brslk
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When did natural boundaires get taken out of the guidelines? Acording to one of the reviewers it was too subjective. I don't see why you can no longer hide a cache across a river that is 3 or 4 meters wide because someone else hid one on the other side of the river.
4 meters is like 13 feet. That's more of a small creek or drainage ditch.
Anyway, natural boundaries have never been in the guidelines that I am aware of. Reviewers will sometimes make exceptions. But I don't see anyone making an exception when somebody could easily traverse 4 meters without going around to a bridge.
Natural boundaries have been in the guidelines for a long time. Ask your local reviewer.
I am also assuming your 4 meter (13 feet) is much calmer than the one near me. I would never think of trying to swim, boat or even kayak across it. That would be near certain death.
Your drainage ditch might be someone elses raging river.
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The Lock-n-Lock containers I have seen are made by Star-frit. If they are as good as any other Star-frit product, then I'll be getting some.
Star-frit makes darn good tater slicers also...
Just sayin...
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I had the same problem as you brslk accept I had a cache on the other side of a highway with 10 foot fences a few months back. Sure people climb over stuff there not suposed to but I dont believe many cachers do.
I sympathize with you fellow Canuck but just be patient. Remember there are millions of other places you can place your cache that will get approved.
The place I was finally approved for was actually much better then the first place I tried.
While I do agree with you that reviewers should be more local, it just isn't possible. That would be way too many reviewers.
It would take a ton of volunteer reviewers that spend a lot of time for free.
There are over a million caches out there so imagine how many reviewers there would have to be if they all were local?
Don't get discouraged.
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I use my iPhone.
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When I was first trying to hide my first cache I tried to explain to the reviewer that there was a major highway with a cement barrier between the cache I wanted to place and one that was close.
I lost that discussion because well... people do climb over stuff like that and cross roads they shouldn't... and do swim across rivers they shouldn't and... etc...
I thought my local reviewer was being unfair! I even came here and complained about it and got the facepalm pics posted in reply to my post! (I know! how dare they!)
I recently placed my first cache after being more thoughtful to the guidelines. You can follow them to the letter but the thing most important is the thought behind the guidelines.
I found that working with the reviewer is much more easy than trying to argue with them. (not that I am suggesting you are doing that)
My local reviewer has been more than helpful.
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Reinforce the bark with fiberglass on the interior then use the burlap hinge method previously mentioned.
Heck use the fiberglass resin to glue the burlap into place.
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or stop reading one above. XD
Being a Boat builder in a previous life. I strongly recommend Epoxy resin over GP or Polyester resin. It sticks to anything. It takes a bit longer to cure.
Other than that... the two people above me posted good advice.
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Of Course!
(no group hugs or singing Kum-Bye-Yah though... gotta protect my image, ya know)
Too late. I saw it all and I'm gonna tell everyone!
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Are you saying you killed a hog by lassoing it and then drowning it?
Yes.
Dude if you got vid or picks I wanna see 'em.
Yes I advocate the destruction of feral and escaped suinae by most means.
I grew up under the strict rule "You kill it, you eat it". My Dad had that sign nailed to a tree at our hunting camp, and he meant it! That kept folks who visited with us from blowing up everything in sight just because they had a gun. When a 10 year-old with a .22 showed my Dad the Mocking Bird he'd knocked out of a tree he lost his grin and excitement when Dad said "Fine, get it cleaned, because that's your dinner." Lessons like that stay with you for a lifetime.
Having learned that at an early age (with a possum I shot with my .410 at age 8 and had to clean and eat) I grew up with a healthy respect for wildlife. Do I kill some animals? Yes, but only for the freezer. I eat everything I kill.
The video you want is not the hog meeting his demise, there's nothing funny about the death of an animal, the great video would have been us trying to get a rope on the darn thing!
I agree with what you say here and have nothing against hunting and would probably enjoy watching a video of people trying to rope it. I just take issue with the way you killed the hog. Surely you must agree there are more humane ways to kill an animal?
I eat more meat than most people! I am a meatitarian!
There is a place for every living creature on earth... right next to the mashed potatoes.
And sorry for steering this off topic.
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Open up a new account and troll..
The OPs profile showes almost 100 finds, not quite a sock pupet...
Anyway, When placing a moving cache in a tree, I swung my backpack over a branch, and used the arm straps for handels. I then did a pull up (with feet assist on the tree trunk), grabed the branch, and pulled myself over, then up.
You may have to be creative, but there usualy is a way. It would be nice for the CO to mention the hight in the hint or something. I know for this tree placment I described, I said that a climbing device would be needed.
For the record, My post was misplaced but I do apologize anyway. It wasn't pointed at the OP.
It was just aimed at people that do such things.
Even I can see how some might have thought I had inferred it was directed at the OP and should have edited it , but by the time I realized what I had done my post had already been pointed out so it would have made me look even worse to remove it at that time.
Again, I offer my apologies to the OP and will take more care in the future to make my posts more clear.
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(Casual rumors? That just makes me giggle. "Hey, Larry... you see that island over there. I heard once, you're not going to believe this, but my mom used to tell me it was once occupied with... ducks. Can you dig that? Ducks! Town's never been the same since.)
Ironically, that isn't that far from the truth, its like one of those myths that someone ought to bust... on TV! ... or something
Sometimes names come from the weirdest places.
There is a small island south of my lake place where we cut a landing strip back in the early '60s so my Dad and his friends could fly in and fish when they wanted.
One day our friend Neil came in for a landing and there was a hog on the runway. No idea where the hog came from, maybe he was washed down the river in a flood and had found refuge on the island, but there had never been a hog on the island before. Hogs and airplanes don't mix... it had to go.
He had to buzz the hog a couple of times to get him to move from the runway before he could land.
When I came by boat to pick Neil up we had to remove the hog to make aircraft operations safe, so we went on a lasso mission with my ski rope. Hilarity ensued, but we finally did get a rope on the pig. We tried to teach it to ski, but it couldn't get the hang of it and soon became dinner.
Hog Island became the name of that previously unnamed island and it's been called that by the locals ever since.
Are you saying you killed a hog by lassoing it and then drowning it?
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Hi there,
I'm only 5foot tall and have just had my 8th cnr (could not reach). Having taken a bit of flak for logging as found a cache that i couldn't sign cos i couldn't reach I wonder what other shorties do?
If i am certain I've seen it (e.g. a nano on the back of a tall roadsign) then as far as I'm concerned I've found it. I have discovered its a bad idea to knock it off cos then I can't get it back (and with a nano you risk losing it).
If i think i know where it is, but haven't seen the actual cache I don't log it. yesterday there was one wich i'm sure for the clue, is hidden in the rim around a tall gateway structure. Didn't actually see it, so didn't log it.
So, shorties, apart from finding a tall person, what do you do?
Open up a new account and troll..
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OIC... only pro stuff.. got it.
You obviously haven't read it. It carries no opinions, pro or con, just geocacher's stories.
Perhaps.
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I found a bison tube stuffed with a FOUR page strip log and the last page was heavily damaged by all the attempts by others to put it back in. I tore off the bottom half of the last page to make the log much easier to replace without damage.
Did you tear off any signatures? If it's just blank log, it only rates a meh on the geocaching sin scale
1. Do not do that ever.
2. Do not do that unless you want it done to you.
3. Meh...
4. Do it man
5. If you don't do it, I will.
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This is the best site I've seen for Poison Ivy, Poison Oak, etc.
Here's another good site.
http://poisonivy.aesir.com/view
Here are some good tick sites.
http://www.ent.iastate.edu/imagegal/ticks/
Excellent. I learned more there than I even wanted to! Thanks for the links.
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So TAR, when are we going to enjoy the family-friendly version of this story on The Online Geocacher?
And CF, yes the trip is still on and you are welcome to come. But, you may be
as there will be stops for other trails that are not archived and we might stumble across a few that aren't ammo cans Great idea!
Maybe someone involved would write an article about the teamwork and planning that went into creating the trail, and someone who ran it would write about their run, that would be cool.
I will ask them! Anyone?
You might also want to ask them why exactly it was archived. People would like to know it seems.
Nope, I avoid controversy in the magazine. It's a place for geocachers to tell geocaching tales. Anyone who wants to discuss the pros and cons of any topic has this forum to do it in.
That's partly why I don't often write for the magazine - I don't want it to ever become a place for my desires and opinions.
Got a geocaching story? Great, we'll publish it. Got an opinion or criticism to share? Find another platform!
As I said, I would love for any of the folks involved to write about their experience.
OIC... only pro stuff.. got it.
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So TAR, when are we going to enjoy the family-friendly version of this story on The Online Geocacher?
And CF, yes the trip is still on and you are welcome to come. But, you may be
as there will be stops for other trails that are not archived and we might stumble across a few that aren't ammo cans Great idea!
Maybe someone involved would write an article about the teamwork and planning that went into creating the trail, and someone who ran it would write about their run, that would be cool.
I will ask them! Anyone?
You might also want to ask them why exactly it was archived. People would like to know it seems.
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I am a member of a camping website where someone posted a question asking people if they Geocache.
Several people said they did and one member posted that he tried it once and found it boring.
Someone responded that if they find a hike and finding stuff boring that they would like to know what they find exciting?
I guess it can be boring to some people. Much like quilting is boring to me but excites others.
I myself have become obsessed with Geocaching.
Quilting and needlepoint... not so much...
Are you on "sleeping in tents"? I had asked that question some time ago.
I am on a few but not that one. The one I was referring to was rv.net.
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Seriously, Who cares? And why are you posting the same thing in every single thread that has anything to do with TOTG?
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I am a member of a camping website where someone posted a question asking people if they Geocache.
Several people said they did and one member posted that he tried it once and found it boring.
Someone responded that if they find a hike and finding stuff boring that they would like to know what they find exciting?
I guess it can be boring to some people. Much like quilting is boring to me but excites others.
I myself have become obsessed with Geocaching.
Quilting and needlepoint... not so much...
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... majority of folks in Europe speak English or they can use translate mode.
But just in case the European you're talking to hasn't got their onboard translate mode switched on, remember to speak your version of English loudly and slowly, while waving your arms about and pointing at things!
Brilliant! I actually laughed out loud.
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I have noticed that sometimes if I'm caching in a heavily populated area, that Muggles tend to completely ignore you. I was looking for one at a very well-traveled intersection a few weeks ago during the evening rush hour and even though the cache was completely out in the open (but VERY well disguised) and that I walked by it a couple times before making the find, NO ONE seemed to know I was there. It's as if everyone is so caught up in there own little world, that someone walking down a sidewalk with a device in their hand doesn't warrant any attention.
I have more people notice me when I'm in rural settings on in parks, that when hunting urban caches. I almost stopped practicing stealth in the city these days and have never been called out, nor have caches disappeared after I've been there.
Ths is very true. Harry Dolphin's stealth stories:
Nano at the base of a sign outside a very popular restaurant in NYC. Lady leaning against the sign! Dolphin plops backpack down against the back of the sign, about four inches from lady's ankle. Rummages through backpack, palms nano cache. Goes off to sign the log. Plops backpack down against he sign again, rummages through backpack, returns cache to hiding place. Nobody saw anything!
Cache hidden in small gazebo, with girl sleeping under cache. Parents sitting alongside. Dolphin directs visiting cachers from another state to go ten feet to the east, point into the lake and yell "Look at that!". Dolphin climbs over sleeping girl, gets cache. Visiting cachers spoint in a different direction and scream "It's a hawk!" Dolphin returns cache to hiding place.
On the other fin, cache placed by someone who hides nasty caches. As near as I can figure, its in the awning of an abandoned store. Nearby store owner threatens (not a real threat) to call the police. I can live without that CO's caches. No redeeming social value, outside of flaunting guidelne violations.
First story.. snapping upskirt pics...
second story... you climbed over a sleeping girl??...
third example... I agree
Kidding!
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Geocaches are more likely to go missing if non geocachers know about them. Many cachers like to be stealthy to prevent the caches location from being revealed.
^That is the reason I use stealth. I do not want to be the person that had a cache placers cache go missing because someone curious or just malicious make it go missing because they saw me with it.
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Please delete. Overpost. Didn't think thread posted. Sorry.
Good luck. But, lost GPSR's never seem to come home. My wife lost a Dakota 10 that showed our address and phone number at startup, and it never came back.
I once lost my wallet with all my I.D. Clearly showing my picture and current address. It also contained $200.
Surprisingly it was never returned.
I then vowed that if I ever found a wallet with cash in it, I would keep the cash and drop the wallet in a mailbox.
I have found two wallets since and delivered both of them back to the owners with cash included.
I think I am a bit more moral than I pretend to be.
Not too impressed with the owner of the second wallet I returned. She never even said thank you and acted as if I stole her wallet. (found it on the road at a major intersection, she obviously left it on the roof of her car)
I believe strongly in karma...
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I just enjoyed the pic...
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Impressive!