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The wilderness bill passed and was signed into law. Here are the maps. The reviewers that I check with tell me that they have not yet been directed to change their handling of caches in the new wilderness areas. I'm leaving mine in place for the time being, but am not placing any new ones. Sigh ... I had two new caches in mind for high-elevation gorge hikes.

I use Seamonkey as my primary browser. I don't have these problems. Version 1.1 on Windows XP SP2.

The Infinity Gauntlet. The most fun I've ever had caching.

Standard dd mm.mmm notation works fine. Since you're in the U.S., put a minus sign before the longitude or the search will appear to fail.

I live two miles from the line and it's hard to miss. Meridian Park Hospital, Meridian Square Shopping Center, and the Spinning Globe Monument are all located on SW 65th Avenue, a road that follows the meridian for several miles.

And there's a cache to be found there: GC6E77, placed in 2002.

You can enter coordinates as dd mm.mmm. If you're in the US, or anywhere else west of the Prime Meridian, remember the minus sign before the longitude: -dd mm.mmm

Increasingly, the reason is that jurors are using their cell phones to look up information on the internet, in violation of the rule that only evidence presented at trial may be considered. Here's an NY Times article on the subject.

That cache description says that a four-year-old hiked up 7000 feet of elevation gain every month? Even if she rode on somebody's back, that's one heck of an achievement. Or is there a subtle joke here that went right over my head?

Two more caches requiring 1000 feet of elevation gain are GCWE40 (from the Mitchell Point rest area) and GC1MCDG.

And the Portland geocaching forum.

Interesting. The reports I read said just the opposite. Can you point me to a reference for this? Yes. And it took the government down a path -- charging individuals for access to commons -- that is fundamentally anti-American. Next, can you imagine charging a fee to use a city neighborhood park?

We went hiking in the forest to an ammo can that was placed when the original cache went missing and was archived. Found it, returned to the parking lot, and my friend stepped behind a tree to relieve himself. Just before he let fly, he noticed another ammo can in the target area. It was the original missing one, nowhere near its proper location. We signed the log, returned that can to its owner, and logged two smilies

From a waypont lookup page (like this one), clicking on "Google Maps" gets an incorrect map. The problem is that the link is passing an empty tag +() instead of something like +(GCJJQE) Back on the main cache page, clicking the "[Map]" link for an additional waypoint takes you to something like www.geocaching.com/map/default.aspx?lat=45.383867&lng=-122.73475 -- which highlights any caches in the area but doesn't show the waypoint! Seems to me you want a maps.google.com link there instead.

PQs from the second account wouldn't be able to exclude caches found by the first account. You could filter the results with GSAK but you'd end up with a lot fewer than 500 useful caches per query.

Did you know you can delete SBA logs from your caches? That's what I did the one time somebody posted a ridiculous SBA.

That's the Groundspeak rule. The federal rules have more bite. If the new land manager imposes a strict 48-hour rule like the one in the Jefferson wilderness area, I'll have to pull my caches or face a possible hefty fine.

For my vacation last year, I had all the active caches in Scotland in one GSAK database on my laptop, with a dozen PQs sending regular updates. It took me a weekend to set it all up, but once that was done the system just worked. On each day of vacation, I sliced out the several hundred caches nearest to my location to load into my GPSr and Cachemate on my PDA. But I suspect that you can't get every cache in the U.K. with a week's schedule of PQs.

Here you go. Two men died because the bomb disposal expert was an optimist and guessed the "suspicious package found under the bushes" wasn't really a bomb.

It failed in the house last week by just two votes, and only because they used a procedure that required a two-thirds majority. The next time it comes up, it will probably pass. It has already passed the senate. It doesn't much affect the budget. For the most part, they're just changing the designation on land already owned by the federal government. In a couple of cases, they're exchanging federal land for private land.

True. Although The Hanging Meadows will have to be removed if the pending wilderness bill becomes law. As will two of my caches in the Columbia River Gorge.

Definitely ash!

Indeed we have: we charge a $3 parking fee at the bigger parks (like Champoeg.) What irked me about the Washington park fees was that the Washington & Oregon Recreation Pass didn't cover them all. When I presented it at Maryhill State Park, the ranger was very apologetic. To her credit, when we explained that we wanted to sign a geocache log and move on, she let us in for free.

I ignore "challenge" meta-caches that don't look like any fun. Find exactly 1 cache today, 2 caches tomorrow, and so on to 13? Why would I want to stop caching in the morning?

The old "print friendly" pages still work and I use them every week. (Thanks to the unnamed lackeys who haven't yet killed it.) When you're looking at a cache page, the URL near the top of your browser looks like: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=c0703aba-13dc-41c2-9e9c-39b7fc902475 Click on the end of this URL and type these additional characters: &pf=y&log=y&decrypt=y then hit ENTER.