Polgara

A good cache to use as a center search point would be this one: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...61-da7b853412e0

The only thing you'd have to change on your GPS is to make sure you have the right hemisphere. For example, the US is North XX.XX.XXX, wherease Brazil is SOUTH XX.XX.XXX, need to to the same for East and West, otherwise your gps will say the cache that should be a mile away is a couple thousand miles away.

I used Sears Weatherbeater bright white paint on some rocks, in which i painted coordinates. Theyr're very easy to read, and have been laying writing side down in the dirt for 2 and a half years now, and they still look as good as they day i placed them. I don't know how it would hold up on an ammo can.

Everyone has their own synopsis of this. I think it depends alot on the way YOU cache. For example, i'm not a numbers cacher. I'm a terrain, climate cacher, what means to me is, i tend to favor high terrain caches, and caches out of my element. My element is PA, so out of my element would be caching in a desert, etc. I feel high numbers is alot like photography, more isn't necessarily 'better'. Photographers can take thousands of pics of the same model in the same clothes, and only one of all them may be any good for professional publication. Unless its out of your element, the more caches you find, is simply repeating the same action one thousand times. Its the same experience, one thousand times over. However, some cachers value high find count, and what seems to be the new thing, high icon count. In some way, that does something for those cachers, it doesn't do anything for me, but that is the way they play the game. The problem with it all is cachers that play differently are bundled into this by both sides. I don't have a high find count, but i've cached in 4 countries and 2 hemispheres. To the numbers cachers, i don't look like much with my 296 finds. If cachers are to be judged at all, on find count, or terrain / climate level, its not a fair evaluation to lump numbers finding cachers with high terrain cachers, its two different populations.

This is easy, if you uare a woman being perpetrated, all you got to do is throw up on yourself. Every man in the world will automatically back up 50 feet.

I enjoy writing about the caches. I usually write alot, mainly because i also write my own journal on my finds. My journal writing is alot slower than my geocaching speed, so i tend to write alot and in detail, so i can recall those little things that i would have otherwise forgotten, for my hand written journal. My online find tends to get longer and more descriptive with caches that involve exciting mishaps, long hikes, animal sitings, and changes in geography, etc. There is one cacher that i sometimes cache with that likes to explore abandoned places, or anything otherwise interesting that he finds on the topo map, making a side trip detour, which always makes a cache hunt very interesting.

What about Harrald? Where is Harrald?????

You learn nothing and miss the point if you use that site, not to mention demoralizing....can't people solve puzzles on their own? You need someone to spell it out for you? C'mon.

Just wondering if any cachers use any of the online stores to buy their GPS unit or accessories for caching, and what your experiences have been? Where did you order your product from? Were you satisifed with your product and the service? Did you have trouble getting returns/refunds/repairs successfully, or did you have an overall satisfactory experience? Is there a site you specifically cater to, when purchasing GPS units or accessories online? Just wondrin -Pol

GeoFroggy - Love the avatar, that's just too funny! LOL!

I think this should have its own forum, where the only topics that could be posted are the ongoing appeals. People can post their views, and the reviewers can consider the opinions, some cachers can be very inventive, and might be able to offer suggestions to help a cache placement work out in the end. Just a suggestion. -Pol

No, actually I skipped it and went to the gym. LOL!

Wow! This thread's almost 4 years old! LOL!!!

Perhaps sending an email to Edscott? He's a great guy, and he's made all 734 of his cache finds using maps, compass & orienteering skills, no GPS. Maybe he could recommend a book for you, or something to get yourself started? Just an idea... -Pol

Now where would you get that idea? LOL!

LOL! So far we got... Chocolates, mmmmm chocolates, yummy! There are books on chocolate! Lep skipping multi stages, perhaps there is a chapter on this in the geocaching idiot's guide? T.A.R. flipping through the cliff notes, maybe there are cliff notes to the geocaching idiot's guide?? Thrak NEEDS his/her poison oak...well there are BOOKS on poison oak, LOL! There are books on remedies as well! BSnat is frying eggs... Frivlas...the movie version of a cache, perhaps the Goonies? and DocDitto....taking a dump. LOL!

I was talking with another cacher yesterday, and shared my own analogy of interpreting geocaching in another perspective. To me, geocaching can be compared to books. There are tons of books (like caches) out there, so many that one person will never read every book or find every cache. Some caches are short walks, like some books are short reads. Some caches are dissappointing, as some books are dissapointing, so you just close the cover or lid and leave it behind. Some caches take forever to get to, long hike, tough terrain, but offer a beautiful view, and take you somewhere you'd never had gone before discovering caching. Some books are long and drawn out, but tell a fantastic tale you'd never forget. Some caches are talked highly of, but when you go searching for them, you wonder what the heck was the big darn deal? Just as some books make the best sellers list, only to find that once you read it, its just garbage, and leave you wondering how it got on that best sellers list in the first place. Some caches are multis, with several stages....some books are written in series, in each circumstance, sometimes the journey/ story gets better, sometimes it gets worse. Some caches are ammo cans, some books are hard backed...some caches are tupperware, some books are soft bound. Caches come in all diferent sizes...just like books. You can almost cache anywhere, be any age to cache, and seek any difficulty, just like reading a book anywhere, at any age, at any difficulty. This is just my own analogy. Maybe you have your own analogy to share.

I feel for you in this situation. You may want to get another dog now, instead of waiting till later. My uncle's dog has tumors, and his vet recommended getting a second dog, he said that it gives the other dog an emotional "lift", that they don't interpret it as you replacing them early. They see it as a friend. I wouldn't recommend a puppy, but an adult dog a few years old.

He has, and from the descriptions of the ones he has they sound like great caches, so lets not assume too much here. opps...oh well WHat is that in your avatar Geoholic? It looks like a green orange cut out to be a cat helmet? LOL!

I know i'm on a true 5 terrain cache when i 'yuke' due to exertion.

Shannibug? Congrats!

My dog could write a better article than that. How'd that guy become a reporter/ journalist? Who hired him? What kind of article was that? Why do people keep calling geocaching a scavenger hunt? There is no list of things to collect in this, you get coordinates, you find A CACHE, not a bag full of bird feathers, pinecones, pennies with a specific dates on them or whatever else you include in a scavenger hunt these days, easter eggs perhaps? They don't even highlight how geocaching is a way for families to spend time together, he focused so much on the negatives. I also don't think that if a member of my family or any of my friends had such an unforseen consequence, that i'd want some reporter, (let alone this guy) writing about it like that. Hey Uhler, in case ya didn't know, here's a review, that article sucks!

A micro in the rocks? Why not make the container larger, and build a cairn to put it in, since there seems to be an abundance of rocks? You could paint the container, there is a cacher in my area that does this, it works well. And with every visitor, the cairn can grow one rock larger. If you don't like that suggestion, i'd increase the difficulty, since it appears to be a micro in a rockpile.

That looks like a great cache, i'd adopt it, except for that i don't travel up that way, don't know the territory.

To react to poison ivy, you have to be exposed to it at least TWICE. The first exposure is your body recognizing it to be foreign, and you make antibody to it. During this exposure, you notice nothing, no itching, no scratching, etc., NOTHING. The second time you get it, you COULD have a reaction. You might get the itchies, with a rash, etc., but not everyone will. You may never get the rash and the itchies, or you may get a rash and itch everytime you're near it after that first exposure. You may also get a terrible rash on your second exposure, and never get that rash again with additional exposures. Allergies just work that way, they can come and go overnight. One day you can be allergic to something and the next day you aren't, and may not be ever again, or it could be several years till your next reaction. Same goes for any other type 1 allergies.