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magellan315

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  1. The link does not not take me to a functioning website. Looking forward to seeing this venture work.
  2. I'm not seeing an agenda either. Its a quick "thanks to the troops" and three sentences that explain the history of the American Legion. Which I liked learning about.
  3. Vegas, caching during the day and shows at night. Drive 45 to 60 minutes outside of Vegas and the desert and mountains are amazing.
  4. The signs says "This is America, when ordering please speak english." It does not say anything about refusing service and the sign was brought to the attention of a city review board and a review board has yet to make a descison. The sign went up when illegal aliens held massive marches asking for citzenship, it was counter protest to the march in Los Angeles where tens of thousands of illegal aliens demanded citzenship, chanting in Spanish and waving Mexican flags.
  5. Found a dead chicken, feathers and all, in a card board box in an urban park at a recent CITO. Fortunately the weather is still pretty cool so the chicken was relatively odor free.
  6. I wish someone put a stake through the heart of this thread so it would stay dead.
  7. I only decyrpt the hint if I can't find it within 20 to 30 minutes. Usually I can find the cache within 15 minutes max. Part of the challenge of Geocaching is to find the cache, decrpyting the cheat beofre I have even looked for the cache takes the challenge out of finding it. Ususally if I reread the cache page when I get stuck the hide will make more sense once I get to the location without having to use the cheat.
  8. I'd talk to the police, I wouldn't believe anything your neighbors said, including that they talked to the police themselves.
  9. I agree with Eartha, when planning a CITO the first step is to talk to the place you want to hold it. They may have another park that is more dire need of CITO than the one you are thinking of. The CITO's I have planned or participated in we can get free trash bags from the park management. You may not need dumpsters, if you can get the trash to the parking lot or to a trail that a vehicle can be driven down the park will pick it up in the course of their daily operations within two days of the CITO. I've also seen CITO's where dumpsters and dump trucks have also been provided by park management free of charge. There is nothing wrong with doing door prizes for most unusual item found as long as they are donated. Reading the CITO manual will help.
  10. A CITO can also include what your doing. There have been CITO's that have involved trail repair and land restoration. If the primary purpose of your event is to clear the trails of fallen limbs then its a CITO.
  11. How to become a reviewer. Remember when the pledges in Animal House are being paddled and each time they are hit they say, thank you sir may I have another. Thats what it takes to become a reviewer.
  12. While the intent is good, I personally would not attend a CITO event where I had to pay a fee to participate. In the pinned threads of this forum there is CITO handbook, I'd suggest you download it and read it.
  13. Whoo, hoo. First to post. Spring Fling In two hours with 10 people we filled 25 bags of trash, removed various car parts, and the grossest thing I have found so far a dead chicken in a box. I assume someone was practicing Santeria, fortunately its still cold outside so it didn't smell much. This was a small area in a heavily used park, you could see the difference. One of the girls who came to help used to play here when she was younger. The pictures show just one of the sections we cleaned. An embankment pre-CITO. The same embankment post-CITO.
  14. Its always good to see someone benefit from good karma.
  15. Recently I ran across Chuck Norris facts. My local Geocaching group has been answering the question "If Chuck Norris was a Geocacher........" Here are some of the answers we have. Chuck doesn't have to look for caches. Caches fear him and show themselves when he gets close. Chuck Norris doesn't "log" caches. Cache owners log finds for him. Chuck Norris has found every geocache in existence....ever.... at the same time! Chuck Norris doesn't need a GPS receiver, the satellites tell him where he is. Chuck Norris never falls out of geosynchronous orbit. Jeremy didn't invent Geocaching... Chuck Norris told him to do it If Chuck Norris were searching for a 5 star terrain cache, he wouldn't need specialized equipment. Chuck Norris is specialized equipment. Chuck Norris' smylies have a beard Chuck tried caching but wasn't too good at the cache in trash out. He pretty much trashed everything in sight! To Chuck Norris, "DNF" means "Did Not Finish-off". Chuck's implicit approval that its ok for us to look for that cache in the future.
  16. I have a tibial nail in my left leg. Its as thick as a pencil, stops below my knee and above my ankle and is held in place with 4 bolts. After you recover from the surgery you won't even know its there.
  17. I like this one. I was thinking of a multi where it gives them the coordinates to the final location. This is even better.
  18. Never mind I found the cache using a keyword search.
  19. I'm lloking for examples of caches that have been placed in a visitors center. I am talking to a park about creating a multi where the final stage is in the visitors center.
  20. 6 miles and change in elevation of 2000 feet, going up a peak in Nevada.
  21. Ok time to break out the pitchforks and torches so we can form a mob and march to Groundspeak headquarters to express our outrage.
  22. In Pennsylvania we are seeing an increase in the number of county parks that allow Geocaching and have created a simple no fee permit system to track what and where a cache is in their parks. As the conservation officer if there is a cache on land you are repsonsible for have the cache archived immediatly.
  23. Get a tune up. Preventative maintenance can make a big difference.
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