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Demon360

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  1. Wow - I haven't seen a David Bradley since I was a kid - my great grandparents had one. I wish they'd had that attachment - I coulda had some fun with that
  2. About a year ago I found a full size cache buried under a pile of pine needles where I was searching for a micro. I emailed the owner of the micro that was currently published and hidden on the site about it and they didn't know anything about it. Evidently I wasn't the first one to come across it because there were signatures in the log book from a couple days prior to that. It was called "The Sweet Shop" and was hidden under a pine tree at Wolfgang Candies in York, PA. If anyone knows anything about it, please feel free to let me know. It has GC numbers on it so evidentlly it was published at one point in time. Just when you think this hobby can't get any stranger....... Mark
  3. I have.....multiple times.......it makes no difference and doesn't change anything.
  4. A couple people have asked me why I don't accept friend requests and I told them that I do. Then they ask me why there is no link for it on my profile page. Sure enough, I looked at my profile and there isn't a link for it so I was kinda wondering the same thing. A couple other people I know have this same issue. Any suggestions?
  5. I've found a couple good spots to place some caches in a VERY cache-defiicient area (around Clearfield, PA, which is where my girlfriend's parents live). The only problem is that it's 160ish miles away from home. We go up there at least once a month, so checking on the cache regularly wouldn't be a problem and her dad has offered to check it out if there's a problem with it and to let me know if it needs to be disabled until I can get there to fix it. He understands the concept of geocaching and has gone with me a few times when I went looking for the, so he's not completely clueless about it. I've read the guidelines and it pretty much seems like it's up to the individual reviewer as to whether or not a cache should be placed in a case like this. I guess my question is more directed at a reviewer, preferably one for that area, who can let me know what needs to be done to demonstrate my ability to perform maintenance on these caches and allow me to get some placed in that area. Thanx Mark
  6. I was checking out someone's 4 wheel drive page and geocaching was listed in his other interests, with a link to geocaching.com. I checked out the link, went out and found 4 of the easy ones near me with my laptop and GPS mouse along with Streets and Trips, and I've been hooked ever since.
  7. Hmmm........that's an idea. I could do that easily, they'd just have to take a picture with the container of the container attached to it, which wouldn't really be a big deal - I think I have some picture frame hanging wire type stuff here. Thanx for the idea!
  8. I have one ready to go out if the park system approves it. It has a 2" x 1.5" x .75" Philips digital keychain camera in it. I'm sure it'll disappear and ruin it for everyone, but I'm kinda curious as to how long it'll take to get confiscaated so someone can show off "what a neat little thing I found in a cache today!".
  9. I've been trying to find some kind of list or even a map showing the participants in the PA Adopt-a-Highway program, but I don't seem to be able to find one anywhere. Does anyone happen to know if such a thing exists? If not, I think it's pretty poor of the state that the only recognition all these groups get is a pair of signs 2 miles apart only on the stretch of highway that they take care of. Mark
  10. We just had our first CITO event for our Adopt-A-Highway program Here's a pic of the sign. Thanx to Brown Bear for getting this together. We're required to do 4 trash pickups a year. The first one was this past Saturday and we collected 27 bags of trash. Here is the cache page for the first cleanup event. Our section of road is between the 2 green arrows on this map. BTW, this is in York, PA
  11. Another option might be for the local groups to get in contact with the local police departments with some sort of presentation about what geocaching is (if they're interested) and what they might see, and, in addition, maybe get some feedback from them about what they would deem unacceptable hides and/or practices or areas to avoid placing caches. Perhaps this would help develop a better relationship between them and our hobby. I've read many times that there were bulletins that went thru the law enforcement community about geocaching, but how long ago was that? I don't know about other police forces are like in other parts of the country, but the ones around here are getting new recruits all the time. Maybe the info about geocaching isn't getting passed on to them until a confrontation occurs. I was thinking that maybe having an event to which local law enforcement officers could be invited and maybe take them out to find some caches so they could see what it's all about. Maybe I just do too much thinking Just trying to think of ways to give geocaching a good reputation and avoid problems. I'll shut up now.
  12. Absolutely! This one definitely ended on a positive note. The cache was discovered, turned over to authorities and even returned to its hiding place. Granted, had the security guard seen the web site at the top of the sheet, the police involvement probably could have been avoided, but I think that was even for the better of the situtation, considering the overall outcome of it.
  13. In this past Saturday morning's paper was an article about a local cache and a security guard who found it by accident and involved the authorities, although I think it had a decent outcome. The story is at the link here.
  14. Here are a couple of mine: Logs really aren't that hard to put holes in with the right equipment. This one was hollowed out in about 15 minutes with an electric chain saw and a 1 1/2" counterbore. The seal is providded by an old tire tube glued to the surface of the log with an opening cut in it about 1/4" smaller than the cover block that fits down through it. The pine cone stays together with tension from the O-ring that seals it. Neither of these are out in the field yet. Mark
  15. I was looking for a cache about a month ago that's a micro in/near a pine tree that's part of a series (Six in the City in York, PA, GCVM37 in particular) . As I started rooting around in the needles/brush at the base of the tree, I uncovered a 6 x 6 tupperware container. It said "Sweet Shop" on the lid and had the coordinates on it and the geocaching.com web site listed. I didn't really think anything about it and signed the log, which had one other signature on it, and rehid it. I was on my way home from a day of caching, so I stopped by another one in this series, since it was along my route home. I read the cache page and it said this one had been muggled a couple times and that the container is now like the others in the series, only a smaller version. Well, this one is about a 1/2" diameter tube - that kinda got me thinking about it. I went home and emailed the cache owner and asked about the first one I'd found and they didn't know anything about that one. I went back in the next morning and took pics of it and showed the owner, but they still didn't know anything about it. I checked all over this site for any reference I could find to it, but found nothing. It's still a mystery to me - I guess the next step is to contact the reviewers for this area and see if they can tell me anything, like maybe one that was placed but never approved.
  16. A couple weeks ago, I did a route for a friend of mine with GE to get caches along his route to work from Newark, DE to NYC. That was easy as pie since he travels the same route that GE came up with. Today I wanted to do a route that I take to the shore to see how many caches are along the way, but GE doesn't seem to like the way I go. I tried adding points along the way, thinking that it'd be like Google Maps "Add Destination" feature. Either it's not that easy to do or I'm missing someting (wouldn't be the first time). If someone could tell me what I'm doing wrong, or otherwise offer a solution to this, I'd be very appreciative. I have MS Streets and Trips to work with as well. Thanx Mark
  17. Not the greatest picture in the world, but, then again, there's not much there to work with Mark
  18. Even though it seems that there are plenty of places that the Jeeps used as the travel bugs are available for purchase, I really don't think that would matter to the hoarders. These aren't the ones that everyone wants. Why? They're not official Jeep bugs. I think that most of the "logic" behind the hoarders' motivation is something to the effect of "I have a lot of what you want, so I MUST be a better cacher than you". I could be completely off base with this line of thinking, but this is the only explanation that really makes sense to me. I've only ever actually found one green Jeep in a cache. I took my picture for the contest, sent it in and moved it on to another cache. I watch every bug/coin I've helped along its journey, which, to me is more fascinating and fulfilling than putting them on a shelf to look at, or even just keeping them in your cache pack (hard to say what else these "collectors" do with them). I've never even seen a white or yellow Jeep, although I've gone to plenty of caches that supposedly had one in them. Thanks to the hoarders/thieves (whatever you want to call them), I'm really beginning to doubt that I'll ever see one. I wonder if there are gonna be Diabetes hoarders too. To me, one of the great things about caching is the travel bugs - seeing the creative ideas other people have for them, reading the great stories behind some of them and helping them to reach their goals. What I'd really like to do is return the favor to the hoarders - if I find a travel bug of someone that's had multiple Jeeps for months/years (like the one post I read where someone has 16 green ones or something like that), I'd love nothing more than to just toss it in a drawer and forget about it, but I refuse to stoop to their level. Sorry to be so long-winded on my first post and hopefully I'm not too far out of bounds here. Mark
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