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I made one that had a regular screw-on cap that had threads, but not a middle section. Inside that I put a center that was partly a large, thick rubber gasket. It made it so that the tighter it was turned, the better the seal was. And it didn't take much of a seal to keep it dry. One end was glued shut with PVC cement. I had no idea how my contraption was going to work, as I just assembled it walking through the pile of parts at the hardware store. It's been in an underwater cache for going on 3 1/2 years and the only moisture that's made it in was from the hands touching the contents. Just as a precaution, I put the log in a waterproof match container, though.

Found one that was a plastic grocery bag lying on the ground. It had a ziploc in it to "protect" the contents.

Need more information. It says to write...what says to write? What upload program are you using? I use easyGPS to my 255 and it works fine. You have to make sure you set up the program to find that particular GPS model.

I don't have a photo, but near me there are several places where there are yellow diamond shaped signs at the base of hills. The signs say "Hill blocks view" Really? They aren't transparent?

There is one here in KC at a new outdoor mall. The mall's theme is all about famous people from Kansas. Scattered on the sidewalk are small plaques about people or other things as well as a number of sculptures and fountains. There are 20 stages where you learn different things at the different plaques or statues and piece the answers together for the finals. The stages aren't terribly far apart and you learn something. The whole thing takes a little over an hour. Easily the most stages I've ever done and it was a lot of fun.

IMO--in dirt, yes. Tree, no. Rock, maybe.

Several times, but the first two times were the strangest. The first one was at the end of a dead end gravel road in western Kansas. This is a pretty sparsely populated area. A truck pulled up and two people got out with GPS's in hand. I was from about 20 miles away, them about 100. The second time was in a small town in northeast Kansas. I went into the city park after dark in the middle of the week to grab a quick virtual. There's a replica Dutch windmill there. I walked up to it when I saw a guy walking up the stairs and shone a flashlight on the sign I knew that I needed to get the info off of. Knew right away that there would be only reason why someone would be there. I was from 40 miles away, him 100.

I've done them and probably will continue to do them, but they always give me the creeps. The part that bothers me most about them is what if the coords are off? Happens all the time. I could be wandering around the neighbor's yard who doesn't like strangers but likes guns. I would prefer that if someone has one in their yard that they leave some kind of notice that, yeah, you're in the right place. One I did in Seattle had a caching logo in the window of the house. Although I didn't feel creepy with that one as I had been out trying to go fishing with the CO and he told me that I should at least get a find out of the trip (didn't have the coords programmed in or that part of the city).

About a tenth of a mile through trail-less, thick, tick infested grass and brush., give or take. But that was because someone had picked up the cache and then dumped it. It was called "Red" and was in a large Folgers can. It was left dumped in a broken off tree about eye level. I went over to investigate, not knowing what it was. Didn't know what cache it was at the time, either, so I didn't move it. Marked the coords though and posted a note. It got moved back when the next finder came along a few months later.

I wouldn't think tornadoes and earthquakes cause a lot of DNF's. Tornadoes really don't cover a lot of areas. Only if a town like Greensburg, KS gets hit would it take out more than one, and that's pretty rare. I've never been in an earthquake, but I would guess that only a disastrous one would create any, and there aren't many of those. Hard rain and floods are probably the #1 weather culprit.

I called the bomb squad for every lampost micro in KC. (no, not really)

I've found a handful of isolated rural cemeteries at night. I don't nightcache in town. I crossed a farmers field one time that bordered a park. No crops were growing at the time. I armchaired one virtual, but only because I had been there before and knew what the answer was (and have been there since). Entered a park that wasn't marked closed, but it officially was. Was checked out by the police and let go. It was a bigger deal because the park bordered state prison property.

My wife likes going to see the new places, but rarely gets out of the car, especially if it involves going off trail. Badly allergic to PI.

End of caching in Seattle parks? http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/loca...smoking15m.html

What are those stars on your map? Caches owned by JJTally I didn't even have to see any of the words on the map to know where that map is. The shape of the lake is unmistakable. Manhattan, KS. K-S-U We'll carry the banner high! K-S-U Long, long may the colors fly! Loyal to thee, thy children will swell the cry! Hail! Hail! Hail! Alma mater!

I know they have to be careful and all, but my brother had an ammocan detonated that was sitting under the tree in some woods in the back of an interstate rest area several miles from the nearest town in central Kansas.

Found a purse buried under a tree that appeared to have been stolen from a girl in the Class of '81. Still had pics, trinkets and social security card in it.

A folding chair, a bottle of hand lotion, and a well weathered *magazine* In the woods behind an apartment complex.

On second thought, we wouldn't have GPS satellites either, considering they were sent into space by a government agency. 100% compass caching.

Just think, if we had anarchy, every cache would be a 5 terrain because we would have no roads, bridges, lamp posts...

Reminds me of an extended caching trip I took through western Kansas a couple years ago. Had been driving and caching all day and was tired. It was well past dark in extreme southwest Kansas--less than 10 miles from both Colorado and Oklahoma both. This is a very sparsely populated area where a county seat may have less than 2,000 people. I headed north out of the town of Elkhart toward the Cimarron National Grasslands where there was a campground. Drove up a couple of paved roads that approached the grasslands and didn't see any cars. I then had about a 7 mile drive up a gravel road to the campground. Just after I turned down the gravel road, headlights show up in my rearview out of nowhere. I start to get worried. Where had this guy come from? I kept on driving toward the campground, slowing a couple of times and pulling as far over as I could to let them around me, but he wasn't passing. At that time I was starting to wish I was packing. I finally got to the campground and pulled up to the gate. The car pulled up behind me. I got out and faced the car. Thank goodness it was only a sherriff's car wondering what I was up to. I answered him and he let me go on my way. Wish I had told him that a flashing of his lights would have eased my mind considerably.

I have one similar to that. It was an active cache for some time but was later archived. I had heard rumors that the cache was still there a couple years later but didn't really think anything of it. Then I went to place one in the area and found the cache completely out in the open. Had been logged by muggles several times. As it had been well over 2 years since the original had been archived, I took the old container and rehid it nearby. Its at an area called "Pillsbury Crossing," so I named the cache "The Doughboy Rides Again"

Well, yeah... but because spreading the Word is a Christian mandate that doesn't mean it has to be done everywhere all the time, just where it is appropriate. In a geocache is not. Relieving oneself is also a mandate... it's gotta be done, but you do it in a toilet, not in a geocache, because the bathroom is an appropriate place to do so. I am a Southern Baptist Chaplain and have no problem recognizing when and where pastoring is and isn't appropriate. I am also a Freemason and discussion of religion and politics is prohibited in our lodges for the good of the fraternity. The same is true for geocaching... share the Gospel in conversation, shout it from a street corner if you are so inclined, but leave it out of this game. You did not just equate spreading the Word with taking a leak.

I was heading to a cache called "Red" when I spotted a big, red folgers coffee can in the distance perched on a tree stump. I hadn't looked at the cache name yet, so I didn't know I was looking for something red. Nor was I expecting to see a cache, because the one I was going after was still supposedly about 700' away. I opened it up and sure enough, it was a cache. Didn't know at the time if it was the end of a multi or a mystery, but after looking fruitlessly for the next one and then seeing the name of the one I couldn't find, I realized that I had already found it several hundred feet back. Had I not been in an area with extensive bushwacking, heat and humidity after hiking all day and storms rolling in, I would have taken it back, but I was headed in the opposite direction. I marked the location and posted the temporary coords in a needs maintenance log. The next cacher along, 3.5 months later, took it to its original coords.

Always love it when someone complains about Christians proselytizing while saying its their freedom to not hear it. Well, it's not only a Christian's freedom to proselytize, but a commandment according to their faith as told in the Bible, so telling them not to proselytize is akin to telling them not to practice their faith. Mark 13:10 - The gospel must first be preached to all the nations. Mark 16:15 - And He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation." 1 Corinthians 9:16 - For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to boast of, for I am under compulsion; for woe is me if I do not preach the gospel.