Summer Caching

[+TeamK-9]

The reverse of this topic was talked about ad nauseum a few months ago, but I thought I'd sort of revive it but change it to summer/spring.

 

What, if anything do you do to your caches to prep them for summer?

 

Also, what if anything do you change about your general style of caching?

 

I started out caching always wearing pants, but I've also been through probably about a mile now of heavy under brush that will just get heavier this summer. It gets hot here in the summer, but do you guys leave pants on, or do you just wear shorts and take the pain?

 

If you do wear pants, do you have special lighter pants that you don't sweat your butt off in that can be acquired for relatively cheap?

[+wildearth2001]

The reverse of this topic was talked about ad nauseum a few months ago, but I thought I'd sort of revive it but change it to summer/spring.

 

What, if anything do you do to your caches to prep them for summer?

 

Also, what if anything do you change about your general style of caching?

 

I started out caching always wearing pants, but I've also been through probably about a mile now of heavy under brush that will just get heavier this summer. It gets hot here in the summer, but do you guys leave pants on, or do you just wear shorts and take the pain?

 

If you do wear pants, do you have special lighter pants that you don't sweat your butt off in that can be acquired for relatively cheap?

i just wear shorts, i never wear pants unless I am welding... well anyway I will wear a cheap pair of gaiters if there are those grass seed things (just to keep them out of my shoes, the gaiters dont do anything for thorns) I get cut up a lot but o well

[+Perrin]

I tend to stick with shorts during the summer. I end up having to fight through the pain associated with falling into sticker bushes and walking through fields of stinging nettles, but hey, I'm a man I can take it!

 

I think I prefer being in pain, but slightly cooler. Seems silly, but that's just me.

[+rusty_tlc]

I wear long pants, and a long sleeved shirt most of the year. I just change the weight when the seasons change. I think you are actually cooler in a long sleeved shirt that in short sleeves. Same goes for pants. This probably wouldn't work in NJ or the south. But it sure does in the desert.

[+Team Perks]

One word: TICKS. Light-colored pants are the way to go.

[+Renegade Knight]

Ticks, Thorns, Rocks. I should wear pants but forget (Kinda like Johnny Stalkers).

 

Now is the time to plan major cache trips and maintain some of them that are disabled.

[+wildearth2001]

BTW aside from thorns I do get quite a bit of chiggar and mosquito bites but never a tick

[+Team Cacheopeia]

After getting a very nasty, long-lasting case of Poison Ivy last year here in Houston in the middle of summer, I've opted for scrubs. They're not super heavy-duty but they stop me from getting all scratched up.

 

Every summer I spend a week working on houses in Mexico, and scrubs are our clothing of choice there, too.

[+Nurse Dave]

Thorn scratches and poison oak rash are on the menu year around.

[uperdooper]

long pants, long sleeves, and a hat for me. (i'm not allowed any sun.)

[+TeamK-9]

That sucks about not getting sun, I'm the kind of guy who can get endless ammount of sun, as long as it's not all on the same day. I also don't have a reaction to poison ivy...

[+TEAM 360]

Down here in AZ, it's back to the 1/1 level caches in the 120 degree summer heat for me...although I have been known to go out and hike for a few miles in the desert for a FF....

[+El Diablo]

I always wear Jeans and short sleeve shirts. Also a hat to fend off ticks and horse flies. I also have an adverse reaction to sun.

 

I started using deet last year after a lifelong fear of it, and have been a lot happier since.

 

El Diablo

[+wildearth2001]

Down here in AZ, it's back to the 1/1 level caches in the 120 degree summer heat for me...although I have been known to go out and hike for a few miles in the desert for a FF....

dang, you beet me to that post, ecept for the FTF as I have none but I still hike a few miles in the desert and cycle in the summer. Just for you, I think I will place a new cache way out in the middle of the desert, as near to your place (and attractive to you) as I can get it, just to make you brave the heat for the FTF

[+TEAM 360]

Down here in AZ, it's back to the 1/1 level caches in the 120 degree summer heat for me...although I have been known to go out and hike for a few miles in the desert for a FF....

dang, you beet me to that post, ecept for the FTF as I have none but I still hike a few miles in the desert and cycle in the summer. Just for you, I think I will place a new cache way out in the middle of the desert, as near to your place (and attractive to you) as I can get it, just to make you brave the heat for the FTF

If you are gonna do that, PLEASE wait for a week where it will be at least 120 degrees out...the other cachers down here know I am crazy enough to go for the FF just as soon as it gets posted, no matter how hot it gets...

Edited March 26, 2004 by TEAM 360

[+briansnat]

I wear shorts as soon as it hits above 60 degrees. Between geocaching, hiking, doing trail work and playing softball and soccer, my legs are are a mish-mash of scabs, scrapes, bruises and cuts from mid April through October. I go through quarts of rubbing alchohol and hydrogen peroxide.

 

As far as the caches themselves, they are fine. No need to do anything special.

[+robert]

Thorn scratches and poison oak rash are on the menu year around.

You need to try this cache.

[+carleenp]

If it is hot, I tend to wear shorts. I don't really care about the scratches and such. I would like to buy a pair of convertable pants though. I once didn't go after a cache because it required wading through nettles and I had shorts on. Also, they would be handy for tick infested areas.

 

The things I definitely wear in summer are sunscreen and deet. West Nile was a big deal here last year and I don't take sun very well.

[+Stunod]

I have two words for you: CONVERTIBLE PANTS

(oh, I see Carleen beat me to that)

Edited March 26, 2004 by Stunod

[+TeamK-9]

Does anyone do anything special for their caches for the summer other than just a nice cleanup/restock?

[+wildearth2001]

I wear shorts as soon as it hits above 60 degrees. Between geocaching, hiking, doing trail work and playing softball and soccer, my legs are are a mish-mash of scabs, scrapes, bruises and cuts from mid April through October. I go through quarts of rubbing alchohol and hydrogen peroxide.

 

As far as the caches themselves, they are fine. No need to do anything special.

i get all kinds of scabs, scrapes, bruises from all of the stuff in the wilderness and from shaving, man i get a bad cut daily from that

[+wildearth2001]

Does anyone do anything special for their caches for the summer other than just a nice cleanup/restock?

I am just going to put a fresh covering of duct tape on mine, just do a check, nothing special should be required

[adampierson]

I usually cache in long jeans regardless of the weather. True it can get hot, but I prefer it over getting scraped up, bitten by ticks. Jeans offer protection much better than shorts.

[Major Catastrophe]

What, if anything do you do to your caches to prep them for summer?

Here in the Willamette Valley, all that needs to be done to "summerize" a cache, is to open it and dump the water out!

[+Chance Encounter]

If you wear shorts to this cache, I wanna see the pictures of the aftermath! You'll notice that most of the logs are from before the foliage started to thicken with the arrival of spring.