Bull Moose

I'm more motivated to pick off the ones that are close to my house. And since Fledermaus has about 10,000 of them within 10 miles of my house, I am a long ways from doing it, despite having 60 found so far. I will not have caches mocking me in my own neighborhood!

quote:Originally posted by leatherman:I'm with Criminal. I hate math. What does math have to do with hiding stuff in the woods? Math has something to do with everything! It is the universal language.

It's funny this came up today, because I think I may be last to find this cache. I know it's not from poor re-hiding, though, as it was just hanging in a tree and was re-hung from the same branch.

quote:Originally posted by cachew nut: Your little one pound dog sounds cute. Hmm... I think I need to change my avatar!

quote:Originally posted by DustyJacket:How does you dog carry the flashlight? With his mouth. I wouldn't want to screw up my dog teeth by carrying it in mine!

I keep thinking about getting a carry permit for one of my pistols, but I figure that a combined 400 pounds of man and dog armed with a police style maglite and dog teeth and claws would usually dissuade the common mugger. Unless, of course, they have a gun. But I've dealt with that before, too.

quote:Lep, you're obviously confused. "Bear" is a common slang term for a large, hairy gay man. Hope this helps. Hmm... I'm a large, hairy, straight man and my wife refers to me as a bear. I wonder if she knows something I don't... Anyway, my pet peeve has been mentioned: Parking! I don't mind hiking into the inner circles of hell as long as some parking coordinates or trailhead coordinates are supplied. Obviously at a city park or something, it's a non-issue, but in urban or wilderness settings it can suck not knowing where to park. Or thinking you know where and finding an interstate between you and the cache.

quote:Originally posted by sept1c_tank:Voted #1. GW should face up to the the embarrasing truth and then resign from geocaching permanently. (Not convinced he was ever really invited in the first place.) You don't invite people to find your cache. Posting the fact that it is hidden is an invitation to all interested parties to find it.

quote:Originally posted by tirediron: quote:Originally posted by Bull Moose: quote:Originally posted by Jacksons:I wonder if Goldguru is French-Canadian? No, it looks like he's from BC. Maybe Vancouver Island, which is awfully hippie-lefty. Steady on there Moose; there are a lot more conservatives living on this island than you think! Glad to hear it. I've found that about the Seattle area. It sounds like a left wing area, but that's because of all the shouting being done while the rest of us are at work.

quote:Originally posted by Marky: quote:Originally posted by Bull Moose:Maybe Vancouver Island, which is awfully hippie-lefty. This is a good thing, yes? --Marky Nah. I like to contribute to society rather than sit around and complain about what's wrong with it. Like Cartmen said: "Hippies. They want to save the world but all they do is smoke pot and smell bad."

quote:Originally posted by Jacksons:I wonder if Goldguru is French-Canadian? No, it looks like he's from BC. Maybe Vancouver Island, which is awfully hippie-lefty.

quote:Originally posted by amazar: quote:Originally posted by Bull Moose:However, when they got home and read the TB goal and saw that my TB wants to go East along the Columbia and Missouri River suystems, they could've dropped it off somewhere within a 1000 mile radius in the Pacific NW rather than sending it to Hawaii. OK, but what if getting home meant returning to Hawaii? (One last cache while we're here in WA before we return home. Oh, look, a TB.) Do they have to wait for their next trip to the mainland to place the bug? Well, if that's the case, so be it. Drop it in a Hawaian cache. But it wasn't in this case.

"The one named Carla?" Sounds like some sort of hippie. Ever try having a rational conversation with a hippie? They have no interest in anyones viewpoint but their own.

quote:Originally posted by Sugar Kane:I'm just not a gadget person. It sounds like a cool idea though. Says the person who owns a $300 GPSR to hunt down tupperware boxes full of McToys.

Just thought I'd mention that I just finished this series on June 1. They are all still in good shape.

quote:Originally posted by Criminal: True. They may not have ever read the goal at all. http://fp1.centurytel.net/Criminal_Page/<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Based on the comments in the log, they did. Oh well. Just a game.

quote:Originally posted by Criminal:This is somewhat of a sticky issue. If your bug isn’t _labeled _ so that a finder in the field can identify the goal, you really can’t complain. What I mean is most people don’t read the TB’s goal before they go cache hunting. Yeah, I agree. I did my TB on the spur of the moment, so I couldn't label it and have no problem with anyone taking it. However, when they got home and read the TB goal and saw that my TB wants to go East along the Columbia and Missouri River suystems, they could've dropped it off somewhere within a 1000 mile radius in the Pacific NW rather than sending it to Hawaii.

Yeah. I have a Lewis and Clark's Journey Home TB that I started out in Long Beach, WA and that I wanted to retrace the L&C route home. Well, the first guy did a great job, even posting a pic of the bug with the L&C historical near which it was hid. The next guy sent it to Hawaii. I guess he thought they needed a vacation. It is now in CA. Oh well. I hope it gets back on track, but I'll try not to take it too seriously.

quote:Originally posted by seneca:Its just that from my perspective, it would be nowhere near as disturbing, alarming, frightening or tragic, as coming across “a dead body”. Depends on who's body it is. I'd be thrilled to come across Osama's body. I could drag it to the nearest FBI field office and claim my reward.

Geocaching was featured in the Outdoors page of our local newspaper today, as well: Sun Link

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Oh yeah, I've had ticks come at me from the bottom up. I grew up in the land of more than 10,000 lakes (Wisconsin) and there were times where I thought they were opening some kind of time-space portal to come at me from additional axes.

On a related note, does finding the first stage of a multi = find? I have been meaning to get to this cache so I put it on my watch list: Lord of the Rings I have noticed that the last couple of logs are by people who found the first stage then stopped and still logged it as a find. Like I said, I haven't done it (hopefully this weekend) so I don't know if there is a log book or something in the first stage, but in my opinion you haven't found a multi until you've found the last stage.

I was kind of surprised that I only got two hits on my three caches. I thought my Howe Farm cache, which is part of a five cache by five users series, would have got more hits. Then, I guess I only hit four caches this weekend myself.

I'd think it was a good idea, except for sometimes if you're dense, you're dense, and no amount of Powerpont presentations is going to change that. I recently had one of my TBs picked up and moved to another cache (at least they got that part right) without it being logged on my TB log. I was able to track down where it went via the cache logs. I moved it manually and sent the user the URL for how to use a TB since he picked up another one when he left mine. Now he's figured out how to pick them up, but not drop them off. Oh well...