Poker70

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As for me, I enjoy finding caches that are "Hiding in Plain Sight". Well camouflaged, or made to look like something different than what it is.

As someone who has a number of gadget caches with some good favorites, I have one thing to say. Most cachers will only accept a certain amount of difficulty. When that difficulty goes over that amount, they will open up their pack, pull out the hammer, chisel and saw and do whatever it takes to sign the log.

I hear the food in the Cuban prisons isn't that bad...

My brother usually does the tech work, but this time it's my wife and I going out. How do I download Pocket Queries to a Garmin 450?

My brother, PokerLuck was up from Knoxville, TN for a few days. We past some time picking up caches west of Joliet. One showed up to be in a wooded area next to a McDonald's. The medical center that bordered on the wood called the police on us. A very courteous police officer pulled up and asked what we were doing. We explained the activity but he was skeptical. Then backup arrived and she said something to the other officer like "Come on, they're harmless". "Just Geocachers having a nice day".

Thank you for the replies. The reason for my post is that I'm having medical issues (back) right now but my nephew said he could retrieve my caches that need attention (Angry Birds) so that I could repair them .

How long can a cache be disabled before the CO gets a note from the reviewer?

When a cacher posts a "Needs Maintenance" on a cache page and it becomes an Attribute, how do I remove the Attribute and the "Red Wrench" when I perform the maintenance?

Evil and simple are mortal enemies...

WalMart sells them in the pharmacy section.

I used a wood burning pen.

Try JB Weld's "Plastic Bonder". But first use a good cleaner/degreaser such as MEK (available at any large hardware store in the paint section).

Confronting an obnoxious person has killed a lot of people over the years. Someone such as he is likely to have gotten physical at times. He is probably well prepared for it- I'm betting there's at least a baseball bat in the car, if not a gun. I think you did the right thing, just go away and let it be. If it's some comfort, know that his little rock throwing brat will grow up to be a big brat soon enough and dad will experience years of heartache and sorrow. We reap what we sow. I've never had a bad experience with another cacher in my 5 1/2 years of the activity, except a few clumsy hands trying to access some of my gadget caches, and then I don't think the instances were deliberate.

Why do Newbies seem to be so critical of caches? I have a well received Geo-Art series, "Big Brother, Little Brother...", a tribute to the brave aviators of WWII and another simple series of a limerick. It seems cachers with less than 100 finds delight in posting that the log is wet (It's adventure paper= waterproof) or the cache must be gone because "I can't find it". These two series alone involve 27 cache containers and I can't afford to buy Lock'n'Locks for those, much less the replacements. My thinking is that these are Millennials with their penchant for instant gratification and an obsession with perfection from others (but not them).

I've worked with sheet metal most of my adult life (50 years) related to the automotive restoration field. Looking at the photos, there's no way I can tell what's binding and where. That's something that has to be done hands-on.

I've had good luck attaching magnets to preforms with two different methods. Aluminum foil duct tape (not the cloth-backed kind), usually found in the ductwork section of the HVAC aisle at most large hardware stores works well. Just be sure to wrap the tape all the way around the preform so it sticks to itself. The other method is to use J-B Weld's "PlasticWeld". Scuff the preform first, clean the magnet(s), apply the epoxy and it's done.

"Have you seen how much it costs to tune up a bike?" Not to mention the cost to tuna fish.

As far as damage to the tree goes, I've been in the timber/lumber/homebuilding/woodworking field now for 50 years. A nail or screw no matter how long does no more damage to a tree than pierced earrings does to a person. Now the damage at the sawmill, that's another matter, although metal detectors have all but eliminated that problem. As far as the nails/screws "defaces land or property" the mere act of placing a cache in the woods does the same. Geotrails, cachers turning over rocks and deadfalls, breaking tree limbs and trampling the terrain around GZ does far more damage.

Our goals are pretty simple. We view Geocaching as a means to an end and the end is being taken to a place of historical or geographical interest. We'll pack a picnic lunch, some snacks and beverages, make a route for the day and off we go. We're old now, not that many active years left so we cherish the days when we can get out and just "go for a ride".

When Mrs Poker70 and I travel (which is occurring with less frequency as this lousy economy drags out), I check our destination's Geocaches by Favorite Points. I figure that the caches with the most Fav points are the ones most interesting. What I have noticed is that more and more of the logs on my caches read that the finder really likes my cache, but doesn't give a Fav Point. I'm speaking mostly about my "Angry Birds" series. Is this a shift with more people using "Smart Phones"?

I enjoy the audit logs because I can view those who trash my caches but continue to check them out.

My brother PokerLuck is coming up from Tennessee next week for 6 days of Geocaching and I've been scouting for some good ones. I came across this- GC4Q5M3. I'm wondering, is this deliberate, that the CO is prompting finders to log poorly punctuated and spelled logs in a humorous way? Or would doing so embarrass the CO? I'm not really good at understanding satire, parody or sarcasm

Compressed air, from a portable air compressor powered by a suitable power inverter. The mechanism for chambering and propelling the film cans would be a simple takeoff of John Browning's gas powered auto loading shotgun principle. The triggering mechanism would be an Arduino board with a GPS interface. Every 528', easy breezy. It could be easily mounted in the back seat or the trunk and used wherever one drove. Imagine taking the kids for ice cream and setting out 20 caches!