Jimmy System

There's a tree climber in Stockbridge and a few others scattered around. Around here those are about the highest terrain caches other then boat only caches.

TiaToo, welcome to geocaching! There's a group that meets in South Lyon monthly. It looks like the next one is September 18th. GC3PP3T

I found a tongue depressor Velcro'd to the bottom of a park bench. Twice I've found caches hidden in poison ivy vines.

Cool, thank you very much.

I have a question about retrieving comments made in a Dakota 20. I found the cache and typed in a comment after logging the cache as found but now don't know how to retrieve the comment made. If anyone knows how to find that, please let me know. Thanks.

I'm a 'cleaner' for the local mob, so it gives me a chance to find new places to hide things... Really, I've always liked out of the way, interesting places and old cemeteries. Geocaching gives me a chance to see even more places like that. I've even been taken to places in my home town that I never knew existed.

You could always find a caching partner who's not allergic. My friend and I will go out caching and he grabs all the ones covered in PI regardless of who finds it. Once you get it, I've found that TECNU is the the best way to get rid of the rash. I've never been around PO, but I can vouch for how it works for PI and poison wood, which I got severely into during a Florida Keys trip. Also Ivarest makes a foaming soap that I've found works well to at least soothe the rash. And for my money, hand sanitizer does work for on the trail. Maybe it's more mind over matter, but I've stuck my arms into some thick PI, sanitized, and was fine. But above all, long pants and and long sleeves should be your first line of defense.

Oops, double post

This sounds like fun. My Jeep has been wanting a chance to try out it's new mud tires...

There's a cacheless cemetery in Pleasant Plains that would be a great addition to the ILSQ list. I saw it once while visiting Springfield and if I didn't live out of the area I would have placed a cache there. Anyways, Peter Cartwright is interred there so you've got a nice history lesson to go along with the cache.

If you buy one today you can get a PN-20 with Topo USA 7.0 for $159 after the $20 rebate. I bought one last night from here http://www.jr.com/pn20-earthmate-gps/pe/DLB_GPSPN20/

I recently received this reply to a request to place two EarthCaches at public access fishing areas along the Maumee River from the Division of Wildlife. I've emailed back with a plea to reconsider the ban on EarthCaches.

I have a personal TB (my car) that I dip in and out of all the caches I find. Why? I don't know, mileage perhaps, or maybe I just like getting a bunch of email about it... It would be nice to be able to log it at EarthCache finds, but not a huge deal since there's usually a physical or virtual cache close by.

Not so much denied as not responded to by the metroparks for one at Ohio's largest living sand dunes. I would have preferred to have been denied, at least I would have gotten a response.

I think both sides are bad on this one. The guy who took all the TBs out is a jerk for passing judgment on their safety or the safety of the cache without contacting the cache owner about it. Yes, bugs are supposed to be moved, but it was out of line for them to take them all out of an active cache at once. It's stuff like this that harbors bad will and gets people to quit caching. The cache owner, however, over reacted to it and was a jerk in the first place for hoarding bugs to place in a hotel. And I can see why they would want to make the rule of trade a bug for a bug so the cache doesn't go empty, but in the spirit of bugs, it's really not a good rule. Then what really upset me was the log about the sick child. In my opinion that was just tacky. I'll just make it a point not to go to that area and geocache.

Just passed this by my dad who is an Operation Lifesaver presenter and has many years of working for or working with railroads. His opinion is that yes, this would be considered trespassing on RR property. Even though there may be a bridge, tunnel, or whatever that you could cross under, the ground underneath it is still considered part of the right of way and railroad property. Whether the RR would enforce this is another matter, especially if it is considered a navigable waterway.

I bought a 12 pack of Rite in the Rain all weather journals (the small stapled kind) for about $25 from the web site. Not the biggest book, but I have enough that I can change the logs when they get full, which hasn't happened yet. The local Army surplus store also sells a variety of them for fairly cheap as well, so they're available. While most normal log books work just as well under normal circumstances, even the best sealed cache gets moisture in it. So really the Rite in the Rain books are more for a piece of mind thing, knowing I won't get logs about the book being soaked.

Man, just bought a 98 XJ a month and a half ago and was loving being in a jeep again. Then last week, and two weeks after the warranty ran out, the head gasket blew. Well, at least I still have my Jeep bike...

A friend of mine recently moved to Findlay, OH and we noticed that no caches had travel bugs or coins in them that are listed on the cache page. I know they come up missing from time to time. They get muggled, someone thinks it's a trade item, or forgets to log taking it. But the situation there is someone checking the site for newly dropped bugs and coins and stealing them. I've seen in logs where a bug has been dropped and less then a week later someone mentions that it's MIA. I even put a coin out down there on an early trip to the area and two weeks later met up with some other cachers on the trail who told me it was gone, and they were the first people to find the cache since I had. It really irks me that someone would do this. It's got to be a geocacher or someone familiar with caching since they're obviously checking the site for new trackables to steal. I really doubt going to the police would be of much use, they have better things to do then check on geocaches. And putting a surveillance camera up would be a bit much. Are there other areas where this is a problem? If so, what, if anything was or could be done about the problem?

I just recently got a '98 Cherokee Sport. I'm so excited and happy every time I get into it. I had a '96 Cherokee but a telephone pole got in it's way(the pole didn't make it, either). I had been Jeepless since then and was driving about unhappily, but all of that is over now.