bthomas

My pointy appliances are listed in the Knife thread, and you'll see there I have a canape knife too. Truth be told, I also have a cute fork, knife, and spoon set with happy faces that I stole from the kids and leave in my food bag in the vehicle. My Leatherman PST also stays in the vehicle, in the glove box. It comes out more often than the tools that rattle around inside the toolbox (trying to get out). The multi-tool that does get out on trail is the Leatherman Squirt. Small enough to be keychained in daily use, or slid into the jeans coin pocket, or the fanny pack, or the camelback. The pliers have been used to tug a zipper slider into alignment, unknot a knot, pull out microcache containers, and open other containers. The blade does not lock into a detent, and I don't like that, but it can cut cord or first aid tape. Sometimes I'll bring my SA Spartan for old times sake, and for the corkscrew. As a former trained winemaker and brewer, I don't need someone saying, "What, you can't open a bottle?" I also carry a keychain church key that looks like Signal the Frog

April is almost here! You will find Bay Area geocachers at www.thegba.net The Geocachers of the Bay Area.

Oh this thread is resurrecting, must be Spring. No url links, just thoughts. If I'm car caching, I usually bring many the the O.P's items in a fanny pack, and just manpurse it. For real dayhikes, I have either the small bike camelback or large daypack camelback, and hang some items like the GPS in velcro cell phone pockets. On occasion, I use a photo vest for the above circumstances. To be frank, I'm all thumbs putting devices away into pockets one handed, when I'm holding 3 things in two hands. And when the temps warm and I'm unzipped, the vest carries poorly. And when I'm going over a wall or a barbed wire fence, I have to worry about crushing a PDA or phone, or snagging something. Mine is a stylish, fast-drying suplex brushed nylon number from Royal Robbins. Perhaps there are better photo vests, or fishing vests, or upland bird vests that others can point out. Some of the recent posts show military style vests. Is there a Molle system vest with the horizontal daisy chains that geocachers find good performers going over walls and up trees?

I keep looking for a fixed, but this 4 inch folder caught me: Kershaw ZeroTolerance 0200 at tadgear.com

Benchmade Mini-Grip and re-skinned Ares Benchmade Sequel SAK Spartan and Classic SAK Nomad or Picnicker, canape, and cork puller Opinel grape knife Buck Revolution and Leatherman PST Leatherman Squirt and Benchmade rescue hook Pastry knife and cherry pitter .

Have I not post yet? Another caching KJ: Tilt-a-whirl, Flat Iron Mesa, Moab

GCADCB Upright Soup 8/6/2002, link , Darwin Lake, elev. 11678, High Sierras. Found a week short of 5 years, by Ranboze and bthomas. About ~13000 foot pass to get there, 17 mile round trip. Unfortunately, it's about a mile into Kings Cyn National Park, and I was asked to take it out. I'm pretty bummed about that. Wish the waypoint could remain as a virt or something. Amazed and pleased, though, to find the container after 5 seasons of snowpack. Ranboze, ~13000 elevation, Sierras. Mt Darwin in bkgd.

I cache 3-wheel in an 06 Jeep Liberty.

Returning home from GWS5, I built in a 9 hour layover at Dulles to go visit the Udvar Ctr Air & Space Museum. Also bagged my only Virginia cache, but that took a $16 cab ride. http://www.geocaching.com/track/log.aspx?L...d0-a99faa520858

Last summer's Sierra 14K packing trip was 4 year FTF, Split Mtn. GC8510 http://img.geocaching.com/cache/log/95275e...6b28f48738a.jpg Ranboze and I both carried Gregory Z packs, 3 lbs 3500 cubes, similar to http://www.rei.com/product/745907 Think this is the Gregory just bought for teen daughter's Girl Scout hike: http://www.rei.com/product/745908 I also ultrapack with an Osprey Atmos 35, 2.5 lbs 2500 cubes, http://www.rei.com/product/721425 and long dayhike with Camelback Rim Runner, 100 oz 2.5 lbs 1500 cubes, http://www.rei.com/product/721425 With the last REI dividend, I got a Marmot Hydrogen sleeping bag, 30 degree 1.3 lbs, http://www.rei.com/product/731788 My other bags are the North Face Snowshoe, 10 degree, and Cat's Meow, 25 degree, http://www.rei.com/product/746449 My shelters are the Black Diamond Lighthouse Bivy, 0.95 person 1.6 lb, http://www.rei.com/product/712536 Sierra Designs Baku, 1 person 3 lb, http://www.rei.com/product/732062 Sierra Designs Clip Flashlight, 1.95 person 4 lb, http://www.rei.com/product/718457 Sierra Designs Comet, 2.95 person 8 lb; the 3-pole version of this: http://www.rei.com/product/667728

Hi Guyute1210 and Scoobybri! KJ Jeep Safari last week in Moab was awesome! Here's where I keep my WJTB, KJ, and roadtrip pix: http://www.geocaching.com/track/gallery.aspx?ID=189261 Work from the back to the front.

Let's see. Ranboze and I probably hiked 18 miles and 9000 feet (5 miles through 1-3 feet of new snow) for a STF attempt on Part 2 of the Virt, OPERATION HIGH DESERT ADVENTURE NO.2, http://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?LU...45-77561e6d6c61 . Part 1 was another 1 mile and about 1500 feet in Death Valley. Ended up as a "Post Note" due to snow. Our longest FTF hike was last summer on the 4 year old virt Split Mtn, http://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?LU...e6-215776bcf089 . Probably 9 miles and a 8000 foot climb in the Sierra. But our longest hike to geocache is Mt Whitney, at 22 miles and 6500 feet climb. The ammo can is GC75C3 Peak-a-boo Whitney and the virt is GC151D Muir Was Here http://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?LU...da-9253706a22c5 . http://img.geocaching.com/cache/log/b3756c...44bae47a4b4.jpg Coinicidentally, re C-46A Commando mentioned above, I was within 0.17 miles of it last month, but could not believe how steep it was to get down there; opted to reclimb to the other wreck and return to the highway http://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?LU...b9-7c69903a2c35 .

Oh, 60's just a regular day, though it's actually hard to hit 60 in an area you've cached before. Did hit over 200 one day of the GWS4 Dallas weekend; I was in the burbs within a couple of miles of my sister's house but we did not have the time to visit. During Lee's push to 16K, with the kind help of Castleman we broke through 200 again; did have 40 before the breakfast event. Did 80-something I think, on but another trip to retiredprofessorville, Yuba City; still have to log them. I'm still the most behindest logger on the planet at around 900 or more TBL. Think I am the highest fulltime working single person cacher on the leaderboard, who does not multiple log events.

I the past few months I have found and returned to owner, one Garmin GPSr (Balconies Cave, Pinnacles NM), cell phone (where was that?), keys to Chevy Trailblazer (10000 feet, 4WD road near Mammoth Mtn), FRS radio (trail to 14000 feet in Sierras).

Congrats Snoogans!!! Just north of the Golden Gate during a ride across the Bridge from the city, GCN4MG for Scott and Margaret.

A rare and stunning magenta sunset across the Bay from San Francisco, at my GC5E1F See Planes The hood of my Liberty, near Palm Springs up canyon from my GCRWK4 Fargo that I use for my KJ Jeep Liberty avatar. "Sierra wave" cloud formation, 10000 feet Kings Cyn NP

Most Bay Area cachers read www.thegba.net where there is a Peninsula sub-forum.

Hey I just drove through there at 6 am. There's a F-16 at the gate. If the bug can get to San Francisco before 4/20, I can place it on my return from Vegas on 4/30. Edit: or Moab by 4/26.

Yeah, what's up with the bug logging? Had to regrab two I was in possession of, and logs were intact on the TB's pages. Also just dropped a bug, gained possession, but the log does not appear on the bug's page. Extra work !

Big day? In 2004 I decided >40 was a big day at then-densities in California, and kinda tallied them. This based on observed megacacher logs. In 2005, I decided that with the proliferation of caches that number increased to >50. Record setting uber daze, that's a different thread, isn't it? On those days GeoPirat or Leprachaun etal were 200+ or 240+, my party was following at probably 180 and 140.

Jan 29, 2006, California here I am! Columbia

I liked the Buxley maps back when I was using them. Back in the day before the FTF craze, I was happy to watch for the blue dot on a county wide quad. Being a point and click kinda guy, mousing over a dot gave instantaneous feedback about neighboring caches. For those 100's-of-miles caching drives, Buxley maps were quick to use and assess. My territory is 100 mi. N, 200 mi. E, 400 mi. S, and 10 mi. W (ocean). The gc.com maps seem to timeout on me in 2000 cache/100 mi. density, and are bothersome for 1000 mile roadtrips.

Was going to say, bring 2 GPSr so you can load up 2000 waypoints. The Palm Springs area is a mix of urban and rural caches, with retail area hides, recreation trails, hiking trails, 4WD dirt roads, and 2WD drives out in the desert. There are a full range of container types. DHS has mostly drives out in the desert on pavement and dirt. You may find GCHMAT on Dillon Road to be a novel container. Pushwalla is a nice hike in the desert along the San Andreas Fault. Joshua Tree is a beautiful place, and has some roadside virts and a short loop hike of virts. 29 Palms has a mural series of a dozen-plus offset multis, but the time budget is at least 2 to 4 hours.

This one in Death Valley is listed at geocaching.com GCNHJQ