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Mappoint did something funny between #14 (GCGTAA) and #15 (GCGEY7). The directions say you can drive directly from Yarrow Rd to Diamond Point Blvd, but from the map, I don't think you can. The cache page for GCGEY7 states directions are to use Diamond Point Blvd.

From the search page, I was searching by coordinates: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest.aspx Using coords: N 45 31.351 W 122 41.409 This results in: All Geocaches Arithmetic operation resulted in an overflow. [New Search] Total Records: 2126 - Page: 1 of 107 Prev. << <[1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10]> >> Next This is repeatable for this one set of coords. If I round to 2 digits, I get results without error. N 45 31.35 W 122 41.41 No big deal, but someone there might like to know...

The others are great, but... vote for mine! Essay - My daughter's first campout.

I got this on a Google News Alert... Wednesday, July 14, 2004 A cache will be hidden in the Los Angeles area during next week. http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,20...2271539,00.html

It's started! June 24, at midnight there were 3 "Cases" posted. LA, PA, and maybe NM? Hope this year's contest is better organized.

Has anybody seen this? It is still "coming soon", but $50000 looks mighty interesting. GPS the game Posting here, because in the page background are coordinates that are somewhere in Tenino, WA. N 46 51.501 W 122 50.966 If somebody is near that area, maybe check it out?

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I saw this and thougt some of you adventurous types might be interested in applying to be on the program! Deadline is Dec. 31, 2003. http://media.dsc.discovery.com/fansites/now/now.html What would you do if you had 72 hours, $3,000 and one dream? Discovery Channel is searching nationwide to find America's most imaginative dreamers for a new series called No Opportunity Wasted. That is, we're looking for you. Led by host Phil Keoghan (click here for more on Phil), also seen in the Emmy Award-winning The Amazing Race, NOW is about living each day as if it were your last. NOW dares you to live out your dreams on national television: We'll clear your personal calendar and give you 72 hours and $3,000 of seed money. That's it. Ultimately it's up to you to think up the ideas and turn them into action. We'll just film it. Perhaps your dream is to dine on top of an erupting volcano, or assemble your college football team to settle a 20-year-old score. Or maybe it's to audition for a Broadway show, or retrace your steps along the Ho Chi Minh Trail with your war buddy. (Click here for more sample dreams.) We all have things we want to do before we die. What are you waiting for? All you have to do is put your dream into writing by completely filling out our online application and submitting it with a three-minute video by Dec. 31, 2003. Filming of the show will begin in early 2004; you'll know you've been chosen to "do your dream" when Phil literally shows up on your doorstep or walks into your cubicle at work. Then you'll be in for an adventure of a lifetime — an adventure of your making. No woulda/coulda/shouldas — live life to the fullest. Apply NOW.

Check out Foucault's Pendulum, by Umberto Eco. This novel has lots of stuff about coded messages and mysterious secret plans. I just finished reading it. It is a little long, but very good.

The pocket queries are not all that great. They are limited to 500 caches. Many states have lots more than 500 caches. And you must wait for the pocket query to be emailed. It is usually about 24 hours to wait. It would be nice to have some dynamic sorting online. When I decide to go out caching, I want to call up a list and print it and be on the road in half an hour. Can't do that with the pocket queries unless I remembered to set one up a day or two in advance.

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quote:Originally posted by adondo:...my aunt mentioned she wanted an antique desk. It was going to cost her $500 to have movers send it to Spokane for her. We drove over in my Ford F-350, and I though it would be totally ridiculous to spend that kind of dough to get a desk moved across the state, so we... I thought you were going to say: ...so we attached a TB tag to it and left it at a cache with destination instructions.

I am sending you an email with the solution I got. Took about 15 minutes.

FYI, This week Target has the Garmin Geko for $78. Great price for a basic GPS unit.

Here's a request for a new feature for the cache searches. Could we use multiple criteria to search? I know *some* is available via pocket query, but if I want a keyword/location search, I can't do it. For example, there's a cache in Oregon with Blue in the name, I search for Blue and get 409 entries. I have to page through those until I find it. If that request can't be done, then how about a sort on the search result page. Click the column header and it sorts. But to really be useful, the location would be in a separate column. Thanks for considering.

Thanks Team JOYSON for a well done event cache. Hope the steaks weren't too well done. Yech. I finally got my Medallion #1 cache fixed up. I changed the location, and changed the puzzle format. Hope it makes more sense now. Thanks to Bazzle and GR&GG for the feedback on my previous puzzle. The cache is ENABLED now, so go get it! http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=099427ea-4dd6-4489-a1ec-f52f8c2a690b

quote:Originally posted by kiwimonster:The Key to the Nutria has been overlooked before, because it did not immediately look like a travel bug. I know it has received a face-lift since I last saw it, but perhaps someone should take a second, closer, look at some of the items in that cache. I went there today and carefully examined everything in the cache, but the Key does not appear to be there. Of course, I don't know what it looks like, so it could be cleverly disguised as a birthday card.

Yeah, the Key to the Nutria has been missing for a while, now. It was here on 9/17, but missing by 9/19. I think that if someone isn't going to take the time to log a TB, they should just leave it along.

That sounds like some great planning. - First, does this sound acceptable so far, i.e., can I require a combo of orienteering type directions and letterbox type directions in tandem with standard GPS work? No problem with that; I prefer caches that involve doing something besides just following the GPSr. - Second, these caches are going to tie up a good chunk of the GPS accessible areas in this park -- is that OK if I ensure that this is a really good cache series? Nobody else had the vision to use this area, so go ahead! - Third, I plan to use four independent but linked-by-a-theme caches to lead to a fifth, which will not be findable without a clue from each of the four -- is that OK? Yes! That adds to the fun/challenge factor. But make sure it is far enough from the first 4 that somebody cannot stumble upon it while searching out one of those.

I would echo other's comments on this series (and there was a great place on the Eagle Creek trail where you could get such an echo). My son and his friends were enthralled with the huge salmon in the creek. They were so excited that they could just reach down and touch the fish! We thoroughly enjoyed the hike, even though there were lots of other hikers. Finding the cache, and then solving the puzzle was icing on the cake. We saw a tree that looked like an alien, once the pictures develop I'll post it. Thanks GeoNap and Fractal for this most excellent series! My previous comments in which I was crying over spilled sour grapes were all tongue in cheek. I sincerely congratulate Sparky and Joyson for getting to the final first and becoming half of the One. (While I am merely the fifth One.) Did some calculations, and figured I put over 500 miles (as the crow flies) on my car for this series, and since my car does not fly like a crow, more like 700 miles. For those who have not yet completed this journey, go for it! There's still lots of cool stuff in the Final cache. And all the sights along the way to the caches are awesome!

Quote: I love the fact that the cache page says that #10 can only be hunted dawn till dusk... Yeah, maybe some who didn't follow the rules should be DISQUALIFIED from being the ONE. Some of us did the hunt after dawn! Quote: Really thought someone else would have come right after the cache pages came out around eleven thirty on Friday. Was really suprised that we were the first. It's a good thing you got there when you did, otherwise those evildoers who *may* have gone earlier would have beat you. No, really, I am Not feeling sorry for myself!