Cat'N'Geo

OMG an urban myth gone real. I'm never eating at "The colonel's" everrrrr again. Rally I'm not! They say this universe is bound to blow, I say we crank up the Calypso Control! ~Jimmy Buffett ~Someday I Will~

quote:Originally posted by Ce'Nedra:I don't know whether to Yawn or laugh my butt off. "The more I study nature, the more I am amazed at the Creator." - Louis Pasteur I think I'll compromise & yawn my butt off. They say this universe is bound to blow, I say we crank up the Calypso Control! ~Jimmy Buffett ~Someday I Will~

I've done it to get a travelbug out of my hands after waaaay too long. As long as it wasn't a second find (unless cache had been moved & you're invited by owner) I don't think it would matter much. Not to me anyway. They say this universe is bound to blow, I say we crank up the Calypso Control! ~Jimmy Buffett ~Someday I Will~

"Vg'f ol gur gerr, fgbbbcvq." "My dog is NOT a lesbian." "Have GPS, will fall in the river. Again." "Geocaching, using Space Age Technology to feed more Mosquitos than ever before." "If you hide it, they will come." "If at first you don't succede, average." "I'm not lost, I'm looking for lock." This wouldn't really fit a bumper sticker but: GPSR $88.00 Gas $22.00 Data Cable $18.00 Park Entry Fee $ 5.00 Leaning against a tree with your walking stick on an ammo can, while your wife cusses every satellite known to man while swatting mosquitos & circleing randomly through a wild rose hedge: Priceless! They say this universe is bound to blow, I say we crank up the Calypso Control! ~Jimmy Buffett ~Someday I Will~

Got the 201, does quite well for us. We got the data cable on ebay for 18.00$ US I think, then had to get a USB/Serial cable for 39.00$ at a certain place with solutions, a red logo, and an ad on a Lunar Rover. Main thing we use the cable for is loading in 40+ waypoints at a time. We not only try to bite off more than we chew but more than we can carry. Also it has the 12volt power adapter so when in the truck we do not have to use any battery time. It is also useful for interfacing with MS Streets & Trips '03 in a laptop so we have a live blip of our current location on a map. The cable has made a few caches easier since we were able to do some multi caches with mystery conclusions to a point on a map, not just following an arrow. Having such a small size makes it nifty for urbans, being of girth as I am, I wrap it up into my "Face Wiping Towel" and you'd never know I have it as I track down a street in public. Other than the occasional piruette, and times I spend at an intersection hoping to beat the canyon effect muttering a prayer to the gods of RF for this little box to "see" a satellite. All in all, no complaints. Never used another kind though, but it's got me there almost always, and always got me back. Twill do, twill do. They say this universe is bound to blow, I say we crank up the Calypso Control! ~Jimmy Buffett ~Someday I Will~

Usually we say "Geocache?? What's that?" as the lid to the ammo can slides out of my shirt & the moldy log climbs out of the wife's backpack. They tend not to notice once we start pelting them with wadded up Chick tracts & broken mcToys. Don' be dissin our Geko! It's got us usually there & always back everytime so far! They say this universe is bound to blow, I say we crank up the Calypso Control! ~Jimmy Buffett ~Someday I Will~

26. If at all possible never hide a micro where some one can discretely get at it. Make sure they need to grope around in the dark on a ladder in the middle of a busy intersection in wads of used gum. If hiding a Traditional, make sure it's in a bush near an airport, in front of a large office building, or near a police station so plenty of civic minded people can see geocachers come and go acting all furtive while messing with small boxes. They say this universe is bound to blow, I say we crank up the Calypso Control! ~Jimmy Buffett ~Someday I Will~

I hate bench fastened micros, they are never there when I hunt for them. They say this universe is bound to blow, I say we crank up the Calypso Control! ~Jimmy Buffett ~Someday I Will~

Give us your tired, your pooor, & your broken McToys. They say this universe is bound to blow, I say we crank up the Calypso Control! ~Jimmy Buffett ~Someday I Will~

Now 117 logs. 3 notes. 10 DNF. 2 DNF archived after we missed it. Actually one was archived after we left to find it & before we got to it. 114 hunts, 100% Spiffy! Our favorite DNF: GC6C85 They say this universe is bound to blow, I say we crank up the Calypso Control! ~Jimmy Buffett ~Someday I Will~

Just broke 100 (104 actually) at 4 mos & 4 days. If we're not on track we're knocking on the door & leaning on the bell. They say this universe is bound to blow, I say we crank up the Calypso Control! ~Jimmy Buffett ~Someday I Will~

Not to mention the way some WG registrars super overstamp the bills dramatically shortens the bills life spans when they hit the Feds automatic bill scanners. They say this universe is bound to blow, I say we crank up the Calypso Control! ~Jimmy Buffett ~Someday I Will~

D'oh, fumble fingered again. Think of one digit, type another. Also it should be JAR of Tang© not jat. Os it geos. They say this universe is bound to blow, I say we crank up the Calypso Control! ~Jimmy Buffett ~Someday I Will~

quote:Originally posted by IVxIV:Hey imagine the fun of GeoCaching once space travel becomes cost effective for the private sector! Caches on the moon, Mars, the moons of Mars! Woohoo! What do you mean when???? Alan Sheppard has already left 3 golf balls in the first (Now archived, Vacation cache limitation.) Lunacache© in Feb of 1961. (1/5 Need Pressure suit.) No one has gone after it since the FTF prize is a jat of Tang. Icccch. This was the inspiration for the "No Food" in cache rule. They say this universe is bound to blow, I say we crank up the Calypso Control! ~Jimmy Buffett ~Someday I Will~

Well if it's any consolation to the WG folx, tell them to reeeeelax, team Cat'N'Geo is on the case!!! When we find bills we spends them in a totally random manner! Except for one that we had so much trouble reading that we could tell right off if the Fed found it again they would destroy it without so much as a by your leave to the WG database. BTW usung a yellow highlighter on a faded green dollar bill, does not make it easier on the colorblind like me, whoever did it!!! That one I put back in a cache to protect it's longevity. This weekend 13 caches, 2$ in Circulation baybeee! Let Peace between GC.com & WG.com officially commence! "Medals, Parades, Next!" -Commander Zlotny They say this universe is bound to blow, I say we crank up the Calypso Control! ~Jimmy Buffett ~Someday I Will~

102 logs. 2 Notes. 8 DNF. 92 Finds including 3 of those DNF's. 1 DNF was archived, the rest were found again after us. We'll get back to them either this winter, or we'll do just fine without them. Of 92 hunts we had 100% fun. That's the important part. They say this universe is bound to blow, I say we crank up the Calypso Control! ~Jimmy Buffett ~Someday I Will~

I'm not female but the part of the team that I'm married to is. One thing is she never hits the discussion board. Just thought I'd add her to the stats. They say this universe is bound to blow, I say we crank up the Calypso Control! ~Jimmy Buffett ~Someday I Will~

In WNC there was the Pigman whe went on a rip for a while stealing bugs. Here is a search link. They say this universe is bound to blow, I say we crank up the Calypso Control! ~Jimmy Buffett ~Someday I Will~

Me too. But I'll use Tupper. They say this universe is bound to blow, I say we crank up the Calypso Control! ~Jimmy Buffett ~Someday I Will~

Well looking over the 43 pages of caches from the link of my zip code produce, of 835 caches that are generated, only 5 are members only. Not one is called "This cache makes your poop smell better the rest of your life." Don't get me wrong, I'm sure all 5 are very nice, the one I found was, but I didn't laugh, cry, and have my life changed. I paid 30$, and thereby support TPTB. Do I agree with them? Heckfire NO! Would I have joined the sport if you had to pay up front to play? Ditto. Would I quit if you had to pay to play? Well since only 5 out of 835 caches would still exist, I'd have to give a resounding WELL D'UH! Who's idea of quality are we going by? Even in team Cat'N'Geo there is dissension in the ranks. She wants 1/1's you can scoop in like M & M's© I like 5/1-3's. Look at all the screaming over the "Coffee Table Book" clause in virts. Imagine that for every freaking cache. Password protection helping to protect them? Might slow them down a little, but if they think it's fun, they'll pay the 30$. Fingerprint locks on the tupperware might do it though. quote:Sadly, there are riff raff in this world, and much of our time, energy, and money is spent to protect ourselves from them. All of us have experienced having a "good thing" ruined by the actions of vandals, criminals, or just evil minded people. So you want something without chance? Something without risk? Good luck with that. I got 835 pieces of evidence that say people, mostly, are good & can play together. Besides even if it is a passworded Padlocked cache, it still wouldn't leave it safe from risk. A lucky 6 yearold, a sharp eyed teen, a gaurd noticing something not quite right. It's a game. Play or play something else. I choose to play this. Till they pry the GPS out of my cold dead hands. They say this universe is bound to blow, I say we crank up the Calypso Control! ~Jimmy Buffett ~Someday I Will~ (edited for charecter reference)

A micro I've recently visited was a 35 mm film cannister of paper pulp. The log was totally destroyed since the cache owner moved to florida, and the cache was in NC. So my personal plan B when written logs are not available; photograph the left handed heck out of it. Twenty seven eight-by-ten colour 1024x768 JPEGS with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each one was to be used as evidence for us. We took pictures of the approach, the getaway, the northwest corner the southwest corner and that's not to mention the aerial photography. Then when I realized the cache had been this way for months I said "Kid, you need to archive this cache." And that's what Honeychile did, she archived that cache and now we wait. Maybe we'll have a thanksgiving dinner that can't be beat while we wait. Man, I'm old. They say this universe is bound to blow, I say we crank up the Calypso Control! ~Jimmy Buffett ~Someday I Will~

We've done several caches in actual graveyards. I think they are cool cause they show that last bit of creativity for people’s memory, usually all that's easily accessible by others. Putting a cache near a memorial like this seems quite respectful to me; matter of fact one you might want to look over would be Brown's Mountain Cache (GC7A30) in NW PA. The cache itself is a few yards away from the memorial, a place my wife had never seen (or knew of) even though she lived within a few miles of it for 20+ years. They say this universe is bound to blow, I say we crank up the Calypso Control! ~Jimmy Buffett ~Someday I Will~

In my car and in my laptop bag. That has to be the reason I've got all those toys in there... right? They say this universe is bound to blow, I say we crank up the Calypso Control! ~Jimmy Buffett ~Someday I Will~

quote:Originally posted by BullDogBob:"ARE WE THERE YET?" "Never rely on the glory of the morning, nor the smiles of your mother-in-law" (Overheard at 60 MPH) "YEAH Get out!" They say this universe is bound to blow, I say we crank up the Calypso Control! ~Jimmy Buffett ~Someday I Will~

A tupper of cachers. They say this universe is bound to blow, I say we crank up the Calypso Control! ~Jimmy Buffett ~Someday I Will~