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  1. Wow, the wap.geocaching.com version of WAP is ROCKING & rolling coolio! Thanks to whomever wrote it :-) ../Mosaica
  2. Hi Leprechauns, Hsm, that's odd. I see this: Eet Smakelijk! NannyOgg N 43° 39.082 W 072° 15.572 ..with no waypoint name. I see it this way both when I .. AH HA! Just figured it out: I've always used www.geocaching.com/wap, which may be an older or alternate version. I remember seeing mention of wap.geocaching.com, and I just tried it, and it does exactly what I was looking for. Thanks! ../Mosaica
  3. Would it be possible to add the waypoint name of a given cache in it's WAP version listing? It would be Very Very Handy for me, and hopefully for others too. So a WAP search which results in a text file like this: Eet Smakelijk! NannyOgg N 43° 39.082 W 072° 15.572 could be like this: Eet Smakelijk! (GCMGEK) NannyOgg N 43° 39.082 W 072° 15.572 Thanks! ../Mosaica
  4. If anyone hears anything, or if you see this, Divine, can you post here (or email me)? Bekymret i Vermont.. ../Mosaica
  5. Wow, you're all great! Thanks for some GREAT astro-caches to puzzle over, find, and get inspired by. 10 billion thanks! ../Mosaica
  6. I've tried some various keyword searches and come up with several, a few of which I've been able to do, and I'm interested in any others. The ones I've found listed are: Starry, Starry Night (GC68FE) Cache on the Moon (GCHM43) Astronomical Trigonometry (GCGX5F) I placed my first cache recently, and it's a little influenced by astronomy as well: Charlie is messier! (GCKTM6) Do you know of any nifty astronomy-themed caches? Share! ../Mosaica
  7. Hsm, my html didn't succeed much. Oh well :-) ../Mosaica
  8. I love it when various of my obsessions come together.. I was out doing a couple of new local caches when I found a couple of great spots from which to attempt photographing the possible auroral storms. Thirteen or so hours after finding the cache, I drove back and set up my camera. It was around 2:30 in the morning, and the storm was fantastic. I posted a few images to the two caches I visited: <a href='http://img.Groundspeak.com/cache/log/64f44fab-3a50-41cd-bc33-4fa48bb10a3d.jpg' target='_blank'>November 9 aurora with meteor</a> <a href='http://img.Groundspeak.com/cache/log/e161886a-34ac-4a85-a25f-b0beeb84a28b.jpg' target='_blank'>November 11 pre-dawn aurora</a> More spaceweather, less terrestrial weather! ../Mosaica
  9. I'm a super map-geek-grrl. My dream house has a large project room, and the walls are made of cork-board, so I can put up all my topo maps, and then mark places that I've been & places that I'd like to go with little pins. Yum. I spent some time researching different folding methods for topo maps, and I found a great method which I apply to each new topo map I get, and I also water-proof all my paper topo maps with Map-Seal. I'm told that some places sell topo maps which are printed on that synthetic waterproof paper, with special inks, but I haven't had a chance to try them. ../Mosaica
  10. The only mis-rating I get a little annoyed about is the most common: the terrain=1 rating. With only a little hanging around gc.com, even without having visited the clayjar site, I got the impression that a cache rated terrain=1 should be nominally wheelchair accessible, and I can't count the times where I've gone looking for thusly rated caches and found them to be no-way accessible from a chair. I still -do- most of these caches, as I'm willing to slide out of my chair and butt-scuttle for hours, get massive wedgies doing so, and provide extended mooning events for countless thousands of ticks, ants, slugs, nettles, & earthworms. Still, I wish the terrain=1 rating were reserved for caches that are actually accessible -from- a chair. The terrain ratings from 1.5 to 4.5 have the potential, in my view, to be more subjective, but terrain=1 seems pretty straightforward. ../Mosaica-of-the-marvellously-exfoliated-bum
  11. I do a lot of 2-day caching trips. I did a 5 day trip recently, but got so caught up in fly-fishing and Carcassonne-playing that I only did ONE cache! Eeeek. I love camping, whether it's in a tent or just in the back of my pickup. ../Mosaica
  12. Chiming in with another vote for more gnarly puzzle caches! I don't have kids, but I've taken other people's kids out caching with me, and I particularly like the brain-stretching nature of really hard puzzle caches when working with kids. I mean, wow, you can develop a kid's ability to deal with math & science problems --what's not to like about that? And when it comes to a difficult cache with some sort of crypto element, that's a great opportunity for a kid (or an overgrown kid like me) to gain confidence & problem-solving skills. Another reason I love a really tough puzzle cache is that I can feel a real sense of accomplishment, the sort that two-legged folks can feel after completing a 19 mile hike and rock-climbing and stuff like that. Just a note: VT cachers make GREAT puzzle caches. ../Mosaica
  13. Cachecreatures --thank you! This is a great alternative until I find a better browser for my PDA. Much thanks for the tip! ../Mosaica
  14. I use a Handspring Treo 300 with wireless web access, and I use a browser called Blazer on my PDA. Unfortunately, Blazer won't render most of the geocaching.com website. Have any of you had luck with other PalmOS-compatible PDA web browsers? Thanks! ../Mosaica
  15. I generally cache alone, and I don't expect that to change much. I have cached with other humans, and I really enjoy it, but because I'm slower and far stinkier than other people, I figure it's better to make my own way rather than slowing other folks down. Maybe I'll meet a similarly slow & odiferous cacher, and if we're not allergic to each other.. hey, you never know! Not having a regular caching buddy doesn't stop me from going out though. If it did, I wouldn't be caching, and I don't care for that alternative. I do try to be sensible, and I've arrived near a cache and decided not to do it --mostly because of sketchy-lookin' humans, and sometimes because I recognize that the terrain is going to be too much, or too much to do before nightfall, etc. If not having a caching buddy -is- slowing you down, I'd vote for finding one. Maybe look on the regional forums, like folks suggested, and then go out the first time or two with him/her -and- your husband. That'll at least give you a chance to size him/her up before going out with them alone. ../Mosaica
  16. I started with a little black journal (nice for adding sketches of neat things I see), but now I'm using cachemate, which I adore. However, having it and using it sometimes gets garbled a bit.. last week I went on a few multi-cache hunts with pals, and since we were all in a whirlwind of caching, I forgot to take notes, and I forgot ENTIRELY what I left where, which was embarrassing when I went to post logs here on the website. So I swear now that I'll always take the time to make notes! ../Mosaica
  17. First, I wish you'd come cachin' in my neck of the woods :-) Second, I like your condiment cup idea for flies --would they be big enough for dampeoples' lures? If so, I've gotten a bunch of those from a local delicatessen: they sold me a box of 500 cups & lids for five bucks. These are great for flies because you can see the fly through the clear lid. ../Mosaica
  18. I've been thinking of the idea flask posted about, and it'll be tricky to implement. If you made a `path' which was sized, height-wise, to a sitting person, I think many two-legged folks would do it either on hands & knees or crawling on their belly. At least, that's what I'd prolly do as a two-legged person. Another idea is to make part of the cache a web-cam section, where there would have to be video of a person actually butt-scuttling, and that involves some complex implementation issues too. Hmm. Let's keep on thinking about this! ../Mosaica
  19. Mmm, I'm with Cole Porter and his Planetary pal.. I love my Garmin GPSMAP 76, but I'd be fine with the new color version, in which case my best caching pal Bostwana-Grrl could adopt my current one. I'd like 3 additional Wilderness Systems Pungo kayaks so that when I invite non-kayaking pals out to do hydrocaches we'd be all set. I'd like also a trio of the quietest 4-stroke snowmobiles available --again, I could take caching buddies out on fun winter caches. I violently miss getting out in the boonies during the winter. In my happy dream-house (somewhere up real high) I'd have a map room, and I'd have a complete set of waterproof USGS topo maps, all the available uber-topo software for my laptop, and various more detailed (orienteering) maps of extra-special places. If the aliens-with-really-excellent-medical-technology scenario can't pan out, then I'd like a brilliantly devised off-road chair: light-weight and with scarily crufty tires. I also agree with all the folks who describe how they'd travel the world looking for caches in wild foreign parts. Caching in Katmandu, yummy. Lastly, if wishes were fishes & I had cash to burn, I'd like an Orvis Frequent Flyer 906-7 fly rod --it breaks down into 7 pieces and can fit in a rod case that I could easily slip in the pocket of my CamelBak, for those caches placed near good fly-fishing spots. Reading over this list, yeah, it'd be sweet. But honestly, I'm feeling so rich & happy with what I have now: access to geocaching, new caching pals, fun scheming as I plan my first cache.. Life is good. ../Mosaica
  20. Heya Phantom, I cache from my manual p.o.c manual chair, though I spend much of the time scuttling (slowly) on my butt. What takes a two-legged walking-type person 15 minutes can easily take me 3 or 4 hours, but I've grown quite fond of killing bugs by squishing them as I make my way to the cache location. To each her own :-) I love caches on rail-to-trails 'cause I can just roll and roll and roll. I want to get one of those recumbant type hand AND foot powered cycles; then I could roll much FASTER. Speed fun. I also try a lot of hydro caches from my kayak. My leg is strong, my upper body is pretty strong, and although I'm fat and could be fitter, I do okay. Cheers! ../Mosaica
  21. Oh, yay! I was feeling like a massive dork-ola the other night. Yours was far more spectacularly awful! :-) ../Mosaica
  22. Please let me be FTF on this one .. ../Mosaica
  23. Hey, you didn't use incorrect terminology! My feelings about words like handicapped, disabled, Special, and the like are entirely personal to -me-. I have a personal strong dislike for being singled out solely because of my disability, even when it's meant kindly or solicitously. For instance --I've had otherwise nice & well-meaning strangers say to me: `Oh, hey, I have a nephew in a wheelchair. I should introduce you! I bet you'd have so much in common!' I expect that others who stick out for various reasons feel similarly. Since my accident almost 13 years ago, I've lost the sweet ability to blend into the crowd, an ability I wasn't even aware of, much less appreciative of, before. Now I'm -always- the visual center of attention if I'm not in my truck or my kayak or in a crowd of other gimpy folks (I don't recall ever actually being in a crowd of etc, but you get the picture). Being the focus of curiosity gets tiring, and when it's mixed with obvious pity or horror, it gets painful as well as tiring. Therefore I always appreciate it when I can maintain the notion that I'm just a point somewhere on a range of general human abilities, rather than in a Special (ugh) category all my own. Yeah, it's just semantics, but semantics count (even if they don't break literal bones). Anyhow, a long rambly way of saying that my response to disability-specific terminology is, as I said, a personal one. I did get miffed though, at the implication that caches intended to be `handicapped-accessible' should be thought of as easy. I mean, it's pretty obvious why, right? It's like when one person posts a log about how they struggled to find a given cache, and another person posts a log right after saying how their blind, deaf, legless, oxygen-tank-using 103-year-old learning-disabled grandmother found the same cache in less than a minute after arriving at the location. The first guy feels somewhat deflated, you know? (I saw a reference somewhere on these forums to the abovementioned woman but can't recall who to thank for the image.) So, Eric, please do continue using whichever words keep you talking about stuff. Me expressing my thoughts was just that. ../Mosaica
  24. Just a quick note. Making a cache accessible to a person in a wheelchair does not neccessarily mean that it's an easy cache or the sort of cache easily doable by a young child or toddler. I -personally- dislike the word handicapped and would rather see information on a cache page such as `This could be done by a person pushing a sport-stroller or by someone on a bike or wheechair.' I've done a few caches so far that were really hard, both for me and for the uber-fit two-legged sidekicks with me. And some caches just take an unorthodox approach, some map research, a bit of outside-the-box thinking. ../Mosaica
  25. Lots of good points. As a gimpy-grrl caching freak, I've found the ratings to be useful, but only as one component. Other components (that probably also apply to two-legged folks) including the cache description (more is more, imo), emailing the owner, and asking cache buddies who've done the cache before. Not asking `hey, where is it,' but `hey, how wide is the ditch and how tall is the bank. I also use a LOT of maps & map products. Many caches rated 1 are totally not wheelchair accessible (different than handicapped accessible). I'm trying to get over my own dislike of anything resembling confrontation and write to owners of caches listed as terrain 1 to maybe change 'em to 1.5. I -personally- would not like the idea of handicapped-only caches. I hate the blue signs, any reference to my being Special, and so on. I like to feel like I'm just another Joe. I believe a well done cache has information that's useful to a whole range of abilities. If you look at my finds so far, you can see that I've been able to do some terrain 5's (the boating ones which I do with my trusty kayak) and also a fair number which are not 1's, but which, with will and lots of butt-scuttling -can- be done. Anyhow, my very hasty 2 øre. I'm off a-cachin'! ../Mosaica
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