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This has got to be some kind of record for a regional forum (maybe for any non-off-topic forum)..17 posts until the big 10k..
Woo Hoo! Get the bush ready!!!
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17 posts until the big 10k..
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Wish I could make it - but we're in the middle of moving. However, that is right in our neck of the woods, so to speak... hmm! Where are you headed after the initial Carlsbad multi?Here is a map of my unfounds. The Carlsbad multi is in the top left corner. We could start there and work our way back south down the coast. There is a parking lot at N33 09.636 W117 20.851 that we could meet.....
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I'm keeping an eye on you! And Splashman too! Those are very impressive milestones you are approachingIt looks like Duncan! is getting close to a very big milestone! As far as I can tell, that will leave the 3000's without any San Diego cachers (but not for long)!
Talk about pressure!
I gotta get busy! 
D!
. Congrats to all of you 1000+ers - maybe someday when I'm retired and my kids are in college and, uh, gas is free, I can aspire to reach those milestones!
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It looks like Duncan! is getting close to a very big milestone! As far as I can tell, that will leave the 3000's without any San Diego cachers (but not for long)!
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At least your surgeon can score a find (hopefully!!).I'm going to be having surgery on monday to remove my gall bladder, got two stones. I'm stuck at 937. I just have no energy to walk so caching on hold. So just letting everyone know.
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The only suggestion I can make is to slowly tilt your head side to side to make sure the two $kimmers are vertically aligned into the 3D $kimmer in the center. You can also try a couple of ancient 3D chants while you are at it.
The trick to these is to ignore the image and stare into the distance behind it. Pretend you are looking out a window. You need to relax your eyes and the image should pop in after about 10 seconds or so. I am pretty good at it cause I've done it so many times. There are actually quite a few of these around now. But feel free to make more of these because they are fun!of course there is also this cache from jahoadi and john..... I can never see those things though.
Oh, well...At least I have coords for another cache in PV....
Well sure, and it works exactly the same for the $kimmer stereogram above.
For some reason, I can't keep my eyes relaxed with that one. I keep accidentally focusing back on the side images. But I did finally see it for a split second but then it went away. Maybe if $kimmer was wearing shades it would help.....
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Not only that, they logged 4 fairly difficult virtuals in 3 states in one day! Not too shab! But I ain't no geo-cop either!I have a concern...
Although I am newish to Geocaching, I worry for the future of caching in Penasquitos. There are 2 young men setting out caches and changing their usernames without much aforethought. One of them has changed his username and RELOGGED all of his finds from the previous username, but using TODAY'S DATE. Yes, they are enthusiastic and I have been able to get 2 FTF from the caches, but something does not seem right. Some of you have been to these caches and some have posted notes. I call upon your experience and knowledge.
I have no problem with the name change...but I think it would be polite/cool to use the correct date and delete the old log.
But in looking at QuicklyQuigKing's logs I notice they are logging there own caches and they said they signed the log in a virtual cache...makes me wonder if they really did the virtual...however comma...I resigned my job as the chief of the Geo-cache Police.
So have a nice day and happy caching!
But Trailgators does require a photo for San Jacinto Peak so he's got da badge!
(3/4.5)
10 Dec 02Hot Spring Petroglyphs by bobnpaty (GCB3A4)Arizona Today*
(1/5) 9 Jun 03Gateway to the Submerged Forest by Team PL (GCG8M7)California Today*
(1/4) 26 Jun 03San Jacinto Peak by Trailgators (GCGBWX)California Today*
(1/1) 22 Dec 02Flower Labyrinth by David & Diana (GCB79B)North Carolina Today*
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Okay . . . I just opened every cache in everybody's list and over the past three hours or so
-- it takes forever for pages to load at 24K -- I came up with this Compilation List of 167 caches.They are all mixed up and I have no idea how many were recommended by one, two, three, or four cachers. Some were on more than one list, others were on only one person's list.
If you want a cache added, or if you want a description added, let me know. Likewise, if I have put one on the list by mistake, email me and I'll delete it.
Didn't we want something more like this?:
The Forbidden Forest - 6
Fear Factor: Up the Rat Hole - 5
Local Treasure - 5
Snakes and Ladders - 5
Zis Is KAOS, Ve Don't Bush-vaak Here! - 5
CHUD - 4
Mad Eye Moody - 4
The Mountain Of Moonlit Rocks - 4
Triwizard Tournament - The Goblet of Fire - 4
Back in December twelve of us had created Favorites lists and I think QDMan took all our lists and came up with our mutually agreed on Favorite cache list!
You can get the same effect with Miragee's bookmark list - just stick the "ranking" in front of the cachename, like:
001. The Forbidden Forest (6)
002. Fear Factor: Up the Rat Hole (6)
etc.
Of course, it would be high maintenance if the rankings were to change frequently but maybe it's a good start. Certainly a great effort on Miragee's part to at least have something to start with! Thanks, Miragee!!
Yes thanks Miragee!
TFTC, I like your naming idea but wouldn't we have to look them up again to get a tally for each cache to do that? Maybe we could download all of the favorites lists into GSAK. But will GSAK give you the option to keep duplicates? I'd love to see the highest rated caches that I haven't done yet!
Well, I wonder if there's any way for me to create a bookmark list from Miragee's? What I would do (if I had 3 hours to spare), is:
* click on each cache in the bookmark list
* see how many bookmark lists there are for the cache (clicking the "more..." link)
* click the back arrow to get back to the bookmark list
* edit the bookmark and put a number in front of the cache name, like 100 - # of bookmarks (hopefully none have 100+ bookmarks). Forbidden Forest has 13 now, for example, so I'd name it's bookmark "87. The Forbidden Forest (13)". Fear Factor has 8, so I'd name it "92. Fear Factor: Up the Rat Hole (8)".
Then when the bookmark list is complete, it'll be sorted by the most bookmarks. It would require a bit of maintenance if you notice the number of bookmarks have changed for a cache, or if you want to add new caches, but otherwise, it might do the trick nicely without too much effort after all the work Miragee has already done.
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Okay . . . I just opened every cache in everybody's list and over the past three hours or so -- it takes forever for pages to load at 24K -- I came up with this Compilation List of 167 caches.
They are all mixed up and I have no idea how many were recommended by one, two, three, or four cachers. Some were on more than one list, others were on only one person's list.
If you want a cache added, or if you want a description added, let me know. Likewise, if I have put one on the list by mistake, email me and I'll delete it.
Didn't we want something more like this?:
The Forbidden Forest - 6
Fear Factor: Up the Rat Hole - 5
Local Treasure - 5
Snakes and Ladders - 5
Zis Is KAOS, Ve Don't Bush-vaak Here! - 5
CHUD - 4
Mad Eye Moody - 4
The Mountain Of Moonlit Rocks - 4
Triwizard Tournament - The Goblet of Fire - 4
Back in December twelve of us had created Favorites lists and I think QDMan took all our lists and came up with our mutually agreed on Favorite cache list!
You can get the same effect with Miragee's bookmark list - just stick the "ranking" in front of the cachename, like:
001. The Forbidden Forest (6)
002. Fear Factor: Up the Rat Hole (6)
etc.
Of course, it would be high maintenance if the rankings were to change frequently but maybe it's a good start. Certainly a great effort on Miragee's part to at least have something to start with! Thanks, Miragee!!
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You should see three - if you pay attention to the middle one, she should be in 3D.
I am really good at the other ones too. I keep seeing three $kimmers.... It was be the same thing Vulture sees after too much Canadian Club!
Try this - if you can do that, then you should be able to do any of these.
Hey! c'mon, it's a stereogram for cryin' out loud.This just in ....
Just a teaser before the final versions of $kimmer and Splashette.
I can't do it....How far away do you have to be to get it to work?
I can do those no problem, but I still can't get the one with the two images. It must require a different type of focus.
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Try this - if you can do that, then you should be able to do any of these.
Hey! c'mon, it's a stereogram for cryin' out loud.This just in ....
Just a teaser before the final versions of $kimmer and Splashette.
I can't do it....How far away do you have to be to get it to work?
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WOW, that's very cool - I can see her in 3D just by crossing my eyes! Did you use a special camera?
Hey! c'mon, it's a stereogram for cryin' out loud.This just in ....
Just a teaser before the final versions of $kimmer and Splashette.
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Ok, he gets full credit for the fishnjack scoring method!
Congrats to Tinfoil-Hat Head & Wall-Eyed Nutbag for 2Congrats to Tinfoil-Hat Head & Wall-Eyed Nutbag for breaking 2000!Or maybe 2200 if we are using the fishnjack scoring method
Hehe, someone here needs to figure out that he writes the TIME of his find in his log, not the count! 
P. S. Congrats on 1400 to fishnjack! !!!Hey Fisnjack told us that he found his 1500th on Saturday!
Or he's a record-breaking log lagger!
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Congrats to Tinfoil-Hat Head & Wall-Eyed Nutbag for breaking 2000!
Or maybe 2200 if we are using the fishnjack scoring method
Hehe, someone here needs to figure out that he writes the TIME of his find in his log, not the count! P. S. Congrats on 1400 to fishnjack! -
We'll have to keep an eye on those rascals and see if this is a trend!Have fun! Looks like it might get hot in the afternoon!Which forecast are we supposed to go by? Weather.com now says 81 tomorrow!
Here's Mt. Laguna from the NWS site - says 93 (and I'm assuming since it says "Mount Laguna" it means at high altitude).
The NWS was wrong and weather.com was right. It was in the low 80s pretty much all day in the Lagunas today!
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Here's how you access the feature. There's a whole thread on it in the forums too.
Hey, let us know how that new caching-along-a-route feature works! Sounds like they got it together just in time for you!Ok...On Friday Sumrall and I will be going on vacation.We go from here to Showlow Arizona then on to Oklahoma City...while in OKC we will be heading down to Dallas and over to Tennessee. When we depart OKC we will be heading up to Chicago then across the top of the US/bottom of Canada....hitting the Dakotas, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana etc.. We will spend a bit of time at a friend's house in
Washington state...then head down the cost...to NoCal...for a brief stay....Then back to San Diego.
Soooooo if you have any coins or bugs that want to see other states or need a good start East...let us know.
PS We will only be gone for a little over a month...
PPS Harmon you are welcome to come along.
Do you have a link?
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Hey, let us know how that new caching-along-a-route feature works! Sounds like they got it together just in time for you!Ok...On Friday Sumrall and I will be going on vacation.We go from here to Showlow Arizona then on to Oklahoma City...while in OKC we will be heading down to Dallas and over to Tennessee. When we depart OKC we will be heading up to Chicago then across the top of the US/bottom of Canada....hitting the Dakotas, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana etc.. We will spend a bit of time at a friend's house in
Washington state...then head down the cost...to NoCal...for a brief stay....Then back to San Diego.
Soooooo if you have any coins or bugs that want to see other states or need a good start East...let us know.
PS We will only be gone for a little over a month...
PPS Harmon you are welcome to come along.
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At least it isn't Palm Springs!Have fun! Looks like it might get hot in the afternoon!Which forecast are we supposed to go by? Weather.com now says 81 tomorrow!
Here's Mt. Laguna from the NWS site - says 93 (and I'm assuming since it says "Mount Laguna" it means at high altitude).
Amazing how two sites can be so different!
Anyhow, we will be in an air-conditioned vehicle going for fairly easy walks to find the caches we need in that area. But I guess we better do any longer walks first thing in the morning!
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Have fun! Looks like it might get hot in the afternoon!
Which forecast are we supposed to go by? Weather.com now says 81 tomorrow!
Here's Mt. Laguna from the NWS site - says 93 (and I'm assuming since it says "Mount Laguna" it means at high altitude).
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At I-8 and and the Descanso Exit, where Japatul Valley Road meets I-8 East of Alpine.
I hope you can make it.
I'm leaving for LA now but some parking coords would be a good idea!
could always just use the cache in the parking lot.
After The View (GCNW0N)
Thanks! See you guys down there at 8:30!
Have fun! Looks like it might get hot in the afternoon!
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Hey, we ran into Team Fatman while driving around Encinitas today! Nice to "meet" you (well, until all those people in a hurry started to honk at us!) and nice to see those plates finally getting some "recognition!"
We'll probably run into you more often as we are thinking of moving out there! -
Another way, which I haven't tried myself, is to load the Google Earth Geocaching Browser and just "fly" along your route adding caches you want to a bookmark list, then get your gpx file from that. I'm sure the actual steps involved are described somewhere in the forums.Ok folks, I need more training.We're going to go on a trip & I want to pick & choose which caches we download. How does one get the caches one wants into gsak?
Please "use little words" & in-depth instructions.
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As crazy as this sounds, does anyone know how one can download all caches in California? This is a gross example, but the idea still applies. Get more than 500 queries.. rather than specify a zip code zone.. I am finding that even the zip in my area of interest is over 500 caches so I miss some.. I am starting to plot routes but I can not plan them without the data in my database. Any ideas? I heard of geotoad, but that looks like it may create a lot traffic on the geo-servers.
Maybe you'll get lucky and the gc.com route gizmo will be released before you need it!
I gotta get busy! 
Hehe, someone here needs to figure out that he writes the TIME of his find in his log, not the count! 
P. S. Congrats on 1400 to fishnjack! 
Anyhow, we will be in an air-conditioned vehicle going for fairly easy walks to find the caches we need in that area. But I guess we better do any longer walks first thing in the morning!
San Diego Congratulations Thread
in West and Southwest
Posted · Edited by TFTC
Congrats on 1200 posts on this thread (plus one)!