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    New Puzzle Cache

    in Northeast

    Posted

    What do the numbers mean in the cache name? "NFa 47" or "NFa 23" what is the signifigance?

    Hi,

     

    Really, they're just numbers...Some of my caches progress 1,2,3,4,5, etc. Others, I just pick out of the ether...no reason.

     

    nfa

    Event & Yjtb Problem

    in Trackables

    Posted

    Hi,

     

    I hosted an event on 6/19/04, at which I distributed around 30 YJTBs. They all went home with various attendees. I was thinking about archiving the event except that 10 of the YJTBs have never been "picked up" from the event.

     

    If I archive the event will those YJTBs become trapped in som gc.com limbo?

     

    What should I do?

     

    My impulse is to do nothing, and hope that the people have not "souvenir-ed" the YJTBs, and that they will eventually log them out of the event and into another cache somewhere.

     

    Thanks,

     

    nfa

    New Feature Idea

    in Website

    Posted

    Hi,

     

    I was thinking about geocaching while climbing a steep rockbed towards a cache this morning, and came up with an idea that might help gc.com.

     

    How about if gc.com sent out an email to the owner of each cache on the anniversary of its approval, reminding the owner to check up on the cache, and resupply as needed. This might help some caches stay in shape longer, and at worst wouldn't suck up too much bandwidth from gc.com.

     

    Just a thought,

     

    nfa

    Lyme Disease

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    Hi,

     

    My sympathies to those who have, or have had, Lyme Disease. We are essentially tick and lyme free in my part of the Adirondacks (as well as being virtually free of poisonous snakes, poison ivy, and black holes). My caching partner, Cedar, a beagle-chow pound puppy picks up tick aplenty every time I visit my folks in CT, and he tested incredibly positive for lyme last year...we were told he would need a 30 day course of ab's every year for the rest of his life.

     

    cedar.jpg

     

    At any rate, avoiding ticks and LD is another reason to come up to the paradise of the Adirondack Park. ;)

     

    nfa

    First To Find

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    Hi,

     

    I'm setting up a fiendishly hard puzzle cache, and would like to have a huge FTF prize to motivate people to work through frustration to try and find the cache. Which would you prefer...a $100 bill or an Etrex GPSr (or something else...give examples).

     

    Thanks,

     

    nfa

    Cache Puzzles

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    One of my plans that I ditched cause it would be to hard....

     

    Here are three examples to get you on the track:

     

    2+4=6

    6+6=14

    7+2=11

     

    Than one og the "variables" in the coordinates would be like this...

     

    15 + 26 = AA

     

    Its realy quite easy if you get the right approach.....

     

    Ole

    Hi,

     

    7+5=14

    3X6=22

     

    Am I on the right track?

     

    nfa

    Cache Puzzles

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    Hi,

     

    I'm working on a crypto-puzzle cache that I hope to place in the next week with a $100 bill FTF prize that I will leave for a year (after that, the FTF prize will probably be a $25 gift certificate to EMS or some such). I hope that some of the great minds in geocaching will make the journey up to the Adirondacks to take a crack at it.

     

    nfa

    I Think I Need A Donkey With Me

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    I generally bring the following with me, I have a geo-backpack I leave packed:

    • GPS Unit
    • Water (16 ounce nalgene bottle and 96 ounce nalgene canteen)
    • First-aid kit
    • duct tape
    • cell phone
    • wallet with cash and cards and license
    • lighter
    • backwoods cigars
    • printouts of all caches to be visited (with topozone maps)
    • spare batteries for GPS and camera
    • Leatherman Multi-tool
    • whistle
    • compass
    • digital camera
    • cache repair kit
    • Pen, pencil, paper, personal logbook
    • goodies for trade
    • tp and tiny shovel
    • gloves
    • baseball cap
    • lightweight long underwear
    • jerky and hard candy
    • emergency blanket
    • 2 garbage bags
    • pre-made cache for spur-of-the-moment hiding

    This all ends up weighing about 20 pounds, including the backpack, but I can carry it without problems, and it saves me the hassle of deciding what to bring each time I go out. :blink:

     

    nfa

    Orange Salamanders

    in Northeast

    Posted

    Hi,

     

    these are called red-spotted newts or red efts, they are of particular note to geocachers because they can detect the earth's magnetic field, and uses this signal as a directional reference. :ph34r:

     

    nfa (newt nerd)

    Yjtb Underwater!

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted · Edited by NFA

    I was thinking of doing something like this.  What kind of container did you use.  I noticed the chuckles beside the comment watertight in the cache description.

    Hi,

     

    The cache is a 1 liter nalgene lexan jar, and the stuff inside is in ziplocks. The YJTB is floating next to the big jar in a smaller nalgene jar, inside the stuff sack I suspended it all inside of in the water.

     

    The chuckles are included in the listing because the concept of a watertight cache container is far-removed from the reality...the contents will always get wet. B)

     

    nfa

     

    B)B)B):DB)

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