Spunkie92

Hey guys. I started taking my nannying kids out and I wanted to make their account connected to mine. Is that doable? Thanks Amy

A few weeks? Pah! Just had to post this: Mini-Hiker's First Cache Oh my goodness!! That is the most adorable little one I've seen! Had a total "Awwwuuuhh" moment there.. Thanks for the replies everybody. It will seriously depend on the children I am watching. If they seem like the kinds of kids to be into it, I'll take them, otherwise, I'll go while they're in class I like the ideas of carrying extra swag for them, and the first aid kit. I really need to stock up on some of that for myself.

Hey guys, I'm getting back into nannying (finally - retail sucks). And I may be watching a couple boys ages 3 & 4. Anybody have experience caching with littles? I'd love to get then involved because it would get is out and doing something. Thanks, as always.

It's normally my other half that gets a face full of twigs. I'm normally leading the way with the GPS. Having scratch-resistant prescription glasses helps.

I'll have to look into all those for the puzzles around me.. My next day off work will probably be devoted to puzzle caches. Thanks for all the help guys!

I've been wanting to find a puzzle cache for a while now, but I can't seem to solve any of them.. Is there a method you use, or even another topic that could point me in the right direction? I'm not crazy good with puzzles, that's where my other half comes in, but I do like the challenge. I just feel like I keep missing some important step when solving the puzzle caches..

I don't know a thing about doing much of this, but I've always been a good reader and grammar nazi. If my assistance is needed let me know.

I haven't logged any DNF's, but my main reason for that is because the ones I haven't found are close to my house and the main reason I didn't find them was because I was running out of time, and it was super muddy. I will be back for them. If I think they're actually lost, or I don't have an intention to come back for them, I'd log it, just to show I made an effort.

I'm going geocaching with my other half tonight, one of the caches I would like to hit has multiple trackables in it. Is it unethical to take a couple considering that we are going to the Oregon Coast this weekend and have some time to cache while we're there?

The intention wasn't to push an agenda. I'm glad you brought that up though, I didn't think it would be an issue. I don't typically talk about supporting research, because I know a lot of people who are really touchy about donating money to charities, and I wasn't planning to throw any of that into the cache. I try to avoid offending anybody.

We love the pennie smasher machines, and collect smashed pennies. The old wheat pennies work best, they are copper and not zinc like the new ones. They do make good trade items. Hard to believe but pennies smasher are illegal in some countries.....Incredible they are in so many places. Most countries don't have pennies. I smashed a penny while in San Francisco today...a souvenir for my son. My 23 yr old sister is obsessed with penny squishing, thus the reason we are going back to Disneyland this summer. We calculated it out, shes spent over 400 bucks on pennies (50 cents to squish + the penny) Needless to say she will be squishing pennies, and I'll be finding the Earth Cache in Frontieerland.

Okay, so I haven't placed it yet, but I've been thinking about making my first cache a tribute cache to my dad. He passed in '09 after battling brain cancer for 6 years. I really think that if I had discovered this game years ago, when he was still alive (and well enough) to join me, he would have enjoyed it. He loved puzzles, beer, and my sister and I. I know better than to put beer in the cache. I was thinking of throwing together a cache with some metal puzzles (the ones you have to separate) and a travel bug attached to a brain shaped stress ball (those exist, I have a few.) Any other suggestions, or opinions?

All coordinates for caves are published somewhere, just not where the public can access them. When they've gotta do a search and rescue, they pull a list of the nearby caves. If you get lost and find a nice dry cave, one would think to not leave that spot.

If memory serves, it took me one try. Early on in my caching career, I saw some hubbub about FTF, and how important it was. Gotta get their first! Gotta win! Go! Go! Go!. So I kept an eye on local publishings and headed out once there was one within a reasonable distance from my house. I got there first, signed the log, then scratched my head wondering what all the drama was about. I just didn't get it. As I got back to my car, there was a self proclaimed FTF hunter whipping into the parking lot. He asked if I found the new cache. I dissembled, claiming I didn't know there was a new listing. I tried engaging him in conversation, but his need for competition outweighed his need for civil conversation, and he stormed off into the shrubbery. I spent the rest of the day out & about, hunting a few caches that appealed to me, and logged my finds when I got home, only to discover a host of scathing comments by the FTF hunter and his peers for my unseemly behavior, claiming they had 'wasted' a trip. I suppose, for those who place importance in this aspect of the game, any find which is not an FTF is a waste? Color me confused... I did happen upon a FTF yesterday, and used the log to poke a bit of fun at the owner for accidentally leaving some personal notes in the log book, claiming some dude named "Traction Control Server" had beat me, but in reality, my hunt was for the cache, not the imagined honors of the FTF. I honestly don't think I will be one to specifically hunt down FTFs. But I would like to find one. I ended up actually not even hitting the trail this morning because there are 5 out there and I wanted to spend an afternoon with my partner in crime finding them all.. The way I see it, so long as you are enjoying the hunt, exercise and outdoors, the tupperware and logbook are icing on the cake. I did get a little trigger happy with the FTF this morning though.

Thanks guys. I figured this morning it was a good opportunity to try it out. But I think in reality I will probably wait until my other half is with me instead of trying it all on my own.. I have a tendency to bite of a little more than I can chew..

Morning.. So in my typical style, I checked my email this morning and there were two new caches posted at the park up the hill from my house. Needless to say I dressed as if the house were on fire, loaded up the GPS and ran out. As the genius I am, I figured the park was connected to the bigger park across the street (via a bridge). I was wrong. I drove around for 10 minutes looking for the entrance to this trail. And when I gave up and looked online for the coordinates for parking I saw that not one, but two people had logged it. So I'm thinking if I really want to get a FTF, I need to be up at the crack of dawn, everything waiting for that one cache and then go from there.. Right? I'm not mad, I'm kinda disappointed though.

I had an attitude in Middle School and High School. One of my teachers told me I had a lot of passion for something, I just hadn't found it yet, so until I found it, I'd always be spunky. She was a big inspiration. 92 is my birth year. Simple as that!

Sounds to me like you need to keep the cavers out of caves

So far it's been that my other half texts me before he leaves work asking if I want to go that day. I hit the maps finding pockets of caches, typically between 3 and 6 because we run out of sunlight and we're new to this. I try my hardest to find a place to park and before we leave the car we try to get a general plan of attack, which sometimes means walking past all the caches and then turning around to cache the way back to the car. We have yet to be able to go full circle.

Is anybody else really really lost?

How are you to enjoy nature if you can't enter it? If there's an interesting, ungated cave, it's pretty darn likely that it's posted online somewhere. Most vandals (teens specifically) aren't gong to hike out just to spray paint rocks, they can do that behind Walmart. Geocachers are known for taking care of their trails and areas. Having that cache archived means less people will be able to enjoy the beauty of the cave.

I'm glad I posted this, sounds to me like I either need to buy or locate my dads multitool and carry it. I could see where it could be useful.

For light caching, something the size of a camera bag would be fine. There you go, solved your own problem... Now where did I put that easy button?? (Thanks)

Do you think a camera bag (smallish one) would work? Something with a sling. If we go hiking where were gonna be gone more than an hour, my other half will probably bring his DSLR that's got a hydration pack with it.

It sounds to me like there's some backstory here. I feel an argument coming along. My 2 cents: in the (brief) time I've been caching, I've seen areas well taken care of, no vandalizing that I've come in contact with. And the one other couple I met was very very nice.