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Coach Steve

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  1. Before caching, I spent hours tying flies and planning my next trip. Now I download impossible caches and go find them. The startup costs were worth the time. But I digress . . . But I digress. . . But I digress . . . . (No, I do not have OCD) (No, I do not have OCD) (No, I do not have OCD) (No, I . . . )
  2. Imagine Napoleon Dynamite caching . . . . .
  3. One of my favorites is GCJ4BT, called Top it Off. The instructions are to take a gallon of water with you when you go. When you get to the cache, you find a PVC pipe hanging low in a tree. The top has a cap on it. Once you remove the cap, all you see is a pipe. Then you realize that you need to pour the water in the pipe. As the pipe fills up, the cache log (in a water-tight container) floats to the top. When you are done, there is a small rubber plug at the bottom of the pipe to drain the water out for the next cacher. Many logs attest to this cacher's prowess with micros. I never miss a chance to get one of his.
  4. Ok--You old guys on the forum have just gone too far this time--Insulting my family. Just because I married my niece and can play the banjo . . . . . Why in the world did YOU marry her? Did your nephew get tired of her? No, but my uncle did.
  5. Ok--You old guys on the forum have just gone too far this time--Insulting my family. Just because I married my niece and can play the banjo . . . . .
  6. I just adopted a great cache at the request of the owner because she was moving away. I did it mainly because it is worth saving. By the way, if you come to Zion Park, you should try it. It is called 'Zion Treasure Hunt'. It may take you awhile, though.
  7. I haven't seen this in any of the forums, so I need to ask. Is it customary to take TBs to an event, lay them on a table and have people log them in and out of the 'cache'? When I saw this happen at an event that I attended, I thought it was a bit strange. To me, it was like taking a bunch of cache boxes and logging them as finds. Whatever happened to 'fair chase'? Am I just way off base here? Is this done at all events?
  8. As Napoleon Dynamite would say: "It's like the flippin' coolest game on earth! Gosh!" (I was Napoleon in high school--nothing has changed)
  9. I love the idea of an astronomy cache Last fall I did a cache (GCKGC9) that started at Earth and went all over the county from there. Each cache represented a different planet and represented the precise distance from earth that it was. It took me two days because I started too late. It was doubly good, since the information on each planet was included in the cache along the way. One of the more challenging I have done in terms of distance traveled between stages. It has only been done by three people.
  10. Watching what happened to all the debris that went into the Virgin River this past two weeks and knowing the dynamics of water, I would say that it is now in little pieces. That river took 4 X 4 lumber and turned it into toothpicks. They dumped two-ton highway dividers into the river to try to turn it, and they were destroyed. I don't think the anthropologists will have much to look at. Having been to Carl's Car Crach cache, (which I really enjoyed) I am sure it would have been one of the first to go, along with RangerDale's Night Owl. Nobody around here has been alive to see that much water. It was just incredible.
  11. I also need to find out how to have a cache archived. I have requested that the cache named Dam Mesa (GC3A78) be archived, but nothing has happened. Efforts to contact the owner have failed. Do the 'request archived' logs just go into cyberspace? It is in No. Arizona and I live in So. Utah, so I have no idea how to contact the Arizona Admin. Any suggestions?
  12. I went to a local guy the other day and told him I wanted to buy some land. He asked how much money I had, and when I told him, he said: "Bring your wheelbarrow, I'll fill it up." Don't tell me how cheap dirt is!
  13. I did one the other day that had my wife laughing out loud. It is called "Beware of Snakes" and is an urban log-only cache. When you find the container and open it, there is a smaller (Large Pill bottle size) container inside with a screw top on it. When you open it, a large spring snake comes out and scares the crap out of you. My wife was watching me from the truck, and I could hear her laughing, even through the closed window. All at my expense.
  14. I have a question/situation that I would like some input on. I placed a cache close to my home at one of the best Christmas light displays in town. The idea was to pass on greetings through the cache and also enjoy the lights. In the log I wrote that it was a night cache only, and that the cache would be removed until 6:00 PM each night. The one day I did not remove the cache, three people in one party logged the cache during the day. All of them said "would like to have seen the lights". The question is: Should I delete the logs because they didn't follow the rules, or just let it slide? So far I have just let it slide.
  15. Holy crap! I was wondering why I came up with those pink panties when I was really fishing for Woundfin Minnows in the Virgin River! With all the flooding we've had this week, you will probably be able to catch almost anything in that river, including several caches.
  16. I couldn't agree more. The kids I teach call me a geek and nerd. I wear those titles with pride. If caching makes me more so, I love it! Just remember that the biggest nerd in the world is also the richest--Bill Gates.
  17. The best and sometimes cheapest place I have found for supplies/accessories is gpscity.com out of Las Vegas. I bought my 60cs from Getfeetwet.com.
  18. I have just coached in high school for 35 years. There were 2 other coaches at our school with similar last names, so we just got called by the term 'coach' and our first names. It has just stuck. Even my students in Spanish call me 'Entrenador Steve'.
  19. I rarely post on these forums because I choose not to give anyone the power to judge the manner in which I choose to participate in the sport of caching. Besides that, I'm too busy planning my next adventure to worry about whether anyone 'feels bad' about what is said in the forums. For those of you who live by every word posted here--may you enjoy what you think is important.
  20. This one is just diabolical! It requires hiking up and down the steepest, ugliest outcropping of loose rock and sandstone cliff around. (Smithsonian Butte). One of these when my achilles tendon heals after the first attempt, I will try again, but not for now. It's called "A Place Where National Treasures are Stored" (I'm still figuring how to attach links)
  21. In the immortal words of Popeye Doyle: "Have you ever picked your feet in Poughkeepsie?"
  22. This thread got me thinking--Why haven't I done these? 3 are caches that I just haven't gotten to yet. 2 are multiple-try DNF's The other 15 require arduous hikes in the desert heat (105 degrees yesterday), mostly straight up and down. I may do those this winter, or I may never get to them. One requires going up a very steep moutain twice. That one I may just bag. Besides, there are many, many other caches that are more interesting. Are there some caches that are just not worth the effort?
  23. Gee, this sounds familiar. Hey, do what I did--Get over it! The sooner you realize that man is the new environmental factor and that cockroaches and scorpions will always outlive us anyway, the happier you'll be. This may be off the thread, but since it happened today I thought I'd share. I went to a rather remote cache today. (1 mile uphill on established trail) When I found the cache, which was not easy, there was a log just before mine that said something like this: "I found this jar by mistake. I don't think we ought to be putting jars full of crap in our wilderness. Just to show you, I took all the good stuff and left this junk. Serves you right". Since when did OUR wilderness not include geocachers? Wish I had been there when he was. It would have been interesting. Anyway, that kind of elitest attitude is what makes divisiveness among the users of the wilderness. Mountain bikers hate ATVs--hikers hate horsemen--on and on ad nauseum. Guess what--there's enough for everyone.
  24. Now I havehad it with rattlesnakes. I knew the cache had to be in one of the many holes under a big sandstone rock. I finally got down on all fours and began to look in each one. About the third one, I bent down to look and was looking eye to eye with another big Mojave rattler. He didn't strike, thank goodness and I did find the cache, but from now on I'm going to poke in those holes first!
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