djhobby
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I've dropped a few, but the worst one was losing my own cache.
I have a cache that is hidden inside a parking block, those things you bump your tires against in the parking lots. I pulled out a loose piece of the rebar that holds the block in place (no worries the block couldn't go anywhere anyway, it's right next to a curb) cut it down a little bit and stuck a magnetic bison tube on the end, but when I went to hide it, the bison tube fell off and went into the hole upside down with the magnetic end facing the wrong way. Luckily I had a nano with me and made the hide work, but the rebar sticks up about 2" above the block making it a little more obvious. People still have trouble finding it though, and sometimes to be ornery I'll tell them that it should be easy, after all there are two caches there.
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I think the upgrade did something because I had 5 or so and now I don't have any.
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who cares?
I do...That's why I posted the question.
But I do like your approach to it mulvaney, accept the beautiful artwork as a boon for "finding" a locationless cache.
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I just received a souvenir badge from Germany even though I've never found a cache there. I did "find" a Locationless cache years ago that was German that I guess counts toward the souvenirs, but in my opinion they shouldn't. Is there any way to remove one badge? And what happened to the "Web Sight Issues" forum which is where this should have been posted?
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If you don't mind traveling for a few hours, there are a couple different cache series here in Indiana that are made for canoeing and kayaking. On the north end of Lake Monroe near Bloomington, IN is a series of Pirate themed caches that area a lot of fun. http://coord.info/GC1WRGB These are in a migratory waterfowl nesting refuge so are only available from April to October. Each cache is sort of named after a local cacher. Here's a short video of an event we had this summer on the lake where we hunted these caches.
There are around 100 caches on three rivers that flow into the Ohio just south of Cincinnati in a little town called Aurora. I haven't done these yet but I've heard great things about them. I believe that most of these caches can be accessed from your boat. http://coord.info/GC2DN2X
DJ
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Go to:
http://www.geocaching.com/my/ (you will need to be logged on)
Then go to "Your Account Details" near the upper right section of the page
Then on that page in near the bottom left you should see a section labeled "Your Preference" and if you click "change" out to the right of that, you can change your "Display Units" to Imperial.
Good Luck
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I have a friend that is approaching a milestone of finding one cache a day for 365 days straight. Anyone have, or know of a coin that I could buy that would make an appropriate gift for his accomplishment?
Thanks for any suggestions.
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I already have a great GPSr (Garmin 60CSx) and an iPhone. Between the two I have all my geocaching bases covered except for Wherigos. I've been considering upgrading either my phone and/or my GPSr to something that will do Wherigos but if someone out there has an old PDA or something comparable that will play the cartridges and wants to sell it, I would be interested in buying it from you.
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Can I put my name in here for site 13 for Friday and Saturday?
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Thankfully they are allowed in Indiana, and even somewhat encouraged by the Indiana Department of Natural Resources who manages most of our properties. Recently the DNR has even been teaching headstone restoration to local geocaching clubs.
Geocaches in a cemetery, especially the over 700 Indiana Spirit Quests that have been hidden, provide a history lesson to the public. Since I started geocaching, I now know all kinds of things about the cemeteries around me. A lot of the older headstone in my area are made of whetstone which was abundant in the area, and most whetstone headstones from the 19th century in the entire U.S. were quarried and carved right here in Southern Indaina. Then when limestone started to be quarried we started to get these beautiful limestone markers that I would have never witnessed if it wasn't for the Indiana Spirit Quest series. Most of the cemetery caches in the area also point out forgotten heroes and community founders that most cachers would never have known about. I now know where all the Revolutionary War soldiers in my area are buried, also all the Medal of Honor recipients, hundreds of civil war combatants, and senators, and past governors. If states outlaw geocaching in cemeteries they are being blind to the history lessons they provide. I can't speak personally for all geocachers in my area, but I always pick up trash, straighten flowers, and replace the American Flags on the graves I walk by while geocaching.
Maybe this is a good argument to bring back virtuals?
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Here's a video that pays tribute to the abundance of bad containers in bad locations.
LOL. would have been nice if the windows were rolled up so you could make out what the guy is saying.
Yeah the sound isn't great, the windows were rolled up (until I threw the cache out the window) but we were on a really, really neglected gravel road in the middle of nowhere that was as rough as a washboard. All that noise was just the car rattling around. Here is the cache listing for Sux Cache.
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A small group of us from Bloomington, INDIANA are going to try and tackle The Journal on Sunday. We plan on caching our way over on Saturday, do The Journal on Sunday, and cache back to Bloomington on Monday. Does anyone have any suggestions for other cool caches in the area, or things to see while in Peoria and it's surrounding environs? Any great hole in the wall restaurants that we shouldn't pass up?
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I use FizzyCalc. It's not an online tool but some free software you download. It does all sorts of other useful geocaching calculations too.
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If you use GSAK there is a nice macro that once set up can send thousands of caches to your garmin as POIs. As mentioned before, you're just limited by the size of your memory card. It will also load the terrain/difficulty rating of a cache, tell you found or not found for the last 4 finders, and give you the hint. It's pretty neat if you take the time to read the directions and set it up. Here is the link to the macro
http://gsak.net/board/index.php?showtopic=...amp;#entry84484
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Yeah to second those opinions, if you are bringing your laptop, install GSAK on it. It's a great tool. Then start running PQs now of places you think you might be headed. I think in May? the size of the PQs goes up to 1,000 so you should be able to cover some large areas with that. Then if your laptop is wireless, stop by a place that has free wireless every once in a while to update your PQs. As someone said McDonalds usually has free wi-fi and so do most hotels. I've pulled into many a parking lot in front of a hotel and leeched their wi-fi for just that reason. Almost every truck stop has wi-fi for a monthly subscription fee.
Also, using a GSAK macro, your Garmin 60csx can hold a ton of info, only limited to the size of your memory card. The macro takes all the caches you have in GSAK and splits them into 3 POI (Points of Interest) and loads them on your Garmin as POIs and puts the geocache icons on your Garmin's map. To find caches, you hit the find button on your unit, then Custom Points of Interest, and then you will have your list of caches nearby. The neat thing is, it will be listed 3 times, once giving you the name of the hider, the date hidden, and the last time it was found, and found/ not found for the last 4 logs. It will be listed again with the difficulty/terrain rating and cache size, and it will be listed a third time with the hint. It does not give the description from the cache page, so finding Earth Caches this way does not work. But for your average cache it works great.
Hope you have a great time on your trek.
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Are you sure you didn't disable Greasemoney? Hover your mouse over the monkey in the lower right and see if it is enabled.I really like this script but it seems to have quit working. Did Groundspeak change something?No everything is enabled, checked, uninstalled and reinstalled, but still it doesn't work. It worked recently, I think it worked yesterday, but this morning it doesn't work.
DJ
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I really like this script but it seems to have quit working. Did Groundspeak change something?
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Here's a video that pays tribute to the abundance of bad containers in bad locations.
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I always TRY to write something, either informative or witty if I can come up with something. But something I wish everyone would do, is in the short description on the cache page, put all of the pertinent information about the cache, size, type, etc... and THEN in the long description put your neat stories. I like the stories, but sometimes it's a pain to wade through 5 paragraphs looking for the type of container hidden. Usually when a cache is published I'll read the stories immediately, and I appreciate a good yarn, and then when I'm out hunting the thing and I'm having a little trouble finding it, I might remember that the hider put some detailed information about the cache in there somewhere, if only I could find it. I could see Groundspeak and the gizmo manufacturers using that short description field for GPX export someday.
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I personally despise bush hides. The ones around here are usually placed in the landscaping of some unsuspecting business. The cachers start damaging the landscaping and give the hobby a black eye. Plus most of the bushes have tons of trash and broken bottles hidden under them. When I see a bush hide get published I put it on my ignore list. An attribute for bush hides would be awesome but probably will never happen. Unfortunately they can't all be good hides.
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The biggest one I've ever found and also one of my favorites, was a Saturn station wagon. The log book which was an actual log book for tracking miles and expenses was in the glove box. Quite fun.
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Not sure of yours or the exact definition of Monkey puzzle as I had never heard of one before today but I have a cache that may qualify.
I have one of these with a key around the ring and another ring on the back (so the key will not reach the lock) of an ammo can that the lock is on the front of the ammo can.
Sounds awesome, I was playing around last night trying to make something with a different type tavern puzzle trying to make it lock somehow, the key part never occurred to me. I was going to put a screw eye through the hole on the latch attached to the can and then run the puzzle through it, but it doesn't quite work yet.
I've got a monkey puzzle that I'm about to hide that I adapted from the Great Hides website. I didn't like the handle looking thing, it looked to fragile and where it connects looks like a problem with getting the key inside.
Mine looks like one 4" pipe, but inside is 3 chambers separated by thick cardboard. Each piece of cardboard has a hole in it just large enough for the key to drop through after some vigorous shaking.
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Here's what our local group of cachers came up with for the 12 days song
GC21XX7 Partridge in a Pear tree (A game cartridge in a bare tree)
GC21ZYN To Turtle Dove (A large plastic Turtle with wings)
GC220ZB Treed French Hen (A chicken shaped candy dish hidden in a tree)
GC21XY2 Poor Calling Bird (A rubber chicken with a matchstick in it's throat)
GC2213M Golden Rings (Container painted with 5 gold rings at a jewelry store)
GC21ZDX Geese A-Fighting (At a pond near a school with a goose for a logo)
GC2218K Send a Swan Swimming(A floating container that swims)
GC22283 Maids A Milking (Hidden at a Dairy Queen)
GC2253A Nine Ladies Dancing (Hidden at a Dance Studio)
GC226MB Lord I'm Leaping!! (An ammo can with a KING cobra that pops out at you)
GC226B9 Pipers Piping (A pipe container camo'd like a bunch of other pipes where it's hidden)
GC2284R The Cache-mas Drum (I think hidden in a drum but I haven't seen this one yet)
All have clues that lead to a mystery cache, a giant 3' tall Santa stuffed full of goodies.
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I like the challenge of a difficult puzzle, so whenever one of those pops up I'll try like mad to be FTF.
It's also fun to try to beat out some of my other caching friends to a find on the day it's published. Just today at lunch I met up with a fellow cacher while trying to be first. I knew we really didn't have a chance though, it had been published for over an hour and by the time we found it we were 6th and 7th to find.
I only have 40 FTF, the original poster has more FTF than I have finds.
[BUG] Can´t see caches in Map
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Same thing just started happening for me too.