brslk
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Canada and the USA are both countries in North America. I believe that Mexico is also North America. And then we have Central America, and of course, South America. We are all Americans. Some Americans, but far from all, are citizens of the USA.Huh!! I could have sworn that Canada was in America!
You are just another province and Obama isn't President, he the Premier.
What do you propose as the demonym for citizens of the country to the south? Amerks?
Yankadians.
I would prefer Obama to our current leader.
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Two bullet-points later, it says "Also, be sure to MAINTAIN the caches." (Again, caps are in the original.)
Are they talking to the child (or the Scout leader)? Do they expect a 10 year old to maintain a cache and its listing? A "NM" gets posted....is the kid supposed to make arrangements to have someone take him out to the site with supplies to replace the cracked container and soaked logbook?
Again, you (and almost everyone else in this thread) is confusing two very different things:
1) the requirements for the geocaching merit badge. The bit you quoted has nothing to do with the badge, and placing a cache is not required to earn the badge.
2) the "Cache to Eagle" series, which encourages adults to place scouting-related caches. The above quote comes from the Cache to Eagle page.
And by the way, there are no 10-year-old Boy Scouts. (Well, maybe a few, there's a narrow exception to the age 11 minimum for becoming a Scout in the BSA, but they're only 10 for a maximum of six months after they join.) Half the "boys" in my troop shave every day and drive themselves to school. They can manage maintaining a cache.
Really? because half of the boys in your troop can drive and shave makes them responsible? is that really what you are saying? do you not remember being 16 at all?
What a teenage boy can do and should do are vastly different from what they will do.
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I just recently moved to Lafayette a few months ago and found this cache too. Glad it was not me! I did run into a Lafayette cop while geocaching also...but he was a geocacher too! I think what happened here could have happened anywhere in the USA. Hopefully, we can put this behind us and move on.
Indeed. I did not mean to imply that the Lafayette police force was any worse than anywhere else.
It could happen anywhere in the USA or even Canada where I live but... Police can track a guy down through DNA evidence but cannot find a guy who lists something...C'mon....
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"Do you do anything to protect your smart phone when geocaching?"
I use a real GPS to geocache. That protects my smart phone from being thrown or smashed when it's inevitably 30 metres off.
WOW... mine is almost always within 10 meters. I suppose what I have read is true that some people just get crappy phones. Luck of the draw.
Not trying to argue with you but is your phone really that off?
Mine gets weird when in a treed area but for the most part it as accurate or more so than my GPSr
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I am pretty sure that if a simple minded man such as I could locate the cache owner the Police should be able to also.
I know cops like to be respected but it makes it kinda tough when they can't even solve this mystery.
Have you actually located the cache owner?
I mean, I know there's a caching name listed as the owner on the cache page... I'm not interested enough to actually go track it down. But just from reading the thread, it sounds like this cache was placed a LONG time ago. Just because there's an owner's name listed on the web page, doesn't mean that it is actually possible to locate the owner.
Another possibility is that "we can't locate the owner" is shorthand for "there was nothing illegal about placing this cache, so we aren't going to bother to try to locate the owner."
The caching name would lead to the owner of the cache no? did the cache owner hide? try to hide his or her identity?
You say you aren't interested enough to track it down but you are interested to argue...
If "we can't locate the owner" is short hand for "there was nothing illegal about placing this cache" is your argument then say so.(I wish the police would let us in on their "short hand")
Stop hopping fences.
They either could or could not have found the owner.
I have nothing against the police. But they are no smarter than I and I make mistakes and do not know it all.
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Police say they cannot track down person responsible for leaving the device there
The police in Lafayette can't possibly be that dense, right.
What's geocashing? Click here http://www.geocaching.com/So the url is geocaching, but the game is geocashing?
I am pretty sure that if a simple minded man such as I could locate the cache owner the Police should be able to also.
I know cops like to be respected but it makes it kinda tough when they can't even solve this mystery.
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I make my wife carry it. That way if it gets broken I can blame her.
I am kidding of course... the wife wears the pants in the family (I look better in a skirt)
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I forgot that some caches were designed to exclude people from "finding" it.
My bad.
Tell those cachers that their physical inability to reach the cache is no excuse. Deny them the find. Make no excuses. Let them know, in no uncertain terms that people who are unable to climb are not welcome at this cache.
~note substantial dose of sarcasm~
Exactly what I did:
Disclaimer:
The following persons should not attempt this cache:
Children * Elderly People * Out of Shape People
but most importantly,
NO Whiners, Crybabies, and Wusses.
PLEASE NOTE:
Armchair logging of this cache is specifically NOT allowed.
If you cannot retrieve the cache yourself, please do not log a find.
Why rate a cache as a 5 if anyone can get within eyesight and log it as a find?
I am not a child.
I am not elderly.
I am not out of shape.
I am not a whiner, crybaby or wuss.
I do have mobility issues due to severe and progressive arthritis that would make crybabies out of the most extreme tough guys.
Should I look for your cache? no, not if you rated it a 5.
If you rated your cache at a 5 then no one should complain about it.
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It sounds like a good time was had by all. But I'm curious...what governing body verified this as a New World Record? It's a new world record because you guys say it is, right? Right. Cool.
By the way, a few weeks ago I set a New World Record for the most number of caches placed within a mile of my house. Two. Placed by me. It's a New World Record and I'm dashed proud of it.
Next?
Zactly... Will people please stop saying anything is a world record just because you do something?
Honestly.. there is no "world record" for power caching. it's neat that you do it but really.. that's all it is... Neat
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Yup.Not.Any argument to the contrary is simply being contrary, as far as I'm concerned. I have a cache that is a bison tube about 30 feet up. Anybody that tries to log it without singing it is out of luck. Not that it has happened. The cachers in my area seem to understand the most basic rules of this game. I hide some easy ones, and I hide some tough ones. If you can't sign the log in the tough ones... well, that's just tough.
I see no problem with that as long as they are rated correctly.
I have mobility issues... I am not lazy so i try to filter out my caches by the terrain rating. If I go searching for a terrain 1.5 or even 2.5 I do not expect to be required to bring a ladder or climb a tree.
And as have been pointed out by more experience cachers than I... there are no rules... only guidelines.
I myself prefer to follow the guidelines.
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I am not here to teach anyone how to make a water tight PVC cache... many people already know how to do it.
The original post is asking for help with this cache type! If you know how to make it watertight and resistant to the elements, I'm sure the original poster would appreciate the tips.
I may or may not have messaged the OP about how to do that. It really is none of your concern.
If YOU have any questions about ABS pipe then feel free to PM me. I do not wish to derail this thread anymore than it already has been.
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It is a simple principle that things that hold water can also keep water out.
Really?
Too bad you're wrong. Take Gore-tex, for example. Or your GPS unit. Note that in both cases, water vapor acts quite differently from liquid water, and that has a big effect on the transport into/out of the container.
OTOH, at least I know how to spell "mold."
The operative work was "can"
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I "dismiss" you because I am not talking to you. If your GF cannot speak for herself then she cannot.
Therefore I have nothing to say to you.
And if she speaks, I cannot? I don't understand, please direct me to your version of the forum guidelines.
I have NOT done anything unprovoked.
Except reply to narcissa, and then say that she followed you by posting a dozen posts earlier in the thread with a viewpoint that you disagree with. You don't own this forum, you know.
I stand by my thoughts that a PVC pipe can be a good cache without leaks,
Assuming it has the find rate of GCDFB
Let it go.
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I stand by my thoughts that a PVC pipe can be a good cache without leaks,
Perhaps you can shed some light on how it can be constructed so as to avoid the problems so common to these caches? Clearly, everybody's been doing it wrong somehow.
Remember, this is a public forum, not a private discussion.
YOU made it personal... I am not here to teach anyone how to make a water tight PVC cache... many people already know how to do it.
You say "everybody's been doing it wrong somehow." I just don't see that...
Maybe that is what YOU have seen but do not say that is all there is.
And thank you for staying on topic.
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Didn't take long for the BF to get involved...
Wow, nothing gets by this guy!
Please stop derailing this thread and stay on topic.
We have disagreed about the waterproofness? of PVC or ABS pipe... stop making it personal and attacking me.
You're not making it personal?
You've basically said that I'm not welcome to post in this thread (even if it's not in response to you!), just because I'm narcissa's partner. I'm free to post in any thread in which I care to do so. I don't care for your constant, unprovoked attacks on Narcissa, and I don't care for the fact that you would simply dismiss me as the 'BF' as though I don't have any thoughts of my own.
I "dismiss" you because I am not talking to you. If your GF cannot speak for herself then she cannot.
Therefore I have nothing to say to you.
I have NOT done anything unprovoked.
Please stop trying to derail this thread. If you wish to talk about this then PM me.
I stand by my thoughts that a PVC pipe can be a good cache without leaks,
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Didn't take long for the BF to get involved...
Wow, nothing gets by this guy!
Please stop derailing this thread and stay on topic.
We have disagreed about the waterproofness? of PVC or ABS pipe... stop making it personal and attacking me.
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OTOH, at least I know how to spell "mold."
It's spelt 'mold' in American. In English, we spell it 'mould'
Hey boyfriend, get out of here. I'm a feminist and I can stand up for myself!
Don't uppity with me Ontario Woman! I thought people from Ontario were Superior, or from the lake anyway...
:wub: Didn't take long for the BF to get involved...
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Why are you attacking me again? It is a simple principle that things that hold water can also keep water out. I never mentioned ammo cans.
I have no idea what you are trying to say when you wrote "I presume that's what you were trying to say".
Are you questioning my education?
I guess you have no plumbing in your home... if you did you would know how ABS works.
Again Please stay on topic and not make it personal. I did not attack you so please do not attack me or send your boyfriend to attack me when you cannot.
You responded directly to me. If you don't wish to converse with me because of past disagreements, you can simply ignore my comments and respond to others. I don't usually pay much attention to the name beside a comment - I prefer to address the comment itself.
That being said, it's a little silly to reply to me (I commented first, again), ask me a question directly, and then get angry when I attempt to answer it.
I certainly wasn't "questioning" your education, but I'm still not clear about what your first post was trying to say about someone being an engineer. I'm not an engineer. Are you an engineer? Is the geocache an engineer?
I'm explaining what I've observed in the field after finding many of these caches.
For some reason, water seeps in to ABS/PVC caches, but doesn't come out again (unless the cache is opened and the water is dried out). The contents of these caches are always very wet, even after a period of dry weather, and are usually covered in some sort of mould or algae with a very distinctive smell.
Contrast this with a broken ammo can, where the contents will be wet or damp when there's been rain, but the contents will be dry after a dry spell. These containers sometimes have mould (hard to avoid in the forest), but they don't have the same smelly, slimy mould that the ABS/PVC caches do.
I'm not a plumber, but I'm pretty sure that the plumbing in my house is mostly protected from the harsh temperature extremes, snow, ice, dirt, and frequent handling that an ABS geocache is exposed to where I live.
I suspect these conditions contribute to the vast difference in performance between my home plumbing, and the (probably dozens of) ABS or PVC pipe geocaches I've found.
This is merely an anecdotal report of my in-field observations of geocaches, and is not intended to be taken as a comment on anything beyond the nature and performance of geocaches.
The same can be said for what you are doing now. YOU are replying directly to my posts.
I will not question your expert "anecdotal" report about ABS pipe in the field.
You obviously know way more than I because you have found so many more caches than I.
I will say I know a lot about ABS piping and connections. More so than you I would guess.
I know that once an ABS pipe is sealed and it has a resealable connection it IS water tight.
Honestly, If you don't like what I have to say then please stop attacking me.
It's a large world out there... lets not make it a small one one here by fighting in it.
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Why are you attacking me again? It is a simple principle that things that hold water can also keep water out. I never mentioned ammo cans.
I have no idea what you are trying to say when you wrote "I presume that's what you were trying to say".
Are you questioning my education?
I guess you have no plumbing in your home... if you did you would know how ABS works.
Again Please stay on topic and not make it personal. I did not attack you so please do not attack me or send your boyfriend to attack me when you cannot.
You responded directly to me. If you don't wish to converse with me because of past disagreements, you can simply ignore my comments and respond to others. I don't usually pay much attention to the name beside a comment - I prefer to address the comment itself.
That being said, it's a little silly to reply to me (I commented first, again), ask me a question directly, and then get angry when I attempt to answer it.
I certainly wasn't "questioning" your education, but I'm still not clear about what your first post was trying to say about someone being an engineer. I'm not an engineer. Are you an engineer? Is the geocache an engineer?
I'm explaining what I've observed in the field after finding many of these caches.
For some reason, water seeps in to ABS/PVC caches, but doesn't come out again (unless the cache is opened and the water is dried out). The contents of these caches are always very wet, even after a period of dry weather, and are usually covered in some sort of mould or algae with a very distinctive smell.
Contrast this with a broken ammo can, where the contents will be wet or damp when there's been rain, but the contents will be dry after a dry spell. These containers sometimes have mould (hard to avoid in the forest), but they don't have the same smelly, slimy mould that the ABS/PVC caches do.
I'm not a plumber, but I'm pretty sure that the plumbing in my house is mostly protected from the harsh temperature extremes, snow, ice, dirt, and frequent handling that an ABS geocache is exposed to where I live.
I suspect these conditions contribute to the vast difference in performance between my home plumbing, and the (probably dozens of) ABS or PVC pipe geocaches I've found.
This is merely an anecdotal report of my in-field observations of geocaches, and is not intended to be taken as a comment on anything beyond the nature and performance of geocaches.
The same can be said for what you are doing now. YOU
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PVC pipes are designed to be sealed once, and not to be opened and closed multiple times. Water will enter up the threads via osmosis or condensation.
Ahhhhh Osmosis... How could I have been so stupid...
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Having a degree in engineering.. how can one keep water in without keeping out water without a valve designed to do so. Please explain.
My degrees are not in Engineering. I have 1200+ cache finds of experience that tells me that caches made out of ABS or PVC pipes hold water in and don't let it out. They are almost always a slimy, mouldy mess.
I've found many other common cache containers with leak problems - ammo cans, peanut butter jars, lock-and-locks - and none of them ever come close to the mouldy, stinky mess that almost always comes out of these caches. I am not alone in this observation - these things are so notorious around here that we've coined a nickname for them, as I mentioned in my original comment.
If you're an engineer (I presume that's what you were trying to say), perhaps YOU can explain why it is that a leaky ammo can seems to let water in AND out, whereas a leaky ABS container mostly keeps the water in?
Why are you attacking me again? It is a simple principle that things that hold water can also keep water out. I never mentioned ammo cans.
I have no idea what you are trying to say when you wrote "I presume that's what you were trying to say".
Are you questioning my education?
I guess you have no plumbing in your home... if you did you would know how ABS works.
Again Please stay on topic and not make it personal. I did not attack you so please do not attack me or send your boyfriend to attack me when you cannot.
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Around here we call them "Cliffy tubes" (based on an old cacher) and we always expect that they'll be wet and mouldy inside. I have never found a dry one.
Those fittings are meant to keep water IN, and are not so good at keeping water OUT, especially around here where they're exposed to extreme temperature changes.
Having a degree in engineering.. how can one keep water in without keeping out water without a valve designed to do so. Please explain.
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When I was a kid I would be horrified if my mom found what was hid under my mattress.
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I found a couple of caches today (micros) with the 'rolled up paper log'. A 'person', who had found the same caches recently, took up entire lengths/sides of the paper writing in big letters 'I am infecting all of these caches!!!!" And their name was 'Geodinmypants'.
Is this person trying to be amusing?
Is the a (somewhat) common occurence?
If I encountered this person, could I place them in the micro?
I had never seen this before, and I hope I don't see too much of it in the future.
From my brief experience... this is not common but I would use some hand sanitizer after touching the log...
I would also report him/her if they were online.
(so many things could be said about my post... brief... log... nm...)
What's it like to set a New World Record with the Ventura Kids and f0t0m0m?
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This made me wonder also... I am a courier and drive at least 200 kms a day... I leave my car running all day (cheaper than replacing starters)
I go through about $20 gas a day which is about 18 litres. my tank (which is small) holds 50 litres.
If I had to fill up my small gas tank twice in 24 hours I would be looking for a leak in the tank.
Makes no sense...
But hey... congrats on finding 100+ per person a day.