GeoRoo
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I see nothing wrong with RWW giving a heads up and don't see him slamming hunting. I've hunted for over 30 years and out of respect for the rifle hunters I would stay out of those areas. The general deer season lasts one week and the majority of hunting happens at this time. If you really need to get out in the woods this week then wear bright clothing. Your chance of getting shot is very low, but why push your luck. There has been various rifle seasons, blackpowder and bow hunting going on since August 1, but the percentage of hunters is far lower than the general deer season. I would also be aware of the general elk season in Nov. as this is another large group of hunters in the woods. Pick up a copy of the Big Game Hunting seasons and rules at any outdoor store or go to the WA Dept. of Fish and Wildlife website and check for seasons there. It's more about some common sense and being aware of your surroundings.
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I'm just curious. So the rules say that no cache can be within 1/10 of a mile of another, but has this been overlooked in the TN area? It must have with the density and time frame you would have to keep up for that many caches. It boggles my mind imagining that many caches so close together and being able to find them to boot. What day did you do this? Did you use a car? I would think a motorcycle with a sidecar would be the fastest way to go. Ok, now you have me thinking of ways to do this!.....NO NO NO....
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Shouldn't there be a little peace sign on one of the buns?....Peace of a**....
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Thanks for the good info. You'll be the first one I look up!....
Most of my trips aren't well planned out, so I never know where I'll go. I usually try to take chunks of the areas I'll be and hope for the best. I always seem to run out my 5 max and then I'm stuck. If I take another trip out of state I think I'll just pay for the extra premium memberships and go with that. I was just wondering why the 5 max. I wouldn't think there would be that many that would ever go over 5 a day, so why not make it open. -
There you go it's perfect!.......
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I would not give it a second thought. There are always a-holes out there and you'll never satisfy everyone. The 1% that have to bitch about everything in life aren't worth the effort. Send him a thank you note and then go find one of his caches and fire bomb it!......
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I didn't know there was a state that didn't allow hunting on certain days. That's not right!..... Wear bright clothing and you should be fine. Pick up a copy of your states hunting regs or check online and know what areas are open to rifle hunting and stay out of those places. There are plenty of in town, parks, no hunting areas I would think in PA that you could cache everyday of the week and never worry about seeing a hunter. I would bet you're far more likely to get injured in your drive to and from caching than by any hunter. As much as the animal rights activists would have you believe, there aren't hoards of drunken hunters out there taking pop shots at everything that moves. Well, at least not here in WA state......
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I"d like to know who that is. I've been very carefull with my 60cs and it already has some minor scratches. If you geocache enough you will eventually scratch it. I know I'm pushing my luck. I dropped it face down the other day in some rocks and just about screamed. I thought for sure it was going to have a nice big scratch but it didn't. They are pretty tough, but only so far. I want to get mine covered before it's too late.
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I'm still trying to figure out where my Any key is.........
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I'm sure this has been answered before, but why is there a limit to the number of queries in a day? 5 is normally not a problem unless I'm going on a trip somewhere. I've taken 3-4 road trips from WA-CA and many trips around the state and to get the results I need I have to make sure I get my 5 max in for several days. I know this isn't that difficult, but many times I've changed my travel plans at the last minute and there I was maxed out. I suppose I could pay for multiple accounts, but these files aren't that large. Is the PQ setup that bogged down that we couldn't up the max to 10? I see on another thread that there is talk of making a selective PQ for area and size instead of the shotgun circle that we have now. That would be the biggest improvement I'd like to see. I can't imagine geocaching without my PQ's and PDA, so I love them, but they sure can get you wound up when they don't work right or don't come through.....
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Did someone grab the m10bike coin at Maple Pass? That was going to be my primary goal yesterday, but I had the pontoon boat all ready to go on my car, so changed my plans. I just about went nuts waiting for my pocket querie to come through yesterday morn. of the Deception Pass area and I finally gave up and left about 8am. I see it came through at 8:32am. Timing is everything they say!.....
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Way to go Patudles!......Congrats on FTF and #800 on my new one.
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Don't get me going on all the fees we have to pay to use our public lands. I live on Storm Lake and I see the Fish and Wildlife Dept. is putting our money to good use. They've put up at least 3 new signs stating what it will cost you to illegally park without a stewardship decal on your vehicle. Several more stating that our pubic access is limited to only the hours of daylight, even though fishing is legal 24/7. I was going to place my daughters cache at the boat access on the lake here as there is a large section of woods off the side, but it's such a eyesore with all the signs that I said no way. My niece was fined $65 for sitting in her car at a fishing access site in E.WA this summer, and I know several others that have been fined. I finally broke down and bought the NW Forrest Pass this year. I have yet to see any improvments to roads or access areas where I"ve used it this summer. The $5 a day parking cost in state parks is another sore point. I was at the Iron Goat trail the other day and did a run and grab at that cache. Reading the info. board they have a large chart showing all the costs and fees. It boggles the mind. You can get a all inclusive go anywhere pass for $80. But then there's a asterisk and down below it reads only in participating areas!.....It's frustrating trying to figure out what you have to pay. I just leave a stack of $20's on my dash with the window down and hope for the best......
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It was snowing here on Monday, but Tuesday sure turned out nice!......Takhlakh Lake near Mt. Adams
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It was snowing here on Monday, but Tuesday sure turned out nice!......Takhlakh Lake near Mt. Adams
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I would like to know where did they come up with this $35 fee?.....I would contact the Park dept. or whatever agency is administering this land and ask to see the public comments and decision making process. Sometimes I wonder how often this happens and if the process is followed. Here in WA state we have a vast region of Burea of Land Management land....public land that is Federally controlled. Many areas that I use to hunt and fish are being closed to access. It's gone to the point where I'm getting ticked off big time and have been doing some digging. As far as I can tell it's not a decision making process like it should be, but several individuals that decide they don't want public access anymore. Namely a large rancher that leases the grazing rights for $1 per ac. This is getting away from the geocaching side of it, but an example of what can happen to "our" public lands if we stick our heads in the sand and don't question what's going on.
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I did quite a few virtuals on a trip to Calif. and I would say every one was a lesson in history or showed me a wonderfull place I never would have seen. There's bad examples with every type of cache, but the majority of virtuals I've done have been exceptional.
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Congrats Barnabirdy!.......wow, I can't even imagine 1,000. We've yet to meet, but I think every cache I've done in E.WA I've seen your signature. Now 2400 is out there in insanity land.
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Soft and cuddly, but what about the smell!.......
That is astonishing that many caches could be that close and findable in that amount of time. I'm not even sure what my record for one day is. Maybe 15-20 at best, but most of mine are hike in or unnassisted. Hmmmm, maybe I'll have to do up a search and see what I can do for a 24 hr period. Of course each cache find is celibrated with a cold beer, so right now 24 is my limit....but then they do have 30 packs at the border, so the envelope is being pushed everyday!.....
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On a cache I did several months ago in the mountains of WA state I could not get a lock with 3 sats. on my Ledgend. I had a good strong signal on 3 sats. and even pulled out my external antenna and still could not grab that 4th sat. It took 20 mins sitting on a rock in the open to finally get that 4th and a lock. When it finally locked on I saw that I was only 80 ft from the cache. I now have a 60cs and driving across E.WA with a clear view of the horizon in all directions I had 14 sats. The 150 or so caches I've done with my 60cs I've yet to lose a signal, so I've been very impressed with that.
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Those Melakwa badgers can be fierce. Good thing you found a petrified one!......200 plus caches in a week would be insane. I can't even comprehend that many in a 24 hr period. Without going back through the thread, I'm curious what is the single day unassisted record?
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Seattle and the Eastside by far!.....on any given Sunday there are caches that you have to take a number and wait in line to find.
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I'm in Washington state and if past history is any indication we will soon have to pay to play. You can bet there will be a pencil pusher somewhere watching user numbers go up in the parks and federal areas and if geocaching is part of the equation then it will be regulated. Wait till the enviromentalists jump on the band wagon.....and this is a ligitment concern in many areas that I've cached. I have no problem paying a nominal fee for placing caches or a user fee if the money is used for that purpose. I hate to be cynical, but who thinks that will ever happen! Too many local and state governments are strapped for money, so if they can tap into geocaching then it's going to happen eventually. The free permit system is a visable start to that I'd say. We should all just shut the heck up and quit talking up geocaching......do all your geocaching at night in camo gear and be as quiet as a mouse.....maybe we'll get another year or two for free.....
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I almost lost my diet coke too!
....Looking at your logs and the cache owner saying his cache is low priority and then a month later he posts that the finale has been stolen again and he's replaced it!.....Come on. I'd be a little ticked to say the least that I spent that much time looking for it and find out it's gone. I'm fairly new to cache hiding, but I think there is a certain responsibility as a cache owner. I don't know what a resonable time frame is, but more than a week seems too long to me. I would at least disable it until I had a chance to check on it. I've had several DNF's that drove me nuts, so I know the frustration. One that I pulled out the metal detector and went back at night time and still couldn't find it. 2 days later I went back with a clear mind and it took me 30 seconds to find it!.....It was in an area that I had looked in a number of times and even dug up several old beer cans that were only 12 inches away from the ammo box. I think I'd wait till someone found it before I'd waste anymore time. Good luck.
Did I just type that!.......
Most of my trips aren't well planned out, so I never know where I'll go. I usually try to take chunks of the areas I'll be and hope for the best. I always seem to run out my 5 max and then I'm stuck. If I take another trip out of state I think I'll just pay for the extra premium memberships and go with that. I was just wondering why the 5 max. I wouldn't think there would be that many that would ever go over 5 a day, so why not make it open.
That Time Of Year Again
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Our state requirement for hunter orange is "a minimum of 400 sq. inches of fluorescent hunter orange exterior clothing is required. It must be worn above the waist and be visible from all sides. A hat, by itself, does not meet this requirement" I hunt blackpowder, so the limited range of this gun does not require me to wear orange. This rule was added to shotgun hunters about 6-7 years ago to add better visibility while hunting upland birds. You just about need a law degree to decipher what is open and what is legal to hunt now days. I was fishing/camping/geocaching over by Spokane last week and did some geocaches on Friday and did not know the general deer season was opening the next day. Walking back to my car I stopped off at a hunters camp and asked the guy what was opening up. If it had been opening day I would not have gone anywhere near that place!
EGH, I had to laugh at your post. When I was about 12 my mom decided all us kids would go on a hike on a nice fall day. We have a summer place on the Sky River by Goldbar, so we head on over to Wallace Falls. Back then it wasn't a state park, so you could do anything in there. We parked and were heading up the road when we passed 4 guys standing around their trucks. One guy yells out to my mom. "Hey lady, you're going to make it about 200 yards before you get shot" My mom was wearing a buck skin coat with antler buttons and it was the opening day of deer season. We decided it might not be a good idea for a hike that day..........