Okiebryan

I've never seen a Budweiser key chain, a Johnny Walker coaster, or a Heineken bottle opener in a geocache. I've also never seen any of those objects tell the child of a lesbian woman that GOD HATES HER MOTHER because her mother was evil and going to spend eternity in hell with ghosts, demons and Satan. I have found this exact situation while geocaching with one of my daughter's best friends, who happens to be the daughter of a lesbian. This 9 year old girl burst into tears and didn't want to go geocaching any more. Please tell me how the propagation of this hateful garbage helps to further the activity of geocaching? Go ahead, I'll wait. Well there you have it. You haven't personally seen it ergo, it has never existed. Got it. Did you even bother to read the rest of that post?

Sorry, man. What can I say? We have a great reviewer.

I've never seen a Budweiser key chain, a Johnny Walker coaster, or a Heineken bottle opener in a geocache. I've also never seen any of those objects tell the child of a lesbian woman that GOD HATES HER MOTHER because her mother was evil and going to spend eternity in hell with ghosts, demons and Satan. I have found this exact situation while geocaching with one of my daughter's best friends, who happens to be the daughter of a lesbian. This 9 year old girl burst into tears and didn't want to go geocaching any more. Please tell me how the propagation of this hateful garbage helps to further the activity of geocaching? Go ahead, I'll wait.

I've had them published while I was still editing the HTML on the cache page.

The "chick" tracts are incredibly offensive. They are insulting to many Christians, they are frightening to children, and I constantly see them left in public bathrooms, and often in caches. The chick tracts are to Christianity about like Fred Phelps group up in KS is... Awkward and uncomfortable, and impossible to defend...even for Christians. Bottom line, Geocaching is not the place for any of this. Please keep your beliefs out of this light and fun family activity. If you choose to leave this stuff in a cache, and I come along behind you, this hateful propaganda will be relocated to the nearest garbage receptacle.

Any time I find these in a cache, I trade for them and throw them away. I'm a firm believer in CITO for cache contents. I prefer not to be preached to while geocaching.

MY girlfriend, my daughter, and I drove 150 miles to Cherokee County Oklahoma where there is a series of 28 caches placed in out of the way rural cemeteries. We had a Halloween moment when we heard strange noises that we couldn't identify. The deer were absolutely thick, and there were a lot of moving animal noises out in the fallen leaves outside of flashlight range. At one point some people came by on a little off road vehicle (like a mule) with no lights and we all killed the flashlights and crouched down in the weeds. They passed within 5' of us and never saw us. At one cemetery we were greeted by this really shy black lab. Once he saw that we were friendly, he was our best friend and went with us to get the cache. It was sad to leave him. Another good cache was the 2' tall fake owl perched in the cedar tree. The first thing my daughter saw was the eyes and hooked nose. She screamed. Good memories. Beats trick or treating with rowdy teenagers around.

I had about 6 of my caches found and logged yesterday. I normally get lots of emails on a Saturday, especially when the weather is as nice as it was yesterday. I got no emails for owned caches and none for watched caches.

Nowhere in the OP was it suggested that that should be used as a geocache. Really neat container, though.

I think that the reason it is set up the way it is is to make sure that a new cache hider has at least seen the LINK to the cache hiding guidelines. What you suggest would circumvent that, and I think it very well could contribute to the problem of inappropriate hides placed in ignorance of the guidelines. I just bookmarked the page. Problem solved.

I'm currently working on one that is a multi with puzzles not only on the cache page, but at each stage. I've got the final coords now, and tried for it last night... but the wind picked up after a 1.25 mile row and blew me away from the island where the cache is located. This one is a 5/5 and it's listed as a mystery/puzzle cache.

Who can possibly forget this one??? GEOCACHING DOESN'T CARE ABOUT CHILNDREN

I don't know about the spirit of geocaching, but I'd sure have some good uses for those containers!

I agree. GS has completely missed the boat on Android. This OS will be the one that makes the iBrick a dinosaur. Especially since iPhone is only available on the very pricy AT&T and Android is getting ready to be on Verizon and others. It's been on Tmobile for quite a while. As far as the choices on Android for caching, I prefer Geobeagle...at least until something better comes along.

For my 500th cache, I did an underground multi that involved about half a mile of crawling through storm sewers. I chose it because it was just cool, and many others had praised it highly. for my 1000th, I did the oldest cache in Oklahoma and brought along another family who I am friends with. Recently I finished my state's Delorme Challenge. Before going to the final, I cached my way to that area so I could make that final my 1300th find. I want caches that I want to remember to be milestones, so that the list on my profile is something I enjoy reading...

I get a lot of compliments on my logs, but I think others think I'm a bit wordy. We have a local guy here, Jamguys.. I love when he gets FTF on one of my caches because of the logs he writes.

How's this one for a good DNF day? Oh, yeah. This cache is definitely a 5/5. I came back down after solving for the coords to stage 2, only this time I brought help. I had checked the hour-by-hour forecast and it showed very calm winds for this evening, so as soon as she got off work she came over and we headed for Texhoma. We spent about 10 minutes looking for stage 2, but only because we were looking in the wrong place. I was looking for a similar container to stage 1, combing the area where the GPS led me... when we expanded the search area a little, Barb noticed a little something in a tree. This drew our attention over to that area, where I spotted the very cool hiding place of stage two. It actually startled me a bit, but only for a split second. We got the puzzle for the final and made short work of that. Well, now it's dark. I look at the location of the final on google maps and satellite view and chose the best place to launch. We drove over to that point, and noticed that the lake was as smooth as glass, just as promised. The wind was almost nil, a little cloudy, with the near full moon poking through the layer of clouds. We decided to go for it. It was 8:30PM. We aired up the boat, loaded up flashlights (including extras), life preservers, oars, and an emergency air pump...just in case. Just as we launched from the shore, I said to Barb, "I hope this isn't one of those moments like in the movies where they say 'If only we hadn't....." Off we went with just over a mile to get to the cache. We had a very nice trip across to the island. About halfway across, Barb asked me if I had a pen. I went into semi-panic mode for a second, but found one in my pocket. Phew! However, things were about to make a change. Just as we landed on what I thought was the right piece of land, the wind kicked up quite a lot. It's about 10PM at this point. We landed and took off across land to get to the cache. We were less than 3 tenths of a mile from GZ, but we found that the water was high and the island was not exactly connected. We can't get there across land! Ok, back to the boat. Now the plan was to row around, skirting the edge of this island, to get to the place where we needed to be. I even aired up the boat again just to be safe. We launched and rowed around this little point to where we were now out in the open and no longer protected. After a few seconds, we realized that we were no longer in control. The wind was blowing us backwards. No matter how hard we rowed, we were not making forward progress. We stopped rowing and I looked around to try to figure out what to do. The wind was blowing us who knows where? By now, the wind was breaking water over the side of the boat. That was a very scary feeling. I picked a spot on another part of the island and said, "Let's row for land over there". We rowed across the wind, and made it to shore. We beached the boat, the I started climbing to the high point so I could have a look around. We found ourselves in a very surreal landscape. Sandbar in one place, large patches of soft bermuda in another. Oklahoma diamonds here and there. Dead standing trees all over the place with huge birdnests made of clusters of sticks. It was a very creepy place. It didn't take long to realize that we had 2 choices... wait for the wind to let up, or call for help. I found a place on the downwind side of the island that offered shelter from the wind, and this is where I decided to get on the phone. At this point it's about 11:00PM. After getting past a dispatcher who couldn't exactly understand where we were or what help that we needed, we got a callback from an OHP Lake Patrol trooper. He was very nice, and assured us it was no problem to come help us. He told me more than once that he'd much rather come give us a ride tonight than to be dragging the lake tomorrow. I offered him GPS coords to our location, but to my surprise, he told us that he didn't have a GPS receiver on his boat. I had assumed that would be standard equipment on the Lake Patrol. Anyway, he indicated that it would be an hour before he would get to us. I debated whether to start a fire to keep warm. Barb and I decided not to since he would be there so soon. I started pacing, and Barb started texting and facebooking. I was VERY frustrated knowing that we were not going to claim the final tonight. An hour passed, and the OHP Trooper called back. He said that he had "spun a prop" on his boat, and was dead in the water. He had already called out another Trooper who was going to come get us first, then tow him back to the marina. We were going to be here for awhile. Definitely starting a fire, now. Not only did this keep us warm, but it gave me something to do, which I very much needed. So now here we are, stranded on a very creepy little island with a boat we cannot use in these conditions, huddled around a little fire, thinking about how this poor OHP Trooper was at home, probably about to head for bed after the news and now he's in the middle of Lake Texhoma dead in the water. Sometime after midnight, I spotted police lights coming across the water from a very long way off. I waited until they got closer and started signalling the boat with my maglite. Within about 35 minutes, we were climbing aboard the boat of Trooper #2. He wasn't quite as friendly as Trooper #1, but he was not angry or anything. At this point, I wouldn't have cared if he sent me home with a handful of tickets. Fortunately, he didn't. Barb told me I better not mention Geocaching to this guy, and I didn't. We made it back to the car right at 2AM. We changed into dry pants and socks after deflating and putting the boat away. Barb was trying to figure out how we were going to get this cache, but I suggested that perhaps we should switch to the 5/5 over at Duncan Lake? Barb seems to think that we should try it again. I'm definitely torn... Barb slept most of the way back to the city, and we made it home safe. What an adventure.

I used to have a siberian husky who went caching with us all the time. She eventually figured out what we were looking for and when we were out in the woods she would point out things that smelled like lots of people had been there. This very often led us to the cache.

My 11 yo daughter asked me if we could go night caching for rural historical cemeteries on Halloween night. I think that is much better than going trick or treating... I'm searching for likely candidates right now.

That is why I like Geobeagle. When I am away from data service, I just use the gpx file that I have already exported from GSAK onto my SD card. I currently have over 4000 caches on my phone and I can pull them up no matter where I am in the state, cell service or no.

I've been working on getting FTF on this cache for the last 3 days. Don't know if I'll ever get it. The cache

A newer cacher did that on a couple of hides here in my area. He even said on the cache page that the cache was within 150' of the posted coords. After about 10 veteran cachers DNfd it and posting things like "This should be a puzzle" the local reviewer disabled it and asked the CO to contact him.

I have one that I found before it was published, simply because I found a good spot to hide a cache and someone else had thought it was a good place just the day before I did. I signed the log and logged it online as soon as it was published.

I was just in the tmo store yesterday and I saw they had them for $149 with a 2 year contract. I paid full price for mine ($350) but I have a non subsidized plan... all you can eat everything for $79/mo. I also wanted to add that in the very near future, there will be netbooks coming out with Android as the operating system. That version of Android will be FREE and that should bring the price point down some... since the "microsoft tax" that you pay for win xp will not be a factor.

Android is an operating system that has been out for I guess a year or so. Up to now, T-Mobile was the only carrier that offered Android phones, but Verizon and possibly AT&T will be carrying the newest Motorola CLIQ. The Android operating system encourages open development for apps, unlike Apple's iBrick. The android phones also have expandable memory and far better tilt/compass/gps sensors. This makes the apps which use these sensors work better. I've had a G1 and now have a My Touch 3g. Both were very good at geocaching, but the mt3g has double the onboard memory (for apps) and double battery life. Geocaching on a phone sucks a lot of battery. I can now cache continuously (using 3g data and gps heavily) for about 6 hours before I need to charge, but if you are getting in and out of the car, you can just plug in the car charger while driving. That solves that problem. I still carry my 60Csx as a backup.