Cow Spots
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I created my favourite's list as well. Hope that eventually it will link to the profile page.
--TT--
Grammar police.
Jeff, you are neither Canadian nor British. Do me a favour. Help a brother out.
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Is there a limit on how many caches can be added to a list?
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At least one mystery has now been resolved.
But Tharagleb --- don't you consider it unfair to use "The Will and the Word" to find a cache?
--Dave, The Cow Spots
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I noticed today that there's an event cache posted for Yuma, AZ on Sunday, February 27th. I'll probably make the drive over from Tucson, and lil bro TT is kicking around going. He suggested letting the SD Forum crew know about it.
--Dave, The Cow Spots
P.S. How far is it (distance/time) from San Diego to Yuma?
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I tend to use it quite a bit if I'm looking for something involving a trailhead or an old 4X4 trail. If the area I'm caching in happens to be nearby an urban area, I'll also check to see if the aerial photo is available on www.terraserver-usa.com, as their maps will permit a much closer zoom and tend to be more up-to-date.
It's also handy to use when solving puzzle caches to get a sense if your solution matches up with the terrain or other description as listed on the cache page.
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My Ugly Pig has gotten some great pics, some serious miles, and some payback on me.
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If anyone wants more details about what happened to TT, check his profile page.....but not while eating - viewer discretion is advised!
Okay, I had to look ...
And he's out and about caching again?!?
In the interests of fairness, that's not actually Jeff's elbow, just a representative sample of the type of work that was done.
That being said, the picture's particularly repulsive.
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I'll give a shout out for Tucson.
And TucsonThompsen, you don't count. You live in San Diego.
(He's my little brother, so I'm allowed to bust his chops.)
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Had to pass this along.... Douglas Adams now has been immortalized with the official naming of an asteroid in his honor:
Asteroid named after 'Hitchhiker' humorist
How cool is it that the original designation for the asteroid was 2001 DA42 ?!?
I'm going to set up a Hitchhiker's Guide cache in Arizona pretty quick here.
--Dave, The Cow Spots
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Final tally, so I hear, from TT's brush with danger.
Humerus broken into 17 fragments. 4-hour surgery. Plate, screws, and Tom's GPS tracker installed into the elbow. Jeff probably won't get home until Tuesday.
And I gather "Crown Jewels" is forthcoming.
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The latest TT update is bone broke into 17 (!) fragments and he thinks they had to put a plate in his elbow. He's a little groggy after the surgery. More tomorrow.
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The Federal Government set aside specific lands inside many states. Those lands have special rules. In Idaho even other Idaho State Agencies don't like to do things that involve those lands.
In Arizona there is a fee you will need to pay to place a cache on them plus they want a fee to even hike on them but that's probably not all that enforcable.
The name for those designated areas escapes me. Reserve lands, trust lands... both sound wrong...
You're probably referring to State Trust Lands. The fee in question is $20/family/year, and has nothing to do with geocaching. You need to pay the fee to legally access the land. The alternative is a 500 dollar fine. The Arizona State Trust Land agency has, to my knowledge, no problem with caches placed on said land provided that it is not near an archaeologically or environmentally sensitive site. There are literally dozens of caches on State Trust Land in Arizona and most caches placed there will cheerfully list that they are on State Trust Land.
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I've got a whole handful of Thomas Jefferson memorial Geocoins in my possession. They're a little smaller than the average geocoin, but have a great likeness of Thomas Jefferson on one side and a depiction of his mansion on the reverse. At the moment I have JeffCoins # 1995, 1996, 1996D, and 2003. Scans available upon request.
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The volunteer cache approver responsible for our area is Artemis. Artemis' profile has a wealth of information about caches in Arizona and the Phoenix area:
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FYI
TucsonThompsen is undergoing surgery to repair a shattered left elbow he suffered while caching today. He should be OK, I believe he broke the humerus in 7 places while hiking, but he's staying overnight at Inland Valley Hospital near Wildomar.
Bad luck but he'll be OK.
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OOooh... please let me design the "TucsonThompsen" misprint series. I have a wealth of source material to draw from. Hehehehe.
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When I was downsized several months ago, I was hired by another cacher. Tell me there ain't no support network out there!
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I think all of these modifications are possible. As long as you use your sonic screwdriver and reverse the polarity of the neutron flow.
I'm not sure that you'd be able to reverse the polarity of the neutron flow without pumping at least 1.21 gigawatts through the flux capacitor... and we all know how much work that can be.
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A good and cheap source are those little audio buttons that are meant to go inside stuffed animals. They hold about 5-10 secs of audio and can easily be superglued or epoxied on the inside of an ammo can. They can be found at most crafts stores or at one of those "Build-a-Bear" stores in upscale malls.
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In the "my God he must be crazy" category, I recently hit 10 caches in under 2 hours, 9 of them FTFs. These caches were 50+ miles from my house, and I did them between 11:15pm and 1:15 am, pitch black in a light drizzle.
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My 2-yr (soon to be 3-yr) old son accompanies me on many a cache hunt:
We have accumulated an extensive collection of Hot Wheels cars through trading.
--Dave, The Cow Spots
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I'm more interested in this book's claims of using your GPSr as a metal detector. How would that be possible, I wonder? I have an old Eagle Explorer GPS I got as a first finder prize that I'm not using at all, but it'd be interesting to goof with it... I don't think I'd "mod" my primary GPSr.
---Dave, The Cow Spots
Bookmark And Ignore Lists
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Would be a good idea to add something into the "Ignore List" so that you can see the status of a cache in that list? (AKA Archived/Disabled/Active)?
One thing I believe many people would use the ignore list for is to remove inactive caches from their nearest finds page. If the cache's status is readily visible from the "Ignore List", it makes it easy to maintain when disabled caches either are reactivated or permanently archived.
Even color coding the cache name would work for this.