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Hi,
My furthest cache to date was the cache I found today...43.8 miles away!
nfa
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Hi,
I would venture to say that there are great caches and lame caches and everything in between.
The type of cache does not guarantee what the quality of the cache will be, but log entries will generally tell the tale.
You can have fun with micros and virtuals and ammo cans and multis and puzzles and letterboxes and webcams and events and locationless...you can also find rotten examples of each type.
Blanket statements are a lot like blankets, they may give you a feeling of security, but they don't help you look for/find/log/enjoy a geocache.
nfa
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Hi,
Nice article and nice pics...looks like everybody had a good time!
nfa
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...while the debate crawls forward (or around in circles).
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
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Hi,
Rock-climbers don't need liability insurance and do leave equipment in place on state owned property...why the disparity?
nfa
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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hi,
1 gallon freezer-weight ziplock containers...I get them for about 10-20 cents apiece from sam's club
nfa
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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
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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
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The M-word sets my teeth on edge. I didn't care for it in the HP books and I despise its use in geocaching. The fact that it's so popular is a sad statement on our lack of originality.
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
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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
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hi,
cheaper than dirt also has camo duct tape
nfa
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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
- Which programs have you used?
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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
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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
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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
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Hi,
Thanks for the topic...I'm going to start a TB on my caching backpack!
nfa
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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:
Hi,I would like to buy a block of 50 TB numbers from gc.com for a crazy idea I would like to try out.
I would like to send 50 great books around the country via Geocachers. I’m a teacher, and have long covered books in my classroom with contact paper (clear normally) to help them last longer. I think that a paperback wrapped in contact paper, and double-bagged in freezer-weight Ziploc bags could make it around the country for a year or so before getting trashed (and in the event that they were trashed, the cacher finding the tired book could replace it).
The TB tracking number would be laminated into the inside cover and protected by contact paper.
I would really like to try this out, all gc.com has to lose is 50 TB numbers (which I’m happy to pay for, although I’d prefer not to have to pay for dogtags I won’t be using).
Please give this idea of mine some consideration, I think it would be great fun.
Thanks,
NFA
Thanks,
NFA
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I guess you COULD try to make a deal to purchase a block of TB numbers like I think the USA geocoins have.......
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
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Hi,
Just a couple of pre-coffee ideas...
nfa