RakeInTheCache

Actually, I thought about making the topic "Is Geocaching a Male Caucasian Sport" but then realized I knew of enough female geocachers to answer the question. Nevertheless, it was good to get a confirmation.

And some of we Americans (believe it or not) have ventured out and seen a big part of that world out there.

Guess everybody who was involved in those wars had guns. That's pretty much the way it goes with war. Don't see the connection.

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"Okay, I did my homework assignment. All your finds are in the US or Western Europe, which is what I've been saying. And...?" (Sigh.) I guess people believe what they really want to believe, even when the evidence to the contrary is staring them in the face. BTW What kind of student where you in school?

Ever heard of a thing called UNESCO? Guess not. Also guess you didn't read my stats page. Had enough?

Did you see my home page? Or look at my stat page??????

Huh? How would you know how much of the world I've visited? Or did I miss something?

To clarify my original example , One can choose to take a gun to protect oneself from snakes, or One can choose to keep their wits about them and take a snake bite kit for the very rare occasion they might get bitten. From most of the posts in this thread (which I must believe is 99.9% dominated by Americans) it seems the posters would choose the former. Ibelieve from my experience that most non-Americans would choose the latter. (This is of course only anectdotal).

Coming back to the original question - A firearm for protection against snakes. Well, if you didn't see the snake and got so close it would bite you, a firearm probably wouldn't do any good anyway. If you saw the snake, why don't you just walk away instead of gratuitously shooting it? Seems a good snake bite kit might be just as effective. I've been hiking, biking, camping, etc. for almost 40 years inside and outside the U.S. and never felt the need for a firearm. In Germany I have never felt threatened when hiking alone. Funny but it's illegal here for a civilian to carry a side-arm. Violence begets violence. As an American, I see this issue in termes of the fact that in American, the use of a firearm to solve problems has become ingrained into our culture, while in other Industrialized nations, they have sought out other solutions, much to the tranquility of their populations. And there is no reason to believe that a position against side-arms and automatic weaponry is also a position against sportsmen who use rifles and other such sportive weaponry in a reasonable manner. The distinction is clear enough.

The difference in numbers of geocaches/geocachers between France and Germany seems have to do with language/culture. There is a nice picture of caches: goto http://www.geocaching.nl/index/ and click on "Kaart van de Benelux" (top op page). You will see that Germany and the Netherlands have about the same density of caches. Also the Northern part of Belgium above the line Lille-Liège compares well with the Dutch and German distribution; in this part they also speek Dutch, a language of Germanic origin. In the south part of Belgium they speak French, a language belonging to the Latin languagegroup. And it seems that caches like to be near other caches; the distribution is lumped. O.K. did a quick study while at home getting over a cold. Here are the rankings for Western European countries. The stat is the number of caches per 100,000 inhabitants. 41.5 Sweden 32.2 Norway 18.5 Denmark 12.3 Switzerland 11.7 Germany 11.6 Netherlands 11.5 Austria 10.5 UK 8.9 Belgium 6.3 Ireland 2.8 Portugal 1.4 Spain 0.9 Greece 0.9 France 0.8 Italy 0.2 Japan There definately appears to be a North vs. South divide. I propose the answer is due to weather (as opposed to Germanic/Latin origins) as the Northern Europeans need this kind of activity to coax them out into foul weather. What's interesting is that of the Latin countries, Portugal is number 1 which is inverse to it's economic ranking. I remember there seemed to be a passionate (and very friendly) but unknown number of local Geocachers there when I visited Lisbon this year.

I was not claiming to make a statement. You obviously were. For what it's worth, a course in courtesy might get you farther in life.

There's an awful lot of emotion in that post and not an iota of logic.

Another thought ... It appears to be a conclusion of this thread that non-Caucasians are less likely to be attracted to Geocaching (due to cultural, geographic, etc. reasons). Could it be that showing so many Caucasian faces on the home page artificially reinforces this tendancy? Would non-Caucasians be put off by a site which doesn't somehow include them in such a high profile sharing of experiences? If I saw a web site that featured only Black faces or Asian faces I might have the impression that that site was only for a Black or Asian audiance. I think this is just human nature.

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This is not a criticism of Geocaching but I can't remember the last time I saw a pic of a non-Caucasian on the home page. Are there any non-Caucasians out there? Come on, let's hear from you.

Oops, browsing further I see this is addressed in the Bookmarks FAQ. The better question is how long until it's available?

Hi, What I'm looking for is the ability to run a PQ for a bookmark. What I would do is collect the caches I'm interested in along my route a bookmark and then run a PQ to get the mobipocket files and download to my PDA. Any hope for this? RitC

I'm having a problem to view special German characters (ö, ü, and even ° which isn't unique to German) when I view the Pocket Query results on my Palm Tungsten. I've decided it could either be 1) Geocaching.com which doesn't handle them correctly 2) Mobipocket software which doesn't display them correctly 3) My palm isn't setup correctly. I don't think it's 3) because I can write with those characters easy enough. Anyone else have this problem and/or have any tips to try to fix it?

How about a gerbiloon or a dirigiberbil? For more info go to http://www.rathergood.com/mark/

Hate to disappoint you but I tried this. After having so many problems logging my finds on Sunday, I decided to move to Central European time zone (9 hours ahead of California), only to find out that blissful Sunday logging has eluded me. I've concluded that it's all of those West Coast cachers who are to blame browsing their logs at noon while I'm trying to wrap up a day of caching.

I am displeased with your displeasure. I'll stop now. Schmoke anna Pancake? Blintz anna Bong? Then thersh no pleeshing you.

Obviously the number of users is growing beyond the capacity of the present infrastructure. Unless addressed, the problem will get worse. Is money being invested to scale the infrastructure to the demand? Success has seen the death of more than one good idea.

Hi, I just made my first pocket query and downloaded it to my Palm Tungsten C using the Mobipocket software. However, I noticed that when I view the caches on my Palm, there's no indication of the travel bugs in the cache. Am I missing something? RitC.

O.K. That was the problem. It works now that I added http:// Vielen dank!