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virgo91967

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  1. Gee, CVlint, what brought that up anyway?? BTW I just passed my caching anniversary last week abt 170 -175 caches a year ... decent in my book
  2. look, if they didn't want us to copy it, then it shouldn't be 'copyright'... Should be 'copywrong'
  3. O/T: My observation that 'snarkiness' is a way of life in MOST of the Groundspeak forums ---'Nuff said
  4. Snakebite kit?? well, sure, if you are in an area that is prone to venomus snakes. Best thing for them is to keep your eyes open and be respectful of their space. Probe inside of hollow logs and trees with a good long stick before sticking your face or hands into them. Rol logs and flip rocks AWAY from your body. Your kit seems retty complete. Don't forget a poncho or some other raingear , JIC. And even though you may not be bushwhacking, a machete would not be a bad idea either
  5. Then there IS the distinct possiblity that a non caching, non-letterboxing individual did accidentallycome across your LB. happens all thetime to geocachers. I have learned never to underestimate the power of the curiousity of those not in the know, especially kids. I say Kids, becasue adults are seldom curious enough to go distrubing something that somone else may have pu there on purpose and and adulty would most definitly NOT have taken anything from it. I hope you find your stamp, It must be a real adventure to find one you like . BTW, my leterbox 'kit' dissappeared on me too. however I am pretty certain it is somewhere in the depths of my caching closet
  6. this site list might be of help Cryptography.org Oh, And the shameless plug for MY new cypher cache ENIGMATIC (GCKEWX) Also, there is something in code and cipher braking called a "crib" a crib is a character sequence that represents words that MUST be in the plaintext message. common cribs I have noticed with cipher-caches are : all the numeric words ( one, two, three,...) Degrees, Minutes, longitude, latitude, geocaching, cache, North, South, East, and West. I hope these will; be of much help
  7. I have found that that the little cases taht Altoid's brand mint strips are sold in make fine sub-micro or nano cahce containers as well... they seem t be pretty well watertight when closed abd the flat shape makes them less observable in many situations. the mints are pretty tastey as well. I have also used listerine strips cases in locations that are out of the weather. just as good, but I am not certain abou how weather proof they may be.
  8. My paper handleing methods vary depending on if I am just going after a local 'qquickie' or if i am planning a 'tour' If I am just going out for that 'quickie' then all I realy do is write downt the coords and hint, if any, and head out. Is quicker for me to dothat than to go through the whole printing routine. If i amplanning to go after morethan one or two caches, I will print out the 'printer friendly' cache page and either a topozone map or a mapquest map of the immediate area around the cache. I will then 'route out' the caches, placing them in order I wish to visitthem to save undue backtracking. then off I go .. No biggie, really
  9. virgo91967

    Help Tb

    HOWEVER .. if you are trying to log in a 'non-standard' (read : not Groundspeak issued) tbugs such as Personal or State organiztional geocoins or travellertags/wooden nickles from travelertags.com, then the pocess may be a little more involved.
  10. It is absolutely fine to ask other cachers in the area help/hints on locating a cache.. so long as you dont spoil it completely. I have gotten pretty good at giving hints taht are cryptic enough to make others think but clear enough to be of actual help. If it werent for the assitance of other cachers and hte cache owners, I would have probably been frustrated and given up caching altogether a long time ago. uhhh.readers digest version: Nuthin wrong with it at all
  11. Yep..absolutely..or , if you know the quad and or section you need, you can go Finding and Ordering USGS Topographic Maps and they will ship said maps you your mailing address. So far as waterproffing goes, I am not certain if they are sent waterproffed or not. one good I dea that I found while surfing the net is to copy the part of the map you need and have it lamibated. that way you don't have to worry about your orifginal getting accudentally ruining the original
  12. Do NOT forget the DEET. Do dress appropriately. Do bring spare fresh battereis for GPSr and other accessores. Do your best to pass unoticed amongst muggles whilst caching Do research location of cache using available map services (Tpopzone, mapquest,ect.) Don't rely on Pocket Queries alone Do bring more than enough water Do tell someone whereyou are going and when you expect to be back... add an extra hour just in case Do bring your medicines, allergy meds, insulin, ect Do mark where ya parked (marking the jeep) Do take your time when shooting coords for a new cache. If you rush, your coords will be 'whacked'. Do tread lightly by causing the least possible amount of enviromental impact Do try to be descriptive in your online logs, if you keep them, reading entertaining logs are part of the fun. do try to be creative, either in where you hide, how you hide ,what you hide or what you have others do to find your cache. Do mark your caches clearly as a Geocache. Do leave phone # or email address incase somone needs to contact you about your cache. Hopefully BEFORE the bombsquad finds it first. I'll come up with more sometime soon
  13. I do Walmart for most except topomaps..register as a paid member at www.topozone.com for that any and all sportinggoods stores or 'outfitters' or surplus stores... I supose this is an exanple of the difference between an outdoorsperson finding a geocaching or a geocacher finding the outdoors??/ remeber 'Best' doesnbt neccsarrily mean 'most expensive'.
  14. Nope, not at all.. BUT she cannoty log a find on a cache you hide and likewise you hers
  15. I think that there should indeed be a cache size under micro... Nano is fine, but I think SUBMICRO would be more intuitive in description
  16. Oh and if they keep it up, turn them in to land management
  17. Okay..here is an idea... go to a sporting good stor ( or wal mart hunting section) and shell out the 60 or 70 clams to get one of the Infrared motion detecting hunter's camera with the time and date stamp. Set out a new cache. Place camera in hidden location near cache. wait for a fewy logs to get posted... go back to cache.. look for evidence that the mystery ATV cachers have been there. if they have, then retrieve camera and develop film. If there is a BINGO , then post photo ( with face blurred out) to the goundspeak forums under something like ' hall of shame' ect that should take care of that... recycle camera as a camera cache or a cache camera editeded for brain bubble
  18. I used to know this bisextile girl,once ..this one time in Band Camp... ----hee hee BUMP!..
  19. okay ..as a non paying member... thanks guys! and ya know, there are a couple of alternative sites If you REALLY don't like something here, you are welcome to use thiers . Psst! ( which is fine by me cause I got caches listed there, too.)
  20. Sign the log book? Yep I sign Mine when i am doing maintence, but just as a note
  21. so I suppose it is another way of saying sixtey six?
  22. bissextile (by-SEKS-til) adjective Of or pertaining to the leap year or the extra day in the leap year. noun Leap year. [From Late Latin bisextilis annus (leap year), from Latin bissextus (February 29: leap day), from bi- (two) sextus (sixth), from the fact that the sixth day before the Calends of March (February 24) appeared twice every leap year or perhaps because 366 has two sixes.] "Do people born on Feb. 29 celebrate their birthdays on Feb. 28 or March 1 in non-leap years? The last day of February is the natural and logical choice. A term for leap year, `bissextile,' means doubled day - referring to a double Feb. 28." Happy Birthday Leap Year Babies, The Toronto Star (Canada), Feb 26, 1999. This week's theme: words related to calendar. Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart. -Washington Irving, writer (1783-1859)
  23. Well, renegade, just goes to show ya that one hand SELDOM knows what the other hand is doing... how many caches do you suppose have been legitimately placed in parks with all registrations and authorizations in place been trashed out by parks maintence personell who didn't know what was going on, let alone an officer of the law knowing what is going on with local parks and rec? Me, I would have come back about an hour later tee hee hee as far as pipe caches... I think they ALL look suspicious.. besides myself, who else thinks it will just be a matter of time before somone actually uses a geocache as a cover to do something destructive?
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