BigC847

Scat Man John says- This is black bear scat.... (ok, just wanted to use the scat man reference, sorry)

I'm thinkin the next cache in a busy area i go after, I'll get out of the car wearing a cloth diaper and start doing cartwheels (at over 300lbs and pretty hairy that should be amusing) while my buddy finds the cache. It's all about the diversion!

Was it in the woods?!?!? That would finally answer a very important question i have been asked many times!

Yeah, it's kinda depressing. Grew up in rural Indiana, my first jobs were detasseling corn, stacking hay bales, and shoveling out horse stalls. Moved to a busy suburb of Chicago 10 years ago. I visit "home" as much as possible, just wish i could make the same money there as i do here. Then life would be great!

Mmmm......Paste Never understood paste.....Worked like crap to adhere things, yet it tasted so good!

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Thank you for the welcome! it's appreciated! FYI, My names Chris, Lol I sat on a limb for 2 hours carving that hole when i was a spry 10 or 11 year old. Now I'm 30 and a little on the rotund side, lol. My tree climbing skills aren't what they used to be. Luckily i knew the people who lived in my childhood home and they had a ladder for me to use. The house with the red circle is where i grew up. The houses with the blue circles were the only other houses back then. the whole red outline was my parents property and nothing but woods. ALL Mine, well back then anyway. It was a great place to grow up. That was my "yard", and most of my friends had their own "yard" as well. There was also a decent sized lake about a third of a mile to the east.

Now that I'm home with my computer and not on my iPhone at work, Let me elaborate. Hi! My name is Chris, I'm 30, and I am a brand new geocacher! While I have only found 7 caches thus far, I know that I could do a great job of hiding one. I grew up in a rural area and my "yard" was the woods. When I was young, my friends and I would hide "treasure" in the woods and draw simple treasure maps using drawings and terms such as "from the top of the big dune walk 15 paces north"....we would do crazy things like carve out logs and hide things in them, or tie things in trees with string. my best was when i carved a hole in a tree big enough to hold 3 G.I. Joes and a couple Hotwheels cars and placed the bark back over it (I actually found them again 17 years later,kinda, but i needed a ladder and found the front end of a Hotwheels car sticking out of the tree, and now part of the tree!)..........It was a great time. And this is what I think of every time I'm walking around with a GPS in my hand. I have read and understood the guidelines, with the exception of one thing. While the guidelines do say that I should use a GPSr to determine the coordinates for the hide, I have read in other posts, cache descriptions, and logs that cache hiders will "update" their coordinates with Google Maps and/or Google Earth. Which leads me to the question........Which is a more accurate way to determine coordinates, My eTrex GPSr or Google? Of course i got my answer for the preceding already, Thank You, I just thought i would take the time to phrase my question in a way that would have gotten a better response. Then your thorough reading of the guidelines should have answered your question. Oh Snap! U got me good! How bout you read your next credit card agreement 3 times and let me berate you when you cant remember the policy on international frequent flyer mile black out dates. Sheesh!

Sorry Choke, i didn't mean to be so defensive, but what "noob" wouldn't be though after reading some of the posts on the forum? I know, it only takes a few bad apples......... Gof, Since i did just start last week, i have to save up for some better hardware. For now I'm using a combo of my iPhone w/ Groundspeak app and a garmin eTrex H. I bought the Garmin 10min after going for my first cache in the woods with only my iPhone (I'm surprised i had any hair left by the time i found the cache!)

Thanks Andronicus, that's a very smart idea!

Don't get nervous about the noobness. I'm well aware of the guidelines, read through most of thus forum, the GONIL forum, watched a zillion YouTube videos, and read the gidlines again. So I've decided to do a LPC infront of a police station across from a playground and chose a special container that's gray, square, with a watch and some colorful wires...........Lol, that was a joke. When I do something, I do it right.

I'm gonna place a cache here in the next couple days and I was curious as to which would be more accurate; my GPSr or google earth. The cache will be in an area very distinguishable from the satellite. So should I use my gps coordinates or the google earth coordinates after I place the pin on the exact location?