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quote:Originally posted by fractal:Ok.. Hit a few caches tonight with a friend. Placed decals in the following... -fractal So what do those of us in the "southern" states have to do (besides make another trip north!) to get decals? I would be willing to pay for some if you were willing to ship them down here (I'd even pay for that). I just know that I would never make it in time to one of the caches with a decal in it if you post that they are there... *sigh* *sniff* ---------- Lori aka: RedwoodRed KF6VFI "I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations." GeoGadgets Team Website Comics, Video Games and Movie Fansite

quote:Originally posted by makaio:http://img.Groundspeak.com/cache/5505_600.gif Speaking of not knowing how to pronounce someone's nick... how do you pronounce yours? ---------- Lori aka: RedwoodRed KF6VFI "I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations." GeoGadgets Team Website Comics, Video Games and Movie Fansite

quote:Originally posted by makaio:http://img.Groundspeak.com/cache/5505_600.gif Speaking of not knowing how to pronounce someone's nick... how do you pronounce yours? ---------- Lori aka: RedwoodRed KF6VFI "I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations." GeoGadgets Team Website Comics, Video Games and Movie Fansite

Before you place a cache, how often (if ever) do you check other "geocaching" sites such as NaviCache or Buxley's? I have seen in some of the other forums where folks placed a cache only to find out that non-Geocaching.com members of the above two sites had placed caches in near proximaty. I know it isn't a problem for me; I visited Navicache and there isn't one of their caches within 225 miles of me. I didn't spend much time looking at Buxley's, but I assume that it is primarily for you folks north of the border, eh? If you do visit those sites, do you post your caches there as well? ---------- Lori aka: RedwoodRed KF6VFI "I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations." GeoGadgets Team Website Comics, Video Games and Movie Fansite

quote:Originally posted by Alan2:OK RedwoodRed. You sold me. I'm ready to visit. Question. I don't have a Ford F-150 Supercab Flareside 4x4 (2000 model)... 5.4L V-8. Will my Chrysler New Yorker sedan make it? Alan I don't think it matters if it only has six cylinders... the large percentage of 15-year old Ford Tempos, Yugos, Chevy Chevettes and other almost-four cylinder vehicles that are resident here seem to do okay... why shouldn't a New Yorker from New York? ---------- Lori aka: RedwoodRed KF6VFI "I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations." GeoGadgets Team Website Comics, Video Games and Movie Fansite

quote:Originally posted by Alan2:OK RedwoodRed. You sold me. I'm ready to visit. Question. I don't have a Ford F-150 Supercab Flareside 4x4 (2000 model)... 5.4L V-8. Will my Chrysler New Yorker sedan make it? Alan I don't think it matters if it only has six cylinders... the large percentage of 15-year old Ford Tempos, Yugos, Chevy Chevettes and other almost-four cylinder vehicles that are resident here seem to do okay... why shouldn't a New Yorker from New York? ---------- Lori aka: RedwoodRed KF6VFI "I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations." GeoGadgets Team Website Comics, Video Games and Movie Fansite

Let me ask a hypothetical question: You are a hard-core "if they place it we will cache"-type geocacher. You also happen to be down on religious materials placed in caches. You notice a new cache in your vacinity, one like THIS. Are you going to go visit it? IMHO, if you go there and trade for items that those people have placed, you are a hypocrite. A group of Christians (Christian school kids) got together and placed a cache. Of course they included things like small-sized New Testament Bibles, and maybe a couple of religious tracts/cartoons. Maybe you don't find anything that you wanted to trade for, so you Take Nothing, Left Nothing and logged it as a find. My point is this: You don't know the political, religious or sexual leanings of anyone who places a cache, nor should it matter unless you are going to apply your personal, theological or political beliefs to geocaching. If you don't like their viewpoints, and are adamantly against what they believe, you should NOT log it as a find. If you want to set aside your prejudices and misconceptions about mankind in general for a few hours, by all means, go geocaching and log it as a find. But don't go *****ing about it afterwards. Those who are non-religious are not going to sway the beliefs of those who are pro-religious, so why don't we all just stop posting here? Topics such as this only cause animosity among a (normally) very amicable group. Why keep poking at one another? Stop kicking this obviously dead horse. ---------- Lori aka: RedwoodRed KF6VFI "I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations." GeoGadgets Team Website Comics, Video Games and Movie Fansite

quote:Originally posted by makaio: And check out this history of our good friend http://math.bu.edu/people/bob/fracman/ Now your secret is out! Buh-hahaha! I'm sorry, that drawing looks like something I've seen on South Park around Christmas time... No offense, er, fractal. But, can't you SEE it? ---------- Lori aka: RedwoodRed KF6VFI "I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations." GeoGadgets Team Website Comics, Video Games and Movie Fansite

quote:Originally posted by makaio: And check out this history of our good friend http://math.bu.edu/people/bob/fracman/ Now your secret is out! Buh-hahaha! I'm sorry, that drawing looks like something I've seen on South Park around Christmas time... No offense, er, fractal. But, can't you SEE it? ---------- Lori aka: RedwoodRed KF6VFI "I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations." GeoGadgets Team Website Comics, Video Games and Movie Fansite

quote:Originally posted by fractal: Yeah.. this is nitpicking.. but I should share it Oh, fractal... I'm sorry! It must have something to do with my proper (ahem! English heritage. Or maybe my overly proper English teacher? I knew immediately how to properly pronounce oregone's screen name/handle/nick... must have something to do with my exposure to the borderlanders north of my current position. Will you EVER forgive me? ---------- Lori aka: RedwoodRed KF6VFI "I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations." GeoGadgets Team Website Comics, Video Games and Movie Fansite

quote:Originally posted by fractal: Yeah.. this is nitpicking.. but I should share it Oh, fractal... I'm sorry! It must have something to do with my proper (ahem! English heritage. Or maybe my overly proper English teacher? I knew immediately how to properly pronounce oregone's screen name/handle/nick... must have something to do with my exposure to the borderlanders north of my current position. Will you EVER forgive me? ---------- Lori aka: RedwoodRed KF6VFI "I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations." GeoGadgets Team Website Comics, Video Games and Movie Fansite

quote:Originally posted by Renegade Knight: 250,000 people in the area and half the caches in the state within 100 miles(1.1 million in the state) Maybe that is why they call it "Treasure Valley"? ---------- Lori aka: RedwoodRed KF6VFI "I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations." GeoGadgets Team Website Comics, Video Games and Movie Fansite

quote:Originally posted by Renegade Knight: 250,000 people in the area and half the caches in the state within 100 miles(1.1 million in the state) Maybe that is why they call it "Treasure Valley"? ---------- Lori aka: RedwoodRed KF6VFI "I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations." GeoGadgets Team Website Comics, Video Games and Movie Fansite

quote:Originally posted by carivercpl: Barefoot hit it on the head...i have been all over the world and enjoyed myself no matter where i'm at...but nothing beat coming home to california...but then i guess you can say that about any place you love to live... Right On! Hey... I grew up in Norco... your backyard. Yep, Norco... where men are men and horses get nervous! Norco, where until a few years ago, there were no sidewalks, because horses outnumbered people. Moved away from that lovely little treasure in 1973. Graduated from La Sierra High (Riverside) class of 1978. Go Eagles! Yep, California, where most people were your neighbor at least for a time. The really funny part of California? If all of you folks hate it here so much, why are so many people from other states MOVING HERE! Earthquakes? Brushfires? Rioting? That is when you weed out the true Californians... the hardcore Cali-folk hang tight. ---------- Lori aka: RedwoodRed KF6VFI "I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations." GeoGadgets Team Website Comics, Video Games and Movie Fansite

quote:Originally posted by carivercpl: Barefoot hit it on the head...i have been all over the world and enjoyed myself no matter where i'm at...but nothing beat coming home to california...but then i guess you can say that about any place you love to live... Right On! Hey... I grew up in Norco... your backyard. Yep, Norco... where men are men and horses get nervous! Norco, where until a few years ago, there were no sidewalks, because horses outnumbered people. Moved away from that lovely little treasure in 1973. Graduated from La Sierra High (Riverside) class of 1978. Go Eagles! Yep, California, where most people were your neighbor at least for a time. The really funny part of California? If all of you folks hate it here so much, why are so many people from other states MOVING HERE! Earthquakes? Brushfires? Rioting? That is when you weed out the true Californians... the hardcore Cali-folk hang tight. ---------- Lori aka: RedwoodRed KF6VFI "I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations." GeoGadgets Team Website Comics, Video Games and Movie Fansite

quote:Originally posted by carivercpl: "can't we all just get along???"...stop the madness i have been all around this big thing we call mother earth and let me tell ya there is no better place then california... I'm a dyed-in-the-wool (whatever that is supposed to mean) born-and-bred (sounds like my parents were into sheep farming, huh?) Native Californian. I hate L.A. (born there, done that, I wouldn't wear the lame baby doll t-shirt they were handing out) except for the constant stream of front row seating concerts everyday or sports events within 60 miles of my house and places to eat or watch a movie 24/7. L.A. Sux. But the minute you leave L.A. and head north, things start to get nicer. Much nicer. I lived for 12 years in Ventura and Santa Barbara areas and that is lovely landscape. How many of you wish you could walk to the corner to buy just picked oranges, avocados and strawberries? For twelve years I didn't pay for produce, it was given to me. Now I live in the REAL Northern California (if you notice on a map, San Francisco is in the MIDDLE OF THE STATE, HELLO!), 25 miles south of the Oregon Stateline. Right on the coast. In the heart of the Redwood National and State Parks. All you folks drool on the postcards they make from where I live. Ain't no place prettier. I can drive 15 miles and be in the mountains. It is only two minutes to the beaches. The Smith River is the most pristine free-flowing river in all of North America, and it is in California. You can keep you EV Rav 4. I'll stick with MY Ford F-150 Supercab Flareside 4x4 (2000 model)... 5.4L V-8 with a Maggie Meridian on the dash... don't you wish you were me? ---------- Lori aka: RedwoodRed KF6VFI "I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations." GeoGadgets Team Website Comics, Video Games and Movie Fansite

quote:Originally posted by carivercpl: "can't we all just get along???"...stop the madness i have been all around this big thing we call mother earth and let me tell ya there is no better place then california... I'm a dyed-in-the-wool (whatever that is supposed to mean) born-and-bred (sounds like my parents were into sheep farming, huh?) Native Californian. I hate L.A. (born there, done that, I wouldn't wear the lame baby doll t-shirt they were handing out) except for the constant stream of front row seating concerts everyday or sports events within 60 miles of my house and places to eat or watch a movie 24/7. L.A. Sux. But the minute you leave L.A. and head north, things start to get nicer. Much nicer. I lived for 12 years in Ventura and Santa Barbara areas and that is lovely landscape. How many of you wish you could walk to the corner to buy just picked oranges, avocados and strawberries? For twelve years I didn't pay for produce, it was given to me. Now I live in the REAL Northern California (if you notice on a map, San Francisco is in the MIDDLE OF THE STATE, HELLO!), 25 miles south of the Oregon Stateline. Right on the coast. In the heart of the Redwood National and State Parks. All you folks drool on the postcards they make from where I live. Ain't no place prettier. I can drive 15 miles and be in the mountains. It is only two minutes to the beaches. The Smith River is the most pristine free-flowing river in all of North America, and it is in California. You can keep you EV Rav 4. I'll stick with MY Ford F-150 Supercab Flareside 4x4 (2000 model)... 5.4L V-8 with a Maggie Meridian on the dash... don't you wish you were me? ---------- Lori aka: RedwoodRed KF6VFI "I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations." GeoGadgets Team Website Comics, Video Games and Movie Fansite

My S.O. asked me what I wanted for my birthday last year. I thought about it for awhile and then remembered the show I'd seen on Discovery Channel about Geocaching. I hadn't yet found the website, but loved the idea of treasure hunting. Since I live in the most beautiful area in the world (Northern California Redwood Coast), there are tons of trails here and since we do a lot of four-wheeling and all of those trails start to look the same ("Hey! Haven't we been here before?"), I thought that a GPS would have a great secondary purpose. So, Steak bought me a Magellan 315 at Fred Meyers in Brookings, Oregon... and the case for it, and the car adapter, and the software, etc. But other than taking it out of the packaging, I hardly ever got to so much as hold it. He hogged it until he'd figured out how to program it, he programmed in our house coords, he drove down to the beach with it to establish sea-level... what a turd! It was pretty obvious to me, that my new gadget got grabbed. I allowed this to continue, with a bit of grousing, of course, until Valentine's Day '02 came around. We were planning for our Geo-Xpedition to the Contact Cache and I commented, "I know what you can give me for V-Day..." I asked for a new GPS. One of my VERY OWN. First, we visited the local Wal-Mart and that is where I saw the Meridian for the first time. I had gone thinking that I'd like the Etrex Legend, but I did some research for a day or two, asked questions on this forum and finally decided on the Meridian. I love it! The mapping capabilities have kept us from being lost on many occasions (a cache done yesterday was one of those - none of the streets had street signs!). The coolest thing about it? It is MINE. I constantly refer to the 315 as "YOUR GPS" and when I get out of the truck the Meridian goes into my pouch, next to my digital camera and PDA (yep, I'm a Gadget Geek Girl). There is only one thing that I don't like about it: No place to hook a lanyard. I wish I could find a way to hook something up without the use of superglue. ---------- Lori aka: RedwoodRed KF6VFI "I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations." GeoGadgets Team Website Comics, Video Games and Movie Fansite

I agree with Goldkey. You are much better off buying her a decent PDA (as with Goldkey, Compaq Ipaq is my choice) AND a nice, weather-resistant, shock-resistant GPS. I have dropped my Meridian, fallen on it, it has been sat on, fallen off of the truck bed-railing, rained on, fallen in a creek, etc. Any one of these incidents would have essentially ruined a $330 to $500 computer (what the PDA is). Computers are not meant to be abused, GPS manufacturers take into consideration that their products are for outdoor use and build them accordingly. Besides, the attachments or add-ons that make PDAs GPS capable are bulky and awkward. I haven't seen one that fits decently into any type of small hip pack or camera-sized bag. ---------- Lori aka: RedwoodRed KF6VFI "I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations." GeoGadgets Team Website Comics, Video Games and Movie Fansite

quote:Originally posted by bwolv: I object to religious literature in caches. If I didn't make my point before... you have just opened the door to a religious debate. If that was your intention, you have succeeded admirably. By making a negative comment in regard to religion your are no less guilty than those who's religious tracts you abhore. ---------- Lori aka: RedwoodRed KF6VFI "I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations." GeoGadgets Team Website Comics, Video Games and Movie Fansite

I am completely and totally against Barney the(Purple Anti-Christ!) Dinosaur and anything related to Chuck E. Cheese (a giant rodent that sells cheese? Who do they think they are kidding?!). I refuse to let my children watch them on TV, the Grandparents have already been put on notice as to what is and isn't allowed in our home and I refuse to purchase, cache-out or in any subsidize the on-going war against human decency that these two commercial figures represent. HOWEVER, if I find items related to those entities within a geocache, I simple ignore it. To allow these Evil Shepards of Broadcast Television to even grace my fore-brain in the form of negative thought (ooops! I'm doing it now!) is to give them strength through negativity. I have better things to think about, more productive things to do with my life than get upset, frustrated or bemused about someone else's attempt at subjugating my open-minded and sensative offspring. Why strengthen the position of these heinous characters by paying attention to their blasphemy? By acknowledging these purpetrators of kid-brain-washing I am giving a minimal amount of credence to their campaign of terror and commercialism. Do Not Give In! Vive le Liberte'! ---------- Lori aka: RedwoodRed KF6VFI "I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations." GeoGadgets Team Website Comics, Video Games and Movie Fansite

quote:Originally posted by Seth!: Question One (the maps): The little map problem is, according to Jeremy, a little problem. It's a software glitch and a minor inconvenience. Sometimes even amusing. Okay. I've just seen it a few time the past couple of days and thought, "What the...?" Thanks for informing me. quote:Originally posted by Seth!: Question Two (logging in for forums): If you have your preferences set to automatically log you in to geocaching.com, that cookie probably won't also log you into the forums. (Notice that when you first arrive at the forums page it says "you are not logged in" at the upper left.) If, as soon as you go to the forums, you click on "login" you should get essentially a screen refresh except now it says "Hello *your user name*". You are then free to post. Does this answer the questions? Well, it SHOULD answer the question or solve the problem, but it doesn't. I log in to GC.com and when I reach the forums I click on "login". But yet, when I click on the double quotes to reply to a specific post, OR when I click on reply to topic I get the same thing - while I am logged in and it takes a minimum of two tries before it will let me type anything. GRRRR... Next! ---------- Lori aka: RedwoodRed KF6VFI "I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations." GeoGadgets Team Website Comics, Video Games and Movie Fansite

quote:Originally posted by Seth!: Question One (the maps): The little map problem is, according to Jeremy, a little problem. It's a software glitch and a minor inconvenience. Sometimes even amusing. Okay. I've just seen it a few time the past couple of days and thought, "What the...?" Thanks for informing me. quote:Originally posted by Seth!: Question Two (logging in for forums): If you have your preferences set to automatically log you in to geocaching.com, that cookie probably won't also log you into the forums. (Notice that when you first arrive at the forums page it says "you are not logged in" at the upper left.) If, as soon as you go to the forums, you click on "login" you should get essentially a screen refresh except now it says "Hello *your user name*". You are then free to post. Does this answer the questions? Well, it SHOULD answer the question or solve the problem, but it doesn't. I log in to GC.com and when I reach the forums I click on "login". But yet, when I click on the double quotes to reply to a specific post, OR when I click on reply to topic I get the same thing - while I am logged in and it takes a minimum of two tries before it will let me type anything. GRRRR... Next! ---------- Lori aka: RedwoodRed KF6VFI "I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations." GeoGadgets Team Website Comics, Video Games and Movie Fansite

That each time I open up a cache description page, the small map located near the top of the page is a representation of an area NO WHERE NEAR the actual location of the cache? Have we been hacked? Another problem that I have consistently is that when I click on "Post a new topic" or attempt to reply to one (I'm logged in)... I get bumped back to the list of forums/main discussion page. It wouldn't be a bad thing if this happened on occasion, but it happens everytime and always two or three times before I am taken to the page that a topic or reply is typed into. It is becoming very frustrating. I thought that it might have been some quirk of the new discussion/forums set-up... but hey! It's been over a month now. Is anyone else having this problem? Frustrated ; ---------- Lori aka: RedwoodRed KF6VFI "I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations." GeoGadgets Team Website Comics, Video Games and Movie Fansite

That each time I open up a cache description page, the small map located near the top of the page is a representation of an area NO WHERE NEAR the actual location of the cache? Have we been hacked? Another problem that I have consistently is that when I click on "Post a new topic" or attempt to reply to one (I'm logged in)... I get bumped back to the list of forums/main discussion page. It wouldn't be a bad thing if this happened on occasion, but it happens everytime and always two or three times before I am taken to the page that a topic or reply is typed into. It is becoming very frustrating. I thought that it might have been some quirk of the new discussion/forums set-up... but hey! It's been over a month now. Is anyone else having this problem? Frustrated ; ---------- Lori aka: RedwoodRed KF6VFI "I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations." GeoGadgets Team Website Comics, Video Games and Movie Fansite