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    Passion Of The Rock Cache

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    Threads like this are the best type of promotion for this site, increases traffic, gets people talking, and guess what, no one will quit caching because of it. Pick your battles, and take them to the correct arenas. This is a GAME SITE. There are a million places starting outside your door where you can go and exercise your rights. This is (as previously noted) a private site, not government run. There are other caching websites to choose from, so we do have a choice.

    I laugh, as a Christian, a cacher, a father, at the expenditure of energy here, even my own.

    We are truly blessed if this is the worst incursion on our "rights".

     

    GOD BLESS ALL OF US!

     

    MacDaddy :lol::huh::lol::lol::DB)

    On Permission And Pantywastes

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    ;)

    Yea, like someone would actually pick the lock on Criminal's house..

    Armed,? duh! Willing to fire at anything picking a lock on his house? you be the judge...

     

    Criminal, do you contract for speaking engagements?

     

    I gave 20+ years service, proud of 99.8 % of it. Service to our country comes in many forms and degrees. If we don't like existing laws, we have ways to change or ammend them. Not easy to do, but our freedom makes it possible.

     

    I wish geocaching had stayed more 'underground', but alas, here we are. Our IPO is out there. What next, the BIG ARTICLE in OUTSIDE Mag? That would be the kiss of death, IMNSHO.

     

    In the meantime I will go off trail, downslope against the switchbacks. Stand in the Sea Oats and continue to ask forgiveness, not permission...

     

    I just do things that way :P

    Wow... almost went real bad for me today.

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    On the opposite end of the stuck-in-the-mud-but-all-worked-ok story, I was stationed in Astoria Oregon as a helicopter rescue swimmer with the Coast Guard in the mid 80's. One fall morning I was with a helicopter crew that went out on an overdue, a search and rescue case where people have not returned or are missing. Anyway, we found husband and wife, stuck in the mud, both almost equal distance from where they got out of their small boat on a mud flats and tried to walk to shore. Unfortunately, both had expired from hypothermia. They were both rather large, and probably out of shape and unable to get to the high tide line and probably safety. It was very difficult to extract them from the mud.

    Being stuck like that can be a very dangerous thing. Hypothermia is a very real killer, with no respect for ignorance. Always a good idea to let someone know where you're headed, and when you can be expected to return. I spent almost 20 years looking for people who hadn't done something like that.

     

    OK, off the soap box Rick.... :)

    Is this guy out of line?

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    Never assume.

    It bothers me about his daughter and I hope she gets better. I'll bet the owner of the cache didn't intentionally set it in a tick infested area, but knowing that, might consider a relocation. It couldn't be that difficult to do.

    The owner shouldn't have deleted the warnings, bad juju there.

    I think he might post a warning of his own on the cache page, again, easy enough to do.

    Pride goeth before a fall.. icon_wink.gif

     

    All advertised discounts apply to final purchase price...

    Unofficial statement about STATS

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    How do we take something that was so uncomplicated and unfettered and turn it into something so competitive? The amusement factor alone is worth watching threads like this one, you have no idea how these serve as a study in human behaviour. No controls of course, but like a television drama, they are born, struggle for attention, and come to a conclusion in a predictable style and amonut of time. Please, keep it up!!

    It's great! icon_biggrin.gif

     

    "There's no need to be afraid of strange noises in the night. Anything that intends you harm will stalk you silently."

    One man's trash....another's treasure

    in How do I...?

    Posted

    Here's what you do..

    Put them in any cache you want, and e-mail me the coords before you post them on the site, I'll stop by and personally approve each item...yea, that's it! icon_wink.gificon_biggrin.gif

    Seriously, I beleive the branded items are fine, and they sound like something I would like to find, and have actually found recently. One cache I found was in sight of the owner's place of business, and original contents were tons of branded items. Compasses, etc.

    My vote is yes, load it up!!

     

    "There's no need to be afraid of strange noises in the night. Anything that intends you harm will stalk you silently."

    Lost signal under trees on my first trip

    in GPS technology and devices

    Posted

    I just finished teaching a search and rscue class in the Denver area, using Garmins, (etrex vista, Garmin12, 12XL) as well as a Magellan. Of course we did some geocaching as part of the class, and under the trees they performed remarkably similar. We found that it really depended on satellite position, and terrain. The other instructor using a Magellan had to wait a tiny bit longer for signal acquisition, and preferred the speed at which I could bring up different functions on the Vista. He also liked the clarity and contrast of the screen, bu he absolutely HATES the screen size!

     

    "There's no need to be afraid of strange noises in the night. Anything that intends you harm will stalk you silently."

    1st Int'l Geocaching Conference??

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    I still vote to keep it underground, this seems to be part of the appeal for many, as discussed on a previous thread.

    But as with any activity that rises to attention, soon something else 'new' and 'cool' comes along, and scatters the former into obscurity.. ..back underground.

     

    In a discussion with a psychologist friend I have, he divulged that people sometimes seek attention for their activites from the public to acheive some sort of inward approval or maybe justification of what we're doing. Like the 'what GPS'r is the best'discussion. There is a tendency to recommend what WE own, or use, to justify it as our choice, prove it's worthiness to ourselves.

    ..or maybe I misunderstood him..

     

    That will be 5 cents, please..... icon_wink.gif

     

    "There's no need to be afraid of strange noises in the night. Anything that intends you harm will stalk you silently."

    Why hide it in there? Think about it first!

    in How do I...?

    Posted

    I spent 30 minutes with my arms in up to my armpits rooting around under a root wad of an old tree, in the rain at 5:30 in the a.m. in Auke Bay Alaska, and had a blast doing it. (lookin' for Panoramic View) Not much luck finding the micro of this multi, but it was worth it when I walked out of the bushes and scared the jeepers out of a jogger coming down the road on her early morning run. I tried to explain what I was doing but she was eager to leave. It's a matter of perspective I guess. We have so few caches up here I'm fairly open to anything short of a procto exam to find one...Can't wait to get to Denver next week.... icon_biggrin.gif

     

    "There's no need to be afraid of strange noises in the night. Anything that intends you harm will stalk you silently."

    Novel uses of GPS?

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    Actually it's not illegal, or damaging to any flight control or nav receivers. It's generally just a policy of each particular airline. I'll look up a reference for that and post as soon as I find it, or I KNOW I'll get flamed!! icon_biggrin.gif

     

    "There's no need to be afraid of strange noises in the night. Anything that intends you harm will stalk you silently."

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