Pushkin

LOL, enjoy that quote. I just noticed in the other thread that you said my profile was "entertaining", well if you think my profile is entertaining, you've obviously never read your own.

My new sig line! Thanks pushkid. Okay! I can make fun of names too! eh Hooligan, so Hooligan what's school with Thurman Thoas like?

Thankfully, I'm a Sabres fan. Even worse, they've never won it.

That is the funniest statement I've read in here in a long time. I wish we could have it stickied so I could look at it and laugh whenever I wanted. His profile is equally entertaining! Hey Pushkid, is your real name Roe Gordon? I would certainly loooove to come to your event this weekend and watch you order your troops around. I'd love you to come too, so I could whoop your a**. Thread closed.

That is the funniest statement I've read in here in a long time. I wish we could have it stickied so I could look at it and laugh whenever I wanted. The day I take the opinion of someone with 30 archived 1 star micro caches seriously is the day the Leafs win the Stanley Cup.

I am the only cacher in my area with over 300 finds, and I have more hides than everyone else combined, you could say I'm a big fish in a small pond. Anyway, my opinion matters around here and I make decisions. And the guy who hid the bad caches wasn't even from here, he was just draging bad Moncton NB caching into my county.

Hi, I wanted to ask the opinions of everyone here on what I should do about a problem in my area. I live in Antigonish County, Nova Scotia (a place most of you probalby haven't heard of), before today, no one had ever hidden a micro here, and before last week, nobody had ever hidden any kind of bad cache. The good caches here spawned many more good hiders and other good caches. It was probalby the only place in Nova Scotia that didn't have any bad caches, of course, I was proud of that, I planned an event here for tomorrow, so cachers could come and enjoy finding good caches in a good area, without any micros or park and grabs. But last week, there were to bad park and grabs hidden here, and today, the first MICRO! what I'd like to do is destroy all of them, but that's not allowed I know. So I need to know what I should do. Maybe someone here could retract them? or maybe I could get permission to trash them? I don't want any bad caches around here.

Couldn't agree more, I hate micros so much.

I've been to the original cache site - it's not that interesting a place, a wide spot on a country road with not much of a view. I've been to a number of the early hide (first year) and not all of them are in "interesting places". And if they were all so muggle-proof, why have some many been muggled? A lot of the caches been placed now - in lame or "wouldn't think of it a year ago" places - are done because most of the interesting places are already taken. Or at least the easily gotten to ones, I've thought of putting in a cache that has a great view of Mt Rainer and the Cascades, but being that it's three pitches up a moderate rock climb, I can't see very many people ever logging it. I want to place caches that are found and enjoyed. And which is more interesting, an ammo can tossed behind a tree, covered with a couple of sticks; or the micro hidden at the same tree in a hole made by a woodpecker? An ammo can stuck in a mostly rotten stump; or a micro cleverly hidden in a hole in branch that you can see but you need to find the piece of filshing line to retrieve it? Sure, I like to look thru trade items, but given the choice between that in "lame" ammo can hide and a cleverly hidden/camo'd micro, I'll take the micro. I WAS around when micro's were first being used. What you call lame now was darn hard to find then. We even struggled to find regulars back then. But with better units (oh, how I was happy when I switched to a unit that read down to feet instead of .01 miles) and experience things have gotten "easier" (just look at some of the difficulty ratings of some of the oldies, it was a different world back then). So I can say that micros have NOT hurt the game. As to micros and nanos only being hidden for the numbers, I say HA! A well hidden/camo'd micro will take so much more time than a regular (in general) that there is no way you can say it just for numbers. ANY easy cache - of any size - could be said to be "just for numbers". Be careful of such blanket statements, you can't prove them. Well, enough for tonight. Geez, I didn't people would take it so literally when I said "when geocaching first started", some of you thought I was talking about the very first cache... WOW. And you think a well camo'd micro takes longer to hide than a micro... that's what deserves a "HA!". Hiding a bunch of caches in gardrails next to a highway... what could the reason for that be? besides numbers. A regular cache couldn't be hidden just for numbers, they cost money, who would waste a good ammo can? have you ever heard the word "hike" before? micros on the other hand hardly cost anything at all, so people dump them everywhere to get their numbers up. You say I can't prove those "blanket statements" well... I believe I just did.

It's really sad what micros have become. When geocaching first started, people hid regular caches in interesting places where they could go without being muggled, and they hid micros in other interesting places where regular caches just couldn't go. But then the numbers game really came into play and people started putting micros EVERYWHERE, some were put in places where a regular could easily go, others were put in places where no one in the right mind would of even dreamed of putting a cache a year ago. Micros, AND NANO CACHES are being hidden for numbers and numbers only. It's good to hear that there is talk of getting rid of them, they've hurt the game enough.

That would be nice.

Team Tkd was the one who started it.

My goal is to be the best hider in Nova Scotia. I used to want high numbers for travel bugs and as many icons as possible. But my goal changed as caching in the maritime provinces started going downhill (in my opinion).

Don't know, I never looked. But what I'm trying to do is download the waypoints to my computer not my GPS, I'll enter them by hand into the GPS after I download them to the computer.

Thanks guys... but I already tried that and when I looked at the waypoints I downloaded, the coordinates were all screwy. I need to figure out how to download them correctly so the coordinates are right.

I'm gonna be doing a lot of caching over the next few days and I can't figure out how to download waypoints. Is there any way I can just download the coordinates and hints of many caches and then print them?

You can put me in this group!

Easy easy Tucats, I'm not impatient about this, I don't know how you got that idea, all I said was that it was getting annoying, I didn't say FSX should get out there and fix it immediately. And that real job thing... well... don't say stuff like that unless you know what you're talking about.

up down up down up... down... to the other site

Well the MGA (Maritime Geocaching) site is down again... anyone know when it'll be back up? (sigh).

There shouldn't be controversy, we should just let Ken deal with it, if he wants to put the ID on, then put the ID on, if not, don't do it.

Don't see why it matters so much. GC41 was only archived because individual accounts were just being created, GCBBA was the first cache in Canada.

thats PUSHKIN

Actually CA, it was cache tech who reviewed the cache and he refused to approve it until I gave him the waypoints for each firetack (or lied), it had nothing to do with what was said on the MGA forum. I look at the MGA forum quite often and was on chat at the time with Cache agent, but I do prefer to have the fire tack locations. If there are a high number of them, a sampling, taking into consideration other caches in the area and for removal should the need arise. In the end I asked a question to which you gave an answer and I listed your cache without delay. We were just pulling your leg, I apologize. Oh okay, it's kinda hard to tell if someones joking or not if you can't see the expression on their face or hear their tone of voice when they're saying it.

Actually CA, it was cache tech who reviewed the cache and he refused to approve it until I gave him the waypoints for each firetack (or lied), it had nothing to do with what was said on the MGA forum.