Toby's Gang
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I'll be heading out Thursday night and stopping about half way, then finishing up the drive on Friday to my hotel in Rocklin. After that I have no plans other then the event so hopefully I will be able to hook up with someone for hikes or cache runs or something.
I created a route following the I-5 from San Diego to Sacramento here if anyone is interested on caching along the way. That's 492 miles of caching! If the link doesn't work go to the Caches along a Route page and do a keyword search for GW6.
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They are only little ones. Most are smaller than your hand! Y'all gonna die!Is anyone interested in doing the Forbidden Forest this coming friday night? I need people to protect me from
SPIDERS!!!!Just wonderin ...
What are you taking about? There aren't any spiders in there. he he
That isn't what I heard!
When I walked through the middle of one of those webs that make a snapping sound as it breaks - I wasn't fazed after I frantically wiped my head while everyone else as laughing. No spiders ended up in my hair. So it's no problem. But watch out for the Door. Who knows where that leads...
Oh look, there's one now...
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Is anyone interested in doing the Forbidden Forest this coming friday night? I need people to protect me from SPIDERS!!!!
Just wonderin ...
What are you taking about? There aren't any spiders in there. he he
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I'm able to log in now.
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OK, roll call for Saturday! If you could please post if you will be meeting us @ 7:15 at the park & ride for breakfast at Penfolds, or just meeting us up at the trailhead at 9:00. After our tour of the Rawson trail, some of us will be hangin' in Temecula, and some of us will be heading back home.
Looking forward to an awesome time!
Robyn
Mom, Chelsea, and I will be meeting you at the P&R at 7:15.
We (Paul & Michael) may be able to show up at the trail head.. don't wait for us though. I may just decide to sleep in for once!
TA
I can't tell for sure reading the previous posts, but is this trail best done in a 4-by or will 2wd do ok?
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I saw a new name publishing local caches today...
Kosh Naranek
I noticed that too. After Babylon 5 was cancelled, the acting jobs must not have come through so he had to become a volunteer cache reviewer.
I don't know why, he's a good looking guy...
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Say . . . Doesn't the guy peeing look a little like Toby's Gang?That's the second photo posted of someone peeing in the past few weeks. At least we've shifted our attention away from the white socks pulled up too high...
Can't a guy get a little privacy here?
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Canadian Grl hits the big 500 on the Sandy Creek Cowboy Caches today!!
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Looks like a group will be heading out to do the Sandy Creek Cowboy Caches this Saturday. We'll probably stop for breakfast at the Denny's at Los Coches in El Cajon at 7:00, and be heading out east by 8:15. Sorry for the early start, but we need to make it to the going away party for da beave! If anyone has a telescoping ladder, please bring!
Robyn
OK, time for roll call! We would like to know who will be at Denny's @ 7:00 and who's showing up in the parking lot @ 8:15 for the carpool out east. If you can't make either, just show up at #3 @ 9:00. Please post if you'll be bringing the ladder!
Robyn
Robyn...... "Superdave" has a ladder hidden very close to cache area, I used it when I did the cache, it is in the bushes back behind the building .........walk threw the building right out the back door, head towards the tree line but don't go that far, as you head that way, veer to the left about half way between building and tree line, start looking in the bushes
or contact Dave he use to have the Cord's ???
Chris / TEAM DUCKIT
I dont know anything about a ladder hidden in the bushes!!
I did read somewhere you can use these coords
N32 46.129 W116 29.531
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ladder #1 N32 46.133 W116 29.537
ladder #2 N32 46.131 W116 29.532
Let me know what set works the best - Enjoy.
I'm going to try to do these too. Most likely I'll be at #3 @ 9. I'll know more later.
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Hiking Offer to Goat Peak:
Turnaround cache: Rocky Peak, GC16WMG in Poway.
Meet Sunday, April 13 at 0700 at end of Quiet Valley Ln, N32 57.667 W116 59.804
Approx 1.5 miles and 1200 total elevation gain (170 loss) going up (i.e. one-way).
Sounds like fun. I'm sure John will want to join you.
I've been wanting to do these so I may join you too.
What about Gecko Stairmaster? Have you already done those?
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Happy Birthday Paul! Welcome to the old fogies!Hey just a note, Happy Birthday Team Adelos, its a big one 40!!! Now he's as old as me!!! Yes it's today, 4/11!!!He'll probably kill me for this.
Happy Birthday Paul!
40? Oh My! r/ jnj
40?! Dude, it's time to start thinking about things like AARP, caching out that IRA and maybe even one of those little containers that reminds you to take your pills every day.
Just kidding...I'm older then you.
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I got this message on a bikes-related mailing list at work. As such it focuses on what the MTB'ers are likely to lose. It occurs to me, however, that there are a number of geocaches that might also be affected by this development, including the "Dits" and Red October.
I'll try to go over there soon and see if any of the promised explanatory signs have been posted.
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:09:44 -0700Subject: [LPCPCAC] Trail Closures on Del Mar Mesa
Well all, we knew this day was coming and here it is…Pardee will begin construction of the Shaw Lorenz development on Del Mar Mesa next week. They will start at the western most end of the development at the end of Carmel Mountain Rd and work east. However the entire mesa will be closed for the duration of the project. All the single tracks known as "the intestines" will be a memory beginning Monday, April 14. I have worked out a plan with the developer to maintain access to Cobbles from Del Vino road. We are still looking at logistics, but unfortunately we may loose access to "Side hill" from the top during construction, so that makes it obsolete from the bottom, until the construction is complete. It is very likely that the Shaw Valley Trail will also be cut off at the south end because they are building an access road for all the equipment which involves a 10 foot high berm. Signs will be going up at strategic locations explaining the closure (i.e. at the ball fields, fishhead trail, Del Vino, and the end of Carmel Mountain Rd).
I am meeting with Pardee and construction staff tomorrow morning to discuss some options to try to keep these trails open, I might not be able to, but I will do my best.
The development has a trail going around the outside of it as part of the community plan, but we will have to wait, what could be several years, before it is complete.
Please pass this information on to everyone you know. It is imperative that all users obey the No Trespassing signs and trail closures for their own safety. Also, it will help build a cooperative spirit among all of us and developers. DO NOT START CREATING NEW TRAILS BECAUSE THESE ARE GONE, THAT WILL NOT HELP ANYONE. STAY ON EXISTING TRAILS AND OBEY ALL SIGNS. And most of all have fun. If you have question, please feel free to call me.
Gina Washington
Senior Park Ranger
City of San Diego, Open Space Division
I think I need to go outside and scream!!!
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Looks like a group will be heading out to do the Sandy Creek Cowboy Caches this Saturday. We'll probably stop for breakfast at the Denny's at Los Coches in El Cajon at 7:00, and be heading out east by 8:15. Sorry for the early start, but we need to make it to the going away party for da beave! If anyone has a telescoping ladder, please bring!
Robyn
La Posta Truck Trail, up Morris Ranch Rd, and back down Fred Canyon Rd? Is Fred Canyon drivable all the way to 8? I remember when we were out there last time and we turned around at the top (past the gate) to come down they way we entered. Did not know if that was a must. Don't think I can make it, but those caches are great!
TA
Is this a 4x4 outing or a hike?...just curious.
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Anyhow, there's no big mystery out there...
At least that's what they would like you to believe...
Super secret spy photo (Google Earth). I wonder if the author has ever heard of it.
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I am fairly new at the geochaching having found only 275. I noticed looking at profiles of people that have found our first cache we hid, they have their cache statistics listed. My question is what is the most popular and easiest to use free program to down load my stats into? Would appreciate any help.
Bobmo38
Ya know Bobmo38... stats really don't matter...no-one looks at the numbers or tracks your standings. It's all just a game. 
( ps..did ya know we are 3 ahead of KWVERS! as of 15:44 today?) Enjoy!!!! Welcome to geo-caching!!
I use FindStatGen3. It's a macro that you use in GSAK. Once you get it set up the way you like it's easy to update.
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I'm taking a break from the Cache Critters of India and Bhutan series because Ms. LLOT and I saw this local Cache Critter near Skippity do da (GC1AEJP) today!
I just did that cache yesterday and saw that same bird. It must be his territory.
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I wonder If that Cache they blew up looked like this one that is across the street from my house.
Do you think I should call the sheriff
HONK! Oops - wrong answer!
Holy Crap! Blow that thing up quick!
Sheesh, look at that thing. It scares me even knowing what it really is. Could you imagine what some utility worker might think when they get ready to climb that pole and see that hanging there?
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Cache Critters of Bhutan and India (#2 in a series)
Gray Langur - Wangdi Phodrang District, Bhutan
Very cool pictures. I had to look up Bhutan on the map to see where it was. I've never even heard of that country.
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Here we have 1,000,001 cache critters.
We have 1,000,000 bees and 1 devhead.
We were searching for OLD CAP'N STINKY'S TREASURE CHEST!!. My GPS zeroed right under this massive beehive and I was about to duck down into the bushes when I realized I was face to face with them bees.
Whoa, that freaks me out and I’m not even afraid of bees.
Did you guys throw any rocks at it just to see what would happen?
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Whoa, that was weird...got a time-out error then a double post.
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I was wearing a kelly green "Irish yoga" t-shirt, so it wasn't me either.
I saw that too.. LOL pretty good timing!
When ya gotta go you gotta go. I used that same rock glad it wasn't me that was caught in a picture.
Even though you slipped by the camera, Skillet, Rooster noticed you. I thought she might be embarrassed, but she said that it was "no big deal".
So that leaves an unanswered question, who's the pee-er? From what I can see there's only one vehicle in the photo that seems to have made an emergency stop. Does it come down to a wee-little mistake from a red Jeep on every outing?
I am the one standing on the left side, so it wasn't me.
Frankly the "one standing on the left side," as you put it, is suspect as well. Looks a bit like somebody that's actually peein' on a winch. From my own personal experience peein' on a winch can make said winch cranky. Cranky winches can be more trouble than you might first expect.
At least the identity of the rock pee-er is being narrowed down. Keep up th' good work.
I think you may be confusing cranky winches with cranky wenches.
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Well, it looks like The Splashes will be joining everyone at Geo-Woodstock!! WOOOHOOOO!!
My daughter told us she would take care of things at home for us if we promised to NOT dance naked in the mud and don't eat the Red Licorice~~
That is what Woodstock is about, right? We have our reservations at the Orchid Inn & Suites also, and we will probably be leaving on Thurs. also and caching along the way. We may never get there!
Haven't decided whether we will drive straight thru or stay somewhere on the way, so Jerry & Pat we may run into you!
Is everybody staying on Sunday night also? Jodi, is John going to take all of his 'Homies' on a caching tour?
The Splashes
I am staying at the same place, I think. Roseville right? Finkbr and I are flying up on Friday night and staying till Sunday.
See you guys there!Paul
Since you'll be flying right over them, do you want us to log you into any caches we find along the way?
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I have a tough puzzle cache that was scheduled to be published in a few weeks. It's a 4.5 difficulty because of the puzzle component and other requirements inherent to its setup. It was part of a series of thirteen caches that had been publicized in advance so people would know they were coming.
I did not want anyone to DNF if they solved the tough puzzle so I initially set it up with stages close to the trail in pretty typical spots, with each stage providing coords to the next.
However, I was concerned that someone could possibly sleuth their way to one of the stages without solving the puzzle so I was considering a change of the micro sheets that would require knowledge of the puzzle solution in order to determine where the next stage was hidden. I solicited the help of another cacher to examine my setup.
While this was ongoing and the cache was still unpublished, someone visited the woods in which these thirteen caches had been placed, hoping for an advance find(s), and he found stage three of the tough puzzle cache and then easily advanced to the final.
So here is the question – does this qualify as a find?
Pro – There is a signature in the log book, period.
Con – It was not published and was still under construction so to speak. I have since changed the contents of each micro. Had he found stage three with the revised contents, he would not have been able to advance to the final two stages and it is doubtful he would have stumbled on either.
I should note, he returned later and found two of the other unpublished caches. I'm not questioning either of those FTFs since I was not contemplating a change in setup for either.
By contrast, in my mind, the puzzle cache was not done, even though the physical pieces were already out there. In fact, the cache he found is not what others will be faced with when it is published.
By the way, there is no dispute between us. I'm just questioning what is proper and I'm curious what others would do in my situation. I suspect there will be a mix of views on this, but I'm just curious if there is a prevailing sentiment.
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I think it comes down to the fact that the cache was not published. You cannot find a cache that is theoretically not there yet; to do so would take the "first to find" away from a legitimate finder.
Now as I’m writing this, I’m thinking of how we in our area will log a cache as a “beta tester”, meaning if we are with another cacher that hides a cache, we will log our name on the sheet. In doing this though, we sign at that bottom of the sheet and DO NOT claim first to find.
If the cacher in question had stumbled upon any one of the stages and figured out the final, then I would say that is a legitimate find. Much in the same way as a muggle finding a cache and signing the log and is invited to do so by the stash notes we place in a cache.
What it all comes down to though is what you, the cache owner, wants to do. I think In the grand scheme of things, and to maintain friendships and such, let the finder have his smilie. Your cache was found which is why they're placed in the first place, he found a cache...everyone's happy.
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I've never heard of Buttonwillow. Let me check with the big boss and what is going on for Memorial Day.
When is it Jerry? I have to check the calendar but I might be able to go. Also when are you coming back? I'm guessing it's a 10 hour drive...
zeber and I are flying up to San Jose on Friday morning, meeting The Fat Cats there and then we're driving to the Sacramento area. We're all staying at the Orchard Suites in Roseville. I think Team Adelos and finkbr are too. zeber and I are flying back on Monday.OK, new subject. Some of us while out at Skillet's yesterday were taking about the Geowoodstock event.So who's going from San Diego and how are you getting there? And plans for caravans, carpools, etc?
I'm driving because I like having my truck, crusing down the freeway with Sirius cranked as loud as I can stand it. My wife won't be with me so I can have it as loud as I want.
I'll probably be leaving Thursday night (on Canadian Grls advice) and going half way up, spending the night in some cheap, sleezy hotel then finishing up the drive the next day - getting there in time for the Friday night meet and greet.
It's still 60 days away but that will go by quickly.
John and I will be there. I'm meeting John in Reno Friday so we'll be there for the Friday night thing and leaving Monday. We would love to meet up with some of our San Diego Family! John has cached in the area a bunch so he kinda knows his way around. Jerry I know you will be really busy but there are some great bike trails there.
We were thinking it might be fun to get the SD cachers together for caching and/or socialiizing.
Ok, it's official. I'm staying in Buttonwillow on Thursday...lovely town, I'm sure. I guess it can't be too bad, there's some caches nearby.
From there I'm heading up to GW6 and staying at the Heritage Inn. They had pretty decent rates and the reviews looked ok.
The guy said they were sold out until I told him I was going to the Geowoodstock. I guess that make us VIP's.
The event is May 24th, but I'm leaving on Thursday night to get through the LA nightmare. I'll be halfway there after staying in Buttonwillow and will hopefully have time for a few caches along the way on Friday.
I'll be coming back on Sunday and driving all the way home.
P.S. Did you know that Sirius might buy XM?
Buttonwillow is one of those places in the middle of nowhere, where they put a couple hotels and a fastfood joint and call it a town.
The Sirius and XM thing got approval from the Dept. of Justice today. Now they have to get it through the FCC. I'm just hoping they don't change anything. I like it just the way it is.
A friend of mine had XM and he thought Sirius had better stations even though they have fewer.
Anyway, back to Buttonwillow.
Wikipedia calls this the entrance to the city. Fancy looking place.
Among some other things, Wikipedia says...
"There is a large electrical substation next to the town that is a part of a major North-South transmission corridor. It marks the northern end of Path 26 across the Transverse Ranges and the southern end of the Path 15 power lines.
Wow. Too bad I'll only see this place in the dark.
SPIDERS!!!!
( ps..did ya know we are 3 ahead of KWVERS! as of 15:44 today?)
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I'm checking those out too. It looks like it would be fun although I don't think the Trolley makes a good FTF vehicle.