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Hmm. Maybe on that gift horse. Now where is he........

Being kind to new folks here is done just the same way as it is when a new person joins you at work, or someone new shows up at your place of worship or your social club. You say "Hi, I'm hairball (or whatever). Glad to see you here. Got any questions I'll try to answer them for you." If you don't feel comfortable doing that, don't bother to say anything. If you tell the new guy something rude or harsh when he or she asks you something chances are it will come back on you someday. My $.02 worth. hairball

I use the wap site quite a bit and would really like this information to be included. I'd like to have an idea if I'm looking for a pencil eraser or a 50 cal ammo can. I frequently grab a cache or two on my lunch break from job #2 and don't really like to realize too late that I need to climb a mountain and cross a raging river to get to the cache. Thanks hairball

Or you could do much the same thing from their profile page. More tedious, you could go through and bookmark 'em all and run a PQ of the bookmark.

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I have a total of 14 PQs that I run weekly, covering areas that I am likely to get to. Five run on Monday, five on Tuesday, and four on Wednesday. Early in the week works well for me. Most caching seems to be done on the weekends, so my PQs should be pretty fresh. This leaves lots of room Thursday and Friday, also the weekends if I'm headed someplace special off my usual route. Sunday night is when I run "My Finds" if it's needed, most of MY caching being done on the weekend and recorded on Sunday night. hairball

I've never noticed bad smells from ammo cans, but if I did I'd try my solution for bad smelling refrigerators in camping trailers. I've had a couple where the fridge died while I was gone home for the week. (Camper's in a campground set up seasonal). Even the one that had had fish in it came clean with bleach water, vinegar, and the secret. Stuff it with newspaper wadded up into balls, close it up and leave it for a few days. The stink somehow leaves the fridge and goes into the paper. Of course we had to use an ice chest that week, but big deal. We also pack the fridge with paper in the fall when we go away for the winter and it smells as sweet as a new one in the spring. Might work for ammo cans too.

I found a $10 silver certificate as a FTF prize once, but where there has actually been something special it was like a rubber bracelet that said "Geocaching" on it, that sort of thing. Rarely anything notable, and if it wasn't something I really wanted I left it for the next finder. Of course I rarely trade either, I just cache for the fun of it, not the McToys, rubber erasers or foreign coins. The ten dollar bills are few and far between. Oh yeah, I still have it. It sits in a Camp Jeep cup I did trade for one time. hairball

ain't old if ya ain't seen it before - made me smile My Mommy taught me many years ago, when given a gift, a compliment, or advise to simply say a sincere "thank you" and go on with my life, whether I liked or used the gift or advise or not. Whether a cache is a "gift" or not is up to (endless) argument but I think the advise Mother gave me still holds. TFTC and move on. hairball

Scanning system we use here at work to keep track of time spent on various tasks gives it back real nice, although it says the employee ID does not exist. I don't expect to be in Georgia anytime soon though, so it's kind of a moot exercise for me. hairball

(Best Homer voice) mmmmmm rotten sandwiches.

Yeah, I can't see why folks have their bowels in an uproar. It's positive publicity for the game, and showing the coords for an occasional cache isn't going to lead to wholesale cache destruction. It gives people a real world feel for the thing. Far better publicity on Discovery Channel, which mostly appeals to the sort of people we want to, or think are, playing the game, than on the evening news where uninformed sensationalists talk about a mysterious container found in a park being blown up by the local bomb squad. As to terms of use I very much doubt that Jeremy and Co. are unaware of the coverage and I'm they would certainly speak up if offended by it. h

Aw heck, I'm buying Criminal's version.

I think your son showed great sense, not to mention an ability to go right up to "grownups" and insinuate himself into a situation. That's something that will help him go far in life. Besides, its always fun to meet other cachers in the field. That's one of the ways to add faces to those names on the log sheets. hairball

Worst I've found. Easily a Listerine breath strip container jammed into a rock wall at a college. It had a putty like substance inside that I assume to have been the log. I managed to put an "x" on it, put it back, and logged the find. Added a not terribly flattering log to match the last few logs. It wound up archived soon after. hairball Oh wow, the fake hand & explosive device is great! Put that near a bridge and the bomb squad will be there fer shure.

Just a few over 800 caches and no tracts yet. I have seen a few soggy business cards and various unidentifiable junk, but no tracts. I have seen a couple of angel pins, cross pins and the like but that's just swag to me, no problem. Trade for 'em if you want to, don't if you don't. No, I didn't throw away the soggy business cards, but I didn't take them either. Same would go for the never seen tracts if I found them. Well maybe Chick tracts if I saw one. They're pretty amusing and offensive even to most of the people of faith that I know. Kinda over the top. hairball

Not a heckuva a lot of bears in Ahia, not much I'd want to shoot on the trail, and I've always believed that if I did carry somebody would just take it away and hurt me with it, so no weapons for this old boy. A nice sasafrass hiking stick, but that's about it. hairball bear bells? is that anything like uh, oh nevermind the bears would object to that rather strenously

In the right (wrong?) hands about anything can be used as a weapon. It's all in knowing how to do it. I wouldn't worry about it. hairball

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I'm sorry to respond so late to this thread, but I have to describe my current experience with hamstercaching. I hate spending a great deal of money on swag, and I'm not patient enough to buy a pair of hamsters to breed my own, (don't want one of those hamster castles in the house either) I have discovered that my little storage barn, and neighbors larger regular barns are great sources of wild hamsters. They are an attractive gray-brown in color and have bright, it tiny, little eyes. They come in two distinct sizes, excellent for small caches and large ammo cans too. They have, unfortunately, rather long tails, but these can be trimmed off, much like docking puppy's tails. Really this is an advantage though. Leave about a third of the tail - instant gerbil. All of the tail but a stub, hamster. I've gotten lots of positive comments on these little guys, folks say they remind them of the wild hamsters that lived in their houses when they were kids. They give them names like Mickey and Chuckie. I hope these ideas spread - new homes for wild hamsters, good cache swag, nice pets for cachers and their kids. hairball

I don't lock my Jeep (assuming the doors are on). Bad guys will just cut my windows, causing me more expense and inconvenience than otherwise. Of course the most valuable thing in there is a 30 year old 23 channel CB and a 14 year old CD player that has seen about four dashboards in its lifetime. No great loss, I just hope they don't tear stuff up.

Nothing will stop nutjobs from doing their thing, but I would expect a public locker in a bus terminal or a public toilet in a rest room to be better booby trap sites for idiots to get their thrills. An exploding key hide on a guard rail would get far less press than blowing up a couple dozen folks waiting for a bus in a city station. I'll keep risking death by flaming film canister and not worry a bit. hairball

Nah - no GPS, no logbooks, no containers. Photos mandatory, goals rather fluid and open to interpretation. Related somehow perhaps to Waymarking, but only vaguely. It's a different game, and I have NO plans to post a shot of me doing the Chicken Dance. There ain't no wedding and no beer. hairball

If the trackable headed to France was mine I wouldn't mind a bit if it took a detour and went for a blimp ride. Post pictures and I'll enjoy them while the coin finds another ride. Akron isn't THAT much farther than New England from France. Move it along and let it enjoy the ride.

It ain't gonna happen. Locationless, web cams, and virtuals have been replaced by Waymarking. Groundspeak has spoken, and that's the way it's going to be. There has been a lot of investment of capital, time and programming to make it so. Like it or not, that's the way it is. Many of us will NEVER get the icons for Locationless caches. Grab virts and the grandfathered web cams while you can. Like the '59 Cadillac, they ain't comin' back. One day I suppose I'll give Waymarking a shot, but it looks painfully boring. That's just my opinion, but most of the 'marks near me have had maybe one, more often no visits. No challenge to it I guess. hairball