Ed_S
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I knew about the level one rating indicating wheelchair compatability.
I didn't notice there was an icon for it. Am I just not seeing the wheelchair icon when I click on these level one caches, or is it that people just aren't using them?
I just went and had a look at the attributes available to cache owners, and sure enough, it's there. It's near the bottom of the column, under "Facilities" though, but if you select the "Parking available" attribute, the wheelchair is the one right above it.
And wheelchair accessibility (or lack thereof, because of the last few feet required to find the cache) is why my easy caches are 1.5 stars. I think that would be the problem with wheelchair-accessible caches - most caches are not located right on the trail where someone in a chair could get to them. It's just too hard to find a suitable hiding spot. But someone who could maybe get out of the chair for short distances, if the terrain was level and not too cluttered with debris, might do better. Only way to be sure on that issue would be to check it out beforehand yourself, knowing what your particular wheelchair cacher is capable of.
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I only have 5 caches out so far, and they vary in difficulty. Two are in a fairly urban park that has a great kid's playground. I wanted to bring people in to the park, so there's two to get instead of only one, and they're easy (1.5 and 1.5) so folks with kids can find them before the kids get frustrated. I have one that's a bushwhack through a wooded area with no trails, but it's flat. Swampy, in fact. I rated the difficulty 1.5 and the terrain 2. One is in a fairly wild area where there is a horse trail that will eventually take you to near the cache, but we all know what horse trails are like! <G> Some folks have bushwhacked to this one, but they found that they had to pick their way around a lake, through briars and brambles. I think I rated this one 2 difficulty and 2.5 for terrain. My last one is a multi in a park that has cliffs and chasms and narrow passages and lousy reception. I rated it 3 and 3, but I rated it for the easy, but long, trails between the stages. The moderate trails will get you where you need to go, but there are much shorter ways, if you're up for it. I've been told this one is very good.
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...4f-a4c3497e16cc if anyone is in NE Ohio.
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I used a radar detector handlebar mount and drilled holes to fit the Quest mount so that I can run the Quest off the SVS' electrical system.
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At some point, I'll get an ear bud so that I can take advantage of the voice nav capabilities.
That sounds like a good setup. Doggone Garmin took forever to bring out their handlebar mount for the Quest, and RAM came out with one, so that's what I use, but it doesn't have the electrical hookup. There is a hole in about the right place, though, so I could probably rig it up. But I've used it to navigate half way across the country (Ohio to Texas) on the bike, just on battery power and the visual prompts, so the electrical hookup isn't really a priority.
I like your idea about an ear bud for the voice prompts - I may look into that, too.
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Whoops - that one got by me.
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Rider is a magazine geared toward cruiser style motorcycles. When I got the August mag today, imagine my surprise when the editorial, by Mark Tuttle, the editor, was about geocaching from a motorcycle! The editorial presents geocaching in a positive way, and makes it sound as fun as we all know it is.
It's good to come across something positive about something you enjoy in a place you never expected to see it!
Ed_S from Youngstown OH
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I have,
I have (without ropes or gear, but it wasn't very high),
I have,
I haven't, but would.
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Or how about:
I hate micros/
In the parking lot/
Some folks claim they like them/
I for one do not/
I'd rather hike 10 miles/
And scale a cliff or two/
I'd rather crawl right through a swamp/
But that's me - how 'bout you?
(note: posted with tongue firmly in cheek! <G>)
Ed_S
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I was strolling through the park one day/
In the very merry month of May/
Then I climbed upon some rocks/
And I found an ammo box/
Geocaching is a sport that's here to stay!!
Ed_S
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Nothing wrong with that sort of cache - they can be fun, too.
Here's a mini-multi-micro in a front yard:
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...88-b4bce29578bd
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As for buying a bike off eBay, I don't recommend it. Too many horror stories.
Wulf
I haven't personally bought a motorcycle via Ebay, but I know many people who have. I mean dozens of people. I don't know anybody who's been burned buying a bike on Ebay. You do have to exercise common sense, though. The brand new Harley Davidson Ultra Classic that has a Buy It Now price of $1500 is probably a scam, for example.
With a little effort, Ebay is as safe as the classified ads in your local paper.
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I lost a leg and can't ride a bike, had to sell my Norton 650, so I need a trike.
I cache with family and friends so a 2-seater is required.
Thanks!
Ed
TheAlabamaRambler@alacache.com
Have you looked on Ebay? I see trikes for sale there frequently.
(Remember - two Eds are better than one!) <G>
Ed_S
Youngstown OH
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My current bike is a '96 Yamaha Royal Star (with 48,000 miles on it). Yes, I cache with it! When all I had in the way of a GPSr was my Garmin Etrex, I hung it by its lanyard around my neck while riding, so I could look at it quickly. Now, if Garmin ever gets their handlebar mount out for the Quest, I'll use my Quest.
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Once this white stuff on the ground melts, I'll be more likely to take the 50 mpg motorcycle and not the 17 mpg truck. But beyone that, I'll still go caching!
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That's a little better than we did this past weekend. I was out with ellehciM and CJB4589 and we found a cache full of urine and feces. Talk about trading down.
Since you were in my neck of the woods last weekend, if you don't want to post the name of the cache, will you email it to me? I hope it wasn't one of mine!!
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this coud go two ways we got a gold wing last year so we put on around 300 miles on sundays in the summer and pick up a few caches
so theese miles could be just to ride or to get to the cache
And it doesn't get any better than that - a putt on the bike, a little caching! <G>
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How many of you bring a kit of some kind with you on caching trips so you could put your training to use if someone needed your help?
I have to admit that I don't bring anything extra with me, even though I have the training and do as part of my job render aid to those who've fallen, are having an allergic reaction, or other situation we might encounter in the field.
Just curious if anyone's better prepared than I am out there?
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A little over 1000 miles - NE Ohio to Cape Canaveral FL.
My wife was attending a seminar at NASA there, and I accompanied her on the trip, planning on caching during the day while she was at class.
But close to home, I have to travel about 30 miles just to find one I haven't done yet, as a rule.
(there are a few out there right now that I need to get within that 30 mile radius, but I have other situations requiring my time at the moment. Soon, though!)
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Well, I see you're too far from me for me to come show that someone with 321 finds in since my first in late 2001 hasn't been blown up yet. But you're really between a rock and a hard head, um excuse me, place.
There's so much wrong with your dad's reasoning that I don't know where to begin. Why would a terrorist hide a bomb out in the woods that *maybe* one hunter *might* stumble across? Terrorists want the press coverage, the feeling of power, they want to spread terror (hence the name). Not gonna do it by snuffing one hunter nobody ever heard of in the woods behind Farmer McDougal's back 40. But let's even assume that a terrorist would do this. How many caches would the terrorist have to place to be sure a hunter got blown up by any of them? And what's going to trigger the bomb - that won't blow up a deer or other wildlife? See how easy it is to poke holes in the illogic? Oh, and futurehillbillies, if the previous finder thought it was a bomb, why'd he open it? Nope - don't want to say any more 'bout that!
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I used to write in logs: The FUN is in the FINDING!!
Got tired of that saying, though, so I don't use it any more.
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Did I do the right thing by babysitting ig for an hour or two until it was clear, or should I have just placed it back while he was there... What would you have done??
I have checked on caches I've found, especially in winter when the snow makes tracking obvious, when I've passed people who didn't look like geocachers that I encountered soon after leaving the cache. I'd sit and wait in my truck until they left, then gone back to make sure the cache was still there.
I think you did the right thing.
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When I was laying out my cache http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...4f-a4c3497e16cc I was on my motorcycle, and as I approached the road I wanted to turn on to get to the park, I saw a cop car coming toward me. The cop car turned on the road I was going to take. Well, I got to the parking lot and saw just a bit up the road the cop car, a fire truck and an ambulance. I saw someone trot out of the woods and grab a Stokes basket and head back into the woods. This park has lots of cliffs, and several people fall every year - most of them drunk or stupid. Anyway, being a firefighter myself, I got off my bike and wandered up the path the guy went with the Stokes. Sure enough, two girls in their early 20s were goofing around at the top of one of the waterfalls, and one fell about 30 feet into the creek and rocks below. The other one was soaked, having slid down and tried to check on her friend. By the time I got there the FD and ambulance people were getting the fallen girl into the Stokes. I identified myself and asked if there was anything I could do. Someone asked me to interview the friend and get a medical history and other information on the girl. I did that, and helped carry the Stokes out of the park. The trail was rocky enough that we'd have two people in front, four people carrying the Stokes, and two more at the rear. When we got to a tight spot, the Stokes was handed forward to the two in front, and the two who had been carrying the front now carried the back. At the next wide spot more people would go to the front of the group. I never heard any more about the girl, other than that she was life-flighted to the hospital, but the park rangers there did phone me the next day to thank me for my help.
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Gotta agree with Keystone Approver (and not just because he approves my caches!) <G>
I have one multi cache where I use metal tags with the coordinates for the next stage stamped into the metal. They're nailed to, well, let's just say they're not nailed to anything living (don't want to give any of the fun away!). I got permission from the Park Manager specifically to do this. I told him exactly what I was doing and where I was doing it. The tags are discreet and unobtrusive. When they're removed there will be two small nail holes per tag in spots where nobody will see them.
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...4f-a4c3497e16cc
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I know a few fireman that cache but dont bother with the forums
That would be me. I've been caching for a few years, but only very recently bothered to check out this forum.
17 years Career firefighter, commanding Engine 74-A-shift. We're also First Responders - in fact, over 2/3 of the 3300 calls we had last year were EMS-related.
Was a volunteer firefighter on a different department for 6 years prior to going full-time.
Advanced Extrication, Commercial Vehicle Extrication, Certified to perform annual in-service pump tests, yadda yadda yadda.
Why Do You Do It?
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It's certainly not about the swag!
The swag makes it fun for families with kids, but I think many or most adults do it for the challenge and for the outdoors activity. I'd say your reasons are right on. But then, I"m almost as old as you! I'll be 49 in another couple months.
And if you're worried about the gas, do what I do. I ride my motorcycle whenever I can to caches. At 50 mpg I don't burn so much gas! And I combine two things I enjoy doing. I get to ride a while, then I get to find a cache, then I get to ride some more, . . . It doesn't get any better!