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hikemeister

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  1. My brother just spent three months in Bagdad. Finding a few caches at the military base near the airport was one of the only enjoyable things he did there. I say approve more of them.
  2. There are a couple of strange characters down here in Florida known to hide a cache or post a funny note at an event from time to time -- that's all I have to say about that.
  3. When you mentioned the price of gas, I totally thought you were going to go in a different direction. For me, the price of gas has caused me to eliminate these challenge caches. In my opinion, their fun per mile quotient is simply too low to justify them. Instead, the bulk of my caching will be in areas near to where I will be anyway. This will result in a higher number of finds on 'P&G micros', but that doesn't bother me, at all. If I didn't wish to find these caches, I would simply filter them out of my PQs. Otherwise, nothing about my method would change. I really like this 'fun per mile' quotient ! We like to get at least 10 laughs per gallon!
  4. Canada, Netherlands, Italy and France ... in three more weeks add Austria and Germany
  5. Is the Snoogans mobile stuck and waiting for a tow, or moving in this photo ?
  6. This probably will not count, but here goes -- Last weekend a friend came up from south Florida, and I was the driver while he was the finder. I did not help him find any caches, but did make it easier navigating by knowing about dead ends and one way roads in the downtown area. In one day we found 112 caches. OK, now for the answer I think you were looking for -- 27 is the most I have personally found in one day
  7. This isn't an issue for me because since I am a premium member I can build pocket queries filtered by size. Alternatively, I can load all the caches to my GPSr and pda, but sort for non-micros on-the-fly if I need to place a traveler. Me too, but I never realized that I could filter by size! That is fantastic and worth all of this other chatter to find out (even better than the information on how to make slick graphs of cache finds). THANKS !!
  8. We have a cache in a very old cemetery with many confederate soldier graves. Our initial idea for a name was 'Graveyard Shift' because it is a multi-stage cache, but we settled on 'Dead Reckoning.' We are soon going to place another multi in an area of town that has a series of nice statues representing each planet and the sun, placed along a 1 mile stretch of local highway. My idea for a cache name is 'Solar Perplexus' but my wife, who does not geocache, said this is too much a highbrow name, and that we should call it 'Find Uranus.'
  9. The cost of gas definately has become an issue. We used to live in south Florida and after about a year, found all of the caches within an hours drive - then started doing day long cache hunts within a much larger radius. However, back then gas prices were much lower. Then we moved to north Florida and have found all of the local caches up this way -- and are not repeating the wide radius geocaching approach because it costs too darned much to drive around all day. We now take them as the opportunity arises, like when we travel to different places on vacation. P&G micros are a problem sometimes in that case. This summer we are headed over to Austria and I have a geocoin that wants to get home (to that country). Finding a full size cache was not easy, because about 90% of caches in the areas we will travel are either micros or full size caches with a 4 or 5 terrain (we are not mountain climbers or long distance hikers).
  10. I like the name 'Quantum Leap' but I think the guy who hid it is a bit odd. How's it going over there in Texas!?
  11. I'd spend a few extra dollars if you do get an eTrex and have a color display -- we have used an eTrex Legend since we started caching in 03 and last year upgraded to an eTrex Cx. The difference is amazing. Like my Blackberry, they also seem to be nearly indestructable, at least in regard to surviving multiple falls onto rocks, pavement, and once into water.
  12. Agreed. I still prefer Steely Dan to Kid Rock, but I don't necessarily change the radio when I don't like what's on. I prefer an Angus ribeye to a hamburger, but I won't pass it up if hamburgers are served. I prefer an ammo can to a LPC, but I'll sure take the LPC smiley when the opportunity is presented. To paraphrase an old adage, "variety is the spice of geocaching". Hey WebChimp -- where did you get all of those slick graphics on your web page? You must have every possible statistic that can be calculated displayed in pie charts, bar graphs and/or tables. Is this a canned program that you found in the web or self - generated? I take it that in addition to Steely Dan (agree -- one of the best), steaks (agree again) and ammo cans (agree again) you are interested in numbers.
  13. Quote: "I don't give a flying squirrel's nuts about your numbers nor do I care what you think about mine." That's OK, I don't give a rat's arse about your numbers either. Is this what is called getting off topic?
  14. Right, but my sense from reading the original post was that this person wants to know how to print a cache page. This all seems a moot point now as we know that they are working on the problem and that there are other ways to print the information (e.g., a PDF file). My answer to your suggetion was pretty terse -- so I withdraw it.
  15. This is a good point, and it actually works -- tell the hider of a really good full size cache that we need more, and they seem to respond -- particularly if the person making the suggestion does the same.
  16. Yep, the PDF option works just fine. Thanks for pointing it out because I had not noticed it. Nice feature
  17. I second that one -- why would you set out to find a cache that most likely is gone?
  18. OK, I just got an email back from one of the web folks at GC.com. They are aware of the issue, are working on it, and suggest for now printing the simple (no images) version of the page, which does not have this problem. I am going to give them time to fix it and take their advice until then.
  19. Way to go -- really helpful when people have an issue they want resolved.
  20. So does anyone have the ANSWER -- not more posts about why we need to save paper or buy PDAs or posts saying look at another thread -- just a simple ANSWER -- how does one print the cache page and see all of the text?
  21. This thread builds on an earlier one about the death of mystery (puzzle) caches, because it clearly is a larger issue. Caching -- at least in Florida -- has changed quite dramatically since we started about 5 years ago. Here are some observations: 1. Our mystery caches, multi-stage caches, long hike caches, and in fact any high level of difficult caches rarely are visted -- some have gone for over a year without a single person finding them. The only time many of them have been logged was last weekend when a friend from down south did about 120 local caches over the weekend. That was an exception. 2. Our park and grab micros are logged multiple times a month. My sense is that the great majority of geocachers are busy folks who enjoy the sport, but want to maximize the number of finds per unit of time spent, and this precludes paying much attention to the caches types listed above, unless on occasion they can be done as part of another event. We are as guilty as any others of this trend. When I first started caching, just about all we did was long hikes and ammo cans in great places. Now with limited time on my hands, we go for numbers. Numbers, like it or not, seem to influence how we cache. I have noticed recently that as I approach 1,000 finds, my focus is on hitting that target -- and this from a guy who many times has complained that this sport is not about the numbers! OK, this is rambling. What's your thought -- has the sport changed in this manner, from your perspective -- does it really matter?
  22. This is the best puzzle cache I have found. If you ever are in north-central Florida, give it a try. Very few have been able to figure it out. Great Circle The low point was finding it -- after several weeks of messing around and three people working on it, when we finally found the cache it was a 35 mm film container at the base of a street sign! Not only that but I thought at the time it was my 1,000 find and it actually was just number 998.
  23. June 20 2003 -- JD Riverbend Cache -- nice 1.5 mile walk in a pine flatwood to a boardwalk overlooking a small Florida creek. Melted to nearly nothing during a controlled burn in 2006 and not replaced. Wow -- this brings back great memories. When we placed it, there were only 10 caches in the park (Jonathan Dickinson Park). By December this year, when there will be a large caching event there, the park will have over 150 caches (and lots of wild and crazy people like me looking for them). What did I learn -- always use ammo cans in areas where there are controlled burns -- AND -- even that does not always work because the rubber seal melts in extreme heat, as do plastic items inside.
  24. Many techniques and sometimes even the best ones do not work. Last week on the way home from a meeting a couple of hours away, I intended to find three nanos hidden along the highway. Everyone was a magnetic button nano hidden up under the top of a vacuum cleaner at a gas station. Every darned one of them had a guy using the vacuum cleaner on his car! I just bagged it that day and will try those again. Sometimes these hides are more annoying than fun.
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