cantuland

I am licensed to practice land surveying in the state of Kansas. I know (usuall) where the boundaries are, and where the ownership is and isn't. When a muggle says that my geocache is "too close to their property", then it affects them in a negative way and I move it. I've done it before, even when I think I'm legally in the right.

June16, please notice that Geocaching, in general, is a sport that encourages environmental respect, recognition of private property, and the over all do-good ethics. I am impressed with how well you are dealing with this issue. In the event that the final result is the removal of geocaches from the property, there is another path that you can take. Since you have a geocaching account, and using the forums quite well, there is a "branch" of geocaching called CITO, which stands for "Cache In Trash Out". Geocachers know CITO ethics very well. You have the ability to host an event, explaining that the property is private, but that there is trash everywhere, and that you would appreciate the help of geocachers in the area to show up on a certain day that you choose, and MANY geocachers will show up with trash bags in hand to clean up the area. That is what we do. cantuland

I use lots of HTML in my cache pages. You have to make sure you click in that little checkbox when creating a cache page that signifies that you are using HTML, otherwise it doesn't look good. For example, check out the event page for GC1X9QD. Then go to your browser menu and view the source code. To do that, click on the VIEW button. In that menu, click on SOURCE. You get a text file that looks like a bunch of gibberish. Do a search in the text file by clicking on EDIT to get the Edit Menu. In the Edit Menu click on FIND (or just hit Control and then F at the same time). Once you get the little window to pop up for doing searches, do a search for ShortDescription. Notice how it's one word. Everything after that is stuff that was added on the cache creation page in the Short Description box. After that text is the LongDescription. In this example, it is a very long description, but it's all written and formatted using the HTML stuff. Anytime you see something cool on a cache page, do a VIEW SOURCE and check out how it was created. You get to learn lots that way.

Anybody up for another trip to the holy MEADES RANCH triangulation station?

Sometimes when you follow the river, you will find shallow places near the edge of the water where it flows into a certain area and because of the shape of the ground, for just a bit, the water will flow backwards in relation to the rest of the river. That's a DNF. If you find yourself in a spot where the water is not flowing with the main current of the river, then go somewhere else and you may find the main current of the river. The popularity of geocaching IS growing exponentially, despite DNFs here and there. -cantuland

Here are a few websites to try out. Looks like there's hope out there. I got these from a google search for "gps topo panama". GPS Map of Panama from TravelByGPS.com Digital Road Maps for Panama Panama GPS Maps

Do you mean the posts in the forums? Or the publishings of the geocaches? For the forums, you can find a topic that you like and "subscribe" to it so that anytime someone sends a message to that topic, you get a message through email or through an instant messenger program. Or you can just keep hitting the refresh button on your internet browser. For the geocache listings, there is an option available when you pay for premium membership. You can create "notifications" so that any time a geocache is published that meets your search requirements, then you get an email. Maybe you want a notification any time someone publishes a traditional geocache within 100 miles of your house. As soon as it gets published, out go the notifications and the horse race is started; first one there gets the FTF and all the others get to eat the dust.

Are you a premium member? If so, you can do a search for geocaches that contain certain attribute icons, like the one that shows up as needing a boat, or one that requires scuba gear, or one that may require swimming, Try out each one. If you try them all at once, you'll be looking for geocaches where each one includes all three. Then again, maybe that's what you want.

I, too, thought it was ironic when I found it. It's buried, but it has a "lid" instead of being covered with a bunch of dirt. Back when that one was set, they also suggested that you could put in a can of beer with your geocache. That's out these days too. So that oldest geocache has some "grandfathered in" kinds of traits with it. And I think Kansas is the most awesome state that there is...except for the winters and summers in the same week, and the lack of real mountains, and year-round wheat always there as far as the eye can see, and...

And you can tell that they already have geocaching blood running through their veins, although unknowingly, because when you ask them if they ever heard of geocaching, they reply exactly as they are supposed to according to geocaching rules and say: ... Geo-What?

I once promoted geocaching to a police officer. I had to do maintenance on a cache. The only place to park was right in front of a squad car where the officer was monitoring traffic. I parked, got out of the car, and walked straight to the officer. After saying hello, I told him that I was about to do something that was going to look very suspicious. Knowing that a statement like that would get his curiosity going, I asked if he had ever heard of geocaching. No. (Most do, that I know of.) So I told him all about it, about the geocache that I had to fix, and that I was going to do it while he was watching. He acknowledged the sport and let me fix up my geocache. He had become another officer who knows the better stuff of what geocaching really is.

I have one up a tree. It's about 17 feet up to it, and as soon as you are ALMOST under it, the ground slopes down. The tree is too small to climb. So it's a bit of a puzzle to figure out how to get to it. The geocache is GCQCJT - Over the rainbow and has some hidden pictures showing the geocache up in the tree. Find the text that reads: REMEMBER: Make the fair trade. Log your visit. Leave the site better than you found it. Protect the environment — always. Educate those around you. Find another cache! Good luck, and may all your cache dreams come true. —cantuland and you will notice that each character in "—cantuland" will show you a different picture, left to right on the characters goes from ground, up to the cache.

Remember that the GPS units will only get you CLOSE. After you get within 30 feet or so, start to look around with the idea that if you were going to hide a geocache, where would you put it, and go look there.

I don't mind you quoting me at all. I find it flattering a bit. More, I see it as you're trying to put geocaching in the correct perspective as it should be.

I REALLY hope your movie does NOT demonstrate the typical geocache as a BURIED object. Geocaches are not supposed to be buried. Some other movie or tv series had geocaching as part of the plot and they presented geocaches as something where a party of people go out and dig it up with a bunch of shovels. That one mistakenly portrayed Geocaching as an environmentally unfriendly activity, and struck a nerve with geocachers everywhere, hence my warding to you now. cantuland

Wichita, Kansas I'll do one for you in south central Kansas. I have hidden lots of caches and plan on hiding lots more. I can include a geocoin tracking number for the movie and include that so its adventures can be logged using the geocoin. I can also show off the movie at a geocaching event if that's allowed, and let people know that it will soon be in a newly published geocache. We have social events in my area twice a month. Shoot me an email and I can give you a mailing address and phone number. cantuland

Wichita, Kansas area: I once had a huge container turn up missing for a second time. Someone took the huge container and left all the goodies, lots of them, in a black trash bag tucked under a nearby scrap piece of metal. I thought, "They stole my huge container again, but how nice of them to preserve the contents of the cache. Even the log book is there." I replaced the container with another huge one, moved the coordinates about 30 feet, and changed the listing to a members only cache. That's the only one I have that is members only. The cache has survived for quite some time now. I hate making members only caches because not everyone can enjoy them, but I don't want to be the supplier of free big ammo boxes either.

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Geocaching (JEE o CASH ing) is a sport much like hiking, biking, boating, fishing, hunting and golfing. It will let you play with technology and get you outdoors to visit so many fascinating new places. Geocachers use GPS receivers to look for hidden containers, geocaches, giving the feel of looking for pirate treasure. Although the treasure is NEVER buried and the value of the treasure hardly exceeds the value of the logbook within the hidden container. As with hiking, the joy comes not just from finding the hidden geocache, but also from the journey experienced while tracking it down. Geocachers get to visit historical sites, see wildlife in natural habitat, and behold awesome landscapes, sunsets and geological features. The popularity of geocaching has been growing exponentially since it began in the year 2000, starting off with 75 geocaches back then and now spreading worldwide with over 8500 geocaches...over 85,000 geocaches...over 850,000 geocaches! No matter where you go, there is probably a geocache very nearby. The website Geocaching.com will let you key in your ZIP Code to see the geocache population near your own neighborhood. The geocaching community follows a code of ethics that promotes environmental responsibility. Check it out today at www.Geocaching.com. Geocacher cantuland is awesome. Something like that. Feel free to plagiarize, change or add what you want. You might want to edit out that last sentence though before you send it off to the newspaper...but you don't have to. -cantuland

Attached is an example of a series of messages using the button script made from the builder and without any author script. It includes a LUA source file and a GWC file that you can run on the emulator or in your GPS device Wherigo player. The last message tells you what buttons to push if you are editing the LUA file in the Builder. SeriesOfMessages: SeriesOfMessages.zip

KansasGeocaching.com Home for the Kansas (and area) Geocachers

Learn more about the Wichita Geocaching Society at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wichitacachers

Hide a container like usual. Make someone go to the place where you want to do the "virtual". Instead of sending you the answer, they use information that they discover on site and come up with some coordinates according to the instructions on your cache page. Once they do that, they have coordinates to your geocache. It isn't a virtual (can't do that anymore), but it takes them through the same process and is categorized as a puzzle-cache, or mystery-cache, or questionmark-cache, same thing.

I have bunches of puzzles out there, from really easy to really evil.

You can also visit the Wherigo.com website and look for Wherigo games/cartridges/files in your own area. Download one of those and put it in your GPS receiver and go try out a Wherigo adventure that someone else wrote just for people like you. Searching for Wherigo files can be done on the Wherigo.com website as well as the Geocaching.com website. Check it out. Get one and play it. There are even tutorials to get you familiar with playing.