GeoMeerkats
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Someone from the area (fellow geocacher or muggle family member) might be willing to watch over the cache for you and do any necessary maintenance. That is allowed, you just have to let the reviewer know who is taking care of your cache for you. Good luck!
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GC4AF3 Foxy Roxy (on the Big Island) is a cache placed in 2002 and is in danger of being archived. There aren't many old caches left. It is in an interesting location and is the first cache many people find coming from the airport. Can somebody please put out a replacement cache so this old cache doesn't get archived? Thanks!
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Thank you to those who responded positively.
We are driving from Alberta down to Arizona and back. Hence posting in the forums for those areas. Who better to give advice on the power trails in those areas than the cachers that live in those areas and have probably done them? There are several power trails that we could try on the trip, we just aren't sure which one(s) we will try yet.
We are also thinking of doing The Iron Horse Power Trail in Alberta later in the year, which needs to be done on foot, biking, horseback, ATV or snowmobile.
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Do you really need 3 of the same thread in 3 different forums?
B.
I don't know about you but I only have a watch on one forum. Posting on more than one forum ensures that more people see my posts, will respond and I will get more useful responses from a wider audience than I would otherwise.
If you have nothing useful to post about the topic don't waste your time responding.
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We're looking for the best strategy for tackling a power trail. What suggestions do you have?
Thanks!
GeoMeerkats
I think you're experienced enough to know exactly what it's all about.
If not, walk upstairs, look in the mirror, ask yourself is this really what it is all about. If the answer is yes then just load with food and water and get it over with.
If I knew all about power trails, why would I need to ask about them? The rest of your response makes no sense.
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Asking once in only one of the forums.
I don't know about you but I only have a watch on one forum. Posting on more than one forum ensures that more people see my posts, will respond and I will get more useful responses from a wider audience than I would otherwise.
If you have nothing useful to post about the topic don't waste your time responding. Go and get a life instead of being a troll lurking on the forums complaining about other people lol. Tip: avoid looking in mirrors so you won't have to complain about that too lol.
Ms. GeoMeerkats
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We're looking for the best strategy for tackling a power trail. What suggestions do you have?
Thanks!
GeoMeerkats
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We're looking for the best strategy for tackling a power trail.
We are driving from Alberta down to Arizona and back. Hence posting in the forums for those areas. Who better to give advice on the power trails in those areas than the cachers that live in those areas and have probably done them? There are several power trails that we could try on the trip, we just aren't sure which one(s) we will try yet.
We are also thinking of doing The Iron Horse Power Trail in Alberta later in the year, which needs to be done on foot, biking, horseback, ATV or snowmobile.
What suggestions do you have?
Thanks to those who respond positively!
GeoMeerkats
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how does a poker rally geocaching event work? I am wondering if this is more suitable for families or adults? Is this somewhat of a combination of power trails in different communities with a twist on finding geocaches and then utilizing the cache finds for another purpose. Sorry, I've never tried this type of activity.
Geodad.
I'm not sure how the poker part of it all works but if you go to this page Gold Trail News Link and scroll down, you will see the event for each day listed. If you click on the event for each day, you will see that there is lots there for families and kids.
We thoroughly enjoyed our caching trip to Gold Country a few years ago and that was just driving around geocaching and sightseeing. Throw a mega, add lots of events, lots of geocachers, a geo-mall, lots of excitement and enthusiasm and it will be a "must attend" event for any geocacher!
(Hey Gold Country! You might want to hire me as part of your rah-rah promotions team! lol
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I, personally, can never understand why people tend to be so bitchy when a mega (that is close enough that you can actually attend it) is announced. Just register, show up, have a great time, go home happy with wonderful memories and a pocketful of new geostuff, and be grateful that somebody stepped up to host one at all.
Just my opinion.
Ms. GeoMeerkats
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Correct me if I am wrong but it is not just sticking (WestCan3) on the
end of an event that is already in place.
I thought that WestCan series was a stand alone event not something to just be
added to other events.
Who else has the expertise needed to host a mega except those who have hosted big events before? I'm sure it would have been ideal for the event to be marketed as the WestCan 3 Mega from the beginning but maybe negotiations took so long that they had to get the event published and promoted for it to be a successful event anyway and give people enough notice to plan their vacations to attend. The Poker Run would obviously have gone on whether its bid to be WestCan 3 was successful or not. Just be grateful that there is a WestCan 3 happening this year. I know we are thrilled there is a WestCan 3 happening at all
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Thanks, nittany dave! That was cool and useful. Exactly what I was looking for
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Guess you did not read our last post!! There are many caches located on guardrails around the country. Matter of fact have been to quite a few. So I guess everyone that has placed one on a guardrail is stupid. oops!
We have a few guardrail caches of our own. That's still no justification to call the police stupid for responding to a potential bomb threat.
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Alright. We are going to open this up to the total community. We placed a cache recently in Mansfield, Ohio. And today the bomb squad was called. See www.mansfieldnewsjournal.com
We could be facing felony charges???? Also, we are now getting nasty e-mails from people. Stupid police!!!
Calling the police stupid for responding appropriately to a frantic phone call about a potential bomb in a public place, just goes to how who the real "stupid" person is. They did what they are paid to do which is to serve and protect.
If you are so worried, then get your own lawyer although if you are charged, I'd imagine that the courts will appoint a lawyer to you (at least they do in the tv shows lol.)
We have been questioned by our local bike cops because they saw us veer off the bike path into the bushes and wanted to know what we were up to. We've also had cachers searching for one of our caches in a popular downtown park questioned by police. They only want to know if illegal activity is going on. Once it is explained what is going on, the cops are satisfied and move on. Most police departments are teaching their members about geocaching, what a geocache is and what it can look like and how shady cachers tend to look when they are hunting for a geocache in the bushes lol.
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Now that we know where the 2 millionth cache is, where is the 1 millionth cache? Hopefully that one is in a more centralized location for the majority of geocachers.
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Geocaching.com now considers cemeteries to be private property and you need permission to place a cache in one.
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<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by colink:
Okay Folks, Here's a thought. I have six film containters with my wifes ashs in them. I put them in a cache, each of them numbered 1 thru 6. The seekers find the cache, log the date and time. Then I ask that they take the film container to a place that they find suitable for their beliefs and spread them. Then log the site here at Geocache.com. Now I realize that some may find this uncomfortable, but others may understand. All I ask is that it be done with thought and reverance.
Collin</font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Others might find this a little strange, but a few years back I had a request in a similar vein from one of my schoolfriends' wives - he'd been killed in a road accident and that she wanted his schoolfriends to take his ashes and scatter them 'somewhere nice'.....
Well the remaining four of us that had been close friends with him, discussed the possibilities & justifications of doing it and eventually we agreed that we would do it and that we'd have to take his ashes somewhere he loved to go - after all it was his wife's wish for us to scatter his remains.
So we decided on one of his favourite hikes in the English Lake District along "High Street" - we each took a quarter of the ashes and set off for a weekend hiking and when we found the right spot we returned him to the elements from whence he came and in a spot he loved, overlooking Ullswater.
It sounds like a morbid thing to do, but we took him into his favourite Lakeland pub, had a fantastic weekend and it really felt like we were saying "goodbye" properly to him.
What's the point of the story above ? Well if that's what Colin wants for his wife's ashes then nobody should get on their moral high horse and decry him for his wishes.
Jason
What a stupid idea. How many of those canisters where opened by unsuspecting cachers thinking they were meant to be caches that people take and rehide/publish somewhere else? What are some people thinking???
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Thanks, StarBrand, but that was all stuff that I'd already figured out. I was looking for some practical instruction on the easiest way of creating geo art.
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Is there an easy way to create geo art?
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There won't be a WestCan 3 because nobody stepped up to run it. What a shame
because WestCan 1 (Best of the Bad) and WestCan 2 (Island Spirit) were excellent and a ton of fun. I hope somebody gets a group together and will put on a WestCan event in 2013 or that will probably be the end of the WestCan Megas. -
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Happy anniversary, Ken! I assume that you were the one who placed GC41 and brought geocaching to Canada? Way to go!!!
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because WestCan 1 (Best of the Bad) and WestCan 2 (Island Spirit) were excellent and a ton of fun. I hope somebody gets a group together and will put on a WestCan event in 2013 or that will probably be the end of the WestCan Megas.
Make my Ipod geocaching app open http://coord.info/GCxxxx links
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I've looked around the Forum for an answer to my question and this is about the closest discussion I've found. Not exactly on topic, but close. When an email notification comes in, new cache, whatever, and I click on the link, I've always had the iPhone open in the geocaching app. Sometimes a screen comes up, asking if you want to open in the app or go to geocaching.com. I suppose at some point, I must have accidentally clicked on the geocaching.com option, because now all the links open in geocaching.com. That's not what I want. I want it to open in the app. How do I get back there? I've cleared the browser history and website data in Safari, logged out and logged back in both the app and geocaching.com, uninstalled and reinstalled the app, but it still opens in geocaching.com. How do I bring up the screen where it asks me what I want to do?