The red-haired witch

No right answer yet. I'll wait a few more hours before giving a hint.

You can also run a pocket query for the area (or along the road) with the attribute "takes less than one hour".

Yay! I'll stick with a similar subject, since orienteering season just started again around here. What terrain is represented by the color white on orienteering maps?

Orienteering!

Sur la page de la cache, dans le coin en haut à droite, cliquez sur "log your visit". Pour obtenir plus facilement des réponses en français, vous pouvez essayer les forums régionaux du Canada (beaucoup de gens bilingues) et de la France, vers le bas de la liste des forums. Un autre bon forum à visiter (surtout si vous êtes au Québec, mais même si vous n'y êtes pas ) : forum de Geocaching du Québec

Just guessing here. Blue?

5.6 miles for 200 caches 7.9 miles for 200 unfound caches Canada's Capital Region... lots of parks!

I saw one of those chains on the tv show "worst jobs in history", I wish I could remember exactly how long it was... Given that the British didn't tend to use nice number like 10 or 100, I'll guess it was 64 yards long, so that would be 1:46080.

[ OK, what does 'NAD83' stand for, where is it centred on and what spheroid does it use? North American Datum 83 (as in the year 1983)... Why is every question a multi-part one and why is it that I always know only one part of the answer?

I`m pretty sure there must have been a limit at that time too, maybe that limit was just a bit higher before... the list never include every cache in the world and their distance realtive to you (If you search by province, though, that does include all the caches in the province, no matter how far.) There appears to be no way of changing the radius of that default search around your home coordinates, but you can use a larger radius on a poquet query if you are a premium member. Of course, poquet queries have a limit of 500 hits (around here, that's less than 50 miles), which means you may have to run more than one to cover the area you want. Without poquet queries, one good way to search a larger area may be this : run the "nearest to my home coordinates" search, go to the last page of the results, click on the cache that is furthest in each direction (N, NE, E, SE...), and on each of those cache pages, click on "see caches nearest to this cache". Of course, there will be some overlap, but if you are in a low cache density area (or an area where you have found almost every cache), it should work well enough. Also, I don't know if the Google Earth features are for premium members only, but they are a very nice way to look for caches outside of densely populated areas.

A couple of million years ago, somewhere in Africa (no country existed at the time...) Homo Erectus certainly had to invent navigation to find their way to Europe and Asia. (But I do like the hard to disprove Atlantis theory )

Could it be Rama? Only other title of one of his novels I can remember right now... and it takes place on an alien satellite/space station, so it could be. Though I know he also wrote non-fiction books (no idea of the titles of those)

Jules Verne?

Actually, I believe recent tests proved that extract from one particular species of eucalyptus (lemon eucalyptus?) provides protection for a couple of hours, while citronella oil provides protection for about half an hour. I believe those tests were done with at least 25% solution (applied to the skin, obviously, the whole wristband idea is silly... as shown by the table in your link) DEET works better than anything else in the same concentration, of course, but the plastic melting effect can be annoying.

You're funny . I am a woman (though maybe not a "normal" one, if there is such a thing), I hate shopping and I like hunting. And I like caching of course. So caching is much closer to hunting than to shopping for me I have more success caching then hunting though, maybe it's my lack of stealth. I had a DNF on my last hunting trip (well, I saw some "caches", but they were too far for my archery skills), hope I can do better this fall...

It maybe seen as taking the "easy solution"... but wouldn't just the 10 provincial capitals be enough? Not only is it going to be hard to find people to place and maintain the territories caches, the inclusion of those caches will make the final cache almost impossible. It seems to me that adding the 3 territories capitals switches this cache for most people from "maybe some day I could" to "no way". Not that I wouldn't love to see Nunavut, but flying to Iqaluit is far from affordable (and pretty much the only way to get there). Just my suggestion to make this cache a bit easier to create... and maybe possible to find

I don't have them all, but I'll try to help... A1: 0% even if most people don't eat spiders, they are all edible... I think (If you meant how many spiders have a poisonous bite, I think that's 100%, though the poison is usually not dangerous to humans, only to the small critters they hunt.) A2: The bullfrog. A3: A4: 40 years. A5: It doesn't drink milk.

I doubt it will sell. I know that here are collectors for pretty much anything, so there must be someone interested somewhere. But a feedback rating of 2? Trying to sell something for several thousands of dollars which such a low feedback is usually hopeless. Suggestion to the seller from someone who has done a fair bit of e-bay selling : if you want to sell something big, you have to build up a bit of feedback before, I`d say at least 10. (Quick way : just buy a few cheap things all from different sellers, pay quickly, and see your feedback grow. Better way : sell smaller stuff first, ship quickly... some buyers will only consider feedback from buyers) Still, I wish him luck.

Guess that means physics doesn't work like it used too

I don't know if there is a technical car term for this, but the technical physics term would be gyroscopic effect...

Seems quite a few geocachers find pets when searching for caches. A little over a year ago, I found 3 gerbils on my way back from a cache. Sadly, two were frozen solid (there was still snow on the ground ). I kept the survivor, he his still quite happy in his cage, blissfully ignoring my cats. I named him Geo too... original name, I know.

I have luckily never come across a paintball game while caching (probably because I don't cache much in the middle of the night... which is when illegal paintball games would take place), but I have found lots of signs of recent games (fresh paintballs), in city parks in Ottawa and in Gatineau Park. While I've played paintball quite a bit in the past (I still have my trusty old tracer), I would never play without a good face mask. Playing on public land where their could be innocent bystanders not wearing proper protection is totally irresponsible. A paintball could permanently damage an eye... and still hurts quite a bit even when it hits less vital areas (if you are playing, you volunteered for that pain... someone just walking through the park can't be expected to take it with a smile). And if you consider that most paintballs leave a bruise (unless your gun is set for indoor paintball), I'm pretty sure the courts would consider shooting at someone with a paintball gun to be at least "assault and battery with a weapon". Even in Canada, where you wouldn't get sued for millions in "pain and suffering", the possibility of such criminal charges should make people think very hard about where they are going to play that game... of course, some people don't think much, especially when they are having fun.

Gloves are certainly a good idea when caching... they protect you from frostbite too! (Not many spiders in the snow eh?)

Sadly, the ice sculptures pretty much melted the same day they were done this year ... I went to see them on the 5th and there was already not much to see. The huge snow sculptures should still be there when you visit though... as long as it doesn't rain. We are having a weird winter.

Actually, it is not totally wrong, as I know that the police around here have GPS receivers that let them track each other. Each of those GPS emits a signal so that its location appears on the other GPS's maps and on the computer at the command center. Pretty handy. Of course, the cops here do realise that it doesn't let them track people who are using other kinds of GPS receivers... and they don't use their guns much, or threaten people with them all the time. One of the advantages of Canada over California, I guess