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  1. We are all environmentalists. It is a matter of survival that you protect your "environment". If you value a big house and a monster truck then you will work towards that goal.

    It is your values that place you on somewhere on the scale between Earth First and the President of a third world strip-mining and chemical company.

    Do you value nature as where you derive your sustenance from and enjoy your recreation in? Do you protect rainforest because some day you might need the drugs it provides? That is an anthropocentric or self-centred view of nature.

    Those who value nature as an integral part of this world, often given the title of "environmentalist", see every species and every natural cycle as critical for the functioning of this planet and essential for our survival. Water and deer and slugs should have the same right to exist as people do. Humankind is one small part of the whole. This is an ecocentric or nature-centred view.

    Perhaps it is our duty, having an understanding of our world and the technology to affect it, to do more than just survive. Should we recycle our trash or the trash of our fathers and neighbours as well?

    Geocaching is not an environmental activity. It takes an add on called CITO to add some environmentalism to it. As for raising awareness of the natural world, what proportion of caches are in cities? What proportion educate as their main goal?

    Driving to the zoo is more educational and enlightening than most of what we do geocaching.

    Even staunch "tree-huggers" compromise their values. Reading books and using toilet paper still consumes forest.

    Whatever activity you participate in will involve some compromise. By virtue of our highly evolved/God given brains we should make the right choices.

    For caching I would like to see

    1. More carpooling in better vehicles.

    2. Linked searches to hit as many with minimal miles.

    3. Avoidance of sensitive areas.

    and

    4. Use of our technology in someway to better the world we live in through vounteer mapping of habitat, sensitive areas, areas that need remediation, etc.

  2. WAAS uses info collected from ground based stations. The closer you are to those stations the better accuracy WAAS provides. Up in nothern Canada the EPE (error) doubles when I turn WAAS ON!

  3. I found this web site where you can design custom covers for you phones and PDAs and such. I asked about covers for GPSs and got a reply from customer service.

    Thank you for contacting the myTego Customer Center. We

    currently don't have

    any GPS devices available on our site. The best thing you

    can do is put in a

    device request. Click the "My Device is Not Listed Here" at

    the bottom of

    any device list. That way we know that this is something

    our customers want.

    We will endeavor to obtain the device so we can create a

    template for it and

    you will be e-mailed once we have that device available.

     

    I am going to submit my Garmin Map76. I imagine if enough of us ask they might put something together.

     

    edited to put tag in

  4. And I can assure you, I would MUCH rather be reaching for what I thought was a cache and see a steel trap than be reaching for a cache and see a beaver coming at me from under a log. Any day of the week and twice on Sunday.

    :lol::D;)

    Beavers are North Americas largest rodent and hunt people just for the pleasure of it. Beware the beaver.

    Leg/foot hold traps are banned in this part of Canada. Most think they are cruel as they hold the animal by whatever part gets caught and it may be days before the trapper dispatches them.

    Most foothold snare no longer have those big sharp teeth that are shown in cartoons and are designed to hold with minimal damage. All but the largest should be of no concern for humans and even then a trapset should be visible enough not to put something soft in like your hand.

  5. As far as I can tell the puzzler has given you a location with the degrees from the celestial pole and prime meridian. These are also geographic coordinates. You will need to find the the location. From there I can't see as there is enough information to located a point. You have an azimuth(direction) and an elevation. Unless these directions point to a specific star or building or mountain.

    The coordinates that I figured fall on an interestingly named town.

    Email me to discuss more

  6. The adage of "cotton kills" is very appropriate. Wet jeans suck the heat off of you and you might be better of naked.

    There seem to be three options mentioned

    1. Waterproof (coated)rainpants. Good for heavy rain but low activity. Anything you sweat stays inside and can be just as wet.

    2. Waterproof/breathable ie Goretex or any number of imitators(personally I like the columbia version)- good for High activity skiing levels in wet and cold conditions(snow/rain/wet plants). More expensive but can be found on very durable fabrics.

    3. Quick-dry nylon pants- not waterproof but do not retain water like cotton. Good for wet activities in warmer environments. Like canoeing, hiking. I have many pairs of both convertable and non.

    4. Waxed cotton or other old time fabrics like wool, leather etc. All have their uses but shortfalls as well. Waxed canvas tough as nails but almost as heavy. Good for the nostalgic look.

    I heard a quote "there is no bad weather, only bad clothes"

    Good luck on your choice. Let your need dictate.

  7. I really wanted to be the 100th post.

    I got tired of reading after half the first page. Regardless of your beliefs, I think the issue is respect.

    Respect the opinions and beliefs of others.

    Respect that other may not want to be "convinced" of your beliefs

    Respect the guidelines of the activity/sport/hobby of caching and keep agendas to a minimum unless it furthers the basics of geocaching. IE Jeep travel bug are promotional. I would guess they encourage more caching as opposed to more purchase of Jeeps.

  8. I have started printing up business cards, punching them and attaching a length of accesory rope. The signature part would be unusual knots tied in the cord. Most recently I am using a monkeys fist and zepplin bend.

  9. I heard about these clocks.

    On another part of the website the maker says

    She needed a substance that would seal the outside of the pies and make them more durable; the pies tend to crumble easily. The solution: a glaze used on old wooden boats. "That seemed to stick on the outside and make them tougher," she said.

    Good luck and let me know how it goes so I can avoid this one.

  10. I'm still having a bit of trouble with this thing... I did just get a reading in my backyard, but when I went to a website that would pull up a map of that coordinate combination, it was over a mile off...

    The setting on your GPS called "datum" allows you to match your GPS with the map. To properly place your postition on the map your GPS and map have to match Datums. Usually your GPS and the website use WGS84 but maps can have many different Datums and your GPS may be set to something else. Try to set your GPS to WGS84.

    If you borrowed your GPS from you folks and it was turned off for a long time it may take longer to figure out where the sattelites are(initialize). Same as if you moved it across the country it takes awhile to do the calculations.

    Take some time and just play with it. Don't expect to understand it right away. I have been using GPSs for 10years and still learn new thing all the time.

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