Pantalaimon

I just bought a 2003 Jeep Wrangler a couple months ago, its the second one I've owned. My 1989 died a couple years back, and I'd been looking for a replacement even since. With regards to the above questions, my personal opinion is that soft tops are the only way to go. I'm not a fan of the look or the work-for-removal associated with a hard top. Next, I think the heating is excellent in Jeeps. Although, I think my personal temperature tolerance is wider than the average bear. The real test is whether my girlfriend will be cold riding in the Jeep this winter, cause she has, well, s... for blood. She's cold all the time. But, the heater in a Jeep really cooks. Air conditioner? Not in any Jeep I'd ever own. Reliability. My 89 Jeep started to go downhill fast after it was about 8 years old. Everything starting needing replacing. But, Jeeps have changed since 1989, and I'm hoping my new baby will hold up longer, especially because I bought her just about new, and will be able to take care of her since birth. My last Jeep had 60K miles on it by the time I got ahold of her. Oh, and to make this on-topic/geocaching related. I found a cache in my Jeep last week. I had to drive up a mountain to do it. (Well, I guess I didn't HAVE to, but it sure was fun.) Gas milage. I vary somewhere between 19 and 23 miles per gallon right now, depending on where I'm driving. I imagine that will drop when I put on the tires I want. Pan

Where is the OT forum? Is it still only available to members?

The idea of a safe deposit box intrigues me. As does the thought of sending the time capsule to Groundspeak. I'd just want to make sure it was welded shut so no one can open it in the interim.

You like that? I though it would be particularly tricky. I just have these horrible visions of police cars roaring up to the site when Joe Cacher is trying to reel in the cache while laying on his stomach with his head between the railings. I think the trick would be to find a bridge that is tall enough so that someone going under the bridge couldn't look up and see the cache hanging down, but small enough so the local authorities aren't called to haul the apparently mad bombers a** to jail. Amount of traffic would be a factor too. As well as making some sort of effort to ensure your finders don't plummet to their deaths. Generally I'd stay away from anything coming out of New York. Or anything that has the words "Golden," "George Washington," or "London" in it. Pan

I'm sensing that my cache hanging from the middle of the Bourne Bridge leading to Cape Cod would not be approved. Dang it.

Has anyone found that "special cache" listed at the end of the clip that is "just for the viewers"? Pan

I haven't seen the movie in a while, but if I remember correctly, "Red Dawn" had a disturbing caching scene. Luckily the Wolverines found the cache before the Russians did. Pan

I can imagine how people would be peeved if I created an event day for 20 years in the future, and they have to have that on their closest cache page for the next 20 years. With that said, can't I create the event for 2007... and then move it forward every date by editing the page.

... then somewhere down the road (10 years) another event cache would be held for the cracking open of the time capsule. So, maybe there would EVENTUALLY be three caches, but the final event would not be created until close to the time of opening, if the world/geocaching/I still exisit. Pan

In response to KA: My plan would be to have only two caches, as follows: 1. Event cache for depositing stuff into the time capsule. Date of cache would be date of event. (Time capsule is then buried) 2. Permenant cache somewhere directly ABOVE time capsule, normal ammo-box, that talks about the time capsule on the web page, but which is a normal cache people can find. Date of cache would be release date, as per normal. Pan

Sale of the private land is a fair point. I guess getting permission to bury a time capsule on public land appeared a little daunting at first though. But, RK's right, that may be the only way to go. Pan P.S. Thank you to whoever deleted my duplicate thread. - P

Funny how out of two identical threads, the locked one gets more hits.

So, I've been mulling over the idea of having an event cache that compiles a Geocaching time capsule. I would hold an event, people could stop by, find the large container that would ultimately become the time capsule, leave their time capsule item, and take some sort of souvenir button, or magnet, or something. People would also have the option of mailing items to me for inclusion in the time capsule. Then, after the event is over, and all the items are inventoried and vacuum sealed, and the capsule is sealed, I would bury it on private land, and put a permanent cache above the time capsule for people to find, stating that buried on this location is a time capsule that will be opened in 5? 10? 25? 50? 100!!? years. My questions are these: 1. Do you believe a time capsule event cache should be approved? The problem, in my mind, in that I intend to bury the capsule, albeit on private property with permission. The whole "burying" concept raises the alert level on caches, me thinks. 2. Do you believe a cache in commemoration of the time capsule somewhere below it would be approved? Again, there's the whole tacit approval of something buried going on. 3. I think its probably a bad idea to have the commemorative cache right above the actual time capsule. I fear the ultimate pirating of the capsule. But, that begs the question of how far away I make the cache from the capsule, and who I tell the coordinates to. I suppose I could be the only one who knows, and I can leave the coordinates to the appropriate person in my will. Any other ideas/comments/suggestions/thoughts/insults/querys/jokes/etc you can think of, I'd be glad to hear them. Pan

Yay! I hope you get your wrist slapped for trying to start another off-topic thread. The irony would sustain me for weeks!

Ah, I get it now. I kind of skimmed over the embossing part. Good show, I'll give it a try. Either that or the dogs tags next time I'm in PetCo buying crickets. Pan

If you figure out what the name of my (soon to be unarchived cache) N'La Azar Kna Naa means, you're well on your way to finding it. I choose the title backwards; I named the it after creating this concept cache. Pan

I like it. Would the coordinates last through the weatha' - Pan P.S. Thus far the coin-operated dog tag suggestion is in the lead. That seems the easiest... albeit more expensive... choice. Plus it seems like they would last a long time. - P

I have a multi-cache that consists of several legs hidden in several different trees in a certain park. Shouldn't be too tough to figure out which one of my caches I'm talking about. Anyway, the legs started out as strips of copper and other materials screwed into trees, because I thought I tested the materials sufficiently and determined that they would weather the weather. Well, they haven't weathered too great. Now the cache is archived waiting repairs, and I'm on a hunt to find the perfect outdoor material for this cache. I need to find a media which I can cut into strips and screw to the top of high branches so they are not visible from the ground. Then I need to know how to etch the coords on the media, or what to write on the media with that won't fade in the weather. In the alternative, I need another idea for placing the coordinates in the trees. I don't want them to be removable, so the ole' film canister trick isn't for me. And, again, I don't want them visible from the ground. Any suggestions/ideas are welcome. Pan

My virtual there got denied. TBTB said its wasn't a "wow." Unfortunately, I guess I have to agree with them. I'd try and place another, traditional cache, but that place has guard shacks every 10 miles, I don't think anyone would get in... or out... to get it. Pan

I changed my name a long time ago. At that time, it automatically changed all the previous finds from the old name to the new on the cache pages. I think now, they will change after an update to the page is made, like a new log, or a page change. One thing to note is that the text in your logs will not change. For example, I usually sign all my logs. Before the change, I was "Taz." After the change the cache pages showed my new name on my finds, but the actual logs had my old name signed to them. I tried changing them, but I don't think I got them all. Lastly, I don't think a name change would affect your stats.

Wow. My thread was hijacked by a membership discussion. Not even one admin kudo for my "Geocash" idea.

Don't you think the on-line store should sell gift certificates called "Geocash?" Me too. Me too. Pan

I don't agree with this. This isn't on topic, and I apologize, but mtn-man started it! Personally I don't do benchmarks because there is no physical box of trinkets with a logbook to find. Its the same reason I generally steer away from vituals, locationless and the like. Sure, I've been known to log a locationless, virtual, etc., but generally, its about finding the box of junk that makes it fun. Not the smileys, IMHO. So, I would imagine that THAT is a more common reason for not doing benchmarks than "no smiley." Another reason, I would think, is because benchmarks really weren't placed for their aesthetic value, or consideration for the finder that was going to come behind you. You can as easily find a benchmark at Town Hall in the center of Nowheresville, Massachusetts (boring), as you can the center of some prickerbush scrubland in northern Vermont (painful). Caches (one would hope) are placed with forethought on the aesthetic location, benchmarks, as I understand it, were not. Put a fork in me. Pan

See, now, commenting on my two hundredths of a cent comment, which was clearly intended as a joke just seems to be further evidence of missing the point. But I digress.

Yeah... but how do the Amish find your cache?