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figures, I was trying to get to 85 to catch up to my friend, and today the app that i was using on my droid which im not to mention, no longer works something tells me Groundspeak knocked out my best on the fly app for caching, because it wasnt official, and it was free, and basicly giving me a premium membership without paying for one, the problem is having been spoiled, and having to use my phone as my gps, i now no longer know how to geocache, so im going to have to learn all over, im giving geohunter, and find geocache a whirl, they have a map like the above not to mention app, and you can SLOWLY feild hunt, but the icons on the map do not smiley like they do on the website or the old app that no longer works, so im not real sure which ones ive found and which i havent, what a pain.

the website you know what i meant, those of us who use our phones as a gps, and cant afford to print out a bunch of sheets.

grrr my droid aps for caching no longer work. it stinks iphone users are the only smartphone users who can get the official app, what can the rest of us use?

in some forums they have a post your ugly mug thread, where you put up a picture of yourself and people bash you, and are supposed to pu tpictures of themselves up as well. but this forum is littered with people who love googling people they hate on here, and all my pictures and websites and personal info is public, and not hard to find at all.... so unles you want to turn this into one of those topics, so be it, but i was just wondering.... how many of you are.... 1) Math addicts 2) Ex or current military 3) Dungeons and Dragons or WoW players 4) Scouts (girl or boy) 5) Snake Owners. 6) Have at least one dragon tattoo... we really need polls in this forum, im just trying to figure out what the higer demographics of players are, I mean I know we are all nerdy to some extent, but whats your main interest?

ive found a few over the past few days that have been hidden by the hiders house or place of work, and i know they are watching me find their caches, this makes me feel a little silly, especially when i cant find the cache, have you been one of these people? how often do you "catch" cachers looking for your hide? was your motivation to sit around and watch cachers, or do you go catch them in the action and introduce yourself to them?

have you named your pet or your kids after geocaching? just curious.

awww so many haters..... i love you guys too....

when you look as a group do you let the person who actually spotted the find get the find, or do you all take credit for it? if you all take credit for it, do you all sign the log, off and online? do you use a common name for your team?

im sure this has been answered before, but i couldnt do a proper search for it, so im asking it... i found a nano last night very very small, i think it was a bison tube? it was the size of a double pencil eraser, and the log was full i mean full, course some people took up a ton of space with their john hancocks, but none the less, the log was full and there was no room to fit a second one, what happens at that point? i left my find log online, but couldnt sign the physical log, do i need to go back to it when its got a fresh one, and sign that? do nanos just expire when the log is full? what happens to logs when they get full, does the owner take them home and replace them? whats the protocol on this?

maybe he just wants to make new geocaching friends, and show his appreciation for the cacher who found his second cache,

how many hides did he have, how many caches has he found, how long has he been a member, if you answered not many, and not long, he probably just doesnt know how to go about it, and maybe he doesnt get online much or is one of the 90% of memebers that dont post on the forum asking questions to clarify some gray rules. im sure his heart is in the right place, and he probably wants to write you a letter asking how you found it, what you liked and what you didnt, like i said, maybe hes not real computer friendly, opperating a gps and opperating some of those third party email sites are two different things, he may have also forgot to put the ftf gift card in the cache and lives far away from it. have him mail it to your work address if you are worried about it. or get a cheap po box for a month, this is way easier and way cheaper than you think, ive done it when i lived in my car, and im sure your gc would still be worth the price of a po box and peace of mind.

sorry the penny pic was so big, i didnt know how to resize it. oh well, now you can see the details better.

hmmm... several people have posted on here they have left and found cash in caches, although i didnt think about the coins corroding over time, but dont they only tend to corrode when exposed to the elements? I never mentioned leaving so much swag in any container that it couldnt close properly, so im not sure why that was pinned towards me, i didnt know there were different sized bison tubes, ive found several different sized nanos in the past few days, but i didnt know they were all bison tubes, you learn something new every day, i feel like leaving only a log, in say a lampskirt, is more letterboxing than geocaching, sure there is a physical container, but because there is no swag, its really just a letter you are leaving, course im sure some people who havent yet put me on ignore, will ream me for this i never said it was an integral part of the game to leave cash, but cash is a nice small thing to leave in something that takes work to find, and since nanos and micros in crappy easy locations are not worth much to me, im leaving what i thought the search was worth, if i ever get out to the woods, to find some really difficult micros, i really liked, i may leave larger amounts, or things i think are really cool, because i appreciated the hunt, and i never said it was the only thing i leave in return, i leave lots of good swag, ive got a box full of good stuff to leave in the propper sized containers, but rarely do i come across stuff small enough to fit in a bison tube and still be able to close the darn thing. so coins were an option, and i was merely asking if it was acceptable, what the pros and cons were, and if it had been done before. if you still feel im trolling, report me, ignore me, do whatever you want its your life, ive just been really excited the past few days, and gung ho on caching, and i love internet forums, when i have the free time to post on them. i am not trying to brag about leaving money in caches, i dont think i could afford to leave that much, so no worries, i feel im donating to the game by leaving a dollar as my ftf in my hides, (which i have plenty more, just working on getting the proper permission from the landowners, and managers) and i like finding things besides just a log in micros, thats how I LIKE to play the game. Im not soliciting others to do the same, and im asking questions on the forum and following peoples advice if their advice makes sense. for example.... *leaving swag in micros is acceptable, if it does not protrude out of the casing, and cause damage to the cache or the log, * leaving money as swag is acceptable, and a nice benefit for the ftf'ers, but it is not the sole purpose of the game *if the money left ruins the log it was an unacceptable swag item, and should be removed im not sure why people are saying stuff like..... "If your goal is to jam the micros full of stuff so they can't be closed properly and the log gets soaking wet, well done." Which i never mentioned, and im not sure why it was assumed i am out to trash caches, if that were the case dont you think ide be in a geo-smashing group of sorts? have you checked my cache finds recently? my logs? or "Is your goal to make every cache the type of cache you enjoy? In a group activity like this, different people will enjoy different types of caches. Trying to make them all the type *you* enjoy is extremely selfish." im only adding to the game, not taking anything from it, im not sure how that is selfish. if the owner doesnt like it, (and i log i put it in there) they can remove it, if the next cacher(s) dont like it they can remove it, does that make them selfish? you cant tell me you never took a good swag item and replaced it with a crap one. is that selfish? "Most micros are meant for the log only because of how they seal. Especially in Florida, where it is very wet, I would advise against doing this. Also, coins corrode in some caches because of dampness, especially pennies." it states on your page you are living in Oregon, ive been there, have you ever been to florida? do you actually live here? how often do you cache in florida, how many have you found? if the inside of the cache is getting mildew and damp there are bigger issues than a penny inside it, which will most likely be taken by the next couple of cachers. Hope that clears things up.

once you get your first tick encounter, they are fairly easy to feel, you will notice them in the hairs of your body. an argument that maybe women shouldnt shave their legs in the spring, summer when i worked at summer camp in Duluth Minnesota, we were supposed to inform the kids of ticks, so my buddy and i trekked out in the bush with a small clear soda bottle all day long, "collecting" them on our bodies, and every two or three minutes we checked each others clothes for them, pulled half a 12oz bottle of them off us. so I had the perfect squirmy creepy crawly example to show the kids all through tick season, threatened to dump it on everyone, never did, the ticks lived for a very long time in that bottle, who knows. we also took the two most popular kinds, the wood tick, larger bout the size of a pencil eraser, and it has a marking on its back, see the picture... and the deer tick is about half the size of the wood tick, its the red one on the right in this picture comparing the two to a penny. we took them and caught them in pieces of scotch tape and taped them to the "dangerous insects" board. showing people the bottle helped big time, everyone had the willies after seeing them and felt the ticks on them, showing them the different ones helped them identify the two much better than telling them. you should start your own tick collection, it was actually a lot of fun, i prefer ticks to mosquitos as well, it takes ticks several hours to burrow in your skin, before they start feasting, you can just most of the time flick them right off of you if you catch them crawling, once they have established themselves, you have to use tweezers, whereas mosquitos fly in, bite and leave in seconds, and they get in your eye, and they buzz in your ear, they are just annoying, and out in ridiculous numbers, and several will bite you at once, its like fighting off a fleet, vs one opponent we would all keep a lighter on us at camp so when someone found one on them we could burn it, because if we didnt, it would crawl right back, the only problem we had with ticks was when we were sleeping in the woods, they would be all over you when you got up in the morning, and since you sleep for at least a few hours straight, they would be established.

+1 awww sad.

i had sort of the same thing happen to me, i had to delete my noteand re-find them in the cache i dropped them off in, go em back, and replaced them, you migh want to double check on their logs to make sure it all got straightened out, cause one of mine went missing when i first deleted the log, so i dont reccomend doing this just refind them in the cache, then go back and delete the logs if you want to.

how about someone donate me a premium membership so i can stop posting so much in this forum and post more in the off topic forum, get me out of your hair for a mere $30 a year, or those that hate me can all donate a little, im sure there are 30 of you thats a george each,

just curious, do people avoid you in the city when you geocache? do you look as crazed bent over shoulder deep in that bush as someone apparently talking to themselves with both hands while they use their bluetooth?

I am getting the impression you are very young. Am I correct? THere's this website called "google" (www.google.com) that can help you out with the most basic of questions, such as "what is clear cutting?". I will help you this time though. Clear cutting is where logging companies go into a forest and cut EVERYTHING to the ground. This guy's really good if he can annoy you, Bittsen. hahahaha hey at least im not a lurker, gleening, and not learning, im being active, and besides sitting on this forum reading, and posting, and getting responses worth listening to, im out there caching, and hiding, and donating money by leaving it in caches,

of course i could google it, but that doesnt give me your definition of what it is, i was asking you because you mentioned it, everyones definition isnt always googles definition, i hate that "go look it up" crap, cause with the exception of the official rule book, the definition is not always the op's definition, by the way, thanks for telling me,

whats clear cutting?

so ive been leaving a lot of spare change in micros, pennies fit nicely in those bright orange ones, and dimes fit pretty nicely in bison tubes, im not sure if this is a good or bad idea, but who cares, i think its a neat way to leave something besides a log in a cache, then the next person who finds it can be a little richer. someone left those just add water sponge capsules in one here, i dont know how they fared in the rainy florida weather, and someone else left some sort of beans, but since food is a bad idea, .... i was just wondering what you all have come across in micros besides just a log? this way those who sort of hate micros, can still enjoy them, because they have prizes in them.

In my neck of the woods in the few days that I have been caching (i think i need to start all my new topics this way so as to avoid the wrath of long time members) i have come across quite a few caches placed in locations that either did not have a trail before the cache was placed there or the trail was a lot smaller. Either there are some really big geocachers in my area, or there are a ton of them, or he people who play the game just keep treading in the same area, and the trail is super noticeable now. I guess there is little that can be done about this, as the sport kindof exploded, and all that traffic, even if its just one person at a time, eats away at mother nature after a while. so therefore, when my smartphone gps coordinates are all over the map, i can "cheat" by locating a heavily used trail in most cases, find logs nearly trampled, branches (not just twigs) twisted, and broke off, and just a general slew of dead plant life, and i can get pretty darn close to the prize. I understand this is the main reason people get in trouble geocaching, they just plain trash the place in some cases, and destroy the beautiful area the original hider intended people to see. Especially since some geocachers are more about the numbers, rather than the scenic tours, is there anything we can do about this?

sure! just not starbucks their coffee tastes like death for small coffee farm owners. as for this topic, its interesting, the one topic i was trying to stir trouble with, seems harmless, and is still open for discussion, go figure.

i need a shower, im feeling dirty.