ritepath

quote name='The_Incredibles_' timestamp='1322395833' post='4904351'] Just checked the forum schedule and it's a free-for-all on Sundays. That's right, we can talk about anything today. Here are my suggestions for today: 1) Too many micros - should we round them up and sell them on ebay? I think the listing fees would eat up any profit, unless I charged 14 bucks shipping. I hate scamming people with shipping, so that's out. 2) Wet logs - what do *you* do when you encounter a wet log? 'carve' your initials, skip signing all-together, toss a new piece of paper in? The answer is to always carry a fine point sharpie. 3) Worried friends will think caching is too geeky - Do your non-geeky friends refuse to go caching with you? Does this make you cry? Get the support you need here. I'm new at the hobby? sport? so only cache with my kids and wife, friends I've tried to explain it to give me that confused dog look.

Same here except with two kids and the time change that only leaves Saturdays for about an hour. And a few grab and go's on the way home. Seems like it could be a fun little hobby...

I read a thread over at Zombie Squad forums a few weeks ago about geocaching being a great family hobby. I come home checked out the websight, downloaded the 9.99 app and here we are. Kids loved the idea of a "treasure hunt" and the wife and I liked the idea of a winter hobby/something new to do. We now have plans to buy a real GPS. Last GPS I bought was 550 or 650 bucks in 1994...

Ha! Dirty golfball that was my sons haul at one last weekend. It was half full of water and unmaintained, so this weekend we replaced the container and included lots of fun stuff that my kids picked out. It looks like the owners don't geocache anylonger and now live 2 states away. I emailed them about adopting 3 that are 15 minutes from me but of course haven't heard anything back. We didn't want kids finding soggy containers of mold and smelly junk.

Leaves are off here....weather is mild. I'm new to this but I can see where this time of the year is great for finding caches in nature. (unless they're covered up with leaves)

Sounds like a caching club I'd like to be part of... I have plenty of old holsters and AR parts I could share. I'd even throw in a voucher for a free custom made kydex holster. (you supply the firearm for the mould) This one sounds like a private affair by a gun club and maybe some LGS's return it so it can be hidden again.

We just started so it's a new hobby.....however.com I can already tell our Iphone 4 and Atrix aren't going to cut it. So a noobie GPS is on my wish list.

I spend almost all my time riding the road these days....all because of the children (7 & 9) when I do ride by myself I still try and use my mountain bike as a road bike...max speed I can get without going downhill is 27MPH...I really really want a nice road bike but there's too many other big ticket items in the way. (Oh and the fact I have to buy the kids new bikes every year.) I find myself riding my wife's cannondale comfort bike pretty often. LOL

I just started cachin' a week ago, but considering I jeep, hike, bike in our area...I'm going to go with Rattlesnakes. The woods hides I've found so far seem to be around rocks and logs. About 90% of the rattlers I've come across were either on logs, or around the rocks. Glad I didn't find about this hobbie until this fall.

Just signed up last week....had never heard of GC before last week. I have two young kids ans thought this would be a great thing to do as a family together. So this weekend we all went out riding, some hiking and a little "treasure" hunting.

I priced crappy ammo boxes today at the surplus shop.....14.99 for rusty junk ones. I'm pretty sure we hit one cach that was missing this weekend it was in an AMMO can.

Can't we adopt a cool modern name like zombies or walkers? I imagine the name muggle was adopted by the exfans of D&D (now WOW fans) that migrated to watching/reading HP stuff in their mothers basement, then took up the ubber hip geek hobbie of Caching. Thus for some reason normal people adopted it not knowing the stigma of being a HP fan. As for me and my family we'll call them walkers.