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Brilliant! Must... see more... of... her...

"Took McToy, left Chevrolet" ? Ding ding. Winner. Not trading up... I'd rather have the McToy...

I was wondering the same thing? I'm not wondering at all. It simply doesn't! I wasn't trying to say it did. I was just drifting a tad off topic. Sorry bout' that. Bruce.

Wow!.... Very well stated. I have nothing to add. Great tips. I will have to ask my lawyer if a sticker counts as a signature... pretty sure it isnt in most cases. If you could have a real signature put on a sticker or just pre-sign a bunch of blank stickers before you leave the house, thats legal. I know that you can actually have your real signature made in to a stamp and its totally legal, business type people use them all the time. Actually no. Signature stamps are recognized in certain cases (such as a notary) A sticker signature would never be acknowledged.

Wow!.... Very well stated. I have nothing to add. Great tips. I will have to ask my lawyer if a sticker counts as a signature... pretty sure it isnt in most cases.

I carry a felt pen, pencil and an ink pen...

nm, accidental post.

Like TMDV above, I am also disabled (Psoriatic arthritis) and sometimes I am able to do a 3 terrain rating, sometimes barely a 1. At this moment I am typing this with one hand because my right hand, wrist and elbow are flaring really bad and are painfully immobile. I am fortunate in that I cache with my wife 95% of the time and she can do the kneeling, bending and rough stuff that I can't. (she even helped me change the radiator in my car a month ago) If I have to get down on my knees or lower, I cannot get back up by myself. With this is mind, I plan on trying to hide a few ammo cans that are handi-capable when I get the chance. Bruce.

Not a local but we went on a couple of tours. http://www.obriensboattours.com/ was by far the best. When we booked for a noon tour they phoned us at 11 to say that not enough people were booked for the tour on the big boat but offered to take just the wife and I on a personal zodiak tour (usually more expensive) for the same price. We told them no, we will wait for the next tour that they had. They gave us the tour for half price. We saw whales, Icebergs and of course more Puffins than any person could ever wish to see! The tour boat staff were fantastic! I have no connection to the company but just like to promote a great company that treated us very well. Bruce.

I SOOO wish we had gotten into geocaching before we went to Newfoundland this past summer. We were at all of the places mentioned. Although we loved Newfoundland.... it would have been very cool to have found some caches while we were there. Now I want to go back more than I already did! Bruce.

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Oh the Huge-Manatee! (sorry, had to say it)

All I have to say... is hey, I'm a newbie, I guess a luker, even though I've made one post! I've been watchin' all of your posts...all of that about the DARPA internet experiment..and all that FTF stuff........all I know, is that I, as a human being, chose to investigate this sport and; now, here I am, in my lovely home county, here in my home town, here where I live in Cherokee County, Oklahoma, on a daily basis, Geocaching.com helps me to discover and appreciate....... what I might have missed. The Senior, more experienced geocacher, may say this, or say that........but, in regard to telling a story on the logs...I have to give a hand to Fluffy & Friedrick of northwestern Arkansas & northeastern Oklahoma.......they are geocaches with integrity!!!! They rock.......read em' and love em' and just try to find em' !! Each time I read them, it's a story............it feels good........it's really why I came!!!!!!!!!!!!!That's all for now.. sunshine :} I am pretty sure I was the first to read this topic... (kidding) but this is my 100th post! yay me! On topic: I tend to write as much as the cache deserves. I think that is right. I would never put down a cache on a log but I would also never say anything great about it if it was crappy. It's kinda like when your friends have a baby and insist he/she is beautiful... some babies are just ugly or look like Winston Churchill. You don't say the baby is ugly but you don't gush how cute it is... same thing... Just be polite and move on... Bruce.

What she said^^

Very cool! Congrats and a pat on the back(s) for jtk49ers!

Really? It's been so long since I've seen anything but a micro in a tree I wouldn't know

There is one a couple of blocks from home in a small park. We have looked for it three times now and haven't found it. I finally emailed the CO asking him if it was what I thought it was. He said yes it is and gave me a pretty detailed direction as to where it is. Only problem is... the ground is covered in a foot of snow now. Will have to wait till spring or even summer. At first I felt a bit awkward about finding it with him giving me such detailed directions but then again, I pretty much told him where I thought it was and he just confirmed it so... It'll still involve a little bit of a search. Bruce.

I hope that's not the case for the most part, and I've never thought of it as such. Whenever I ask cachers to be stealthy, it's because my cache is in an area exposed enough that I might think that passerby will notice and maybe look for the cache later and take it/destroy it. I agree 100% and this has always been our experience. Thanks. That has been my experience also. Whenever I have looked for and found a cache that said "Stealth Required" it is always been because there are a lot of muggles about and I should be stealthy about my retrieving and re-hiding the cache so it does not get stolen or vandalized. Bruce.

I drive a black Mercedes with a red interior.... hence the "BR" the car is an slk, so... "brslk" It is what it is.... Thats how the dealership defines me...

I can't even grow potatoes .... I have a black thumb.... (even dandelions die on my yard) I would be the worst pot grow op person ever! Bruce.

I'm sorry, you are quite right! I apologize for not being a better writer. What I was trying to convey is that there was a real need for data communication in every business and throughout the government. There were a few corporations who were in the business of developing commercial communication transport protocols. Anyone who needed to transport data digitally (the whole world) was at the mercy of those few commercial developers. Those few commercial developers had no intention of handing their systems over to the government so that everyone could use them. At a time when Bellsouth had IBM 370/158 mainframes talking across nine states the US Navy was still using Morse Code! IBM would (and did) gladly sell the use of that technology to the Navy, just like they sold it to Bellsouth... in very restricted and terribly expensive competition and development-stifling contracts! ARPA, and ARPANET, was the only answer that could have put together the best and the brightest from our universities, government and military who made today's open standards freely available. Corporate developers of the underlying structure fought it all the way. I should have made it clear that the companies invested in the development of this infrastructure had diametrically opposed business interests (making a profit) with the rest of the world (getting the job done efficiently and affordably) wanting to adopt and adapt their products. Nothing much has changed in that respect. The social media tools being researched in this project are for the most part proprietary commercial developments. DARPA's research may lead to an open-source tool or suite of tools freely available to anyone. I think all DARPA related posts should be on the DARPA thread as was stated on that thread, keep it on topic. DON'T bring that here either. It shouldn't go both ways...

Worked fine for me also.

as determined by their rating tool at http://www.handicaching.com/yourrating.php Now, why in the world can't every cache be rated using a tool like Handicaching.com's? (http://www.handicaching.com/rate.php) Groundspeak already uses Difficulty and Terrain ratings, why not add to give a cache rating like Then you would have a rating system that worked for everyone, able and disabled alike. Using the two ratings from Handicaching.com, My personal rating = H35553 The cache's rating = H35234 I can see at a glance that there is a problem... one of the cache's attribute numbers is higher than mine (the last digit in this case). I can't reach over 6' off the ground but the cache is higher than that. Right off the bat then I know that to get that cache I have to take someone with me. If Groundspeak and Handicaching.com can't work together to create a common rating system on geocaching.com then Groundspeak should incorporate these few extra attributes into their own rating system. As in the world of mergers and acquisitions I think Groundspeak incorporating Handicaching just makes sense! Having some pretty serious arthritis, I agree with you 100%. I pretty much limit myself to 1.5 terrain ratings and even those are tough on me some days. Some days they aren't. I once did a 1.5 rating that involved about a 150 step stair climb. I can go up stairs not so bad... but the pounding my knees took on the way back down put me out of commission for the next two days. I wouldn't even think of asking people to limit their hides to make it easy for everyone, just be honest about the terrain. I am relatively young (39) and my arthritis is very progressive. 5 years ago I was able to climb steep hills and rocky terrain. Now I have trouble walking for more than an hour on an even floor. Eventually I will be in a wheelchair and won't be able to cache at all. Until then, I would really like to find as many as possible. I have been caching for about 3 months now and have only 33 finds. May not seem like a lot but, It is the most I can do. If I had the physical ability I did a few years ago, I would have hundreds. A good day for me is finding 5. Bruce.

A VERY HASTY RETREAT?? After leaving the immediate area, you debated amongst yourselves about going back just to "spite the hunter". And sure enough, you and your female friend walked right back to the spot where this entire train wreck occurred. The hunter was wrong for cursing all of you, but you were just as wrong, and quite honestly stupid, for going back to "spite the hunter", especially when you knew he had a crossbow. The last thing I would do is antagonize someone who has a weapon that could potentially kill me or my friends. That's not saying he would have shot you with it, but you never know for sure. You had the chance to show the world that you are the bigger person by respecting a rude hunter's hunting space, but instead, you chose to come down to his level. You've done nothing to improve the image of geocachers. I am certain that the legal, albeit dumb, actions of these geocachers in the presence of one self-centered hunter on public lands did little to impact world perception of geocaching. They don't have to impact the "world" perception of geocaching... just a few land owners and then they talk to another..... and another.... etc.... Look at the big picture. Geocaching is not nearly as popular as hunting... we need to all be good ambassadors of the sport/hobby/addiction. I don't think the hunter was anymore right than the geocachers... but can't we all try to be the bigger man? (or woman(but not too many women like the word bigger)) Bruce.

Ugg.. double. sorry.