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Yellowcode3

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  1. Guten Tag, Warum ist eine Augenoptikerin in Victoria? Ist sie eine Studentin an der Uni? Es gibt viele Geocaches in der nahe von Victoria zu finden. Team Pheonix sind spass...ein bischen verrueckt, aber spass Just kidding. Your gf is in good hands with them. Excuse my horrible German - it has been awhile. Tschuess.
  2. Ahoy FireEater, You can change to metric by going to the main page of Geocaching, click on your account, click on edit profile, and select metric (rather than imperial). Good luck.
  3. 189 posts? Did I miss one or two while I was visiting, ah, Mars?
  4. Hello Groundclutter. I read your post with interest. I have seen similar ideas expressed in the past through these forums. Several times since this website started people have asked the tough questions about what it is all about, what they want out of it, and what they are not getting. Motivations vary widely. Only having met you in passing on the Victoria Cache Machine Day, and having read several of your logs, I would say you enjoy the hikes, the walks, the searches, hiding caches, and perhaps meeting people in the hobby who have treated you with kindness and respect. I know from watching your cache logs that you have met several people over the last year, many of whom you have cached with several times. You ask the question about money, FTF's, websites, etc. and wonder where it is all going. I challenge you that it is up to you to decide what you are doing and why you do it. Personally, I have an understanding of why I enjoy caching, what I get out of it, and what I put back in. I have made choices, some good, some bad, to bring me to this place. I have watched as some have "retired" and others have faded away, and still others carry on in good spirits. One way to say it is enjoy the things you enjoy about this activity and be at peace with the other bits that occupy the time of others. You can co-exist with the cachers that have behaviours that you do not like. You do not have to like them, or their behaviour, but you can take a Gandhi like approach and and allow them to be. The ones that want to fight will fiight, the ones that cache only if there is cash will keep that up, the ones that enjoy meeting new people or hiking with the family will do that. Get out, hike, enjoy your caching buddies, make new ones, have fun.... keep smiling. YC3
  5. Yellowcode3

    Why?

    Gentlemen, your public antics are, to say the least, entertaining on some strange level. However, is it possible for you each to put your gloves back on and stop poking each other in the eye? It is possible to simply breath, step back, and go outside and enjoy your GPS-assisted hunts without replying to every single post in here. In the months to come you will likely read back in here and be embarrassed by what you have said to each other. Yellowcode3, OUT.
  6. Having spent several days up the valley while both fires continued to burn I would also agree that from where I saw the burn those two caches are likely safe. Most of the devistation is north of McClure, or east of Raileigh. Quite a jaw dropping site to see in person. "Shhh....do you hear that?"
  7. I, for one, would like to thank Jeremy (admin) and his partners for all of the work they do. I have spent hours surfing the discussions and have seen just how much time they spend in keeping this site current, active, and functioning well. The speed at which he and his partners are listening to the concerns of site users is amazing. The new changes to the site are fantastic! This has, in part, renewed my interest in this site. Thank you for staying positive in the face of the odd person that is negative. Thanks again! Shhh....do you hear that?
  8. quote:Originally posted by GroundClutter:So many emotions came to the surface while reading this. Sure, I may be a sap who cries at everything, but I think that there are lessons in this story. It may sound korny, but right now I really think we all need to stop and take a look at what is going on around us. I've been caching for a month now. In that month, I have heard many stories of politics, loathing and basic "we can't play in the same sandbox". Here is a real feel good story about how things were shared, how people came together and how some basic generosity caused some terrific things to happen. Isn't that something that geocaching could be about? Could we please take a page from the TEAMs book? Help eachother, share friendship, knowledge and foster teamwork. Think what would have happened without it. Here endeth my little vent. Thank you TEAM! And thanks to Mariner and Cacherunner for sharing the events. Hope to see you back in action again soon. Has anyone thought of just calling the fire station and inviting them? Step away from the tupperware! Groundclutter, I find it sad that in a month you have been exposed to the politics of people in this activity. I think you will find the vast majority of people that engage in this hobby mean well, are honest in their intentions, and try to get along. There has been a bit of local history, and resulting mistrusts, but for the most part people are positive and are getting along well. Those that don't get along tend to stay away from each other in an effort to keep the peace for the others present. The catch now will be to see if staying away from each other will do the trick. It is impossible to impose our own expectations on others. Perhaps those that you write about can read your words and move forward in a positive and mature manner. Personally, virtually every person I have met out in the field geocaching has been great fun, respectful and helpful. I would expect that will be the case for you in the future, so stick with it. I hope you can see the positive in this activity and simply ignore the negative you may bump into. The negative will pass with an overwhelming positive attitude. I think the team activity that Team Phoenix has organized will go a long way to bring people together to have fun, in a different manner than regular Geocaching, with this activity. It should be fun! As far as the experiences that MarinerBC writes about, this certainly is a sad story with some moments of positive in it. I, for one, am thankful that Mariner and Cacherunner are both physically ok after such a crazy event in their life. It is amazing to think that a tool given to them by Team KFWB could also be used as a tool by the fire department in such an event. It is great to see such a positive and community outcome to an otherwise nearly solitary gift.
  9. These lights are also useful when out in the middle of no where and you encounter an accident. For camping, though, they are a bit of an overkill in the tent, unless you need an alternative source of heat.
  10. quote:Originally posted by Curious George:For those that have seen the light - I noticed something strange the other night and wonder if anyone else has had the same thing happen. When I have my BFL plugged into the lighter and I turn my car off the radio keeps playing even when the keys are removed. I don't know it's something in my car or ?? I love the smell of tupperware in the morning...it smells like victory Greetings. What is happening here is the BFL is feeding power back into the circuit, powering the radio, wipers, etc. It will power whatever devices are on the other side of the circuit from the ignition switch. When you unplug the BFL the issue stops. When the BFL is low in power the radio will reflect this with lower volume or dimmer display lights. Odd that there is no diode to "gate" the current from returning back through the cig. lighter power source. I suppose you could use the BFL as an alternate power source, if needed.
  11. At the time I wrote this there are 9 posts and 238 views. Quite amazing consiering how silly this thread is (or am I also missing something profound). So, how about those Blue Jays? Canucks?
  12. ...Kay and Brian can step in and "defuse" this. What say you Kay and Brian? You have their attention now.
  13. Ahoy JJ. Start in Esquimalt. There need to be many, many caches in Esquimalt. There is lots of room there. Nuff said. _____________________________ So, why do you Geocache? Personally, I love to get out and explore new places. I have been amazed at what I can do, what I have seen, and the cool pictures I have taken as a result. The hunt started off as slightly difficult. The GPS was an odd beast to master, but soon I was learning it front and back. A mind game, of sorts. Later, it became a chance explore new places. I have been to more pars on the island than I knew existed. During the early fall it became another mind game. How the heck do you solve a problem like these? It was back to the mind. All in all, I have had more adventures as a result of this activity than any other in life. I have participated in some wild outdoor activities since childhood and this ranks at the top of my list. It is clean, inexpensive, fun, takes me on adventures, gets me exercising, and has allowed me to meet more wacky people like and not so like me. I will carry on with this activity. When someone posts a cache I love to figure out how to get there and wonder what the adventure will be like. My mind will be working on how to set some interesting and mind bending caches. These will not necessarily be in the vein of KFWB caches. In short, I have many and varied reasons for participating in this activity. It is still fun, and for that reason I will continue in it. Now, where to set the next cache?
  14. At this exact moment in time I have a very strong desire to ignore logic and truly express how I feel about a couple of people on this list and their continued attitude in life. Ahh, to allow the emotions to rule, or to use logic? The interesting thing about people, and their opinions, is that those opinions can damage others. Eventually, there is a ramification for every action we take. Here is how I see it in this discussion: 1. The loudest dissent to the Team KFWB GPS caches came from a very small number of people. It is my opinion that those same people were initially, and continuously, frustrated by the mind work needed to actually complete even the least complex of the Team caches. It is my opinion that this lack of understanding and this frustration led them to post, post after post, about how frustrated they were. This frustration was veiled, in my opinion, in any negative they could come up with. I wonder how they feel about anyone different from themselves? 2. These negative posts contributed to the end of an opportunity for at least 2 dozen people in and around the south Island. A small number of people have soiled the fun of a great number of others. I wonder if they feel happy now? Powerful? Satisfied? It will take time for others to contribute the same kind of mind twisting caches that the KFWB caches created. In the meantime, the winter caching scene could get rather quiet around here. I have to say that the logic of these same couple of dissentors to defend their position was very often flawed and seemed to contradict earlier statements they made. I stand by my earlier post expressing the simple idea that those that complained so loudly expressed themselves in a "sour grapes" fashion. Re-reading this entire thread I can see the dissention is really in only a couple of places. To quote the first post in this thread: _______________________________ "I note with sadness, a change in how the sport is done here on Vancouver Island. It used to be great hikes, to new places, reading hilarious log entries, and the thrill of the hunt. No more. No it's about BIG $$$ and expensive software, and plotting coords in Australia, to draw a line to a toilet bowl somewhere near the coast line. After 193 finds, I am now a dinosaur I guess. I did one team KGB cache, and was not thrilled by the money or the site. Does anyone else think that maybe the sport has changed for the worse? Perhaps it's time for me to retire, if it's all about the money. Posted Nov. 19/02" ________________________________ Re-reading it, I can see this as a direct flame against one cacher, Team KFWB GPS. There are several points made here in criticism. This post was followed, not all that long ago later by: ________________________________ "It used to be 1,2,3,7,9,11,15, and 16. It is now solely, 17. It's the money. Nothing else. Anything else is secondary. If I'm not counting, I'm not cashing... Are we there yet? Posted January 07, 2003" ____________________________________ I wonder, will this cacher now quit entirely if there is no money in Geocaching? He is on record as telling us what his new found motivation is, even excluding the other possible reasons. We have been asked to re-read his posts and to accept them at face value and accept that what he writes is what he means. It can be tricky to figure out what a person really means. The first post says he is thinking about retiring if it is ALL about the money. The last post tells us he is only about the money. Logic is not adding up here. A bit of an internal fight? Is life so black and white? Perhaps we will need to endure through another thread about loosing a GPS and saying good-bye to the "community". They came back, only to find fault with things they did not understand, or even attempt to understand. What next? I am watching anxiously to see what is next in all of this. To answer my earlier dilemma, I guess I ignored logic.
  15. Greetings Geocachers, In another forum the topic of motivation has come up. I am curious. What motivates you to geocache? Let us know, with a bit of an explanation, what motivates you to participate in this hobby. Some of the reasons commonly cited include, in no ranked order: 1. It gets me outside 2. I learned to use my GPS this way 3. I like to exercise 4. I like the hunt 5. I like to be a first finder (competition) 6. I like to have more finds than others competition) 7. I like the mind work of a more challenging cache (map work, route planning, navigational skills problems) 8. I like to trade items 9. I like to do this alone 10. I like to do this with friends or family as a way of bonding 11. I like the adventure of a rural/wilderness hunt. 12. I use it to meet people 13. I use it to boost my ego or feel important 14. I like to write entertaining cache logs 15. I like to visit the places that I would otherwise never get to 16. I like the views/sites I am taken to. 17. I like big ticket items, prizes, money, etc. in the cache. 18. I am a compulsive people by nature and I just can't stop! Help! (there is soon to be a Cachers Annonymous Program here in Victoria. It is a 12 metre program, with a deviation of plus or minus 6 metres, except when 1 or more satellites are down....) By the way, a huge number of these are not reasons why I Geocache. I throw them out for discussion. What are your reasons, today, tomorrow? This may help people figure out why they do what they do. cheers, Yellow Code 3
  16. Ah, what a fun thread. Speak, counterspeak, double speak. It gets a bit tough to figure out what it is that people are really trying to say in here some days. Some times it is out of this side of their mouth, other times it is out of that side. What are we all talking about in here? I think that what this discussion is talking about is "motivation". Yes, why do you do what you do? Do you work? Why do you go to work? To make money? Social life? Self-fulfillment? Perhaps you like the scenery? Why do you Geocache? This is an important question if you are to understand what you believe and how you are going to act on your beliefs. Why do you Geocache? Seriously, why? Here are some possible reasons, in no ranked order: 1. You enjoy the challenge of using a GPS 2. You enjoy the mystery of not knowing what you will find. 3. You enjoy finding caches. 4. You enjoy hiding caches. 5. You enjoy long walks in the woods. 6. You enjoy solitary activities, or activities in small groups. 7. You like some sort of competition, whether it be to be the first finder, have the most finds beside your name, have the most caches hidden, have the most popular caches, etc. 8. You enjoy some form of mind challenge, as shown by a KFWB cache that requires one or more calculations. 9. You enjoy getting out into the boonies and wrecking your tires. 10. You enjoy trading small items for small items in caches. 11. You like the team work of a big money cache. 12. You like the competition of a big money cache. 13. You like to keep your "not yet found" list as clear as you can within 100km of your location. 14. You caceh for the money. There are more reasons, I know. This arguement in here is getting silly. Why? Each of us is motivated by different reasons. To criticize one motivation over another is pointless. If I like to cache because I like the solitary walk in the woods than am I hurting you because you like to cache for the thrill of a first find? Keep caching as though you are the only one out there. Keep finding and hiding caches. Keep doing it for whatever reason motivates you today, whether it be views, money, adventure, team work, etc. To archive caches because you see another cacher hiding more than you can keep up with is not a good enough reason, in my opinion, to stop playing at the game you like. But, if that is what motivates you, or unmotivates you, then do what you feel you need to do. If you do not like the KFWB caches, Dagg caches, Plantman caches, etc. than don't bother with them. But, if you disagree with some aspect of them that really, ultimately, does not hurt you then maybe leave it alone. Again, it gets back to what motivates you. The arguement that the cache pages are cluttered with KFWB caches, in bold lettering, is funny. There are several hundred caches now between here, Campbell River and Vancouver. You need to wade through pages of caches to find newly hidden ones regardless. The whole website is cluttered, if you really think about it. Frustrated because you do not know how to solve a KFWB cache riddle? Ask someone. There are at least 20 people locally that have done these caches, and each would love to show you how to solve the puzzles. I like that bit of mind work, myself. I have learned a small amount in the process and it does make for an interesting hunt. It certainly livens up a trip to Beacon Hill Park or McCauley Point when I have had to do some calculations before arriving. Again, what motivates you to do what you do and what makes it fun for you? A note on capital letters. I use to know an old guy who loved computers. He was a bit blind and he found the small letters to be a bit of a pain, literally. He would write all of his e-mails to me in capital letters. I soon got use to this way in which he communicated and moved on to actually enjoying his e-mails. Who knows why the KFWB caches are, for the most part, capitalized. It is a fairly petty reason to complain - again, my opinion. The bottom line: If, as an example, Plantman hides a cache on a semi-accessible island, and I want to go get it, I will. I'll find a way. But, if I do not like Plantman hiding a cache on an island I will leave it alone and probably go do some other cache that awaits. You do what you like, and leave alone what you do not. Figure out why you cache, what motivates you, and then go do that. (Have I said that yet?)
  17. I feel a bit like a dentist. I seem to have hit a nerve with a couple of people with one simple question. I wonder if the tooth decay was well in hand before I pocked it. Some interesting statements. In re-reading them many of them read like sour grapes. There are also some pretty big assumptions about what others think on the subjects you mention, MarinerBC and Cacherunner.
  18. MarinerBC, and why have your caches (and by implication the caches of others) outlived their usefulness? Why/how do all the Team KFWB GPS caches impact on yours?
  19. Cacherunner, where there is a will there is a way. I had my GPS stolen a week ago and I have figured out how to replace it (done already). When you want something there is always a way. Get back on the saddle.
  20. I am rather curious about the stories I have read about this last weekend's searches, cache team interactions, etc. What actually happened out there? How was the interaction among cachers?
  21. Hello, I use a Garmin Etrex (the little yellow one). I want to download the tracks I create with the GPSR to my PC and have these put into some sort of image that will simply show the track. This can be displayed without any sort of base map. I would also like to display the waypoints I have created along this track on the same image. I have had a look at G7ToWin and find it will download the track points, as lat/long data, but will not then convert these to a visual image of the same data. It appears the software might do it with other GPSRs; this feature may not work because of the GPRS I am using. Suggestions on how I can create an image of my tracks on my PC as taken from the tracks data? Thanks for any suggestions
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