Myra Mit
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I don't have a digital camera of my own but we have one where I work in Long Beach. It shouldn't be much trouble to grab it during my lunch break and head over to the LA border sometime this week.
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As long as there's something that approximates a log book, I think it's a cache, especially if it's placed in an interesting locale.
A ziploc is an ideal container for a log-only cache. It's much flatter and easier to conceal from non-cachers than a bulky piece of tupperware or an ammo can.
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Ouch, the USA is a little too large to be following trains around.If I'm not mistaken most trainspotters do so at a particular station (usually the one closest to their home) and wait for the trains to come to them.
I've seen small groups of trainspotters at two different stations in California (San Clemente and Santa Barbara).
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Markwell beat me to it.
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Markwell beat me to it.
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How about dividing up your cremains (ashes) among several small bottles and attaching travel bugs to them? That would let you visit a lot of those caches you didn't make it to while you were alive.
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How about dividing up your cremains (ashes) among several small bottles and attaching travel bugs to them? That would let you visit a lot of those caches you didn't make it to while you were alive.
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Here's a geocache in Baker:
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.asp?ID=17258
Here's one near Lone Pine:
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.asp?ID=6637
Just use the "Nearby Caches" link from these cache pages.
Keep in mind that both these towns are on the outskirts of Death Valley, one of the hottest places on Earth (especially in the summer.)
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I'm not sure this is in the right forum, but I thought a story in this morning's LA Times might be of interest to my fellow geocachers.
It's amazing that the same kind of rookie GPS mistake that may cause me to walk an extra couple miles can also get a whole lot of people killed:
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With Taliban still huddled in ridges across the river, a commander in the second team of Green Berets called for airstrikes to wipe the enemy out. One of two Air Force TAC-Ps, tactical air control parties whose training puts them a level below more seasoned combat controllers, calculated the distance to the enemy. He radioed in the coordinates.Defense officials would later conclude that he relayed the wrong numbers--giving his own position instead of the enemy's. The airman failed to reenter the target's coordinates after changing the batteries on his global positioning system unit. After a battery change, the unit automatically displays its own location.
About 9:30 a.m. came the rumble of a Vietnam-era B-52.
28 Americans and Afghan allies were killed and dozens of others were wounded.
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We gave Oski Bear a lift a couple weeks ago.
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If so I assume you'll be taking the 101 and/or Pacific Coast Hwy north from LA.
We've got an unvisited cache between Santa Barbara and Santa Maria called The Outer Limits. Just take Hwy 1 (PCH) from Lompoc and then the Jalama road to the coast. It's about a 3.5 mile hike with almost no elevation gain and some wonderful scenery.
If you're looking for a drive-by we left a travel bug that wants to go east in the Nojoqui Falls Park cache which is just north of Gaviota on the 101.
Hope you have a good trip.
Pacific Crest Trail or John Muir Trail
in West and Southwest
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We crossed The Pacific Crest Trail on our way to the Little Jimmy Cache. The trail from Crystal Lake meets it at Windy Gap and the cache itself is only about 1/4 mile from the PCT.