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chrisrayn

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  1. This is kind of cheesy, but my girlfriend has been with me quite a few times when I've grabbed a night cache. Signing the log is always interesting, as I have to put my mini Maglite in my mouth to see the log, or hold my big maglite in my mouth. So... My girlfriend got me a REALLY NERDY HEAD-MOUNTED LED FLASLIGHT!!! It works great and speeds up night cache finding by about 20%, and reduces night cache headaches by about 50%. It was some kind of awesome of her to do that. PLUS, it takes AAAs for batteries, and I have a bunch of rechargeables leftover from when I switched to the 60CSx from the geomate! SCORE!
  2. Eat your vegetables. Drink plenty of water.
  3. I'd say that two things Must happen...I must be rated based on the ACTUAL Diff/Terr of the final location itself, and it MUST contain the word CHALLENGE in the title. First of all, if "Challenge" is in the title, cachers should at least Expect that this is a challenge cache. Secondly, and this is a more selfish reason, I recently was looking to try to build up my Diff/Terr matrix, and when I searched for a 5/5 I could go after, I found 3. ALL THREE of the caches that were 5/5 were challenge caches. It was actually quite irritating. In fact, one of the challenges was to fill your Matrix up, including a 5/5, and that the cache itself did not count. Kind of high and mighty if you ask me, to claim your cache is a 5/5 and then the final (as listed) was only a 2/1.5. It's not like the hider has done anything to make those other caches difficult. I don't know, that's just how I feel anyways. I DO think, however, that they should be listed under mystery cache types on one of the geocaching.com pages. But, if you really wanted that to happen, 9key, I'm sure you could. I've noticed your name on a few pages at geocaching.com that pretty much say "thanks for the help." :-)
  4. lol...don't get that discouraged man. I just traded a traditional and 7 mysteries for 1 multi. Yeah, I don't get quite as much advertisement through notifications across different regions of northeast texas, but my idea is still completely intact and out in the field as I intended it. Additionally, I can serve as people's 1/5 cache, which I imagine are quite hard to come by. So yeah, I compromised, but my entire cache series is still intact exactly I intended it, except in terms of its visibility to other cachers. Also, I'm wondering if I need to go remove each of the extra geocaching logs....probably. :-s Whoops. I've never really thought about it till now but a 1/5 traditional cache would be pretty hard to create using true coords and keeping the terr/diff accurate. It would have to be a micro or nano, one would think. It might be interesting to figure out how one would make one (aside from the this one http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...c1-2ec393a27c3d that would have been a 1/5 if the ground had been flat). I think you did this once before when we were talking about caches. You mixed up the diff/terr again. A 5/1 is extremely good camo that is handicap accessible. A 1/5 is an uncamo'd 5 gallon bucket at the top of mount everest. But I do get what you're saying. To make a true version of ANYthing is tough, especially for the numbers to be so different.
  5. lol...don't get that discouraged man. I just traded a traditional and 7 mysteries for 1 multi. Yeah, I don't get quite as much advertisement through notifications across different regions of northeast texas, but my idea is still completely intact and out in the field as I intended it. Additionally, I can serve as people's 1/5 cache, which I imagine are quite hard to come by. So yeah, I compromised, but my entire cache series is still intact exactly I intended it, except in terms of its visibility to other cachers. Also, I'm wondering if I need to go remove each of the extra geocaching logs....probably. :-s Whoops.
  6. Hey, what are fire tacks and where can I get them? I think I did a night cache once that used fire tacks, but I'm not sure. I didn't know what they were at the time. They were square, seemed to be light brown in color (at night) and were EXTREMELY bright when you shined a light at them. Is that them? And where can I go buy those? And how much are they?
  7. There is no maximum distance limit, except perhaps in your own aesthetics and those of your local caching community. There are many examples of long distance multicaches. Yeah, I got that same answer from my reviewer. Once he said he didn't care that it was 80 miles, I was all for it. I've made the changes. Thanks for y'all's help. :-)
  8. Hmm...I just read them again and I still don't see it. I'm not trying to pick a fight, I'm just trying to find a way to keep this idea alive. It can't serve as a multi because it goes too many miles. The "puzzle" that needs to be solved is just visiting the previous cache in the series. It's like a multi, yes, but it's eight completely different caches more than 5 miles apart apiece, and requires lots of driving. Each location was chosen, as well as the fake location listed on the cache page, very meticulously, and over the course of months. I wrote the fictional journal logs of a fictional character and rewrote them over a few weeks after I finally chose the locations, and each story conforms to each location. If it's set up as a multi, it's too far. If it's traditionals, no one will read the story, which is the entire point, and relies upon each person reading each piece in chronological/series order, which they will no longer do. It works as a puzzle, I think, since they can have additional waypoints. It seems to me like the entire point of not allowing this is to prevent entire series from being more or less kaput because of one stage missing. But that's true of all multis. Is it less acceptable to disable 8 different caches at once than 1? I mean, I would be the one disabling them myself. Shouldn't my effort be my concern? I mean, if it suffers consistent problems then yeah, archive it, but I just don't get why hitting disable once is that much better than hitting it 8 times, in the event that it happens. Sorry, I don't mean to come off angry, I'm just confused and put so much effort into this and so many cachers told me it would be a great idea and now it can't jump off the ground.
  9. So this is common knowledge about the "chain linked" caches? I have 8 chainlinked caches I spent months on and just tried to publish, and I don't really think I could do a multi because from first cache to last cache it's about 80 miles of driving. If they are traditionals, no one will read the story I left inside, and will see the story in the cache and ignore it. I didn't know anything about this rule. :-( Why isn't it listed?
  10. Hey everyone, I searched and couldn't find what I was looking for. I can open a pocket query in EasyGPS and see a pocketquery laid out on a map with no streets, which doesn't help me, or I can see the geocaching MAP IT results, but not for my specific pocket query. I just want to find a way to look at the pocket query results for my geocaching trip on a convenient and easy-to-read map that looks just like the Geocaching Map View, or the Google Maps view. I know how to do it in Google Earth, but I honestly don't care about that. I wish Google Earth would just let me use the same maps as Google Maps, and I would use it CONSTantly. Thanks for any help! chrisrayn
  11. Hmm...I can't explain why...but I have to use the Coke bottles in their original form, without any modifications that couldn't be made by a person casually going on a hike who has a few mere tools. This is specifically not supposed to be a heavily-prepared cache. It has to seem haphazard almost, put out by someone who only used what they had at the time. But who remembers the joys of geocaching when it existed. Hopefully that last line threw you. ;-)
  12. Hey, I was planning on making a series of caches that span about 50 miles here in Texas, and I was thinking about having some well-tethered 20 oz coke bottles (well-cleaned-out, without the labels), as containers. - Has anyone seen this done before? - Which would be a better tether in a Cedar tree...fishing line, or 30 gauge galvanized wire? - Are there problems inherent with a coke bottle cache? - Is the log much too difficult to retrieve, even with tweezers? Any help would be appreciated! p.s. I tried to do a search for this on the forums, but "coke bottle" was not an acceptable search because "coke" is less than 5 letters and "bottle" would have been a stupid thing to search by itself.
  13. I got to thinking...every cache I've ever checked up on that is posted in the Plano/Frisco/McKinney area of the Dallas/Forth Worth metroplex that is posted is found within 15 minutes. So I got to thinking it would be pretty funny if maybe you had a small container, and it was right next to your house, if you could maybe keep a watch on your email and as soon as your cache posts, you could heat up a Jimmy Dean sausage biscuit, or something of similar size, put it in a zip lock back, put "FTF prize" on the bag in sharpie, and then keep a watch on the cache until someone comes up and finds a warm sausage biscuit in the cache? I think the reaction would be priceless. ... maybe some funny thoughts I could keep inside my head and not let them out.
  14. I've only been to walmart, and they don't carry true "lock n lock" brand containers. The ones they have are rubbermaid and from what I can tell, they work like crap. Anybody know of any stores that actually sell Lock n Lock BRAND lock n lock containers? The imitators are doodoo.
  15. Cragmire Hard Rock Caché Over-the-Shoulder Cache Holder Build Pocket Quarry Think Bolder Oh no, I'm in trubble Cache ore carry Cache ore quarry We gather no moss I'm not Painted Black, but I should be HUGE ROCK HIDE CACHE IT'S UNDER THIS HUGE FRIGGIN ROCK LOOK GIANT ROCK THE BOULDER IT'S THE BOULDER blihblohblahblehTHEBOULDER!!!! Reign On, Cache King Big Ol Underpants Leave Doody...Extra Rancid that's all i've got
  16. Found a cache inSIDE of a piece of junk once...an old stove in the woods. Pardon my French, but who the HELL lugs a stove to the middle of the woods? It's not something I would waste effort on. I guess that's why they put a cache in it. To get some use out of it.
  17. I got the answer I wanted. Let me give you a rundown of how I feel, personally. I don't feel bad about what I'm doing, but understand that some others might. Even though I know what I found wasn't my TRUE 300th, I still PLANNED for it to be deliberately, and that's what matters...that it shows up visually. I felt like I might get a number of tongue-in-cheek answers, and that really eases my mind that I'm not hurting anyone's feelings or making them angry. Thanks for the help! /thread
  18. Okay, so for whatever reason, it seems like us Geocachers are particularly interested in having meaningful milestones. Yesterday, I logged my 300th find at my first Letterbox cache find. Yay, right? Well, I ran FindStatGen3 on GSAK, and it said something I never noticed before. "303 finds on 301 unique caches." I used the small logic portion of my brain and figured out that mean I had found 2 geocaches more than once, which isn't exactly fair. So...through GSAK's filters I actually managed to FIND the caches I'd found multiple times, and then had to figure out what to do to keep my milestones in place. I decided to take my two most recent finds and log them on the same day I logged the double logs, and change the double logs into notes, as they should have been. So, my finds are the same, but the dates are now different. Anyone else done something like this before? Is it wrong, ethically?
  19. Who says? That's a funnier comment than I thought possible in so few words.
  20. Thanks for paying closely to that part of my OP that explained that I didn't want to degenerate this into an argument of exactly that sort. I simply asked WHY it is listed as a guideline when it is clearly being treated as a firm rule. If you don't want to address that....please consider picking another thread! Thanks! I mentioned that at the beginning of my post... Chris 1, You 0 :-D If so, then anything else was a waste of time as it has nothing to do with the question. Thanks! I just reread over what I wrote this morning and, man, I'm sorry. I mean, my opinion on the matter doesn't change, but that was no way to go about it. You kindly asked people not to debate on the philosophy of all this and I just openly ignored that request and then turned it into an outright bashfest. Sorry you had to put up with my crap, man. Good luck caching in the future. :-)
  21. Thanks for paying closely to that part of my OP that explained that I didn't want to degenerate this into an argument of exactly that sort. I simply asked WHY it is listed as a guideline when it is clearly being treated as a firm rule. If you don't want to address that....please consider picking another thread! Thanks! I mentioned that at the beginning of my post... Chris 1, You 0 :-D
  22. Yeah I think I'm about to break that, not sure, just wanted to warn. I just did some rough calculations. Not definitive, mind you, but rough. In the world, there are 57.5 million miles of land area, there abouts. Within that 57.5 million square miles, each cache "should" be no more than 528 feet apart, or .1 miles. I did a little basic geometry and found that if you put caches as close as humanly possible to one another, you could actually fit around 114 caches in a square mile, and maybe a couple more. However, I wanted my math to be on the conservative side. If you do the math, you get that it's roughly 6.555 billion caches you could place in the entire world. Now, you're probably from the U.S., so this could be misleading, since really you're only looking at 3.79 million square miles (which could be false, as could the other mileage figure, since it's from wikipedia). Even wikipedia though probably isn't too far off about this. So if you do the math on how many caches would fit on 3.79 million square miles, you get 432,060,000 caches that are possible. Currently, in the entire world, there are 909,882 caches placed. That leaves, in the United States alone, room for 431,150,178 more caches. However, you probably can't travel the entire United States to place a cache. But since your 3 total finds and 1 hide are from Virginia, let's use that state as a basis. Even if all of the existing caches in the entire world were in Virginia, which has a mere total area of 42,774 square miles, there would still be room for 3,966,354 more caches. 3,966,354 more caches IN VIRGINIA ALONE. So, I guess what I'm saying is QUIT WHINING ABOUT THE STINKING GUIDELINES AND GO HIDE A CACHE IN ONE OF THE OTHER 3,966,354 PLACES IN YOUR STATE THAT ARE WITHOUT-A-DOUBT STILL AVAILABLE FOR A CACHE. I mean, your post count on the forums isn't even at 10 and they outnumber your hides and you're arguing with CACHE RULES AND PHILOSOPHY. Come on, man, grow up. p.s. I did all the math because I like math it's fun. :-)
  23. I think the saddest thing is that a number of the people who left comments on the story are sympathizing with the bear and chastising the man for killing it. Oh, and by the way, Obama is a filthy murderer for killing that fly, and Kanye is still an idiot. Maybe we should give Kanye a stick and put him in the woods. If he dies, then he has received his punishment. If he survives, he regains his place as beloved flame-spittin rappa. I mean it Was kind of rude what he did to Taylor Swift and all. Her music is real sweet, not meant to hurt nobody. Although I am kind of hearing those two songs a little too much right now. You know, the one about the Juliet and daddy said stay away from her or some such. And the belonging to me song too. That video actually was pretty good. She played the good little nerd and the bad little cheerleader. It's just on the radio I hear them so much, that i don't know. They've lost their luster. Same with that Pink song. Please don't leave me, I think it is. I wish that song would please leave, though, I've heard it so much. And what was with that little glittery heart she wore over her left boob during her number at the awards show? Seems like it'd be too inappropriate for TV for me. Although my girlfriend said her boobs are so small it's like she wasn't showing anything anyway. She says even if Pink had been topless it wouldn't have been as inappropriate as if Jessica Simpson was wearing shorts and a tanktop. She thinks Jessica Simpson is inappropriate in winter coats, though. And what was with that Lady Ga-Ga person? Creeped the hell out of me, that's for sure. Music doesn't make her seem that weird. If anything, the music makes her seem stupid. Oh, hey, I can't make my song line lengths the same amount of syllables, what should I do, oh, I know, I'll just REPEAT SOME SYLLABLES OVER AND OVER UNTIL THE LINES ARE THE SAME LENGTH, that'll make me smart. I love, love, love, love a man, man, man, and we make love as much as we can, can, can...see? I can do it too. Anybody can write lyrics with no rules. Seriously who is that stuff marketed towards? It's made with the intelligence of an infant and the subject matter of a sex addict. I guess there's a lot of stupid sex-addicts out there, cause she's making money. So anyways, yeah, I guess the PETA people should just lay off Mr. Kills-Bear-with-Stick, in conclusion.
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