evergreenhiker!

I'm closing in on 350 finds. I have 4 main groupings. Basically, Columbia River gorge area, Yakima, I-90 corridor, and the greater Seattle area.

City area caches...I usually don't. More rural caches that might involve a short hike, I'll carry a small canvas surplus pack filled with a couple bottles of water and geocaching items...batteries, headlamp for night searches, trade items, etc. Maybe throw in some bandaids. Now, if the cache is in the mountains, I'll go to my regular day pack...3500 cubic inches and approx. 25-30 lbs. First aide, extra clothes, raingear...yes, even on sunny days...storms in mountains can come from nowhere, extra food, water (5 bottles), water purifier, caching trade items, batteries, emergency/overnight stuff, personal items, map and compass, knife, headlamp,etc. I also leave a note as to where I'm going and also usually list one or two possible plan changes. The day you don't bring all this stuff...you'll need it!

I usually go by myself. I'd like to find a caching partner to go with from time to time though. I enjoy the hunt so real big groups would probably take away from that. I think a group of 3-5 people would be an ideal size. Though for big caching events, lots of people is great.

My Jeep Cherokee Sport is crammed with junk and stuff. I'm, by design, not particularly neat. I've got old caching papers all over, old batteries, etc. I've got survival stuff in the back, fishing gear, tarps, boxes of miscellaneous items, etc. I do try to clean it out once a month or so though...at least the front seat. Also caching containers...coffee cans, ammo boxes, etc. Hiking stuff...stick and boots.

I use mine during hunting season to mark good stands or any other area that looks good to me. It's also useful to mark your deer or whatever you bagged so you can find it later (if getting help to get it out). I have TOPO! and like to explore areas I'll be hiking in. I'll usually plot in a few waypoints from ther software so if I get an itching to off trail to someplace, I'll be able to do that.

I see that you've already have changed the listing to Virtual. I was going to suggest virtual over microcache since none of the waypoints involve looking for a container or posted coords. Everything looks great!

This is evergreenhiker! here...Seattle, Washington-USA area. I'm really into this...maybe too much! I'll go 100 miles one way in a day trip for a cache if it's a quality one. Usually I try to find areas with a bunch of caches and hit those hard from mid morning to after dark. Night time hunting extends the day and is a blast! Fortunately, I live in an area with a lot of prolific cachers so I usually don't need to go that far to hit a few.

Etrex Summits are not on the list.

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Cool idea!!!