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    Cache Search?

    in Website

    Posted · Edited by NFA

    WOW!

     

    Jeremy, you rock! How cool is it that you monitor and respond to forum rants...pretty cool. :rolleyes:

     

    ...and even offer cooking tips

     

    nfa

    Tools Of The Trade?

    in How do I...?

    Posted · Edited by NFA

    This is what I brought when I went out this weekend:

    • 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
    • spare batteries for GPS and camera
    • Leatherman Multi-tool
    • whistle
    • compass
    • digital camera
    • cache repair kit
    • Pen, pencil, paper
    • goodies for trade
    • tp and tiny shovel
    • gloves
    • baseball cap
    • lightweight long underwear
    • jerky and hard candy
    • emergency blanket
    • 2 garbage bags, kitchen or price chopper size
    • pre-made cache for spur-of-the-moment hiding

    All of this fits in a pretty small Mountainsmith Backpack, with room for TBs or other stuff as needed (yeah, it's a lot, but I got snowed on on Saturday while canoeing for a cache, and on Sunday humped about 15 miles to find another cache with the temps into the 70s, so I need to be ready for life in the Adirondacks). :rolleyes:

     

    nfa

    "members Only" Caches

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted · Edited by NFA

    i dont mind member caches, theres not many around here, but if the fee wasnt $30+ a year, maybe $20-25 instead id join, but i think the price is kinda high.

     

    aj

    57 cents a week? B)

     

    $2.50 a month? :o

     

    C'mon...give up one tricky coffee or bar-drink or bring your lunch to work once each month, and you will more than pay for the "premium" membership.

     

    In the one MOC I have visited, the cache was in better shape, and the trade goods were nicer (no bottle caps or pennies). My area is so cache poor :D that I wouldn't place a MOC yet, but in a while I plan on it, to give something back to people who give something to gc.com.

     

    nfa

    Geomuggles Know About Cache

    in Midwest

    Posted · Edited by NFA

    Hi,

     

    Move it by 100 yards, and change the listing...leave a "cache" for the kids in the original location with some McToys in it, and hope that they don't find the new location.

     

    nfa

    Meth Labs!

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    One clue you should know about.

     

    Cat urine.

     

    If your ever walking to a cache and you get a smell in the air that is like cat urine, turn around and walk back the other way.

     

    There used to be labs in the area we live in. When ever that certain "smell" was in the air first thing in the morning when the air was heavy, we knew it would not be long until there was a lot of "extra" traffic on the local roads. Then it would not be long until there would be SWAT people with APC's blocking the access roads. The next day stories would be in the paper and on TV about another raid.

    Oh My God...

     

    I think that there must be a meth lab in my sister-in-law's apartment...

     

    It often smells like cat pee...

     

    The 3 cats are probably sharing profits from the lab for their cover activities...

     

    I'm going to call the police right now... :blink:

     

    nfa

    A Bad Day Of Geocaching...

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    Hi,

     

    I sought and found 5 caches yesterday, it snowed in the morning, I tipped my canoe looking for the 1st cache of the day, but it was a great day of caching. :ph34r:

     

    Today was another story, I was all set to chase a longer cache, and set out by 7am. I was walking in cache-country by 8am, and realized I was on the wrong trail by about 830...I walked on that trail until about 9am hopiing it would cross the correct trail (it didn't), before heading back to my car. Disgusted with myself for not finding the correct trail, I headed for home (I make it a rule never to cache angry, especially angry with myself). :blink:

     

    Even though I didn't find the cache I was looking for, I had a wonderful walk in beautiful woods, and was home in time for an early lunch followed by an afternoon cache hide and some serious lawn-mowing (it is memorial day after all). :D

     

    nfa

    Finding Money While Geocaching.

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    $138 gets you 3.82 grams, $247 gets you 6.58 grams...what'll it be?

     

    OK Vinnie, where's the $138 you owe me?

     

    Who makes a $138 drug buy? :(

     

    nfa

    What would be a normal sum? :D

    I don't know, but back in the days when I, I mean this guy I know, used to buy drugs, they were priced like: "$10-bag" :D

     

    nfa

    Bragging Rights

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    I'm proud of the fact that despite the fact that it was snowing this morning, I went swimming for a cache anyway. This was the first of 5 caches I found today. :(

     

    I'm not so proud of the fact that I went swimming only because my canoe tipped over while I was climbing out onto unstable bog-ground... :D

     

    I am proud however, that I ignored incipient hypothermia and went on to find the cache, make a log entry, and trade items before paddlng back to my car in the chilly wind. :D

     

    nfa

    Cold Or Warm Weather Caching???

    in Northeast

    Posted

    Hi,

     

    Going out this morning to find a few caches I've been wanting to try for a while, I noticed that it was snowing! May 29th and snowing! The snow accumulated on my deck while I ate a quick breakfast, and stopped as I strapped my solo canoe onto the roof of my jeep. :(

     

    nfa

    Virtual Subjectivity

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    6) approvers can archive a cache that proves to be lame or pointless

     

    They can? Well, if they did, that would drastically reduce the number of caches worldwide.......

     

    Or did you mean prior to approval? Still, I don't see that happening, either. Being pointless or lame, to my knowledge, isn't a qualified reason for non-approval, or for archiving an existing cache. Any approvers care to comment, as I may be wrong (again)? <_<

     

    Edit: After re-reading your post, I'm thinking that maybe you made this as a suggestion for listing guidelines, right? It didn't hit me that way at first. Either way, I don't like that idea.

    hi,

     

    Wrong...actually, I wasn't suggesting it as a new listing guideline, I wouldn't presume...I just made a mistake, I thought that approvers could archive a cache that consistently got bad reviews (and BTW, why can't they?).

     

    To address another point you made...they are of course making judgements all the time about caches they believe to be lame or pointless (it is just talked about using the words "WOW factor" or "Coffee Table Worthiness" instead of lame or pointless).

     

    I think that the rest of my thoughts still hang together somewhat, but find that I don't particularly care...TPTB will do what they want vis a vis virtual and locationless, and who am I to call their judgement into question?

     

    nfa :lol:

    Virtual Subjectivity

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted · Edited by NFA

    ok...here's an opinion (or at least a rambling set of thoughts):

     

    1) geocaching is about the hunt, not the prizes

     

    2) virtuals provide an opportunity to hunt for a waypoint that someone feels is interesting

     

    3) there are lame virtuals, micros, traditionals, multis, puzzles, etc.

     

    4) cache finds can be (and often are) logged online

     

    5) virtuals require a question or other log enter-able proof that the cacher found it

     

    6) approvers can archive a cache that proves to be lame or pointless

     

    The 6 statements listed above would be hard to challenge (from a logical standpoint), and would seem to lead one to the conclusion that there shouldn't be a problem with listing virtuals since they could add to the game without costing it much...

     

    There is obviously a problem listing virtuals, so one must assume that TPTB don't want to list virtuals...

     

    Continuous discussions concerning the listing of virtuals quickly become circular in nature because although there may be good reasons for being able to list virtuals, if TPTB don't wish to, it won't happen...

     

    hence my earlier "yawn" <_<

     

    :lol: nfa

     

    ps - have a nice weekend everyone :lol:

    When Found By Geomuggle

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    Mumble loudly about black helicopters, poodle guacamole, tofu encyclopedias, and "where did I leave those damned intestines and ears?"...they usually walk in the other direction. <_<

     

    Seriously though, I have been cache-hunting a number of times when I found myself in close proximity to a single muggle or a muggle herd (pod, pack, flock, gaggle, etc.). I just act as though I'm not doing anything out of the ordinary, and they do the same. Once a person asked me what my GPS unit was, and I told them about geocaching, and they followed along with me to the cache.

     

    nfa

    Dollar Coins

    in How do I...?

    Posted · Edited by NFA

    hi,

     

    no...I like the "golden" dollars

     

    they rank a lot higher then the dead batteries and bottle-caps I find in many caches

     

    nfa

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