tekkguy

Don't forget to email yourself the answers, or you might delete your log!

Maybe I'm missing something ... but is the guy that emailed you complaining about your old find logs on the ones you've found before? Or just the found logs that happen to be close to the adoption? What's the difference in finding it a month before the adoption and finding it 10 minutes before the adoption? Or 10 minutes AFTER the adoption if you've never found it before?

Because she smells like a new car.

Well, since I'm one of the people you're at 'issue' with () let me say that my comments in that thread were in the context of that particular situation, given the description of that particular location and the situation with the cachers (in the cop's eyes) fleeing the scene. I don't think the police should blow up a clearly marked cache just because stumble onto an ammo can in the woods, in a location with no history of domestic terrorism, not near a school, not near a church, etc. But you find a heavy, waterproof, metal container used to store ammunition in a location with a history of domestic terrorism, where two skitzy looking guys are 'fleeing' upon the approach of a cop - yeah, you blow it up.

But what is stopping someone placing an explosive device as a geocache? Place a cache, let people find it a few times, replace it with a stickered box with explosives in it. Personally, I'd rather the police blew up a few tupperware boxes then assume it's a geocache, having checked the listing or not. Thanks for making my point about checking caches before calling the bomb squad. It's useless. In the end, you come up with Schroedinger's Cache - that thing (especially where it was, considering there was a terrorism incident last year in that spot) is both a bomb and a cache until you look inside - and you think one of them is just going to reach down and pop open an ammo can in a bad location after two 'suspicious' guys just left it? I'm not saying the cops shouldn't verify - I'm saying it's a waste of time in a situation like this where the combination of the location and type of hide make for very bad vibes. If the 'suspicious' guys had just walked away from a piece of tupperware, the cops would be in a different spot, I'm betting. Hide an ammo can in the woods - but if you hide one in the city, make sure someone in a position of authority (property owner, city, police, etc) knows that it is there and what it is. I know several cops, and I don't know a single one that would, in this particular situation, given location and circumstances, just "trust the web" and open that box. EDIT: Sgt. Duvall did ask for responsible geocaching. They'll take care of the responsible police work, which was handled well in this situation IMHO.

And they're supposed to rely on that? Just because it's listed on the website doesn't mean it's really a cache. Could still be any number of things from a law enforcement perspective. If they went on solely on the word of a geocacher and the listing on this website, it wouldn't be long before you'd have someone swap out a pre-existing geocache with something much, much worse, knowing the cops are going to just ignore it because it's listed and Joe Geocacher says "Oh yeah, there's one there, I signed the log last week." I'm with the cops on this one, especially after the cachers jumping in the car and taking off. And no, I'd seriously doubt that the cop would have given chase to the guys. Best case, he'd have gotten the license plate and description - his more important job was securing what he thought could be a bomb. No they should not rely solely on that - but (like I said) - it certainly couldn't hurt to check. Might save a lot of hassle. It would be wasted time finding, contacting, and verifying with a geocacher - in the end, they know it MIGHT be a geocache (if it has a sticker, it MIGHT be a geocache) ... but there's still no way to know 100% certain unless it's opened or 'rendered inoperable' ... and they aren't going to take the risk to open it, so why bother taking the time to check ... I guess that's more of the point.

And they're supposed to rely on that? Just because it's listed on the website doesn't mean it's really a cache. Could still be any number of things from a law enforcement perspective. If they went on solely on the word of a geocacher and the listing on this website, it wouldn't be long before you'd have someone swap out a pre-existing geocache with something much, much worse, knowing the cops are going to just ignore it because it's listed and Joe Geocacher says "Oh yeah, there's one there, I signed the log last week." I'm with the cops on this one, especially after the cachers jumping in the car and taking off. And no, I'd seriously doubt that the cop would have given chase to the guys. Best case, he'd have gotten the license plate and description - his more important job was securing what he thought could be a bomb.

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Wow ... this design is gorgeous. I love the concept behind it.

I'd like to be added ... my email is crhodes@gmail.com

I'm not sure. Someone from Groundspeak will have to answer that. This is only partially true. Once you have the GC number, you can go to wap.geocaching.com and see the coordinates without ever logging into the site. They don't require a login for the WAP site, but they do require the GC number.

You are right about that ... I love my Oregon. But, I started with a Windows Mobile phone, and it was ok. It's great for casual caching, and you've always got it with you - but when I decided caching was going to be a serious hobby, I went for the dedicated GPS.

Great! Let me know when you have it made and I'll buy a couple.

That Mio phone should be fine. You will have to (probably) change the setting on the GPS chip to turn off static navigation if it's anything like my Pharos phone. There's a (fairly) simple app you can use for that, but you might want a techie friend to do it for you, because you could possibly brick the GPS chip ... The specs on the phone say it's Windows Mobile, so you shouldn't have any issues at all ... there are plenty of Geocaching apps for Windows Mobile. Good luck!

Whoops ... guess I should lay off the coffee and slow down a little.

You can still log a virtual cache. If you can find one in your area that still exists, you can still visit it, complete what you need to, and log it. You can't CREATE a new one ... but you can log one.

I sent you a PM with (what is probably) a lame coin idea, if that helps.

Incidentally, Google works great for searching the forums for less than three letter words ... go to Google and type in: xxxxxx site:forums.Groundspeak.com where xxxxxx is your search term ... all the processing is on Google's side, so you're helping to keep the boards fast too

Ask your local reviewer, they should have a good understanding of what is allowed in your area.

I'm kind of a fan of this Browning ... the snap-on color filters are nice too. EDIT: Replaced link to be a link to the manufacturer's site

My first experience with any kind of orienteering was when one of our high school science teachers organized a week long event to Dinosaur Valley State Park ... we camped, fished, hiked, and had an orienteering competition (back before GPSrs) ... maybe talk to one of your science teachers? At the very least, they may set up some kind of activity that will get people interested in the sport, and then you can use that as an intro to your off-campus club ...

Badminton. I found out one thing in high school. I started two clubs while there. I had opposition from the administration on both clubs. Neither were sports clubs. The one thing I learned ... push, and go above their heads if necessary. They may have valid reasons, or they may (as in my case) just not want to deal with it.

I've seen someone use 'Antiquing solution' and it seems to work well. It supposedly works on 'any paintable surface' ... I had a buddy that used it on wood after painting the wood with a metallic basecoat ... it looked like a piece of rusty metal in the end. You can get 'antiquing solution' at Michael's, Hobby Lobby, etc. near where they sell the paint.

A pocket query lets you perform a search that is highly filtered for exactly what you are looking for, and then download all of the results (up to 500 caches per query) that match your filters. The results are sent to your email, and then you can transfer them to a device that supports 'paperless' caching, like your blackberry probably does. When you look at the caches you get from a pocket query, you'll have the name, difficulty, description, terrain rating, hints, and even some of the logs from other people all in one spot.

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