Big Max

Haven't used it for geocaching yet, but there is a new string of caches up on the Canadian River I plan on doing as soon as I can get up there. Have Jeeped a lot without caching though.

Another case of the American paranoia. I won't fly if there is any way around it. I feel like a criminal every time I go to get on a plane. I've carried a pocket knife every since first grade but I can't even take a pair of fingernail clippers. When I was in high school in a small town, every kid that drove a pickup to school had at least one gun in a rack in the back window. If somebody tried to take over the school that would have gotten dropped in their tracks.

My concern would be more in line with what is the appearance to the general public. Whether it is right or wrong, having to spend a 1/2 hour trying to convince a police officer you weren't trying to steal the sign or worse yet getting issued a citation and trying to convince a judge what you was doing wouldn't be fun. Most of the signs in our city have a sticker on the back saying modifying or defacing a road sign is illegal. IF they wanted to get picky or in need of revenue they could probably make a case that sticking a bolt through a hole down low on the post is considered modifying.

Reading through these posts you'll notice that the best thing about geocaching is that you can tailor it to fit your personality. If you are big on numbers you can be a number ho. You like puzzles we have that. Like to be the first at everything, join the FTF club. You can do it in the country, you can do it in town, on top of mountains, under the ocean, in the desert. You can do it as a social event or you can do it when you need some solitude.

I use an IFinder Pro. When I get close I change to the screen that shows the coordinates and use that to get to GZ. Usually start scanning the area as I approach looking for obvious hiding spots. Now if I could just get my family interested.

One of the problems I ran into using GSAK and Cachemate was every time I uploaded all the caches to Cachemate it reset all my cache categories to Unfiled. I got around this by sorting out all the unfound caches in GSAK then exporting them to Cachemate and importing them as unfound. After you play with it a bit this should be clearer.

Even if you go spend $20,000 on a superaccurate surveyors gps unit you still have to deal with the fact that the person who hid it was using a regular gps so accuracy is probably plus or minus 20 feet. Whether you have an entry level gps or a top of the line Garmin the accuracy is pretty much the same. You're just paying for bells and whistles. Unless of course you buy a Lowrance. Everybody knows that Lowrances are dead on accurate, they are just jealous and won't admit it!

I wish we could have more wilderness caches. Unfortunately the nearest place for this is 120 miles away. There isn't any real hiking places around my area that is open to the public.

If I am in the woods and it is hunting season I am going to be wearing orange. If you want to make a fashion statement go ahead. As a wise, old man once told me "No sense be right if you are DEAD right!" Bear bells I don't think I would do. Scaring off all the game may get you shot at.

Give in and have a GPS chip and flash memory chip implanted in your brain. It'll save a fortune in batteries.

They have to do something to add a little excitement to it. Watching Tom Hanks run around doing a bunch of Walmart Micros would make for a boring movie. Now Nicole Kidman doing a bunch of Walmart Micros in a miniskirt and low cut blouse...now that might be worth watching.

And I get upset if I loose a $10 maglite. I'd hate to loose one of these $200 jobs! I'll stick with my maglite. It is durable, puts out a good beam and cheap enough that if I loose it my SO won't kill me.

I've bought mine at Target. I've seen them in Walmart and our local grocery chain.

That's a kewl idea and I think you are onto something there, except I thnk I would go with one of the gel pens. My luck it would pop loose as I was getting into the pickup and then get bounced around and leave black marks everywhere.

That ain't no biggie. I can sit down a pencil 1 foot away then have to spend 5 minutes looking for it.

Growing up in the West it was a Right of Passage to paint your graduation year on the side of a mountain.

I'm with Isonzo. I have never heard the term before (and I have probably heard most of them in my profession) but would assume it meant the coordinates were off. I know my father-in-law who is a very Christian man uses a lot of terms that would cause him to die of embarressment if he new their origins.

I'm 6 foot but wife is 5' 1". I like to keep the important stuff on the top shelves so she has to keep me around. As long as nobody taller than me comes a courtin she has to keep me. As far as caching if it is very high or very low I send the 11 yo after it. Climbing and crawling is her specialty.

Locks are to keep honest people honest. In other words, there are a lot of people who will steal something like this because they know they can get away with it and they can justify it in their own heads, i.e. "The owner put it in the cache therefore it isn't really his anymore." Doesn't make a lot of sense to me though, because if I did it I would be scared to show it to anybody and what good is it if you can't show it off.

Dang, y'all hide caches in your yard and then shoot at cachers who come looking? Rough state! That oughta raise the difficulty level a bit Not so much rough states or being shot at by the hider, but getting the wrong location and trespassing or being watched and reported by a neighbor for suspicious activity that I think most people are concerned with. With the slight inaccuracies of the different GPSr's it is possible to be off by as much as 60 feet which would easily put you in someone else's yard. I just finished one (about 10 minutes ago) that was a multi. I misread the coordinates from the first stage which put me in the right area but would be in the middle of someone's yard. I decided to check before I started trespassing and sure enough I had the wrong location. The caches on pseudo-public property like parking lots are bad enough for me. There is no way I would do one in someone's yard unless I was 100% sure it was the correct location.

My E2 does this occasionally. Usually after taking a static shock. Let it set for a couple days and it would clear up. I've heard of other E2's having this issue but not the Z22s, but then I have never looked. Good luck on finding your GPSr, I would die if I lost mine...save my wife from doing it.

I've heard of this type of thing before. A lot of people say they wouldn't do it out of fear of viruses. Like Civisi, my camera uses xD and my wife's uses MS so the only way to put a picture on it would be to take it home and transfer one to it on the computer, thus the risk of spreading viruses. But if you don't mind those of us who are paranoid not participating go for it. If it wasn't for the virus thing it would be really cool.

Used to wrap our hunting dogs feet in duct tape. Tried the fancy booties, rubber inner tube, etc but they always managed to throw them. Finally in desperation one trip we duct taped one of the dogs feet. Worked great. We reverse wrapped it loosely around the feet so the pads could splay out then wrapped it regular above that. Worked like a champ and they never lost one. It pulled some hairs out when you took it off but that never seemed to bother the dogs.

I've always tied mine the same as Old Soldier. Wrap loose ends around the boot, tie in a square knot and then tuck extra inside.