The Great Mizuti

I spent two days on the AT for a school trip. Started at Gathland, MD, and ended, um...25 miles north, at the Powall Shelter. Great fun. It was just a small part of a larger, Civil War-geared trip. I'm currently in the process of writing it all up. Keeps getting longer...

Man, I HATE when that happens. We get a lot of those 'round here. ...I think one crashed into my GPSr a few months back.

Muggle: Whatcha doing? Me: Lost my keys. Muggle: 'k. Me: Have to find them before the monsters do. Muggle *backs away slowly*

All kinds of useful phrases here: Firefly Chinese Phrases I actually use a few of those.

I bring the brochures sometimes, but I don't really know if I'd use them if needed. Person: How was your walk, honey? Other Person: Met some nut handing out brochures. P: Oh? Really? OP: In the middle of the woods.

Is there any proof that the guy has really taken 120 caches? He could have skipped a bunch of numbers and only put consecutive numbers when caches are close together. Edit: Bah, punctuation.

$3 = ...one tenth of the money your neighbour will gladly put in your hand for mowing their lawn or shoveling their snow Where do YOU live? I want to move there!

In the summer, my logs tend to be nothing more than the time/date, name, and Tx Lx TFTC, because of all the bugs and skeeters. But in the spring, fall and winter, I'll write a lot. (I even drew a picture in a logbook once.)

Erm... sorry, but this doesn't make any sense. You seem to be asking something about the intentions of the person who placed the cache; can you clarify what you're trying to ask? I'm *guessing* that you're trying to ask if it was intended to be permanent, but I can't tell for sure because of the way you worded it. Also, no insult intended, but this ties back to what you were told in another thread you started: You'll get better responses on these forums if you write in standard English. You've chosen to participate in forums that are primarily used by literate adults, and if you want to be an equal participant, you need to adapt your behaviour to fit in as much as possible. It's the same as if you were to go in real life to a meeting or event where everyone else is an adult; you'd be expected to behave as much like an adult as possible, instead of acting like you were hanging out with a bunch of your friends. If you DID act like you were hanging out with a bunch of your friends, you wouldn't get a very good response from the other participants. Some would tell you as nicely as possible that you needed to change your behaviour, others would yell at you or be rude. If your behaviour was really inappropriate - like using bad language, calling people "gay" as if it were an insult, etc. - and you didn't stop after being told it wasn't appropriate, you'd get kicked out. IOW, nobody expects you to totally act like an adult (if you really are a middle-school age kid, as you've stated in other threads), but you ARE expected to behave appropriately - and it's to your benefit to do so, if you really want to participate. I'm not saying this to be mean, but because I have nieces and nephews and stepkids your age, and I'm telling you exactly what their parents and I tell them about such things. And we don't say it to THEM to be mean, or controlling, but because we want them to have good experiences and to get along with people of ALL ages, as well as to learn how to behave appropriately when they *are* adults. The name of the cache is Intent of Infinity...

The obvious course of action here is to hide a cache, call him up, tell him you hid the cache, insult his mother, etc. but make it a five star difficulty so he can't find it. Or better yet, don't hide a cache and do the same thing. Or you could, talk to him, I guess. That could work too.

I almost always have to cache on bike, because I can't get a job, ergo can't pay for insurance, ergo no license yet. There's the rare occasion where I cache with the family, however.

Nah, the Target near me just sells Garmins for $30. People are much more inclined to try an activity if it's cheap.

I was caching with a friend over spring break (hmm, Cachers Gone Wild...) near a VFW hall when some cops called us over. The place had been broken into the night before, and we were looking kinda suspicious. I got no grudge. He called the school we went to (we were a few towns over) to conform we really were on spirng break, and another cop had heard of Geocaching. They helped us look for awhile, and I found it just before they were about to leave.

So, recently at school I had to give a speech demostrating how to do something, and the first thing that popped into my head was Geocaching. The speech had a maximum of five minutes, so I had to skip some of the finer points, but I did get around ten people asking for more info. I've taken two on caches so far (with another promised) and one actually bought a GPSr. I wonder if I could get a job advertising for Target...

I once had to use the cords of my headphones to slowly drag a magnetic capsule from its hidey hole inside a stop sign pole. Last cacher shoved it like 8 inches down...

You use Google Earth? You can download a thingy(that's actually super-intellectual computer talk) to display the approximate locations(like a few hundred feet or so) of caches within like 20 miles. It's on the account sidebar thingy(see above).

Dude. That is AWESOME!

A few months ago, I got an excellent glasses-cleaning cloth customized with the cacher's name. I loved it so much, I'll periodically bike back to that cache and leave stuff in it.

The Army Navy Surplus store in Hammond, IN is going out of business, and they have a good deal of ammo cans over there. They're only ten percent off the regular of seven bucks(and I can find them cheaper online), but I'd bet the prices will go down as closing day nears(sorry, don't know exactly when). And who knows, maybe they'll just dump some stuff in the trash instead of sending it to another store.... Not that I encourage dumpster diving or anything.....

My average difficulty, on 34 caches, is 1.4558823529411764705882352941176. Or just 1.5 if you round up. I wish there were some more difficult caches in the area; the highest I've found is a 2.5, and most of those weren't that hard(with two exceptions). Most terrain ratings I ignore because I ususally have to bike to most of my caches anyway, so if my bike can make it thru, cool. If it can't, I lock it up and walk. It's not that hard; I've been biking to caches for just over a year now and have built up some leg muscles.

An honest-to-goodness caching pack is oneof the things I plan to assemble this summer. I'm thinking a canteen, poncho, towel, phone, and two knives(utility and an actual k'now, stabby one). And a GPSr, of course.

Here, There, and Everywhere?

Already on top of that.

I thought it was obvious that the conflict between the Knights Templar and the Vatican was merely an allegory for the debate over pocket caches.

Do you feel logging event caches and/or pocket caches is a correct thing to do? Event caches once per event; pocket caches no. Do you feel the record set at Geowoodstock should stand as legit? If, as stated previously, they split up? Hell no! That's two different groups finding caches and then totaling them. Do you feel that the record found caches in a 24 hour period should allow the finder to set their own rules? No way. Was there this much controversy surrounding the last Geowoodstock? If it's causing so much ruckus, maybe they should be reconsidered...