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I've been on that hillside path a few times. It would be a cool location for a cache. Actually, there are two paths down to the nude area of Blacks. One right by the glider port and another at the north end of the parking area past the glider port. There may be others as well.

On seeing found caches that were logged from your phone, you're not creating a finalized log when you mark as found within Geocache Navigator. You have to log into gc.com and on your profile page in the "Field Notes" section on the right, click the link for "Access my field notes." There you'll see the caches marked as found. You have to click 'create log' for each cache. You'll be able to write your final log at that point. I haven't encountered being in an area with no service coverage yet (I'm on Sprint). Last week in Maine and New Hampshire I was in some pretty rural areas and Geocache Navigator worked fine.

I use the Geocache Navigator on a Blackberry and it seems to have the same accuracy as my Garmin GPSr. It often shows just a few feet to the cache, which turns out to be correct. If you are seeing swings in distances to the cache or in compass directions it is most likely caused by overhead signal interference or signal reflection, which would happen on any unit.

You buy travel bug dog tags from the Groundspeak "Shop for Gear" link on the gc.com site. You can then use the number on the tag any way you want.

One way could be to view the profile of the owner of the TB to see if they are a premium member. If they are you could e-mail them to ask if they would grab their bug from you and then write a note on the cache to drop the TB into that cache. Actually, any PM could do that, but it seems less questionable to have the TB owner do it. (But now wondering if that would that be acceptable, since the TB owner would not have actually visited that cache???) The cache owner could do the TB grab and a note to drop the TB also.

I found an article from 2005 about a woman in a NYC park receiving a ticket from police because she wasn't with kids. The penalty apparently could be 90 days in jail or a $1,000 fine. http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=...&id=3483055

I completely disagree with that statement. Why specify a playground? Why not any location that tends to have a larger amount of kids? A law could say adults with no kids are not allowed in toy stores, or in the video game section of Wal-Mart. If kids are in a playground they are probably with an adult, who should supervise that child. We should not have laws that decide who can be where. Such laws are no different than racial profiling to decide who has business in a particular neighborhood.

Those would make a creative cache. Make one the cache container, and stack all of them up in the woods. Finders have to locate the correct one to log.

If anyone gets killed it's unlikely to be someone from the Japanese fleet. It's far more likely that a Sea Shepherd crew member will get killed by the group's own actions. As much as I enjoy watching the show, sometimes it's like watching the Three Stooges! Peter Brown ignores everyone else on the bridge, and as a direct result steamed the ship into a huge ice field that almost sunk their own ship. The Zodiac boats run around not paying attention to their instructions and nearly get lost in the ocean. The crew needs to start paying more attention to Jane Taylor. She seems to know what to do on a ship.

There's some current threads on the forum here about TBs that were lost for over a year before resurfacing. The first TB that I ever found was in Nashville, TN, and had last been logged in Buffalo, NY two years before I found it. Hope yours turns up.

But, if a real criminal were sneaking around in your backyard, would you want your nosy neighbors to ignore it?

I don't think my post says that I support their actions. The most I said was I enjoy watching the show, I disagree with killing whales and dolphins for profit motives, and I questioned their "research." If you can answer what scientific information came from their "research" I would be very interested in reading about it.

I love watching "Whale Wars." I'll probably buy several of these coins. (edit: just ordered four) I also wondered why if the Japanese are calling it "research" do they need to kill so many whales. And where are the peer-reviewed journal-published studies that legitimate scientific research would generate? Regardless of whether the whale killing is technically legal, it's obvious that the Japanese are exploiting the situation in order to make money from selling whale meat. The whale killing that the Japanese are doing should not be legal. I saw a documentary a number of years ago about another Japanese fisheries practice that resulted in the killing of hundreds of dolphins. I think it was called "drive fisheries". It is horrendous what they get away with.

You could put a cow on the side of the field where you want to bulls to go.

I actually fell for that! DOH! I was going to post back asking how you did that. ¡looɔ ʎʇʇǝɹd ˙ʇno ʇı pǝɹnƃıɟ ı uǝɥʇ ʇnq

That screw cap on the top makes it look like it has a built-in canteen.

I was at GeoWoodstock VII and wrote down a bunch of vehicle TB numbers (mostly from the overflow lot). Just haven't entered the discovered logs yet. Maybe I wrote yours down!

It would be cool to have a personalized license plate with a TB tracking number, and stick a TB decal on the plate. I do have a personalized plate that says CACHE.

I hope Splinterheads will someday make it to theaters, or even to DVD. I was at GeoWoodstock but wasn't able to stay for the screening that night.

I think an event would be fine. I might even attend!

Or hide one of these in the woods:

I used punch cards in college at Cornell, and paper tape in a middle school computer class. The paper tape terminal looked a bit like this:

Has anyone at Groundspeak looked at this bug/issue yet? Or maybe there is a better way of sending bug notices to Groundspeak? Thanks.

I would not call two weeks either an injury or an insult. Not even two months.

I've been wondering how many highly-opinionated members there were on these forums. Good to know. I'll give you a thumbs-up on your post!