brokenoaks

Your bugs are cute. I never release anything cute or collectible. Before you release any more check out this thread: Snoogans' Tb Longevity Clinic Enjoy! Oh, by the way you don't want to show the tracking number in your photos or post it anywhere on line. what is the reason for not wanting anyone to know the tracking number?

Understanding basic navigation. Ie, quardenat systems, map reading, compass use, ect.

there are so many caches out there that I know I can't get them all. what I have is a set of criterion and if a cache does not fall in that I pass it up. I suppose I miss some good ones in a given area but there are always more.

this problem does not really affect me. I always leave something but only take something when my grandkids are with me or if there is a TB. I always leave a marble or two and I have red post on this board by some that consider marbles junk but to me as an avid collector they are great items to leave. go figure.

Of course you wouldn't!! You'd ask the guy that's still sitting in the pickup. good one Knowschad. I love it! kind of sums up this whole thread

Does anyone have a clue what the naked guy meant in the bolded paragraph? It's rather obvious what the naked guy meant. IF YOU ARE NOT SURE IF YOU SHOULD DO IT, DON'T! trying to justify it with semantics won't make it right. it's not difficult to understand. get the permission or find another spot to place a cache.

Well I was just going to sit on the sidelines and watch this but I have to ask, did you really write what you meant to say? as a land owner I take great offence of someone that would assume I don't want the responsibility for what takes place on my property! I highly advise that no one enter my or anyone's land without the owner's permission. and it's advisable to get it in writing.

A'wwww yes, let the games begin

I would have been equally upset in this scenario. Why would anyone be justified for cursing anyone who was out in the same public space enjoying it in their own lawful manner? if one uses common since and courtesy they should realize that in the same space two or more different types of activities do not always coincide. this is no excuse for rude behavior but it will often happen especially when someone decides they have the legal right regardless of how it affects others.

there is a very wide variety of activities that take place in the woods. we humans tend to think that whatever our particular passion is, we have the most right to do it and everyone should get out of our way and not interfere with us. We don't need laws to cover every situation. Proper etiquette is not hard to figure, simply be courteous and respect others rights to do their thing. of course not everyone is going to do that so the real question becomes how do we personally handle it when someone does become rude and obstinate. My question in the OP's particular incident is would you have been as upset and would we even be discussing it if it would have been a bird watcher who cursed you for messing up his perfect photo

I love it! this is the first I have seen of these apps and I can see endless possibilities. to me it looks like a perfect fit with geocaching. Thanks for the introduction to this.

Although I was not here for the "good ol days", of which I really don't buy into as I think or at least hope geocachings best days are ahead, and I don't have a huge amount of finds for my couple of years of being into this I do go back and keep track of some of the caches I have found. Yes it does sadden me to see some archived and sometimes not to be resurrected. What I keep closer track of is travel items. It is amazing how many go missing. I recently had a TB of mine go missing after its first move from my original cache. The entire TB hotel it went to also went missing. One thing I have noticed is location is probably the biggest factor in longevity of caches. Muggles tend to not walk very far into the woods.

Wow 1,110 replies to this thread! I am proud to be among you that have served and are still serving.

1.3 Miles. A micro and I am one of those that declines to do micros.

well here is another related statistic but on a sadder note. I got an email today telling me that one of my TB's went missing. It made just one leg of it's journey from my cache where it stepped out into the cruel world to it's first stop where the entire TB hotel and all the contents, including my poor little guy, went missing. A cruel, cruel world it is!

The signs are a little confusing if you don't know the area or do the research before going there. living near and doing a lot of geocaching close to the borders of an Indian reservation we have to consult our maps and be sure of where we are. I suppose that would be best for any areas that border private property.

One way is to place several caches at different difficulty levels.

GCKZTW has been on my "to do" list for awhile now. I tried it in January 09 but deep snow prevented us from getting close to it and I haven't had a chance for another try until today. It was published on November 4th 2004 and including my find today it has only been logged 32 times. until today it's last log was July 2008. it is not a difficult cache but it is in an unusual area. I found it rather enjoyable.

I will reiterate here. first off it's not just the legal issues but is filming our caching activities something we want as part of geocaching? as a security measure in a store one would expect it but I don't want my privacy invaded in every aspect of my life. secondly, I don't want anyone I don't approve of taking photos of my grandkids. No telling what perverted reason someone wants pictures of kids for. and finally, no telling what violent reaction you may get when someone finds a camera in their face when they don't want it.

I question the ethics of taking pictures of people without their permission. you would also get into the issue of taking pictures of kids without the parents' permission and that could get you thrown in jail or worse. besides we already have to deal with cameras at every ATM and intersection so do we really need more invasion of our privacy when we are simply trying to enjoy our hobby?

have you had luck making routable maps using ariel photos? I have just played around with that feature a little but yes I have been able to create a rout.

Unless I'm missing something, this is a bit misleading. At least for Garmin users, base maps are in a proprietary image format, and this the custom maps can't be imported/exported to a GPS. It looks like you can import/export waypoints/routes/tracks but one can do that with EasyGPS as well. wow man! no one is trying to mislead anyone! I simply found a cool little free program that works well. I could care less if anyone uses it or not. I just like to play around with different things and thought some others might as well. I am very aware, as are most people in this hobby, that there are many other programs out there that do about the same thing.

I came across this cool little freeware mapping program from JDMCOX Software that may be of use to some of you. it is called USAPhotoMaps. it accesses and downloads U.S.Geological Survey aerial photos, topo from terraserver-usa.com and data from Tiger streets that can all be merged to create your own custom maps that import and export to your GPSR. it has many other features and is fun to use.

I would guess that MOST don't. That is just sad. If true, then geocaching has fallen far indeed. Really? See if you can understand the thought behind this. If I want to go find a geocache, i will go out and find a geocache. If I want to climb a tree, I will go climb a tree. If I want to take a 10 mile hike in the desert, i will take a 10 mile hike in the desert. Now, if I don't want to climb a tree, I won't. Especially if all I want to do is find a geocache. Geocaching has fallen, indeed. I remember reading about where geocaching was about finding a container, signing the logsheet and possibly trading items. There was no talk of climbing trees in the first mention of geocaching. Wow! I certainly do not understand the thought behind that. geocaching has a difficulty rating system, if you cannot handle the difficulty of a particular cache, go out and find one with a lower rating. if you do go out and find one that is "up a tree" or for some other reason you are not comfortable retrieving it then move on to another that works for you. there is certainly no shortage of whatever difficulty rating cache you may want to go after.

The new HTML version of the weekly news letter looks great. very clean and easy to read.