+hedberg Posted December 30, 2003 Share Posted December 30, 2003 Living in Sweden means that there are not so many deadly or dangerous animals/bushes we can meet while caching. We have one snake that can be dangerous in Sweden. Spiders in Sweden are not dangerous. In the north part can you find Linx, Bear & Wolfs, but it's very unusual... So what are the hazards while caching in your country/state? Quote Link to comment
+TeamK-9 Posted December 30, 2003 Share Posted December 30, 2003 I agree with Criminal, hazards around here, include Police and Muggles... But also, snakes, bears, poison oak, killer bees, bobcats, the occasional pirahna, and the most dangerous thing of all, YOURSELF Quote Link to comment
+Criminal Posted December 30, 2003 Share Posted December 30, 2003 (edited) Up here in the Pacific Northwest, we have this very dangerous and very real Hazard Everyone who reads this should send a "Hi" email to the hazard in question, tell him Criminal says Hey. EDIT: Typo Edited December 31, 2003 by Criminal Quote Link to comment
+yumitori Posted December 30, 2003 Share Posted December 30, 2003 All of the above, plus mountain lions, ticks, drunken rednecks, poison ivy and oak, various rabid beasties ... Ya'll need to come for a visit! Quote Link to comment
+woof n lulu Posted December 30, 2003 Share Posted December 30, 2003 Don't forget thorns, cactus, black widow & fiddleback spiders, mountain lions, western diamond back & pygmy rattlesnakes. Tourist letting their kids run around the desert...no water and in sandles...yickes In New Mexico it either stinks, stings, sticks or bites... Quote Link to comment
+hedberg Posted December 30, 2003 Author Share Posted December 30, 2003 5 minute after the first post - and you are already freaking out? That must be a record? The police are not a big issue here, neither the military. Quote Link to comment
+Doc-Dean Posted December 30, 2003 Share Posted December 30, 2003 5 minute after the first post - and you are already freaking out? That must be a record? The police are not a big issue here, neither the military. Does Sweden have a military?? Quote Link to comment
+woof n lulu Posted December 30, 2003 Share Posted December 30, 2003 5 minute after the first post - and you are already freaking out? That must be a record? The police are not a big issue here, neither the military. Freaking out ???? Just answering the forum topic I would think.... Quote Link to comment
+hedberg Posted December 30, 2003 Author Share Posted December 30, 2003 Hey, all those hazards and you are caching!? Have anyone of you had a serious meeting (is that the right word?) with deadly/dangerous animals? I mean like putting your hands in between stones to retreive the cache, and there are also a snake or something like that? BTW, are not the heat in some parts a hazard? I mean like caching in the deserts?? Quote Link to comment
+woof n lulu Posted December 30, 2003 Share Posted December 30, 2003 Hey, all those hazards and you are caching!? Have anyone of you had a serious meeting (is that the right word?) with deadly/dangerous animals?I mean like putting your hands in between stones to retreive the cache, and there are also a snake or something like that? BTW, are not the heat in some parts a hazard? I mean like caching in the deserts?? Caching in the desert has its whole own set of problems... And yes... we have picked up a cache with a Recluse spider on it...they can cause some serious problems...no snakes, or cats yet, but we use a walking stick to move aside growth or rocks first... Quote Link to comment
+hedberg Posted December 30, 2003 Author Share Posted December 30, 2003 I have seen cachers here in Sweden that rush right out in the forest and stick their hands in between every stone they can find, to see if the cache is there... Not to recommend in other countries perhaps? Quote Link to comment
+hedberg Posted December 30, 2003 Author Share Posted December 30, 2003 Does Sweden have a military?? No, not today because all three guys are on holiday at the same time... Quote Link to comment
+woof n lulu Posted December 30, 2003 Share Posted December 30, 2003 haaaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaaaaaaahaahahahahahahahahaha FUNNY ! Quote Link to comment
+Renegade Knight Posted December 30, 2003 Share Posted December 30, 2003 ...drunken rednecks... I'll second the drunken rednecks. At least when I'm in the woods at 1am I'm looking for tupperware using beer as a divining rod with a bunch of great people after a beer & pizza event. I have no clue what the drunken rednecks are up too, and I don't want to find out either. Quote Link to comment
+Sparky-Watts Posted December 31, 2003 Share Posted December 31, 2003 Lions, tigers, and bears.....and the occasional flying monkey or wicked witch. Quote Link to comment
+wildearth2001 Posted December 31, 2003 Share Posted December 31, 2003 Illegal Immigrants!!!! I live in southern Arizona and we have a huge problem with Illegal Immigrants, Coyotes (not the animals, the people smugglers) and drug runners. I amost never go for a desert cache without encountering one of the above or Border Patrol. Also rattlesnakes, stray dogs (they all seam to want a peice of me, especially if I am on my bike), scorpions. As in New Mexico it all either stings, bites, or shoots, as in the case first metioned (the Coyotes and drug runners) and being shot at by some no talent idiot who sees anything that moves, or dosen't for that matter, as a target. Also the desert weather can chane quickly. I went on a cache hunt and got stuck in a snow storm at 2500ft in the DESERT in MAY!!! Lightning, wind, every weather phenomenon other than tornado and hurricane. Also it is kinda hard to explain to border patrol what you are hiding in some remote desert valley after you trip a motion senser. Quote Link to comment
+wildearth2001 Posted December 31, 2003 Share Posted December 31, 2003 I'll third the remark about drunken rednecks!! Visit my cache page (500 Feet from the Pump Station) and you will read about them and illegal immigrants sharing a camp just feet from the cache!!!! Quote Link to comment
+leatherman Posted December 31, 2003 Share Posted December 31, 2003 Police. Only because of your name! The most dangerous thing around here is Blackberry bushes. Quote Link to comment
+briansnat Posted December 31, 2003 Share Posted December 31, 2003 Not much in NJ...maybe an ocassional rattlesnake, or copperhead. Lotsa black bear, but they're mostly harmless. The mosquito and tick are probably the most dangerous animals commonly found here. Quote Link to comment
+wildearth2001 Posted December 31, 2003 Share Posted December 31, 2003 Oh yeah I forgot to metion the mosquitos. During the monsoon we have mosquitoes to rival Minnisota or any swamp!!! They are huge, there are zillions of them and they are mean. Also chigars can get pretty bad. Quote Link to comment
+woodsters Posted December 31, 2003 Share Posted December 31, 2003 (edited) Big rocks.....and the mosquitos of course... Edited December 31, 2003 by woodsters Quote Link to comment
+Johnnie Stalkers Posted December 31, 2003 Share Posted December 31, 2003 (edited) ...drunken rednecks... I'll second the drunken rednecks. At least when I'm in the woods at 1am I'm looking for tupperware using beer as a divining rod with a bunch of great people after a beer & pizza event. I have no clue what the drunken rednecks are up too, and I don't want to find out either. Based on your description of yourself I'd say YOU are the drunken redneck. Was that your point? Edited to be on topic. Once while looking for an Urban cache with Ani I lifted up a brown metal cylinder (some of you know what I mean) and when she screamed I looked. What came crawling accross my hand was the biggest D*** wolf spider I have EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE! About half the size of my hand. (and I've got BIG hands ) Needless to say the pole searching ended and we found the cache in a nearby woodpile. Edited December 31, 2003 by Johnnie Stalkers Quote Link to comment
Dinoprophet Posted December 31, 2003 Share Posted December 31, 2003 In SE Michigan, we have rattlesnakes, West Nile virus, and Lyme disease. I don't think we get bears or wolves this far south, but there are coyotes. About once a year, there will be a questionable cougar/panther sighting. There's also Detroit, but there are only a handful a caches downtown. Quote Link to comment
+Dan-oh Posted December 31, 2003 Share Posted December 31, 2003 Earthquakes? Beside the shakers, the spring/summer temps make dehydration a concern in Southern California. Quote Link to comment
+Renegade Knight Posted December 31, 2003 Share Posted December 31, 2003 ...Based on your description of yourself I'd say YOU are the drunken redneck... Hmmm... I live in Idaho...know what beer is and how to use it...have a broken rig parked out front...have been in the woods at 1am doing strange things...have enough firepower to start a small war...have been in a Walmart... It's not looking good. Check out these logs though. Pikes Peak Rock Creek #2 I've been on three night caching trips. If you can get a truck there at night there will be drunk rednecks... Quote Link to comment
+wray_clan Posted December 31, 2003 Share Posted December 31, 2003 In Southern California? The occaisional muggle, and sunburns! They're absolutely horrendous! Quote Link to comment
+Johnnie Stalkers Posted December 31, 2003 Share Posted December 31, 2003 Ok, I'll retract my redneck statement. You, fine Sir, have earned my respect. If not with your intelligent scripting of words then by doing the right thing with a wounded animal. I salute you, beer drinking cacher, and all your good deeds. P.S. - Pound for pound, Scotch is cheaper and leaves far less regret in the morning. Unless your in a bar in Amarillo, Tx. with a toothless waitress named Wanda O'Rielly. But thats a story for another time. Happy Trails Amigo! Quote Link to comment
+Kitch Posted December 31, 2003 Share Posted December 31, 2003 slipping on some ice.....in the winter mosquitos and ticks in summer...... so nothing really.... IN MINNESOTA Quote Link to comment
ju66l3r Posted December 31, 2003 Share Posted December 31, 2003 I have seen some Drop Bears around here before.... ...must have caught a ship from Australia. Quote Link to comment
+EScout Posted December 31, 2003 Share Posted December 31, 2003 In Southern California: On the roads and freeways: killer traffic that kills (accidents caused by people who don't know how to drive....co-worker just was in an accident where 6 people died...she lived, car upside down in the opposite lanes of the freeway), stray bullets (I know of three people who have had bullets enter their car, including my uncle....bullet through back door about a foot behind driver seat) In the hills and valleys: Mountain lions are attacking and killing with increasing frequency because they are a protected species, with no hunting. Coyotes are killing mostly pets and sometimes attacking small children. Quote Link to comment
+clearpath Posted December 31, 2003 Share Posted December 31, 2003 (edited) In Missouri, we have to keep a look out for funny looking guys that have no eyebrows or teeth. They usually wear very dirty hats. And they play the banjo at all hours of the day and night. Technically, these people are not rednecks. Rednecks are even scared of these banjo playing, pig squealing hillbillys. edit: typo Edited December 31, 2003 by clearpath Quote Link to comment
+T10X Posted December 31, 2003 Share Posted December 31, 2003 In southwest Ohio it's the bomb squad. Look up Back and Forth cache in Butler county OH Quote Link to comment
+Johnnie Stalkers Posted December 31, 2003 Share Posted December 31, 2003 In southwest Ohio it's the bomb squad. Look up Back and Forth cache in Butler county OH Any Bomb Squad activity in Sw Ohio? If so I have missed it. P.S. - We are in West Chester. Quote Link to comment
+StarshipTrooper Posted December 31, 2003 Share Posted December 31, 2003 Hazards? Cougars, bears (both kinds), wolves, rattlesnakes, skunks, raccoons, beavers (uh-huh. Ever cornered one?), badgers, ticks, mosquitos, poison ivy, thorns, water, cliffs, heat, cold, lightning............ Makes life interesting - don't it? I'm going to be placing a cache near an area where I've seen lots of fresh wolf sign lately. Should make for some interesting logs. -ST Quote Link to comment
+RocketMan Posted December 31, 2003 Share Posted December 31, 2003 Rattle snakes of all sorts, mountain lions, scorpions, black widows, bees and wasps, ticks, poison oak, sunburn and heat exhaustion. Quote Link to comment
+GEO*Trailblazer 1 Posted December 31, 2003 Share Posted December 31, 2003 There are a couple of sink holes here ,I do not recomend caching at night in certian areas,Copperheads,RattleSnakes,Brown Recluce,Limestone Bluffs,Drunk Rednecks,once in a great while I,m one of em...lol,Poision Ivy,Oak and Sumac,stinging nettles,black berries,(but they are worth it) and last but not least TERROISTS!!!!!!!!!!We are Hazardous to their Health Quote Link to comment
+evergreenhiker! Posted December 31, 2003 Share Posted December 31, 2003 Up here in the Pacific Northwest, we have this very dangerous and very real Hazard Everyone who reads this should send a "Hi" email to the hazard in question, tell him Criminal says Hey. EDIT: Typo ROFL!!!!! Quote Link to comment
+evergreenhiker! Posted December 31, 2003 Share Posted December 31, 2003 Hey, all those hazards and you are caching!? Have anyone of you had a serious meeting (is that the right word?) with deadly/dangerous animals?I mean like putting your hands in between stones to retreive the cache, and there are also a snake or something like that? BTW, are not the heat in some parts a hazard? I mean like caching in the deserts?? I had a very close encounter with a large black bear, but that was just on a hike, but it could have been a caching hike. Fortunately, it looked at me for a second or two and then bolted. The ones I worry about are the big cats close in near town...e.g. Issaquah or Sammamish. These cats are being pushed out by the older animals to new areas and less food so they have to adjust to survive and have been known to attack pets and human beings. I've never seen a lion all my years of hiking or deer hunting for that matter, but have seen their tracks on occasion. Quote Link to comment
+evergreenhiker! Posted December 31, 2003 Share Posted December 31, 2003 Big rocks.....and the mosquitos of course... Looks like a good ambush spot for a cougar! Quote Link to comment
+Renegade Knight Posted December 31, 2003 Share Posted December 31, 2003 ...Cougars, bears (both kinds), wolves, rattlesnakes, skunks, raccoons, beavers (uh-huh. Ever cornered one?), badgers, ticks, mosquitos, poison ivy, thorns, water, cliffs, heat, cold, lightning... What he said, plus Moose, Stinging nettle, lava flows (ever tried to hike in one?), Utah drivers, but only when they are in Idaho, City Council, and of course Rednecks. The Police are ok, they geocache here. Actually I should thank the City Council, they try hard every hear to turn this place into a locationless cache. That one where you find a ghost town. Quote Link to comment
+StarshipTrooper Posted December 31, 2003 Share Posted December 31, 2003 Thanks, RK. I forgot moose, stinging nettle, and Utah drivers. The lava flows are the difference betwen eastern and western Idaho. -ST Quote Link to comment
+woodsters Posted December 31, 2003 Share Posted December 31, 2003 Big rocks.....and the mosquitos of course... Looks like a good ambush spot for a cougar! Not sure if there are any big cats like cougar up here. Haven't heard of any. There are fisher cats though. Would be a big jump for a cougar. I would say it's around 20-30 ft high. There's an old powderhouse on top of it from back in a couple hundred years ago. It's where the town stored the gun powder. There's an alarm type of thing up there too with a siren. We also have bears, moose, and all the other animals and insects. I never thought I would ever say this, but the ticks and mosquitos up here are worse than they are down south (Augusta, Georgia) Quote Link to comment
quimbly Posted December 31, 2003 Share Posted December 31, 2003 Well, there are deer around here, but they're only dangerous if you hit them with your car. Adders are apparently present in our local Area of Natural Beauty (Cannock Chase), but I've never seen one in 35 years of living near the place. Gnats are fond of chewing your veins, but I don't think anyone's ever been seriously ill, just severely itchyed. I've done more damage to myself opening a banana with a pair of scissors than I have geocaching in the UK, to be honest. Although I did slip on an icy rock today when I thought a climber was a wallaby and got a bit excited. Quote Link to comment
+Donnacha Posted December 31, 2003 Share Posted December 31, 2003 Well thanks to St Patrick we have no snakes here in ireland....but you really got to watch out for those leprechaun's. They'll rob your cache if you don't hide it well enough. Quote Link to comment
+The Leprechauns Posted December 31, 2003 Share Posted December 31, 2003 Well thanks to St Patrick we have no snakes here in ireland....but you really got to watch out for those leprechaun's. They'll rob your cache if you don't hide it well enough. Terribly sorry. We just couldn't resist plundering the caches we visited. Here in Pennsylvania, hazards we've encountered include bears, snakes, backwoods types shooting off their rifles and pistols aimlessly, black ice that sends cachemobiles into ditches, mosquitos, and deer ticks. I had a near-miss with dehydration while caching in Southern California during late summer heat. 80 ounces of water and Gatorade wasn't enough for 7 hours of hiking! Quote Link to comment
+carleenp Posted December 31, 2003 Share Posted December 31, 2003 (edited) It's pretty darn safe in Nebraska, maybe that is why it can also be boring!?!? Here the dangers I can think of though: West nile (but no lyme), nettles, poison ivy, rattlesnakes in the west, and the rare possibility of a moutain lion since one recently wandered into the middle of Omaha. Oh and I suppose tornados. Edited December 31, 2003 by carleenp Quote Link to comment
+astheravenflies Posted December 31, 2003 Share Posted December 31, 2003 Western Washington from most dangerous to least dangerous (sort of): Mountain lions, blackberry thorns, stinging nettle, mushrooms, garter snakes, banana slugs, salamanders, carpenter ants, wood rot, English ivy, and blue tarps. Pretty scary, huh? Quote Link to comment
+carleenp Posted December 31, 2003 Share Posted December 31, 2003 Pretty scary, huh? How are garter snakes dangerous (not to mention slugs and salamanders)? I have tons of them that breed every year under a rotted tree stump (uh oh! wood rot!) in my yard. They are my pets! Quote Link to comment
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