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I knew I should have clarified that. I live in the middle of a city. Most of our hiking is done on urban trails or in the very near suburban parks. The law around here is that you pick up after your dog and cart it out. Whether that makes sense to you or not, I'm sorry, but encasing dog crap in plastic is what you do or you get a ticket. Personally, I'll pick up whatever it takes to keep dogs permissible in well-visited parks. As for the LNT thing, I never said "pack out your own poop", I said "bring extra ziplocs". Packing out toilet paper, tampons, and other waste-related waste is part of the LNT guidelines; so is digging a 6-8" cathole 200 ft from a water source to use for solid waste. By the way, the largest ziploc I could find on a quick search was 13x18" 6 mil thickness. Perhaps that would suit the needs of AlanB's horse. Thirty cents each but you have to buy a case of 250.

I knew I should have clarified that. I live in the middle of a city. Most of our hiking is done on urban trails or in the very near suburban parks. The law around here is that you pick up after your dog and cart it out. Whether that makes sense to you or not, I'm sorry, but encasing dog crap in plastic is what you do or you get a ticket. Personally, I'll pick up whatever it takes to keep dogs permissible in well-visited parks. As for the LNT thing, I never said "pack out your own poop", I said "bring extra ziplocs". Packing out toilet paper, tampons, and other waste-related waste is part of the LNT guidelines; so is digging a 6-8" cathole 200 ft from a water source to use for solid waste. By the way, the largest ziploc I could find on a quick search was 13x18" 6 mil thickness. Perhaps that would suit the needs of AlanB's horse. Thirty cents each but you have to buy a case of 250.

We take our dogs hiking with us, and always pack out anything they might leave behind. It's been years since I did any backcountry hiking, but remember all too well the edict "Leave No Trace. No, seriously, when we say NO TRACE, that means pack extra ziplocs." I know a lot of people cache with their dogs. Hope y'all are carrying plastic bags too.

We take our dogs hiking with us, and always pack out anything they might leave behind. It's been years since I did any backcountry hiking, but remember all too well the edict "Leave No Trace. No, seriously, when we say NO TRACE, that means pack extra ziplocs." I know a lot of people cache with their dogs. Hope y'all are carrying plastic bags too.

Please bear with a newbie Of the 200+ benchmarks within 10mi of our home, one of them happens to be the church on the corner. It's a landmark, and the benchmark entries from 1885/1933/1934 name the cross on the steeple as the necessary item. To log this, do I just take a picture of the cross and upload it?

Please bear with a newbie Of the 200+ benchmarks within 10mi of our home, one of them happens to be the church on the corner. It's a landmark, and the benchmark entries from 1885/1933/1934 name the cross on the steeple as the necessary item. To log this, do I just take a picture of the cross and upload it?

Prime Suspect, thank you! We are new cachers who are still on the GPS learning curve, and your suggestion will help immensely. I feel Buckrider's pain.

Prime Suspect, thank you! We are new cachers who are still on the GPS learning curve, and your suggestion will help immensely. I feel Buckrider's pain.

Hi Ashibaka - I'm not too far south of you! Go to www.geocaching.com/about and you will find FAQs and documents galore to help answer questions. Bought the GPS yesterday (decided on a plain old yellow eTrex just in case we don't like caching *yeah right*) and as SOON as we are done with this hellish deadline, we are out on the cachepath!