Monkeybrad

Ahh, the joy of the double post.

I second the vote for the NCGEO greatest hits list and a couple of my favorite caches are in the Asheville area. Bradley's Bottom is south of town, but is well worth the drive and the hike and the rappel and the rock scramble. Of course, if you are going to spend the weekend in Asheville you could give Tube Torcher II a try. It will most likely take all weekend, but it is an experience you will never forget. Asheville is a great caching town, I am sure you will have a blast.

I believe firmly in the concept of a Jeremy, but am still unsure as to my relationship with a personal Jeremy.

I like the concept. If you get the program together I would be honored to place one in Middle Tennessee for you.

I'll jump on the band wagon with WimseyGuy as one of the other teams that completed the Nuwati Challenge, and add that as tough as doing TT1 and High Water in one day was, TT2 is significantly tougher. Tube Torcher II is bigger and badder in every way. We were well prepared and made no mistakes that required serious backtracking and it still took us over 11.5 hours of straight caching time, not counting transit between stages, meals or breaks spread over two days. Many times during TT1 and TT2 I felt a lot like Indiana Jones, although oddly, I looked a lot more like Salah. You be the judge:

A Canon SD400 digital camera, which was frustrating, but even more frustrating was losing all of the pictures from a week long 2000+ mile caching trip that were on it at the time. I drove back 80 miles to the probable loss area (Pinson Mounds Earthcache), but had no luck. The year before that I lost a very nice Benchmade Mel Pardue model automatic knife at a cache in Northern Virginia. I also forgot about a pair of polarized Ray Ban Predators and a well-traveled doo-rag that went down the Nantahala Gorge when I became separated from our raft while on a geo-expedition.

Congratulations!!! I remember the day we first met you when you found you 1,100th cache. It has been a long journey since then, and our trip has been more interesting because we know you. Next time we get together the first round is on me.

Looking for one of the GW5 tie-dye t-shirts and a Garmin grand opening coin. I have pretty limited stuff to trade with, but I do have cash.

Sending another email today. Has anyone heard anything on these?

That is a great hike, I would love to join you, but my wife and I will be in Northern Virginia spending Thanksgiving with her family and enjoying the caches up there. With the shorter days in the fall, make sure to get an early start if you want to be able to hit most of the caches along the trail and still have some time to enjoy both Virgin and Big Laurel Falls.

Anyone heard anything or seen one of these delivered recently? I have still had no response from emails.

I have several different kinds but I always find myself going back to my Suunto MB-6. It has all the features I need, plus that great case with built-in inclinometer and sighting mirror. If I recall correctly it was around $50.00, but it has served me well, and I have not been gentle.

Cool, that is a great link. I agree with you on the larger tires, but I was in a hurry and went with what Lowe's had available that day. So far the supports are holding up fine, but I haven't had to deal with any serious terrain. Thanks for the input, that is one of the reasons I posted the design here, so I could get some input and make the next generation even better. I think that next one I build will be more collapsible. This one works fine for my large SOT, but you have to strap it to the deck of Scoot's more traditional yak and it gets in the way.

No coins, no communication, no reason to believe that we will ever see these coins. I am glad to see that some people actually received these coins, so it was not a scam, but for many of us the results are the same. Team Red Devil accepted our money, but has not delivered product and has refused to give any update here or privately. I would be interested to see how many people actually received these coins and how many of us were taken. I appreciate that Team Red Devil has had personal issues to deal with, and I am sorry for that, but that does not excuse this total lack of communication. Without any evidence to the contrary, those of us left out in the cold can only assume that we have been cheated and chalk it up to experience.

That is awesome, I would love to find a piece of equipment like that, thanks for the link. I can use some of that info in my talks.

I hate to be graphic, but here is my guess. Along with their famous Hurrican'es Pat O'Brien's serves free popcorn. The popcorn is very salty and as you eat it you get thirsty so you order more hurricanes. The nearly inevitable result of too many hurricanes is regurgitation. Aforementioned regurgitation is almost always full of tiny whitish yellow pieces that were formerly popcorn. After two AM you can find little pink puddles with specks in them all over Bourbon street. Those puddles look remarkably like the color of the jelly bean. Honestly when I first saw it and saw the name that is what I thought of, but I did not wish to gross anyone out with that guess.

Inspired by the drink made famous by Pat O'Brien's in New Orleans, because it has a similar color?

I have a bid on the pioneer on ebay right now, if it doesn't pan out I will contact you. Thanks for the offer.

The amount of meat in the logs has nothing to do with it. I logged my weekends finds on Monday and wrote personalized thoughtful logs for them and I still ran into this problem. It seems like the threshold for throttling has been greatly lowered lately. I used to be able to trip it using the firefox linky add-on to open the pages for logging, but now I can trip it by manually entering the gc number and hitting enter on multiple pages. Many of us use tabbed browsing to open up the pages to be logged before we begin writing the logs. This is not a length or quality of log issue. This is a website throttling issue, and I am with the others when I say the throttling threshold should not be set so low that a fumble-fingered monkey can trip it while manually entering gc numbers.

One month since the post that indicated all coins were shipped and still many of us wait. Any update?

It seems like more and more of us are buying canoes, kayaks and other small watercraft to integrate into our geocaching so I thought I would pass along this tip. Even a lightweight kayak (Scoot's weighs 34 lbs.) is a pain to carry more than a couple of hundred yards, so I looked around and found a better way to transport our boats. There are several of these on the market, but most of them run about $100.00, so I looked at how they were made and came up with this one that you can make in less than half an hour with parts from your local home improvement store for around $30.00 Just take this little set of wheels and place on the bottom of aforementioned watercraft like so: Then pull the straps up and attach them to anywhere convenient on your boat or just fasten them to each other over the top of the boat and you have a quick and easy way to transport you boat. From the rear: You can also use it to transport multiple boats if your stacking skills are up to the task: So how do you make one of these beauties? First you will need a few things: 1- 18" 2X4 2- 18" 2X2 2- 6" metal L brackets 2- lawnmower wheels, I used 7" 2- wheelaxle bolts (these will be with the wheels) 6- 1.5" lag bolts 1- FunNoodle (the kids swim toy) 2- bungee type straps I used 42" models 2 feet of webbing 8- 1.5" drywall screws 8- washers 6- 3" drywall screws Some sort of heavy adhesive, I used liquid nails. I picked up everything to make this at Lowe's and Walmart for about $30.00. 1. Center 2X2's on 2X4 base and attach with 3" screws. 2. Use lag bolts to secure metal brackets to bottom of 2X4. 3. Attach wheels to brackets using wheelaxle bolts. 4. Cut webbing to make loops to hold the bungee straps. Use 1.5" drywall screws and washers to attach them to the base. You can skip this and attach the bungees directly to the base if you like, but this method allows you access to your straps if you need them for something else, and it allows for easy replacement if one breaks. After attaching the loops fit bungee straps through them. 5. Flip the cart over and cut the FunNoodle to fit the 2X2 arms, use adhesive to attach FunNoodle pieces to the arms. At this point I also adhesived some 3mm foam to the crosspiece, but it is purely cosmetic, as was my choice of lime green noodle and yellow brackets. There you go, your own Kayak Cart for around twenty bucks and less than twenty minutes of construction. You can personalize it in any way, I ended up with my pastel lemon-lime scheme because that was the only color FunNoodle I could find. For a more sedate cart us gray foam pipe insulation. I hope this is helpful for some of you, my yak weighs in at about eighty pounds so I was looking for a better way to get it to the water in places that did not have a boat ramp. This works like a charm. If you place the cart about 3/4 of the way back on the boat you can get a nice balance that makes it effortless to lift and pull. The other nice thing is you can load your gear into the boat and only make one trip. Once you get to the water you can strap the cart on top of the yak, I am sure you could also build this to fold up and stow inside the boat, but I have lots of room in mine so I did not worry about that. On that same note, you can change any of the dimensions to get a custom fit for your boat. Mine was designed to handle my large sit-on-top kayak, my wife's standard kayak and our canoe. You may need to size up or down for your application. I hope that some of you find this useful, there are many more elegant ways to solve this problem, but this one requires no specialized knowledge or crazy tools to construct.

I have a line on a loaner 2000 Xl which is very similar to that one. I would really love to find a 1000 XL, talk about big and clunky with the external antenna and everything.

That KC-130 receiver sounds awesome, I would love to find something like that even if it did not power up to show the kids. It would be great to have something that had to have its own table.

Awesome cake! Looks tasty too. Here is one that Dimples made to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Middle Tennessee Geocachers Club.

While most of the world is looking for the latest and greatest gps available, I am on a different quest. I am always looking for the oldest clunkiest working gps receivers I can find. If I could find something in a wooden case with a crank on the side I would be thrilled. I occasionally give educational talks based on gps technology to geocaching groups and others where I use my receivers as examples, and I often get questions about the history of gps receivers, so I am actively seeking some older models to use as examples. So if you have an old gpsr sitting on the shelf that you would like to get rid of, send me a message with model information and price. The bigger and older the better, let me know what you have. I already have samples of these receivers: Garmin 12XL Garmin 45 Garmin GPS V Garmin Etrex Garmin Geko Garmin Rino Garmin Quest Garmin 60 series Magellan Sportrak Pro I would love to find an old Magellan 1000 Plus or similar unit