Ed_S
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Pictures - Cool Cache Containers (CCC's)
Ed_S replied to AmishHacker's topic in General geocaching topics
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Pictures - Cool Cache Containers (CCC's)
Ed_S replied to AmishHacker's topic in General geocaching topics
I found a cache here locally a while ago that was called "Robert" and was a similar hide. But it was a bobber (hence the name) and below that (and below the water) was one of those metal pill containers that are airtight, waterproof, and so on. Creativity - it's a good thing! -
I had no problem with hints like that until I took my first geocaching vacation and ran into one. In fact, that one said, "No hints will be given until your third DNF." My problem with that is, there's no rule that says you must log a DNF. Some people choose not to log DNFs. Some do only after a couple attempts at a cache. Yes, the cache owner can decide what rules he wants to incorporate regarding his caches, but the finder has the right to do what he wants when it comes to logging finds or non-finds. So the cache owner won't give out a hint, and the frustrated guy looking decided the owner is a jerk, and avoids the owner's other caches, or maybe trashes them out of spite. Who wins then? Isn't a little more cooperation and a little less self-righteousness the better way to go?
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This one has me a bit worried! What do tubas wear?!? I'm hoping it's just the strangest misspelling of 'Tupperware' that I've ever seen. And, do I really want to find a tubawear container with surprises??? I'll wait for someone else to FTF it. Hey, at least it wouldn't be a lame micro!
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"oh No, Not Another park that doesn't allow dogs!" And it's worse when the cache hider doesn't bother to note that in the attributes. Also, as plenty of others have said, "oh No, Not A stupid, useless non-hint!" If you can't say something useful, don't say anything. You're not being cute, you're being a jerk. It wasn't funny the first time, and it was even less funny the five hundredth time.
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I like caches that get me out, preferably with my dog, for a good hike in the woods. The more scenery the better! I like caches that are creatively camoflaged, not simply stuck under a pile of firewood. Making use of existing items or terrain show the hider has thought about the hide, and wanted to make it enjoyable.
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I run into burning buildings while the normal people are running out! 20 years as a career firefighter.
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I carry a Swiss Army Knife on my belt, and for anything that won't solve, a .38 caliber Rossi revolver. Have a CCW, too.
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Jennifer, with respect, you've found four caches and hidden one. Sooner or later, you'll get tired of lifting lamp-post skirts in the WalMart parking lot, or driving around behind stores to grab yet another magnetic box stuck to a guard rail. Everyone reaches their saturation point with these. On the other end of the spectrum, micros by their size alone lend themselves to what I refer to as "The Needle in the Haystack" hides, where there are plenty of places to hide a full-size cache, and about a billion places where a micro might be. So the question becomes, "do you spend all day looking for one frustrating hide, or do you ignore it and go enjoy yourself?" There are some great micro hides out there, though, and I'd hate to lose them. I don't dislike micros, but I do dislike, and tend to avoid, lame locations.
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Anybody who's cached during winter has come across a frozen cache - I know I sure have!
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But why do they have to copy the lame hides??
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I have actually been thanked by a hunter for walking through the woods during hunting season. It was deer season, I was in PA, where hunting is permitted in many parks, and I was puffing and panting my way up a large hill, following the trail. I was not at all quiet. When I got near the top I saw a hunter and I apologized for the noise I was making. He told me what noise I was making was actually serving to move the deer, which increased the hunters' chances for a shot at one. Of course, deer season and other seasons are hunted in a different style. What irks me about PAFarmboy's problem in WV is that he complied with all their rules. He jumped through their hoops. He had his caches in place and online, and evidently arbitrarily, someone decided they didn't want caches in "their" area, and they began removing them, including travelbugs and other swag. They made no attempt to contact PAFarmboy, nor have they done so yet, so he can claim his property and the various other items in the caches. It's not really about us vs. hunters, it's about how a bargain was broken. One side of the bargain is that when we ask for and receive permission to place a cache, we comply with any rules the land owner or manager puts on us. In exchange for that, his side of the bargain is he lets us put our cache on his land. What the WMA management did was wrong, plain and simple.
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Gotcha! Sorry about that!!
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It appears that the people who run the Wildlife Management Areas in West Virginia have decided that those areas are for hunting only, not for caching. They're evidently confiscating caches found in their areas, despite their being legally placed with permission. http://www.magpi.us/forum/viewtopic.php?p=2028#2028 I'd like to ask that if anyone is in the area and affected by this seemingly arbitrary change in their policy, they contact anyone they can think of to get this bad decision corrected.
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Looks like the Wildlife Management Areas in West Virginia are for hunters only. They seem to be confiscating, without notification, any caches they find. http://www.magpi.us/forum/viewtopic.php?p=2028#2028 I've done a cache or two of PAFarmboy's, and I can vouch for his integrity. He creates challenging, well-thought-out and well-laid-out caches. He does his homework. Please read the link. This ain't right!
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I'd recommend asking in the Central Ohio Geocachers forum - they're pretty active and well organized. http://www.cogeocaching.org/ Sorry to keep bouncing you around, but I'm up in the Youngstown area.
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A great big ATTABOY! (and ATTAGIRL! too!) to you all! Well done!
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Let me assure one and all that if you host it, AND PUBLICIZE IT, they will come. My local group just hosted our first event, and on a day that started out with a half inch of ice covering everything (rained and froze the night before) we had over 70 people there. Some of the caches we'd hidden for the event were frozen shut, or frozen in place. At least until the first cachers chipped them loose! But I know what you're asking, Snoogans. Personally, I think it depends on your personal ethics. If I actually planned and worked on an event and nobody came, yes, I'd log it. To make up a bogus event just to inflate your numbers - hey, knock yourself out! It doesn't diminish my enjoyment of caching any.
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When I was setting this cache up: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...4f-a4c3497e16cc there were cops, firetrucks and ambulance at the park. A girl had leaned out on a tree at the top of a waterfall to look down it, and slipped. She fell probably 40 or 50 feet, bouncing off rocks, and landed in the creek bed. I helped carry her out (I'm a firefighter). She ended up with many broken bones, including neck/back, and 9 separate bleeds in the brain.
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My dog has her own caching account: http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?guid=99...eb-4138c853a742 If she even sees me touching my GPS, she gets excited. She really enjoys just being in the woods, off the leash (where permitted). Every now and then she'll sniff one out before I find it - I think she's following the scent of humans or other dogs or something. I've heard that you can train a dog to sniff out caches, but, really, that would take some of the fun out of it, having it shown to you with no looking on your part.
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My last flight was the day before the incident happened in Brittain. I had two GPSs - one for street navigation and one for caching - as well as the wire/windshield mount for one, and a camera, a Palm, and chargers for these devices as well as the charger for my phone. I figured if someone X-Rayed my bag and saw all the circuit boards, wires, batteries, etc. they'd flip out, so I brought it all in my carry-on bag. The security folks checked the devices out - I had to turn both GPSs off after they were done, but I got through security unmolested.
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Looking For Geodogs With Their Own Accounts
Ed_S replied to Earthdog Patrick's topic in General geocaching topics
Just say the word - we're ready!! -
Looking For Geodogs With Their Own Accounts
Ed_S replied to Earthdog Patrick's topic in General geocaching topics
My pooch, Molly, has her own account: http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?guid=99...eb-4138c853a742 Considering that she's not yet two, she's not doing so bad - over 100 finds. -
Something else to consider - pill containers are not waterproof. I thought they would be, and I have three micros using them. Two of 'em aren't anywhere near the ground. I thought I could just put a paper strip in there for a log. They got wet - you have to put them in plastic bags. Maybe the ones with the childproof lids are more waterproof - mine are all the ones anyone can open.
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A: who's going to wade through the thousands of posts that appear here every day? B: with that sort of treatment, especially to those who are paying members, participation in the whole forum, if not caching in general, is going to drop off. I know who the ultimate loser would be, and it ain't me - except that there would be less caches for me to find! A. The moderators. B. Unfounded self-serving speculation. C. A: The moderators already have plenty to do - gc/tptb would have to have a lot more moderators if every post was to be approved before it appeared. B: Not so unfounded - I admit the statement is empirical, but I'd wager money that should punishments start to be meted out, participation both here and (less so) caching in general would drop off. Probably not a huge amount, but a noticable one. And if you define my statement that the end result of this would be less caches for me to find as "self-serving" then I have only one thing to say, sir: "thbthbthbthb!" C: <G>