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Hi, Nice article and nice pics...looks like everybody had a good time! nfa

Please stop taking pot-shots at NYGO and the DEC. Lighten up Ferreter5, I was expressing my frustration with the whole process, not with you or NYGO exclusively...I'm not sure if you remember or not, but I am a NYGO member, and currently serving on the PR committee...and I've lauded your efforts at NYGO...and what's the matter with knocking the DEC? nfa

Hi, Rock-climbers don't need liability insurance and do leave equipment in place on state owned property...why the disparity? nfa

Hi, I remain hopeful that progress will be made working with the DEC regarding the placement of caches on Forest Preserve Land in the ADKs, but took steps yesterday to allow me not to base my geocaching future on those hopes. I went to the Region 5 office, in Raybrook, and got a copy of the "Adirondack Park Land Use and Development Plan Map and State Land Map" (hot off the presses with 2003 information!). It is free and huge and beautiful and now hangs on a wall at home. It shows through color-coding which land is state and which is private (there are more distinctions, but those are the key ones as regards geocaching) I am using this map to find places inside the blue line that are not on state forest preserve land, and the good news is that there is a lot of land to cache on. More than 50% of the 6 million acres inside the Adirondack Park is private land. I am still angered by the DEC position, protecting my public land from geocaching while giving snowmobilers unfettered access (even building them more trails in wild places), but will try to cope while the debate crawls forward (or around in circles). nfa

Hi, I'd like to find 20 caches by the end of the school year (6/24/04), and 100 caches by the time school starts back up again in the fall. I have no goals as regards forum posts, dont quite see why anyone would. nfa

Good News! I've found out who the plundered is, and I'm sneaking up behind him right now as he reads this post. I'm just adding this and the next sentence to take him a little longer to read while I move in closer. He may feel a slight tingling at the nape of his neck, but will feel too cool to look over his shoulder as I raise the acme mallet high above his head and..... nfa ps - the point of the above post was to illustrate that any solution we come up with here, will be seen by the cache grabber (and as a creepy shout-out to Alfred Hitchcock, who once wrote a short story along the same lines)

No lyme-bearing ticks in my neck of the Adirondacks yet...too cold I wear shorts, and take my chances even when in other parts of the Northeast...I take a garlic tab every day, and believe it keeps ticks and black-flys and some people away . nfa

hi, 1 gallon freezer-weight ziplock containers...I get them for about 10-20 cents apiece from sam's club nfa

Hi, This is just my interpretation of the "cache types", but I would say that you could fit the cache you describe into the 3 following cache categories (given in my descending order of preference): puzzle letterbox multi/offset I would guess that any one of those could work, depending, finally, on the language in the cache listing. nfa

thanks...I had it right, but the find/lookup/email function seems to be down right now, so it wasn't opening up the new window nfa

The fact that people are still talking about this subject days later is a sad statement about our lack of better stuff to do... It seems to be a part of the geocaching lexicon...live with it...nobody said you have to use the term. If it really bothers you, you could copy and paste each instance of usage (logs, forums, etc.) at gc.com into a document, switch it for "people who don't know about geocaching", and then reload it onto an alternate website that is formed around the premise that silly words are bad for humanity. nfa

Hi, I have some ideas about a multi I'm working on, and I can't remember the gc name of the new york approver...can anyone help? nfa

hi, cheaper than dirt also has camo duct tape nfa

Hi, Lake Clear, NY (12945), has 4 caches within 5 miles...2 of them placed by me. nfa

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Hi, The Geo-tech topic in play right now has got me wondering about bringing my old handspring along with me...to date, I've been printing out cache listings, and bringing them into the field, but if the pda software is really workable (and not just fodder for tech-weenies) than I would like to make use of them, and save the paper. Which programs have you used? Which do you favor and why? which do you not like and why? When all is said and done, do you like using a pda better than paper, and why? Thanks, I appreciate any help you can give me. nfa

I'm working on a multi-cache now, and I will also be using a number of virtuals leading to the final cache on private property...this may be the model to use in the short term inside the blue line. nfa

I think that a TB camera would be a great idea...when the film is done, ask the cacher holding it to email you for your address, and then just start a new camera. nfa

I've gotten most of the ones closest to my home (the closest, NFA-2, Backwoods, is 550 feet from my back door, on my property), and am now planning day trips for clusters of caches in various directions further and further from my base of operations...most of the clusters are within 50 miles (crow miles ) of my home. nfa

Hi, Thanks for the topic...I'm going to start a TB on my caching backpack! nfa

Hi, Thanks for your constructive, thoughful, criticism...it led me to what I think is a great idea...anyway, here is a copy of the email I sent to contact@geocaching.com: Thanks, NFA

That's what I was talking about...sorry to be unclear...I would like to buy a block of 30-50 TB numbers so that the geocoins I make can be tracked on gc.com. Thanks, NFA

These are all from Ed Abbey: Nature is indifferent to our love, but never unfaithful. Remaining silent about the destruction of nature is an endorsement of that destruction. We need wilderness because we are wild animals. Every man needs a place where he can go to go crazy in peace. Every Boy Scout deserves a forest to get lost, miserable, and starving in. Even the maddest murderer of the sweetest wife should get a chance for a run to the sanctuary of the hills. If only for the sport of it. For the terror, freedom, and delirium. Because we need brutality and raw adventure, because men and women first learned to love in, under, and all around trees, because we need for every pair of feet and legs about ten leagues of naked nature, crags to leap from, mountains to measure by, deserts to finally die in when the heart fails. The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders. The essence of true wilderness is big mammals that can eat you. A journey into the wilderness is the freest, cheapest, most nonprivileged of pleasures. Anyone with two legs and the price of a pair of army surplus combat boots may enter. You do your needed work out of love, the love that dares not speak its name, the love of spareness, beauty, open space, clear skies, and flowing streams, grizzly bear and mountain lion, wolf pack and twelve-pack, of wilderness and wanderlust and primal human freedom and so forth. Benedicto: May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. May your rivers flow without end, meandering through pastoral valleys tinkling with bells, past temples and castles and poets towers into a dark primeval forest where tigers belch and monkeys howl, through miasmal and mysterious swamps and down into a desert of red rock, blue mesas, domes and pinnacles and grottos of endless stone, and down again into a deep vast ancient unknown chasm where bars of sunlight blaze on profiled cliffs, where deer walk across the white sand beaches, where storms come and go as lightning clangs upon the high crags, where something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than your deepest dreams waits for you --- beyond that next turning of the canyon walls. I would love to read some favorites of other forum members... Thanks, nfa

Hi, If I would like to issue a geocoin (like 30-50), would it be possible for Groundspeak to issue me some TB numbers so that they could function in the system? nfa Edit: haven't had coffee, having trouble typing

Here in the old-time woodsy adirondacks we like to rely on the time -tested methods of yesteryear...I limp/stumble/fall into the hot-tub, and administer ibuprofen and bourbon internally. What can I say, I'm old-fashioned. nfa