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Jake, thats fine if you want to call yourself a 'elitest jerk', just remember I didnt (tongue out) But also be prepared to lose people then, I know for a fact that where I live currently does not have more than 1 or 2 waymarks here in DE, lower DE. I'm going to try & change that, but I wont post pics of myself & if the cat leader wants to refuse my waypoints then I'll have to start my own cats then. Considering I'm on dialup I may not post any pics & explain why to them, they dont like it then again I'll start my own without the req to add pics. And yup, I do Geocaching as well as benchmarks & waypoints so I can cover a hell of a lot of ground when I finally put my mind to it. And with my upcoming job I'll have access to getting the word out to a lot of people, a lot of people. So whatever, like it or not having a digi camera & a highspeed connection should not be a requirement to what used to be a Fun Hobby I could care less for you & your angry faced snots. Sheesh

now why oh why am I here? oh yeah, ignore the voice behind the screen screaming.

I'm curious here, for your 'nickels', do you cut them off a wooden dowel, or do you get them precut & blank from someplace else? In my area the Kalmar Nyckel (DE's tall ship) sold wooden nickles with stuff imprinted on both sides so was thinking of doing something similar. Can get them custom made but at this point I dont want too, maybe if I ever do alum coins or brass but not for wood. Golf pencils are a good idea too but unless I get them custom made I can not find them in my local area. (wierd area that has like no decent golf shops) Thanks, Diane

Slightly old thread but just catching up on them... My PoV is that I really dont like categories that require pics. Really really dont like. 1- I'm on dialup & do not have _easy_ access to highspeed. There are reasons I cant do dsl, cable or highspeed sats. 2- I did not have the extra money currently to pay to some of these wi-fi groups when I may only use them once a month. And there are no free wifis in my area, I have to travel over 50 miles/1 hr to get to one & at around $2.75-3 per gall of gas thats not a tradeoff. 3- I am lucky I have a Garmin V that I can use for my GPSing jones, it was something I had purchased for other usage then found out about geocaching/waypoints/benchmarking. 4- I have occasional usage of a higher end digi camera, but am thinking that maybe a cheap digi camera so I can use it when I want & not depend on the owner allowing me to use theirs. I can not afford currently to buy a disposible camera, then to get it processed as it gets expensive fast. Least with geocaching all I really need is a pen to mark the log aside from my gps, as long as I take nothing from the cache I dont need to leave anything. 5- the rq to have a pic of me holding my gps? Nah, not gonna happen for 2 reasons. I do not have my pic taken for personal reasons nor can I gum up someones elses digi camera because I do this on my own so sticking it on something isnt going to happen. Tonite I was trying to upload some pics of a USAr CoE survey mark I found, got one up but kept failing on the 2nd one. Same thing with a benchmark I was trying to upload, that one wouldnt even allow me to upload one pic. I can understand the reqs of pics for some things, but I cant even log some stuff I did in Hawaii last year because I dont have a pic of me with my gps at the site that is required. Something some cat managers need to think about is.. do you want people to actually enjoy this great hobby or do you want to be a elitest jerk? Set the reqs too stiff & you will drive people off instead of attracting people to this hobby. Diane and her two pence