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I suspect Shacker's next post will be the one complaining he's getting nothing but blank html or his IP has been banned.

Yeah, 'cause if wikipedia says it, it's GOT to be true.

HARRALD! DUDE!

Like that monster coffee pot? michelle Heh, no. That thing is for extended camping with the truck. Here's a pic of what she's talking about: Some other luxuries in that pic that don't make it paddlecamping include the the double burner stove (hanging-bottom showing at top of pic), double mantle lantern, belgian waffle iron (left of stove, under the pot), popcorn popper (under table) and self-standing folding hammock (because you are not allowed to tie ANYTHING to a tree in a CT state park or forest). Just because I like to tent camp doesn't always mean I have to rough it for 2 weeks!

MMMM.... a subject near and dear to me since I met my wife on a geocaching/paddle/camping trip. Back then I used a canoe which I still have: The ugly canoe on the far right is mine, as is most of the gear piled around the sign. This was our campsite: Our wedding was also a geocaching/paddle/camping event held on the same island we met on. The morning after (what a mess to cleanup, uhg!) We bought ourselves a pair of Wilderness Systems Tsunamis as wedding gifts to ourselves which are perfect for weekend trips. Canoe/kayak camping is fun. Depending on your boat, you can generally bring along a few more luxury items then you can backpacking.

Good luck with that.

Just happened to notice that they are giving away the Spot for free to members of the Experimental Aircraft Association attending the Oshkosh, WI AirVenture airshow this week. Well, the unit is free. To get the free unit requires (besides being a member of the EAA and attend the airshow) "on-site activation of a $99.99 annual unlimited basic service and $49.99 annual unlimited tracking service prior to use. " I suspect in the long run this is a better business model for the Spot. Just like with other subscription-based services that require a dedicated electronic device (cell phones, satellite radio, pay TV, etc), give away the device (which probably only costs a few dollars to manufacture in bulk) with the purchase of a minimum level of service.

A: What gets said on another website means nothing here. B: If you have a beef with what they are saying there, respond there. C: If you want anyone to take ANYTHING you say seriously, post it with your real account and not a sockpuppet.

Leave the hiding to the locals while on holiday. Not saying this is true in your specific case, but generally the people who live there know best. There might be a reason such a "really good place for a cache" doesn't have one already. Maybe there are local rules against it. I know of one park in my area that used to have caches until the land managers found out and had them all archived. Now there is a perfect park for caches but you won't see any listed. Maybe the locals don't consider it such a good spot. I once found a cache in a town 1000 miles away. When I got home I was telling another cacher who happened to have grown up in the area I had just visited. Her words were something like "Oh my gawd, someone put a cache there? And you didn't get robbed? There is no way I would have gone to that area without a police escort!" Maybe there already *IS* a cache there and you don't know it. People on vacation tend to skip the harder puzzle and multicaches. There is an area I visit regularly about 5-6hr drive from home. I usually go up there for 1 week and 2-4 weekends a year. For several years I always wondered why this one obviously perfect spot for a cache never got one. Last year I finally started doing some of those harder caches and what do you know? A 4-5yr old multicache ends right in that perfect spot! Of course all the locals knew this, but I didn't. Those are just a few reasons beyond the fact that if a problem comes up you can't take care of it in a timely matter.

Best swag I've found in a cache evah? My wife.

Who suggested anything couldn't be talked about here? Of course it is rather sad that we've only had these earthcaching forums a few days and already there are so many people who seem to want to drag a lot of ugliness into what has been a very enjoyable experience before now. But you just have to expect that out of these forums, I suppose. I just thought that you'd like to meet a few of the other locals, being new and all. So many people? So far all I've seen doing it are either related to each other or obvious sockpuppets. I suspect "so many people" is more like 1 or 2.

Yes the game as changed, but not QUITE the way you guessed. As other said, the stealth required just means it's a high muggle area. Generally not my kinda cache. Caches should NOT be on private property unless they have permission. With all caches, the fastest, follow the arrow way to the cache is not the best way. In a more remote cache this can mean bushwacking. In a suburban setting it may lead to trespassing. Urban/suburban caches do need a little more research before hunting, IMNHO. While you thought hiding the one cache under the nearby railroad trestle bridge was a nicer location, most likely that location would not have been allowed because of the possible terrorist concerns it might raise. I also gotta question one part of your post. First you say you didn't have anything to sign the log with because you didn't bring your caching pack. Then you say the same cache had garbage trade items, so you kept your trade items and didn't trade. So did you have your caching stuff or didnt you? Or are you just being a little over dramatic to make your point?

What has one got to do with the other? There are plenty of ways to get the coords to a cache, even a MOC, without ever viewing the cache page. I almost NEVER actually view a cache page. I'm a premium member and I don't log online. All my caching is done off-line, via PQs. Since I no longer log finds online there is rarely a reason to ever visit a cache page. About the only time I actually need to visit a cache page is if I dropped a TB or need to log a DNF or needs maint.

Thanks Brad, for clarifying even further what was already crystal clear to almost everyone posting. I'm sure someone will still need to "logically question those statements".

So.... is a personal attack, even though it's plural and general and someone's opinion (and is it an attack if it's a fact?)...... but.... and.... and.... ...are not attacks but just "a logical questioning of statements"? I don't see any logic at all in that reasoning.

So I guess I should hit the report button on your presumed insults against the reviewer in SC. Got it. As I read the OP, the reviewer you are insulting in your posts hasn't interpreted any thing. He contacted the land manager (in this case the SC DOT) directly and got the land manager's interpretation of the law. Several other posts in this thread appear to confirm that. It doesn't matter what the reviewer thinks, if the land manager has told him they interpret the law to cover geocaches, his hands are tied. As usual, your attacks are misguided at best.

Add me to the list. RAM mount and a Garmin 76CSx. It's seen plenty of rain and never had a problem. I loop the wrist strap over my mirror just in case the mount ever does fail. The only thing I still want to do is wire a power cord for it so it doesn't eat the batteries leaving the backlight on all the time at night. Already bought a straight cord with bare wires, just need to get around to doing it.

That's not what we're hearing out west. One cache page = One GC code = One date and time Are these group members logging multiple attendance logs on these cache pages? In the case of the one we host; no. You may log an attended the first time, after that please log a note. We'd like to think our monthly event is about real smileys, not icons.

The cache owner hasn't logged a find in 5yrs, and hasn't even logged in for over a year. Cache appears to still be viable even with the MIA owner. Seems like a prime example for the reviewer updating the coords. Lots of logs offer corrected coords. Counting the group that had 6 GPS with them, I count 12 sets of corrected coords. I averaged them all together, and came up with N59° 39.691 W151° 37.270 which is about 115ft from the posted coords. I'd go with those if I were updating the cache page.

Not so obvious. Back in 1996 I signed up at some new website that had a hairbrained scheme to offer FREE email via a web interface. I signed up more as a goof then anything else. That site was yahoo.com, and I would kill to have that user name now, but I cant remember the password, and the ISP/email addy I used to sign up went belly up 10yrs ago. I haven't logged in to that account in 12yrs, and yet they wont give it to me, or anyone else.

I don't get why it even bothers you, unless this isn't your real account? You've only logged 2 finds this year, and only 25 total in 2.5yrs of caching. I'm not putting down your stats, it just doesn't seem like what this little "FTF clique" does has any bearing on your caching enjoyment. It's not like you are playing the FTF game yourself.

Caches? Pffft! What happened to the beer offer?

They were just giving you a hard time because you looked like a local CT cacher they hate. Signed, The husband of the woman who yelled at you because she thought you were bblhed And no, we don't really hate him. Much. J/K. Maybe?

Sounds like you guys may be bumping up against the site throttling. If you are opening X number of pages in Y amount of time (both seem to be somewhat random and unpublicized to prevent workarounds) the site thinks you are not human and are a software program scraping data from the site (which is a violation of the site's terms of use) and serves up blank pages for Z amount of time.

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