Clothahump

Or you can use Word or Publisher and print up a batch of "business cards" with your name on them. Drop one of those in the cache if you don't have a writing stick. Or even if you do.

Print out many copies of the Geocaching Brochure: http://www.geocacher-u.com/resources/brochure.html If you're stopped by the cops, follow their directions, then give them a copy of this brochure once they have determined that you are not a safety hazard to them. You'll probably get a convert.

Ditto.

My normal rule of thumb is 20-30 minutes. If I haven't found it by then, I probably won't that day. My longest perseverance cache was nearly a year. Repeated trips to find stage 1, which I finally located pretty much right out in the open . The second leg took me 15 minutes to walk to.

GSAK with a Palm Zire here. I have pocket queries that run weekly for all not founds, etc. I'll load them into GSAK, then ship them to the Palm. If I've got a cache that looks really tricky, I'll plug it into Google Maps then print out the combination page and take that hardcopy with me, but those are few and far between.

No, that's SpockBrow. Sorry, couldn't resist

Ammo Can: $5 logbook and pencil: $0.50 Swag: $5.00 DEET spray: $2.00 Calamine lotion: $2.00 Gas spent to get to/from poison ivy and mosquito infested cache: $8.00 Laughing my butt off knowing that others will suffer like I did: PRICELESS!!

I have a 28 inch long piece of 1/2 inch diameter pipe that I call Clothahump's +5 Wand of Poking. Once I put on my backpack, it fits very easily between the pack and my back, and rides up over my right shoulder where it's easy to pull out. I also have a 6 foot long staff that I dipped out of the inventory in my Taekwondo school, and it's Clothahump's +10 Staff of Poking. I'll bring it when I know I'm going out in the boonies after a cache, especially if hills are involved. Both of them do double duty. I'm a 5th Degree Black Belt in Taekwondo and I teach both the long staff and the short stick weapons, so I'm reasonably well protected against anyone without a firearm and/or most critters.

Well, to drop my $0.02 worth in.... I'm not terribly fond of micros or lightpole caches. I simply edited my Pocket Queries to eliminate them. I select the caches that I get the emotional buzz from finding and go after them. Guess what? I get the buzz and I don't complain. As Snoogs or somebody else once said, no rocket science here. I take responsibility for my caches that I hide, and I also take responsibility for the caches that I seek.

Girl, what in the blue blazes are you doing up there? It gets cold there, doncha know? You need to come on down to Houston, Texas and get some serious caching done. It only gets cold here about 7 days a year, and that's in a bad year.

Wolf Creek Falls. Check out the photos in the gallery.

Yeah, but the real question is: How many finds does Tom have?

Bring a stick for poking. If you don't bring a stick, bring a pole. Whether you bring a stick or a pole, bring gloves and wear a long-sleeve shirt. I don't care how hot it is, wear jeans. If you're caching here in Texas, where even the baby thorns are four inches long, body armor is indicated. Did I mention you should bring a stick?

Please note my highlighting. The vast majority of what you posted is incorrect. The only thing you did get right was the advice to not resist. If a police officer asks you for ID, you do have to provide it. And they do not need your consent for a patdown for safety, and anything they find that you shouldn't have had on you will be admissable.

7.3 miles. If I go all the way out to 50 miles, I have 1938 caches available that I haven't found yet.

My only objection is that, no matter how hard I snap my wrist, I just can't get the .30 cal. ammo can to curve like a Frisbee.....

Most of the time, I'm the Lone Ranger of caching in our house. However, lately I've gotten SWMBO to come along and she's developing quite an eye for finding hidden ammo cans. We're both WASPS. I'm over 50 and she turns 50 this year. And I hate her because I look like I'm over 50 and she looks like she's still 30.

A reporter do some research? Surely, you jest.

Hmmm....I wonder what's going to happen the first time one of us does drop from a heart attack when the screamer goes off.

Well, I am (in)famous within a fairly large organization, but soon I will be known world wide as a new shining star in the universe of movies. Or not. Actually, I have a fairly major supporting role, as well as being the fight coordinator, in the upcoming movie The Legend of Dirty Bum. I even have an geoevent scheduled for our premiere.

Ummmm.......did you stop to think that maybe CCCooperAgency paid a maintenance visit and fixed the problem? If someone posted a NM on one of my caches, that is exactly what I would do - fix the problem and either delete the NM or change it to a find.

Well, I started out with a Model T - the M100. Cachemate ran just fine on it. I now have a Zaire with a memory card and am quite happy with it.

Minor bug report. The last digit of the date of the Most in 1 Day field is being truncated on the display.

I don't pack heat while caching, simply because I'm too lazy to go do the CCW training. However, I will always have a 5 cell Maglite and either a 30 inch long piece of 1/2 inch pipe (Clothahump's +5 Wand of Poking) or a 6 foot staff (Clothahump's +10 Staff of Poking). I also have a knife of some sort handy. And I'll sometimes have SWMBO with me. Given that I am a 5th Degree Black Belt in Taekwondo and she's a 4th Degree, and that we teach the short stick, knife defenseand attacks, and the long staff in our school, I think we have the personal defense issues pretty well covered.

Yes, sort of. I do have extra baggies, pencils, etc., so I can do some minor damage control. However, I can't fix one like I ran across the other day, where the container was split and the log book and cache contents were soaked.