orygun connie

Orygun Connie from oregon and Cubpilot from Ohio met via caching in Arizona and are now traveling together and caching- Goal is to cache all the states and just have fun. She is 66 and he is 73, and with motorhome and time they go where they want. Oh yes, both are retired though he can't keep his hands out of his businesses!

The gun has been sorta identified-by the picture-as a Beretta 9MM. We did turn it in and am surprised to be gettinig flak for not just keeping it! I think I did the right thing.

Until my husband died I always had a partner to cache with. Now I cache alone a lot. I have set up rules for myself regarding where I will cache and how far from the car I will venture-I use a positive attitude and I know it does help. I also agree that safety should be taken into account when setting up the cache. A rocky hill climb will eliminate quite a few cachers before they even get out of the car. Alone I will not go more than .20 miles from the car and less if it is dense vegetation. A bad looking neighborhood will get crossed off my list, and if I'm not familiar with the territory will sometimes just not do that cache-. I traveled from AZ to AR this summer by myself and did about 35 caches in the two weeks,-but I had printed out at least twice that number and for one reason or another did not feel comfortable doing them. This winter I have found a female partner, much younger than me, and we go caching 1-2 times a week. This week we found a loaded gun at a cache in downtown Tucson. Sometimes it's hard to tell where the dangers are. I also carry pepper spray-and have some at several convienient places-car, house, by bed, in pocket. and yes, I'm a senior citizen with over 500 caches.

Here is my stuck in the mud story! DOME VALLEY GCKN7T Adventure! I guess that is what we will call it! All of Arizona is now SOGGY, Wet and MUDDY due to the unusual winter. Some how we ended up on a small dirt road BETWEEN Thornton and Chuichu Roads near Casa Grande! And we are in Mrs Wranglers NEW Jeep Rubicon-just hit 1000 miles today! When we discovered we shouldn't be on that road we looked for a place to turn around, and we saw a good one-just drive around that little hump of dirt-Well, about 1/2 way around we went DOWN instead of forward-and that was the end of the trail for us. There are no inhabited houses anywhere near so we started trying to get us out-and just got us in deeper-to about even with the hubs and the bottom plate on the jeep and the dirt turned to sloppy muddy water. Seeing no way for US to get us out I called my road service and they sent out a wrecker-a big one with the flatbed on it. And when he started down the lane we were on he got STUCK BIG TIME! He struggled for a while and finally called for another wrecker to get him out! At last a wrecker hauling a tractor showed up and first pulled out the wrecker and then came to help us. Took a bit of discussion on the best way and finally they freed us from the mud. WOW, we were happy. But still had to drive out that lane and cut across where no road was because of the mess the wrecked wrecker had made. The two drivers stayed to make sure we got out ok and we did. We both said NO MORE DIRT ROADS, and then we suddenly found ourselves on the correct (dirt) road and just couldn't forgo this cache after all that excitment! So on we went to the cache and parked on, you guessed it, a dirt road and walked on in to the cache. After all that it was an easy cache. thanks Oh, back at the STUCK place Mrs Wrangler lifted up a board and under it was a coiled rattler! And it took $7.50 worth of quarters to get the jeep somewhat clean-

After telling ShadowAce of my find and him directing me to this site-had to post my find Around the Pyramid GCGA2F March 7 by orygun connie (539 found) Wow whatta cache! We found a LOADED pistol!!!!!! Don't think this is what Santa Cruzers meant for us to find though. We called 911 and they transferred us to the police dept who said they would send someone out right away-and an hour later we called them again and after another half hour a police car arrived and took the pistol! I would love to hear the full story of that gun. We did find the cache and sign in while waiting - being a 'good citizen' really cut into our day in Tucson caching time!

Hey, don't forget us seniors that can't walk or climb like we used to. A .2 mile walk is about my limit, and less if it is steep! But I love this sport. I too would rather see the ammo can caches. And less of the searches for a minute cache in a very public place. I especially like to be taken to a special place that I didn't know about.

Thanks to Prime suspect and Philnall- between the two of you I have solved the problem and waysites are going into easyGPS. Am using IE cause my favorite, netscape, has been acting up lately but you two saved me! orygun-connie

We have found two benchmarks now, but neither are on the list of benchmarks. I'm new to this so would like to know what I do now. I would like to mark these as finds, and am not sure how. The one we found today is at N33 17.577 W111 26.528 orygun-connie

Team Orygun is 62 and 65--just got started and like many others, wish we had discovered geocaching sooner. Jim is handicapped right now but a couple more angyoplasty stents and he may get up those hills again! connie and jim from Oregon and Arizona

Having the same problem all of you are having with the downloading files. Emailed EasyGPS and their reply was: go to geocaching.com andd generate a geocaching.loc. file; and ask on the forum for support. This did not help me at all-I haven't the foggist what they are talking about- help