Gloom

quote:Originally posted by jasonhuber:So regardless of the rest and who said what the cache may very well get approved by the people that own the land and we can still have our sport as we want it. Huh, that's funny. I thought that had already happened. As PUBLIC land, it was approved by the people that own the land when the Groundspeak admins, being of the public, approved it. That is unless I misread all this and it is actually private land, in which case, please ignore this and my previous post too. ---- Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

don't ya hate it when you hit the wrong button, then it won't let you delete it.

There's going to be Professional Bull Riders there? That'd be cool! Anyway, I'll try to make it if I'm not tied up working on my race car. ---- Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side and a dark side, and it holds the universe together. [This message was edited by Gloom on March 05, 2003 at 04:03 PM.]

quote:Originally posted by Byron & Anne:My issue has to do with the right of free speech. The right to publish the geographic coordinates of this park is what this person has tried to stop. That is clearly _WRONG_. Threaten leagal actions in an attempt to prohibit the right of free speech is even worse. All of this is much worse than somebody touching rocks. I think the folks at geocaching.com have been way too _nice_ on this issue. Byron I'd have to agree. I think in this case it is clear that they are attempting to impede our right to free speech. Which is the right to post the coordinates of a "publicly owned", publicly accessible place. They do not own the coordinates, or even the land, or the petroglyphs. My opinion is, put the virutal back up, and let them sue. When the courts rule in our favor then we have a legal precedence and this sort of thing won't happen again. I'm guessing we have enough geocachers who are willing to front some money for a defense lawyer. BTW, this cache is of particular interest to me as I have a similar cache in northern california. It is a multi-stage virtual that ends at a petroglyph site (I just ruined the ending of it for people who want to do it). Luckily the glyphs there are fairly well protected behind a cyclone fence, but I suppose if they wanted to they could complain. My 2 cents or more ---- Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

quote:Originally posted by pdxmarathonman:The *new on 3/2* caches that I had previously checked were all *updates* by the cache owner. Including one of my own. I hadn't noticed that. However, I just checked again, and 1 of my 2 is approved. Actually, make that both of them! Yey! Thanks approvers! ---- Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

And 9 oregon caches dated 3/1 - 3/2 have been listed. Not mine yet, but ... 8 in Washington. ---- Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

quote:Originally posted by The Wombles: A full tank of petrol (gas) in my car costs £60 or $90. And I still do 30,000 miles a year and lots of caching. Dave Well, maybe the answer to your gas prices is to have your government invade and take over an oil producing country... I bet I just opened a whole can of worms with that one ---- Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

quote:Originally posted by pdxmarathonman:What's with these guys? Letting their real lives take them away from the critical duty of approving MY caches!! Hey I thought it was MY caches! I have 2 waiting. ---- Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

I wonder (hope not) if someone will try to make a locationless cache out of this ---- Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

And I still live less than 10 miles from the house I spent my first 18 years in. ---- Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

quote:Originally posted by Team GPSaxophone:Um...isn't the GCxxxx already a unique numbering system for caches? Read the dates of the posts, the original thread was started in january of 2001, before the GC numbering system was in place. ---- Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

quote:Originally posted by Yotian Soldier:As an admin I love the maps...helps out to check where the cache is situated....if the coordinates are ok in relation to the country.... I agree, the map helps me quickly figure out where a cache is located, without having to go to mapquest, etc. Also when I print the page out it helps me keep them organized by location. ---- Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Have I ever told you that I hate you? Ask Nomer about it sometime. You started caching just a couple of weeks after I did, but you now have 600 caches, while I'm still waiting to break 200. Must be nice to be retired and able to go caching whenever! But enough of that, Congrats man! I hope the next 600 are just as much fun. Take care, Gloom ---- Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

quote:Originally posted by Team Lightfoot:That was Lion's Back ridge Just outside Moab, Utah Yep, That's what I was going to say, but you beat me to it. ---- Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

I've never even seen a watch in a geocache. BTW, I took a look at your log for that cache and not to sound condescending or that I'm browbeating you, but a fake stick of dynamite is probably not such a good thing to put in a cache. I realize that you're new to this so you probably don't know, but we have had a problem in the past (and still do to some extent) with caches being mistaken for bombs and being blown up by police bomb squads. A fake stick of dynamite could get us all into trouble. But anyway, welcome to the sport! Hope your incident with the watch band won't be representative of your future caching experiences. Have fun. ---- Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side and a dark side, and it holds the universe together. [This message was edited by Gloom on February 10, 2003 at 04:09 PM.]

quote:Originally posted by happycycler:If you use a dial in/up modem, could the different IP address cause confusion for the login software? I know that I generally have a different IP address each time I dial in. I'm using the T1 line at my work. I suppose it's possible that everytime I boot up I'm assigned a different IP, but I think it stores IPs and only grabs a different one if it can't get the same one. ---- Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

quote:Originally posted by dwmurphy:click on the box directly under it for auto logging into the forums, you only have to login once. Yeah I tried that, but it only seems to last one time. The next time I come back the setting is off. Or at least it makes me do the double login again. However, this time, I didn't go to the webpage first, and I do not have the auto-forum-login on and I didn't have to login at all. It recognized me right away. wierd. ---- Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

OK, I have the website set up to use cookies so I don't have to log in everytime I view it, but when I come to the forums I need to click login twice. Now let me clarify, if I go to the www.geocaching.com page first and then click the 'discuss geocaching' button I only have to login once. If I type www.geocaching.com/discuss into my browser first (without going to the home page) then I have to click it twice for it to recognize me. I assume that the first time I click it, it logs me into the website www.geocaching.com and the second time it actually logs me into the forums. Is this really what's happening? Is there a way to make it only take one click? I know I'm splitting hairs, but... ---- Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

What you can think of it as is offsetting a waypoint. Say you have a waypoint for a multi-cache and the directions say that the next waypoint is at 324 degrees and 1.8 miles. If you do a projection from the original way point using 324 degrees and 1.8 miles you will now have a new waypoint that is the second location of the cache (or next step). What it did was take your current location (or waypoint) and move it 1.8 miles along a 324 degree bearing. Then it figured out the new coordinates and gave those to you. A word of caution, if the platinum is like the 315 then make sure you save the projection as a new waypoint before you exit the screen otherwise you'll lose it and have to start over. ---- Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

But on my 315 it works like this (i think) ... Press the goto button and the goto menu pops up. While the menu is up, press the menu button. Another menu pops up and one of the selections should be 'clear goto'. Of course I could be totally off. ---- Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

quote:Originally posted by Moun10Bike:That's not correct. Provided you are talking about Dan's stats page at insidecorner.com, a DNF has no impact on your score. I stand corrected. It's been a long time since I've even looked at Dan's page and last time I did I thought that it listed my 'finds' as the number of actual finds I had minus the number of DNFs I logged. Could have just be coincidence. ---- Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

quote:Originally posted by oregone:I grabbed a bucket and walked down the gravelled trail about 100 feet. Sure enough, the gravel ended and the mud began. So i dumped the gravel out of my bucket and created two more feet of trail. I then continued to walk along the trail for about 100 more feet before the gravel began again. I repeated the process on the way back to the car. How do you know they weren't trying to remove the gravel from the trail (put it back to it's natural state) and make huge piles with it? Maybe you just set their efforts back. ---- Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

quote:Originally posted by Bad Dog 1762:For what reason would you not log a DNF? What it counts against you or something (said sarcastically!). Well actually it does count against you. If you are one of the people who actually track your standings on the stats page a DNF will negate one of your founds. That said I always log a DNF when I can't find a cache. But I have some simple rules about it. For me to log a DNF I have to be at the location (or at least what I think is the location) of the cache and be physically searching for it. Say for instance that I'm doing a cache that requires a 4 mile hike to get to. If I hike in 3.75 miles and don't feel like continuing, for what ever reason, I don't count that as a DNF. IF I do hike the 4 miles and the falls there are too spectacular and I waste all my daylight taking pictures of the falls and not looking for the cache I don't count that as a DNF. If I hike the 4 miles, do any kind of searching at all and come up empty then it gets logged as a DNF. To me it seems counterproductive to log a DNF that you haven't actually been at the location of the cache and looked for it. Cache owners and other cachers use DNF logs to judge if a cache is still there or not and how hard it is to find. If you log a DNF that says: "Parked in the parking lot, was raining too hard, didn't want to get wet" how is that helpful to anyone but you? It can be misleading to someone who doesn't read the log, only glances at the DNF symbol. My two cents. ---- Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

quote:Originally posted by BrianSnat:Depends on the state, but often they are managed by different agencies, for different goals. Kind of similar to national parks, vs. national forests. That's the way I understand it. At least here in Oregon. The State Forests are managed by the Oregon Department of Forestry and the State Parks are managed by the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department. As far as different goals: State Parks (quoted from their web site) The mission of the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department: To provide and protect outstanding natural, scenic, cultural, historic and recreational sites for the enjoyment and education of present and future generations. ODF (quoted from their web site) To serve the people of Oregon through the protection, management, and promotion of a healthy forest environment, which will enhance Oregon’s livability and economy for today and tomorrow. ---- Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

quote:The only thing more accurate that you can carry around easily is a GPS receiver, which derives atomic clock accuracy in real time from the atomic clocks in orbiting GPS satellites. So how come I still have to enter the time into my GPS and it doesn't correct for daylight savings? ---- Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.