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TinyMoon & The Pumpkin King

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  1. We've used our Bronco II, the Ford ExPloder, and our Chevy Blazer 4x4 plenty of times to get to caches that were waaaay out there. One of the reasons we bought a 4x4 was to use it geocaching! On the other hand, on a few goofy occasions we took the little Dodge Neon offroading too! But sometimes we just hike in to the cache site...
  2. Well, just figured out that if you put the HTML image code in the "short description" the image pops up right along with your text. It won't accept it in the "long description", or if it does I've yet to figure it out. (it used to because that's how all our other cache pages were done in the past).
  3. aahh, no more sounds... . As for basic HTML, yep, know how to write it, used it for all our cache pages, so that's why I was so puzzled as to why the new jpg's wouldn't "host" when we tried to update our cache page. Will any of these features be restored for Premium Members, or are the sound files gone for good?
  4. We "own" 13 caches, and using the HTML option I've uploaded gif's and some wav's onto just about all 13 of the cache pages. Never had a problem doing it and it's always worked fine. Recently we had to temporarily disable a cache when the tree it was hidden in got taken down. So we used the opportunity to rehide the cache and take a few new photos for the "front" of the cache page. However, when I went to re-enable the cache and upload the new photo, the server "wiped the slate clean" so to speak. All the old gif's and wav's dissapeared, and the new jpg didn't show up either. Now, the only thing that shows up is the text, no matter how I try to upload anything. Hints, comments, suggestions?
  5. How about logging a "Find" on caches that have been deactivated/disabled? A very prominent cacher in our locale "retired" awhile back and disabled most of his caches, yet they are still physically sitting out there to be found. We have gone out and recovered several of them and logged them as "Finds", as has at least one other caching couple in our area. Any opinions...?
  6. Okay, I give...what the heck is a TerraCache? Is this something other than Navicache and Buxley's Waypoints?!? Some people are always more than willing to make lame copies of a perfectly good original it seems...
  7. We use a metal detector but only for winter caching. If you look at our account page, there's a pic of us hiking thru' the snow to a cache and carrying the detector...oh yeah we also carry along snow shovels to dig the caches out! There can easily be 6 ft. snowdrifts here in the winter. It's only used for winter caching though, seems like it would be somehow "cheating" otherwise.
  8. We bought our Platypus bladders at Dick's Sporting goods (2 liters, $14 each) and 2 bladder-compatible backpacks at Wallymart (only about $10 each) and have been having fun ever since. No problems, no funny taste, no $80 hit-to-the-wallet that a Camelback does ta' ya. We're out sometimes from sun-up till well after sunset and no leaks or any other problems.
  9. There are at least 3 here in Central NY, 2 of which are ours... The Ghost of Split Rock (multi-cache) The Phlegethon of Unrelatable Nightmares (multi-cache) Clark's Cave Revenge (traditional cache)
  10. Oh my gawrsh, next we'll be discussing how ghostcachers arrive unseen at new caches by black helicopters in "whisper mode" !
  11. Our best guess would be that Ghost Cachers are like Lurkers. Or mayhaps they're a group of disgruntled cachers who forwhatever reasons are now ignored by the rest of their local Caching Community, so they went and formed themselves a little pity-party underground group of sorts in order to get the jump on their former comrades who STILL no longer really give a hoot about them!
  12. We hit 8 caches today (7 of them were night caches), and our Garmin which is usually dead-on accurate was skittering all over the place. I rotated in fresh batteries twice trying to correct the problem but to no avail. Our readings were sometimes jumping by well over 100 feet. I had heard on Friday on a radio news report (quite probably Paul Harvey, I'm addicted to him! ) that the earthquake/tsunami in the Indian Ocean was so powerful that it had created a harmonic "wobble" in the Earths' axis, and that this was reeking havoc on the GPS sattelite system. Just my 2 cent's worth...
  13. We live in North Syracuse, this is our second winter at this, and Winter Caching just makes it all that more fun! Many of the local caches will have "Winter Accesible" posted on the page, i.e. they're hidden in the crook of a tree or something so they won't be buried under a 5 ft. snowdrift. Something we discovered after last season, be sure to keep extra socks and gloves handy just in case you get wet.
  14. Oh yeah, and don't forget your Blazin' Orange gear so a crazed deer hunter doesn't peg you in order to fill his doe permit !
  15. We live in Upstate NY, where you're going to have ~ 5 feet of snow to dig thru' to get to the cache... and... only 4 hours of daylight to do it in Needless to say we carry a Pioneer 2o2 Metal Detector, walking sticks for poking into snowbanks and feeling out the terrain (you don't want to fall into an animal hole and break your leg 1/2 mile from your GeoCache Recovery Vehicle), 4 flashlights and a headlamp, and those nifty "Hothands Handwarmer" packets, they work great stuffed into your boots and mittens. Our '92 Ford Exploder 4x4 is good for blasting thru' those snowy logging trails to get to the deep'n'woodsy caches. The Pioneer 2o2 works even for letterbox hybrids, it'll pick up the metal eraser band on those stubby pencils! Be sure to bring a small shovel of some sort for digging into the snow
  16. In essence, cwoper has a point, at least for those of us that prefer the harder caches. There has been a recent explosion of "drive-by" caches in our neck of the woods. Some folks like them because, well, we aren't sure? Primarily just for driving up numbers I suspect, it becomes a matter of "I've got more than you, nanny-nanny boo!". And unfortunately quality may fall by the wayside in the search for quantity. Just leave them be and let them have fun too. TinyMoon and I mostly only go after the caches that have been there a looong time, have a low number of hits (meaning it's probably hard, i.e. fun!), and the cacher who placed them has a reputation for excellent well thought out hides. In stead of policing other's hides just police the ones you decide to go after.
  17. Yesterday, TinyMoon lost her Engagement Ring at Funki Fungi! It had originally belonged to my Grandmother, and we were more than just a wee bit stressed. We went back to the cache today armed with our metal detector, said a BIG prayer and set off into the woods. I thought it was a hopeless endeavor as it had been snowing all night, the forest was too big and the Ring was too small. But TinyMoon's faith held true, she found her Ring sitting there on a big ol' tree root next to the cache, patiently waiting for her to come back and claim it! The darn thing didn't have a single snowflake on it . Miracles do happen, even little ones!
  18. It might run Widdershins if you're a Wiccan cacher !
  19. Quit'cher whynin'! We all know that Nor'Easters and Lake Effect storms blow on through right up until July 4th!
  20. I'm afraid to ask, but...what's an avalanche probe ??? Before we got the Pioneer 202, Molly was using (and still is, matter of fact) an old fiberglass ski-pole that she would stick into the snowbanks and tap around with, to "sound" out the cache. She's pretty good at it, plus it's a great way to measure how deep the drifts are.
  21. When we bought the metal detector, one of my first thoughts to TinyMoon was "Dang! How do we get THIS into the field???", and then I realised that not only is she beautiful and the Love of my Life, but...she wasn't carrying anything either ! It always helps when your fellow Intrepid cachers also make great Sherpa guides !
  22. This past Saturday, my parents, my girlfriend and I went caching in snowbound B'ville, NY. We armed ourselves with 3 shovels, a metal detector, wool socks, those really neat "Hot-Hands" handwarmers (and they DO work!), and layer-upon-layer of warm clothing, fuzzy hats and mittens. The cache didn't have a chance! Tonight my sweetie and I went caching under the freezing moonlit sky...romance in sub-zero temps !
  23. Our whole family goes Geo-caching, unfortunately we live in snow-bound Upstate NY . For Christmas, my parents (known in the Caching Universe as Finn McCool and Molly) gave me a Metal Detector, a Bounty Hunter Pioneer 202. It's sole purpose is to accompany us on Geo-Caches during the Winter months (in these parts that's Halloween thru' 4th of July, haha!)...(groan!). Today my parents, my girlfriend and I went on an outing and tried the metal detector for the first time. Armed with said detector, two GPS units and 3 snow shovels we trudged off into the forestlands hiking thru' hip deep snow. This site had been tried by my parents twice before during the week, to no avail. But with the Bounty Hunter, we "pinged" the cache within minutes, buried under a mountain of snow . Has anyone else tried this, or had similar ideas? Winter caching here is nearly impossible except for virtual caches, but this neat new gadget (any excuse for a new gadget!!! ) gives us newfound hope here in the Frozen Wastelands.
  24. Yeah, we broke some type of Weather record, most Frozen Day in NY history, and Most Consecutive Days Below ~Zero~ I'd prefer "Longest Sunny Day in American History", but that's a stretch here in Syracuse Even so, we all went to work and such, and some of us even went caching.
  25. Here in Central NY, we had temps reaching -40 below this past week, but it didn't stop my parents from finding 4 caches (3 one day, 1 the next). As for deep snow, Santa brought me a Metal Detector for Christmas! (Santa must be a cacher too!). As for following other folks' trails thru' the snow, it snows so much here any useful footprints are gone in a few hours anyway...
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