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First day out I generally have sandwiches and veggies. Dehydrated meals can be pretty good but taste test them first. For meals I premake at home I use items like instant rice, dried tofu, dried noodles, couscous and and dehydrated veggies. I also othen put commercial dehydrated stuff from cans and bottles in Ziplocks. For breakfast I use oatmeal as a staple, eggs if taken are cracked in a ziplock with cheese and veggies, cooked in the Ziplock in boiling water which can be than used for drinking. Rasin Bran and Granola using powdered milk are fine with me. For me Lunch and Dinner needs to be something I can just stop and eat in 5 minutes or less. In cans I like tuna, sardines in hot sauce, smoked oysters, clams and salmon. I also take hard cheeses, peanut butter, whole wheat crackers and dried fruit, all in Ziplock baggies. Ziplocks can be used to carry out cans with little mess.

Better to have a gun and not need it, than to need a gun and not have it. And yes they make great signaling and scare away devices. Like airbags they don't need to be used to comfort.

It's a hunt!!!!! As such you need to hunt, read the page, note the size, read the description, look at and study the logs, mull over it all, is the quarry worth your time? Look at some of the other hides by the owner, see if you have found any of them? If it seems like your kind of cache go for it, if not pass. Set your own crieteria for all caches you seek, remember you just dont' take a date to a restaurant because it's there if you want to have a memorable meal!!!! Be selective, play the game the way it gives you pleasure.

No checkpoint in the BIGGER part of Newfoundland & Labrador, consider Welcome to Labrador City?

He told it like it was *s* Nice cache.. I didn't notice it was an Earthcache at first so I went in the underground drain at first..lol..

I can't think of a specific issue where I have my view has been fully reversed but a few times it has moved one way or the other. The forum may not always have defined my view but they have occassionally refined them. From the forums the best thing I've gained is just plain old knowledge. Reading about other Geocachers experiences, be it with hints, locations, containers, types of caches, information posted and so on. I feel I have gained knowledge based on other Goecachers experience. I think I have changed the way I cache and look at others caches as well as my own. The forums have made me a better Geocacher in my opinion.

Well at least give GCWJZ3 - Extreme East a try. Couple of nice ones near or in Flatrock too

Labrador City or Goose Bay

I always log on the date I found them. Yes sometimes there is quite a lag between when I log on site and log on line but I always use the same date for both logs.

I always log on the date I found them. Yes sometimes there is quite a lag between when I log on site and log on line but I always use the same date for both logs.

I have a Two Stage Geocache, In The Water, In The Air. The first Stage is In The Water, anchored with a stainless steel cable. It is a 2" x 2' piece of Stainless flat bar laying in a smalish stream. I put the coordinates to Stage Two on it using a Stainless Steel welding rod. Stage Two is 20' In The Air and a regular cache with Swag and Log

I have had several logs 'signed' in some odd ways. One used a bottle of White Out, opened with his mouth to put a dab of white on the container, he asked me to accept and write his name when I did mtce, fine with me. One signed and tied a bit of flagging tape near a frozen closed cache, another scratched a mark on the container and several used small stickers, all I accepted. I once used a Tie Wrap on a branch that a frozen cache was hung on rather than damage it. A digital picture of the container up close showing some sort of sig item and emailed to the owner seems like a great idea.

First to Find is First to Find!!!!! Some pairs or teams may vary in how they do it but this is how I tend to do it. First to Spot the Cache is 'normally' FTF. Logging it, opening it, etc. has nothing to do with it. It's the honor of actually spotting the cache before your buddy. Most of the time this really doesn't matter to me as we have decided how/who to log as FTF. However if there is an FTF prize the First to Spot has first dibs. Just how I play the game

My driving is pretty well evenly split in five parts, extreme off road use, high speed gravel roads, pavement, ice covered roads and snow covered roads. I drive a Nissan Frontier Crew cab and use Goodyear Workhorse Extra Grip Radials, Load Range D which is an 8 ply rating. I have used many brands and types mostly 6 ply over the years but in general I find this to be the best combo for summer winter use and the ability to stand up to rock punctures is great, one flat in two sets which seem to give about 70k of good use. They are a little noisy on pavement but give good traction on stops and starts. Cost is a bit over $200. each installed.

3/29/02 and I wanted so much to find it to show my daughter, who had given me the GPS that Christmas, how the game worked. It was an out of province cache as there were none anywhere close to my home.

Just did a check. I see there are 38 TLAB Geocaches!!!!! WOW, that is more than one for every 1000 people in Labrador.

Your turn

One of the largest impact craters still preserved on the surface of the Earth is located in Canada. What is it's name and in which province is it located? Bonus points if you know the approximate age.

A capital would indicate Annapolis Royal I would guess

Not to belittle an excellent crater in AZ, the first I actually visited, but in Canada we have several great ones. My top choice is of course my Earthcache; The Manicouagan Impact Crater GC119VE

Congratulations to you! Your cache ethics are good, excellent in my opinion. I think you are off to a wonderfull beginning in Geocaching. As mentioned before, Geocoins and Travel Bugs are different than regular trade items. You can take or leave them at will. Some TBs come with a goal sheet. It's good to read those if you take them. Your idea to leave polished stones sounds like a good one, I have left and traded for a few. This is a game of logging and trading small items, you are on the right track.

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Well if I had nothing to say about a Geocoin or Travel Bug I don't think I would DISCOVER it. If I have something to say or a picture to post, even in some silly way, related to the game but don't feel I can right than help the Geocoin or Travel Bug on it's mission I may DISCOVER it. This is all open to change in the future as the game and the way I enjoy the different aspects of it evolves. If I lived in an area with a lot of new Geocaches turning up on a regular basis I think I would be more of a GRAB and DROP sort of Geocacher though.

My first find is still active, last found about five months ago. It was about 750 km line of sight and 1500 road km from my home as there were no Geocaches in my local area at that time. I had been turned onto the activity for some time and been given my first GPSr by my daughter and often Geocaching partner Suzibub as a Christmas gift. On a visit to her home we went for our first hunt and still do a few together annually. Although we have logged well over 100 together she has only logged a dozen or two under her own account.

I too miss seeing cameras in Geocaches. I used to take pictures every time I found one, probably happened 5-6 times or more during the first years I was caching. I never did see the pictures when cache owners developed the film. I too think the decline is somehow related to the fact that more and more people are now using digital cameras. You could be right that maybe people don't view the idea as very interesting anymore.