BigWhiteTruck

The "coordinates" that we use for geocaching are latitude and longitude. The bottom of a flagpole is at the same latitude and longitude as the top of the flagpole. Going up or down doesn't change your coordinates. In fact, if you imagine a laser beam originating at the center of the earth, shooting up between your feet and out into space, everywhere along that beam is the same latitude and longitude, just vastly different altitude. You could think of your elevation (or altitude) as a third coordinate, in order to describe your location in three dimensions, but it's not useful enough for geocaching because most geocaches are located on the earth's surface, and therefore altitude of the cache is whatever the ground altitude is at that point. In your situation, the cache hider has taken advantage of a unique place when there are multiple altitudes (different levels of the parking garage) at the same coordinates in order to be tricky. What you need to do is find the location at the top level of the parking garage. The cache is either right there, or directly below you (remember the laser beam) on one of the other levels at the same spot. The reason I said to go to the top level of the garage is because that is where your GPS can get the best signal. If your gps got good reception even through concrete and steel buildings, ou wouldn't have trouble using it on each level.

Kinda looks like the obey giant

Sorry about that, New York welcomes you to come back some day. Maybe try Auburn (13021) for a great cachin time!

Do you think it's because they don't choose those pictures for the front page, or because those pictures never get taken?

It won't affect my caching, I'll be running on biodiesel by the next couple months.

Once we've eaten them all, who cares?

is it going to be on again later tonight?

LOL Move it a little further forward and you almost got it!

So, I was out looking for a cache Saturday with my wife, and when we found it, we noticed that it was sticking out of it's hidey hole and very visible. It was a micro, and bright red. Anyway, when we unrolled the log, the last page was signed by three children who signed their first and last names, the date, and their ages (12, 12, and 13). Underneath the logs, they took up almost a whole sheet with this message: We all signed our names, you UGLY M***** F*****S!!! We hate you and yet we don't even know you!! The actual cache location is elevated from the surrounding terrain. Turning around, I realized I was now in direct view from about 4 backyards on a nearby street, which were strewn with evidence of adolescent habitation. Being a saturday, I knew it was very possible that the offenders were watching me right now. While slightly peeved at being called ugly (not to mention the other implication), I couldn't help but laugh to myself as I tore that log sheet out of the book. I mean, who signs their last names onto something like that, then dutifully puts it back in the hiding spot? Don't get me wrong, I am glad that they replaced the cache and didn't steal it, but signing the last name? I did entertain the possibility that the kids who signed it were not the ones who wrote the message, but the handwriting was a dead-on match to one of the girls who signed the log. All three log entries were dated with handwriting that matched the respective name, and all the dates were the same. That just strikes me as humorous, and kind of sad at the same time. Obviously these children are in desperate need of attention. I saw the entry as a dare to call the parents, which was my first gut reaction. There might be 2,000 people in this entire town, it wouldn't be hard to track them down. I decided that it wasn't my business though, so on the way home, I dropped off the page to the cache owner. She can take whatever action she deems necessary.

If it bothers you enough to the point where you feel like you want to ask them to do that, then go do it! You don't need our permission! Man, you love the don't you?

That should read "extremely powerful" In my opinion, you don't need Photoshop even if you're a graphic professional, that's because you can get the gimp for free. I might work on it tonight.

If it is such a concern (fully justified in my opinion, a fully aware hunter is a safe hunter), how about using a 1 pixel blaze orange .jpg as a background image on the cache page for the hunting season? I might think about doing something similiar with my two caches in just such an area. Go ahead and use this url as a background image. I will make it a white 1x1 gif and setup a script so that it changes automatically to orange october 1st and back again to white on jan 1st http://www.cacheopedia.com/huntingseasonwhite.gif PS. I am not going to actually make the image until tonight when I get home, but use the url anyway and it'll be setup by tonight. Also, I will likely make other colors too other than white, but they will all turn to orange during deer season PPS. Can someone else please post the html code to use that url?

He was just hungry. . . Over tic

I recommend that you use CacheMate on your Palm. It is an application designed specifically for geocaching, with features like searching for caches, finding caches nearest to your current location, etc. Mobi pocket reader is nothing more than a way to read the cache pages offline, whereas CacheMate actually understands coordinates, logs, hints, (with decrypter) etc. and has all the same info like the description, difficulty ratings, travel bugs, etc. An upside to your situation is that there is a Mac utility to create CacheMate databases using .gpx (pocket query) or .loc files. It is called MacCMConvert. Downloads: CacheMate MacCMConvert

Would be nice if you could make an automatic ignore list. Like a pocket query, but the results go on your ignore list instead of getting emailed to you.

By the way, that is a really bad spot to aim on the deer!

two suggestions: 1. find a place where they still measure your feet, and in both directions too. width is WAY more important than most people realize when finding a comfortable shoe. 2. i don't know if they make anything other than work boots, but I own a pair of steel-toed Redwing boots that I bought for my last job (in a cabinet shop). I wear them for hiking because they are very comfortable in any terrain, well-insulated and waterproof. They are the most comfortable pair of footwear I have ever owned! that includes all my sneakers. I am talking about steel-toed work boots! More comfortable than my New Balance sneakers! If Redwing makes hiking boots, I would recommend them.

Gee, and here I thought that I was the only one who may have noticed that omission! Personally, that is one of the few things I would have done differently about the setup I saw rigged in those photos! I know, I know I was actually worrying about criticism (it's all good, don't get me wrong) when I posted the pics, and wished that I had a picture of my secondary anchor, but I never thought about the helmet disclaimer. It's a solid limestone shelf, the smallest thing that could fall on my head was was a 3-ton stone. I'll have helmets available for any cachers that take me up on my offers.

It is public land, but not a park. It used to be private land, owned by someone who lives about 30 miles away. It was filled with trails and un-posted. The public enjoyed it frequently. About a year ago, it went up for sale and was promptly snatched up by a public land trust, who donated it to the public so that it wouldn't be cleared and used as a setting for a trophy home. It will remain public land, and there are no plans that I know of to turn it into a park. I imagine it will be deemed "State Reforestation Land" like most of the public land around here. "I don't have liability insurance, and I have no idea how that person wound up splatted on the rocks directly below my geocache, wearing a harness that I bought from EMS 1 year ago, with burn marks in their hands the exact diameter of a rope that I allegedly own, even though said rope is nowhere to be found. . . ... What do you mean my fingerprints are on the harness buckles? I wiped them. . . I mean. . . that's strange!" Kidding! Actually, there are laws which remove liability for all parties involved when someone is willfully participating in a known dangerous activity such as rock climbing, sky diving, etc.

A cache is a logbook that you need to sign. To protect the logbooks, we put them in containers. We use the extra room in the containers for trade items. An object with a code word written on the outside is not a cache.

You are looking at around a 2.5 hour drive from albany to here. Where did you go spelunking around here?

Tons! Besides the plethora of caches in the area, there is a lot of wine tasting and shopping going on. Farmer's markets, sidewalk sales, etc. Lots of beautiful country to see and historic places to visit. Lots of places to kayak also! Here is more stuff than I can think of. Yeah, I was waiting for your response! Don't forget to email me when you are going!

Sorry to all those who couldn't see the pictures. The server is back online!