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So, I've been caching a bit more than two years, and I swear this game is viral. Everyone I take out with me wants to do it more and more. And I have this friend who'd really like to get into it, and who, I know, would design the most AMAZING puzzle caches once he got started, but he's of limited resources. He lives too far away (three states) for us to share my GPS, so we're trying to find him one. Garmin's preferred, of course, and I have a bias for eTrex, but anything in our price range that'll find the coords would be awesome. Will anyone help an eager newcomer into the game?

I could offer $40. It's kind of low, but that's a fair bit of damage, and I'm trying to get an enthusiastic friend into geocaching as quickly as possible.

Comparing what we've heard about this alleged cacher to Stella Liebeck is unfair to Stella. McD's kept their coffee at 185F by corporate policy; most food establishments keep coffee at 140F max, and it is well known that liquids at 185F cause third-degree burns too fast to escape. McD's had previously received over 700 compaints about coffee burns. It was so bad that no less than the Shriners Burn Institute had asked McD's to cool their coffee -- and McD's ignored the top burn institute in the world. Stella Liebeck only wanted her medical bills paid and didn't sue until McD's stonewalled. So maybe the subject of this thread does deserve our scorn. Or maybe we haven't heard the whole story. Oh, but that's never happened here before, or in the press before ... Edward Sorry Edward, Couldn’t disagree more.. If you are DRIVING with any liquid in your hand then you take responsibility of what happens be it spilling boiling hot coffee in your crotch or that little old lady you just ran over because you weren't paying attention. It is people like that that cause labels on hair curlers that state, "don't use orally". It's ridiculous. my .02c -HHH I gotta put in my disagreement here. The coffee was so hot that her burns required skin grafts. She'd have burnt her mouth anyway. The fact that she was driving is irrelevant. They [edited by moderator], and when she came back looking for help with the medical bills, the staff laughed in her face and made derogatory comments about her appearance and whether or not she'd put the burnt portion of her anatomy to use anyway. [Edited by moderator to remove potty language.]

The Original Stash was buried, too.

Almost got nailed by a widowmaker in a windstorm once, that really got the hearts beating. More entertaining is the Halloween before last. I was taking Pie on her first caching run, after an event, and we were both in costume. I was V. So, dressed in a huge billowy black cape, a black hat, a full face mask, and fiddling with a black box behind an abandoned movie theater... Of COURSE the cops showed up. I never got Pie out caching again, alas, and I forgot to ask the officers to sign the log.

Whenever I do beach caches, I take the Pirates of the Caribbean soundtracks.

These two are from an archived cache on Rosario Head, WA. An ice carving, Anacortes, WA West Side View, also in Anacortes. And this is the entrance to my cache in Canada, which has yet to be found. Edit: Wow, sorry for the huge pics.

I have one that's yet to be found, and it's been out almost a year. Want to go for it?

Aw man. I'd love to go on this one, but I'm moving that week.

Half-Canadian. Without her, I don't think cachers around here would ever meet.

Here's one I found yesterday, though this isn't my picture. Bellingham, WA Whatcome Falls Trestle - GC17HZD There's a lot of this old trestle scattered through the woods. Look at Torched Trestle (GCR4MY). All pretty easy caches.

Cashier with a primarily undead clientelle.

I haven't been receiving my emails either (hotmail account), and I've been unable to check if it's hotmail because every time I go to my profile and try to change my email address, I get a big error message.

This is mine. I had a stamp made.

Make it a letterbox hybrid?

I was taught to cache by a girl who played the game without a GPS. She'd use google-earth to zero in as close as she could on the coordinates, note any interesting trees/rocks/landmarks, and go for it. Her find rate was amazing, because she wasn't looking for the cache, she was looking for the hide. That pile of suspicious sticks, the tree full of woodpecker holes, the niche under the rocks. I feel like such a sell-out using my tech. XD

Just saying, people who get up in arms about buried/half-buried caches need to read up on The Original Stash, the birthplace of our great game. A mostly-buried bucket.

There's actually a letterbox IN one of my geocaches. I adopted the cache with the letterbox parasite inside it, though no one seemed to notice the missing LB when the cache was gone for several months.

I'm getting that same error message whenever I try to do a bulk-delete off my bookmark lists or make a new one, and I only have five.

It's legal as long as there are no numbers on the box and it's not registered with the USPS.

I found a bunch of insect-repellant bracelets in the dollar-bin at the supermarket a bit ago, I've been leaving those. As the weather gets warmer, they're seeming like a better, better idea.

I make shrinky-dink coins. $8ish for a pack of ten sheets, and I get 10-15 coins per sheet. Each of my coins is unique, though, so the time-expenditure can get crazy.

The system should not allow you to adopt an archived cache and if it does slip up and process it you will not be able to get it unarchived so go ahead and make a new cache. I see that you have a new cache page submitted already for this location. This is the proper thing to do. I meant adopt more as in adopt the location.

There are two, and they're both pretty full. It'd be an awful lot of scanning.

The first cache I found in my area was archived a few months ago, and I messaged the owner and asked for/received permission to adopt. The cache was still in place even though it's currently off-list, so I brought it home to clean it up. The question is, what should I do with the logbooks? They're for the old cache. This will be a new listing, even though it's the same container in the same location, opportunity for cachers to find it again for a new smilie.