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#2 Virtuality - RUSH quote:Originally posted by Lone Rangers: _#4_ Where the streets have no name - U2 _#3_ I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) - The Proclaimers quote:Originally posted by georgeandmary: quote:Originally posted by Ridgerunner4: Top Ten Songs for Geocaching 10. "Bad Moon Rising" (J.C. Fogerty) as performed by Creedance Clearwater Revival 9. "Misery" (D. Priner) as performed by Soul Asylum 8. "Dazed and Confused" as performed by Led Zeppelin My wife suggested the following song last night, and I could've kicked myself for missing it. 7. "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" (Bono) as performed by U2 6. "Streets of Bakersfield", Dwight Yokum and Buck Owens Lyrics... I came here looking for something.. I couldn't find anywhere else. Now I'm not trying to hurt nobody. I just want a chanch to be myself. I spent on 1000 miles of ramblin. I've worn blisters on my heels. The basicly the song the beginning of the song. george - Lone Rangers - Lone Rangers

#4 Where the streets have no name - U2 #3 I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) - The Proclaimers quote:Originally posted by georgeandmary: quote:Originally posted by Ridgerunner4: Top Ten Songs for Geocaching 10. "Bad Moon Rising" (J.C. Fogerty) as performed by Creedance Clearwater Revival 9. "Misery" (D. Priner) as performed by Soul Asylum 8. "Dazed and Confused" as performed by Led Zeppelin My wife suggested the following song last night, and I could've kicked myself for missing it. 7. "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" (Bono) as performed by U2 6. "Streets of Bakersfield", Dwight Yokum and Buck Owens Lyrics... I came here looking for something.. I couldn't find anywhere else. Now I'm not trying to hurt nobody. I just want a chanch to be myself. I spent on 1000 miles of ramblin. I've worn blisters on my heels. The basicly the song the beginning of the song. george - Lone Rangers

quote:Originally posted by inceptor: OK, the truth is that with the coordinates posted they are able to beam in to verify everything is as it should be. Any time now Scotty! inceptor the only difference between men and boys is the price of their toys Hmmm, maybe I better place a warning about "beaming in" when I place my next cache. I wouldn't want a validator to end up in a lava field because my coords were a little off. - Lone Rangers

quote:Originally posted by inceptor: OK, the truth is that with the coordinates posted they are able to beam in to verify everything is as it should be. Any time now Scotty! inceptor the only difference between men and boys is the price of their toys Hmmm, maybe I better place a warning about "beaming in" when I place my next cache. I wouldn't want a validator to end up in a lava field because my coords were a little off. - Lone Rangers

quote:Originally posted by infosponge: How would you feel if all cars were required to have a GPS transponder and whenever you exceeded the posted speed limit a computer somewhere mailed you a ticket? quote:Originally posted by seneca:I am never bothered when democracies use clever, invasive tactics against ruthless criminals in order to protect law abiding citizens. I am hopeful that police will use GPS as an investigative tool much more. Thats weird Officer. No, I dont know how I keep getting hairline fractures in the circuit board of my GPS transciver? Some the busses in Italy are equiped with a device that recoders a number of things (speed being one of them) and burns that data to a CDR. At the end of the hire the driver has to turn it in. - Lone Rangers

If you want to turn off "avatars" you can always do this. Also, if you using anything slower than a 56K modem I'd highly suggest doing this for ALL of your web surfing. In Netscape Navigator Select Edit / Preferences Select Advance Uncheck "Automatically Load Images" In Microsoft Internet Explorer Select Tools / Internet Options Select Advanced Scroll down to Multimedia Uncheck "Show Pictures" - Lone Rangers

quote:Originally posted by Yak Man: I took mine to Oregon last week. it was in my carry on. However American wont let you use them in flight. They are are listed as Non approved devices. It seems silly to me but what can you do? Ask the captian (if you can) when you board. Sometimes they will allow it eventhough official policy is different. After all it is HIS ship. - Lone Rangers

quote:Originally posted by Yak Man: I took mine to Oregon last week. it was in my carry on. However American wont let you use them in flight. They are are listed as Non approved devices. It seems silly to me but what can you do? Ask the captian (if you can) when you board. Sometimes they will allow it eventhough official policy is different. After all it is HIS ship. - Lone Rangers

Viruals come in all kinds of shape and sizes. Where I was vacationing in Germany I did a search and found this cache. I thought it was such a great idea that I when I was back in the states a little while ago I set up a virtual cache of my own just like it. BTW: If you live in Germany or are going to visit check out the other caches that mrudy has placed. He has a lot of original and very fun caches! - Lone Rangers

quote:Originally posted by james f weisbeck kd7mxi terra utah: THERE FOR LOCATIONS WHERE REGULAR GEOCACHES REALY SHOULDNT BE PLACED SUCH AS CITIES AND TOWNS!!! WHY PUTE SOMETING SOLID IN A PLACE WHERE YOU CAN BE STARED AT ETC ANYWAY? http://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest_cache.asp?u=KD7MXI There are PLENTY of places in towns and cities to place "regular" caches. What do you mean by stared at? - Lone Rangers

quote:Originally posted by james f weisbeck kd7mxi terra utah: THERE FOR LOCATIONS WHERE REGULAR GEOCACHES REALY SHOULDNT BE PLACED SUCH AS CITIES AND TOWNS!!! WHY PUTE SOMETING SOLID IN A PLACE WHERE YOU CAN BE STARED AT ETC ANYWAY? http://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest_cache.asp?u=KD7MXI There are PLENTY of places in towns and cities to place "regular" caches. What do you mean by stared at? - Lone Rangers

quote:Originally posted by CharlieP: There are a couple of reasons terrain ratings may be misleading: 1) Ratings are subjective to some extent, what is easy for a 22 year old in great shape is not necessarily easy for a child or an overweight 55 year old man. 2) There is often more than one way to approach a cache, and the rating may be based on the easiest way, which may *not* be the most obvious way, or the shortest route. That second factor can turn a 1 or 2 rated cache quickly into a 4. A good rule to follow is that if the cache is rated below a three and you find yourself in a situation that seems extreme, you need to ask yourself: is there a better way to get to this cache? It is also a good idea to read the logs and see what kind of comments are made about the terrain. In some cases, using a topo map of the area can help you avoid a bad route. Those who shun the trail and insist on taking a bee-line route to the cache should not complain about terrain ratings. FWIW, CharlieP So true. I have a cache that if approached by the shortest path possible you will be doing a lot of hard climbing. However, if you follow the trails it is little longer (by about 1 or 1.5 miles) but the climb is a lot easier. - Lone Rangers

quote:Originally posted by CharlieP: There are a couple of reasons terrain ratings may be misleading: 1) Ratings are subjective to some extent, what is easy for a 22 year old in great shape is not necessarily easy for a child or an overweight 55 year old man. 2) There is often more than one way to approach a cache, and the rating may be based on the easiest way, which may *not* be the most obvious way, or the shortest route. That second factor can turn a 1 or 2 rated cache quickly into a 4. A good rule to follow is that if the cache is rated below a three and you find yourself in a situation that seems extreme, you need to ask yourself: is there a better way to get to this cache? It is also a good idea to read the logs and see what kind of comments are made about the terrain. In some cases, using a topo map of the area can help you avoid a bad route. Those who shun the trail and insist on taking a bee-line route to the cache should not complain about terrain ratings. FWIW, CharlieP So true. I have a cache that if approached by the shortest path possible you will be doing a lot of hard climbing. However, if you follow the trails it is little longer (by about 1 or 1.5 miles) but the climb is a lot easier. - Lone Rangers

How about kiling two birds with one stone. Cachers complain about not enough cool geocaching gear and cachers complain about all the "junk" in caches. Have something made up with the geocaching logo on it. T-shirts, patches, whatever. Make it your signature item! Place them in caches. Some cachers are already doing this with coins. - Lone Rangers

Wouldn't the drunkin' bee dance be considered a geocaching ritual? Has this happened to anyone else. You place fresh batteries in a cache and your GPS batteries die on the way back from the cache. - Lone Rangers

As far as a hard and fast you can not hide unless you find X number caches first my vote is a big NO. There are some places that still have only a very few caches. Geocaching is still very young. As far as a suggested number of caches to find before hiding one, YES. If there are a good number of caches in your area then its a good idea. After hinding a few caches in my area I've gone back and improved an earlier cache based on what I had learned when placing more recent caches. You can also learn a lot from placing caches too. I'm more conserned about unkept or abandoned caches then poorly placed caches. It is poorlt placed but well managed then the owner will learn through the logs and hopefully learn to hide the cache better. - Lone Rangers

quote:Originally posted by 3fros: A lot of automatic camera have a closeup mode (usually the flower icon). Perhaps you just need to set your camera to that mode. Most camera manufacturers call it MACRO mode. Point and shoot cameras don't have it. You need to be able to focus the camera or the camera need to be able to focus itself (not fixed focus). An arms length just isn't quite enough. Try sitting the GPS down and take a step back. Try to shoot in as much sunlight as you can. This will cut down on the blurring. I beleive point and shoot type cameras have fixed F-shops (how wide the lens is open, or how much light it lets in) it adjusts the shutter speed (how long the lens stays open, how long it lets light in) to get the proper exposure. Anything under 1/60th of a second and you WILL get blurring unless you steady yourself very well or use a tripod. Since it is very hard to tell at what shutter speed the camera is taking the picture at you will want to stand very still and try to find a posistion that will put as much light as possable on what your taking a picture of. GPS screens are very reflective (in case you haven't noticed ). If you can shoot without the flash then do so. But if you just can't then try to angle the GPS so that it isn't pointing at the camera but you are still able to see the screen. It will reflect the flash and you won't be able to see a portion of the screen. Also note on most point and shoot camera you are NOT looking though the lens. Because you are shooting so close to your subject you will need to adjust for this or you might not get everything you wanted in the picture. - Lone Rangers

quote:Originally posted by 3fros: A lot of automatic camera have a closeup mode (usually the flower icon). Perhaps you just need to set your camera to that mode. Most camera manufacturers call it MACRO mode. Point and shoot cameras don't have it. You need to be able to focus the camera or the camera need to be able to focus itself (not fixed focus). An arms length just isn't quite enough. Try sitting the GPS down and take a step back. Try to shoot in as much sunlight as you can. This will cut down on the blurring. I beleive point and shoot type cameras have fixed F-shops (how wide the lens is open, or how much light it lets in) it adjusts the shutter speed (how long the lens stays open, how long it lets light in) to get the proper exposure. Anything under 1/60th of a second and you WILL get blurring unless you steady yourself very well or use a tripod. Since it is very hard to tell at what shutter speed the camera is taking the picture at you will want to stand very still and try to find a posistion that will put as much light as possable on what your taking a picture of. GPS screens are very reflective (in case you haven't noticed ). If you can shoot without the flash then do so. But if you just can't then try to angle the GPS so that it isn't pointing at the camera but you are still able to see the screen. It will reflect the flash and you won't be able to see a portion of the screen. Also note on most point and shoot camera you are NOT looking though the lens. Because you are shooting so close to your subject you will need to adjust for this or you might not get everything you wanted in the picture. - Lone Rangers

quote:Originally posted by TAT: I am planning to bury a cache in the sand at on a beach. I thought this was ok since the sand below low tide is the most resiliant to human use, less impact than hiding above ground near dunes. Another option is to anchor it in rocks, but there is more sensitive life there. I've lived by the shore and you may have some problems with a beach that is open to the ocean. The sand moves a LOT more than you'd expect. Find a natural harbor or a stream. Oh, and stay off of the dunes. Most places are still trying to get the protective dune grass to grow back and stay. - Lone Rangers

The furthest cache find for me was when I was vactioning in Germany. 944 miles. The next closest cache that I havn't found yet is over 65 miles away. But because I live on an island and the cache is on the main land I'd have to take the ferry and that adds about 50 or 60 miles to the drive plus an overnight stay on the main land. Oh, and the price of gas here is pushing the $5/gal mark. If I do go and do the cache I'm not taking my gas hog American car (23 gal/mile). I made a long trip once with a few friends and discovered that if I would have rented a car with better gas mileage that I would have actually saved money. - Lone Rangers

The furthest cache find for me was when I was vactioning in Germany. 944 miles. The next closest cache that I havn't found yet is over 65 miles away. But because I live on an island and the cache is on the main land I'd have to take the ferry and that adds about 50 or 60 miles to the drive plus an overnight stay on the main land. Oh, and the price of gas here is pushing the $5/gal mark. If I do go and do the cache I'm not taking my gas hog American car (23 gal/mile). I made a long trip once with a few friends and discovered that if I would have rented a car with better gas mileage that I would have actually saved money. - Lone Rangers

quote:Originally posted by Geo-Vamp: I love the hunt most of all but to compet with my self too, I have been trying to get to a 100 as fast as I can as a personal goal but I admit I would like to hide more than any one in D/FW I do love to hide things. I would follow my GPS to the gates of hell if it pointed that way. http://vampirebob@attbi.com Well I found the ONE that was hidden by another cacher on my island. All the others were hidden by me. The next closest cache is over 70 miles away on the main land. It would have to be a weekend trip for me because of the ferry. So Ig uess you can say I have found 100% of the caches in my area. As far as reaching 100 caches, it's not going to happen while I'm living in Sicily. The only other find I have is from when I was in Germany for a few days. - Lone Rangers

quote:Originally posted by Geo-Vamp: I love the hunt most of all but to compet with my self too, I have been trying to get to a 100 as fast as I can as a personal goal but I admit I would like to hide more than any one in D/FW I do love to hide things. I would follow my GPS to the gates of hell if it pointed that way. http://vampirebob@attbi.com Well I found the ONE that was hidden by another cacher on my island. All the others were hidden by me. The next closest cache is over 70 miles away on the main land. It would have to be a weekend trip for me because of the ferry. So Ig uess you can say I have found 100% of the caches in my area. As far as reaching 100 caches, it's not going to happen while I'm living in Sicily. The only other find I have is from when I was in Germany for a few days. - Lone Rangers

Take a look at this thread. Look at Markwells post about his homemade travel bug tags. - Lone Rangers

A lot of European cities have parks that are good locations for normal sized (a container that can hold about 4 liters) caches. But if you are looking to place a "downtown" cache micro caches (I use 35mm film canasters) are better. You can also try virtual caches (caches where the finder needs to email you and describe something unique about the area to log it as a find). If you want to make great caches go to places that you enjoy within the city. Then find a place nearby to put a cache. European city are great because you can usually find an old wall, deserted building, vacant lot, little known foutian. All great hiding spots. - Lone Rangers