AndrewRJ
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Pending a few more caches in Belfair. I hope the reviewers see them in time.
The North Mason Travel Bug Chamber will be up and ready by this afternoon. Just have to replace the container.
I'll be there at tonight's dinner. I'm a little under the weather, so I won't be staying log and germing up the place.
No joke, I just got everything loaded including the EC and the new puzzle which I had to solve really quickly. Thanks for putting out a few new ones for us!
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Guess we won't be getting through there. It's closed because the road washed out.
Those two caches, plus Haunted Junkyard, were a late add-on, and are easy enough to skip. Thanks for the info.
Haunted Junkyard is on Hwy 3. If that is washed out the entire cache machine is washed out. I would suggest that Haunted Junkyard be #1 since you drive right by it on the way into Belfair from Bremeton.
I would suggest the route sequence start as #5, #4, #3, #1, #2 #8 and then continue on from there skipping #6 and #7. Of course if your coming up from Olympia you might want to skip #5 along with #6 and #7.
Changing the starting point this late in the process would result in people starting at both #5 and #1, not that that would be a bad thing.
Well, they can still start at #1, just get a couple caches in early and skipping #6 and #7.
It may not matter if we have a repeat of the Snolimpia Cache Machine. I think if this keeps up the last folks that leave are going to be able to follow the tracks right to the cache.
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I am going to have to pass on this one. I had already planned on hitting the Lime Kiln trail with the Pokey Ploders. Hopefully in Feb!
I got to say that I do with more folks could join us, I have always enjoyed myself on these hikes.
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just wanna wish all the cachers and their families merry Christmas and happy new year. what is your cacher new years resolution?
i want to reach 2000+ caches and to finish the tri-fecta.
Merry Christmas. I am going to hit 5000 and finally get Dream Lake.
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Beta map doesn't show which caches I have already found.
These are BETA maps, the additional functionality is coming in the next months, think that is what the opening post showed or maybe even the popup shows 9.01 and 9.02 if you scroll right.
Odd I have a different issue. I see all caches, found or not, except PMO caches. I am signed in so the system should know to show them. Just commenting since I haven't seen it discussed anywhere else.
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Hmm getting a 503 error when trying to access the main page. Anyone else?
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Whether or not it will work is one thing, but to question the idea as hair-brained is naive as all heck. Just look at the changes Groundspeak have made since the launch of the BETA (B-E-T-A) and tell me if Groundspeak is dismissing this as readily as some of you folks are. I don't like the idea of competing listings sites, but demonstrating to Groundspeak that they CAN launch an alternative certainly seems to have caught Groundspeak's attention. Perhaps Garmin is using this as leverage to get more input with Groundspeak. But, failing that, they will launch a full-blown alternative and they we will be able to compare apples to apples.
What changes are you talking about? I am interested to hear your logic on what you think Groundspeak has done as a reaction.
The reason I say this is all the changes that are going to happen today, and there are some I am eagerly anticipating, were all in the planning stages long before Garmin released there site. Long before the possibility was talked about and even before the chirp was released. If you follow the feedback site everything was in planning months age, and I know from talking to friends that work at Groundspeak that they were excited and moving forward on them a while ago.
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Go to "Notices from and Conversations with Groundspeak" then release notes, then the release for today.
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"I think I should be good to go on Sunday. I've spent the last two days hiking around the Mall of America and still have one more day to go (one floor a day) and so far the knee seems to be doing pretty good."
Are you serious LandRover about "hiking" the Mall of America one floor a day? That sounds like pure torture to me. Just wondering, lol.
Yep he is really out there with his family.
Jeff I kept telling you to waypoint the car! No wonder your lost.
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Sadly I won't be able to make it to try this one again.
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We are going to be coming over from the other side of the sound, any recommendations on places to stay in the area or where are other people staying? We were thinking of camping as there don't look to be many motels in the area.
Thanks,
SirKarp
Honestly I was thinking the same question. The local options don't sound too good, so I am currently thinking about Bremerton.
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It looks like you've done an incredible amount of work to set this up- thank you.
My only comment is that event page says we are meeting at 5:00 for dinner but the route intinerary has us meeting back at JR's closer to 7:45 p.m. I've never done a cache machine before so was wondering if that was an alternate meeting time for the diehards?
Nope, that just means the route is longer than the time allotted, which Travis usually does for those diehards who go faster, further, and/or start the day before and need more caches to do.
Dinner's still at 5:00 for all.I don't have the slightest clue what you are insinuating.
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From the Seattle Times, 11/15/10:
Hikes on Mount Si and Tiger Mountain may soon cost youHiking Mount Si, Tiger Mountain and other popular state-managed lands may soon require a paid user pass under aby the state Department of Natural Resources.Anticipating the state's $4.8 billion deficit for the next two years, the department plans to present legislation next year to charge user fees. The proposal so far is to charge $40 for an annual pass and $10 for a day-use pass, said DNR spokesman Aaron Toso. The passes would be per person.The passes would cover activities on lands managed by both DNR and the Department of Fish and Wildlife. Already, hikers pay fees to use U.S. Forest Service and National Parks sites.Toso said the fees would help provide sustainable funding for outdoor recreation, including maintenance and enforcement. Some of the fees would also fund the trusts that own some of the lands, including one that pays for school construction costs.The advocacy group Washington Trails Association supports the idea of a fee system that's reasonable and noted that DNR-managed lands were threatened with closure last year, according to aon its site."It's our hope that DNR can keep critical landscapes open while charging a reasonable access fee to help pay for it," wrote WTA's Lauren Braden.Opinions differed on the group's, with some people thinking $10 a hike is too expensive and that public lands should remain free of fees. Other people wrote it's time for hikers to help take care of natural resources.Wow thats a stiff day rate.
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This is exciting. I'm definitely going to these places.
In all seriousness, you can't be harmed by this stuff unless you somehow ingest it or maybe if you build a house on top of it and live there for 30 years.
It really isn't all that hard to ingest it. If contaminats occure in ORV and mountain biking areas like the results show, any dust that you breath will likely contain some amount of heavy metals, and I am not even talking large obvious dust clouds, anything in the air.
That said I don't believe that you are going to be in an area generally long enough to have an exposure problem, but it is a lot easier to be exposed then you might think.
I know on a river here in Washington that drains an old gold mining area that has been declared a superfund site and they used spray tackifier to keep the surface soil from eroding in wind. Still wouldn't drink from the river even with my fancy water filter.
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Ok convinced the wife that I would be much less grouchy if I could do this hike. I will be there.
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Trying to figure this out, but I may be there. (Do Old Forgotten Bridge)
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I would add that what irks me is a EC i have done in the last year that is just plain wrong. It misidentifies what you are seeing as something else. I have e-mailed the cache owner with the usual lack of any response on his part. The humorous part is he only need to remove the incorrect word and add a hyphen and the word "like" to fix the listing.
Real details removed to protect the guilty.
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I understand, as I am in the same position, found one in the extended week but didn't get the souvenir. Too bad.
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Well what about Wherigo Caches - I cant´t find them with my Garmin Dakota. Must there be an alternative method to find those caches...?
Good point. And what's the difference with the new UV Light Required attribute ?
Well anyone who has a UV light can find it. Its about having to buy a device specific to a manufacturer. Even Wherigo are compatible with devices other then Garmins. You don't see many, but the first device I ever saw running Wherigo was a PPC.
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A friend of mine, who is a State Park Ranger at Lake Easton State Park, says that they will have the tunnel opened by June 2011.
That's fantastic! I can't wait to see how the repairs look.
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I am doing a night cache called Injun Joe's Grave #GC2F3QT
Its a Halloween Cache and I am finding a lot of Halloween items this time of the year.
The outside of the box has a RIP
and inside the box behind jail bars is the severed head of poor Joe!
So far it has been a popular cache.
Cheers!
Man I should have looked here before going to the cache machine. He put out some really clever caches in Moses Lake. Keep up the good work.
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Alciato and I tried to get to Dream Lake last Wednesday. We didn't make it do to some poor route finding and time problems.
We learned a LOT and are going to try again next year. Hopefully you will be available.
Well, sure, if I get over the hurt of not being invited this year.
Why wait until next year, are there wildlife gates involved there too?
Yea sorry about that, I didn't have your e-mail and we put it together monday night and left tuesday. As far as next year, I was on vacation and my family was in Indiana. I won't be able to get time to do another overnight. I am not going to try that as a one day.
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Alciato and I tried to get to Dream Lake last Wednesday. We didn't make it do to some poor route finding and time problems.
We learned a LOT and are going to try again next year. Hopefully you will be available.
Dinner's still at 5:00 for all.
Feedback on new Elevation Challenge
in Northwest
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Looks like it was just published.