NWOG's first featured cacher is Ragbag. If you haven't met Ragbag on the trails, you've probably found one of his signature container caches hidden somewhere between RedRock and the Manitoba border. He has been caching since early 2004 and has been a fixture ever since. (June 2008)

1. How did you get your geocaching alias?

   My caching moniker came from my initials—my full name is Robert Arthur Grieve (RAG), and if you take the nicknames, it's Bob Art Grieve (BAG)—ergo RAGBAG. Not too original!

2. What do you do when you're not geocaching?

   When I'm not caching, you can find me out in my garage building cabinets or custom furniture, or out on one of the local golf courses.

3. When and how did you get started geocaching?

   I got started caching after I joined the Lakehead Search and Rescue Unit. We use GPSrs regularly, and I did a bit of research on the web, and came up with the geocaching.com website. When I did a local search, I saw that there was a cache hidden at the Terry Fox Lookout (now archived), so I went and found it, and I was hooked.

4. What do you like most about geocaching?

   What I enjoy most about caching is getting off my butt and going out into the wilds and finding a cache. I enjoy the searching, going to new locations, and finding the more difficult hides. (Often after several visits to the spot!)

5. Do you have any geocaching pet-peeves?

   My pet peeve about caching are the micros hidden deep in the woods. If they are hidden well off the beaten path, and not likely to be muggled, why make it a micro???

6. What do you take with you when you go caching?

   When I go caching, I take a compass (I don't trust batteries to last as long as they are supposed to), a bottle of water, my survival kit (which fits in my pocket), and a fanny pack with trading items.

7. Have you introduced anyone to geocaching?

   I have taken several different people with me on caching expeditions, and most have expressed an interest, but so far, only one (Sidt) has taken up the sport to any extent, and he has moved to Ottawa.

8. Which other geocacher has influenced/stands out to you the most?

   I don't think that any one cacher has influenced me to any extent. However, I do admire Jim Collins from Marathon for his accomplishments and his dedication to caching.

9. What is the most interesting place geocaching has taken you?

   I think the most interesting place caching has taken me to is a cache I did last September in Ireland (A Modest Proposal). It is located off the Connor Pass, and it took us to a small lake just up the hill from the road - a lake that we would never have known about if it wasn't for caching. The view from the cache was fantastic, and the hide was challenging.

10. What has been you most memorable geocaching find (or DNF?)

    My most memorable cache so far has been one I found in Winnipeg (HUH? ... splash). It is hidden in a park not far from my parent's home, and I went looking for it 3 times before I found it. It is hidden right out in the middle of a field, and is a small container placed in a piece of plastic pipe sunk in the ground, and covered with glued-on grass. The co-ordinates took me right to the correct location, but the camo was so good that I couldn't spot it.

11. Which of your hides are you the most pleased with?

    My hide that I am most pleased with is one that hasn't been found very often. It is located off the Nipigon–Red Rock hiking trail at the Eagle Ridge Lookout. It is a fair hike in to the cache, but the view from the cache is spectacular.

12. So, where do all those peanut butter jars come from? You must have toast at every meal!

    As for the peanut butter jars, the boss uses a fair amount of it in the morning, but I have a couple of neighbours who are saving their empties for me, so I seem to have a fairly constant supply.