goonybird

Ok - obvious question - Male or Female? }:=)

Well - a while back i went hunting for a small cache behind a local store. There's a row of trees along the back of the back parking lot. comments said the cache was in the 3rd tree. There were 10 trees and it wasnt clear about 3rd from which end. When I checked the 3rd tree from the east end.....i saw this large black garbage bag in a large gap in the tree. Hmmm...could that be the cache? looks like there's a large can in it... WHen I pull this thing out, the bag contains what appears to be a trashcan - bout the size of one i'd put in the bathroom - smooth plastic - oval shape - but no opening. Rubberish Feet on one end, but the other end was apparently sealed somehow, as if there was some sort of mistake at the factory and the lid never got separated, or was mistakenly sealed on the hole. Most bizarre thing i;ve ever seen. I have no idea what, if anything, was inside. I couldn't find a way of opening it, and didn't have any kind of tool big enough to pry it open with. I had my Swiss army knife, but was honestly worried about damaging the knife in the process.

I was thinking the same thing. I'm thinking here - if we're gonna say political or religious agendas are a no-no....are we going to ban the following things (things i HAVE found in caches): 1. toy soldiers - obvious support for war (at least some war) - blatantly anti-peace? 2. McDonalds happy meal toys - obvious support for the enslavement of animals - blatant violation of the rights of animals? 3. Mickey Mouse toys - blatant affront to Islam and to Allah - dont beleive me? - see http://www.metimes.com/Editorial/2008/09/2...a_too_far/7727/ Ok - i think I've made my point here...if yer gonna disallow something because of politcial or religious overtones - it better be really good....

Hey OPlenty :-) RIght now I've got about 4400 caches in my queries - no terrain limit - cause when things cool down a bit I wanna go hiking out in O'niel Regional Park or Crystal cove - I miss playing around in the woods. Grew up on a 2 acre lot in the middle of Nowhere in Pensylvania, and 3/4 of the lot was wooded.....and butted up against a farmer's cornfield thats now been fallow for a good 20 years. So How often do you go out to Indio? Could I hitch a ride with ya one of these days? Been way too long since i've been out to the desert.

I've been tinkering recently with my pocket queries, and was wondering how you guys set yours up. I;m in the LA area, so there's an extremely high density of urban caches in my local area. The 500 cache limit gets me a radius of 5 1/2 miles from my home location. SO i've created several caches around several spots in the county, but there's a LOT of overlap. Been Tinkering with the date placed field, one query per year, starting with 2000, so I've got 9 year based caches. Of course 2000 got like like 20 caches in a 500 mile radius, and the 2008 query did get filled up in 13 1/2 miles. I'm thinking maybe the queries based on the placement date are the way to go. You guys have any insight?

dadgum Harry - I love your sig :-)

I'm a guy, and I personally recommend you recruit a male relative, or some other guy you know VERY well, or find SEVERAL women from a local geocaching group to go with. My first though when I read the suggestion to find a local group to find a partner was - gee that would be a great way for a rapist to pick victims, or maybe even for tag team muggers to get a single woman in a vulnerable position. I suspect going with 1 or 2 strangers from a local group would be a bigger risk than going alone to a remote trail - why would a predator bother sitting waiting in a remote location, when he could accompany his potential victim to the remote location? If you live in a big city, you could stick to going solo when urban caching - there will be lots of areas that are perfectly safe at least in broad daylight. OF course, use your head here too - there are gonna be some areas you want to stay out of day or night. I'm from LA - and believe me - I avoid areas like Watts and Compton day and night. Of course, you might want to consider avoiding going solo to, say a large wooded park like Griffith Park.

Yep.. and you can still run Windows software ! Awesome! If there were a current mac app a PC user wanted to run, no way they'd be able to do it. But on a recent mac just fire up Parallels or boot right into XP. Awesome! You DO realize this isnt an issue, i hope.........

WHen are you going to be in town? Hope I havent missed you already. I admit im a total n00b at the geocaching thing - so I was thinking if ya needed someone to help ya get around town while caching, you could show me some tricks of the trade. TOmorrow i'm going with a local cacher to Newport Beach's "back bay" - looks like a lot of good cahces over there. That's just 2-3 miles from Costa Mesa. THere are some caches in Fairview Park along the Santa Ana river that runs through Costa Mesa i've been wanting to check out too. THose 2 areas sound the most promising in Costa Mesa for caching.

No, I haven't tried that yet. I guess I overlooked that option. Thanks for the pointer :-)

I have a suggestion..... I'd really like to see more info in the Benchmark .loc file generated by the site. apparently it only contains the benchmark code name and the lat/log - I'd really like to see it include at least the benchmark Type if nothing else, and perhaps some of the entry comments.... I know that kind of thing can be put in the comments section in a gpx file. not sure about .loc though. ANy thoughts on changing it?

Then i suggest you stick with FIrefox - Konquerer always seemed pretty week to me anyway.....

That would be pretty easy to do with javascript and/or php - to decrypt the hint without requiring the entire page to be refreshed. I have no clue why they changed it - i wasnt here for the "site improvement"

The Etrex is a garmin model right? the "send to gps" option puts them in favorites in my nuvi. always has....still works just fine here. My guess is that there's something out of whack in your setup - maybe check for a firmware update? or an update to the Garmin COmunicator plugin for your browser

That actually reminds me of the movie "Evolution":-) One of the guys in the movie was a COmmunityu COlelge geology teacher and volunteer for the USGS - and made a huge deal of the USGS agent thing a ocuple times in the movie :-)

Thanks. ....and thanks to weightman too. Your pointers were my problem Being a computer geek, that boolean AND should have registered. I guess I assumed geocachers didn't speak computer....my fault...:-) And definately thanks to everyone else who replied with pointers....they may come in useful.

Appears to be mostly Chinese, not hieroglyphs... with a few other foreign characters thrown in. Some sort of unicode characters apparently (16 or 32 bit ascii instead of 8bit), although its probably either random or just made with really buggy software because the example you give looks like a mixture of Chinese, Korean, Greek, and some extended european characters.... maybe we should keep track of who's posts have this - and find out what software he's using, and what GPS - could be a bug in the firmware of his GPS - or the map software he's using...

Been trying the Pocket query feature - and for the life of me - i can't seem to generate anything but empty queries. The options i've selected: Any Type Any Container (i've tinkered with various options below) that: i haven't found/dont own/do own/ available to all/is active Terrain/difficulty both greater than or = to 1 within: none selected (switched a couple times between none and my home state California) From origin: home coordinates Within: 100 miles placed: tinkered with varios settings Right now set to Jan-1-1998 through dec 31 2008 Attributes to include/exclude - Currently blank - did turn all the includes on...didnt help..... so i guess i'm missing something really obvious........... any pointers?