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Citizensmith

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  1. I dunno, rather work for trimble I think. Even if terrasync is way more annoying than asset surveyor.
  2. I had three DNFs on one cache that everyone else was finding first time, and on two of those DNFs I had help with me, and I'd had extra hints from the owner. The fourth time I went I brought gloves and thought "I'm going to find this cache if I have to crawl through every dadgum bush." I knelt down and heard a clunk as I lent on the side of a well camoflaged ammo can. Having missed it three times it must have taken me all of 30 seconds the fourth time.
  3. I think putting a cache there would be nice too. However, I'd make a big point on the cache description page that the cache is not hidden in the memorial so it never gets disturbed. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
  4. Etrex Legend - $140 from Amazon Carry case - $12 S'all. I already had other bits and pieces which I take with me. Guess I spend about $10 on setting up a cache. Only set two so far though so we're not talking a very wide sample.
  5. If a snake ate the hamster would the snake become the cache container? If so I guess you'd have to weight it down with rocks or something so it doesn't slither off and become locationless. I think I'll got get my 3-gallon aquarium cache set up.
  6. Not a joke, but I figured I'd share. I've got a puzzle cache and occasionaly get emails asking for help on the puzzle. The cache is also near a secure area, patrolled by the local sheriffs. I had one guy email me asking for help, I gave him some hints and also commented that he didn't need to cross the nearby creek, as if you do the sheriffs will quickly be asking you to leave. He pointed out that that would not be an issue for him as he was one of those sheriffs.
  7. I think kids have to be my primary hobby before the geocaching. Also though I do photography and birdwatching. Two hobbies well compatible with geocaching. Course that means my pack tends to be heavy as aside from the GPS, etc I'll also be carrying a couple of bird books, binoculars, camera, a few lenses, and on and on. Still, the extra weight makes it better exercise.
  8. Making it more of a challenge is definitely a good thing, but I have issues with some of them. Fake birds nests? I try to avoid hiding mine (just 2 so far) anywhere need bird nests/boxes so nobody mistakenly diturbs it. Fake electrical boxes. What happens if its not fake? Kzzzzzzzzzzzap! Maybe we shouldn't encourage people in certain directions that may be unhealthy to the environment, themselves, or the reputation of those dadgum sprinkler vanadlizing geocachers in general.
  9. For all the caches you missed. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
  10. ??. You get tasked with doing some surveying using the professional grade GPS in the office and rapidly start looking for caches in the area they are sending you to.
  11. I like the idea of the stats being on your user page. A simple list showing you are X out of X users in total, X out of X in your country, X out of X in your state, zip code, whatever. Then add an extra forum instead of a leaderboard. People can go there are say 'woohoo I'm number one Geocacher in the northwest corner of my zip code using a sextant instead if a GPSr' and other people can point out that they suck, are losers, etc, and people not particularly interested in this just don't go to that forum. If there is a leaderboard maybe just limit it to showing the top ten in each category.
  12. See what you mean about that cache. There are 6 bugs in it, its a 14 mile hike to get there and the owner requests you only take 1 bug at a time. Those bugs will be there a while. Does sound like a nice hike though. Driveable for me to, maybe take the kids sometime soon.
  13. quote:Originally posted by Citizensmith:In HTML its <b> I'm Bold </b> for the bold and <font color="#FF0000"> and I'm red </font> for the color. You can stack the tags too.
  14. In HTML its I'm Bold for the bold and <font color="#FF0000"> and I'm red </font> for the color. You can stack the tags too.
  15. I'll go with the Trimble Pro XRS I've already got (accuracy under 2 foot but too heavy for geocaching) and the Legend I just bought. [This message was edited by Citizensmith on September 22, 2003 at 10:09 AM.]
  16. I was checking on some of my caches and found a bug in one with no mention in the paper logs. I took it and logged it online, the owner was happy, it had last been seen in Canada and I'm down in California. It was only three weeks, but the owner was still relieved. I haven't sent any off yet. I realized it'd probably be slow, but I'm glad I read this so I know just how slow it can be.
  17. Forget safety in numbers. Remember the movie Evil Dead? Apparently they were going to the log cabin in the woods because there was a cache hidden there!
  18. I too have a silva. Mine is actually a compas-clinometer (it'll do declination as well as bearings). The best part though is a sighting mirror. You can hold the compass up at eye level, line you're target up with a notch on the case, and the mirror lets you see where the needle is pointing. About as easy to use as you can get.
  19. I've got a beltpack that I take caching with me. I'm fairly new to it so this hasn't come up much, but in general stuff I take goes into the beltpack and then leaves it at the next cache. I'm not trading because of any perceived value, more to just move stuff around.
  20. By 'carry protection' we're not talking about the latex kind here are we?
  21. Scored one back for the geocachers. Well kind of. Late evening, and I was heading off to look for a newish local cache. Ahead of me, parked, was a pickup with two guys in it. I could tell because of the light from the lighter flame that was staying on a long time. Figured they were probably smoking pot. As I got closer the passenger made the bad choice of opening his door, turning on the cab light. He closed it again straight away but that was all it took for me to see the lighter was being used to heat a spoon. Not in my neighborhood I thought, and as soon as I was out of sight I phoned the sheriff's dispatcher on my cell. Carried on, found the cache, walked back later. The two guys are now in the back of a sheriff's car. Not sure what the sheriffs found, but walking past the pickup the large numbers of empty beer bottles in the cab was immediately obvious. Not a good place to keep your beer that. So they weren't threatening me, or disturbing a cache, but screw 'em. One less pair in the area suits me fine.
  22. I guess it could happen, but aside from when its first registered some caches go weeks without any visitors. It'd be a long wait. I actually 'ambushed' a cache hunter at the cache near my office. They'd been looking a while and looked like they would appreciate a clue.
  23. Waaay back (around '95 I think) I was leaving University and wanted a hotmail email address. Even back then most of the good ones had gone. I was kind of randomly typing in any odd things that came to mind. Citizen Smith was an old UK sitcom. It hadn't been taken so that's what I went with. I haven't used the hotmail address in a while but I stuck with that as my screen name. A year or so ago I got an email at the hotmail account from a user stating that they owned the citizensmith@hotmail.com email address, I had stolen it from them, and if I didn't immediately close my account they would sue me. You do get some complete twats out there don't you. Didn't even dignify them with a reply, and kept the account going just to bug them.
  24. quote:Originally posted by Kerry:The DOP (and that is Dilution Of Precision) Thanks quote:Again this misconception that the more satellites the better the accuarcy, not so. I'd say both are right. 3 perfectly placed satellites still wouldn't be any better than 9 jumbled ones. Of course what we really want is both. quote:"1.1 to 1.5 feet" not in real time you won't, post processed you could but hindsight might be ok for hiding but not for finding. Nope, no post processing, but I do do a lot of averaging and the GPS is often mounted on a bipod. And yeah, I wouldn't ever go hunting with this thing. But I may use it occasionally to go hide stuff.
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