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  1. well, not always.I spotted this cache from a distance specifically BECAUSE it was in a black garbage bag. Stood out real nice against the beautiful colors of the forest. Caching with a 5 year old: takes twice as long, and is twice as satisifying (or aggrevating depending on your POV) The faster you go, the worse your reception is.
  2. ... however the concept has merit. I know of one virtual cache tied to a naval vessel near me where the placer is seeking to establish a real cache inside the museum in much the same manner. I thought it was a wonderful idea then, and it still is. Difference is that a museum isn't commericial, whereas a Porsche dealership definately is. well.. sine they sell things in museum gift shops, it actually could bve considered commercial, but only if you're anal retentive. What i want to know is how was this even broached to the proprieter? I have a hard enoguh time simply EXPLAINING geocaching to the unknowing, let alone asking someone to participate... Caching with a 5 year old: takes twice as long, and is twice as satisifying (or aggrevating depending on your POV) The faster you go, the worse your reception is.
  3. ... however the concept has merit. I know of one virtual cache tied to a naval vessel near me where the placer is seeking to establish a real cache inside the museum in much the same manner. I thought it was a wonderful idea then, and it still is. Difference is that a museum isn't commericial, whereas a Porsche dealership definately is. well.. sine they sell things in museum gift shops, it actually could bve considered commercial, but only if you're anal retentive. What i want to know is how was this even broached to the proprieter? I have a hard enoguh time simply EXPLAINING geocaching to the unknowing, let alone asking someone to participate... Caching with a 5 year old: takes twice as long, and is twice as satisifying (or aggrevating depending on your POV) The faster you go, the worse your reception is.
  4. ...you can decode the code words after two letters because you know the code so well... not that I know anything about that.... Caching with a 5 year old: takes twice as long, and is twice as satisifying (or aggrevating depending on your POV) The faster you go, the worse your reception is.
  5. ...you can decode the code words after two letters because you know the code so well... not that I know anything about that.... Caching with a 5 year old: takes twice as long, and is twice as satisifying (or aggrevating depending on your POV) The faster you go, the worse your reception is.
  6. I loved the responses in this forum so much, I created a poll about it. Please take a moment & do the survey.I only wish I could'[ve had 2 dozen choices to we could see the best signel creative use, as opposed to the most creative CATAGORY. c'ie la vie. (spelt wrong) Caching with a 5 year old: takes twice as long, and is twice as satisifying (or aggrevating depending on your POV) The faster you go, the worse your reception is.
  7. I loved the responses in this forum so much, I created a poll about it. Please take a moment & do the survey.I only wish I could'[ve had 2 dozen choices to we could see the best signel creative use, as opposed to the most creative CATAGORY. c'ie la vie. (spelt wrong) Caching with a 5 year old: takes twice as long, and is twice as satisifying (or aggrevating depending on your POV) The faster you go, the worse your reception is.
  8. I found the answers in the forum What do you use your GPS for? that I felt we needed to determine which of the answers was the most creative. Creative means whatever it means to you. It isn't necesarily the most useful thing, the most ingenious, the most time-saving, or the funniest. It means whatever YOU think it means. (other then geocaching of course, which is obviously the BEST use... )here are your choices. Caching with a 5 year old: takes twice as long, and is twice as satisifying (or aggrevating depending on your POV) The faster you go, the worse your reception is. [This message was edited by Gwho on June 06, 2002 at 01:36 PM.]
  9. On May 30, a fire broke out in Double Trouble park, a part of the NJ Pinelands. heres the Retuers article , and one from the Philladelphia Enquirer. Wondering if any of these caches were lost: DAM, I'M IN DOUBLE TROUBLE THIS IS FOR THE BIRDS Twice the Trouble Also was wondering if anyone has ever lost a cache due to a wildfire or similar natural disaster... I don't want to downplay the significance of the fire of course. One home was destroyed, and some people who were evacuated came home to find their homes had been broken into in their abscence. WUHOO TEAMGWHO!
  10. On May 30, a fire broke out in Double Trouble park, a part of the NJ Pinelands. heres the Retuers article , and one from the Philladelphia Enquirer. Wondering if any of these caches were lost: DAM, I'M IN DOUBLE TROUBLE THIS IS FOR THE BIRDS Twice the Trouble Also was wondering if anyone has ever lost a cache due to a wildfire or similar natural disaster... I don't want to downplay the significance of the fire of course. One home was destroyed, and some people who were evacuated came home to find their homes had been broken into in their abscence. WUHOO TEAMGWHO!
  11. Me: Is it wrong to want my next car to be a 4x4 just so I can do some of Tneigel's Caches? My wife: ....blank look.... Me: Tneigel... typical cache is a 2.3 difficulty, 2.56 terrain, and is buried deep in the Pinelands? This doesn't count virtual caches he's placed of course... My wife... blank looks, arms folded. END OF CONVERSATION. WUHOO TEAMGWHO!
  12. Me: Is it wrong to want my next car to be a 4x4 just so I can do some of Tneigel's Caches? My wife: ....blank look.... Me: Tneigel... typical cache is a 2.3 difficulty, 2.56 terrain, and is buried deep in the Pinelands? This doesn't count virtual caches he's placed of course... My wife... blank looks, arms folded. END OF CONVERSATION. WUHOO TEAMGWHO!
  13. If we're talking about a decent sized park, as if a forest, having several isn't a big deal. If on the other hand the "park" is barely a few acres, well then no, there really shouldnt be more then one or two in it. I personally feel that no caches should be closer then a 10-15 minute walk. That's my yardstick. There are exceptions of course, but that's my general rule. And placing within 500 feet? dont even get me started. I will say, however that there shouldn't be any rules i.e. regulations on the subject. Thats the last thing we need are rules on caches. Guidelines, yes. rules, no. WUHOO TEAMGWHO!
  14. quote:Originally posted by Ron Streeter: ...the Cooper Agency how they accomplish this Herculean task of acquiring so many caches in such a short period of time? Perhaps they don't feel the need to explain themselves, but it DOES seem odd they could do so much in such short order. I always thought they truly were an AGENCY of many people all contributing under the same name, but apparently a few people have actually had contact with these folks. How about it Cooper Agency. How about some words from the cacher's mouth? Ron (73 hidden/252 found since Feb. 2001...the olden days!) __I've never been lost. Fearsome confused sometimes, but never lost.__ it seems that CCCA has been a hot topic, and come up everywhere from a private meeting with another geocacher, to numerous different fourm discussions to the geocaching getogether a few weeks ago. personally I am sick of it. I know for a fact she will NOT respond because she told me so. I will however, address your concern, and hope she doesn't take offense at me for doing so. #1: There is no "agency" in the sense of a staff of other employees. its her & her husband period. #2: she geocachers with her kids & her husband. They don't geocache seperately then log their finds as one. Most of the time its just her & the kids anyway from what i recall. #3: Most of the evidence people have submitted as proof, simply is misunderstanding or errors which were later corrected (like the cache she logged where there was no logbook signing) #4: paraphrasing some she said to me... Short of showing people gas & toll receipts, bills for new tires and frequent oil changes, and pictures of my odometer before and after each weekend, what exactly WOULD satisfy everyone? When you spend each weekend driving 4-5 hrs EACH WAY sometimes SOMETIMES MORE, in the bad weather & good you realize people will believe what they want to believe. So she logs a fair amount of locationless & virtuals. So what. Thats still a lot of real caches (and really this isn't an issue for CCCA only, since it begs back to the whole "are virtuals & locationlesses really finds" discussion.) If you've logged any yourself you're in no position to kvetch. If the plan to seperate out virtuals & locationless from the total count goes thru she'll be back under 1000 then. Again, so what? I think people attatch way to much signifigance to her total and to totals in general. I suggest before anyone makes another negative post about her (like those obnoxious ones about "waterproof" GPS units" assuming they meant what i took it to mean) I suggest you ask yourself What is my total, and do I care about how hi/low it is? or am I doing this for the love of the hunt/getting a nice hike/going palces I've never been/the comraderie or sharing experiences with others with similar interests. Whether you think she's into it for the total or for any of the above, ask yourself why you're into it, and how her # (or anyone's else for that matter) affects you. Why does it bother you? I have yet to see any positive "proof" of any wrongdoing. I am taking hre at her word when she says it's just her, no employees, etc. I have no reason to think otherwise. What's your excuse? BTW when Stayfloopy hits 1000 I guess EraSeek won't trust him either.... as for doing a lot in such short order it's called obsession. Perhaps even dedication. Which may or may not be healthy but thats an entirely different topic that I won't even get into. [This message was edited by Gwho on June 04, 2002 at 07:57 PM.]
  15. * search only within your own state. * search by difficulty (or terrain) * search by popularity (cache logs/previous year) * keywords to search title * keywords to search title or title & descriptions * keywords to search title or title & descriptions & logs * search by type of cache (i.e. the nearest virtuals near me, or the nearest real caches) * search for nearest travel bugs I'm sure there are other search options to think about but that's all I can come up with now... Also, is it possible to have one email generated for all the caches that have gotten logs, with a link to them all. rather then an email with the log in it? WUHOO TEAMGWHO!
  16. abandoned mental hospital. Lord knoiws there are only like 6 or 7 within 50 miles of mt house... actually you could do that, as long as no one gave away the secret. which would be pretty much impossible.... WUHOO TEAMGWHO!
  17. quote:Originally posted by Clan Ferguson: These areas , while being abandoned, still belong to someone ,or some company, and therefore are priviate property. So anybody doing caching would be tresspassing. This might cause an increased involment of local authorithies thus indangering the cache and or the Rep of this Sport. Not to mention that at any time the area could be cleaned up by road crews and would wisk away the cache without giving a second thought to what it was. I know thats what happened to our second cache. Just my opinion Cache On!! James "Big Dog" -Clan Ferguson Not always the case. In my area of NJ theres a park set aside for public hiking, in part set aside because it was under threat of desctruction &/or development. John Rockefeller bought a lot of the land to donate to the park on the condition the homes be razed. most were but not 100%. I've established a 3 part geocache expedition which covers most of the park and all the ruins... Ruins of the palisades I wasnt terribler happy with the theming or the mechanics so I'm going to be redoing them completely but keeping the same basic paths covered.... WUHOO TEAMGWHO!
  18. quote:Originally posted by citrix_99301: A little closer read of the story mentions the Cherokee mine due east of Leith, NV. I did a little digging and found a site that mentions the coordinates for the mine below: My, it would be cool to find that plane. http://66.78.12.123/waypoints/NVMINES.TXT 371557N 1142304W DUDE! You couldn't have posted that link a week earlier? I just went to Vegas, bought a few books on thbe subject and even headed out to Rhyolite (only 20 miles from Death Valley and nearly as desolate). Had to turn back when my wife AND son both got carsick. & we were 85% of the way there too.... That page is now bookmarked for my next Vegas trip. and as my way of saying thanks, checkm out my cache of a jet that went down in the woods about 25-30 yrs ago Jet in the woods My personal website discussing the jet in the woods WUHOO TEAMGWHO!
  19. quote:Originally posted by TresOkies: quote:Originally posted by Geo Quest:I'm no dog expert but I thought Pit bulls were bigger and had cropped tails. Whatever it is it looks mean. Mrs. Okie suspects it's a pit bull crossed with a Lab. The shape of the head is consistent with a pit bull, but the stance and body are that of a lab. Yet more proof that there are way too many people on this planet. I suggest you carry pepper spray. When the dog lunges at you, spray the owner. -E -- N35°32.981 W98°34.631 I dont even think the head is pit shaped. I own a pit bull terrier, my neighbor owns a straight pit, the ears are all wrong. maybe the head is shaped asimilar but not enough. regardless, dumb asses who don't have their animals in their control deserve whatever happens to them... carry pepper spray. works on muggers and attack dogs quite nicely. WUHOO TEAMGWHO!
  20. quote:Originally posted by TresOkies: quote:Originally posted by Geo Quest:I'm no dog expert but I thought Pit bulls were bigger and had cropped tails. Whatever it is it looks mean. Mrs. Okie suspects it's a pit bull crossed with a Lab. The shape of the head is consistent with a pit bull, but the stance and body are that of a lab. Yet more proof that there are way too many people on this planet. I suggest you carry pepper spray. When the dog lunges at you, spray the owner. -E -- N35°32.981 W98°34.631 I dont even think the head is pit shaped. I own a pit bull terrier, my neighbor owns a straight pit, the ears are all wrong. maybe the head is shaped asimilar but not enough. regardless, dumb asses who don't have their animals in their control deserve whatever happens to them... carry pepper spray. works on muggers and attack dogs quite nicely. WUHOO TEAMGWHO!
  21. I think it's a rather moot point to suggest it barchived. it's a relatively new cache which means someone at the top approved it. If it was just approved, odds are they wont reverse themselves right away and archive it. that would mean they screwed up in the first place. Not that I don't think archiving isn't a good ida, I just think once they said yes, don't 2nd guess them... on the other hand, they should be more selective if you ask me... WUHOO TEAMGWHO!
  22. quote:Originally posted by Cheesehead Dave: I carried mine while mowing the lawn the other day. I got to see the top speed of the mower, how far I actually traveled, and with the track log, saw my zig-zagging path around the yard. My wife thought I was nuts. http://www.wi-geocaching.com/ all THREE of our wives are right. mowing the lawn. ROTFLMAO! Too bad I live in an apartment, I can't test this out. WUHOO TEAMGWHO!
  23. quote:Originally posted by Cheesehead Dave: I carried mine while mowing the lawn the other day. I got to see the top speed of the mower, how far I actually traveled, and with the track log, saw my zig-zagging path around the yard. My wife thought I was nuts. http://www.wi-geocaching.com/ all THREE of our wives are right. mowing the lawn. ROTFLMAO! Too bad I live in an apartment, I can't test this out. WUHOO TEAMGWHO!
  24. I was discussing alternate use for GPS besides geocaching, we talked a bit, then I saw this story about Lobster Poaching in a forum discussion. I also saw a post that mentioned farmers are using GPS technology to spray specific areas only with pesticides. We've probably all heard the story about drug drops using GPS too. So my question is what do you personally use your GPS for besides caching? Obviously driving & directions is one thing if you're lucky enough to have mapping software on your GPS (like I do, []). But I've used mine to plot out places I want to visit while on vacation (and of course local geocaches too). I also started using mine at any place where the parking lot is tremendous (such as the airport). Make a waypoint, find my car instantly. plus I can make a note of the nearest parking sign... "Remember kids, we're in the Itchy lot"... Homer Simpson I also used it while traveling in flight to VEgas to be able to correctly answer my wife's question "Are we there yet". besides it was way too cool to be able to tell my fellow passenger (who had speculated aloud) how fast we were flying... So what about you? PS You could also you it to mark your own burial plot, then have the coordinates marked on the headstone itself. that'd be reallll cool. I've instructed my wife to find out the coordinates for Englewood hospital as well as the spot where I die, then post them on the marker. William Angus Born N40°54.147' W73°58.102' died... N41°74.007' W72°59.988' [This message was edited by Gwho on May 30, 2002 at 05:39 PM.]
  25. I was discussing alternate use for GPS besides geocaching, we talked a bit, then I saw this story about Lobster Poaching in a forum discussion. I also saw a post that mentioned farmers are using GPS technology to spray specific areas only with pesticides. We've probably all heard the story about drug drops using GPS too. So my question is what do you personally use your GPS for besides caching? Obviously driving & directions is one thing if you're lucky enough to have mapping software on your GPS (like I do, []). But I've used mine to plot out places I want to visit while on vacation (and of course local geocaches too). I also started using mine at any place where the parking lot is tremendous (such as the airport). Make a waypoint, find my car instantly. plus I can make a note of the nearest parking sign... "Remember kids, we're in the Itchy lot"... Homer Simpson I also used it while traveling in flight to VEgas to be able to correctly answer my wife's question "Are we there yet". besides it was way too cool to be able to tell my fellow passenger (who had speculated aloud) how fast we were flying... So what about you? PS You could also you it to mark your own burial plot, then have the coordinates marked on the headstone itself. that'd be reallll cool. I've instructed my wife to find out the coordinates for Englewood hospital as well as the spot where I die, then post them on the marker. William Angus Born N40°54.147' W73°58.102' died... N41°74.007' W72°59.988' [This message was edited by Gwho on May 30, 2002 at 05:39 PM.]
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