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Actually, there is a professional forum that I go to regularly that could use a facelift. Does anyone know who makes this forum software?

I think the lack of posts may have something to do with where we are. Looking at the states list for Northeast, I almost feel like we are more New England. Or, the FTF competition around here is so intense that no one has time to hang out on the boards. I may need to go direct, so to speak. Thought I'd take a stab here, first.

Any cachers out there who have access to an occassionally used parking lot? I've got an idea I want to try, but can't find anything myself. Please email or PM me for an explanation. I'm thinking school, church, small business..... THanks!

Don't know if this is your sort of thing. I've only recently started out here on the east coast and am hooked. This is about 30-40 miles north of Winslow. Arizona Highpoint Trail Info It looks like a 6-8 hour roundtrip hike. I was going to do it last year, but we took a different route and didn't get close enough.

Well, this isn't from a caching standpoint, rather a great things to see standpoint... Go into southern Utah - there are a large number of awesome National Parks and Monuments (Bryce, Zion, Grand Staircase/Escalante, Capitol Reef, Arches, and my absolute favorite place on earth, Canyonlands), and a larger number of smaller state parks. You can also hit the north rim of the Grand Canyon, which is 1000' higher and MUCH less visited than the south rim. And as long as you're in the area, you can make SW Colorado. If you are into lost places and have not gone to Mesa Verde NP, you are missing out on another awesome site (IIRC, it is the only UN recognized World Archeological site in the US). You'd be going when the Wetherhill (sp?) Mesa is open. Along the way you can probably get some good caching in. No caches in the NP's or reservations (of which there are lot), but you can probably find some good stuff along the way. Let us know what you do....

I'm using gmail for geocaching, and I also forward all of my work related email to another gmail account for searching when on the road. My work account gets 2-3 pieces a day that are filtered out by the host when I download, but they get forwarded to gmail, so I can see what spam I'm getting there. When I posted originally, I was recognizing that the Spam folder in my GC gmail account has never had a piece of mail in it. BTW, good hamster. I also have not been having any other issues with the site, either, though I kind of like n00b's suggestion about getting the ESP interface up and running.

Just a note to say a sincere thank you to the website administrators. I switched my GC email address to a dedicated account a while back, and I have to say that whatever privacy and security measures that are in place work, because I have not EVER received spam in that account. Good job!

Not too bad for less than 100 finds (75?). I think that's 16 states +DC

Finally, credit where credit is due! scott9282

One more thing on the cell phone issue. I don't recall if I read about this here or some other group, so I can't give proper credit. In your cell phones, create at least one contact that begins with ICE (In case of emergency). My cell phone includes these two contacts: ICE - WIFE ICE - MOTHER I have been told that emergency personnel are starting to look on the cell phones for these entries so that they may know who exactly to call and what the relationship is. If you are ever unconscious....

I was a Navy Quartemaster in the mid-80's, so I got to play with NAVSAT, LORAN, and that other LORAN thing that I can't quite remember. Got my first GPS in 2003/4?, a Magellan Sportrak Map specifically for GC'ing. That got stolen out of my luggage in Mexico City last year. I held off buying anything for a bit, being winter in the Northeast. Bought a Garmin Ique M5 for my travel and the PDA, but really have had nothing but problems with it. It also isn;t any good for GC'ing, so when I bought a portable unit, I got an eTrex Legend. I really would have preferred a Magellan, but I already had Mapsource and the deal I got gave me Topo.

COOL! Thanks for the info, that sounds completely plausible. If only I had known this while I was out there, I could have looked for more of them. But since we are planning on coming back to that area next year, it gives me something else to research. This brings up two, unrelated points: Could there actually be uranium that far up the rock? Would this be a good topic for waypointing?

This probably falls under the category of "stupid pet tricks", but there always seems to be a lot of questions If anyone is trying to get the exact center of a group of waypoints and works in a manufacturing environment, you can get the geographic center of those points if your company has a Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM). Most of the operating softwares support this type of analysis, so get in the good graces of your CMM programmer and ask him/her to go into offline mode, enter the minutes/decimal portion of your coordinates as XY values (you may need to recalculate them if they fall on either side of a whole degree) as individual points, and then best fit them as a (blob/centroid/center point/best-fit point, etc. Different softwares call it something different). The resultant point will be the center of all of the coordinates that you entered.

Sorry about the scale issue. THe object is approximately 5 inches in diameter. I would be surprised if it were for a handrail, as there seemed to be no evidence of anything of the sort anyplace in the park, and I'm 99.99% certain that it was never used for artillery practice. Driving me nuts, it is...

Hi folks! POsting this in the W/SW regional thread instead of benchmark hunting because I am going to assume more people here have been on the trail. Did the hike up to Delicate Arch today, and foundthis thing in the ground at N 38° 44.591 W109° 30.265 Does this look like a destroyed benchmark, or am I reading far too much into this thing. If it's not a b/m, any ideas? Thanks, Mike

29 years old (born in 1965) applications engineer (which means I program measuring machines and train people) who is about to turn to the dark side and be full-time sales (metrology equipment). I travel extensively for work in Western PA and New England (I'm gone about 100 nights a year, much to my wife's chagrin), celebrating our 10th anniversary Friday by leaving for the great Southwest for 9 days on Saturday (not for work, though). I have been caching for about two years, with a long hiatus due to stolen equipment. I cache for two reasons: with all of my travelling, it gets me out of these stinking hotel rooms and into places I wouldn't normally go to in the cities I visit, or around home to take the dog for long walks. I am a true solo cacher. About 2 months ago I actually hunted a couple of caches with a colleague of mine when we were doing a job together near PIttsburgh, but that's been the only time I've intentionally hunted with another person.

Just my $0.02 The size of the container doesn't matter. I had a micro disapproved recently because it was too near a little 6' dam on a creek. The reason I got was that they don't want people walking around these things with electronic devices, as it makes people nervous.....

I got a High Sierra hydration pack that was about a quarter of the cost of an equivalent Camelback.....

I would question the sanity of anyone who would place a 20 part cache, One of my first multis had 7 parts, what a maintaince nightmatre that was, I soon cut it down in size. Besides not many peole do long micros, I will do a up to a four part one, but that is my limit, if the number of stages are not listed I will not even start to look for it. OK, 20 stages may be a bit extreme for an example. Earlier, I posted that a 5 stage cache spaced .1 miles apart gobbles up 1.5 sqaure miles. Of course, after rechecking my math, that, too, was an exaggeration, as it takes up .15 square miles. IAC, rules are rules. I'm closing this topic.

Hi all! I have (6) 30cal ammo cans for sale. Four have been painted with a base of dark brown rustoleum camo paint, and then some green and black for a quasi-camo hide. Two have not been painted at all. Will let all 6 go for $30 (+ shipping, but I would prefer pickup), or $6 a piece. Cans are in Rochester, NY, but I wil be in the Buffalo, NY area during the coming week, and the Pittsburgh area the following week if you want to arrange for pickup. Email if interested. PS The other stuff is some new dollar store swag and some cans of flat spray paint in ammo colors. Take care, Mike

I guess it doesn't matter. The website is down, so I can't verify this is not so, but I would strongly suggest that the word Guideline in Guidelines for placing a cache be changed to Rules, and that if it is not mentioned already (and I really seem to think that it isn't), the notation that a cache can't be placed within .1 mile of a stage of an existing multi cache be added. Quite frankly, it will save a lot of wasted time. I still disagree with it, however, as that means that a multicache with 5 stages "virtually owns" 1.5 square miles of real estate, assuming that the multi must follow the guidelines, er, rules that they can't be within .1 miles of each other.

First, I searched for this topic, but did not come up with the right keywords. I just had a cache archived becasue it was less than 400 feet from a part of a multi cache. I went to great pains to keep this more than .1 miles from other nearby caches, but how am I supposed to know where the unpublished stages of a multi cache are located? I generally avoid multi's because I am TERRIBLE at finding micros in the woods. Also, is this fair? If someone places a 20 stage micro in a park, wouldn't that preclude, or at least make extremely difficult, everyone else from placing a cache?

IMO, everyone takes there own thing out of caching: some are numbers, some are adventure, some are social, and some like trading swag. All of that's cool, live and let live. Here's my quandary. I am very much not a swag trader, and have taken maybe 2 things out of caches. I wil trade TB's, but that's about it. Now, I'm going out tomorrow to put a couple of new caches into place. I've got some 30cals ready to go, log books, and all that stuff. What do I do about the swag? I went to a dollar store and bought a bunch of junk to seed the caches, but how much to seed them with? I guessed about 8-10 items each. Also, as I am not a swag trader, I have no intention of adding swag later on. I'll clean the junk out of the cache on occassion, but I'm not going to add anything new. Should I make that clear in the cache description? Enough rambling, flame away.

Start in NY near the tri-state marker. YOu can get NY/CT/MA in less than an hour. Tri-state Head east, shoot up I-91, and you can knock out NH and VT about 1-1/2 hours after those. Brattleboro Vermont Back down 91, over to RI (about 1-1/2 if you avoid Hartford?) and there's Number 6. Vermont to Rhode Island I suppose you could skip RI and get ME, but that would be a little tougher, IMO. I'm not positive, but you could start at NJ, get to the tri-state marker, and continue on. It would be an interesting exercise, but I vaven't re-loaded my routing software yet.

Found this guy in a cache in Maine today. I don't know if it's made its goal or not, and the owner hasn't logged on in 2 years. Just move this guy around goal-less?