Introduce Yourself

[CanadianStock]

Just Started my own account on geocaching.com CanadianStock, now at 30 caches , been caching with my dad surpriseme for 2 years before making my own account and helped him find a loftly number of his caches, currently using my blackberry pearl with blackstar to find geocaches, not the greatest system for caching but it works, looking into getting the garmin Oregon 450, to bad the tranny on my truck just went might have to put that gps off for a lil bit, this looks like a great community il already met hunter killer and hope to meet more of you on my out door treasure hunts with my friends SL TNLN

[hunter-killer]

Hey CanadianStock, welcome and glad you made your way to the site. Good luck on the searches, impressed you are only using a blackberry to find caches. And the hair that you shaved off my chest is starting to grow back. So soon I will be able to take my shirt off at the gym without some strange looks. Enjoy.

[CanadianStock]

lol thanks H-K, ya caching on a blackberry is not all that great, takes about 2 min to load the files for what geocache i want to search for everytime and then all i get is the compus and distance, it works very well but takes a long time to load the waypoints and even longer to find sats, ill sit sometimes for 15 min waiting for my cell to find the sats.

im enjoying geocaching and just recently turned my truck into a travel bug, see if you can find me around town

[jleecollins]

By the way, I have a new geocaching name (and account) for Nova Scotia  -  "cachingwithbeagles"   

Already have 2 caches published near the campground we are in   "Cameron's Spit"  and  "Beach Oak"

Still haven't put out any of the nasty camouflage vials out in pine trees, that everyone in NWO love and give great reviews for.  LOL

pnutbeagle and I will host an event near the Pictou area after we get back to that area in a week or two.  I will post the event when it gets set up.

The adventures will continue.

Jim and Brenda

[surpriseme]

Hi my name is Roy Stock and I am a geocacher and its been one year and three days since my first cache find in Newfoundland.  My cacher name is SurpriseMe and today I am up to 206 finds and 1 hide.  My buddy BP76Mr introduced me to the sport and I've been loving it.  The Newfoundland experience was a holiday surprise at which time my wife gave me a GPS for my birthday.  BP76Mr loaded it up with caches in the area and we found so many great off the beaten track vistas.  I fell in love with the game.  Now my wife (YQT), son (CanadianStock) and I go geocaching on a regular basis around Thunder Bay and the North Shore of Lake Superior.  I use a Garmin 60Cx and a BlackBerry Storm for paperless geocaching.  The Garmin is a great GPS and the BlackBerry gets me all the up to date details on the geocache, allows me to enter field notes and post logs wirelessly.  I look forward to meeting fellow geocachers. 

Cheers.   

[Mechman]

Great to have you along for the ride...hope to see you all out tomorrow at the event at the Neebing.  What part of NFLD are you from?  My wife and I did a 2 week tour there about 6 summers ago and just loved it!  Got to pretty much everywhere except for the south central, and S-W areas and Labrador...but we were everywhere else from Cape St. Mary's with the gannets to St Johns to Ferryland, to Trinity, Twillingate, and all the way west to Gros Mourne, and up to L'anse aux Meadows.  Had a great time and would recommend a trip there to anyone that can make it.  Any province with a town called Cowhead (and others that I am sure that you all would enjoy)...c'mon how could you not love it!!  (and yes I have been screeched in).  I see your son is coming...can i assume you are too?

[surpriseme]

Hi Mechman.  Thanks for your note.  I'm from Thunder Bay and Newfoundland was just a vacation.  We liked it so much we went there twice.  Once to the East coast and hit all the small towns as you did and the next year we went back and did the West coast from Deer Lake to St. Anthony.  NL is a fascinating province, the history and the people are so interesting.  We will likely go back again and again and ...

It was great to meet everyone at the Neebing last night.  I'm looking forward to the next event. 

Cheers

[CanadianStock]

missed out on the neebing sorry i did, my dad said it was a great get together, next time ill be around

[denisetdoris]

Hi y'all, welcome to you from Hearst, Ontario. We're all frozen up here in the North, but we're still hanging in !

I'm Denis from denisetdoris, along with my wife Doris (dorisetdenis), and our 2 kids, soon-to-be 5 and 7 years old. They get as excited about geocaching as we do, they have to see all the swag and trade stuff, just like the rest of us do !

I found about Geocaching quite by accident while updating the firmware on my explorist 210, saw a pop-up in the process about geocaching software. Checked it out, found my first geocache, and I was hooked ! Became a premium member last spring, and did away with the cut-and-paste from the GC window to the Mapsend Lite geocache manager window, and now do pq's for my units. Now I load 500 caches in 5 minutes, rather than 20 caches in 4 hours.... upgrade ?

We now have some 60 caches hidden between Hornepayne and Timmins along the Highway 11 corridor. Some of you might have already been through here and found a few, I do recognize a few names from the forums (Hey H-K and Jim !) We were fairly inactive last summer having bought a camper and using it to the full potential possible, but will be getting more active in the activity once the nice weather comes around. Now if only the gas prices could co-operate .....


Note to all -- I'm going to start planning my first event cache, will be on the long weekend of the Kapuskasing Lumberjack Festival, in Kap.  I know it's a bit of a drive from T-bay, but for those a bit closer wanting to come up for a stretch, you are all more than welcome (Hunter-Killer know the way).  I'll be checking on the Festival's Calendar, to verify dates and camping availability.  I'll be sure to set up a post in here somewhere to keep y'all up to date on the what's and when's.

Denis  ;-)

[Wandering_Man]

Welcome to the forums Denis!

[Team ffej]

Hi there my name is Jeff and i"m A geocache-aholic.....oops wrong meeting .  I live in Dryden and have been around awhile but just stumbled across this thread. I drag my kids out to cache, and they are willing sometimes, my wife believes I have lost my mind but she puts up with my, ahem...habit! Since I have found most caches around Dryden my caching only happens on road trips. I really need to make it to Thunder Bay and make some finds there.

[shroomAzoom]

Hey Jeff! Welcome to the forums. There are a few from the Dryden area that pop on here every once in a while, Cubee and the Peppers. Poohma are summer time Dryden residents (well, VBay.) Jenn and I head out a few times in the summer too. So, if you've got any caches to hide for the camping season, we'll be looking forward to finding them!

[moonsocket]

nice to know some background on ffej....who FTF'ed my Husky the Muskie nano in Kenora... Your 'plight' sounds much like mine.

[BBA]

Hi Folks,

  My name is Meg and I am the coordinator of a project called Big Boreal Adventure.  We are in our second year of production now and excited to be adding Geocaching to our package.  We give out free guidebooks and maps (that can be retrieved at any TBay Library) and these sets lead you to 25 (soon to be 30) natural areas in the city.  We have cedar posts at each of these places with an artists etching on a steel plate.  The guidebook has each place listed as well as some facts about the place and a blank page to do a rubbing from the post.  The overall goal is to get people outside and into nature - especially families!

  I am totally brand new to caching but Dave Gallant has been helping us immensley - however, he can not be held responsible if I do anything wrong;)  I have posted 6 caches to be reviewed on geocaching.com and I am working on a couple more - hopefully they work out!

  Because we want this project to be accesible to as many people as possible, we have supplies that can be taken out of the library.  We have fishing rods, binoculars and now compasses.  The plan is for the Yr 2 book to have the geocaching cordinates as well as some 'compass directions' I have created in the book - case folks can't get a hold of GPS... I know this may seem a little odd but we thought we would give it a try! 

  So it is my first time - so tell me what you think if you get out to find the BBA caches!

Thanks Folks,
Meg

[shroomAzoom]

Hi Meg! Good to have you here, and hope you return. Yup, Mech (Dave) has been trying to get all of us to help out with the geocaching aspect of the Big Boreal Adventure for over a year now. But I don't think we've been much help so far. You can be guaranteed that when your caches get published that we'll be out to find them. In fact, I hazard a guess that either Hunter-Killer or Poohma will be first to find.

Anyway, hope you return to our little area and keep bugging us to help out with some more geocaches for some of Thunder Bay's great outdoor spaces.