Johnnyhotcakes

For me, going for a FTF is based purely on the opportunity of the moment. My work schedule is not FTF compatible, so if the moment arises when I have free time and I see a new cache post, I will sometimes go on a FTF hunt. Putting ink on a brand new unsigned log is thrilling and I love the disappointment when the Infamous FTF hounds show only to claim the Second to Find.

There has been an increase in newbie Geocachers finding my Non-Premium caches lately. I would say that they tend to be younger probably teenagers and in their early 20s in age, and they appreciate the game. Some have taken liberties with swag in a couple of my caches that I try to keep stocked with swag but I view this as a need to provide information to newbies on Geocaching. I get the sense that due to the quarantine, they are looking for outdoor hobbies/activities and that they have an appreciation of the game.

The new app has some good features and some that need improvement. As far as the good features, logging a find is a breeze. The favorite point "heart" is right there and the new app seems to load pictures faster than the old app. I like the ability to be able to see the waypoints, the terrain and difficulty ratings, hint, and prior logs quickly and with relative ease. I dont have a particular issue with using the general map to determine what caches I am going to go after and the maps cycle between street maps and Satellite maps efficiently. As far as what needs improvement, I list them in order of priority. 1. A more responsive GPS function. The GPS is sluggish and will freeze up causing me to perform the drunken bee dance all too often near GZ. I have driven past many host locations due to the sluggishness of he GPS. There have been several occasions, while hunting woodland caches, where I plugged in the cords into google maps in order to get a proper indication of where GZ was located. Although moving my phone in circle 8 figures works in the car, it does not work so well in the woods. I am going to start bring my Magellan as a back up. 2. Logging Travel Bugs has to now be performed for each individual bug. I have various bugs that I use to keep track of my geocaching in my local county, my home state, while on vacation, with my backpack, or with one of my girls, and and have to individually log each one. 3. Once I click on the start button and the line is shown to the cache with the calculation of the distance, there is a very short time that the information stays on and then it all goes blank. I need this to stay on continuously.

I had 3 unlogged DNF's before I made the find.

I went for a geocache called "safecracker" which is now archived. It was a mystery cache where you had to solve the puzzle to obtain the numbers to open the combination lock on a safe which was placed a pocket woods that was pretty dense. I found this note in a cooler which the muggle had put in the same location. My link

What is the difference between Geocaching and Fishing? Fisherman will actually tell you about the one that they hooked but it got away, Geocachers will never tell you about an unlogged DNF.

Abe Froman published a Chicago Blackhawks themed Geocache http://coord.info/GC29PFV, and I would be willing to bet Edward Rooney would also approve and publish one. I note the the Chicago Blackhawks geocache does not have a logo of the Blackhawks. Too bad that the Blackhawks will not be facing the Calgary Flames in the confrence finals.

Brilliant just brilliant. Happened to a friend of ours. Has happenes to the same friend a few times. You can imitate talking to someone on the phone to cover yourself ... but you start to hear replies. You lost weight when you started and now you're fat from takeaways so you can cache longer. When someone publishes a TB hotel near you, you groan audibly. You know caches near you that contain a pen when you forget yours and you stop off on the way. You search for a certain cachers found its, because you know they drop swag from a certain company. You know it won't be worth it if a certain cacher has already been. You own more rechargeable batteries than you ever have before in your life. You can tell who has searched a GZ by the state it's been left in. You can tell if a certain cachers DNF holds any value. You know exactly who will have beaten you to FTF dependant on time of day. You can see a hide from the car and are totally shocked if you are wrong. You love the new search facility because it allows you to filter certain cachers caches. You no longer notice cuts and bruises. Maybe in the shower but only in passing. You start telling newbies off for grabbing TB's and they miss mileage. You can't remember the doing the cache at all to log it, until someone reads the hint. Youve trodden in more dog mess in the time you have been caching than you have in your whole life and you can clean your boots in minutes. You pick up your own dogs dog mess more since you have been caching than you have in your whole life. Your muggle friends faces go blank and eyes glaze over as you inflict them with tales of caching and they tell you the punchline of the story. Your logs read like a review of a movie instead of logging what happened. You know at least two cachers you literally loath but you have never met them. You do a cache and remember the one that was there before it was archived. And the one before that. And the one before that. You can touch type on your smartphone. You keep your nails short and now own a scrubbing brush. You used to use alcohol gel and wet wipes religiously. Now you just wipe on the top of your leg. You actually send old fashioned letters again ... sending items to other cachers and waiting for yours. You can no longer watch hoarders with your head held high. You can make ink from crushed grass, mud, or anything. finally - your geohound lunges into the car to go geocaching. But the next day has to be dragged into the car.

Brilliant just brilliant. Happened to a friend of ours. Has happenes to the same friend a few times. You can imitate talking to someone on the phone to cover yourself ... but you start to hear replies. You lost weight when you started and now you're fat from takeaways so you can cache longer. When someone publishes a TB hotel near you, you groan audibly. You know caches near you that contain a pen when you forget yours and you stop off on the way. You search for a certain cachers found its, because you know they drop swag from a certain company. You know it won't be worth it if a certain cacher has already been. You own more rechargeable batteries than you ever have before in your life. You can tell who has searched a GZ by the state it's been left in. You can tell if a certain cachers DNF holds any value. You know exactly who will have beaten you to FTF dependant on time of day. You can see a hide from the car and are totally shocked if you are wrong. You love the new search facility because it allows you to filter certain cachers caches. You no longer notice cuts and bruises. Maybe in the shower but only in passing. You start telling newbies off for grabbing TB's and they miss mileage. You can't remember the doing the cache at all to log it, until someone reads the hint. Youve trodden in more dog mess in the time you have been caching than you have in your whole life and you can clean your boots in minutes. You pick up your own dogs dog mess more since you have been caching than you have in your whole life. Your muggle friends faces go blank and eyes glaze over as you inflict them with tales of caching and they tell you the punchline of the story. Your logs read like a review of a movie instead of logging what happened. You know at least two cachers you literally loath but you have never met them. You do a cache and remember the one that was there before it was archived. And the one before that. And the one before that. You can touch type on your smartphone. You keep your nails short and now own a scrubbing brush. You used to use alcohol gel and wet wipes religiously. Now you just wipe on the top of your leg. You actually send old fashioned letters again ... sending items to other cachers and waiting for yours. You can no longer watch hoarders with your head held high. You can make ink from crushed grass, mud, or anything. finally - your geohound lunges into the car to go geocaching. But the next day has to be dragged into the car.

Looks like fun.

I have a trackable geoknot lanyard that I use to log not only my finds by logging it as visiting geocaches, but also my own personal geocaching journal. I can post spoiler pictures, notes or my own non-geocaching journal notes. What is nice is that the geocaching site keeps track of how many miles the trckable lanyard has traveled overall as well as between each geocache.

I was pleasantly surprised and very impressed that the owner not only monitors the forums, but took an active role and and went on record that he will not have any "adult" themed geocaches on his website. The internet is so clogged with "adult" themed sites that you can hardly navigate it without coming across "adult" themed websites in almost any search. This is a game/hobby that gets me and the kids out into the outdoors for many adventures that there is simply no place for "adult themed" caches. I support Jeremy and hope that he sees this post and appreciates that Johnnyhotcakes is behind him 100%.

This is exactly what we need here in Northern Illinois.

This reminds me of Ferris Bueller when he played the clarinet and said "I never had one lesson".

When Mrs. Johnnyhotcakes stayed over at my apartment for the first time I made her breakfast in the morning. I made bacon, pancakes and coffee. When she came to the breakfast table, she called my Johnnyhotcakes. I have been Johnnyhotcakes ever since.

Being a Fly Fisherman I say leave them in a sealed container inside the cache. They would make an excellent trade item.

I was looking one night for a cache hidden in a guard rail that was close to a lake located behind a large shopping mall. I was feeling all over the guardrail when a security guard came up and surprised me just as I was on my hands and knees looking underneath the lowest part of the guardrail fence. He asked if he could help me in looking for what ever it was that I was looking for. I told him I was geocaching and he told me to please continue and chuckled as he left.

There is a geocache near the Airtight Bridge near Charleston, Illinois, GC208ZX. http://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC208ZX_ancient-airtight-bridge?guid=6ad6a586-f43b-4cc9-837e-564182572bc4. The bridge was the scene of where a woman's headless torso was discovered in 1980. There is a stillness to the area around the bridge which why the bridge earned its name. I took my kids there on a full moon, on a Friday the 13th. The bridge earned it's name on this night as it was spooky and still. We heard and saw wolves and I did not linger long enough to find the cache as I was a little spooked by the area and the wolves which were closing in.

I sign "Johnnyhotcakes was here" and leave my calling card