Beta Test
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Nice job whiting out your license plate! I didn't notice till now.
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I think it is hilarious, and I am one of those who has the "concerned parents". I guess you cant win them all, but good luck.
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Timberland makes fairly nice hiking boots at semi affordable prices. They can be waterproofed with something like sno-seal. If you are looking to spend a weeks paycheck, check Cabela's for high quality boots. Waterproofing can make all the difference though. Even the best boots can give you blisters if not proken in or waterproofed. Also re waterproof after you break the boots in, it will help with the seams.
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I say finds for 3 and 5. I really don't care about number 9 because I personally don't log events as finds. But thats just me.
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So what if the cache is on your property? Can you dig then?
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I'm not really sure how just yet, but you can import your own maps according to the website. It might be a feature that shows up once it's been registered, I'll know later
That's way cool.
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Can you add topo lines on it? Thats pretty neat either way.
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While I think a cache owner should maintain the cache itself by cutting the junk, I believe that it is the responsibility of cachers to keep it nice. Once it is placed in a community's cach for the purpose of trade, it belongs to that community. Taking high end swag and leaving Mc Toys is just wrong. If it is the community's cache, and the community's swag then it is the responsibilty of the community to keep it nice.
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I'll use Nat. Geo TOPO as my main source of maps. And back them up with Trails Illustrated which was taken over by Nat. Geo. And true the maps are out of date, but learn how to read them. The topography has changed little, just the man made objects or intrepretations of what is there.
And Nat. Geo TOPO is the key ingredient when I teach the Land Navigation Course to those that traverse the back country.
My cousin and I were backpacking in the Bighorns around Seven Brothers last year. He wanted to show me the Frozen Lakes, as I had never been before. The map (Paper map, I'm not sure how good the databases are) showed the lower frozen lake about half a mile to the last of the Seven Brothers Lakes, where we were. We made it up about halfway to the lake when we decided that the map was wrong because we noticed how far away the starting point was. When I got back to the house when the trip was over, I checked another map, and the distance was greater than a mile from one lake to the next.
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Unfortunatly, these don't come with plates.
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My first car is hopefully going to be a yellow Wrangler SE. Geocaching only decided the yellow part, utility got me on the purchase.
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One more thing. THIS IS A CAPITOL BOLDFACE WARNING!!!!!!!
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAPS ARE NOT AS RELIABLE, ACCURATE, OR TRUSTWORTH AS THEY MIGHT SEEM. That is all.
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I use print outs from Garmin's Mapsource. It is the same thing we download to our GPSr except bigger.
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the HR lady where I work likes to say -
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If they are younger than at least 35 they don't know what manners are. They just don't teach manners any more.
And I gotta tell you I have to agree!
i have to say that's an unfair categorization. i know plenty of under 35's who are plenty polite, and plenty of over-35 boors.
i does nobody any service to make assumptions.
and if we don't like the manners of our young people, we have to teach them. not just their parents; ALL of us. nobody is off the hook. if you have a criticism af generational behavior, congratulations you've just volunteered to be an educator.
it is not fair to deprive a young person of this education because of absent or stupid parents. but one tip for teaching them: be polite when you do it. be respectful of them, or they will not learn the lesson.
You're absolutly right Flask. I am under 35 and have excelent manners. Sterotyping in itself is a very rude thing.
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Could this get pinned? Maybe here or in getting started.
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Another thing that I'm sure the approvers could use is for you to address every point in the guidelines that might be questionable given your hide. In other words, if it's in a gated community, then a copy of your permission e-mail from the homeowners' group would be good to have already included in your notes to reviewers. That sort of thing. Get your ducks in a line and *then* present everything the first time, rather than requiring them to chase you down. (the reverse is also true, approvers...if they violated multiple guidelines, please point *all* of them out and type a small explanation to go with the quoted rules as to how their specific cache failed that rule....nothing some people hate more than fixing something about their cache, and then finding out it wasn't the only reason they were declined).
Thants a very good point. You don't serve hotdogs that are hot on the outside and frozed in the middle.
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Until I am old enought to get my license this is all I get.
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My question is why do we have politicians running our counrty. Wouldn't a leader be better?
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If a dead horse falls in the woods, and nobody is around to hear it, deos it still make a sound?
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I find correspondance with approvers goes much more smoothly when they include their Paypal account info in their original e-mail. If I have to ask for it, it causes delays in getting their money.
ROFLMAO! I nearly spewed Dr Pepper on my screen. Luckily I fell out of my chair and merely sprayed the cat. I hope he's not thinking of payback.....
You spayed you cat with Dr Pepper!?!? Oh nevermind.
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I like things on the endangered species list.
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I was recently at a cache that used a fake rock like this:
The cache was the size of a big milkcrate. Biggest cache I have seen.
Dave
How sturdy is the rock? It looks kinda flimsy to me.
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Do be sure the tone of your post comes out the way you want it to.
Geocaching Mozaic
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Neat. When the tiles are done, a micro can be hidden behind your tile.