Navdog

Ammo cans and tupperware are pretty easy to do blind if you have good sat reception. Micros on the other hand...

Looks to me like Jeremy is doing a good job with the website and the occasional geocacher suicide isn't putting a dent in the growth curve. A growth curve like that is every company's dream.

A partial excerpt about lead poisoning from this site: Hobbies such as casting bullets and fishing weights, collecting lead toys or figurines, stripping and refinishing old wooden furniture and doors and making stained glass, pottery or other artwork may create sources of domestic lead contamination. Lead figurines are small statues cast primarily of lead with lesser amounts of tin and antimony. Figurines have been identified as a potential source of lead exposure in children. Large numbers of military and fantasy figurines, ranging in size from 2.5 to 13 centimeters, are sold each year in New York as collectibles or game pieces. They are sold at hobby shops, comic book stores, craft fairs and occasionally at toy stores. Most manufacturers include a warning on the package about potential lead exposure, but this is generally immediately discarded after purchase. Although marketed principally to adults and school-age children, once in a home, lead figurines may become accessible to younger children who are already in the habit of playing with plastic figurines. During play, small children may ingest lead by mouthing, sucking or chewing on a figurine.

In the Project Waypoint screen, position the cursor on the Miles unit of Distance and hit Enter. You then get a drop down menu where you can switch your units to feet. HTH Yeah, I mentioned that on another thread after I found out about it a few days ago. Pretty cool. Wish I had known about it before.

Those are nice Johnnie, what are they made of? I don't have any good sig item yet, but I do like the idea of a fridge magnet type item so you can display it easily. I have done up some nice magnetic cache cards for a few of my more adventurous type of caches.

Can't wait to read the log about the cacher who spent an hour in the creek looking for the cache three feet underwater.

This page has a chart that shows the light output, compared to cyalume, as much higher and fairly steady out to 40 hours. If true that's pretty impressive. Fifty hour burn time on 2 AA batteries and 3000 hr. lamp (phosphor) life. Sounds pretty good too.

When logged in to the site, you can also at any time view your indivual log entry for a cache and see the option to upload an image or edit the log.

PW's, a new geoslang is born!

So when your buddy, who holds the same opinions as you about how you may not care for this website or its guidelines, gets a stint as moderator, email you to start up an imflammatory thread, knowing that he won't take any actions against you as a moderator for stirring up the pot? Somehow I don't think that would work on this type of site. edit(typo)

Sorry you couldn't play the game within the rules, But we live by rules the moment we step out of the door each day.

Forum Wars V without the title. Why the obsession?

Yeah, there are some people who always raise a stink and then there are those where the stink just seems to follow them around. .

Now there is a fun puzzle cache... reading through 3,000 pages of public documents.

Who says the monument has to be the final cache site? Sounds like the battlefield area is pretty large, why not find another spot you mentioned that views the area and place a micro there. Good multis and micros take some extra work to set up. Your profile shows you haven't found any multis, why not go out and hunt a few too get a feel for how well they can work?

I wish we lived in a perfect world where common sense was the only law we needed.

I will have to try the NG paper, but I usually just print the stash note sized to fit a one gallon ziplock or sandwich bag, depending on the cache size, and stuff it in there with a little clear packing tape on the end to keep folks from readily pulling it out and using the bag for something else. On smaller caches I get the self adhesive laminating sheets and cut to size.

I consider myself very openminded and personally don't see anything wrong with knives in some caches. And I always thought it would be cool to place a beer and wine exchange cache. But I would hate to see more restrictions placed on geocaching in general by land managers. Bottom line is, land managers view a cache as a "geocache" whether it is listed on this site or another. Your actions have consequences for the entire geocaching community. I may very well list a beer and wine exchange cache, but I guarantee you will have to work for it!!!... because no park ranger will ever find it. Cheers

While I appreciate your point of view, and that of parents, do you not feel irritated that so many activities must be reduced to accomodate the lowest common denominator? What is wrong with adults enjoying adult activities? I think its noble of GC to cater to the needs and sensibilities of families with young children, but I don't see a problem with other listing sites listing caches that cater to a more (argueably) mature demographic. To say that it would "ruin" it for parents is hogwash. Parents can simply not seek caches listed on sites that do not cater to the needs of families and/or children. Another case of political correctness run rampant. __________ Gorak Geo 40EHB 25 54 I consider myself very openminded and personally don't see anything wrong with knives in some caches. And I always thought it would be cool to place a beer and wine exchange cache. But I would hate to see more restrictions placed on geocaching in general by land managers. As I stated above: Bottom line is, land managers view a cache as a "geocache" whether it is listed on this site or another. Your actions have consequences for the entire geocaching community.

Yeah...I sure hope your kids never see a pocket knife in a cache...it could be very traumatic. I'm glad you're a good parent and will cover their eyes if there is one in there. You're missing the point. Any type of unregulated or illegal cache placement by people on this site or another site has a direct affect on how caching is viewed by land managers. Your rogue cache placement that doesn't follow the guidelines may be found by some cachers wanting to have fun outside the "boundaries", but it may end up creating more restricted area for cachers on this site because the land managers found the illegal cache. Bottom point is, land managers view a cache as a "geocache" whether it is listed on this site or another. Your actions have consequences for the entire geocaching community.

I doubt that geocaching will die "when the namby-pambys take over". It will just go undergound and any existing rules will become moot. Or maybe a listing site based offshore, out of the reach of US lawyers, will take over. Gorak Geo 105 It would be a shame for an unregulated geocaching site to ruin it for all the "namby pamby" parents that go out each weekend with their kids just to enjoy time together as a family. Some people may need to put aside their own self interests and look at the big picture. .

Earthamaps.com has coordinate search capabilities, but it is a little lacking in controls and the map database.

I think Kite and Hawkeye's post sums up my feelings very well. I enjoy good navigational challenges and most well done multis provide a little extra adventure. My stats tend to reflect that. One-third of my finds are multis and over half of my hides are multis as well.

It's amazing to see some folks sense of righteousness get in the way of common sense. It's unfortunate that multi-tools with blades are not allowed but it is understandable. Liability may be an underlying reason for the guideline, but as we continue to work toward getting geocaching accepted by more land managers, let's look at how they would probably view items in caches such as beer, blades and boobs.

Bandanas sound cool. Are they pricey?