Little Miss Muffet

One cache in particular comes to mind, it was logged by someone atleast once a week in the winter and more often now that spring has arrived. It was also a coffee container with a broken lid, water, etc. The CO didn't do maintenance even after 10-15 logs said that it needed help. Eventually, someone else did replace the container. Since this was a frequently hit cache another option (other than adopting) would be to let it be archived, and then put another in the same place of your own. There might be some sort of delay involved, I'm not sure. I have recently sent a different CO a message offering to adopt one of theirs that got muggled. It's one of my favorites and part of a series they put out so I don't want to see it archived. I offered to adopt it officially or just babysit it for them, whichever they preferred. Still no response.

First, THANK YOU! My kids will love seeing these caches. Three just got published in our local park that we frequently cache in. Second, Why aren't they showing on the map? When reading the cache page, they show on the little map window...but when I click 'view larger map' they are gone.

there's a thread about this in another forum...there's a link to it in my signature. You are not alone is wanting nicer swag. I cache with my two daughters ages 7 & 5. We clean out the junk and always leave alot of nice swag. Leading by example and being a role model for my kids. Do unto others. If I can teach my children that lesson, then life is good. My girls get excited to leave nice swag for others and say things like. "the kid who gets that REALLY cool blue hotwheels car is gonna LOVE it" warms my heart when I hear them say those things. My hope is that those that come after us, will find a nice cache and then (hopefully) will carry that with them and use it in the future on their own.

that's a great list....now tell me how you found it. I guess I need a lesson on Bookmark lists.

I went to a local event tonight and was listening to a bunch of folks with atleast 1000 finds tell all sorts of caching stories. Eventually, they started talking about the different challenges they were working on, or thinking about trying. Quite a few sounded interesting, but I wanted to read more about them. How do I find the cache pages. a few were 100 ammo can finds, 366 days , 100 days in a row, etc. how do I search for them? thanks

My girls would be THRILLED with those!!!

Could I add my daughters? Carolina Cachette (age 7yrs-21 finds) and Carolina City Girl (age 5yrs-13 finds). They love caching, karate, dance, soccer, animals, camping. We have a yellow labrador, and they like pretty much anything outdoors or girly. I got a coin from this thread last summer (from Sci Fi Collector), it was mailed directly to me and was just too beautiful to release into the wild. I donated one and started it for Mamoreb. I was hoping to get one that is already out there in the wild (where I can't touch it and fall in love with it, lol). I try to incorporate some lessons with travel bugs with my kids. And, of course, as I get more coins, I would pay it forward. Thanks!

With summer coming, I've been placing drink wraps (those neoprene sleeves to keep your drink cool)...even the grown up kids like those.

A question about the various removal tools.... Can the tick get away once you removed it? Are they stuck on the tool? Do they hop off quickly? I'll be damned if some little blood sucker that I remove off one of us is going to live!! Do you have to be quick to squish it? Or is it easy for them to get away, and then I'm freaking out because I can't find it and have to start the tick checks all over again. I'm preparing to take my little kids on a camping trip. In an area that normally isn't used for camping. We will be there for 5 days with kids playing in the stream, hiking trails, running thru the fields in SW Pennsylvania in June. So wearing long pants/long sleeves would just be miserable. Suggestions on how often to do tick check? or any other suggestions for that matter, greatly appreciated.

If you look at the stats, it says 77 days....but that isn't true. I logged 2 DNF's in June 2006....didn't start back up again until May 2010, when I logged another DNF and got my first smiley. so 4 years!

another case of divine intervention and a TB. It was meant to be. Thank you for sharing the story!

I deleted the indiv caches. but there's 2 I don't know if I should delete or not. Named sorta similiar 5081786_New Query-wpts.gpx it's 16KB and the other is 5081786_New Query.gpx its 1.9 MB is that PQ that I had previously loaded?

Found it! I was looking on the device for a way to access the files. Connecting it to the computer to look at its files didn't dawn on me (duh.) I had 203 gpx files. LOTS of indiv caches. thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can't figure out this particular part. All of the info I find tells me how to run a PQ, etc, but not how to get rid of them once they are on my device. I do ALOT of 'send to my gps' so I'm sure I'm probably close to the 200 gpx files limit. And where do I find out how many I have? I looked thru the link you provided above (ok, more like scanned fairly well) but couldn't find anything discussing it. All I could find was how to load new things. Thank you for your help! I've bookmarked the links above so I can find them again.

I'm not a techie, but just wanted to let you know that my Oregon 450 & Mac laptop & desktop both play nice together the majority of the time. Every now and then, I have to unplug/plug back in, so that the computer can see its connected, but I have to do from time to time with my camera and other gadgets too. going paperless is ***SO*** much nicer.

I'll be watching this closely. Last summer my 5 year old daughter got a tick in her hair while out caching. For some reason her immune system went into overdrive at the tick bite location (in her hair on her head), and she now has a bald patch approx 2"x2". The dermatologist gave us some gel to use (a steroid cream) to make the hair grow back and its working. (Alopecia Aereata). And this year I had one in my cleavage (YIKES!). Ticks just creep me out. Hope there are some good answers.

I'm a new cacher with a toy I've owned for a few months but really don't know how to use it all that well. I have a whole bunch of caches loaded on there now that I've been loading since last summer. I ran a few PQ's loaded those, at various times I just loaded them one by one when I knew I would be in a particular area. So now, over the last few weeks a bunch of new caches have been placed in the 20 miles around me. I would like to update my GPSr with all the new ones.....and ones I didn't load before..... We went with some friends over the weekend to do some near us, and I apparently didn't have them loaded because I missed them when I hunting & choosing from the map, or they didn't meet the particulars of the query I ran months ago. do I just run another PQ? Will it overwrite the ones I have in there with the current logs? Will it make duplicates? How to I do this? STEP-BY-STEP instructions are needed please. Thanks so much Rhonda.

Count me in!!! I recently was blessed with a shopping bag full of brand new Hot Wheels Cars, still in the packages. I've been placing them and getting lots of happy remarks in the logs after our visit. April is upgrade the SWAG month.... I'm going to go add it to my siggie now

I didn't read all the other posts, but just wanted to add that I've been using a bean bag mount for my Garmin Nuvi for the last 3 years....not a single problem....doesn't slide on my van dash at all. And its super easy to stash. Just grab it and toss it under the table/center consol, or the drivers seat. Sometimes I just toss it on the floor, depending where I am. And always take the Nuvi with me. To the OP- sorry you were robbed. I would have replaced the caching gps first too.....though, I'm not so sure the others in my car would be happy about that.

I found a plastic banana in a pine tree. My kids got a kick out of it. It was the first time we found an unusual cache container.

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bolded that part because its worth repeating. Listen to your gut feeling. I typically cache with my dog, but I'm still pretty new being out there alone and it can feel a bit strange when you've never spent much time alone in the woods. And my dog is the type who loves everyone so the confidence in him actually being protection isn't much. Being aware of your surroundings is probably the most helpful advice I could give you. Tell someone where you are going, so when you do fall down and break your ankle your friends know where to start looking, rather than you crawling for 3 miles. I tend to stick to the parks/trails that I know fairly well. So if for whatever reason I do need to leave the trail I have a general idea of which way to go for safety. Take note of who is around when you leave your car and head down the trail....who can see you walk off into the woods alone? You might decide to wait a bit or pick a different trail head. Text somebody the name of the trail you are on, not just the park you are at. I also stop in at the park office and chat up the person there a bit too. They may provide some important information. I carry pepper spray. I don't have ear phones jammed in my ears. I listen to nature and the rustling of leaves. The more you do it, the more comfortable you will feel. I'm not worried about most animals in my area...but if there is something near you that seems harmful to you, learn about them...what their tracks look like, mating season, where they make their home, etc. Don't look wild animals in the eyes....just back away slowly.

If you like you could ask the next finder to mail it back to you (or maybe just the tag and toss the animal) and then send it out anew. You could even send it back to that last finder. After reading your suggestion I posted a note on the TB's page asking the next person to contact me.

My daughters bug was moving along pretty swiftly last summer/fall thru Europe...then one guy picked it up in October. Around Christmas I sent him an email just asking that he did have it, and that it wasn't lost or not logged. He confirmed he had it. Maybe it was a language thing, but that was pretty much all he said. Still no word. So last week I sent another email (being polite as could be, apologizing if I was being a pest, explaining how my daughter is really attached to it, etc). He replied again, but also explained that they are in the middle of winter and there's a few feet of snow on the ground so he hasn't been out caching. So that explains alot. I'm here in NC wearing a tshirt and my brain just wasn't thinking about there being a few feet of snow on the ground in Germany. LOL. He did place it over the weekend, and since then 2 other people have moved it, so I guess its warming up over there. Be patient, polite and not a pest.

mamoreb- if no one else has contacted you...We love trackables at our house. I would be honored to adopt it.