WalruZ
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C'mon, where are the logs? I want to hear your story!
-- best read from bottom to top.
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fwiw, in the future you could save yourself some cycles by making display of log contents configurable. eg, i could (un)check something in my profile and when constructing the 'my' page you would only display a line showing log type, date and item (cache or bug), but not contents (which i assume take another fetch, but i could be wrong).
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I like it!
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anyone flying to the san francisco bay area from texas, there are a number of texas bound bugs near the oakland airport at "JUST WAITING FOR THE MAIL".
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Well, the typical thing to do is to walk briskly up to the cacher holding the container and shout "Hey You. What're you doing there! Do you have a permit for that thing? Let me see your ID!" and so forth for a bit, then smile and introduce yourself and talk geocaching for awhile. Of course it might be different back east where people are all uptight and everything.
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I thought about this topic recently upon reading a few posts from cachers who have been stopped by the police for "acting strangely".
Terrorists want you to be scared, to run around thinking everyone else is out to get you, to bomb you. Their hope is that with enough fear, you'll prevail upon your political leaders to capitulate to whatever agenda the terrorists have. They hope that they can use fear to ruin your life and even destroy your political system.
The United States runs the very real risk of devolving into a Police State, all in the name of fighting terror. Citizens are expected to go to work, to go to the store, to go to the movies. Don't go doing anything odd or different, don't go out acting "strangely", or people will think you're a "terrorist". People who are out acting "strangely" are "scarey" and although not guilty of any real crime, being "scarey" is bad and should be punished. If someone accuses you of being "scarey", that's all it takes, even if it tramples on *your* rights.
What crapola.
The greatest danger to our civil rights isn't that we would be deprived of them by force at the hands of some foreign enemy. The greatest danger is that we would be convinced to give them up by people who parrot our values but don't truely believe in them, people who would try to foster and use our fear to keep themselves in power. These are the people Americans should be keeping their eyes open for. Our forefathers fought and died for *rights*, not "security" or "freedom from scarieness". They would be apalled at how cavalierly we treat those rights today.
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I can't speak for kusa - only met him once, he is still caching, visited my Harmony of Shapes a few days ago. . Perhaps he'll be at the April Badges. There are some in the east bay who are pulling caches after negative run-ins with ebrpd rangers. Maverix has pulled most of his caches.
I too wonder about the people whose names show up in the logs of older caches but not newer. Is this a high-mortality sport? Or does it just get boring. Hasn't gotten boring for me yet.
If you're looking for a good hike, TeamAlamo hid 3 caches up on Monument Peak - take 237 East past 880, past 680, and up into the hills. Turn in at Ed Levin Park and drive to the dog park. Give yourself plenty of time and take plenty of water.
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i've done one. it was a multi where you gathered clues. what kept it tasteful was that the container was not tupperware or an ammo box, but a fake rock log-only mini.
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I actually know of a few in restaurants. Although you would right away think, "commercial cache", what makes these work is that they are TB hotels placed with knowledge and cooperation of the owners and staff. This makes them very muggle-resistent and, imo, negates the commercial aspect.
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It was very popular when it passed through this way. I put in half a roll. A local charity was the first pic.
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I have also seen caches in parks here that with a little more thought could have been regular caches instead of micros.
actually, many smaller urban parks in the valley get so much use that large caches get muggled too often to make them worthwhile, especially since there is tons of open space not far out of town for the big ones.
Is there any way to remove some of it so there is a way to get to the cache without touching the stuff? I've seen some cachers do this.I had to go back and do this to "LeChuck's Hermits Treasure" (Captain ordered me to) because I didn't want to move the hide. No PO within 25 feet of the cache now, mostly, but now that it has the PO reputation nobody will visit it. Either that, or it's the warnings the Capt'n left. Pity too, there's a TB just sittin' in there, all forlorn...
I had my bad case in november. I have a few extra spots of it now that are slowly fading. At least this is not a broken bone / pulled groin / shin splint / ear infection type of pasttime.
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There's one of those guys in every sizable cache machine.
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The subtext to this topic is "do find numbers matter". If they matter, than 'cheating' is bad and hurts everyone (or at least everyone who thinks numbers matter.) If numbers don't matter, than who cares? - the cheaters only impact themselves.
Big but: I believe in some absolutes. It's still cheating, one way or the other. The issue at question is if there is a real victim or not.
I know many cachers for whom numbers matter a whole lot. It's a normal human trait to want to measure things. (especially for males, and i suppose indirectly for females as well).
There are a few things I really like about geocaching. One of them is the way that the sport/pasttime is 'user generated' rather than being dictated from elsewhere. We find the caches, and we create the caches. There are rules, but the soul of the RASH belongs to us.
Another thing I like, as opposed to one of my other interests, baseball, is the way that the sport/pasttime resists quantification. Geocaching is very zen in that you don't measure it, you 'get' it - or not - and how you get it partly depends on who and what you are. Geocaching isn't just something you do, it's something that melds with you.
Ok. I'm starting to scare myself here. What is really satisfying to me these days is to get a cache off my 1st nearest page, regardless of type, even if it's just one cache.
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There's a new cacher in an area (zip 94596) I sometimes visit who has a cellphone camera. His provider has some sort of weblog software that he can upload pictures to via his phone. He has taken to photographing the hiding spots of caches he finds and uploading them, then putting a link to the page in his log entry.
If he posted a spoiler picture right to the page, I, as a cache owner, would be upset. It's only a link, and he provides a disclaimer, but if you follow the link you can see the exact location of a given cache he has visited. That sneaky micro that someone hid in an "in there?" sort of place - he gives it away.
I really don't care, I don't follow the links, but I'm wondering what others think...
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yeah, it happens all the time. usually what happens is that someone trys geocaching for a weekend or so and takes a bug, then never geocaches again and throws the bug away.
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You could always move...
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Well, hiked a bit the last few days so later this afternoon it's just gonna be drive-ups.
I'm in NorCal, and most 'real' caches (yes, flame away) are up on hills. I saw a fellow practicing with something I've thought about before - a paraglider.
Now, a hang-glider has a fixed frame and is pretty much like a big kite you strap yourself into. To go hanggliding you pretty much need something and someway to drive to the top of your target hill. (a great way to turn those 2K elevation caches into drive-ups!) Hang gliders are expensive and not all that portable.
But Paragliders. They are non-rigid thingies that look like rectangular parachutes. They fit into a pack that (i'm told) weighs about 40-50 pounds and you can walk to the top of your target hill carrying it, assuming you are up to such a task. I saw someone practicing on a fairly low hill, and I think (again, 2nd hand) that should the wind be right you can even ascend using one. They're cheaper than a hang glider, and assuming you can fit one into a pack, it follows you don't need a roof rack for it.
Wouldn't that be a cool cache vehicle! 2K elevation needed? You bust out your paraglider, catch some wind and sail up to the cache. W00T!
disclaimer: I don't really know anything about what I'm talking about, and don't care so don't bother making fun 'cause it won't take. Should anyone happen by who does these sorts of things, I would like to hear what they have to say.
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My suggestion was to simply add language to the TB FAQ that says when you see this kind of rule, its not an official rule, so don't feel like you HAVE to follow it.
Thing is, people get to know the cachers in their area and they're loathe to piss them off, so they follow their 'rules' if they can.
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poor horse...
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Seeing as how I'm not only not paperless but don't even download coordinates into my crummy geko ('cause I can't), I often don't have the hint. Sometimes I don't even know the container type (micro, whatever). It's fun this way. I can usually find stuff. Except this one.
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i'm not saying they're inherently bad, i'm saying they're inherently more dangerous, simply from a mathematical point of view.
In my neck of the woods there are a few TB hotels that have been set up indoors, with the explicit permission and cooperation of restaurant owners. One (opening soon) in a pizza joint, one I have been to further away that is in a coffee shop, under a sofa. All the employees know what is going on, although not all of them quite understand it. This pretty much eliminates the Muggle factor.
TB hotels are actually good for goal oriented TBs, even if those TBs seem to sit for awhile. Cross country travelers who like TBs will pick up a pile somewhere, fly, and trade the pile for another pile at a hotel and then fly back. TBs that want to travel someplace specific move towards their destination this way (if done properly.)
"I just wanna roam" TBs should be picked out of hotels and put in circulation, unless they are in a cache-poor area where everyone is sick of them. What can thwart this is the minimum TB limit - suppose you pick up a roaming TB. Why bother to drive somewhere, possibly a good distance, just to trade it for another roaming tb? That's how those get stuck.
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Another recent link about television and 'life' (and 'stuff') - Television Addiction Is No Mere Metaphor in the Scientific American.
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Hemlock is in Sacramento. Add my name.
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One would imagine that French Geocachers are having a hard time of it. Logically, if the terrorists have coordinates of the bombs, they got them by using a GPS. Thus, anyone seen strolling about consulting a GPS would be of interest to the police. Lord knows we don't need another thing to worry about with this sport...
New "my Cache Page"
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My complaint was no way to access a list of owned geocaches, and that's been fixed with the "(mine)" link after geocaches - which would be better as a seperate top link called "logs" -- ie, "watchlist | Logs | GeoCaches | Travelbugs (mine)"
cause see, that last thing is what i want. a "(mine)" after travelbugs.
Thanks.