Snake & Rooster

Oh sure, Moose Mob . . . repeat the Government line. You sound like part of this coverup! These look suspiciously like the desert equivalent of crop circles to me. The Truth Is Out There!

I can make some recommendations on caches that are big enough for bugs. They are getting harder to find since most of the new caches seem to be nanos and micros, but many older caches will work. We are, I'm afraid, too busy with family issues and the usual holiday junk to be available to help, either personally or by phone, but if you are looking for likely candidates, I'd suggest: GCPMCF - Full Spectrum, a large and somewhat unusual cache. GC18KYH, Gung Hay Fat Choy, ammo can in a pretty pond park GC1JWYR, Bedrock TB Cafe, regular container iwth nice camo near the road GC1JD4X SD County Line TB Hotel, ammo can close to freeway GC1AGVC, Pam's Betty Boop Cache, ammo can with nice views of the valley on the way up GC1JJDT, Silver Hawk Pass, ammo can and short hike GC1JJDB, Silver Hawk Creak, ammo can with short hike You can PM me for my cell number and I can be available if you get stuck on any cache, as long as my feeble memory can recall it.

Thank you to all of you who have made caching so much fun for us this past year. Let us add: Merry Christmas Fröhliche Weihnachten Gun Tso Sun Tan'Gung Haw Sun Kung His Hsin Nien bing Chu Shen Tan Nollaig Shona Dhuit Kellemes Karacsonyi unnepeket Chuc Mung Giang Sinh There. That should cover both of our backgrounds.

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. (Hardly seems worth it.) If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb. (Now that's more like it!) The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out of the body to squirt blood 30 feet. (O.M.G.!) A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes. (In my next life, I want to be a pig.) A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death. (Creepy.) (I'm still not over the pig.) Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories a hour (Don't try this at home, maybe at work) The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off. (Honey, I'm home. What the...?!) The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field. (30 minutes..lucky pig! Can you imagine?) The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds. (What could be so tasty on the bottom of a pond?) Some lions mate over 50 time s a day. (I still want to be a pig in my next life..quality over quantity) Butterflies taste with their feet. (Something I always wanted to know.) The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. (Hmmmmmm.....) Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people. (If you're ambidextrous, do you split the difference?) Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump. (Okay, so that would be a good thing) A cat's urine glows under a black light. (I wonder who was paid to figure that out?) An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. ( I know some people like that.) Starfish have no brains (I know some people like that too.) Polar bears are left-handed. (If they switch, they'll live a lot longer) Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure. (What about that pig??)

The San Diego cachers have a thread where you can post for just this kind of thing. Try looking here: Linky

I tried to have an account deleted as part of a plan to get rid of the ampersand in my account. I was told by Groundspeak that there is no way to delete an account after it has been created.

Hi, Pregnant lady here... First of all it's John &Jess not AND Jess if you are using our Geocaching names... To defend ourselves since we somehow seem to have gotten drug into the mud on this one which we haven't even attempted... About the Inferno Series: 1) We were NOT FTF on ANY of those caches in the series, only the final... 2) We gave everyone a 10 day headstart... 3) We are notorious for not logging finds in a timely manner unless it's an FTF and I ALWAYS try to log an FTF from the field (since I got my Blackberry the pattern for us has been "FTF, more later" instantaneously if I am involved in the find). John doesn't have that option from his normal cell phone. 4) We were tactical on this series as there was a leaderboard that tracked everyone's finds so you could see where you stood...so we got the final FTF in a "wiley" manner, yes... but see point 1 and 2 above...wahhhhhh!!! ~Jess&babyboy Wow! Jess is pregnant and John is gonna be a Daddy to a little boy! Congratulations! How exciting! That's way more interesting than the tactics of winning a geo-challenge! Thanks for sharing the news! OBTW..I think gc.com will let you change your name to John&Jess&babyboy Not so fast! I think Becca might have a problem with that.

Unfortunately, this is an expected byproduct of this type of challenge. Our caches were listed as being available only from dawn to dusk because the land manager has marked the trails as such, yet they were found on the first night. I'm sure there are a number of people "breaking the rules" in the quest to become the first cachers to finish this. The best thing about these challenges is the competitive spirit shown by the cachers. The worst thing about these challenges is the competitive spirit shown by the cachers.

Sorry Harmon, we already picked one up. We sent in our old one and Garmin did the update for free. Got to love 'em.

Rooster and I feel honored. We have not stopped laughing since we saw them. Thank you.

I'm sure that Vinny will come up with a logical answer soon.

There is even a cache to commerate this event now. GC1291C is probably a bit over the top . . .

Actually, he's already re-posted in the Canadian forums, so this one can be closed.

Don't worry. If he forgets, they will gently remind him.

If you haven't found it already, the Greater Palm Springs area cachers have their own website at this place. I'm not sure how active they are. There is an event this weekend you may wish to check out just north of you off 62 in the Mission Creek area.

Careful if you decide to use Oak Grove. There is a gate near where High Point and Oak Grove roads meet that is sometimes locked. If it is, you're not stuck as the High Point Road always seems to be open. There are a couple of caches on High Point at the north end close to where it runs into 79 South. I was up on the north stretch of Palomar Divide a couple of weeks ago doing the new caches and the road is not as great as it was when newly graded. It is now in a condition similar to why Chuy and Duncan did the original caches in Chuy's old Corolla.

What briansnat said. I do NOT want to see the back of a shopping center (or the front, for that matter) Please try to take me to someplace you think I'd enjoy seeing!

I believe the Oregon works the same as the Colorado. When you make a cache Found (or any other status for that matter) it writes a line into the "/Garmin/geocache_visits.txt" file. When you are done, you upload that file to geocaching.com (the link to work with Field Notes is in the right hand column off your profile page). I use this technique to log my caches from my Colorado 300. This is correct for the Oregon as well. It is nice because if you have a lot of caches to log, you don't need to hunt them down on geocaching.com to log them. Upload your text file and they are already marked as found (or not found ) along with any notes you made in the field. You still have to add a nice log entry and submit it, but it is much easier than trying to remember which ones you did, or going through your found caches on the GPS.

The POI loader works fine for me. I'm afraid I cannot offer any better advice than Garmin did though, uninstalling the old software and reinstalling the most up-to-date versions of the software and any drivers. If you can include a description of what happens, and any error messages you receive, maybe someone will be able to point you in the right direction.

Under the geocaching menu, you tap on the menu called "cache description". This brings up a screen with the complete cache description and the logs for that cache. There are also other menus under geocaching that will show you the hint, allow you to log the cache, or take you to another cache.

San Gabriel Mtns.? er...........the TOP !! Congrats on making it, you looked very relaxed!! Splashtette Nope.....but it is 11499 feet....nick name is Old Greyback. Congratulations. Now you can brag that you've climbed the tallest mountain in southern Cal.

I'm using Duracell 2650mAh NiMH batteries for a long time now. I've read the literature that says to charge them slow. I've read the literature that says to charge them fast. I choose to do it fast. Have I decreased the overall life of the batteries by doing so? Maybe, but I'm guessing that it isn't by much. They've all been recharged at least 100 times and are still going strong. I am using them in an Oregon 300 with the backlight on 100% at all times. I can get 10-12 hours of caching and still have juice left. The current generation of NiMH batteries don't have the memory problems of NiCad or earlier NiMH batteries. You do not need to drain the down before recharging them. Yes . . . I know that you will find literature both supporting and countering this claim too. I will just say that I have not experienced any decrease in performance over time. Do these batteries loose a charge over time when not used? Yes. But it is temperature dependent. I leave my spares in the refrigerator. If I leave them in there for a month, I suppose I might see a 4 or 5% drop. Since I actually cache every week, they seldom sit in there that long. Finally, in newer GPS receivers that have a NiMH battery setting, the meter isn't bad at showing you what is left. Your experience may vary, yada yada yada.

It has also been proven that anyone who does not use electronic devices, will die.

When I first glanced at this picture, I thought it was Santa Claus in the back. I'm not sure what this means. Maybe it is just getting close to Christmas. Maybe I am drinking too much coffee. Maybe my eyes are getting bad. What! ... you're saying that you GLANCE at my work? Admit it Harmon, you have an imagination. You can see it too, can't you . . . the long white beard, the shock of white hair and the face peeking out between them . . . ?

Why are you even making a big deal about this? You submitted a cache. When you did so, you checked the box that said you read and understood the guidelines. The guidelines say that you cannot place a cache within 150 feet of a railroad. So I am left wondering why you even submitted such a cache. Surely you didn't think it would be approved? Since it was not in compliance with the guidelines, it was not approved, and now you bring it to the forums to try and gather support for a cache that you know was improperly placed. Is that park bench really so special that you cannot simply move the cache someplace that acutally meets the guidelines? Just wondering.