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The Mountian Biking honor...

figures huh , I have several stories I'll have to share when I have the time.

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Geocaching is fun!!! My dad has gotten addicted to it and we've had plenty of close encounters with nature or cars or people. One time that I will never forget is when we went looking for this one down by the river. We were following the trail that leads into a grove of trees when I saw my dog perk up at something beside the trail. I decided to go check it out. Luckily for me there was a fence and I looked over and down the little hill there. And I saw a furry little creature walking threw the bushes with black and white stripes!!! It was a skunk!!!! Well, I showed it to my mom and then we decided that we better move along really fast. So we took off, and we found the geocache. While we were exchanging stuff...we found a travel bug btw...we heard rustling down the trail behind us. We look and it's the skunk!!!! Well, you've never seen people hide a geocache so fast in your life!!! We hid it threw the bark on top and took off running!!! There was no way that we were going to get hit by the nasty stinky spray of that skunk!!! We made it back safely and summarized that skunks can move pretty fast considering how far away we were from the first sighting! Moral of the story? Well I'm not quite sure there is a moral to this. Just watch out for skunks!!!

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Katie Lenz
18
Once a Pathfinder, always a Pathfinder!

"Don't wait for the one you can live with, wait for the one you can't live without."

Wow, I've never heard of a skunk stalking someone

At least you could see the skunk, in my case it was totally dark and I couldn't see anything. Not a good situation to be in...

I could post my story here, sence it did have somthing to do with 2 pathfinder kids too... but those of you that havn't read it can look under the story section in the main forum.

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I saw a skunk at night once. It was right after View Southern, after the concert monday night. They had just handed out a bunch of frisbees and I was walking along the sidewalk when I saw a little animal walking on the hillside. I was really tempted to try and peg it with the frisbee but decided against it, considering I don't know the range of a skunk.

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“When you pass through the waters,
I will be with you;
and when you pass through the rivers,
they will not sweep over you.
When you walk through the fire,
you will not be burned;
the flames will not set you ablaze”
Isaiah 43:1-3

Another registered Geocacher here!!!! I am based in Collegedale, TN and have found 542 of them! It is a lot of fun to do!

Email me through my GC profile if you are a geocacher...I want to know about pathfinder cachers out there! I'm known as Super_Nate.

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Nate
17
Tennessee Geocacher

Hey Nate, welcome to the forum

, I really need to try the honor somtime. Maybe I can teach it for my club. I have a GPS, what elnce is needed. Basicly just a course right?

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Sorry I don't have a story but I like camping honers

Hey Nate,

I was going to take the geocoaching honor at my conferences leadership retreat last weekend. But I became ill and had to stay in bed most of the morning. O well, several of my friends had fun taking it.

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Hey Nathan, we meet again... hehe
I don't geocache, but thanks to him, I know where many are in the Collegedale area. I think I'll stick with biking though...

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“When you pass through the waters,
I will be with you;
and when you pass through the rivers,
they will not sweep over you.
When you walk through the fire,
you will not be burned;
the flames will not set you ablaze”
Isaiah 43:1-3

What is geocoaching? I have never heard of it.

I'm gonna let Super_nate explain this one... I couldn't do it very well but he sure could. I just know it is like a high tech treasure hunt...

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“When you pass through the waters,
I will be with you;
and when you pass through the rivers,
they will not sweep over you.
When you walk through the fire,
you will not be burned;
the flames will not set you ablaze”
Isaiah 43:1-3

oh is it like useing rader type things to find stuff you put out in the wild.I dunno someone tried to explain it to me but I really did not understand it.

I like the camping skills, etc. honors, too, and also a lot of the arts & crafts ones.

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Pathfinders = Finding the path to Heaven.
Once a Pathfinder, always one.

Geocaching is the use of GPS to locate different objects and logs (used to prove that you have been to that cache).

My favorite honors include any camping honors, photography, and video. I have more, but I would have to look them up to remember which ones they were.

Biking isn't on the list. If it is, it's at the very bottom.

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"Jesus answered, 'Unless I wash you, you have no part with me.' " John 13:8b

My favorite honor was backpacking! I organized a trip on the Appalachian Trail, and we had 17 people come! It was super fun, especially meeting the thru-hikers! We did about 21 miles in a weekend, not much I know, but we had some little people too. It's always neat to stop at the shelters and read the guestbooks... we read about ourselves at one shelter! I've had lots of fun with other honors too, with the soap one I carved a really cool kayak, and with the baking one I made bread and a cake for everyone, and with the Indian Lore one we did a whole Indian campout, where we dressed up all weekend and had a tipi!

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Brittainy
19, 1st Responder and outdoor girl!
Life is an awesome adventure with Jesus! : D

You have been on the AT. Cool.

I recently got into Geocaching. I got my first cache found about two weeks ago.

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"Jesus answered, 'Unless I wash you, you have no part with me.' " John 13:8b

Don't usually get time to do much of it though.

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"Jesus answered, 'Unless I wash you, you have no part with me.' " John 13:8b

Yep, the AT is cool! We're in the process now of planning the week long trip! What was in your geocache? I'd like to do that some time.

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Brittainy
19, 1st Responder and outdoor girl!
Life is an awesome adventure with Jesus! : D

The cache was a micro cache. All it had was a paper log for you to put your geocache.com username and the date.

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"Jesus answered, 'Unless I wash you, you have no part with me.' " John 13:8b

Aha! I get it, cool!

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Brittainy
19, 1st Responder and outdoor girl!
Life is an awesome adventure with Jesus! : D

Digital Photography will probably be much like its' cousin, Photography. I think I will be able to take care of that honor quite quickly as photography is one of my many hobbies.

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"Jesus answered, 'Unless I wash you, you have no part with me.' " John 13:8b

Cycling Advanced. What a fun honor. It feels really cool to do a century. ( a one hundred mile ride in one day) It's even more fun when you can share that experience with four of your friends. I really suggest doing honors that can be done with a small group of friends, it makes it a lot more fun.

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“When you pass through the waters,
I will be with you;
and when you pass through the rivers,
they will not sweep over you.
When you walk through the fire,
you will not be burned;
the flames will not set you ablaze”
Isaiah 43:1-3

Oh, I want that honor. Maybe I'll work towards it this summer. Any tips or tricks? Isn't it not nessisary to do the ride in just one day? I think the honor says to do a 100 mile in 2 or 3 days...

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Oh, oh!! A Digital Photography honor sounds like so much fun! I'll probably get that one quickly too!

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Pathfinders = Finding the path to Heaven.
Once a Pathfinder, always one.

Let me know if you find the requirements for Digital Photography.

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"Jesus answered, 'Unless I wash you, you have no part with me.' " John 13:8b