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  1. Yea, I'm waiting for those to go back in stock! Here they are on Ebay. Ebay auction link Just to let you know ,I am the seller. Hahaha! I've looked at those recently in the past week! They looked kind of funny to me though because it looks like the O-ring sticks out around the container more than the other ones I've found, is this true? Either way, the cost to my door is $9 for 5 containers, which is only $1.80 per container, what a great deal! It is true but I have never gotten any complaints from the thousands I have sold. One guys put in his feedback that he loved it because it made it easier to open. Send me your address through my profile and I will send you one so you can take a look at it. I just bought two packs on an impulse buy. You're lucky this man asked this question, man. Man. :-) I do like the O-ring. It does seem like it makes things easier to open and the word O-ring makes for plenty of jokes. yaaay. :-)
  2. I'm with you. The math doesn't add up. I don't care how you slice it. I could barely LOG that many finds in a day. No way I could see that as finding that many in 24 hours. Maybe they didn't sign logs. Maybe they signed the outside of the cache. But the guy up above talking about "pre-finds" seems to be dead on to me. That sounds like a way it could be possible.
  3. I think all that matters is getting one FTF. After that I don't think it's really important. Do it once, say you did it, and bam. Well, I don't know...seeing headhardhat get three in a row on youtube was kind of cool. But if you don't have a video cam, there's no point.
  4. Yeah, what would be even more funny is to plan a caching day but go a week early to find the caches and sign the logs. Or just find them but don't sign the logs till the day of the caching trip. Then your friends can think you are the greatest cacher EVER. Of course you would HAVE to tell them that you cheated and were just messing with them before too long. This sounds like the ending of Far and Away with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, where her parents cheat and go stake their claim on a piece of Oklahoma land before they're allowed to, cheating and risking being shot. I have a girlfriend.
  5. I imagine some of that stuff happens though when logging finds and you haven't had a lot of time to do so, and you're in a hurry, and you forget to change the date on your logs to the actual day you did something, so you log multiple days at one time under the guise of one day. But if that's an ACTUAL record, then I must ask: WHAT THE HOLY MOTHER OF CRAP??? HOW IN THE NAME OF PAUL BUNYAN IS THAT EVEN FRIGGING POSSIBLE??? were they physical caches? that's insane. have to be all traditionals. could you even sign a log that many times in a day? it would involve no looking. Let's say you actually planned to do a 24 hour cache and rested up for it. Well that's 16.9 caches an hour. That's 3.55 minutes per cache. With the time it takes to sign the log, that's 2.55 minutes for driving and finding. I just don't see how that's possible, even doing a 24 hour caching trip. It generally takes me 3 minutes to drive from cache to cache, and that's JUST driving. Finding takes anywhere from between 30 seconds to 3 minutes usually, on average, with usually a 5 second find on an LPC. How is that even a possible day?
  6. I'm only a little ways in...been doing this for about 3 or 4 weeks so far, and on long days of caching I often leave short logs, especially on LPCs. It's not really that I don't appreciate the find, but that there isn't a whole lot to say about those. The real stories come on diff and terr at about 3 and above. And I haven't done many of those. It helps if you have the gift of gab. But yeah, I know what you mean...it takes a physical effort quite often to decide how to write a detailed story for some of these that just arent that difficult. But about the THRILL being gone...definitely not. Oh, and if this is a first post...well I just got an FTF on the thread. booyah
  7. You can get bison tubes at Harbor Freight, if you have one aound you. (some pharmacies will carry them too) They call them "pill fobs" http://search.harborfreight.com/cpisearch/...eyword=pill+fob Well, I have some Walmart pill fobs, so I've got those, but I was wondering about the smaller ones and the nanos. I have some of the pill fobs as big as your thumb, but I'm more curious about the ones as big as your pinky and the last digit of your pinky.
  8. Hey, I've gone from store to store around here looking for bison tubes and nano caches, and nobody carries such wonders. So I was wondering: from everyone's experiences with buying caching supplies for hiding your caches, who seems to be the best, cheapest, most reliable, etc.? Thanks for any help! p.s. btw, also, in addition, if this needs to be in a different forum and I just couldn't tell, move it there for me mods. Thanks!
  9. I make up fake stories in which I do amazing things to get the cache that I didn't really do. But that's merely on occasion, and it never involves poop. Unless it does.
  10. I think it's important to note here that poop jokes just aren't funny. Or maybe it's just 12 year olds.
  11. I left the below as a pathtags log at pathtags.com 08/10/2009 Really not a whole lot of story to this one, sadly enough. I was just on the way through Farmersville to pick up my daughter when I decided to stop and nab this one. Oh wait, but I forgot...when I was going through Greenville, I stopped on the side of the road so I could mark my Garmin 60CSX's coordinates for the Farmersville cache. While I was messing with the device, a car pulled up behind me and stopped. In my rearview, I saw a man get out and come toward me with a crowbar. Luckily, I'd just bought a hammer and screwdriver for caching, so I flung my device aside, grabbed the new tools to wield, and stepped out of the car just in time to jump out of the way of his crowbar swing. He kept screaming something about stealing an FTF in Plano, and I did my best to yell back that I'd never gotten an FTF as the crowbar flew to the left of me, to the right of me. Finally, he tried to smash me with an overhead blow...I thought I was a goner, but I took a defensive chance and held up my hammer with both hands to block. The curve of his crowbar snagged on my hammer, loosing his grip, and I twisted my hammer with all the force I could and watched the crowbar plunk down to the asphalt, used my position to heavily come back with an elbow to his nose and, when he reached up to hold his broken nose in his hands, I charged and swung the side of my hammer into his temple. I picked up my screwdriver, dropped amongst the scuffling, and blew out his tire so he couldn't follow me after regaining consciousness. I kept the crowbar as swag. Can't believe I almost forgot to mention that part. Thanks for the pathtag! :-D chrisrayn
  12. Quite honestly, I believe this sport is more about finding geocaches than making them. If there are already caches in place, it seems pointless to go place another one. Your cool historical marker may be cooler than the other dude's random tree 100 feet away, but that's just what happened. A location is a location...don't fret. Drives has already taken every cemetary in Texas except one, but I don't complain. Much.
  13. I'm in a similar situation right now. Nature has taken some land back out near me on a public road that is no longer being maintained and sports two bridges that have been destroyed. I've found out it's okay to walk the entire distance of the public road, but I want to get the okay from the landowners on both sides of the road before I do it...just because I don't want them to come out shouting about it being their road when it's not.
  14. Man, that's not the way. You have to find that one girl, the one who will love you for who you are and who's been right under your nose the whole time but you just didn't know it. And then you realize that you were wrong to chase after all of those other women when the perfect one was always right there in front of you and then you kiss her and then the credits roll and you leave the theater and wish you went to see Funny People instead even though everyone else has been saying it sucks.
  15. Sure, like that hasn't been done a few dozen times already.... Well not all of us can afford rock drills. :-(
  16. I've always had an "obsession of the moment". For awhile it was indie films, last summer it was getting in shape (I lost 45 pounds in 2 months, and have since gained it back and I enjoy eating what I like MUCH more than being thin), Halo a couple summers ago (I went to competitions), xbox, reading (I read 6 books in June this year), comic books, yada yada yada. I go through obsessions like the Olsen twins go through eating disorders. I think, though, based on the nature of geocaching, with there being so many to find and in places I've been before and never known of the secret and places I've never been that I could see and that every experience is a completely different one, that this one will last quite a while. Cheers, geocachers.
  17. Here's an idea I used for my puzzle cache that may work for you. First of all, dig up a dead body (doesn't matter where, just make sure you remain consistent on the gender over time, and that the body is relatively fresh), and make it look as though the person has been killed by a certain other person based on DNA evidence or fingerprints left at the scene of the crime. Make this the starting coordinates of your puzzle cache, just make sure you continually refresh the scene with a new dead body every 2 to 3 days, as well as DNA or fingerprint evidence that points to the murderer. Okay, so stage two is the murderer, who must be found by solving the DNA or fingerprint evidence from the first coordinates, who has the coordinates tattooed on his body in a jumble which must be scrambled to find the correct coordinates (you can make these available to be checked on geochecker.com). Make him difficult to find but not too hard. Okay, here's the tricky part. There must be some sort of physical challenge lined up to get the coordinates from whatever huge and rough-looking biker dude you pick to be the murderer. Either you must beat him at a game of pool, or in a street race, or maybe a drinking game, but after which all of these would be followed by a brawl after he's lost and can't believe he's done so with a "scrawny pipsqueak like you." After the brawl, he should be knocked out, so you can take his shirt off as people applaud for you and thank you for their freedom from his wrath, write down the scrambled numbers from his chest, back, and inner thighs, and reassemble them to come up with the coordinates for the actual location. Once they get to the actual cache, though, make sure the container has a lock on it because uh-oh, GUESS WHAT! The BIKER had a KEY on him that opens the LOCK! If you didn't check his body for items after you took him out, you don't get the key, and you can't sign the log! Be prepared for a few DNFs though.
  18. Well, I must say, [OP NAME HERE] I agree with whatever you've said totally! The opinions you've just expressed are well received by me and impress me with their original philosophical take on whatever area of geocaching they happen to address or not address! I will make sure and watch out for more of your posts in the future, [OP NAME HERE], because what you've said here is just absolutely fantastic! :-D
  19. Team GPSaxaphone might say that, but I don't know him and don't want to put words in his mouth. Now, Team GPSaxophone would say Groundspeak thought of the stale date idea when designing the Geomate Jr so that the caches that come preloaded are likely to remain in place for some time. Well, I may be a different breed to talk to, Teem GPSackzafown, because I actually used my geomate for awhile...and whereas the pre-loaded waypoints was useful for one or two days, I hit everything I do pretty hardcore, whether it be biking, playing video games, bowling, pool, etc... I always want to do as much as I can the best I can... The geomate I'd say is made for the more casual geocacher. It's a great little device, the coords are relatively correct in most cases, but I noticed that about 1 in 10 caches I tried on it seemed to no longer be operative (which I guess is still a pretty acceptable ratio). HowEVER, when I got EasyGPS (before I discovered GSAK thanks to Mrs. Captain Picard), and figured out how to print out spreadsheet-type listings of geocaches to use as a papered supplement to the coords on my GPS, I was able to up my finds to 30 in one day (which my girlfriend to drive while I navigated with two maps, a list of coordinates, and a geomate for which I had to switch back and forth between the North and West readings. Let's be honest, though...if you're the kind of person who wants to find 30 in a day, you need to get a better unit. I asked around and all the newbs said Oregon while all the established folks said 60CSX. So I have a 60CSX now and it's inCREDibly easy to find caches, even without paper. I can get 50 in a day now using just one device (and a maglite later on in the day) and I'm VERY happy. But the geomate is exTREMEly good for increasing the itch of the "geocaching bug." So, in conclusion, yes, OP, you need to "Archive" it. You can't delete it. :-)
  20. West Virginia is hands down the second-most beautiful state I've ever visited. It seems so untouched. When I went through it was nothing but mountainy forest. Pretty. Oh, #1 state was northern Idaho in winter...but I've not been to every state, so take that for what it's worth.
  21. It's much cheaper to just add a little slip of paper with the standard decryption method to your geocaching bag. If you want to be fancy, you can laminate it.
  22. And that, children, is what we call an extended metaphor.
  23. One thing I find is that different regions have styles. Styles come from the locals copying each other. So when someone is inspired to hide a cache and they wait until they see "what everone else is doing" that's what they hide. Creativity in hiding a cache comes from within, it doesn't come from copying the other 100 hides you found. What I'm saying is when your muse whispers in your ear about a great cache idea, and you haven't hit your magic 100, listen to your muse and not the 100. I must be a rebel. I'm put off by so many magnetic key holders and 35 mm film canisters and lock & locks. I recently placed one which took a wide departure and I had FUN making it. Perhaps this is what's spurring me, over in the Hollow out a Rock thread, to make better and more interesting fake rocks. One exercise has taken a turn to appear as an old mileage marker, which will get coats of plaster whitewash before going out. Another is a fake sprinkler (which I've seen done a few times) but with a larger container inside. I bought these parts a year ago and will finally do something with them) I'm also waiting on papier mache to dry (assuming the rotten old balloon I'm using doesn't pop) to form a fake rock. Also a little camo painted 10 round paintball tube is drying. I still like to walk through stores, particularly hardware and home & garden for inspiration. I don't want my finders to be looking for the ordinary, I want them to be seeking the extraordinary. Okay...I think my issue is this: not everybody out there has a muse like that. I think that if someone isn't the type to think so creatively, then they should wait awhile. I'm waiting awhile for different reasons though. I want to make a small trail of caches, but I want to see a number of different kinds of caches first so I don't end up with 6 fake rocks along the way. I want to put something out there for everyone. I want to be kind to newbies and seasoned veterans alike. I want to include an easy one and a hard one. I want a mystery or multi included. I want large and small containers. I just think the vast majority of people who are out there hiding after only 4 finds are placing just for placement's sake, like the newbie up there said. ;-) I still sort of consider myself a noob after around 140 finds. But it's been a fun 3 weeks. I've even helped someone replace a cache that broke rather than make my own. But there are exceptions of course...I don't think there should be a REQUIRED amount of finds before someone can place. It might sour someone on the whole idea. The title, however, says "should." I think, on general principle, that most people should wait a little while to see what's out there. Others, however, get their rock-drill out and start working their second day. It all just depends.
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