en-us Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:37:52 -0600 admin@texasgeocaching.com 60 Texas Geocaching Discussion Forum http://www.texasgeocaching.com/forum/ Texas Geocaching Discussion Forum http://www.texasgeocaching.com/forum/http://www.texasgeocaching.com/ http://www.texasgeocaching.com/forum/images/rss.gif Texas Geocaching Discussion Forum RSS Feed 80 15 Geocacher Finds Dead Body mcwtlg http://www.texasgeocaching.com/forum/topic.asp?whichpage=-1&TOPIC_ID=4322&REPLY_ID=36378 North Texas Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:45:33 -0600 http://www.texasgeocaching.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=4322 Quote:
When I told my wife she just looked at me and said, "How many graveyards have you been in lately?" She said this because I actually prefer cemetery caches. I like the quiet. However I am not sure why the one in McKinney that I was in last week had a BBQ/Smoker setting in the back.

[img]http://www.drunners.de/cachestats/stat4.aspx?id=10018798[/img] [IMG]http://www.keenpeople.com/components/mystats.php?userid=mcwtlg&vopt=&txtdata=Just+Call+Me+'LG'&bgcol=FFFFFF&fgcol=000000&imbadge=y&badgetyp=texas1.jpg[/IMG] [img]http://img.geocaching.com/stats/img.aspx?txt=Just+Call+Me+'LG'&uid=47800da0-5ba6-4cc0-a5af-7ee1780aadfe&bg=1" border="0" title="Profile for mcwtlg" alt="Profile for mcwtlg"[/img]]]> "Hot Fun in the Summertime" sandbassking http://www.texasgeocaching.com/forum/topic.asp?whichpage=-1&TOPIC_ID=4304&REPLY_ID=36377 North Texas Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:46:03 -0600 http://www.texasgeocaching.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=4304 Quote:
The Weather forecast for this Saturday is HOT & FUN!!!!

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[8D][8D] Congratulations to SBK&Q for hitting their double milestone: 5000 Finds and 500 Hides!!! [8D][8D]


Sounds like a most excellent cause for celebration. Perhaps we put something in the pipelne.
[:P]

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I'm hunting wascally caches. Be vewy vewy quiet.]]> GoS tour Austin! by GiGi and JoJo (GC1DWDM) sandbassking http://www.texasgeocaching.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=4324 Central Texas - Austin Sun, 06 Jul 2008 03:12:22 -0600 http://www.texasgeocaching.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=4324 Local geocachers come meet up for lunch (or join us for a day of caching) with the GoS from NTx.


http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=4b6f388f-19a0-47f9-bbe4-9ac1cd04d8ed

Thanks to GiGi and JoJo for hosting/posting this event.

[img] http://www.devfolio.com/geocaching/statbar/logo.aspx?uid=9af9f38a-ed76-44ca-a937-21c5337c0a91&txt=Ummm...Juicey+Fruit!&img=ntx[/img]]]> GoS tour Austin! by GiGi and JoJo (GC1DWDM) sandbassking http://www.texasgeocaching.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=4323 North Texas Sun, 06 Jul 2008 03:10:00 -0600 http://www.texasgeocaching.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=4323 by GiGi and JoJo
GC1DWDM

Over night road trip to Austin! GoS, are you ready?? Pack your jammies, we're going on the road. This is the first overnighter for the GoS. We'll stay over night on the 20th, cache on the 21st and meet up with some "locals" for lunch, then cache before returning home Monday evening. Contact SanbassQueen, Dreamcacher V, or Mama Cache if you need a ride or room.

Thanks go out to GiGi and JoJo for posting/hosting this event for the GoS.

for more details go to

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=4b6f388f-19a0-47f9-bbe4-9ac1cd04d8ed



[img] http://www.devfolio.com/geocaching/statbar/logo.aspx?uid=9af9f38a-ed76-44ca-a937-21c5337c0a91&txt=Ummm...Juicey+Fruit!&img=ntx[/img]]]> Boy, was it HOT today ! krazykatzen http://www.texasgeocaching.com/forum/topic.asp?whichpage=-1&TOPIC_ID=4309&REPLY_ID=36369 General Discussion Sat, 05 Jul 2008 12:19:07 -0600 http://www.texasgeocaching.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=4309 Quote:
I guess I won't get much sympathy for complaining that many of the caches around here in the Cascades are still buried under snow?
]]> Funny Logs Hedge Hopper http://www.texasgeocaching.com/forum/topic.asp?whichpage=-1&TOPIC_ID=4080&REPLY_ID=36368 General Discussion Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:31:49 -0600 http://www.texasgeocaching.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=4080 Quote:
OK folks...someone else come up with some funny logs...until that happens I think I'll threaten to post one of my own periodically. Here is one for a six stage terracache in which the cc code was in one of them...so...you had to find the stages until you found the one with the cc code in it...little was I to know............

"Did this one with MustangJoni. Of course, MJ offers to drive. As I have said many, many, many, many, many times before “I have seen this young lady behind the wheel of a vehicle before”™ and said that I would do the driving. This would save me having to hunt up my blindfold (so I don’t have to see all the hand gestures (both parties)) and ear plugs (So I don’t have to hear the honking and cursing (both parties)). Good deed for mankind done.

We had already done the first and second stages, so all we had to do was find the leg that had the cc code in it.

We arrive at the crack of dawn. We knew after reading Cammie’s log that it would take at least five hours to do this one and we were going to go down to Waco for a 6:00pm event...so...we needed to be finished at around 2:00pm in order to get home, shower and hit the road for the drive down. It took us 6 hours, so we barely wound up getting to the event on time.

We take off for the first stage...of course...it was MJ’s choice and not mine, but I know from experience not to argue with a woman. We get about .25 miles from the trailhead and the trail is under water. Off we go trying to find a way around. Lucky for us, there is an old trail that we were able to follow. As soon as we got back to main trail, we start to hear noises...soon we were completely surrounded by a vicious pack of armadillos. MJ amazes me again! I don’t know where she gets the stuff, but she reaches into her pack and comes up with a bag of armadillo feed and starts to throw it around. As they were busy eating, we were able to slip thru. We make it to the cache location, which in itself is a puzzle with all the high water. I spot the cache and we open it....oops...no cc code. I put a sock in my mouth to keep from telling her “I told you so”...and we continue on our journey to the next stage.

We get to the second one with no difficulties or encounters...no cc code either....WTF are we supposed to do here???...enough said...this one must be experienced...words will not do it justice!

We start for the third stage. Many parts of the trail are under water. The skeeters are thick....in fact, so thick that MJ had to reach into her amazing pack again and came up with two of those oxygen tanks that old folks use. This allowed us to breathe without sucking in lung fulls of skeeters. We encounter the first part of the hunt that we could not bushwhack our way around the water. Luckily it was not too deep. We find the cache and take care of business. Good hide...just our luck though...no cc code again!!!

Off to the final stage. THIS WAS A CHALLENGE!. The entire area was under water and we must have bushwhacked over a mile trying to find a dry route. We were not going home without a find! Period. We had just about exhausted all avenues to get there and still had not found a dry route. Finally, we find one and keep getting closer and closer to the cache.


http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i203/HedgeHopper/wading.jpg

Ooops...water again, and we are almost there. Absolutely NO way now without some wading. I could not believe what MJ did next. She reaches into her pack and pulls out two chest waders. Amazing! We start wading and finally get to the general cache location. We could not find it! Man...I hope the cache is not under water! No problem. MJ reaches into her pack again and pulls out two snorkel masks. Now another problem...we would have to take off our oxygen masks to use the snorkel masks...but at least now we could see under water and search there. Ok...we start diving. Ooops...now the water has filled out chest waders on the inside...Oh well...so here we are, with ballooned out water filled chest waders and snorkel masks. I won’t say how or where we finally find the cache, but we did.

We reach shore, dump all the water out of our chest waders, filter the skeeters out of our teeth, put the oxygen masks on again and slog our way back to the car. 8+ miles total.

OK...now another problem. I just bought a new car that has charcoal color cloth interior...and we were muddy head to foot and wet. Good thing no one was around and that the car sits pretty high. Now I just hope that no busses or semis pull beside us on the way home...but that is another story............

This was a great cache and the puzzle was cool. Thanks for putting out an excellent cache.

So...advice to those that are going to attempt this cache...be sure to bring a diving mask and snorkel for the underwater hides, chest waders or wet suit for the wades, some sort of breathing apparatus to filter out the skeeters and at least two full cans of 150% deet bug juice

TNLN....Thanks for the cache!!!"
]]> July Geo Breakfast Event 25/50 sandbassking http://www.texasgeocaching.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=4321 North Texas Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:03:41 -0600 http://www.texasgeocaching.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=4321
GC1CYM8

McKinney area
N 33° 11.671 W 096° 38.281

Leave your politics at home and come enjoy a simple breakfast at the July Geocaching breakfast - 8:00AM at Golden Corral in McKinney on July 19th.

Socialize, take pictures, and meet other geocachers.
It doesn't get better than that!!!!

Wait a minute, Did we forget to mention the "Miss Geo-America" contest?
You'll have to show up to see for yourself!

Side note-
Why is it called "25/50"????
Hopefully, we may reach a couple of milestones by then that involve the numbers 25 and 50.
You'll have to show up to find out what they are!!

Try to figure out why it's called 25/50.



[img] http://www.devfolio.com/geocaching/statbar/logo.aspx?uid=9af9f38a-ed76-44ca-a937-21c5337c0a91&txt=Ummm...Juicey+Fruit!&img=ntx[/img]]]> Been gone lacrosseFox http://www.texasgeocaching.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=4320 General Discussion Wed, 02 Jul 2008 06:16:21 -0600 http://www.texasgeocaching.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=4320 wont be back in action for awhile though
Just had Posterior back surgery for my kyphosis on thursday
was released from the hospital yesterday
feelin pretty ok
thought id give a heads up and hope to see yall soon out there and hjopefully place a couple soon.
oh and im now 6'5" lol
tallest patient the childrens hospital had yet

Student at Plano east
proud ranger owner
country boy]]> July GeoBreakfast in McKinney kdandprettierhalf http://www.texasgeocaching.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=4319 General Discussion Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:56:47 -0600 http://www.texasgeocaching.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=4319 An Event cache by kd&prettierhalf Event Date: 7/19/2008
N 33° 11.671 W 096° 38.281

Leave your politics at home and come enjoy a simple breakfast at the July Geocaching breakfast - 8:00AM at Golden Corral in McKinney on July 19th.

Socialize, take pictures, and meet other geocachers.
It doesn't get better than that!!!!

Wait a minute, Did we forget to mention the "Miss Geo-America" contest?
You'll have to show up to see for yourself!

Side note-
Why is it called "25/50"????
Hopefully, we may reach a couple of milestones by then that involve the numbers 25 and 50.
You'll have to show up to find out what they are!!
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