Let's Look Over Thayer

Anyone seen the new look on the cache pages? I like the new icons and look of the information on the upper righthand corner, but I don't like the look of the logs. It just seems so much more cluttered to me. The other change I noticed was that none of the pages have background images anymore. (There goes one place to hide puzzle coordinates!!! ) They've also changed the user profile page. Caches are shown separately (on a different tab) from "trackables". That's a nice change, IMHO.

I know it sounds crazy, but most cache owners would like their caches to be found from time to time. I've never run into one* [yet] that wasn't willing to provide a nudge or hint if a cacher needed a little help to find the cache. * I am, of course, not including absentee owners when I say this. It's hard to get a response from someone that doesn't even read their e-mail.

I can't say it yet...but I'm close (need to find 83 more in the next 2 1/2 months...) It's definitely something in which the pioneers were at a disadvantage. It really helps to have ~200 caches within a five mile radius of your house and ~700 within 10 miles.

Cachin' in Fashion... (Wait 'til Harmon gets hold of this... )

My prediction... There will be massive collisions of hover cars driven by FTF-crazed geocachers. Cachers will complain in their log entries that the cache was 234.8mm away from the listed coordinates. ToyotaJeep Inc. will have a contest where you submit holo-vids of Aquamarine HoverJeep Travel Bugs. The release of the Alpha Centauri geocoin (500 in gold-pressed latinum and 25 in unobtainium) will sell out in 9.045 nano-seconds. Flagman will publish a puzzle cache that requires demodulating the subspace particle-wave emissions of gravitons. And new cachers will be hiding caches under lamp-skirts.

Better that than lifting other kinds of skirts...

The first time I found a lamp-skirt cache, I thought "How cool is this?" Needless to say, it didn't take long for the thrill to wear off (but then again, I still go after them...) I call this the "Buffalo Effect". Here's how it works: You are driving your car in South Dakota for the first time. It isn't long before you see a buffalo beside the road. You slam on the brakes, stop the car, grab the camera and shoot 50 frames in about 30 seconds. 48 hours later, having passed approximately 47,000 more buffalo, your reaction varies from boredom to out-and-out anger (because some idiot in front of you has just slammed on his brakes with no warning.) In Hawaii, this is also known as the "Cattle Egret Effect".

Well, we've come a long way since 2004...

I've noticed a huge jump in the number of new cachers lately (A whole lot of people got GPSrs for Christmas maybe?) Given this, there's bound to be a jump in nubcake* mistakes happening. In most cases, they'll figure things out soon enough. * Nubcake == Newbie. It's amazing what you learn from this game. Thanks to Adelos's "1337" cache, I learned that I was oblivious to a whole subculture that's far geekier than I am or ever was.

Thanks for placing this cache, Dave. Ms. LLOT and I will be travelling to Colorado soon. If things go as planned, we will visit "It's All Good" while we are there. If anyone would like us to drop off something at the cache, please contact me before this Friday.

This was one of ones that I found when I was there. I concur with Chuy. It is a good one!

There is only one restriction -- You can't attend if you don't show up!

So often in our logs, we will write something like "If it weren't for this cache, I never would have known about this place...". This morning, as I read the sad news, I realized that geocaching had brought me to a very unexpected place. I found myself caring, on a deeply personal level, for someone whom I have never met, except through the media of a plastic jar left under a bush, a smashed penny and words in a log. It's rather funny how such small things can create such a connection. Our deepest sympathies go to Bikedog's family and friends.

There are a lot of people who do this to get them off their inventory. IMHO, it's a bit obnoxious to do it with an active cache. I like the cache contents to be reflected accurately. Many use an archived cache as a repository. In my opinion, an even better way to accomplish the same thing is to mark the location of the coins as "Unknown". (This is what I do.) In this way, the disposition of the coins is reletively accurate (more so than dropping into a cache that they are not really in.) Getting the coins back (to drop in a cache or whatever) is the same as grabbing them from the archived cache.

Here's the Las Vegas Strip caching report. I went after a total of 10 caches located from the Frontier down to the MGM Grand -- 7 were virts and the other three were micros. I found all the virts and I was only able to find one of three micros. Of the two that I missed, there were several prior DNFs so both are likely gonzo. There was also a webcam cache but since it was late at night when I got there, I didn't want to call and wake anyone up just to log this one. The buildings and all played havoc with my GPSr so the caching was a bit tricky. I probably had good position fixes for only a third of the time my GPSr was on. It probably would have been easier to just get printouts from Google Earth and skip using a GPSr. All-in-all, the caching was "OK" but I'll bet the caching is much better off the Strip.

Oh dear! Here's hoping for a miracle. I picked a couple of Bikedog squished pennys recently. Perhaps if I rub them together...

Hi, My name's LLOT and I'm a cache-aholic...

Just came across this bookmark list for caches on the Las Vegas Strip... Las Vegas Strip Caches Will that do?

Funny thing! I just arrived in Las Vegas about an hour ago... I don't have a bookmark list, but I do have a pocket query centered on the Strip. It looks like most of the caches that are actually on the Strip are virtuals but there are a handful of traditional caches that are close by. Most of the trads, though, are far enough off the Strip that having a car would be useful.

I believe that you can see the "weed covered crack" picture on page 156 of The San Diego Thread...

Hey Ladies! Tired of your guy navigating by the seat of his pants? This Christmas give the gift he really needs. The Ronco Butt Map! (Just doing my part to kick it over...twelve more posts to go...)

Very sad news folks! Wizard's Chess has been archived. A truly great series is gone. I know that caches come and go, but perhaps the passing of this one should be marked with a wake...

Well now, I'm bummed for me , but happy for you! Congranulations! Drive it in good health!

Certainly a nice thought... But since I haven't heard anything (yet), I have to assume that Track-tion (my entry) didn't win...

Let's see...Palmdale, Rosedale, Ferndale, Riverdale, Chippendale... No, none of those sound right. It must be The City of Glendale's "Imagination Express" float?