TucsonThompsen
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Wookin' Pa Nub in all da wong paces....
Wookin ' Pa Nub.......
Someone's got to put a Buckwheat themed cache up on "O-Tay" Mesa now.
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Back when TT was in town (and there was some speculation about some type of conspiracy to keep him South of the 56...ahem) My caching theme song for FTF racing was Gwen Stefani's Holla Back Girl
Lee Harvey and the Grassy Knoll Band says it was a conspiracy, Jess.
But as I recall I was able to poach a few north of Penasquitos from time to time. 
Any songs by the Dead Kennedys perchance on the CD?
I was always partial to "Liar" by the Henry Rollins Band for some reason.
And I'll back pqMommy up on her liking of Genesis. "Land of Confusion" is a great song!
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Yep, Precious & Frankie will be with us!
Sorry HelBob. I can't hear of a pet named "Precious" without my brain firing back:
"It rubs the lotion on its skin....else it get the hose again!"
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Evil Chicken,
Not as such. But tagged teamed with the Cow Spots who in turn, tagged with RoddieDog and his team doing various chunks of the puzzle solutions 1 through 10, long-distance. I did (along with the Cow Spots) some 10-15 other caches in Wharton yesterday so we got a small flavour of the place in our time there. And yes...some of the pain too! Just read our logs about the bushwhacking (i.e. 'Nam-like) adventure getting Code White. And had only one run in with some chiggers. All in all a really fun day.
I'm planning on coming back down there soon to get many more as long as the weather holds and the roads stay good. But we were impressed with the variety and diversity of the flora there. Can't wait to go back and visit down south soon.
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Good luck TT, I hope the Saturn keeps it's wheels one.
Why monitor Ch 10? I thought it was agreed that Geocachers use 2.
FYI, most 4x4 folks monitor Ch 4.
Saturn made it through with no problems. Did Chaos, and three of the 6 color caches plus a bunch of others along the 206, Harrontown, and Batsto. Avoided Stokes road, but all the other ones were no problem. Even the mildly shifting sugar sand wasn't an issue. Only the chiggers were annoying. Can't wait to make another assault on Wharton in the near future.
BTW, I didn't get that memo about Channel 2 being the "geocacher" channel in my "Welcome to New Jersey" packet. In San Diego, Channel 2 was popular with the illegals and their coyotes coming across the border. Waaaay too much chatter to be any use to GCers. So the locals out there would just picked any old channel/subchannel for the day. But I guess I had this subconscious aversion to 2 when I suggested 10.
Duly noted for future reference.
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Yes, double what he said about chiggers. Joe and I have been suffering for a couple of weeks. Joe's ankles were actually swollen since he had at least a hundred bites there. We both have bites all over. My worst hit area is my back! ARRRGH!
Those little *****ers ITCH! We doused ourselves with DEET every time, but that apparently doesn't take care of all of them. I have yet to see one, I think they're really small or microscopic even, but BOYYY do they pack a punch.
Maybe we'll run into you down there this weekend, TT.
Thanks for all the info. My brother and I are gonna try to be down at the visitor's centre by 9:30 AM or so. But for anyone out in Wharton, we'll monitor channel 10 FRS. Feel free to drop a line.
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Was planning on heading down to Wharton to attempt some of the caches and stages there on Sunday. Can any of the Pineys down there give me a road conditions update. Especially after the rain of the past couple days. How navigable is the place currently?
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Down for 5!
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Jeff seems to be getting pretty domesticated! I have spotted many multiple cross-postings between him and LocaRoja.... I bet his undies are ironed now, too....
Is this what those Jersey boys mean by off-topic?
Shhh...don't tell PQMommy!
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I just noticed in my jaunt through the Sourlands tonight that all the bright orange signs have changed from reading "NO HUNTING" to "BOW AND ARROW HUNTING ONLY". Which begs the question from me:
What type and when are the hunting seasons for Jersey? Any cachers ever have any run-ins or problems with hunters?
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How 'bout an English translation.... Oh, wait a minute, that probably wouldn't help. Maybe an American translation...
So Toby...would you mind giving us all a quick primer on cricket?
Like how to read a boxscore. When is a spin bowler better than a speed bowler. What the heck is a googly? How can one batter be out and also have a "not out" partner? What's so big about a century?
LBW...WTF?!?!
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Actually, I still think the puzzle cache tips was a grand idea.... to think one bid $100 for the TT package! I'd like to see more of those!
As long as I get my kickback of the profits.
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Once again, I quote:
Pineys. Down the Shorers. Bridge and Tunnelers.....Philly fans....Can we...I mean can we all just get along here.
Anyone's welcome to post here So c'mon bring your takes!
And the reason I started this forum was so that on the big board there would be a centralised site for ALL things going on in this state instead of going to 2...3...4 different boards and registering 2...3....4 different times -- so everyone in the state AND surrounding environs would have a central location for all information, happenings, moans, complaints, quibbles, quereies, rants, congratulations, etc.
It certainly is small enough a state that it's reasonable for a someone from Bergen to make a day out of it in Cape May and the Pineys and vice versa. So why not have a single state forum?
Besides...162 posts and 3000 some odd viewers...I guess this thing is working.
</$0.02>
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Do we need to start a "San Diego Congrats to Numbers Thread" ?
Hmmmm
Awesome, Toby! Just friggin' awesome. Can you start one in the NE thread to help clean up all the NJ clutter? I'm too chicken...or afraid of being whacked.
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I'm in! Yee-haw! Is there a good general meeting place or are the starting coords a good spot? Anyone? Anyone?
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Yikes! that cluster is exactly where the thermal power plant is located. Abandon all hope and restock your "Soylent Green" food packets?
Will they re-stock my company cafeteria vending machine too?
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Do we need to start a "San Diego Congrats to Numbers Thread" ?
CONGRATS!
Just don't do what goes on in the Northeast! Just look at anything in the Northeast thread. It seems that everybody gets their own thread for their respective milestone. Just clutters up the page IMHO.
BTW, what is considered appropriate milestones? 100? 200? 250? 500? every hundred thereafter?
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What does "borderline illegal" mean?
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In reference to me (yes...I'll call myself out on this) labelling certain hides, "borderline illegal"., I am referring to those caches which are nearly buried, or have become buried by nature. I've found a rash of hides out here that are buried up to the neck of the container in the ground leaving only the lid exposed. Usually these tend to be in really really dense forests which winds up having them become effectively fully buried by the leaves, twigs, and other detritus from the seasonal variations of the forest. I found one recently that, while intended to be stick out a few inches above the surface, was actually buried by the leaves and other stuff to a depth of five inches. I found it only because my walking pole punched through and hit something that felt not like dirt and normal forest floor.
So I guess when I mean "borderline illegal", I mean they were placed in legal fashion originally, but now have become fully buried, and thus now could be considered illegal hides.
I refer you all to GC.com's own regs on this:
"Caches that are buried. If a shovel, trowel or other “pointy” object is used to dig, whether in order to hide or to find the cache, then it is not appropriate. "
Oh well. I just find them. And It makes it all the more sweeter when you do find something evilly placed.
Comments from the peanut gallery?
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edited to remove post...wrong person logged in.
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I guess I have to congratulate in this forum PQGeoTrekkers for their FTF on my puzzle cache here in New Jersey, The Masterful Cache. Yes yes....it's a retread of Pay Homage to the Master. But they hadn't figured that one out so they had no a priori knowledge.
How weird. A SD cacher out in NJ on business FTFs a cache of mine stumping the Jersey locals. Congrats! Three teams had the final coords and he beat them all! Good job PQGeotrekkers!
Hope I don't get accused of favourtism out here by the locals. You saw what they did to Hoffa!
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Yeah. John. There's umm...something I forgot to tell you about Jess and me....
You see it all started over this puzzle we were working on.....
(continue as you see fit)
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Thought you all might be a kick out an e-mail I got from a Jersey cacher about the puzzle I released on them:
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TucsonThompsen,
RE: Somewhere in Hell.
OK, so I've reduced my options down to two.
Put the cache on my kill filter, or beg for help.
I have no pride, so here is what I'm thinking.
[edited to avoid possible spoiler releases]
Finally, with the little bit I know about you, I'm assuming the solution is
elegant and logical, not tedious and arcane. If I'm wrong here, then I'm going
to have serious troubles. My head is too warped.
Thanks for the frustration!
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Two days in and I've reduced them to begging for hints.
Aww....they're just like you guys back there!
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A congratulations and gold medal award to trowel32! First to find "Somewhere in Somerset".
Good Job!
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But as I recall I was able to poach a few north of Penasquitos from time to time. 
Those little *****ers ITCH! We doused ourselves with DEET every time, but that apparently doesn't take care of all of them. 
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Princess Toadstool picked up in New Jersey, FYI:
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