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A suggestion for the cache pages. Like lots of folks, I use Google earth to browse around for caches, select them, then add to a bookmark for a cache trip (as opposed to the 'find caches / that I haven't found). Sometimes I'll add a cache to a to-do list, not remembering that I found this one 3 or 4 years ago. While some caches are memorable, others drop off the mental radar pretty quick. I've only got 621 finds over the years, I can't imagine how someone with 10,000 or more can remember even 1/2 of the ones they've done before. the suggestion: In the space between the size/difficulty/terrain and the Coords, would it be possible to put in a found/not found report? What I mean is for example a 'found' icon, and maybe the date of the find also. Same thing for a DNF (unless you have found it since, at which point the Found info would be shown). No need to put a log, or comment, or anything like that. I'm not sure how much it would eat up on the server though, or if it would slow down the cache page retrievals, but since every time you open a page it puts in a relatively up-to-date (XXX found), how much more could this take? GPC

Thanks for the reply, Riffster - I should have the opportunity in the next couple days to get out and about! Cheers GPC

G'day folks. I'm down here in Blanding doing some training, and will be making the time to get a few caches in the Middleburg/Starke area. The question - in some of the descriptions and/or hints, I see 'hidden Florida-style' or 'Georgia-style'. Unfortunately that means nothing to me - is it hidden inside a peach or an orange? Tucked under a gator's butt? I haven't been out to any of the caches yet, maybe Florida style is the same as Ontario style when it comes to urban/suburb micros and such. Thanks and cheers GPC

Hey Doc! I'm up for a cache meet of some sort. The problem this spring with dates and such - quite a few of the cachers in the area are military. Most of us will be out of the area between early April to mid May. If I'm lucky, I'll be able to tag a few finds out in Alberta, don't know how much (if any) time off we'll be getting. Maybe the May-24 weekend would be a good choice, and if it's in the first week of June, I'd have time to set and plant some new caches before a meet. GPC

The 'Active User' you refer to - I assume you mean in the geocacher's status on their user profile. There are only two things I have ever seen there - Active & Premium (like yours). The premium meaning you've paid some money to the website. More important than the active/premium is their last visit date. If it is from last June, you can pretty much assume that they are no longer interested in Geocaching. (I am going to guess their stats is 2 or 3 finds, and 1 hide - that seems pretty common for people that come and go) Any caches they placed in the ground are going to slowly turn to rot and be unmaintained, unless some other local cacher does the good samaritan act and adopts it. I hope this answer the second part of your question. GPC

I think what you are describing is similar to the Identity Crisis Bug (TBA6A) Among its incarnations so far, it has been attached to a walking stick, Hulk, Scooby Doo, a Rubik's Cube, and many others. It is now a robowarrior. GPComd Contents under pressure, do not puncture.

If you're talking about the little dinosaurs with tags left in some caches by Healthcrazy, the website for logging them is Nash's Dino Cache. GPComd Contents under pressure, do not puncture.

12. The 10-line clue you decipher in the rain at the cache area will either be for a Chili recipe, or directions on where to park. GPComd Contents under pressure, do not puncture.

My wife's a Tupperware consultant, but I have been expressly forbidden on numerous occasions from using the containers in caches. They'd be the most valuable thing in the cache. So it's big peanut butter jars, and ammo cans (of which I can get a free supply). If those star-frit things are the ones with the little 'valve' in the top to vacuum seal them; they're good, but won't protect a cache when the St John River floods in the spring. It did keep all the water in the container when the water level dropped, though. GPComd Contents under pressure, do not puncture.

Just over 20 years in the Infantry done so far,and still going strong (but my knees wish I would give it up and take a break) GPComd Contents under pressure, do not puncture.

Well, I have about a dozen of those right now - as far as I'm concerned, they're a trade item, and a bit more personal than the other stuff in a cache. And yes, I have one of yours (picked it up at the Nelson Hollow Covered Bridge last year). Besides the usual geo-name and email address, some have Lat/Long of near where they live, graphics/images that relate to their geoname, little sayings, pix of their GPS type, themselves, or their namesakes. Most (like mine) are just on business card paper from Staples. Doc Livingstone's are laminated! I like the cards, and they're the first thing I'll pick out of a cache. I know from reading in the forums some folks don't like them - consider them commercial. I couldn't care less. None of the cards hint as to what the cachers do for a living (when they're not slogging thru the mosquito infested, swamp covered land known as New Brunswick) Well, that is my 2.3 cents worth. GPComd Contents under pressure, do not puncture.

No, not borrowed. This was for an actual lecture/demonstration on the use and misuse of pyrotechnics. Part of it was to show the explosive effect of arty sims in an enclosed space. We used to use helmets for this, can`t do it with the Kevlars. The water one was to end an argument over whether or not they could be command detonated under water, or used as an early warning device. It worked, we used it in the defensive plan. nuff said. GPComd Contents under pressure, do not puncture.

The only way I could say yes to this, is if the cache is in a location is only accessible by vehicle, and therefore adult supervision when it is opened. A cache in an urban park that any 13 year old with matches and access to the next door neighbour`s yappy pekinese dog can get at is only trouble waiting to happen. I`ve done the military firecracker (Artillery simulator) in an ammo can before. Most impressive. Even more impressive if you tie it to a rock and throw it into water. But, I digress... GPComd Contents under pressure, do not puncture.

There used to be a Bomarc Missile base in La Macaza. I think the area is now used as a penitentiary, or maybe it has been completely abandoned. This link has many photo albums on it, many are just photos of people that used to work the base etc, some are a bit more interesting (aerial photos, missiles, silos, etc) http://www.pinetreeline.org/misc/bomarc/bomarc2.html GPComd Contents under pressure, do not puncture.

My three bugs I released have all left the province. One is in Maine, on the way to Florida, one is in Winnipeg, going to Saskatchewan, and one is in Ottawa, going to Australia. I don't have any plans in the immediate future to buy some more. If I do, I'll put them in caches as trade items for someone else to activate and call their own. Travel bugs do seem to increase the traffic at a cache (this is not always the case - Mr Happy sat in a cache for 5 weeks before he was retrieved) With the island cache needing a boat for access, I don't think it's going to see a large volume of visitors. The TB will move, though. There is some nice stuff in the cache for trading. I wonder if I can borrow a boat from someone and make the long trip down to Sackville (again - I was just there today, as you know ) GPComd Contents under pressure, do not puncture.

A pumpkin? A birdhouse? A stuffed squirrel in a leisure suit? I would have never thought of those kinds of caches-around here it's generally ammo cans, TWare and ice cream containers! The only different one I've done so far was in a black plastic toothbrush holder. Caulked the holes at each end, some duct tape and velcro to hold it together, and a coat hanger hook taped to it. Filled it with pins and hung it inside an evergreen tree Christmas ornament style. It's in a busy park, so getting it on a hot Saturday can be interesting. Sorry, no photo, though. I think with Halloween coming along, it's going to be time to place a pumpkin cache! GPComd Contents under pressure, do not puncture.

I voted no on this. On the one hand, as stated earlier - more cachers will eventually equate to more caches. This is definetely a good thing. More cachers will also mean more 'unofficial' cachers - folks that get the coords, go out, and trash the cache. Considering how well most of the caches are hidden, and how hard they are to find when I'm LOOKING for it, I find it beyond mere coincidence the number of caches that get trashed. Someone purposely goes looking for a cache to steal/vandalize it. There's not that many hunters wandering the backwoods of the world who accidently find a tupperware container buried under a pile of leaves. I've been spreading the word with friends at work - people that I know won't trache a cache. A couple of them have started up with their kids. Of course, I started caching from an article I read in a magazine - so maybe I'm wrong about the whole thing. After all, if 20 new people in the area start, and put out 40 new caches, only a few of those are going to get ripped. End result is still more caches to find. ARRRGH. This is like: The following statement is true: The previous statement is false. GPComd Contents under pressure, do not puncture.

I voted no on this. On the one hand, as stated earlier - more cachers will eventually equate to more caches. This is definetely a good thing. More cachers will also mean more 'unofficial' cachers - folks that get the coords, go out, and trash the cache. Considering how well most of the caches are hidden, and how hard they are to find when I'm LOOKING for it, I find it beyond mere coincidence the number of caches that get trashed. Someone purposely goes looking for a cache to steal/vandalize it. There's not that many hunters wandering the backwoods of the world who accidently find a tupperware container buried under a pile of leaves. I've been spreading the word with friends at work - people that I know won't trache a cache. A couple of them have started up with their kids. Of course, I started caching from an article I read in a magazine - so maybe I'm wrong about the whole thing. After all, if 20 new people in the area start, and put out 40 new caches, only a few of those are going to get ripped. End result is still more caches to find. ARRRGH. This is like: The following statement is true: The previous statement is false. GPComd Contents under pressure, do not puncture.

I cut & paste the cache name, coords and description into a MS Word document. I set up a 2-cell table, and insert the Mapquest map at the zoom I need. Then I go and delete all the unnecessary stuff (cache contents, etc) and format the text down to Arial 8. On one sheet of legal size paper I can usually fit 4 caches and their maps. Start to finish the whole procedure (for 4 caches) takes about 10 minutes. The mapquest part is the slowest - no cable modems out here, only good old Ford Model T 56K. This system has worked for me, and I only print it out the day before going on a caching tour. GPComd Contents under pressure, do not puncture.

My 4 travel bugs are: a. A stuffed lobster keychain b. A miniature taxicab keychain c. A small happy face flashlight keychain d. A geocaching compass keychain The two I have found were a stuffed dolphin toy, and a journal book. The journal book was pretty neat - it's goal was to travel through all provinces in Canada, with cachers writing, putting photos, etc into the journal, then sending it on its way. GPComd Contents under pressure, do not puncture.

My 4 travel bugs are: a. A stuffed lobster keychain b. A miniature taxicab keychain c. A small happy face flashlight keychain d. A geocaching compass keychain The two I have found were a stuffed dolphin toy, and a journal book. The journal book was pretty neat - it's goal was to travel through all provinces in Canada, with cachers writing, putting photos, etc into the journal, then sending it on its way. GPComd Contents under pressure, do not puncture.

What I've done in most of mine now is take an ordinary eraser-less pencil, cut it in half, and sharpen all 4 tips. That should make them last enough for the first 15 or 20 cachers. GPComd Contents under pressure, do not puncture. (Written on the back of my cycling helmet)

What I've done in most of mine now is take an ordinary eraser-less pencil, cut it in half, and sharpen all 4 tips. That should make them last enough for the first 15 or 20 cachers. GPComd Contents under pressure, do not puncture. (Written on the back of my cycling helmet)

As far as names go - the ones I have placed at rest stops have "Break & Stretch" in the name - take a break and stretch your legs When looking for caches along a route, however, I have to use the geocaching map of where I'm going, then zoom down until I can ID a cache name, and go back and forth building a list of potential caches along the way. Slow and tedious, but it works in the end. GPComd Contents under pressure, do not puncture. (Written on the back of my cycling helmet)

As far as names go - the ones I have placed at rest stops have "Break & Stretch" in the name - take a break and stretch your legs When looking for caches along a route, however, I have to use the geocaching map of where I'm going, then zoom down until I can ID a cache name, and go back and forth building a list of potential caches along the way. Slow and tedious, but it works in the end. GPComd Contents under pressure, do not puncture. (Written on the back of my cycling helmet)