TeamGuisinger
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Had one log that said"Found the first two legs of this interesting multi, when we reached the final, wife said there was no way she was climbing that hill. We will be back to sign log." I gave them 6 months, then deleted their log.
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The most in one shot for us was 35 in 5 hours, but that was for an event and the fact that we finished an hour early is what won it for us. The average fun filled day of enlarging our found radius is 10-15.
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On a check of this cache, the physical log states that a female cacher had almost given up on stage 1 when nature called. While she was squatting, she finally found the hiding spot.
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While reading another post about introducing new people to the sport I started thinking about a person who will never ever go caching with us again, nor would we invite his sour behind. I figure lots of you have stories about a bad caching trip with a newbie, share them, we could all use a laugh.
I will try to keep our story short. We are friends with a couple who hike and camp allllll the time. Hello...have you heard of this incredibly fun game called geocaching? They were all up for it in the beginning. We planned to take them to an event about 2 hours away. We were a caravan of 3 cars, we all had radios and had a lot of fun on the way that morning, felt just like Cannonball Run. Got there, got signed in, everything was wonderful. You should know that the event was called "A Three Hour Tour" when I say that 10 minutes into it the complaints started. While this may be a surprise for the men, I'm sure it will not be to the women...the complainer was the man(who is i might add only 25 years old in very good health). Never in all my life have I seen such a whiney, pitiful, sissy-fied, make everyone else around you miserable human being. The snide comments and the grumbling under his breath lasted throughout the day. Even after I not so politely asked him to shut the heck up and try not to ruin the day for everyone he kept on. Made the day lousy for everyone in our group. We happily put him in his car when our 3 Hour Tour-ture was complete. Our friend got to drive him home and listen to him complain for the following 2 days. HE will never be invited to do anything fun again! Those of us remaining went on to climb the mountain pictured on the Ohio State Seal for a cache. Bad day gone good.
Share your stories, I'm sure there are some great ones.....
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We took our neice and her husband who purchased a gps within a week. They then got his sister involved although she has yet to get a gps.
We have turned-off far more people to geocaching than on. Funny what sissies some people can be.
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I was about to place a cache today, underneath the huge, lit sign like those of gas stations, drug stores etc., when something bizarre happened. There was an open area between the ground and the metal base of the sign where I could reach in and attach the micro. As I placed the micro, my knee touched the ground and I felt a strong, but not harmful tingling in the fingers holding the micro. I thought that was wierd and touched the bottom edge of the base again, and didn't feel anything. Odd, I thought. Then I realized my knee was off the ground, so I touched the base of the sign with one hand and touched the ground with the other, and felt a strong current of electricity at both fingertips. I know, curiousity killed the cat...
Has anyone else ever encountered anything like that before while caching? Is the sign wiring damaged, or is that normal for those big signs?
Team Maccabee
The metal base is not grounded as it should be, any bare wire touching the base would have ordinarily caused a fuse to blow or breaker to trip. Either it was never grounded, or someone discovered that removing the ground stopped the breaker from tripping. You provided the path to ground. You only felt it when you were on your knees because when you were standing, your shoes insulated you from the ground. Rubber soles I would imagine. If you really wanted to have a story to tell your grandkids from your hospital bed, you should have licked your fingers first.
By the way, passing a current from fingertip to fingertip as you did is the wost possible path for electricity to take. You're pretty lucky you can write about it. At this point I would think it is your duty to see this through and let the owner know of the danger before someone gets hurt or killed.
Light poles like that aren't on a breaker, unfortunately. That's how they kill. Usually the lug holding the ground to the pole oxidizes, in turn losing diameter and becoming loose. If it is a 277v pole or higher(which usually, anything over 12' tall is)it could just be a wire that's close to the metal inside, not just touching it, and it's arcing (which wouldn't deliver the full charge) when he created a weak(but stronger than what it was equipped with) ground, completing the circuit. I recommend definately telling the store manager. You were a very lucky fella, a kid was killed near here a year or so ago by touching one with the same problem. Dont underestimate the power in anything outside, it's not like the stuff in your house. Take a 4' flourescent tube lightbulb to your closest powerlines(not telephone poles along the street) steel towers with 3 sets of wires. High tension wires. Hold the metal end in your hand, and hold it up over your head. It works better if you're grounded, but in no way can it arc to you, or shock you. Also, do it in the dark. It doesn't light it up like it would in the fixture, but it lights up. Thought of trying to use it in a nocturnal, but.......
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Waterproof match containers in the camping section of Wal Mart for under a buck. Their about the same size as a film canister(more narrow, but make it up in length) and a few feet from those containers, you should see the camo duct tape to wrap them in(unless you plan on hiding it in a pumpkin patch) Another is the beach stash tube. You know, the plastic container sold with the water toys/supplies to keep your keys/money/etc in while you swim or ski. I used one of those for a multi leg which was under a rock in the middle of a stream and not a drop. Hope this helped.
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One that we placed was muggled of it's travel bug by some ghost hunters who even left their name, of course they wont return e-mails. The other was one of our harder finds which was muggled within a day of its last find, we think it was a hunter, took the whole ammo can complete with a bug that had completed it's journey and was headed home.
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You might be afraid to try the caches, doesn't mean you have to ruin it for everyone else. Caches are not always what they appear to be on the website. Therefore anyone who has not hunted it should not be throwing stones.
Now if you have tried the cache and found that it did in fact involve illegal and life threatening activities, you take it up with a reviewer not the po-po.
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I think it's a great idea! Hopefully you will have better luck in your neck of the woods than we did here. We put regular size caches (stocked and ready to be hidden) in a couple of our caches as swag or FTF prize. Both have been out for quite a while, many visitors, no takers.
I will go no further as I do not wish to get your thread locked as mine on a similar subject was.
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I usually go caching with a few little fellas in the summer time. They love to hang out while I look here and there for the cache. After I'm done, they hop on for a free ride to the car. They usually spend the next couple hours feeding, but occasionally I ruin lunch time for them by setting them on fire. The ones that go unnoticed and suck feed till I get home for inspection, well, they die by fire also. Dirty blood suckers, I hate ticks.
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There are alot of the junk shake flashlights on the market since their release. The original one is called the Nightstar. They are awesome if you want to pay 30 bucks for a flashlight. They are pretty bright, about 10,000 hrs+ per bulb, and I seen one get run over by a car and survive. Personally, I would love to need less batteries, but I use a headlamp by River Rock. It has 2 brightness settings, and uses white LED's on 2 AAA batts.
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We have a cache placed in a conservancy. We really stressed CITO when asking for permission. We are supposed to hold a CITO event there this spring. Take one of the brochures along when speaking to them, visuals are always good. They will probably have lots of questions for you, be sure you know what you are talking about before hand. Be sure to tell them that gc.com has regulations pertaining to damaging wildlife. Always stress that cachers are extremely nature-friendly people. Our experience with land managers have all been positive, in this instance they were even excited about taking part in the game.
Goodluck!
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Thanks! I knew it was out there some where!
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Happy New Year to all! For the past several days I have been trying to sign us up for a premium member ship. However the page to the Groundspeak store will not load. I don't want to use a Paypal account, I want to use my credit card. Does anyone have a link to a page that works?
Yeah, yeah, this is probably in the wrong forum, but I didn't know where else to put it.
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The absolute BEST way to clean skulls that still have meat on them is to connect them to a piece of rope or chain and throw them in a stream for a week or two. Make sure the skull wont come off in the current or when a coon or possum decide to chew on it. Also make sure it's in a stream with the depth to cover it completely, and it has to be one that runs all the time, not a seasonal water path. That alone will surprise you at how clean the small insects and such get them, if you are still worried about germs after that, a 20% bleach/water rinse and a couple hours drying in the sun will finish it off nicely.
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I tried discussing this in the chat with a few cachers. I'm in Ohio so I have the same problem with terrain, but we also have numerous abandoned strip mines which provide plenty of cliffs and rocks. I was basically told by many on the chat, that I couldn't create a true 5/5 without requiring special equiptment. I argued left and right about it because I didn't want to limit the traffic to only people who had rapelling gear and knowledge, but I guess the requirements for a 5 rating do state that special gear or knowledge is required. So I guess you can list it however you want, but not sure if it will be a true rating or not. It stinks cause I had most of mine planned out with an 85' cliff to scale down to the final location.
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Here is my post from another topic regarding me hiding Christmas presents over the weekend. Even after the slight panic, it all turned out well and everyone had a good time.
Ok, so yesterday morning the dog and I went out to hide the presents in the woods for the kids and hubby. Found 3 great spots. Saved the coords. Made a second loop to double check coords b/c I know it will be dark when these are found. Check the GPS, have decent accuracy. Dog and I sneak back in before anyone is out of bed to realize we were missing. Waalah, Mom has pulled it off!
Evening comes, it's time to surprise the kids. They are told that we have to go pick up presents from Grandma's house. The gifts are hidden on Grandma's property. On the way out Dad flips a coin and our daughter gets to be the first to find her present. "From under the tree?" she asks. (Parents giggle) "Uh-huh it's under a tree alright!" Take them out of the car, hand the flashlights and the GPS. Male child is extremely excited about his gift-cache, female child a little less excited, but manages to still see the good time to be had. We enter the woods. Female child is going in what Mom knows is the complete wrong direction. We check the GPS and something's not right. Anyone else ever seen their GPS skip (for lack of a better word. when your standing in one place then suddenly it moves several 100 feet?) So now I have 2 kids and the husband all waiting to find gifts, all three completely relying on me to remember exactly where they are hidden. Ummm, no one told me I had to remember where they were hidden, that's why I bought the flippin' GPS! I knew the general areas and approx whereabouts in relation to the trail entering the woods. Mind you, I hid some of their most expensive gifts out there. Found hubby's first. GPS got us in that general area and I was able to spot it very quickly. It was actually in the air on a very distinct tree formation. Still not good, still 2 kids without gifts. Mom begins to feel the panic coming on. An hour later we're down to 2 flashlights, a frozen husband, and a Mom who was doubting her memory when the last of the gifts were found! All in all we still had fun and will probably do it again next year. (in the daylight of course)
Most commonly used sentences in our home this Christmas:
Mr. G: And genius here couldn't remember where she hid the gifts!
Mrs. G: I did too remember, I just couldn't see where I remembered hiding them because IT WAS DARK!
Strange how geocaching changes so many aspects of your life. It's even improved Christmas...who woulda thunk?
Hope everyone had a great day!
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Ok, so yesterday morning the dog and I went out to hide the presents in the woods for the kids and hubby. Found 3 great spots. Saved the coords. Made a second loop to double check coords b/c I know it will be dark when these are found. Check the GPS, have decent accuracy. Dog and I sneak back in before anyone is out of bed to realize we were missing. Waalah, Mom has pulled it off!
Evening comes, it's time to surprise the kids. They are told that we have to go pick up presents from Grandma's house. The gifts are hidden on Grandma's property. On the way out Dad flips a coin and our daughter gets to be the first to find her present. "From under the tree?" she asks. (Parents giggle) "Uh-huh it's under a tree alright!" Take them out of the car, hand the flashlights and the GPS. Male child is extremely excited about his gift-cache, female child a little less excited, but manages to still see the good time to be had. We enter the woods. Female child is going in what Mom knows is the complete wrong direction. We check the GPS and something's not right.
Anyone else ever seen their GPS skip (for lack of a better word. when your standing in one place then suddenly it moves several 100 feet?) So now I have 2 kids and the husband all waiting to find gifts, all three completely relying on me to remember exactly where they are hidden. Ummm, no one told me I had to remember where they were hidden, that's why I bought the flippin' GPS! I knew the general areas and approx whereabouts in relation to the trail entering the woods. Mind you, I hid some of their most expensive gifts out there. Found hubby's first. GPS got us in that general area and I was able to spot it very quickly. It was actually in the air on a very distinct tree formation. Still not good, still 2 kids without gifts. Mom begins to feel the panic coming on. An hour later we're down to 2 flashlights, a frozen husband, and a Mom who was doubting her memory when the last of the gifts were found! All in all we still had fun and will probably do it again next year. (in the daylight of course)Most commonly used sentences in our home this Christmas:
Mr. G: And genius here couldn't remember where she hid the gifts!
Mrs. G: I did too remember, I just couldn't see where I remembered hiding them because IT WAS DARK!
Strange how geocaching changes so many aspects of your life. It's even improved Christmas...who woulda thunk?
Hope everyone had a great day!
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Not mean at all! Who says Christmas can't be fun??
Our kids keep beggin to open "just ooooooone" present on Christmas Eve. Sure they can open just ooooone present...little do they know those presents are hidden out in the woods. You want one early? Well then, work for it!
I even thought about taking it a little further. I thought about waking them with flashlights in their faces and issuing their military-type orders. "Your mission is to find one of two presents hidden in the woods. Your supplies (a gps and a flashlight) are in this bag. If you fail to retrieve the package, there WILL BE NO CHRISTMAS!" You get the drift. In the end we decided that although our 13 year old boy would think it was a blast, the 9 year old girl may be a little to delicate to find the humor.
Hubby thinks he's in on this little prank, little does he know his new caching head-lamp is also waiting in the woods.
(added note:our daughter was shopping with friends when she found the headlamp, it's very hard to explain to others why exactly her daddy would love a big old light straped to his noggin. just another strange look i've received that has been generated by caching)Merry Christmas to all and to all a good cache!
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When one of our caches was added to the "Not likely to Forget" bookmark list of a well-respected caching team, it was better than any "loved this cache" log!
Go right ahead and use it, that's what it for. I would steer away from using it in a negative way or that might get you some complaints.
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Find to hide = 6.7333-1 Post to find=.43-1?
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Stick to your story, you said (and should know since I wasted a quote on you) "Giving back is going to meetings and hammering out land manager policies."
That's more than a slight difference from asking permission to place a cache.
Do you go to a public park and ask permission to play baseball? Do you stop and ask if you can play hopscotch on a public sidewalk? I'm sorry that you have this need to sound so intelligent, it probably works with people who aren't.
So by saying that you "have personally recommended a number of archivings", you're pretty much out to piss off all the real geocachers that you can, and make things even harder than they already are? Or is that just how you play the game, by searching for something wrong with everything in the world so you can run and tell. That's a great thing you're doing for the sport. Kudos. Did people pick on you when you were little? Fixing things in finds is a gimme, I didnt think it needed discussing. It's like remembering to keep walking while you're chewing gum, it's part of the game, not something you should be patting yourself on the back for.
As for why I'm complaining, dont EVER tell me why I'M doing something. You dont know me, and hopefully never will. I already explained in full detail why I was complaining, everyone else in the thread gets it, why's it so hard to read someones opinion and walk away? If I was concerned with numbers, I'd drive to Columbus and rack them up. I'm all about quality, not quantity. Tautological is saying the same thing twice, if your statement about how I think were true, hypocritical would better suit YOUR statement.
Except when the person your talking to tries to twist their own words to look like their right, like you just did.BTW, there's no useful purpose served in quoting from the posting immediately preceding your new posting (responding to the last reply is implied).TWICE
Anyone else ever seen their GPS skip (for lack of a better word. when your standing in one place then suddenly it moves several 100 feet?) So now I have 2 kids and the husband all waiting to find gifts, all three completely relying on me to remember exactly where they are hidden. Ummm, no one told me I had to remember where they were hidden, that's why I bought the flippin' GPS! I knew the general areas and approx whereabouts in relation to the trail entering the woods. Mind you, I hid some of their most expensive gifts out there. Found hubby's first. GPS got us in that general area and I was able to spot it very quickly. It was actually in the air on a very distinct tree formation. Still not good, still 2 kids without gifts. Mom begins to feel the panic coming on. An hour later we're down to 2 flashlights, a frozen husband, and a Mom who was doubting her memory 
Did You Try To Convert A Muggle?
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Grumpy is the keyword! While all I actually heard was "I'm a big fat crybaby sissy-man with no sense of adventure" I believe his complaints were actually about the game, he thinks it's stupid. His back hurt, his feet hurt....and trust me he's in great shape. And above all, he wasn't getting his way and didn't like that a bit. In the beginning I felt bad for his girlfriend, that she was dealing with him because of my great idea. Over the months I've discovered, that's just how he is, it wasn't just geocaching. He would've been complaining if he were walking around picking up $100 bills.
We've learned that hubby and I enjoy geocaching best when we're alone. It's a great way for us to spend quality time together. We like taking the kids, but we really enjoy going by ourselves. When the kids have playdates we find ourselves jumping in the car for a quick trip.