Gator Man

Doesn't seem to work on ARCHIVED and LOCKED LOCATIONLESS caches though!

It even works on ARCHIVED CACHES when you're not logged in. (Just testing...)

I DUNNO, but I was FTF!!

Ummm, RIGHT CLICK, RIGHT CLICK, PUT YOUR LEFT FINGER UP YOUR RIGHT NOSTRIL, AND HIT CTRL DELETE?

When not logged in, I see a DOT or PERIOD at the lower right margin of ADDITIONAL HINTS, one line above FIND..., (on any cache page) that takes me to a MAP of a CRIMINAL cache in WA. When logged in, it isn't there? Check it out and tell me if it is the same for you, please? GM

Locationless caches have been ARCHIVED and LOCKED since 01/01/2006. Remember, friends don't let friends Waymark!

Let's see what I've done: Various Electrical box caches, yep Sprinkler caches, yep, Snake caches, yep, Pile of Carp cache, yep, Cliff-hanger cache, yep, 20 foot crawl into a NASTY culvert cache, yep, Alligator/Snake/Panther infested swamp caches, yep, Spider/Chigger/Tick infested area caches, yep, Tree-climbing caches, yep, Underwater caches, yep, Homeless camp caches, yep, Urban alleyway caches, yep, Police/Fire Station caches, yep, High bridge caches, yep, Busy streetcorner caches, yep, Dumpster/Garbage can caches, yep, Mysterious looking Cammo'd PVC pipe caches, yep. The only ones that really put me off are: FRONT YARD CACHES!

I always walk uphill, backwards, doing handstands when caching, just to make it seem more like a sport.

OK, sticks work if you have 8 or 9 hours, but you must reverse the logic once you cross the equator. The wrist watch method takes just a few seconds and works the same both sides of the equator. (Plus your link even mentions the wrist watch method too, so backatcha!) I don't know, maybe I'll just start taking a glass of water and a needle with me... or look for ants??? Eagletrek, JDSP is a motherlode of caches, somewhere over 60 there. I hope you like hikes in the woods!

Sticks have a "12" on 'em? Eagletrek, how close 'ya gonna be? My Email is on my profile, get in touch before you come "South".

Just my two cents worth. Events are black holes of death for TBs and Geocoins. Four of the last six events I have attended, going back about 1 1/2 years still have TBs or Geocoins listed. The other two events were probably cleaned up with the "Unknown Location" button by the organizers before archiving.

Actually, YOUR WATCH CAN BE a compass for you. Try the following, it works! (Assuming it is daytime, and you can find the sun). Works best with an Analog Watch, but can be done with a Digital and a little imagination. Point the Hour Hand at the Sun. Halfway between that hand and the 12 is SOUTH. Works AM or PM when the sun is out, Northern Hemisphere or Southern Hemisphere. Does not adjust for DST though!

For the past year or so, I've added a touch of excitement to my cache hunts. I pretty much go in "COLD", having nothing more than the coords and cache name loaded in the GPSr. Of course I DO exclude puzzle caches from my list when doing this. My technique is to look for a micro or nano, figuring I'll spot anything bigger if that is what it is. (or trip over it) Last weekend I was 22 for 25. Actually, one of the DNFs was really a "Did not hunt" due to fishing muggles present at GZ. Sometimes I cache with a partner who has a blackberry, but we only break that out for help after at least a 20 minute search.

Here's something I just happened upon this morning. I can now view player profiles WITHOUT being logged in. I received email that someone had found one of my caches. When I opened it and clicked on their profile url, it took me right to it, instead of telling me I needed to log on to see it. (I WASN'T logged on.) I then viewed a few more while logged off to make sure it was consistent, and it was. Is this intentional by the programmers? Do we want non-players seeing our profiles?

Ah, the NHF rule. I've invoked it a few times myself!

http://www.cleavebooks.co.uk/scol/calnumba.htm Plug in a number in any base, hit "Calculate". It gives you that number in multiple bases.

YEP, done that...

I know none of the "REGULARS" will answer a question like this, SO... CHECK the HTML BOX , then use either <P> (for paragraph) or <BR> (for break) to achieve what you are looking for. GM

I know a cacher who lives in California, and has caches in Florida. As stated, he has established a presense, and visits a lot.

Once you download your second group of caches, go to that window, highlight all of those caches, right click and CUT those waypoints. Go to the first window, right click and PASTE them. You can do this each time a new window opens, and end up with one big list to download to the GPSr. You can also save that file to "MY DOCUMENTS". It will be a .gpx file. You can then open that file in GOOGLE EARTH and see them all on a map. PM me if you need more help. You have to change FILE TYPE from .kml to .gpx to find it with GE. GM

I've done "Snake" caches, I've done "Decoy" caches, but the one I liked best was a "LOTTO" cache. It was a large narrow-neck plastic jug loaded with about 100 35mm film canisters. The log book and an ALR word were in one of the canisters. You just had to shake all of them out and open them all until you found it. (shaking them didn't work) I was very lucky and found it after about 10 or 11 tries.

Waldenrun comes to mind, with almost 3000 finds. Supposedly the only ones he used a GPSr for were VIRTUALS or the old LOCATIONLESS ones that required a GPSr in the photo!

I picked my first GPSr out of a company gift catalog as my 30th company anniversary gift. It was a low-end Magellan with only TWO decimal minute positions. I selected it because we had recently been relocated to CT, and it seemed a good way to keep from getting lost. That was in late 2001. Before it arrived in the mail, I had discovered my first geocache when I came across some geocachers in a park and helped them find it. When the GPSr arrived in early 2002, the first thing I did with it was go geocaching! I found about 275 caches with that GPSr before I upgraded. So answer is, got it for other reasons, first use was geocaching!

As far as Delray/Boca/Ft Lauderdale goes, I hope you like micros. In the Jupiter area, if you want hikes and walks in the woods, check out some of mine, or rnrgrl's. They're not ALL walks in the woods, we both put out a variety of caches. Some nice Natural Areas with caches are Juno Dunes NA and Jupiter Ridge NA. Both have quite a few caches in them. Also Jonathan Dickinson State Park just North of Jupiter has around 70 caches in it. Most are the hiking variety with ammo cans or large containers.

I've quickly scanned all the above posts, and now here is my response on the change in the game. I did an analysis of my finds when I reached somewhere around 1300 finds. Of the first 325 finds, less than 10% were micros. Od the next 325, 44% were micros or nanos. The next 325 were about the same. The last 325 were around 70% micros, nanos or picos. When I lived in CT, (where I started caching) it was not unusual to walk 2, 3, 4 or 5 miles in the woods for one or two caches. The ones I put out like that in FL get two or three visits from the hardcore cachers, then sit idle for months on end. Granted, in FL you only want to do that kind in the cool months, though. I have several large Natural Areas and a large State Park (over 25,000 acres among all of them) near me that allow geocaching, but all the caches placed that require long hikes are the ones least visited. Seems the current generation of cachers would rather lift a lamp post skirt or find a public telephone magnetic strip, than break a sweat for a cache in the woods. I'm not complaining, just stating the facts as I see them. Personally, I've always done all kinds of caches, and enjoy the thrill of the hunt no matter where it is, but the long nature-hike types hold a special place in my book!