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  1. How awfully annoying, but things like this happen. As to insurance: I'm not an expert, but I suggest you be careful about hidden costs down the line, expressed in a raised contribution or an unexpected discontinuation of a policy. Even if your insurance covers small thefts, it is generally better not to claim the coverage, and rely on insurance only for really catastrophic events. Think damage control. In the meantime, bite through the sour apple and cache with a featureless cheapo second-hand GPS, or turn it into a challenge and use maps only, until you can afford a good one again.
  2. shunra

    St Helens

    Eraseek's image was taken from the Sugarbowl camera, referred to as 'Closer camera' on the image below: I found this an interesting piece of information: The dome grew 500 feet since September. How long will it take to grow those additional 700 feet, after which the summit of the dome will rise above the crater rim, and turn into the highest point of the mountain?
  3. Yes, they are. My brother, sister-in-law, another friend and I were in the San Juan Islands doing some SCUBA diving many years ago. On one trip we strayed (or my stupid brother took us into) Canadian waters and proceeded to go to a nice little island with a bunch of other boats on the beach. As soon as our hull touched the beach a Canadian Customs person told us that unless we produced a certain sum of money to cover our fine, we would be arrested (or something to that effect). Luckily, pooling our money we had enough. ANYTIME you cross the border you are suppposed to check in with Customs FIRST. So, if you are hiking, I'd definitely contact them before the trip and get the appropriate paperwork, or you might end up in a LOT of trouble. OK - thanks for the warning! So - in order to hike from Hwy 3 to this cache, who do I contact? Can I just go to the customs office at my local little marina and arrange permission to drive to Canada and walk back into the US? And then, which Canadian authorities do I need to ask to allow me to walk back into Canada? And anyway, if you're a US citizen or resident, you're per definition legal in the US, aren't you? In that case, the problem is only for your hike back into Canada, but if your passport was stamped into Canada when you drove in, and it was never stamped out because you never left Canada at an official crossing, you'll be legal at the Canadian sde of the border as well, or won't you? And assuming your crossing IS illegal anyway, what's the illegal part about it? Is it illegal entry? Or Illegal exit? Whose laws are violated, only those of the country one walks into, or both? And in the latter case, if someone's coming from Hwy 3 in Canada and walking towards the US border, is it legal for him to walk all the way to the border, if he is not crossing it? And then, if he crosses it anyhow, does a Canadian border guard have jurisdiction to chase a hiker into US territory and bring him back? These are very hypothetical questions, of course, but my point is that it appears silly to me that once you already have permission to legally *BE* in either country, you would still not be allowed to cross the border at the time and location of your choosing.
  4. I was also hiking in Syria once, not too far from the Lebanese border, with a big backpack. A local farmer asked me what I was smuggling. Nothing, I said, just walking and enjoying your beautiful country. Ah, so you must be a spy, he said, and continued working. Had me worried for a while...
  5. Drawing a very crude route on Topo! makes it out to be about 37 miles. Add at least 10%. So, 40 miles give or take. It looks like it would be "easier" to go from Slate to Billy Goat elevation wise. The cache is only 14 miles from Hwy 3 in Canada, as the crow flies. I don't have access to Canadian topo maps, but there appears to be a fairly level trail just West of the Pasayten river, which leads from Canada into the US. I don't know what the part until the border is like, but from the border, it's 2 miles along the river, almost without any elevation gain, to the river crossing approximately at N48° 58.39' W120° 34.24', at an elevation of 3900 feet. From there, the trail up to the cache along the Ptarmigan ridge is just another 6 miles or so. Since 9-11, it's been nearly impossible to get clearance to cross the border at these wilderness trails. One could end up with a fabulous vacation in a sun-drenched cell at Get-Mo. You mean you need advance clearance for that, which can be granted or denied? I'd never have guessed that. Thanks for telling me, I have crossed borders like that all my life (albeit never the US border, yet). Do people really get arrested for that? Are the Canadians as bureaucratic about that as well? I might have told this story before... Many years ago, I climbed Mt. Rysy (on the Polish-Czechoslovak border) from the Polish side, and there were quite a few people at the summit. I asked one of the guys about the distance to the next cabin on the Slovak side, and he told me, but also said I wasn't supposed to, if I had come up from Poland. I continued to chat with him about other things. When I started going down on the Slovak side, he pulled out his badge and said he would have to arrest me if I wasn't going back. We were way out in the Middle of nowhere, and going back would have messed up the entire itinerary of my trek, so I told him I wasn't going back. Fine he said, and told me to follow him. So we hiked down the trail until we got to the cabin, had some soup, had some tea, had some rum, and some great political conversations. I ended up hiking with a qualified mountain guide for three days in rugged terrain, and generally had great a great time, until he let me go. I don't suppose US border patrol people would be that much fun :-)
  6. Drawing a very crude route on Topo! makes it out to be about 37 miles. Add at least 10%. So, 40 miles give or take. It looks like it would be "easier" to go from Slate to Billy Goat elevation wise. The cache is only 14 miles from Hwy 3 in Canada, as the crow flies. I don't have access to Canadian topo maps, but there appears to be a fairly level trail just West of the Pasayten river, which leads from Canada into the US. I don't know what the part until the border is like, but from the border, it's 2 miles along the river, almost without any elevation gain, to the river crossing approximately at N48° 58.39' W120° 34.24', at an elevation of 3900 feet. From there, the trail up to the cache along the Ptarmigan ridge is just another 6 miles or so.
  7. What does "by permit" mean? Is it an individual permit required per cache, like in my local State Park? And will the permit cost $10, again, like in my local State Park? And if the answer to any of these questions is "no", will this new specific policy override my local ranger's discretionary rulings, or will he be allowed to make up his own rules, regardless of general SP geocaching policies?
  8. shunra

    Link Not Working

    Bump. Anyone else having this problem?
  9. bump. My Ignore lists currently has 8 caches in it. 6 of the 8 are blocked properly. 1 of the 8 is generally blocked, but appears occasionally. 1 of the 8 continues to appear consistently. This one is temporarily disabled, I don't know if that makes a difference - it shouldn't. Does anyone else experience that temporary disabled caches will not let you ignore them?
  10. From my watchlist, the link to "My Account" is not working. Other links from my watchlist work. Links to my Account from other places work as well.
  11. It worked for me fine, yesterday. Caches I added to my ignore list yesterday are still ignored. Caches I am adding now are not - unless ignore lists do not accept temporarily disabled caches.
  12. Go to that user's profile. From there, it's easy. Also, if you are already on the page of a cache hidden by the respective user, there is a link to other caches find by him/her.
  13. Particularly his hobby: " Being the best dad that can be"..
  14. Nobody gets automatic immediate notice. Well, not through this site, at least. --Marky Explain... The Skydiver notification system no longer exists, for GC.com caches at least. Is there another way you know of?
  15. I don't see why graphical information should be outside of the page, rather than on the page. Pages should be as big as possible. This would ALSO provide more space for those of us who want to add themed graphics. In other words: the new design is better for everone. The only argument for wide margins would be the preservation of themed art in existing caches. I suggest to solve that problem by having a wide lower margin. The theme elements could still be viewed by scrolling down.
  16. I just was putting a couple of caches into my new Ignore list, and for each of them, I was asked if I was sure I wanted to ignore the Tache. That seemed like an unnecessary hassle. It should be easy to move the cache out of the Ignore list again. I have always thought the same about that confirmation message needed to remove a cache from the watch list. We really don't need that. On the other hand, I just deleted a pocket querie by mistake, after I made a small modification. No confirmation request, nothing. It was gone immediately, entirely. I went back to the previous page - the data was stil there - and tried to resubmit it, and even got a confirmation that my modification had been saved, but that didn't change the fact that the PQ itself was gone. I had to recreate it from scratch. Now this is where a "are you sure" message would have been useful. FWIW, the change I had made to the PQ was checking the new "exclude caches on ignore list" box. I think that that box should be checked by default. After al, when we start an ignore list, it is because we want to ignore a cache, and modifying up to 20 PQs should not be necessary... My 2 cents. Oh, FWIW, I love the new features, and the new look in general. Thanks!
  17. shunra

    Moose News

    Congratulations! Born today, and you're already in the forums? Get back there, and enjoy any moment, before the antlers start growing.
  18. Hmm... Good point. I may reduce the width to a lower percentage to allow more greenspace to show up. I was just trying to maximize the viewing area for smaller browsers. I actually like it much better now, for the reason you say. The background is at most relevant to the cache pages themselves, not to any of the other pages. Perhaps cache *owners* could control the width of the borders of their own pages only, with the default being minimal borders, as per the change you made?
  19. Good for you. Time to close the thread
  20. Thanks for sticking with it. I like this one!
  21. I think that the problem with THAT cache is not that it's commercial (not only is Groundspeak relevant to geocaching, but it provides the service we're using), but that it's for invitees only, not publicly accessible, and should be removed from the listings, like others cannot have a cache in their private living room. (I suggest that that cache be archived and removed from the listings, but remain logable for people who are incited.) But as to the Louisville culprit cache - that cache has nothing to do with the business history of that city (or with it's social fabric, or whatever). I'm a sucker for industrial history myself, and I'd have loved it if instead, we'd been shown some ancient production plants, now-obsolete logos, etc.
  22. 18 responses, and still no link to an actual cache. I'm not buying it. The phrase "cache you must dance" (from the first sentence of your "quote") has zero google hits. In the hypothetical case that such a cache were approved in my area, I'd just ignore it, like everyone else.
  23. I just got a phone call from 4chin seeker, who is leaving the Northwest and moving to California. He asked me to post to the forum that his caches in WA are up for adoption. He doesn't currently have reliable internet access, but would appreciate a phone call from people interested in adopting one or several of his caches. His mobile number is: 425-931-9980 Thanks!
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