Wayfinders
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OK, interesting information, can you provide any detail?
Who posted this, it is a new account; is this from a police officer, a geocacher or a troll?
Why was the cache a problem?
Under what law was it removed?
Why would it be destroyed?
Is collecting and then destroying 'evidence' part of normal police procedure?
Has any attempt been made to contact the owner beside this forum post?
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Might be possible a Muggle brought the cache in tho the PD. Or a parks worker collected it as trash.
If a LEO was called to the park by a muggle, he had to collect it.
They can't keep everything in storage at the PD. If it isn't part of an investigation then it isn't evidence and it isn't needed. It's just taking space and is destroyed/thrown out or sold to make room for real evidence.
If the OP is a LEO, then I think it was nice of him to take the time to post here. It's way more than he is required to do.
Agreed. If the original poster is a law enforcement officer, thank you very very much. That thought went through my head as soon as I read the thread.
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I did that cache last year. As you can see in the logs, it was easy to spot. Suprised it lasted as long as it did. Cache is stuffed with Disney charactors. Hope he picks it up.
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That or possibly you need a zero in the west coordinate? 8000 miles is quite a distance. That sure is an expensive unit to be climbing around the woods with! My Trimbles stay in the office when I cache.Is your unit set up to accept the coords in the same format (MinDec) as given on GC.com? Also, does your unit require you to enter western longitude with a negative?
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I've noticed the lull as well. I would say that a combination of the holidays, cold weather and some tricky trail conditions would point towards the cause. Then of course there is Bigfoot and the Sparta bears. I never believed in Bigfoot until I saw trailhound's photo evidence. As for the bears, they don't bother me as much as they do Deddog. I'll never forget the site of him with that survival knife......I'm like...."What are you gonna do with that?? Pick the rotting hiker out of his teeth??" On a serious note, black bears are really no problem if you use common sense. Make some noise. Let them know you are there. Never put the bear in a situation were it is cornered and stay away from the cute little cubs. If you want to play with the real bears, take a trip to Killarney Provincial Park. To hike the interior there you need to get a permit from the rangers and sign a waiver. The ranger then gives you some maps and a small booklet on avoiding / surviving bear attacks.
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That's a good blog. Accurate and very informative for new cachers.
Only one problem. Where's the "Snarly"??? You sound happy!
Tell you what.....if you're ever in the North Jersey area I'd be glad to show you some evil hides that would knock the "Snarly" right back into ya. Oh, and loved "The Turkey Incident".
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How did I start geocaching? Pesky kids, that's how.
I had purchased a yellow etrex to use for finding boundary markers in remote areas, worked pretty good for that. When I finally got a little time off my daughter and I took a trip up to our fishing camp in Sandy Creek, NY. My sisters were up there with my 5 nieces. Six girls aged 1 to 10 tend to get bored real quick at fishing camps. I'd been taking sunfish off hooks all day for these kids and really wanted to relax a bit. The girls would not allow this, so I grabbed one of their stuffed animals and the etrex and took off. I hid it in a sea of stored boat trailers and marked the coordinates. I walked back, gave the GPSr to my daughter and said "go find it". The girls loved the game and it allowed me to relax in 20 minute increments between different hides....which was priceless. Come to think of it, the first time I was told my coordinates were off was by an 8 year old holding a stuffed monkey. After we got back to Jersey, I googled "GPS games" and the rest is history.
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^"I'd like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves, and I hope we passed the audition."
Thanks very much and "CONGRATS!" to all the.....milestoners??
This is a great thread!
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You don't log caches from your profile page, you log them from the cache page. So....go to the cache page and click on "Log your visit" under Navigation in the upper right hand corner. He you can select "Found it" or "Didn't find it" and post the notes on your adventure. Welcome to the obsession....hope this helps!!
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Plan on doing this NNJ loop tomorrow. Looks like we can get 13 or 14 in a relatively short route. Anyone know how heavy the hunting is in this area? Looks like a swampy area too.....how about ground conditions?
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Thanks Brian and Alan!
Brian, as a Mod I thought you might throw me to off topic....but to me caching and mapping go hand in hand and I figured folks could use some of the images on their cache pages so.....thanks!
And Alan, I figured you're a history buff and I plan to get "High Bridge History" off my list soon!
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You from the area?
Yep. Hunterdon County yokel. Been thinking of doing some Klahyming.....but I'm awful fond of terra-firma.
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Yeah, I believe you have the latest......that's what I'm running. The icons are acting funny with my software as well. While panning they change from the geocache symbol to the pin and back again. If I zoom in and let the streaming complete to 100% I get the correct icon. Looks like there are still some bugs to work out.
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Are you using the beta version?? (Google Earth) Check for an update. Worked for me
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The Rutgers cartography webpage has some very high resolution scans of historical maps.
You can visit the site here.
A high speed connection is recommended, as these files can be pretty big.
If you're and old map nut like me, you can spend hours browsing these images....so sorry about your workday.
Enjoy!
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Hey Woodlit......I've got a good feeling I know where you are in both those pics!!
Here's a shot of my daughter and I.
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Some deja vu there!
I enjoy micro's provided at least some thought was involved in their placement. The standard "hide-a-key in the end of the guiderail on the county road pulloff" doesn't really do much for me, but they really don't bother me either. To each his / her own. To me the good ones are brain food. Here in NW Jersey and NE Pennsylvania the evil micro hiders develop a reputation. You learn to think like them......yet they always seem to come up with something different.......thus the cranial exercise. I can think of one in particular in PA that I visited twice with other cachers. The coordinates and clue bring you within 6 feet of the find and I'd have to honestly say I spent more than 3 hours collectively searching for the dang thing. Then comes the moment when you spot it and say "no bleeping way". Just love that moment.
I had the opportunity to meet that PA hider at an event over the summer. We were in a group chatting when someone brought up the local evil micros. A fellow cacher bellowed out "Oh man! I hate those (expletive) micros!" not knowing she was standing next to the hider. Smiles all around.
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Even if every cacher signed a "hold harmless" form I doubt your landowner friend would be totally exempt from liability. It just takes that one person...
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The horizontal coordinate is not effected by the elevation so you're good to go.
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Well I'm glad to report a happy ending. The owner stopped by and picked up the camera.
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Hm, alright.
I just don't know how to explain.
Have you followed the link in my first post?
No, I didn't. Interesting. The German in me wants to gather all the cache locatons in coordinates (not lat / long) and build one heck of a spreadsheet. The English in me wants to look a Google Earth for a few minutes and say "yep.....that should work okay". Good luck!
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Being a Premium Member, you can view the caches using Google Earth. You would probably need a high speed connection.
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I'll re-visit a cache if I see a bug or coin that hasn't moved in a while. I'll also re-visit a cache if I have a trackable I need to drop. It's sometimes more convenient to hit a cache you can get to quickly. Log notes to record your activity. Leaving info about the cache is always appreciated by its owner too.
What do you mean "log notes"? IE --- click on the "Log Your Visit" link and then select the "Write Note" option? Does that bump up your "found cache counter" when you do that?
Nope. Only smileys increase your find count. That's why the option is there.
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While I see the point Winston 61 is trying to make, I feel compelled to add the following:
I have the expensive units.... Trimble 4800's (25 G's ea.) and a newer Trimble Pathfinder Pro (5 G's) here at work. Dropping an expensive unit like this in a rough terrain area would likely be the end of it. I've dropped my Garmin Vista CX plenty of times with barely a scratch on it. I would go with higher end recreational units with topographic mapping software. As discussed in other threads.....the coordinates you get will be only as good as the unit they were received on, which in your case would more than likely be a recreational unit or a ping from a cellphone. These units should get you close enough to the victim and will be cost effective, allowing most everyone on your team to have one on hand.
Excellent!! 
Nj Geocaching Clubs
in Northeast
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Boy, I've never seen such political boundary lines....with, obviously, the least amount of donations coming from the northwest and southeast
And what's with all this "Route" talk....."Route 78, Route 195"????
Any red-blooded Jerseyan would know it's simply "78" and "195".
Next thing you know you guys will want to pump your own gas into the cachemobile
On a serious note, I've always wondered if a "Delaware Valley" Geocachers club would work....covering most of Hunterdon County