pat2run

Every time I go I carry water, gps'r and cell phone. One other tip I can recommend is that I print out a copy of the caches that I am going to do for the day and leave them with my wife. I got my foot caught in between two large rocks on a steep hill. It took me about 15-20 mins to get my swollen foot out by removing my shoe. A little scary. The day you think you are playing it safe is the day something will happen and make you think about taking precautions. PS: It doesn't ruin the fun by having a Cell Phone and Letting others know where you are going.

Just for all those who are interested. We will be meeting at Bobby's BBQ at 7:00pm on Thursday 16th.

Bobby's BBQ is large enough to accommodate everyone if it is not too far for the Augusta people. It is pretty close to the middle of Aiken and Augusta for everyone and they have a variety on the buffet. We would just need to have a date and time and a general idea on number of people coming.

Food always brings people together!! I am from Aiken, but work here in Augusta. So if we are meeting during a weekday, or even a weekend, any restaurant around Washington Road I think is easy for everyone to get to. I am open to suggestions.

Count me in for the Augusta Meeting. The other is a bit too far. I would also like to get together with a couple of people every once in awhile to go geocaching. I usually go with my dog Alley. My dad also comes along every once in awhile, and my wife isn't much into it... so it is usually me and Alley!

Hey folks!! I just read the messages. I would definetly love to come to a meeting! I put put out the Bike the Canal cache. I would like to meet some fellow geocachers. Another person that I can get in contact with is Brules. I work with his daughter who also geocaches. He is in North Augusta I think. Please let me know a time and place for a meeting.

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You might be a geocacher if... ... you train your dog to grab her leash and gps unit and head for the door.

quote:Originally posted by GeoStars:I'm the wife who convinced hubby to tag along. He enjoys it, as do the kids, but isn't quite as nuts about it as me. He's getting there though! ... It is great to hear that there are Lady cacher's just as interested in the sport as Men are. Any woman who can get their husbands off the couch are OK in my book.

What do you all do with your finds? I am starting to have quite a collection of trinkets... but I don't have the heart to place them in another cache.. they're my finds! Right now I have my collection on top of our tv. Do you all place them in other caches, hold on to them...

I have to say that I have been laughing my head off at some of these responses. I just want to clarify that I DO have a great wife! (Had to put that in there so I wouldn't be killed.) And she did tell me that she will go caching again with me when the weather gets cooler. (I got that in writing) One cool thing that I have noticed that she might be getting the caching bug is that the second I walk into the door, she wants to know what I found. (Like it is her prize or something)

Friends and family HATE my weekend caching and they do not understand the appeal. My wife hates the heat, bushes and dirt. My mom after an hour on the trails offers to "buy" me anything that I possibly could find in a cache and my Dad got Chigger bites and isn't exactly wanting to go again. All that is left is my dog Alley who love's going on the adventures. Friends think I am crazy for doing this on the weekends. How many of you all have the same problem?

I had to laugh at your chigger message. I am also covered up with chiggers from my feet, ankles, up to my knees. I have used fingernail polish and coated my legs with Calidril lotion. My legs are pink from the lotion and I am still itching after 3 weeks. I am still geocaching, but will use a Deet product. The hazards of Geocaching I guess.

I went last week and found a bag of microwave popcorn in a new cache. It had only been hidden the week before but it looked rank. I wish people would read the FAQ on hidding a cache. I would never put anything edible in a cache... even if it is canned, bagged, sealed in a protected milar titanium box that is us to seal nuclear waste. I think someone could sue you and win if they eat something left in a cache and get food poisining. Best to leave other things.

I went last week and found a bag of microwave popcorn in a new cache. It had only been hidden the week before but it looked rank. I wish people would read the FAQ on hidding a cache. I would never put anything edible in a cache... even if it is canned, bagged, sealed in a protected milar titanium box that is us to seal nuclear waste. I think someone could sue you and win if they eat something left in a cache and get food poisining. Best to leave other things.

OK... I am a simi-competitive person. I bought my etrex and found my first cache on July 25th this year and I am up to 7 finds with one that I coundn't find. I am starting to feel the competition heat flowing through my blood as I see all the finds that some people have. I am not that bad until I see someone becoming a member last month with 20 or 30 finds and it is starting to kill me. I don't know if it is just that some people have a greater concentration of cache's in their area or not. I have found all the one's closest to me and now will have to go an hour or so away. It looks like I better start driving.

I looked at a couple of the Garmin models and it came down to price. I didn't want to spend a lot of money and then not use it. I picked the Garmin e-trex and it has been great! I get perfect reception. I am even amazed when I am under tree cover and still track 4-6 satelites. I have only had a couple of spots where I lost reception, but only for a sec. or two. Sometimes I would like to have map features, but I have heard others complain that sometimes downloadable maps are inaccurate. I would like to be able to scroll up and down the position of the trip map on my etrex. If you purchase one... you won't be dissapointed.

I made up some flexable magnets that I ran off on my printer with the geocache logo. I thought they turned out really good. I have only found a handful of caches (newbie), but haven't seen any geocache magnets before. Cost about 15 cent each 2x2 magnet. I will start putting them into cache's that I find and see what the response is.

I wouldn't mind seeing a joint "Carolina" coin for both North & South Carolina. Just my 2 cents.

Asked the wife if she will be goig geocaching with me this weekend and she informed me that she WILL not be going caching until it the weather cools off. That's Like December. And she is not overly excited when it cooler either. Most of my friends consider searching for little boxes containing Dollar Store items hiding between dirt and bushes as not the way to spend a Saturday afternoon. So that leaves me and my chocolate lab Alley to cache together. Is there anyone else in my situation? Would like to find someone in my area Aiken/Augusta,GA/Columbia,SC to geocache with.

I love caching... the worst thing about it though... living in South Carolina "Tick Country", I go caching on the weekend and still find ticks sucking my blood on Wednesday. I have been caching and pulled 4-ticks off me. I am a Tick magnet. On the frustrating note... I hid a cache along a canal in our area spent a good hour or two finding the right spot, then realized that I was at the back entrance where I can't even describe how to get there... so now I am going to have to retrieve the cache and start over hiding it again. ~patrick

I love caching... the worst thing about it though... living in South Carolina "Tick Country", I go caching on the weekend and still find ticks sucking my blood on Wednesday. I have been caching and pulled 4-ticks off me. I am a Tick magnet. On the frustrating note... I hid a cache along a canal in our area spent a good hour or two finding the right spot, then realized that I was at the back entrance where I can't even describe how to get there... so now I am going to have to retrieve the cache and start over hiding it again. ~patrick

I am always worrried about snakes, but never see any... It doesn't mean that they aren't there. Like others have said, Carry a cell phone, walking stick. I have an aluminum one that collapses made for hiking... very nice. The most dangerous thing I would worry about are TICKS! Yes Ticks are everywhere in SC and carry Lyme desease that can mess you up really bad! Out of the Cache's that I have found, I always end up with one or two ticks on me. Have someone check you all over after you get back from caching.