PyroDave
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dont buy the gps you still have a chance this activity can lead to long road trips. Interacting with family and meeting new people. Lots of cuts and scrapes and a new found enjoyment of the outdoors. This is a highly adicting activity you still have time RUN!!!!
But congrats on your first find and hope you have many more good exsperinces.
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I havent run into any bad muggels on my first find I was searching forever and makeing quite a racket. After I found the chache and was on my way out I ran into a home owner walking his horse I said hi he asked what I was doing sloping around in the brush so long. I told him and he laughed and said he though there was a bear behind his house (just jokeing on his part) Turned out he knew my family. had a couple other run ins and they have all been fun and everyone has thought it was a cool idea for a hobie.
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Another thing that might help the cause is to use exsamples from othere states. I live in ny and up till recently the DEC didnt alow placment in any of there lands. But after alot of work they changed there rules. The NY state parks services has alos reversed there ruleing on it they asked us to work wih them and modify the basic gc rules people from NYGO worked with them and set up a even ground for both the park service and geocachers to beable to enjoy the sport.
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Well I started as dvand a shortend version of my name. Then after a couple geo outings when some one let me play with some lighter fluid my name was changed. I realy dont know why people started calling me it i was just makeing shure all the charcole was lit.
But people always know thell be a good capfire at my camping sight and i dont need to give cords for people to find it. -
It was a good story. But the centimeter acuracy from a gps means your useing servey grade gps's and there $100's of dolers for one. But over all good article
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well if people want to get on a spelling flame war well i should be the one to come to.
Now saying that I have a learning disability that includes very bad spelling. But above adverage reading. FLAME AWAY I'm shure all of you have a flaw that others can laugh at so lets have some fealings for others and think before you speek. I see many posts where people try to help make handycap accesable caches but then you jump on someone for bad spelling. Good work guys!!!!
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So who is going to email the link to this thread to NBC?
good luck they hide the feed back in page apon page of junk. YOued have a easier time finding a micro in the woods under logs with a a dead gps.
But if someone dose mange to weed throough the muck and send this I would like to say I watch (used t watch) alot of the law and order shows. After this one though i realy doubt I'll be watching any more of them mostly because (yes I know its only tv) now i realize how pourly the writers actualy research these things like another poster said couldnt the writeres take 4 min to actualy to find out some real info about this. Another poster said it just looked like a way to get the whole gc community to tune in to bost rateings yess again i agree. As a fan of this show i was very let down by what they actualy did with it. and on ending with the comic book guy (from the simpsons) "worst show ever"
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to me if i break a sweet its a sport. I do that quite often geocaching
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Hmm, where do you start picking this one apart. Buried caches. Etrex's that get reception while duct taped under cars. Etrex's that transmit their location to nearby palm pilots. (I want one). The line "She parked there so we know which cache she was at." Huh!? With how many caches nearby? And that was vastly understated. I could go on. Sigh.
You know, every time I see a TV show that depicts some real-life hobby or profession that I know something about, they screw it up royally. Just goes to prove how much you can believe from what you see on TV. I should've skipped this and gone out and snagged a few more caches tonight.
I don't remember them saying anything about it being a Garmin E-Trex being taped to the underbelly of the Jeep I do remember them saying it was a GPS transmitter! Can someone tell me if they actually did say a reciever or transmitter? I know it was a transmitter.
no they said a trancever could have been taped there and useing the right computer equipment you could use that to track someone
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Jeremy needs to add something on PAGE ONE of the GC web site, disclaiming the L&O episode and the fact that it depicts BURIED CACHES, which of course proper cachers don't do.
Done.
I have to give Jeremy props for putting the disclamer up so fast.
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We are at the half way point. I think GC has taken all the damage its going to take. THANKFULLY.
well i think the gps tracking of cars made it a little worse.
And to qote my freind in a im its like watching a car accedent you dont want to watch but just cant look away
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before anyone flames my post about it might not be that back id just like to say i was wrong.
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man i though i was gona get the first post about it being beried
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Just placeing it and then seeing what happens is a bad idea in my eyes. Here in ny up till reacently the DEC wouldnt let us place and the state park services werent to kean on the idea. But after alot of hard work from many people in the cacheing comunity we got the policys reversed. Now we can place in DEC lands and state park with the parks service they modified the placment rules a little but they were fair and worked with us and we worked with them.
Now say theres cachers in your state and there trying to do the same thing and the day before a meeting or something someone places a illegal cache and they find out about it. We'll that could shead bad light on us. The cacher goes in say we have no prob fallowing some rules ect.. park offical we'll how can I belive you you dont even fallow the rules on the gc.com site how can I belive you'll fallow modified rules.
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No offense to AOL users.
None will be taken. They won't understand the joke.
From what I've seen of cellphones with GPS built-in, the features are not suitable for geocaching. I've yet to see one where you could set a waypoint and go to it.
My car's built-in navigation system (Nissan Birdview) is cool, but the only evidence of lat/long is on the status page (with a couple of pretty flashing satellite icons), and even that's limited to displaying in dd.mm.ss format (so 25-30 metres each way). Even if I could remove it from the car, I couldn't go caching with it.
actualy i think nextell has one you can plug waypoints into. A felow cacher was asked by nextel to test one out for a mounth and see what she thought of it. Said it wasnt bad but she still liked here normal gps better. Also the cost of the phone is $300-400 much more exspencive then a gps.
As for more meda coverage I'm all for it. If it wasnt for the meda I would have never found this sport. Also at this point every couple weeks I har about a new story or broadcast about geocaching I think its great.
And one last note the more people that know about it In my view the less people will wory about people walking around with gps accting strange. Thuss less cop calls.
I understand your point of view but I think the benifits out weigh the potential probs.
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once forgot my pen but had my handy lighter with me so i just burnt the log book and figured everyone would know it was me.
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and why couldnt you have put this post into his or just done a email exschange about it. Personaly i find both these threads in bad taste and have no reason for beeing on the forums. Can a FM plz close both.
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That seems to be rather old news: Salon, 11/11/1998.
Unfortunately an ammo can, especially with a good gasket, makes an excellent bomb container, as the pressure of the explosion has nowhere to go to. Compare it to the average teen's first efforts with chlorate and sugar in the weedkiller tin - it'll make a nice bang but the first thing to happen will be the lid blows off.
I still think it comes down to cache placement. Anything bigger than a 35mm film can in an urban setting invites suspicion. On the other hand, ammo cans in the deep woods will only contain bombs if there's some new age terrorist group dedicated to not actually being very likely to hurt anyone.
hey do you have a recipy for the shugar thing;
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how bout this one for my name ???
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Any one have any Ideas for PyroDave??? I'm hitting a wall trying to think one up.
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I started because I saw article in a magazine about it and my dad had a gps sitting around cloecting dust. So me my gps and my camera set off for a little hike and when I got to the spot. It was this amazeing photo spot right in my back yard that I never knew about. Then it clicked hey I can get others to scout my photo locations for me. Then it became a addiction and when down hill from there.
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I can state based on firsthand knowledge that programming work on the new game has been underway for most of the past year. I have seen the programmer(s) chained at their cubicles, and Jeremy cracking the whip saying "code faster! code faster!"
As for the concept, it's been in the mind of the Evil Genius for much longer than that. The vision was first unveiled to me while hiking with Jeremy in fall of 2003. Dude, it was like the Virgin Mary appearing at Lourdes. Well, except that Jeremy's neither a virgin nor a female, and we were in the Seattle area, not in France. But other than that, it was pretty darn close.
Is Lourdes a virt?
Tell them the beattings will continue till the morale inproves around there. Also tell Jeremy to use his whole arm while whiping them you dont want to come down with carpel tunnel.
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<snip>It's been mentioned plenty of times; there is a redesign of virtuals and locationless caches coming online in the very near future. Why keep tossing stuff around that is going to be totally irrelevant in a few months?
I would like to see that redesign. If my virtuals, locationless (and earthcahes?) finds were all moved to another related site, I would have no problems. Having absolutly no inside information on how/what the intentions, scopes or philosophy is, it only leaves one to wonder.
In a few moths? It seems you have some inside information. Not being skeptical since there have been great strides taken on this site, but at least a PR announcement with a scope or concept to whetten our appitites would be great.
It's not inside information when it's talked about publicly in the forums. I just did a search and found about 10 posts by Jeremy in 2005 that mention the ongoing work on introducing the new game to replace virtual and locationless caches. It was just ten days ago when he posted the timeframe estimate which formed the basis for Mopar's post.
So, patience. Wait for the new game. I think you'll like it!
Can you markwell the time line post plz.
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I think we should have turned back there: A geocaching story.
The muggel and the ammo box: A geocacheing story
But people always know thell be a good capfire at my camping sight and i dont need to give cords for people to find it.
but Seriously i wouldnt get to woried about it.
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