TrailBound
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Well, I'll use the "Tell me about the time you went caching in...."
The far away cash for me was the, GCJ9F4.
I' am an on call Lt. Firefighter EMT for my home town. I came across a grant from the Department of Energy (DOE) for flammable liquids & terrorists training at the cache site. The cache is just off of the campus of the UN , Reno. I called an singed up for the class, and luckily I was picked to attend.
The class was for 5 days divided between class room, and live fire evolutions for the teams to fight. 95 other firefighters from around the country were divided into teams for the class. I had a great opportunity to meet, work with, and learn from many other well trained on call members, volunteer, and careerer firefighters along side each other at a state of the art training facility together.
This was my first time seeing the Rocky Mountains. What a sight. Here in New England, I basically live at sea level. (+20') I have hiked to the top of Mt. Washington in NH., but the Rocky's, WOW. During a break in class I introduced Geocaching to my partner from WI. When he returned home he was going to start Geocaching with his family. I posted a few pictures from my class in 3/07. I'm in the group "B" photo on the left in the yellow gear
. If anyone goes to this one, and their is a class in session and on the fire ground at the time, go to the visitors center and ask for a tour. I'm sure that someone will be able to show you around if it possible that day. This was one of the best training that I've had. The unmatched knowledge and years of experience of the instructors was amazing. All who have attended the class have brought back enough of the basics to pass along to their own communities to get started in the right direction if the unthinkable were to happen in their home towns.
Thank you for the contest idea.
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Happy Birth Day.
I'll give you the condensed version, for I only have few minutes before work today.
A brother firefighter in town, his daughter is has been in a wheel chair all her life. At the time he was bouncing from car to car as they died. A friend was getting a new chair van for him self and wanted to sell his old one. Any way I was able to collect enough money to buy the van, fix the few problems and deliver it Christmas eve while he was a church. Wrapped with a bow and a few presents for the kids inside. This was one of best Christmases we've ever had.
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Happy New Year.
I have to go with the year. 8
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Congrats.
My guess..
12/26
7# 3 oz
20.5"
@ 1600 +/- 30 min. just a feeling
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133 - TFTH
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Lieut. FF/EMT B, with 18 years for me.
DW dispacher, former corrections officer.
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We've only got 19 finds and have recently adopted a cache.
Could care less about the numbers, for me it's fun and being outdoors.
We try to squeeze in a cache or a hike each morning after I get home from work.
I can't wait for the fall - my fave time of year to be outside
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Even though I've only been here a couple of weeks, I'll say "Thanks Mods and Admin for all that you do"
It's tough to be a mod, because no matter what you do or how you handle a situation ; whether it be post, thread or poster, you're always in the proverbial poop. Sometimes they've got to make tough decisions and more often than not, the decisions they make will upset someone - no matter what side of the issue they are on.
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Ooohh...Having a background in speech and language pathology, I often wondered how people around the geocaching world would pronounce this.
I see the emergence of regional dialects in everyone's choice. Nice!
I too would choose the /cito/
C - /s/ is fricative (lingua-alveolar) and the tongue is forward and teeth together in the mouth to create the ssss sound.
I - /i/ is a mopthong and the tongue is still forward and the teeth are still close together, but not closed as in the /s/
T - /t/ is a stop (lingua- alveolar) where the tongue touches the area just behind the back of the teeth. (many will make the /d/ sound because the sounds are almost exact in nature, anatomically speaking, the /d/ is just a voiced version of /t/)
O - /o/ thus the o is a long monopthong where the tongue is returning to a resting position.
So, in chosing I think this would be the easiest for pronunciation of CITO as a word. Regionally though, I can see why it differs.
Interesting thread.
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03 honda element - seats out of the back to make room for 3-5 dogs depending on the day and the cache.
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I've moved a couple things from one cache to another. I didn't think you were actually supposed to keep it.
I figured I would take something and move it, and leave something of my own.
I've just started out, but I just put things that are nice, have a meaning to me, and are kinda neat in one way or another.
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I'm new to the whole geocaching thing. We just started doing it this week.
I tried to say a bit, but don't want to bore people either. I'm not sure what to put or what people expect. So, I always say thanks, and try to give a bit of info about what we thought.
I don't know, is one method of logging preferred over another?
. If anyone goes to this one, and their is a class in session and on the fire ground at the time, go to the visitors center and ask for a tour. I'm sure that someone will be able to show you around if it possible that day. This was one of the best training that I've had. The unmatched knowledge and years of experience of the instructors was amazing. 
help on caches
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It may sound a bit simple, we started with a print out of each cache on the list. The print out was great to make notes on, and track any TB that might be their if you don't wish to take them. We could double check the numbers, would have the description if their was one, and the hint to decode if needed. You could use the Google map / sat view for clues before you get their. If you can bring a pup for cover if you could be in one area for a while. Don't give up too easily. I seconed the hand held unit. Good luck.