WashoeZephyr

I can't believe this topic is still going If in a large metro area, I would think 250 is totally doable in a 24 hour period. I found 14 in an hour once in Las Vegas and I didn't really know my way around that well, it was just that cache dense of an area!

The Great Basin and Eastern Sierra Geocachers have put on a yearly Geocahcing "Off Road" Rally for the past four years. Someone there might have info on how to start organizing. DCC I did this rally last year and have since become a board member of GBES. Most of it is on dirt and 4WD is required. We don't to anything too extreme (ie rock crawling) as most people that participate don't quite have the capabilities to do so (myself included, we did the rally in a very stock '03 Xterra and had no problems) There are lots of permits and permissions that need to be obtained prior to your event. I believe if you do it on BLM land, they require a set route 6 months in advance. I believe the forest service allows a little shorter of time frame. Check this out for last years details. Send me an email via GC.com and I can hook you up with some people that are veterans at putting this on!

We came across this cache in the Nevada desert around Searchlight. Assuming its a dipping vat for some kind of livestock, it's just there is no livestock for hundreds of miles! Dipping Vat This was the vat And this was the corral http://img.geocaching.com/cache/log/displa...9440c7bf726.jpg

If anybody is planning on going to Geowoodstock from the south and plan to hit the route between Vegas and Reno there are some great ones! The Old Well The Rock House And this one is just cool for some old WWI & II history: Our Patriotic Home And they sell ammo cans here!

We have a lot of very creative cache hiders in our area. But I am starting to enjoy out of town caching more and more. Along the way in the last year and a half of doing this, we have met lots of great people with this hobby and we've been to quite a few events that we were not local to but were welcomed as if we were! As far as hiding styles, they do seem to vary from place to place but to me, that's what keeps it interesting! (Yes, I hate cattle guards no matter where they are!!! ) As far as non local caching. I like the places it takes me to more than the "cache" itself! We are just really bummed we weren't caching yet when we were in Hawaii a couple of years ago. It would have been cool to see some places that most tourists don't see!

Thank you! *Bow's down in I'm not worthy fashion* LOL! I LOVE my new Triton!!! I keep going on line and checking all the usual stores. At one point Costco.com had the 500 with a $100 rebate. (making it only $150 total) I've noticed that deal doesn't come up at all anymore and now it doesn't even give a price on thier website It just says it will be available in December sometime? WTF?

RenoStar of RenoStar and RenoGem is a cop, she lurks out here sometimes. Other than that we showed a cop what geocaching was, since he thought we were stealing copper wire He wouldn't let us take a picture with him, but he did let us take pictures in front of his car!

**squealing like a little girl now** I want a Triton 500 sooo bad. I have no desire for a 1500 or a 2000, I already have a camera and a flashlight that come with me anyways. Not warm and fuzzy about the touch screen abilities either. I work with touchscreens on a much larger scale and lots can go wrong!! I guess they are still working out some software issues according to the guy at Sportsman's Warehouse Since I WILL eventually have a Triton, that would be perfect! I hate to ask, because this is such a cool avatar!! Is there anyway to kind of make it a little shorter? I kind of had to hack him a little to get him to fit on our NGA forum. (I was amazed I figured out how to do that much! ) Since our forum doesn't allow them bigger than a certain size. (I think it was 25KB) (((((mizdeeds you are awesome!!!!)))))

How about... I LOVE IT!!! Thank you, thank you! That is just too cool! Of course hubby had to point out the Garmin and not the MaggieXL! I still like it!

How about... I LOVE IT!!! Thank you, thank you! That is just too cool!

Love all the stories! I actually heard about a while ago (2002ish). Some friends of my parents were talking about it. I thought it sounded pretty cool, but at the time GPSr's were a bit more spendy and I couldn't really justify buying a GPS, since we don't travel that much. Then in early 2006, I was on another forum that had absolutely nothing to do with geocaching, one of the frequent posters was always going on about how they would discover all of this cool stuff in thier hometown that they didn't know existed via geocaching. At the time my husband was on the road all the time and I was becoming a huge couch potato! So I went online found a Magellan 210, went onto GC.com and was blown away at how many local caches we had! (That first cache find is still the biggest rush.) It was on a street that I actually used to work on, in front of a candy factory that I never knew existed! I used to drive by this thing every day and never really slowed down to take a look. Since that day a year and half ago, we've been going non stop! I've seen more of the area I live in and the state in the last year than I have the other 39ish years I've been here!

Anyone who takes the test nine times is definitely a "J" type... You're an ISTJ Ha, I took it twice! I'm an INFJ-twice, never really thought of myself as Introverted though?

Being another cacher that has absolutely no creative computer skills. (My current avatar was made by simsonizeme.com, LOL!) My other one that I used to use, I stole from the show Lost, so ANY help would be appreciated. I'm not too sure what you could do with LostinReno? There is so much talent on this thread, any ideas would be great! And I would be forever grateful!!!

Now that's funny, I don't care who ya are! That is freaking hilarious! Ok, Since requests are kind of flying around. I've been through two of your lanyards. White really is not a good background color. Any color but white???

We haven't been caching with John in a while! We kind of miss "the daylights burning" *as he is pounding his fist in his other hand*. Actually we did a poor imitation of it over the weekend with Angie and Michelle. This is great cache! I wish I had a picture of the ammo can, it really is worth going just to see. It's painted white with a bunch of frilly lace on it. Congrats by the way!

Sweeet! Now that one I like! And not to make us sound even more odd than we already are, we can warn them about the crazy black smoke!

Awww man, you mean they aren't real?? I think the term muggle is very appropriate. One of the cool things about geocaching is the general population has absolutely no idea what your up to, nor do they have any idea of all the cool places there are to hide things right under their noses! If you've ever read the Harry Potter books (which I don't object if you haven't), it's kind of the same way that the Muggles don't sense or see the magical folk/magic in the story that surround them. Again, it is just a story, like geocaching is just a game. Oh wait, it's not just a game...

I don't mind the coins and the optical illusion stuff.(Agree that no one is going to be changed by reading a pamphlet in a cache!) The coins are actually kind of cool. We have a cacher around here that likes to leave fake million dollar bills with religous stuff on them. For the most part I'm ok with those. Just sometimes he will fold them up and STUFF them in a micro, so it makes getting the log out a task, forcing the cacher to use the Lord's name in vain. Kind of defeats the purpose, eh? I'll usually CITO the ones I find stuffed in micros.

I actually remember the commercials from that one. Now that would have been the one episode I might have watched! But it still is just creating a bunch of un-neccessary stress for these people. I don't know if I would need $20K that badly and I am by no means wealthy. It reminds me of Jerry Springer. If you've been invited to be on Jerry Springer, you know it aint a good thing!

They must be pairing them up with couch potatoes! I've only ever seen the commercials, to me the show just seems like it would be watching an hour of un-neccessary stress. I don't get it?? It seems like they usually pair up slobs vs. clean freaks. In the geocaching world, I know both. And I've never really met a stressed out cacher (while caching anyways! )

Mental note, never go caching with my baby brother while drunk! Also being female and having cached alone on occasion, like everyone else states, just be very aware of your surroundings. There are people out there that like to place caches in some less than desireable places. We have one here that is under a bridge/freeway overpass where lots of homeless live, needles, condoms etc, lying around. (I have emailed the a** that placed it, over a year later and it's still there ) I've been to a few cache locations and saw where my GPS was leading me and just told myself "No Freaking way am I going there", usually I come back with a crowd for those! Use your intuition and common sense, you shouldn't have a problem!

Ok, my apologies if this has come up before. (I'm just kind of lazy when it comes to forum searches and couldn't find anything else on it! ) I am a firm believer of not logging ones own caches (and I know people that do!) (Delorme or similar type caches being the exception), however, I have put on two events. I've hmm'd and haw'd about marking myself there but I was actually there and did mark myself as "attended" is this against general geocaching etiquette also?

What part of Nevada are you headed to? The bright lights of Vegas I'm so sorry! Not really! There really is a great bunch of cachers down there! They love to put on events for pretty much anything! You should check into the NGA How long are you down there for?

What part of Nevada are you headed to?