J the Goat

Why am I the first one to comment on his poor choice in pigskin fannage? A Dallas Cowboys tattoo? There are at least 25 teams in the league that should be cheered for ahead of Dallas, and at least 4 of them are closer to Oregon. (Particularly the Raiders ) On topic, it's about dern time. Congrats!

I spent way too long trying to scare that bug off my screen. Really. Wasn't there a thread a while back about how DEET wasn't nearly as dangerous as some people were making it out to be? My mom just went to Haiti (is still there now, she'll be back sometime soon, went with the local hospital group) and was told by one of our local Northern California minimalist semi-naturalist anti-pharmacutical physicians that DEET was the most effective repellant that there is and that it's benefit far and away outweighs the negatives in the chemical department. She even recommended the 100% DEET, saying that the only difference between that and the 40% was the length of effectiveness.

I wouldn't hesitate to delete the log of the first person on the throwdown logsheet, but I would also probably delete the logs of the other people who signed the wrong one. The difference would be that I would send them and email first and let them know what happened and ask if they had a problem with the deletion. Visiting out of towners logs I would keep intact, as well as those who got back to me and asked that their logs be left alone. If I got contacted, I'd say go ahead and delete, I'll find the real thing. That first log would get iced with extreme prejudice though...

I'm going with this one.

Do not wait! Report the abuse now. Absolutely agree

Puritan! (just kidding) No, you should hide a traditional on the exact same coordinates, and a mystery with that as the bogus coordinates. Heck, I think you can hide a Wherigo with that as the starting coordinates there as well. Then hold an event there. Oh, yeah. and have a multistage starting there. Question to answer, of course, no physical stage. Awesome freakin' ideas.

It's not the kind of thing that's worth stressing over. Don't.

If I remember right, my username change took a couple weeks, maybe 3. They'll get back to you either way, patience my son

Zis depends on the kind of rocks. We frown on common shale; granite, quartz, and mica are highly recommended. Ummmm..... Shale was involved, but I think i pulled out several strawberry sized quartz, and some of the highly touted very rare round gray variety. Oh, and a handful of acorns.

Honestly, I've always thoroughly disliked the term noob. It just has such a negative sound. As was mentioned above, we all have different ideas about the game in general. Bittsen loves rock pile hides. I love bus stop nanos. Everyone's idea of proficient will be different, even if only a little bit. Individual circumstances make a difference too. My kids prevent me from caching as often as I would like, and limit which caches I can chase, but they also make the caches we can do a whole new experience. I've never fallen a creek, however I have ended up at the bottom of a hill on my butt with rocks in my pants on several occasions, does the noobity class cover that aspect? I've actually had people give me dirty looks as I was re-rolling logs, nanos included. I guess when you see someone sitting on a bench in a park rolling a paper with their fingers, there aren't that many things they could be doing.

Agree with ^. If your reviewer gave you the okay, it'll be fine. And as far as the proximity issue is concerned, make sure you have all the caches placed first and just release them as necessary, otherwise your spots may be taken up. I think it's a cool idea.

Good lord...

Word.

I like it, my vote is yes.

this is awesome.

Here's how we did ours - http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...=y&decrypt= Check out the logs to see if cachers enjoy this kind of event! That looks so cool. Wow...

I am so going to do that one. I had heard there was a cache up there, but haven't tried it yet. Bring your hiking pack, it's a bear. Go through Low Gap, the Standly street entrance is private and not very friendly.

Nice...

I have to say that I'm not a huge fan of people asking opinions/advice on the forums and then getting angry and hostile with the responses they get. Not only that, but it seems that the advice is pretty much the same across the board. I'm sorry you didn't get the response you wanted. It's inappropriate for you to call us into question though, because we gave you our opinions, especially when you asked for them. As far as the OP goes, I'm indifferent based on your story. You say it's only fact, but it's ripe with opinion and very strangely lacking the other side of the story. Can I sympathize? Yes. I care about the sport. I also realize that there's nothing that can be done in these situations if you can't handle the situation person to person. Get over it.

I'd have to say my favorite so far is U Are Here Top of The Valley (GC183Z2) (sorry, i'm not adept at posting links). It's a great hike that leads to an iconic local spot that has tremendous views. It's a location that's host to a killer cache that's packed with wicked swag (including a tranquility geocoin). On top of that whole thing, I made the trip with great people and we had a stellar time. I recommend this cache to everyone I get the chance to.

Agree with the above. The tree itself is the terrain. The difficulty rating should reflect how easy the cache is to find/get once you are at the cache.

I'm about to grumble about this thread, so if you don't want to read it, stop now. Alright, here goes. Are we really arguing about what to call these people? Really? That's been a waste of almost half this thread. Call them what you want, as long as it's forum appropriate, who cares? Second. I've thought this from the beginning of the Rome thread. The Police? REALLY? While I in no way condone the destruction/theiving of caches, you want to waste their time on THIS? REALLY? I have as much pride in my few hides as the next guy does, and I have tons of respect for those of you who have put hours into your containers and lots of thought into your hides, but the Police? Come on folks, with police officers losing their jobs across the country and dangerous things like Meth use on the rise quickly, you really think it's appropriate use of these resources to find the guy who's taking your ammo box? From public property? Don't be the tattle tale kid on the playground, he's as disliked as the guy he tattlinng on. There, I've vented. I meant it though.

I like the idea of thanking these morons. What baffles me is that they spend the time to look up caches online, go find them, log it, but I'd also bet that these same people aren't spending time on the beach with trash bags picking up actual litter.

Ed; I hadn't been aware of that site until now. You have a new reader

"Offense taken ya freakin eye patch wearing peacenik pie rat hippy" yelled the eyeliner wearing freak. Apologies ahead of time = I intend to offend and wish to deflect. I'm offended by eye patches AND eye liner. Meh. Here's the thing. I don't know anyone from this thread personally. Wait, that's not true, I went to high school with Nymph. She said mean things about my relatives, or so she says. Either way, I don't know anyone else on this thread personally. I appreciate the humor that some of you put out, and I also appreciate the snark. It's an art, at least it it's done well. I'm sorry, it's early, I'm tired and I have nothing else to do, but I have to be awake. Here's the jist. I like to think that even those of you (just one or two I think) I've gotten into cyber b******* contests with would be willing, if I were in the area, to take me out caching. I know you're all welcome up here. Put the same group of people in the same place for long enough, and rough things are going to be said. Real, online, family, neighbors, anyone anywhere. Newbies who get offended need to suck it up, I did and so did most of you. The old timers (I am not one, please don't mistake my tone for thinking I'm established here) do need to treat those same newbies a little bit nicer. Usually. No, sometimes...