haven't used it yet. I am going geocaching in Big Bend National Park next weekend solo. I never feel wierd about it. In fact, it is relaxing for me.

I am not a premium member now because my membership expired and I haven't renewed it yet. But if I remember correctly, for me it was pretty much immediate. But that was a couple of years ago, I don't remember anymore.

When I lived in Fairbanks, Alaska a couple of years ago I attempted to find one located at a spring, this was a spot where people, including myself, regularly filled up water containers. On the particular day I was out caching it was about 20 below zero temperature. I looked all around for it, but I couldn't find it. I loged a DNF because I can only assume that it was buried under the ice somewhere: So I took a picture of it and left. When I was at this filling spot over the summer it the water level was well below the bridge. The ice must have formed a natural dam and blocked up the water where more froze causing ice to be all the way up to the birdge. I am thinking that the cache was under the bridge and you had to get under it to find it. But as you can see, that wasn't possible.

Eww, thos look nasty, can't say that I have ever run into one of those. But down here in Houston there is an infestation of tent caterpillars going on right now. When you walk through the woods these things crawl all over you, I have had several somehow magically appear on the back of my neck. They don't feel pleasent! But they are harmless. Actually, they are kind of pretty, very colorful. I will have to take some pictures. But I sure hope that I don't run into a saddle back, if I do I will be sure to avoid it!

I see some people have maps highlighting places they have been to, as well as stats on their profile pages. How do they get that? I want that on my page too.

My most in one day was 18 out of 20 just this last Sunday. For some reason I was on a roll. But I usually stop because I get tired and hungry. But I planned ahead and brought lunch with me, along with a gallon of water. Geocaching makes me thirsty! So I only stopped when I got tired. And I figured out that it is a good idea to bring my bike, for those ones where I have to walk a mile or two to get to it, the bike makes it much faster.

I am also in Texas, Houston area, and there is an event next weekend that I wont be able to attend because I am going to be geocaching in and around Big Bend National Park (I am really looking forward to that vacation, IT is going to be so much FUN!!!!). But then the weekend after that, there is an even on the 26th, then another on the 27th, there is one on a Monday that I can't go to because I have to work during the week. But I plan to go to the ones on the 26th and 27th. But after that I am not sure because I haven't looked yet. But there also seems to be a lot of event in Austin. But that is a 3 hour drive for me, though I like Austin. I really want to meet whoever Mrs. Captain Picard is, a fellow Star Trek TNG fan, geocacher, and a woman too. I am hoping to bump into her at one of these events.

What kind of camera do you use? Your pictures are so crisp, and the color is so pure. My camera takes pretty good pictures, but it seems more blury than yours.