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Quossum

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  1. *Double-posted for some reason. Sorry!*
  2. I'm very proud of my Geo-Dog Tag Race bugs: Here's Flame's. Links to the other racers are at the bottom of her page. --Q
  3. I received mine yesterday. Very impressive; I love it! Now to go get the activation code... --Q
  4. Leave the DNF log. You didn't find the cache. The DNF is part of the cache's (and your !) history. --Q
  5. You might have better luck in the Geocoin forum. You will probably be asked to blur the coin's tracking number. --Q
  6. That is a good one. I saw one similar once...but it was a single branch, hinged, with a bison tube inside. Very tricky to see unless you caught a glimpse of the metal hinge. Congrats, and cache on! Finds like that make it pretty addictive! --Q
  7. Nice! My favorite type of puzzle, as a matter of fact. The 2.5 seems okay, taking into account the misdirection. I like the title. Finland, eh? Hmm...I have planned excursions centered around a solved puzzle I wanted to grab... --Q
  8. Very good suggestions! Thank you, all! --Q
  9. I know, I know! I kept trying to figure out if it was some kind of subtle insult or maybe a compliment. One or the other. --Q
  10. "Hey! You got coffee in my bacon!" "You got bacon in my coffee!" ..... "MMmmmmm!" --Q
  11. I think something's wrong here...might want to check your link! At first I was a little freaked out! --Q
  12. Will reviewers generally respond to a polite email asking if certain coordinates are "safe" *before* I go out and write the page / place the cache? Yes, solving every puzzle and multi is ideal, BUT...there's a puzzle near my home coordinates (in fact it's listed as my closet cache), which is four-star and completely incomprehensible to me--and I enjoy puzzles! But frankly, I can't solve that one. --Q
  13. Great story! What's next? Simple. Find a highway. Create a power trail by submitting caches for every 528' feet. Then, walk--er, drive--along with your film can in hand, slowing down briefly every 528' and signing its log. Each pause you'll "decide not to leave the can." Log all of your "finds" on line (yes, on your own caches; we've seen it done, this just takes it up a level! Though you could always have a friend or a sock puppet account place the finds for added legitimacy). Back at home, archive all the caches so that you don't have to deal with all the pesky DNF's. (Or encourage other cachers that it's a BYOC trail.) Voila! Huge numbers without the expense of all those containers or the effort of trying to find so many caches! --Q
  14. Would you think this one was fun? Oh, that is *awesome!* Yes, that exactly the type of puzzle I like to solve. I might do this one just for the LOL's. It's 1600 miles away from me. Thanks for posting that here! --Q
  15. Here's what a cache should look like! GCTJ1R (It usually has a cover over it for camo / waterproofing.) --Q
  16. I enjoy them a lot...though I admit there are many that I simply cannot solve. When I have some spare time I bring up a list of Mysteries and go through them, looking for ones I can get. If I read the page and have absolutely no idea where to start, I just close that one and keep on looking. Sometimes I'll go back to a page I'd previously passed by, and this time I'll be able to tackle it, thanks to having learned some trick in the meantime. I don't like the ones where I churn away at it and finally it seems like I've solved the presented problem...and the data / numbers I've figured out still make no sense. Obviously there's another step that needs to be taken, and sometimes I don't have any idea what that next step is! But yes, I love puzzles! --Q
  17. Those Bu Babies are great! The crochet ones are cool, too, but be sure to place them only in the driest of caches. Even with a plastic bag, dampness can seep in... Not that they'll stay in a cache for that long! --Q
  18. Hmm...a possible use for all my hundreds and hundreds of Magic cards. I don't play anymore (all the updates / errata / new rules got a little too overwhelming at some point) but still have the cards. Should drop an Armageddon in the vicinity of a muggled cache sometime! I love looking at this thread. These sig items are awesome! I'm not wild about the ones that are just cards, unless they're laminated or somehow really, really eye-catching and unique; I've seen too many caches with moldy business cards stagnating at the bottom. --Q
  19. Me, too. My personal tracking coin isn't doing the mileage thing any more. --Q
  20. A lot of the caches around here have dewberries or muscadine grapes nearby. Yummy! --Q
  21. And yet, you didn't post it? more so since the CO hasn't been active cacher in about 2 years, regardless of the "last visit" date Exactly. I fully admit to my cowardice in this situation. I've only been Geocaching since May 2010--three months. I don't want to come off as one of those smart-a** newbies who starts this game and immediately thinks they're all that, wantin' to archive people's caches and stuff. And the man did respond when I emailed him, practically offering to let me adopt the caches. True, I have no desire to do that--I've got plenty of cache ideas in the works of my own--but I thought it would seem particularly churlish to decline his offer and then whip right around and post the NA instead. Don't get me wrong...that's what I should do, and I will, I will. Just trying to get up the ba--uh, gumption to do so. That's why threads like this and hearing the opinions of more experienced cachers are appreciated and valuable to me, and I thank everyone for the thoughts expressed here. --Q
  22. How about "technology-based outdoor puzzle-solving activity"? What the OP is going through is terrible. I agree with some of the PP's, though...it's just an excuse. It wouldn't matter what wonderful thing he was doing with the kids, she'd hate it and find some problem with it. That said, though, I love all the positive experiences people are sharing here. Geocaching has *really* gotten me and the hubby off the couch and outside a lot more than we used to be. That's got to be good! --Q
  23. I vote for Puzzle. A cache where you really, really have to read the description page to get it needs to be something besides a traditional. Here's one just like the OP describes; it even comes right out and says in big red letters that the cache IS at the coordinates. GCR9Q2. As other have noted, this keeps the container from being attacked with brute force (maybe!) and also filters the cache out for those who don't care to solve some tricky riddle or whathaveyou. --Q
  24. Randco, there's another macro called GenUploadStats that will run the FindStatGen and put it in your profile automatically. --Q
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