Coldgears
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What's that place that has had a coal seam burning under it since the sixties? Pardon my poor geography skills, but is it Centralia? I bet that place would be terrifying to cache in. Old abandoned town with steam coming up through cracks in the earth. *shudders at the thought*
I think so. Centralia, PA, I believe.
Correct. I've visited there back in 2006. Neat place.
Centralia is so boring I almost become suicidal. If you go up that way, travel 3 miles south to walk in an actual coal mine, and ride a cart. I've been through centralia about 25 times in my life, and I always just drive by (We go to knoebles once a year, sometimes twice.) It's more of something you want to stop for 3 minutes while your going that way anyway.
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After seeing badges on people's profiles like 'Earthcacher Bronze Award' etc I wondered how you get them. Do you get given them by Groundspeak or have to get them yourself?
Many thanks
You got 'Hueted
You have to take part in GSA's EarthCache Masters program to get those.
www.earthcache.orgAs a side note, nobody enforces it. They are just a picture. Feel free to put one on your account even if you didn't earn it.
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I only have two, but is there another way to discover them on the mac?
You could go through your finds one by one. Tedious, but works.
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I have one inside a world war 2 bunker...
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Once it's published on this site it's up for grabs to all-comers.
You could create the cache page and send it to the reviewer with a note asking for it to be reviewed but not published until the day after his birthday surprise.
Then you can print off the unpublished cache page and give it to him to find it on his birthday. If he then wants to claim it as a 'First to Find' then he can do so (but be prepared that it could generate a degree of angst from your local FTFers who won't be too delighted when they dash out to find the cache the day it gets published only to discover there's a signature already in the log book
)MrsB
Ha ha, angst from local FTF hounds. Do they have nothing better to do?
I'm sure they think the same of your xbox playing habits.
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Major rush of nostalgia (is it too early for that?), I found one of those my first week geocaching... Haven't seen another since.
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Is it the totally unnecessary electrical feed at the base of the right post?
Yes.
I took the picture before my GPS started up. I looked right at it, never gave it a second thought... Until I came back with a GPS about an hour later and the coordinates brought me right too it.
I always thought muggles were stupid for not noticing things that were obviously out of place... But I did it myself.
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First person to spot the container gets... Err... FTFTCITP? (First to find the container in the picture). I swear, getting the FTFTCITP is something better then it seems. It's like, a competition.
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I need to DNF sometimes, or I'm going to lose interest in this game.
Don't lie. You know you'd love to be able to press a magic button that will guide you to the cache you can't find.
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I wish my parents were interested in geocaching... My dad thinks it's interesting and will go to events with me, but not on an actual cache run. Mom couldn't care less-- I'm the weirdo who won't go shopping or get my nails done. I'm headed off to college next year and we really don't spend any time together.
I'm happy for you guys, you're really lucky that you have something in common. Happy caching!
I am in similar situation. My mom wants to geocache but is physically unable. My dad wants to geocache, and will take me on long distance day trips up to 400 Miles round trip. However this is 100% on his time.
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No personal attacks please. Let's stay on subject.
I agree, there is still time to allow this thread to go back on topic. I should have never derailed it so much.
Anyway, if you want to get 100+ caches, and powertrails are not your cup of tea. You could always find a bike/hike trail. Grab a bike, attach it to your car and drive off. You can probably get 200 caches within a couple of hours, plenty of exercise, and enjoy nature along the trail. An easy way to find this is by zooming out on your map and looking for a huge line. Another way I like to use is to go back and look threw all my old Groundspeak weekly news letter's. Scroll down through (new caches this week) and look for any caches similair in naming usually just with a different number. Sometimes these are series around a large area, but many times its a long bike/hike trail.
These are my favorite type of trails, because with a Kia you can't really do the "off-roading" required for most power-trails on the east-coast. You can't really put a bunch of caches on I-95...
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Group hugs all around. It's just a game....isn't it?
I'm game for a group hug, if Scubasonic is, I don't want to make enemies with anyone.
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Considering the ridiculousness of this email, it was not hard to think of comebacks. However, I figure the best comeback is to post the contents here. Clearly you did not want people to judge you for what you wanted to say to me, otherwise you would have posted it on these forums. Now you can be judged by all... Enjoy!
It's generally considered bad form to post the contents of private communications on the public forum.
Abusive emails can be reported to Groundspeak.
IBTL
I realize two wrong's don't make a right. But I don't think that the e-mail itself was good form. I didn't want to argue with someone over an e-mail (Nor argue on the forums for that matter) arguing gets you nowhere. It would just be me throwing insults back, and I don't want to throw insults back and forth over the internet, it just seems counterintuitive.
EDIT: I didn't think about doing it the other way.
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Rather not do anything considered bad form.
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Stealth? Yeah... I've gotten weird looks going under benches with woman on them to get a cache, but you know what? I don't really care. Go find the cache and tell anyone that asks what you are doing. Stealth is the most ridiculus thing ever to come into play with geocaching.
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63 finds on 05. Sep. 2011
1271 finds on 05. Nov. 2010
I worship your massive amount of finds. You are a god on earth. I mean, I used to think the same about almolgul, but he doesn't brag about finding 1200 film cans a day like you! In fact, I've never seen you with a post where you didn't brag! You truly deserve a geocaching award!
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Possibly it is listed on another site besides geocaching.com. There are a few.
The fact people was finding it seems to make it as though thats not the case.
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Most I've done have a micro/nano with coordinates for the next stage, I only remember one with a log for the first stage as well as stage two the final.
A good multi recognizes it's strengths (more creativity on coordinates stages without log book) and stops relying on it's weaknesses (Multi's inheritly don't get found as much, as such a larger cache is not needed because not much trading will be going on).
I think the ones you mentioned miss the point.
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I can't even read 10 responses without being infuriated. I agree, lower it to .05 miles.
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Most of you leave out the big thing. There has to be a need for a reviewer in your area. That means, you have a much better chance of becoming a reviewer in Texas which is a huge state with one reviewer, then say, Pennsylvania which is much smaller but has two reviewers.
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Welcome back. But not for long, at this rate.
I didn't mean to post this here. Honest. The least thing on my mind is being banned again.
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Opps, wrong forum. Sorry.
www.earthcache.org
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How to get badges on profile?
in General geocaching topics
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They don't give you them for free anymore, you now have to pay.
And no, you have no need to false log to put a .jpg image on your profile.