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The first time I found a tick on one of my dogs, I went on line to see if I could find out what to do. There is a whole bunch of places that will give advice, but the advice I felt was best was from several different Vets in tick country. They all recommended carefully pulling the thing out with a pair of tweesers or tick remover. Plus they all said it shouldn't leave parts of the tick in. But if it did it was still better then the risks with other ways of removing them. Yeah, I used to get them all the time in Virginia. Never seen one out here, but sounds like I have just been lucky. Anyway, I used to pull them out. It can be done, but you have to be very careful to pull straight back, and even tension so the head doesn't break off. Often, we put Vaseline on the body to block the breathing and then pulled it out. Bleck, icky memories of pulling full ticks off my dog

Actually, the theory is that he isn't a premium member so then he can't look at the cache page and see what's in the cache. It therefore locks the person out. Now if he has already found the cache and decides to return there is nothing stopping that... but then it would be a guess that there are bugs in there rather than actual targeting. Unfortunately, I think he is a premium member. He has visited my premium cache and signed the log. This cache has never never been a regular cache...

Thank you so much for posting this! We just acquired a 62s and were suddenly having problems seeing geocaches. I moved them over to the SD card (which is where I wanted them anyway) just as you described and now it seems to be working fine. You saved me a LOT of frustration! -Vicki

Two suggestions. The cheap one - put preventive duct tape on the spots that tend to get rubbed. This is similar to using moleskin The more expensive one- invest in some good socks. Try using a thin liner pair, with a thicker hiking pair. The idea is that the friction is now between the socks, not between the sock and your foot. They should both be of wicking material. I prefer Smartwool brand, but there are plenty of other good brands out there.

We have a leash that goes around our waist. It works pretty well and lets us have both hands free. Also makes the "your ball must be here somewhere" ruse much more believable Alternatively, we trade off looking and holding the dog leash (easier since there are usually two of us).

Wow, this is truly a shock! I have met Brian at several WSGA events. He was always one of those people I meant to get to know better, but I thought it could wait until a less busy time. As others have said, I guess that will have to wait. When I did talk to him or have other dealings with him, he was always unfailingly polite, cheerful, and generous with his time. RIP :'(

Here http://www.king5.com/news/local/GeoWoodstock-97742999.html

Has a great time with everyone today! Thanks for organizing, TotemLake. I will also be posting pix later. Katie ( the dog) came home, ate dinner, and passed out. We went out to dinner and by the time we got back Katie was ready for more action. I wish I recovered that quickly from exertion! Thanks again!

Sorry, I have no kettle, but wanted to confirm that one of us is coming, with the geohound. We have been snowshoeing before, so we will be arriving for the hike (carpooling with hydnsek). See you tomorrow!

At least one of us will be there with the geohound. If the second one of us doesn't come there will be room in the truck for one passenger, if anyone wants to carpool....

Not to mention punishing others for their own risky cache design...

Wow! Spectacular pictures!

Email sent. I hope there are some left!

We have already had two CITO events at Mt. Rainier National Park here in Washington. So the answer is "yes", but I am sure it will vary by park as it seems like each park superintendent has quite a bit of leeway as to how they manage the park. I think you are on the right track, though, that the more we show we can be good stewards and can be an asset, the more likely it is that we will either get permission for placements, or at least suffer less removal of cache placement priveleges.

DOH! Realized that neither of us put a link to the June 20 CITO at Discovery. Here it is: linky

Annie "stole" my answer I love Dash Point

Just giving this one a bump. A quick reminder that the second Discovery CITO is this weekend! The weather forecast is looking good, so come out and have a great time, while helping build our cred with parks dept.

As a person who gets on edge when people try to push their religious views on me, I would totally not be offended by this proposed TB. It sounds kind of cute. Best of luck and happy travels for your bug.

Hi everyone - Just a reminder that the Discovery Park CITO is coming up May 16. Don't forget to mark as "will attend" if you are planning on coming. (I need to get a preliminary count to the parks folks a little bit ahead of time). Thanks everyone who has already signed up. We look forward to seeing you and having some good fun cleaning up the beach! Here is the link (sorry - insert link isn't working for me right now): http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...&Submit6=Go

Its already there. Doh! I hadn't even looked. Thanks!

Discovery Park CITO has just been posted. GC1Q56T Please come join us! Shop99er, would you please add to the event calendar?

OMG! The geohound and I might actually be able to make this one! -Vicki

Along the same lines as the suggestions above, is a cache that is hidden in plain sight. There was one here that was a puzzle cache (to get coords and combination to lock). The cache itself was one of those metal magazine/newspaper dispensers. It was right there, but most cachers overlooked it at first and muggles just walked on by. The best thing is it was so huge! That cache is retired now, so I don't feel bad revealing what it was. Good luck!

We have a Garmin Nuvi 360 that we use here (Seattle) and brought to Spain and UK with us this past summer. It worked really well. We did not choose to upload caches onto it, since we also have a handheld GPS that we tend to use for caching (sort of a separation of duties). It is very easy to hand- enter waypoints if needed. We found the interface easy to use and the directions easy to follow. It has a pedestrian mode, so if you are walking (and need directions) it can select paths that are pedestrian-only. As a side note: Given that it was already a challenge for us to drive on the ...umm, "alternate" side of the road than we are used to, it was nice to not have to look at the unit (just listen for directions and concentrate on the road) while out driving. There is at least one shareware type program out there that works really well for uploading loads of caches (e.g. pocket query) to the Nuvi. Some friends of ours use it extensively with their Nuvi. One downside is that it seems to require deleting the other points of interest. As I recall, the Nuvi 360 comes pre-loaded with either North America or Europe/UK road map set. The North American mapset has been very accurate. When we went to Europe this past summer we ordered the Western Europe/UK map set (on micro SD with adapter - fit in both the Nuvi and the 60Csx ) which was also quite accurate, but does incur extra cost. Had we also wanted eastern Europe it would have entailed purchasing another map set as well. Good luck in your search!

Hate 'em! IMO micros/nanos in the woods are wastes of premium cache territory. Some folks like them, but not us.