Gorak

The thread is about caches placed in areas that some people feel are inappropriate because they are offended by some activity or business nearby, why they are offended and why others who are not offended should be offended. Seems to be on-topic and on-track, to me...

I would debate that. I've cached in many parks that turned out to be 'pickle parks' and have seen many more things that are unmentionable (on this site) in public parks than I have in parking lots. I find it strange that people who are offended by adult-oriented business, and would never frequent one (or at least admit to it), seem to know so much about what goes on in and around them. I'm also puzzled how one makes the connection that being sexually active makes someone a drug user. Have we been lied to all this time? Is sex really the gateway to hard drugs and not maryjane? I'm so confused now...

LOL I forgot how our neighbours to the south equate social services. Social services = socialism = communism = evil. Consider this: Unemployment insurance = socialist Welfare = socialist Public education = socialist Public transportation = socialist Public libraries = socialist Social Insurance = socialist the list goes on.... Of course, none of those things make a country socialist, unless Public Health Care is added to the list. I guess it doesn't help when Canada is always depicted as pink in atlases. You guys crack me up!

Should have checked the selection of attributes first! However, that attribute doesn't address adults who lack the maturity to be in the vicinity of an "adult establishment" without being offended.

Actually, there is a kernal of an idea there. Perhaps an attribute that describes a cache as "not child friendly" or "for mature cachers only". Or, perhaps a rating system similar to those used by the movie and video game industries. We need more regulation!

Like many things in life, it all comes down to catering to the lowest common denominator. Just so I'm clear, would that be families with kids or families without kids. I'd like to know so I can order the T-shirt. IMHO, neither. It would be people who are easily offended and feel they need to protect the rest of us from what they define as offensive.

Like many things in life, it all comes down to catering to the lowest common denominator.

Who thinks a cache in the parking lot of a Krispy Kreme store is appropriate ? I think that it is a bit tacky. With the soaring rate of heart disease and childhood obesity, isn't it obscene to attract people to cache at donut shops? Makes adult book stores seem tame by comparison...

I've always included FTF prizes in all but my micro caches, which are few. I guess that makes me a newbie. Typically my FTF prizes are BFL's, small binoculars or brand new cell phones. I never spend more than $5-15 on a FTF prize. Very occasionally I mix it up and offer a 10th-to-find prize instead. The comment that it's always the same few people who achieve FTF is a good point and has made me think. I have a new small series of caches I'm working on and perhaps I'll limit the FTF prize to those with less than 200 finds.

Have been caching on and off in southwest Canada for the past few years while awaiting spare parts for my shuttle craft. Have cached on all planets, and most moons, of this minor solar system except for Pluto, but it's not really a planet. See my cache logs at galacticache.com. You'll need a yellow-laser holographic interface for your neural implant with a connection to the MilkyWayNet to access the site, though.

I don't see a problem with it. The stores are legal businesses and, if you stop and think about it, it is an activity that virtually everyone enthusiastically partakes of a few times in their life. Think about where you came from... It's also important to keep in mind that not everyone shares the same flavour of morality. Personally, I'm more offended by gun shops than adult stores, but I accept that many folks (especially our neighbours to the south) don't share my opinion. I say, live and let live. Live by your own personal moral and ethical code without trying to impose it on others who live by a different code.

I use a shoulder bag from Mountain Equipment Co-op. In it, I carry (in no particular order): Personal notebook Spare reading glasses Small waterproof, shockproof digital camera Spare batteries for GPS & camera Spare cache pencils Spare Ziplock bags for repairing caches Cloth rag Surgical gloves (for reaching into nasty places) Right leather gardening glove (for even nastier places) Long surgical clamp (for places too nasty to put my gloved hand) Maglight Spare logbooks for repairing caches Printout of map from MapSource or Google Earth showing caches for today's expedition Compass Cell phone (with camera, gps, cache notes, internet access, etc) Garmin Oregon 450 GPS Telescoping walking pole (aka Pokey Stick) Water bottle Waterproof nylon shell (it rains alot here) Small amount of flagging tape A few yards of duct tape (for repairing caches) A couple of small swag items for the rare times that I trade Small leatherman tool Spare car key Trail snack Kitchen catcher garbage bag stuffed into film can (CITO) A few dog poo bags A few bandaids Afterbite Small pair binoculars In the back of my car, I keep: Spare jacket Spare fleece sweater Rainhat Dry socks & shoes White hardhat and orange safety vest (for when I want to look like a city worker) Laptop computer (sometimes for longer trips) BFL & car charger TomTom navigation GPS loaded with geocache waypoints

Anybody seen my little pink pills? I wonder if I left them at J5's place?

You could try MEC. They rent a lot of stuff that isn't on their rental list.

Anyone missing a cache in Lynn Headwaters Park in North Van? http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/st...bfcc9e8&k=26666

Only Direct Route will give you turn-by-turn directions and it is the only one with US maps. However, it will use considerably more memory for a given region than the others and is missing quite a bit of road detail outside the cities. Topo, aside from being the only of the three to show topographic info, has more road detail outside the cities than DR and uses less memory. S&D uses the least amount of memory of the three and has pretty detailed road information. Of the 3, Topo is the one I use the most unless I am in a strange city and need routing.

Jomarac5 and I used to go night caching on a regular basis. Most of the time we wouldn't even start out until 9 or 10pm (often later) and cache until 2 or 3am. We would usually bring a couple of BFL's each (they only have about 20 min. battery life), headlamps and maglights. Caching at night in the dark adds a whole new element to caching and it was always fun sneaking into parks after closing. It's amazing the sorts of things you see caching at night that you would never see during the daytime.

I have to agree with Landsharkz. If you were to base it on cache density, climate and diversity of terrain then southern Vancouver Island is most definitely the caching capital of Canada.

I've got caches still to log that I found over a year ago. I guess that makes me an ......hole. Care to explain why you think those people should be labeled as such? How do their (delayed) actions affect you so dramatically that you feel moved to describe them as .......holes? It's a game. Get a grip.

Go for it, Monkeygirl. There is absolutely nothing wrong with getting together with some other cachers to collaborate on a puzzle cache. What is wrong is the disrespectful reply you recieved from one of the site's moderaters using his non-moderating account. IMHO, your question was a perfectly valid request for information and did not deserve a sarcastic reply from someone who whose job it is to ensure that others adhere to the posting guidelines. Everyone plays the game differently and, the last time I checked, there was nothing in "the rules" that says you can't solve puzzles or hunt caches in teams. People do it all the time so don't be swayed by any curmudgeons who feel everyone should play this game their way. In fact, play the game any way you want. The only enforcable rules are the cache placement rules. When it comes to finding and logging caches you are free to do it any way you like, regardless of what anyone else thinks. The main thing is that you have fun doing it.

I'd like to see them bring back Sept1c_tank. I've always enjoyed his posts but that'll teach him for letting his daughter get a GC account and actually posting in the forums.

So you agree that it is a benefit. Good to know you agree that an offer to resign is a nice thing to do. That's not what I said. Personally, I believe the offer to resign was done more to save GC from embarassment than the other way around. The only party benefitting is GC.

I think its pretty much standard in every industry and companies of all sizes to allow people to "resign" even if the resignation is forced. Every company I've worked for would send out periodic announcements about some executive who resigned to "pursue other interests". Anybody who can read between the lines knows the guy was being let go. It's a whole lot better than announcing to the world that "Joe Smith has been fired for stealing paperclips" or "We canned Cindy Jones because her department was in shambles". The one time in my life I was fired (from my first job as grocery clerk) it was structured as a resignation. When being terminated for cause, employees are generally offered the option of resigning to avoid subsequent legal issues. Rarely is it done for the specific purpose of sparing the employee any embarassment. The face-saving aspect is simply a side benefit.

That is an extremely ignorant response. So you want to have someone publicly fire you instead of allowing you to gracefully retire? That's just stupid. Asking someone to "retire" or "resign" is only a euphamism for being fired. To attempt to spin it as a face-saving gesture for Cache-U-Nuts is just so much bafflegab.

Are you talking about UtahAdmin, or Groundspeak? What do you think?