hikerT

With living in a rural area and having over 3000 finds my closest unfound is about 30km away(18ish miles?). I travel about 80km to work each day and have cleaned out almost everything in between and then some Nowadays I have to travel over 50km(about an hour travel time) in any direction just to find enough caches to fill a few hours. Thank god the price of gas has come down!

I can read these in about 10 sec. I cross my eyes until I start to see the image then uncross them to look around.

Done it! Same injury, due to caching of course. I was on crutches and there was snow on the ground. Also had to hop the snowbank on one foot.

It fascinates me that you can meet a total stranger at a cache, find out that they are also a cacher and spend the next several hours caching together. I also love the knowing the fact that at some point hundreds of cachers in your area have all been to the one same spot at one time or another.

I know many cachers who have made events into milestones, myself included. Both GHAGAFAPS I attended were milestones. I think you'd have a good turnout for this one, it would be interesting to see how many people could coordinate to reach milestones together. I have about 30 caches to go until I reach 3000, so I might just reach it tomorrow if I get out the door in the next little while. So far my 'plan' is to hit it tomorrow and try to be in the Niagara area so I could make it "Deer Bait" (oldest cache in Ontario) or it might be the closest cache on the list from 2999, maybe a drive-by micro.

It's going to attack you from above. I.e., look up. dave Ahhhh, thanks Dave. [] Eight adults couldn't figure that one out. After an hour of searching in the dark repeating the hint over and over and over, (and climbing trees) it stopped being fun.

Go buy a smartphone with email, data plan, and geocache navigator. Work from home, or work outside of the office, or be able to sneak out of the office at a moment's notice. You'll at least be able to compete with them then.

Actually I just thought of a cache that the BFL crew DNF'ed a few Fridays ago. The hint was "predator" What does that mean???? That hint drove us crazy.

1. Needless filler that uses up too much space in your GPS so all you see is "the cache is located between the" Thanks... I already know I'm looking for a cache that's located somewhere around here... 2. Parking coords... I'm already there!!!/which trail to take...again I'm already there and that's what the DESCRIPTION is for. Unless my hint is going to be a very specific 3 sentences long,(which I don't tend to do) I try to use 5 words or less. "flat rock" or "between log and stump"

It would be interesting to see how many viewers actually go out and find these caches.

It would be interesting to see how many viewers actually go out and find these caches.

I cache with my daughter on occasion- hikerE. Once I met up with another cacher to find a cache we had both DNF'd twice. We had only known each other through logging the same caches, and during the conversation that day he made the assumption that hikerE was my husband. Also, when I am mentioned in the logs of other cachers who do not know me, they always refer to me as 'he'. ..."I followed the tracks of hikerT right the cache, but he hid the cache really well so it still took me a while to find".

I use Cachemate on an old PDA with GSAK. I just bought a new Blackberry and installed a 30 day free trial of Cacheberry. I will not be registering this version once the trial expires. -it only supports one database -I can't jump quickly to a certain cache without hitting find and typing in at least 5 characters -difficult to isolate my found caches On the other hand, you can load the GPX file right off the desktop using Cacheberry Desktop. Load it right onto your memory card, or straight to your blackberry via USB. You can load multiple GPX files one after the other but they will end up in one big database. You don't have to open GSAK. Other than the limitations above, Cacheberry is pretty similar to Cachemate. I suggest installing the app and using the free trial to see how you like it. I will be going back to my PDA/GSAK until I can find something that is more like Cachemate.

I got 2 bottles of Sawyer's Permethrin from Cabela's while I was in Indiana this past weekend. It cost $5.99 per bottle, 2 apps per bottle(soak the clothes - lasts 6 weeks per app) I was wondering how long tick season lasts. I haven't seen a tick in a few weeks, although I know they are still out there. (I've been really lucky so far, being in tick infested Niagara region a lot, but only having ticks on my clothes and not my skin) I ust want to know if I should still treat my clothes now, if the season is almost over. I'd like to get the most out of the treatment I have, since it's not readily available around here.

How about UPS - unnatural pile of sticks or UPR - unnatural pile of rocks... etc

I live in Haldimand county and my cat carried a tick in the house last week. I was shocked, I never expected to find ticks around my house! Now I have to do a tick check every time THEY step in the house too... I have 3 cats and they are in and out 24/7. Also, I just checked Cabela's online, I order my hiking boots from them. They also carry permethrine. And since I don't know how toxic it is to cats I probably won't be buying any myself.

Four new caches had popped up in a town about 30 minutes away so I asked my daughter if she wanted to go shopping... she saw right through it. I ended up having to promise to take her to the mall after we grabbed the caches so she would go.

Sorry though, I couldn't help but notice some recent logs, and there is definitely some activity out there. But you can see in all cases, the seekers were aware of the threat. Welland area #1 Welland area #2 (both from the same cache). And Port Colborne area I was at that Welland cache and didn't notice any ticks... too busy trying to avoid the swim, and the mozzies were driving me nuts. And I'm sure that I carried a tick home that day. In the last few days I've been much more vigilant when I'm on the trail, careful to stay in the middle to avoid brushing the plants. But when it's time to bushwhack, the cache radar is much stronger than the tick radar...lol. The DEET and the checks when I get home makes me comortable enough to keep up with the caching. However, I did just see a picture of a tick on the web page link and it's TINY!!! I didn't know they came that small. The ones I'm finding are much bigger.

Regardless of how many accounts you have, you only found the cache once, so log it as such. Choose the appropriate account and log it there.

Funny this topic should come up, I saw a tick for the very first time a few weeks ago. I was caching around Niagara region, maybe Welland area. I flicked it off me in the car on the way home, not knowing what it was. Then I remembered the little icon in the attribute section of the cache page, it looked just like it. I have found 4 ticks in total, on 3 caching trips, all in Niagara region. (Please don't ask me why I keep going back there!) None have bitten me, all have been found on my clothes, and one on the shower curtain rod. I check myself as soon as I get home, and throw my clothes in the washer right away and shower. I have read a lot about ticks in the US forums, and they recommend 30% DEET for the skin, and permethrine for the clothes AND backpack. The Permethrine last several washings,(weeks to months). Wearing long pants and shirt is supposed to help but I'm not wearing a long shirt in 30 degree heat, it's bad enough I have to wear pants! I plan to treat 2 sets of clothes, and only wear them for caching. Ticks bites apparently don't hurt because they secrete something that numbs your skin. They must be latched on for about 24 hrs to cause concern. And of course, I feel things crawling on my skin as I write this.

How do you get PQ's into GSAK automatically?

I deliver mail for Canada Post to those community mail boxes. I have often thought of putting a cache under/on one on my route, but since the boxes are being routinely monitored by Canada Post(due to recent theft), I have refrained from doing so. I know my superintendent would not allow any such activity to take place around Canada Post property in our area, and I would think it would have the same response elsewhere.

I drive 1000km per week just to go to work and back...(read: $600/month in gas) so instead of caching my way home(usually out of the way) I am going to plan 1 or 2 days a week to do a run of caches to save on gas and mileage. I cache in a group some weekends, so that helps. If the gas goes up much more... it's $1.28 right now, I will probably get a part time job,... I don't want to cut back on caching. Eventually I will need to find a job closer to home. Maybe I'll sell one of my kidneys too...

I need a nice big lottery win, so I can cache instead of work and not worry about the price of gas. That and make daylight last about 4 hours longer...

The weirdest things I have seen are a bag of thongs on the side of a cliff, several homeless camps, a dead squirrel wrapped around the branch of a tree about 8 feet up, and several liquor stashes. Just not all in the same place, though. Oh, and we found 4 caches in one park just before dinner on a Sunday, and as we were coming back to the parking lot there were men EVERYWHERE... sitting alone in their cars, lurking around in the bushes, seeming to be waiting for something... or someone. Yep, we asked around and this place was notorious for being a gay pickup park.