Just a Short Walk

Thanks TouchStone I am Disabled now and walk with a cane, I try to walk around but can hardly make a mile. I use a cane all the time now. For the longest time I did not Geocache at all, ( Disabilities and had a bad time in Life ) i am starting to pickup a few SIMPLE urban caches and hope to get back into doing a bit more easy caches. I have listed most all my Geocaches up for Adoption if you care to help out.. I even turned on the premium account in hopes of geocaching a bit more. i am in Salt lake City Utah now. here is a link to a great writeup about I.C. http://www.santacruzrandonneurs.org/MatthewRIP.pdf Also https://www.facebook.com/remembermatthewoneill/

Still Around, Just not very often.....

SADLY LIFE CHANGES - By "Just A Short Walk" (History) In the Early Days of Geocaching there were about 3 or 4 Geocaches around Monterey and a Few around Santa Cruz. Iron Chef had placed a Cache and I drove up to try to find it, As I was Heading back after finding the Cache a Very young Iron Chef sees me on the trail and comes over and says Hi. Well that was the Start of something wonderful. Me? I am "Just a Short Walk" Started playing on 06/28/2001, Iron Chef and I became the best of Friends and decided that we needed to place some caches around Monterey And South, our motto was place a Cache and they will Come. SO WE DID! We bought HUNDREDS of AMMO Cans, Placed many Caches and later this thing called a travel bug came out. So we started replacing our traveling caches, ( That is a geocache that was a Mini Cache you moved from Cache to Cache. During that time I was having a rough time with a collapsed disk in my back due to a 35 foot fall. My Doctor told me to gradually walk uphills as your bent over going up but your forced to Stand Straight when you decline... Well Matthew ( Iron Chef ) took me under his wing and was there anytime I wanted to go Hike with him, I was the slow poke and he was waiting right there in case I had issues. You will Notice for that reason many of the JUST a Short Walk Caches are up hills, Thus the reason. IRON CHEF and myself got MAny many Caches placed and more and more people started to come. The biggest influx when the Monterey Herald did a feature about geocaching with a Reporter Iron Chef and me. Great Article and we started seeing more people getting involved. Back then there were few Mini Caches and Lots of big Ammo Cans Around.. (Life Changes) So after a few years iron Chef became as much as my Family as a outsider could, Having Dinners, sleeping over , camping, Besides he was the same age as my daughter. As Life went on he graduated Santa Cruz, and moved off to the San diego area working on his first and then Second PHD Needless to say my back was worsening and I took a early retirement and moved North,, as time went on Iron Chef and me got separated, his email changed, and his Cell ( before porting of numbers). Iron Chef and I sent mail now and then and then it stopped as he moved again.. I ended up in a bad Divorce and ended up moving all around for a few years and I totally Lost Iron Chef. For several years i tried to connect when I would look through my photos, I left messages here with no luck. Every now and then I would use the internet and try to search and again no luck. (Last Night) last night I was searching for him again, and VERY SADLY I found a a memorial Page for Iron Chef's real name ( http://www.santacruzrandonneurs.org/MatthewRIP.pdf ) and I read in Disbelief how tragic this was... I could not hold back the tears, it was like loosing my own Son... Needless to say the hardest part was knowing we got seperated from just being too busy and caught up in life and forget to send someone your contact info... So Sad... ( have Tears in my eyes as I type this) Ironically it was found on EXACTLY on the 2 year anniversary of his death. So here is a couple links I have found about Iron Chef https://www.facebook.com/remembermatthewoneill http://www.changealanesavealife.com/ (Today) Sadly my Geocaching days are very Limited. I am handicapped, Have a very hard time walking and use a cane all the time.... I check in here every now and then but seldom leave anything here... I am so pleased to see many of those original Caches are Still there some 15 plus years later keeping people filled with fun. The World lost a wonderful young man two years ago and I will never forget what he did for me and my Life... You can't take those memories away I have hundreds of photos where Iron Chef and I were out for the Hike and Camping... Rest in Peace my Friend.. You always have been missed.... I still have a few caches out there in your memory and they are still collecting spoons.... Sheds Several Tears for you tonight.. Had to come onto the forum and post my thoughts of you to share... THANKS FOR ALL YOU HAVE DONE IN MY LIFE.... Don Younker AKA "Just A Short Walk"

Oooh! I'd love to find one of Iron Chef's spoons. I'd trade for that in a heartbeat!

This was formed very early 2001, Artwork was done by RAYGun... It was a logo that was used in the Aptos, SantaCruz area and then I started using it in Monterey. I think it was made in may or so of 2001.

I'm still busy gathering Ammo Cans.... I'll be planting them up north ( Klamath Falls, OR.) Your all welcome to come find them.... Retired from the job in Monterey, Moved to Oregon and got a job driving a 4 wheel drive truck to the tops of mountains to fix and maintain microwave equipment.. Now I carry a Ammo cans with me to work.... Check out - The Perfect "42" "Hitchhiker's guide to Applegate" Waypoint GCJVZD it's only a sample of what's to come while at work!.... Just a Short Walk

Iron Chef is in Santa Cruz, He visited me a couple weeks ago. He's still Very active. I was in Monterey last month to say Hello to a couple of friends. Anyway Back in the days ( Early 2001) there were only a couple of caches in Monterey... I meet Iron Chef back then and he and I decided to plant "A FEW" caches in monterey and down the Highway 1 to get people to visit... Back then we bought about 50 ammo cans and I put them in the truck a few at a time and MOST of them are still out there going strong... Thanks for the respect in your post! Just a Short Walk - Klamath Falls Oregon.

A TB is but is MIA http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.as...ff-b7260e0296d2 A Cache Was but is gone now http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...5b-f7b5ea842f09 So it's been done before.

How about I figure out when I can be free for a get together and we can all have pizza sometime soon.. I'l bring the Millions!

The worst part is that I am going to have to redesign the back of the Million Dollar Bill! DARN!

I REALLY WANT TO THANK YOU ALL FOR MAKING ME FEEL WELCOME AND HONORED! Thanks for the offers to Adopt Caches.. I have family and friends Geocachers that are active and have agreed to help me if needed.. Since I am "Retiring" I will be able to traval around more than before.. I still have grandkids in the area and can surly manage the caches that I have planted.. I am sure to stop in at a event once in awhile also. If I feel I need to Adopt theese caches out I will ask the people who were my hiking buddies during those times.. I Hope to get to see you all on the trail soon.. It's been fun getting a area with very few caches when I first started to a area that MANY people come to so that they can geocahe.. Remember the name "Just a Short Walk" as that's all it is to go get a cache... Many Stright up , but still a short walk.

The Camera HAD a tag on it...I have a copy tag to put on it. So if you would Email me I will give you the number to logg it,. I don't want to give it out in the open forum. Also if you have the bug and it has no TAG on it you might as well Mail it back to me.... UNLESS someone can check that the tag is no still in the cache where the camera was found. Thanks Just a Short Walk Monterey, CA -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ "Just a Short walk" Says.... If You plant a cache they will come.....

Look for a article in the "Californian" this thursday in the pull out section.. It was going to come out last week but I was told that they are using it for the front cover of the pull out section. I had a wonderful time talking to the reporter and the Photographer went geocaching with us to do Veteran's Cache.. It was really fun.. As for Monterey there are Lot's of caches here! , But there is always room for more! Just a Short Walk -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ "Just a Short walk" Says.... If You plant a cache they will come.....

It isn't that hard to figure out the GPS V . It just takes a bit of playing with so that you can use it in the field. Load Mapsource and unlock the reagions. Then Download the maps of your area. After that try to have it take you to a local resterant or store.. Then try to find it using the "Off Road" Mode... That is what you'll use while on the trails.. You don't have to stay in the Compass display, hit page a couple times and go to the map display.. Then as you get close to the cache try to look at it in the 20ft range....(Use the in and out to zoom) Good Luck I love mine! quote:Originally posted by LisaAS36:OK, I know Santa is bringing me a GPS (Garmin V) to put under the tree. My question is how long should I expect to need to learn enough of the features to begin Geocaching? I can usually do pretty well with gadgets and such, but I've never used a GPS before. Thanks- Lisa -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ "Just a Short walk" Says.... If You plant a cache they will come.....

They call me "Just a Short Walk" for a reason... I don't know if this is reachable for me and my bad back! I'll point it out to Iron Chef (and Aquadyne) when I see Iron Chef this weekend.. What a Place to put a T.B. Good Luck, I'll be watching this one! -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ "Just a Short walk" Says.... If You plant a cache they will come.....

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Sorry Fire 1 Geocache 0 http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.asp?ID=24759 I didn't quite make it! The can made it but Everything inside is ash! No Bush Whacking required anymore! -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ "Just a Short walk" Says.... If You plant a cache they will come.....

Sorry Fire 1 Geocache 0 http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.asp?ID=24759 I didn't quite make it! The can made it but Everything inside is ash! No Bush Whacking required anymore! -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ "Just a Short walk" Says.... If You plant a cache they will come.....

I like it the way it is!!!! Besides someday it's gunna fall off into the ocean and it will be smaller state! At least thats what other keept saying in the 70's quote:Originally posted by CAKoala:Northern, Central and Southern would be great. When I go to California in any of functions, I get OVERWELMED with the number of caches, and of course only a third of them are anywhere close to me. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ "Just a Short walk" Says.... If You plant a cache they will come.....

I had the same thing happen to me.. I had done the $30 one time thing and then only the main board saw me as a member "KINDA" but I couldn't look at any member only Items.. Also the forums worked. Anyway I decided to "Re Subscribe" only this time I used the monthly $3 dollar option.. Jeremy was nice and had told me if I resubscribed he would refund the money.. I didn't need him to do that as I use the geocaching site alot and decided it was for a good cause! quote:Originally posted by pdxmarathonman:I got a message from Paypal that my credit card on file was about to expire - so I updated the information. I had to supply a new card since my bank switched me from MasterCard to Visa since the time I registered with Paypal. I removed the old card and added a new card, this triggered the following email from Paypal (I think it is the trigger at least): ------------------------------------------------ You have successfully cancelled your subscription to Groundspeak Charter Member. You will not be billed for this subscription again. ------------------------------ Cancellation Details: ------------------------------ Cancellation Date: July 16, 2002 Subscription Name: Groundspeak Charter Member Subscription Number: S-yadayadayadayada Item Number: GSPCHARTER ------------------------------ Contact Information ------------------------------ If you have any questions about this subscription, please contact Groundspeak. Business Name: Groundspeak Contact Email: contact@geocaching.com Contact Phone: 206-302-7721 Thank you for using PayPal subscriptions. The PayPal Subscriptions Team ----------------------------------------- I prepaid for a year, so I THINK they are just trying, in a non-graceful way, to tell me that I won't ever be able to send money to geocaching.com with my old credit card. I just want to be sure my Charter Membership is intact. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ "Just a Short walk" Says.... If You plant a cache they will come.....

http://www.geocaching.com/mark/details.asp?PID=TT6222 What was this person drinking?? I bet I know by looking at the descriptions stamped on disk 1 and 2...... I am surprised that it wasn't marked with a glass bottle! -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ "Just a Short walk" Says.... If You plant a cache they will come.....

Hey what a good location for a geocache! No caches show up here! Someone better go plant one soon so that whoever finds this BM will be able to log the cache! quote:Originally posted by rogbarn: The is the farthest west benchmark that I can find. http://www.geocaching.com/mark/details.asp?PID=TT6238 It's in the western Aleutians Islands of Alaska. It's over the 180 degree longitude line, so it's longitude is (about) 173 degrees E. But the database lists it as 187 degrees W! This comes directly from the NGS database where it is also 187W. Go figure.... btw, I didn't do a through search, so there might be some more even further west. Anyone want to search? -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ "Just a Short walk" Says.... If You plant a cache they will come.....

I set up a couple searches and got them back within a hour! I like them! a 500 cache expertGPS file to look at! and a ebook file also! WAY COOL! quote:Originally posted by DenaliNW: Just noticed that my cache page has changed (and I think that this is only applicable to those who are charter members). The benefits of charter membership are listed at the top, and it seems that I can now query the database to send me cache info in a loc file for easygps or in a file for a PDA device. Looks pretty cool, and I'm trying it out now. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ "Just a Short walk" Says.... If You plant a cache they will come.....

Well, Your poll doesn't work for me.. It should have had a box "My Riding is Up Becase I cache more on my Bike!" Bought a new bike at the end of Feb and have 11,000 miles on it now! It only had 4,200 when I got it! The plates read "GEODASH" that's what I do, Dash out when ever I can! quote:Originally posted by sbukosky: My miles are WAY down since I began geocaching this last winter. How about you? Steve Bukosky N9BGH Waukesha Wisconsin -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ "Just a Short walk" Says.... If You plant a cache they will come.....