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TheLinderKlan

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  1. We'll see how my first homemade container does. Just got published last night.
  2. The program you want is called cachemate. Here is a link for more information: http://www.th4tguy.com/nav/Tutorial_CacheMate.html x2 on Cachemate. It is well worth the $10.
  3. After carrying about 20 pages of local cache info with me, I finally got smart and dug my old Palm M130 out of storage. Loaded everything up into it and cleaned a whole lot of paper out of my backpack. Cachemate is cool and definitely worth the $10. I can't wait to get out and actually use it on a search. Now I just need a case/lanyard so I can attach it to my backpack and I'll be set.
  4. 1981 CJ5 Renegade, SBC, T176, 300, wide tracks, lifted (small), locked, 33's 1987 Grand Wagoneer, with a 6.5l turbo-diesel stuffed under the hood. 24mpg baby!! Both built, not bought.
  5. Seriously? A gun? Yes. Came in handy the first time I ran into a mother bear with cubs. - Rev Mike I hope you've never shot a mother bear... Seems weird to me...since you're stepping into her territory. How about carrying a bear bell, instead, and making your presence known, thereby avoiding murder... A bear bell just tells a brown bear that dinner is on the way. Out here, there are things that will eat you (or just mess you up for the fun of it) if given the chance. As much as you need to be aware of nature around you, some things are just out to get you and they will hunt you for sport. If you ever look up at a ridge above you and see a mountain lion, you will be glad that you are carrying something. Snake shot in the chamber and +p for the rest.
  6. Surprisingly none during caching yet. I've seen quite a few while just out hiking though. Living in the desert you get used to sharing the area with the stinging biting nasties. For the most part if you leave them alone they will leave you alone - you just need to watch where you step and you don't stick you hand into any dark holes. My closest snake encounter was actually while desert racing. Night race and car came in for service. Me and one of the other guys were under the car for a few minutes. We rolled out and the car took off and someone yelled "snake!!" A sidewinder had slid his way up under the car with us - not exactly sure how close he got, but he was sitting right in the middle of the spot where the car was. The scorpion stories made me LOL though. My girls (4 and 6) don't even get excited over them - all I get is "dad, there is a scorpion in the garage/patio/driveway/whatever, can you go get it?" You can just fling them out of the way with a stick.
  7. Never, ever, step or reach over a log or a pile of rocks without looking at the other side first. The snake won't always hear you coming and give you a warning.
  8. Metal is hot here. Always. So are the sharp rocks that are covering said hot metal. Gloves are good. And it isn't just the lights at Walmart - they are all over the place here. Now we can't walk past the light in any parking lot without my 4 year old running over and lifting the skirt.
  9. You can't always trust Google maps to get you where you want to go. That is one of the reasons I like the satellite image feature as you can check the actual route for just those types of scenarios. Even that isn't totally foolproof though - google maps caused me a great deal of frustration one day when it had me take a short cut through a local mountain pass, but when I got about half way I hit a locked gate at a boundary for one of our regional parks (and Google did not show that the road went through the park). I'm now planning a cache in that location so that others can suffer the same frustration (misery loves company!!).
  10. Note to self - transfer hemostat from camping supplies to caching backpack.
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