rebeccasp

What do you mean looking for travel bugs??? I guess if I put a geocaching sticker on the car that would be cool. Went to a Pi day event the other night and there were several vehicles with TB decals in the parking lot. Look here Thanks for the link.. Also trying to come up with my own sticker..Pistol permit carrying geocacher my gps is tracking my car's movement

haha I guess winter caching does leave a good set of prints to follow.. I know at a recent winter event it certainly made it easy following tracks... but what do you mean you look for bugs.. You actually look for a travel bug the car owner left on their antenna or something... And what is closing the power caps? Maybe I should make a dear DEC officer sticker...Dear Officer."You don't need to follow me on the trail I'm only geocaching.. but if you see my vehicle sitting here a month later feel free to bushwack in or run my plates and see if there is a missing persons report.. Oh wait maybe not a whole month.. Dumb me just figured you meant the cigarette lighter and heck I always forget to even lock the car I'm more worried I have waypointed it.

What do you mean looking for travel bugs??? I guess if I put a geocaching sticker on the car that would be cool.

Well I decided to call DEC or Econ and they did say that they had been in the area last night and they would have the officer call me.. So apparently I won't know if they thought I was snowshoeing in to illegally fish or trap beaver until the DEC officer calls me back. Going to tell him he should have left a note on the car. I had even gotten worried someone was looking for us and had yelled..but.. because of this adventure I did decide to load all the emergency..lost hiker ..police .. ranger #'s into my phone..Thanks for your posts.. I too would follow a path across a marsh but I'm talking I followed the whole river/marsh which was extremely frozen way back..Guess it was a slow sunday night for these guys.. They have followed me once before 5 miles down old Route 8 looking for a cache with my son and trying to find a place to hide a cache or 2. When we got to the end of the old road and parked and got out with our gps's he just sat there, never rolled his window down or waved.. Not really feeling the geocaching support in this town. I am going to a meeting tom. night to address the situation if the town wants to promote geocaching they need to make geocachers feel welcome not freaked out.

Beware of being followed..Today marked the last day I will hike in the Speculator,Lake Pleasant NY area. Temps as we {2 of us)(thank goodness not by myself) set out maybe 10 degrees and bitter cold on snowshoe across Cherry Beach to a cache.. A couple hour journey only to see tracks in our tracks on foot on the way back.. There IS NO WAY this was random...Our tracks were the only ones out in this wilderness and whoever this person was, was OBVIOUSLY following us.. I guess it is time to start carrying a pistol,as this is the 2nd time I have been followed.. If it was DEC and they were dumb enough to try and follow me on foot sinking into the deep snow..If they think this 52 year old mom is a poacher or something then confront me but don't stalk me..(I Have never killed anything other then a mouse...I am just an ordinary mom who enjoys geocaching but.since I have no idea..who this person is and why they would follow me.. I am not sure how you go about warning especially female geocachers of a possible dangererous geostalker up here. I had planned on placing new geocaches but now believe this is not such a good idea in this area. I am calling authorities as these footprints also had wondered around car before setting out in our exact path.. (AND this was not a path but us crossing a marsh)

I'm not female but i agree with you wholeheartedly. I like meeting new people, especially those who share my interests, but i wouldn't want to get in a situation where i, or the person i just met, ended up being too uncomfortable for a long period of time. A site that could be set up with a short questionaire or boxes that could be checked, covering a few of the basic things like those mentioned above, might be interesting and helpful to those who are more adventurous. Thanks for the response.. I guess a roadtrip I didn't mean you would have to share a room.. There are many caches I would love to go for close to home but doing a 5/5 alone is probably more dangerous then traveling with another geocacher. I guess my thoughts were a website that you could post and find someone else that wanted to go for a 6 mile winter hike or someone that didn't care if once you got to GZ they would keep searching for the cache and not give up. There are so many cool adventure caches out there but I am not foolish enough to think it is safe for me to do them alone.

Hey Thanks, LOL this post was all worth it to checkout Waymarking.. I have a million photos I just never get them posted..and I never knew what Waymarking was.. My son had just gotten his Cherokee card and we went for a fam trip to Cherokee..Loved your Indian geocoins.. I ordered the coolest one in Dec I will try and send you the link..

Well that's not how I feel.. I don't think because you snore or don't share my same interest in music I should miss out on meeting new people that share my geocaching love. What I am thinking of is a place you could in your case write you don't like people that snore but you like if they eat granola bars..I personally like hiking not LPC's but I am not adverse to meeting and having an adventure out of my comfort one. I have had so much fun and learned so much from geocachers I met that I never would have known if it wasn't for our passion for geocaching.. I wish more girls would get together and have girls geo adventures. Not all of us have a dog as a companion so I think my idea is a safe idea.

]Ok well, I tried to find a geo rideshare adventure when I needed to get from Colorado to NY. Now once again I am having to go out west for business and see son in College at Oklahoma State University and daughter in Vail. I am an adventurous mom that just hates to board a plane and get from point A to point B when I could be having a geocaching adventure. I guess what I am asking other then the obvious (anybody need a geo-copilot out west) Is there anybody that thinks there may be a way to start a site for those of us that may kill ourselves trying to find nearby caches while driving and trying to use the gps and smartphone and still stay on the road? Are other people out there that want geo adventures without having to do it alone..Not necessarily a geocaching e-harmony but a way for us single people to share the adventure. Any great ideas I would love to hear..Thanks

I am a newbie premium member and have not had this experience before. I am planning a few extreme geocaches in a few days and want to have a paper in baggy description and all driving directions and maps but I can't print cause keeps saying I have to sign the dang disclosure..Called geocaching.com couldn't resolve problem.. I have printed many times before..Any help appreciated..so frustrated

I have the best time getting a crazy collection of swag.. I shop thrift stores and don't look just for toys but cool pins and my favorite to collect is beads left behind. I have a bracelet made just from beads left in cemeteries. I try to keep my backpack full of all different stuff. I can tell from the cache what I want to leave. I found a Sacajawea coin necklace in a geocache cave and went back to leave something more special. Since then I try to carry everything from jewelry to keepsakes Recently I found a cache that wanted railroad stuff. I spent more time trying to find something railroad themed to leave then finding the cache took.. But I loved my effort. I feel that if the effort to get to a more difficult cache I will leave something more memorable. Pins are my favorite as everybody can put them on their pack and remember that find. Everybody have fun collecting their swag and then trading it.

Sometimes I just hate technology as I am always trying to figure it out

Can't figure out why my post earlier didn't post..Looking to head east from CO and would rather geocache along the way instead of fly..Don't are how long it takes....and will help with expenses...Single mom with 2 kids in college..trying to have an adventure..If I'm doing this wrong someone please help..thanks rebeccasp

Hi I have never done this forum before and wonder if this is where I would post. Drove my daughters car from NY state to drop son off at college at Oklahoma State then onto Colorado for daughters surgery (leaving car with her) and would rather hitch a ride back driving and geocaching instead of flying..Not sure this is even a place to do this or safe but thought what the heck.. Will help with gas and even though I'm rather new I am pretty dedicated.. Have a bunch of trackables I'd rather drop around then have to fly them to NY and then drop...Not a bad thing:).. I'm a single mother with 2 kids in college and pretty fun and adventurous..email is bassgirl38@aol.com.......At hotel in Denver but could meet anywhere.. So much more fun to drive and have an adventure.. Thanks so much..Rebecca

I would die to get a travelbug or coin to move...I'm new but this is taking over my life my kids tell me.. I guess I'll land on one one of these days. Did get my First to find FTF and that was so cool...