Northern-Lights

Actually, I thought I was an agressively passive cacher?....lol The person below me...probably uses a Garmin..smirk. If God is your co-pilot, it's time to change seats!!!

I may be interested..... I'm trying to cut back some on FF but hey....a geo-league would be fun. Let me know when you set it up and by then you'll know how much it would cost.... I'm a definette maybe.....lol If God is your co-pilot, it's time to change seats!!!

We've almost done several things...but one problem or another kept us from getting there. However....we recently completed a signature item related to our name. We were able to purchase (lots) of lazer pen lights. They come in different colors and are small enough to fit into most caches.... We hope people will enjoy them as they seem to be popular. If God is your co-pilot, it's time to change seats!!!

Some of us out here have started being a bit devious with that.....we'll take a pile of sticks and put a small tuperware containor under it...the unsupecting cacher will almost always see it and open it and find a note saying .... "Fooled ya!!" Or, we'll do something similar....gets some pretty good comments at times... If God is your co-pilot, it's time to change seats!!!

Back in my firefighter days...I was involved in a rescue that made the national TV and newspapers....and of course we were quite famous in the local area that it took place in for quite some time. It was nice to be part of saving so many lives at such a horrific event...but that was long ago and far away.... If God is your co-pilot, it's time to change seats!!!

Familys that go out (and I have kids too so I'm not bashing kids) and they let each and every kid take the 3 or 4 most exspensive things in the cache and replace them with mctoys or other trivial junk. My rule is 1 trade per cache, and trade kindly. If I've got three kids with me..we'll either do 3 caches that day.....or rotate when we can. If God is your co-pilot, it's time to change seats!!!

quote:Originally posted by Snoogans:Ummmmmm, Yeah! O.K. I could go on and on. I wouldn't change a thing. .. LOL.....yup....welcome to the club!! It sure is addicting..... If God is your co-pilot, it's time to change seats!!!

I work part time at a Gander Mountain store here in this area....a few months ago I had a fella from England visit the store...he was visiting relatives. He was with the "Territorials" (like our National Guard). He (like many of our troops) wanted a GPS....and ended up with a Garmin Legend. Many of our troops don't have access to the military units......and are carrying their own... If God is your co-pilot, it's time to change seats!!!

One of the stops in a multi-cache I did was wire-tie the next coordinates to a tree branch. The coordinates were laminated and held to the branch with thin wire...then a spent shotgun shell (yellow) was placed over it. The tree had yellow leaves and the shell was very hard to see. Here in Michigan, with all the hunters...seeing a spent shotgun shell doesn't get much attention anyway.... only two people found it before I had to archive it. If God is your co-pilot, it's time to change seats!!!

since I've seen anybody give Jeremy and the admins a pat on the back for the work that gets done. My wife and I really enjoy this activity..and are very happy to help support it. Hats off and SALUTE to the GC.Com staff! If God is your co-pilot, it's time to change seats!!!

I origionally called about a rebate form for a specific model....was told the rebate covered it... then got my letter saying it was denied. So what to do... well....I called and asked to speak to a manager...explained the problem..and they were eager to correct the error. I got my rebate....slow.....but I got it. I think if you call and talk to them....you'll be surprised how it goes... I found them pleasant to speak to. Lets face it...with only a couple of competitors...they can't afford to get a bad name. If God is your co-pilot, it's time to change seats!!!

How about doing a cache with a bunch of pre-made micros inside.... Each finder could claim one and then you may be rewarded with a bunch of new caches to look for too!! If God is your co-pilot, it's time to change seats!!!

Sometimes it gets archived by admin to look it over.....however, once approved, that would be unusual..... I'd send an e-mail to the approver and ask if there is a problem and tell them what is happening..... Maybe they can tell you for sure..... If God is your co-pilot, it's time to change seats!!!

Congrats!! My bride and I have been married for 21 years now.....and it get better every year!! Hope you have a long and happy marriage!! If God is your co-pilot, it's time to change seats!!!

For those with the helical (quadrifilar helix) antennas, like I have with my Magellan Sportrac, I just put it in my shirt pocket.....all I have to do is occasionally pull out the top of the pocket a bit and see exactly where I'm going!! If God is your co-pilot, it's time to change seats!!!

quote:Originally posted by Socko:Just to clear things up, each container is a PVC tube aout 2" x 6", much larger than a 35mm. canister, and each is placed within a 30 mile radius of my home, none are closer than about 1 mile from another, all in different parks or sites, and only a couple in parks with already exsisting caches in them, though no closer than .26 miles from those caches, which is why they stand as seperate caches! Also, each has a log book, pencil, and geocache notice page in it, in other words, plenty of room for trinkets and other things. I have already been in contact with the local cache approvers and they have already preapproved 40 of the 50 caches. They have been in contact with the general geocache administrators and have cleared this idea with them. [This message was edited by Socko on May 31, 2003 at 04:02 AM.] Wow, sounds like a lot of planning and work went into this. Good luck with it.... I'm sure the folks in that area will love it.... I only wish I had that much area around me to hide caches like that.... Pleas send me an e-mail with one of the cache pages on it so I can follow the action!! If God is your co-pilot, it's time to change seats!!!

I thought this one...... http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.asp?ID=44182 was very well done. I was visiting from Michigan on business and had a ball doing it. It was also my first Members only cache. If God is your co-pilot, it's time to change seats!!!

This can be a lot of fun.... and we are planning one ourselves. We did this one http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.asp?ID=29425 and a fellow geocacher mentioned he'd seen one of our rare Michigan Rattlesnakes in the area!! We looked when we were there.. but didnt see one.. Bummer. Good luck with your idea... use a large tupperware container that will hold a dozen or so books. If God is your co-pilot, it's time to change seats!!!

As an inspector, I have 4 counties to travel through and around in..... I use the maps to help me navigate around..... It's much better than trying to drive and hold a map also...!!! If God is your co-pilot, it's time to change seats!!!

Team Signature items.. we often open a cache and the first thing we ask is "any signature items in there?" Many of the teams around here have come up with their own cards and signature items...and it's gotten pretty popular to chase each other around trying to get some of these. If God is your co-pilot, it's time to change seats!!!

quote:Originally posted by Zartimus:I don't really see a small nail harming a huge tree. I've heard the 'copper nail' urban legend where 'just one will kill the whole tree'. Give me a break. I've seen close-strung barb-wire fences absorbed (I'm talking eaten) by trees so that after a few years the barbed wire is passing right through the wood of the tree itself and the tree is growing around it. Trees are tough. Treat them with respect though. Driving a nail into a huge tree is not akin to driving a nail into one's forehead and should not be treated as such. Well ah..... actually, you are right and wrong. You are correct that nails, in general will not hurt a tree except as someone pointed out, it does leave a route for insects to get in possibly. On the other hand, rest assured that copper will kill trees. It's not an myth that I can find, and people have been using copper pipe for many many years to kill trees. Besides, there are not to many copper nails that I've seen, but I do like the suggestion of aluminum nails....very good idea.... A small finishing nail I think would be about perfect. (If its a large pine like we have around here, a small finishing nail wouldn't even penetrate through the bark.) That all being said, even though I'm not what one would consider a "tree hugger"..... I don't necessarily believe that nailing anything to a tree should be a standard practice, unless you did it on a branch where permanent harm wouldn't affect the main trunk. There were many good ideas presented, try one of those. If God is your co-pilot, it's time to change seats!!!

I agree with Jomarac5 in much of what was said. Mostly I think it's new cachers not understanding what all they do by not trading fairly. What really grinds me is when I read a log something like.... "________ and family showed up.....Billy took the flashlignt and Susey took the doll.....and Frank took the only other good item......and we all left our McToys"... You get the picture. Families and teams should only trade one item per cache in my opinion. One un-thinking team can devestate a cache with one trip. I also try to leave something at each cache....even if I don't take anything. I always sign the log and leave a nice note when I log the cache because after the trouble of putting it out there....I think it's a nice thing to do. Maybe I just fell into a bunch of good cachers around me.....or maybe I tended to read a lot of the forums and learned from that..... but I know that most of the time... if we are patient and try to explain things to the newer people GENTLY.... sometimes it does some good. If God is your co-pilot, it's time to change seats!!!

quote:Originally posted by Desert_Warrior:What sport are you talking about???? None of those names turn up on the geocaching website. Who are they? What did they win? Was it some kind of geocaching event or contest in or on a lake? BTW, I don't know who Jeff Gordon is either, but I really respect Jeff Cooper! Mike. Desert_Warrior (aka KD9KC). El Paso, Texas. ! That cracks me up!! And I agree with ya except I'm a die-hard red-wings fan and I'm still smarting from the but whoopin Aneheim put on them..... If God is your co-pilot, it's time to change seats!!!

Almost getting into ethics here........ it would be easy for several people all across the nation to "team up" and really blast thier cache count up.... Who cares? My wife and I have three daughters....when they are at home..and if they want to cache with us.....fine. We log each cache we find or not find. When they get married, if they want to start their own Team,,,, then I suppose they could go back and re-lot the caches they were part of.......and put them into their records if they wanted. Sometimes I go without my wife....so what? Usually we are together..... since we don't compete against anyone.....I can't see that it makes much difference. It's not like my daughter in college in Florida is caching and logging caches on our team name..... If God is your co-pilot, it's time to change seats!!!

Well, I guess after reading all this, that I won't give a friendly "toot" if I see a fellow cacher out and about.....I may end up with all kinds of knives, lighters, ammo and such thrown at me!! If God is your co-pilot, it's time to change seats!!!