J the Goat
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Fishing line should not be used in caches! Fishing line is just plain deadly to wildlife.
especially to fish
I'd like to buy you a drink for that. Preferably the same one I choked on when I read your reply
was it something on the rocks?
It WAS on the rocks, it IS on the keyboard
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Sounds like you are on the right track, except for the food tins. Generally they do not make for good cache containers.
There are also some special 10 year shirts and other stuff at the store.
Congrats on hosting an event!
They're the large plastic containers with screw tops. I've seen a few of them as caches and they seem to work alright from what I've seen. If I can get enough other stuff, i'll probably can that idea and stick with the better prizes. I think I also just got a second coin donated as well.
Thanks for the ideas everyone.
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I've not had any experiences like those listed above. Funny looks now and then, but nothing more than that. Just brush it off and move on, it's not worth the stress.
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Alright, I'm hosting my first event on May 2 as a 10 year celebration, and I just wondered what some others thought of some of the raffle prizes I've got going.
Home Depot has on sale some mini-multi tools and LED flashlights. An unactivated TB, nano container, donated Geocoin and a couple of empty large almond/peanut containers are also on the list. Any other simple but fun suggestions?
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I'm not familiar enough with snakes to know which ones I can hold and which ones I can't.
Obvious exceptions excluded of course, I think the only real dangerous snakes I have around here are the rattlesnakes that can't be mistaken for much else.
But I dont know for sure...
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Hey Dark Zen and Beautiful. Love your town. My grandmother had a cabin in Ben Lomand we used to visit.
How did you do that google thing. It was really cool.
Yeah, it's pretty nice here. Been having a bit of rain as of late however. As for the Google thing, go here:
Oh, I get it! A sock puppet AND a red herring
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We are self-policing.
As mentioned above, the Needs Maintenance and Needs Archiving logs are the two tools provided for us to keep the game healthy.
The Needs Maintenance log is designed to alert the CO to a problem.
The Needs Archiving log is designed to alert the Reviewer to either an unresponsive CO or a critical issue with the cache (no permission, etc.) .
An unofficial 'tool' we use is the willingness to fix problems when we see them. Cache wet? Dry it out, replace the log if it needs it. Cache empty? Drop in some trinkets to replenish it. There's really no need to make the CO come do maintenance if you are already there and can solve the problem with a little effort.
We're all in this together!
I think this is true to a point, however when you get these folks who don't care about their caches fixing their caches doesn't solve the problem. You are essentially doing the work for a lazy CO. I don't mind lending a helping hand to a cache that needs it if the owner is usually on top of things, but to do all of somebody's maintainence just for the caches sake? Nope, not for me Jack.
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Fresh batteries
Cool pens to trade
Trackables
Cool toys for the kids
A camera (I still haven't seen any of the pictures of my heiny online....)
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I, on occasion, have laced up the geoboots and gone with my geobuddies to find treasure. I'm still working on that one...
Geobag
Geomobile
Geosnacks (to keep the geokids occupied)
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I'm new here and I'm getting used to the terminology.
Difficulty and terrain ratings range from 1-5. Is there any calibration of these numbers? Also, the size of caches is referred to by a number of terms that really aren't defined in terms of size.
Are there scales like (remember, I am just making this up, especially the 0 and 6 ratings. I tried to make 1-5 somewhat realistic):
Terrain:
0 - All flat, level moving sidewalks; no curbs, downhill both ways. If you can stand or sit for 10 minutes with or without a walker without passing out, you can do this one.
1 - wheelchair accessible
2 - not too steep hills, cement, asphalt, or recently-mowed grass. No heavy brush.
3 - Some bushwacking, climbing embankments, or slippery slopes
4 - Protective gear for swamp wading, cliff climbing, or cave exploration strongly recommended. May need a chain saw to get through forests.
5 - Significant mountain climbing, unexploded mines, guards, alarms, lasers, thick vault doors, and flowing lava.
6 - Most professional mountain climbers won't attempt this one. Also applies to caches on the sun or other planets, at the top of Mt. Everest, inside active volcanoes, or in deep ocean trenches.
Degree of difficulty:
0 - The cache can be spotted with the naked eye from orbit, or from the moon with a $50 telescope. Further, you can probably read the log from Google Maps satellite images.
1 - Easy to spot from a distance of 20 feet.
2 - Requires less than an hour of searching time once in an area.
3 - Very difficult to find the cache even if you accidentally trip on it.
4 - Requires more than an hour of convincing to get someone to believe it's the cache even when you show it to them.
5 - Cache cannot be seen with the naked eye, and might be concealed inside a grain of dirt, or inside a virus inside the grain of dirt.
6 - Cache is so small that it can't be detected with all but the most expensive electron microscopes.
Size:
0 or pico: Cache fits inside a grain of dirt
1 or nano: Cache fits inside a hollowed-out dime.
2 or micro: Cache is about the size of a bar of soap (not hotel sizes) or waterproof match container.
3 or small: Cache might hold the contents of a 16oz drink can.
4 or regular: Cache is about the size of a school lunch box.
5 or large: Cache could barely hold a 2-year-old if you remember the air holes, but he won't like it.
6 or gigantic: Cache could hold several football stadiums as trinkets.
I was chuckling until I read this part. Then I laughed until I almost peed.
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The best protection from ticks is to use a DEET based repellent on your skin and a permetrhrin based repellent on your clothing. I'm not sure why you would not want to use a DEET repellent because it has proven to be a safe and effective repellent, actually the most effective repellent known.
iv always been told deet works great but can give you other problems ill do some reaserch on it maybe the scientist changed there mind again
DEET is one of the safest consumer products out there. Over the past half century It has been used by hundreds of millions of people without ill effect.
Aspirin and Tylenol are far, far more dangerous. When DEET is used as directed there have been very few documented adverse reactions beyond an occasional rash. Problems occur when people do things like bathe in the stuff, use high concentrations for extended periods o time, or drink it.
What would possess somebody to do this? Wow...
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I usually end up bushwhacking with at least part of my face. It sucks.
I found a machete in my hedge when I started cutting it down. My wife made me get rid of it.
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I am pretty sure that if a simple minded man such as I could locate the cache owner the Police should be able to also.
I know cops like to be respected but it makes it kinda tough when they can't even solve this mystery.
Have you actually located the cache owner?
I mean, I know there's a caching name listed as the owner on the cache page... I'm not interested enough to actually go track it down. But just from reading the thread, it sounds like this cache was placed a LONG time ago. Just because there's an owner's name listed on the web page, doesn't mean that it is actually possible to locate the owner.
Another possibility is that "we can't locate the owner" is shorthand for "there was nothing illegal about placing this cache, so we aren't going to bother to try to locate the owner."
The caching name would lead to the owner of the cache no? did the cache owner hide? try to hide his or her identity?
You say you aren't interested enough to track it down but you are interested to argue...
If "we can't locate the owner" is short hand for "there was nothing illegal about placing this cache" is your argument then say so.(I wish the police would let us in on their "short hand")
Stop hopping fences.
They either could or could not have found the owner.
I have nothing against the police. But they are no smarter than I and I make mistakes and do not know it all.
This seems totally unnecessary...
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When I was in HS (east coast USA), it was mandatory to take a second language if you were preparing to attend college. Our choices were Spanish, French or Latin. Yes, Latin.
My kids had to learn a second language in high school.
I used to live in your town, Corona (owned a great old '69 Pete and hauled orange peel for the Sunkist plant at night while I was doing Navy duty in Long Beach) in the '70s and the population was changing rapidly even back then... I can imagine that Spanish would be pretty common there by now.
Common in Corona? Heck, over half of my town is spanish only/primarily, and I'm 8 hours north of LA. No language requirement here, although I am at least proficient in Spanish and got there in school.
A local elementary school has, for the past several years, been teaching a bilingual cirriculum. half in English and half in Spanish, or you can put your child through a total emersion program. I think it's great. Exposes them to different things.
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I'll be hosting one up here in Ukiah California. That's about 2 hours north of San Francisco for those who might be in the area. Come on by, it'll be cool.
I think there may be an event on both days, I'll host one and another guy will have the other.
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I just answered my own question. They've cleared out their area... by finding 5 caches. There are 27 caches on the google maps page that comes up when looking at the cache that shows up at the top of their finds list.
You are more than welcome to just try to find the "new" caches in your area, but there's nothing wrong with looking for the caches that are already there. New doens't mean better, you'll have just as much fun looking for the established caches in your area.
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Curious, I have done this for a short time with my son & we have done most of the ones close to our area. When/where, what list(s) would we/do we find an announcment/post of a "new" (not one that is 1-3 years old) geocach? Do you have to a "member" (pay monthly or yearly fee) to get this info or does it just post when you click on hide & seek a cache?
How close to your area? Dallas is pretty packed with caches...
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Sounds like you did just fine. It seems likely that it was hidden in the trees and the maintenance had dislodged it. Taking it and contacting the owner was the right approach. I hope you also left a 'note' on the cache page that you took it so any future seekers will be aware until the owner can respond.
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Chainmail. Oh ya baby...
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Otherwise, yes it will just show up on the listing page assuming it's not a premium members only cache.
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These were not intentional either!
That's a terrible thing to say about your kids, although I am a little worried about the one wearing the marshmallow suit.
This is arguably the funniest forum post I've ever seen. I'm still wiping away the tears...
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Yup, out being a real cacher.
Doh! Why do I keep getting sucked into this stupid topic...
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The only thing that burns me is seeing logs in some third language, eg, German on a cache in Mexico.
exactly
This I also don't understand. I you found a cache in estonia, would you write your log in estonian? I would very much enjoy somebody logging german or spanish or finnish for one of my caches.
Sigh....
Sorry for seeming so disagreeable. It;s not usually my nature...
Adopting a cache
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I don't see a reason why you couldn't put a cache there once the old one is archived. You could even name it after the first if you want, pay tribute to it, put the lid in as resident swag as a homage, whatever you want.