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You can get them at wooden-nickle.com. They are resonable and relieble I have ordered from them before and liked the product except when any wooden nickle gets wet it warps, I was carring some in my pocket out caching and was sweating (100 degree weather does that to me) and went to drop one in a cache they were all warped. When they dried they pretty much flatten out again. I now use plastic sig nickles.

Wow that's impressive! How many members are in your lodge? Around 275 we just did two EAs tonight, we have a MM scheduled week after next and two more EAs the next week. We have two more petitions being examined to vote on next month. The way I figure it I will have between 40 and 45 degrees my year. I am getting wore out, I can not see doing many more in a year. This is the most degrees in a year since they did 68 degrees in 1984 when we built our new lodge. Last night we had a district workshop and when that was over at 9:00 we opened a FC Lodge and did a profeciency. We are at the lodge 3 nights a week and there are always 3 to 10 people working on their memory work. At least I only have until the end of June and I will be out of the East and can do more geocaching. Next year will be the first year in 12 years that I will not be an officer of the lodge unless I decide to be treasure.

I also have started talking to the wife about taking a week and going to where the MOGA 2008 event was held at the Spalding Recreation Area at Mark Twin Lake in Missouri. We will feature over 60 permanent caches to add to the 80+ caches that are around the lake including the 60 caches at Indian Creek Recreation Area left from the last MOGA event. There are over 140 caches listed at the lake that would make a fun week. Think about finding 20 caches a day for 7 days That would be several months of finds for me at my rate. I am talking about going in September when it does cool down a bit and the kids are back in school.

I thought it was Colorado after I asked the question. I will probably hit both areas thanks to your suggestions I am going to be there for 6 days. It gets a little hotter there than here in north Texas but it is a "dryer heat" I have been out caching in 95+ degree days here but it is like 45% humidity as comparied to 10% or less there. Again I plan by being done by around noon caching. By reading about the Valley of Fire state park I maight be able to get everyone to go out there and spend the better part of the day there. If they have a good time at Valley of Fire I maight be able to talk them into a Red Rock trip.

Thanks I will check out those areas especially Red Rock Canyon, don't they have concerts there? I have a 100oz (about 3 quarts) Camelbak I carry and if it looks like I get the chance to stay out longer I will take extra water with me. In the abandoned mine country do you go into the mines? Not sure if I like that or not once you got inside the GPS stops working doesn't it? I used to go in caves/mines when I was a kid but not so sure about it any more, I have got a lot safer the older I get and realize I can not get out of things I used to be able to.

Thanks I will check out those areas especially Red Rock Canyon, don't they have concerts there? I have a 100oz (about 3 quarts) Camelbak I carry and if it looks like I get the chance to stay out longer I will take extra water with me. In the abandoned mine country do you go into the mines? Not sure if I like that or not once you got inside the GPS stops working doesn't it? I used to go in caves/mines when I was a kid but not so sure about it any more, I have got a lot safer the older I get and realize I can not get out of things I used to be able to.

Well it depends if you ask me or my wife. My wife wanted to go to Vegas to celebrate her borther's 60th birthday in June and all I could see was the caching opportunity. She wanted to fly and I pointed out to fly and rent a car was going to cost at least twice as much as driving. I already have my route mapped with every cache within a mile of the road. I just can't wait get up every morning and go caching while it is realative cool and everone else is getting up and around. Come back to the condo at around noon and spend the rest of the day doing what they want. I bet I can get my brother-in-law interested in caching so we may be able to stay out longer. What is a good part of Vegas to cache in? I have seen all the virtuals on the strip but that is not I call fun. I would rather go somewhere to see nature not manmade caches. I don't want to go 100 miles into the desert or 4 wheeling.

I agree with the OP pretty much but it is up to every person to decide what the danger is to them. What may be dangerous to one may not be dangerous to another. I don't like the fake birds nest that teaches people to look at all bird nests. The other one I really don't like is the fake sprinkler head once you find one all sprinkler heads are now fair game, I wonder how many real sprinkler heads have been broken or at worst misalined.

I read an artical about in my local small city news paper and borrowed a GPS from a friend went once and ordered my own GPS when I got home and was hooked. The only problem I have is I can not spend enough time doing it, I only have time on the weekends and those are getting harder and harder for some reason. I want to go to Missouri and go to the State Park where they have the MOGA and work on the 140+ permanent caches they have there. I could see spending a week there camping and going out to a different part of the park every day, that is still 20 caches a day. I had my best vacation I have had in a long time last summer in Reno I cached a little every day 19 finds in 5 days and hit the casinos at night and even came back with money in my pocket. I am going to Vegas this summer to do the same. I am driving out and will be hitting some caches while going there thought.

How did you come up with 21,670 for Mission Viejo? I just did a search for caches in state on geocaching.com home page which go out a radius of 50 miles and came up with 9,804 for Mission Viejo 5,037 for San Diego 4,314 for Philly 4,476 for NY NY 6,405 for Dallas 6,083 for Fort Worth

Well I have replaced quite a few wet/full logs probably 5-10% and I just have generic logs but I write in the first log line donated by DEW Cache seeing how I am the first to sign it. I can not see how any one would get upset at that. I make sure to state when I log it on line that I replaced the log.

I am a traveling man also I am Master (my second time ) this year of Lewisville Lodge No. 201 A.F.&A.M. in Texas and it has cut into my Saturday morning caching time some. I have so much going on I just can't seem to find the time to get out every Saturday like I am use to. We have had 35 degrees in 8 months and that by itself is keeping us busy. I have been caching for about 18 months and I am just waiting until I can retire and go caching more. I just found one of the first places I have to visit when I do in Missouri my home state.

Man I think it is really neat that so many government agencies are taking an intrest. I know when I approached my city (Highland Village) about putting some caches on a new hike/bike trail they were excited. I might approach them and show them what their neighbor is doing and see if they want to do something like it.

I amlost always have new logs and when I find a wet or full one if there is not room for them both I take the old one with me and when I log my find I state that I have the old log and if the cache owner wants it I will get it to them. I will let it set around for about a month then throw it out.

Well I when the INATN site was up I saw several people with over 300 finds in a day. Myself I just don't see how they did it not saying they didn't but I know I could never do any thing like that. Doing 312 in a day which was reported would be 13 an hour and at least 1.3 miles an hour every hour which is 4.6 minutes per cache. That is also at least 31 miles traveled at .1 mile between them. Heck it takes me at least 5 minutes to find a cache, open it, sign the log and rehid it once I get to GZ if I am lucky. My best day was 14 out of 15 last month but I only have 261 finds.

One that someone else does! I have only tried a couple and never found them so I don't even try them any more. The couple I tried required some research BEFORE getting to the field which I never do, I just look for an area I have not been before with 3-8 caches and download them to the GPS and Palm and head out the door. I don't even include them in my PQ's any more.

The city of Flower Mound, Texas has a GPS program set up in their parks which can be found here link They even have a game setup to use GPS and a loaner GPS to lend out. I just think it is neat for a city to set this up. Granted it will not give me a smiley but who cares, I am sure I can set some up caches close by and they do mention www.geocaching.com at the end of the page. From their web page which is much better looking than this text version Discover Flower Mound Parks and enjoy the outdoors with the Flower Mound GPS Adventure! Using your GPS receiver and the Flower Mound GPS Adventure Score Card available here, challenge yourself, your family or your friends to find all 15 GPS Adventure control markers hidden in parks throughout the Town. If you own a GPS receiver and are familiar with finding locations using latitude and longitude coordinates, simply follow these easy steps. If you’re new to using a GPS receiver, find answers to your questions below. Download and print the Flower Mound GPS Adventure Score Card. Select parks to explore and markers to find – or try to find them all! Use the coordinates on the score card to find each marker and record the marker letter on the score card. Use the Start Time and Stop Time sections of the score card to record your time, or just enjoy the day as it unfolds. View the GPS Adventure Map View the GPS Adventure Scorecard What is GPS (Global Positioning System)?Made available to the public in 1997 by the United States Department of Defense, the Global Positioning System (GPS) is a worldwide, space-based navigation system operated by the U.S. Air Force. The system is a constellation of 24 satellites that provides accurate information about position and speed of travel anywhere in the world to individuals with a GPS receiver. What is a GPS receiver?A GPS receiver is a small, handheld device (about the size of a cordless home phone) that utilizes the location of four or more of the 24 satellites to chart the distance to each and calculate its own position on Earth. Location is displayed on the GPS receiver screen as coordinates of latitude and longitude. You can learn more about how the GPS system and GPS receivers work at http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/gps1.htm. Where can I buy a GPS receiver and how much do they cost?GPS receivers are sold in most sporting goods stores and online through outdoor outfitters. The cost of an entry-level GPS receiver is approximately $100. Does the Flower Mound Parks Department have a GPS receiver I can use?The GPS receiver may be checked out for three days at the Parks and Recreation office, 3925 Churchill Drive. How do I use a GPS receiver?GPS receivers vary, but for use on the GPS Adventure Map, entering a single set of coordinates from the Flower Mound GPS Adventure Scorecard and saving them as a waypoint or navigating directly to them works best. A new GPS receiver, as well as the loaned unit, come with complete instructions. Make sure to view the GPS Adventure Map to get an idea of where the markers are and how you’ll plan your approach. What other fun things are there to do with a GPS receiver?There are many sports and outdoor activities that use GPS receivers. One sport that is growing rapidly among outdoor enthusiasts and suburban families looking for low-impact, outdoor adventure is geocaching. Visit www.geocaching.com to learn more. What are the Flower Mound GPS Adventure control markers and what do they look like?The control markers are plastic 4 x 4-inch orange and white squares.

"But nothing beats an ammo can, I rearely come across a ammo can with it's contents damp." I generally agree with you except a couple I have found wet inside. One of four that were tied down and had been under about 4 feet of water for several months was full of water to me that was puzzeling, if the water got in why did it not get out? The ground was semi-dry when I did the caches. It was laying on it's side the only thing I can think of is it leaked on the top side so the water did not leak out. But I knew it was full when I picked it up by the weight and I turned it over and no water came out until I opened it. The other three were dry inside though.

The only problem I see if the line is 100 feet from the cache some people are not going to see the line that far away and will start climbing the tree to get to the cache and that can not be good for the tree.

Anythime a program does not runn under Viata you can try the following to get it to work it will not work all the time but it may help. 1) Right-Click the program icon on the desktop. 2) Select Properties, 3) Click the 'Compatibility' tab, 4) Check the box to 'Run this program in Compatibility mode for', 5) Select 'Windows XP (Service Pack 2)', 6) Select the option to 'Run as Administrator', 7) Select OK and re-open a new session.

Blue Deuce is correct it is an and, not an or my mistake but with neither checked it should find the both, the only thing I have checked is "Not Found" and "Is Active" in my queries except my found query. Try setting up a query of only "I Have Found" checked using GSAK you can send them both to your GPS. You may be able to do it with other programs I don't know. Also my GPS when doing searchs will only show found or not found caches so while in the find geocache screen hit menu and you will see a "show found caches" if your GPS works the same as mine. But the map shows both symbols. Surley you have downloaded the query since the first time, just trying to think of the obvious. If none of this helps I have no idea.

Is your query set up to show only not found caches, all of mine are except the found query are set that way. Make sure you check found caches in the query and they should show up.

It depends! Some I will not go back to more than once other I will go back several times until I find it. One I went to about 6 times before I found it of course my GZ was off about 50'. There is a saying around that went hunting one of this hiders caches you take a "Hidders Name" offest I did that but I took it the wrong direction once or twice then he finally changed the coords and I found it with in 2 minutes. The only help I got from him was go find this cache I hid which I did and still could not find it. I wanted it for my 100th find but I could not hold up my finds for this one. This is my last DNF log - Well I failed to find it again. This was my 5 try at this and I spent over an hour out there today and a total of over 3 hours so I quit you beat me! I looked at everything in a 35’ radius from GZ. I found lots of bag worms, 3 wasp nests (good thing is was cold today) and 1 bird nest with at least 1 egg but no cache. I wanted to use this as my 100th find but it is not to be so I will finish one of the multiples that I have found the first stage on. I have found a piece of ½” vinyl hanging in a tree with the next stage coordinates on it but not this. I am glad they are all not this @&*# hard!

I would like to know that also but I would guess it is the farthest caches off of the route. If you do a seach from a cache it will give you the limit out to the distance if you increase the number in the seach the distance goes out futher. What you can do is run the query with the limit of 300 save it then run the same search with a limit of 500 and see what the differences are. It may be better to run it using lower numbers to say 100 and 200 and let up know what it does. Who knows I may try it to see what happens myself.

To save time you could get some leg0 blocks which are building blocks and create a reuseable stamp(s) for them. They come in two different sizes which I am sure you know one for infants and one size for 6-7 years old and up. You could even make a set of them one stamp for each person on the team with the goal to find one of each member and when you put them all together the speel out something or say something.