CYBret

Awww crud! There goes my humility out the window again! Thanks a LOT!!!! P.S. You're supposed to email me for something....I can't remember what.

I could do a funeral for it.

I actually took the weekend off from preaching to participate in the reviewer panel. Trust me...that wasn't preaching! The 528 foot guideline is there for a few reasons, saturation and confusion being a couple of them. Reviewers work with what Groundspeak hands down to us as the guidelines, we're allowed a bit of leeway in how we interpret it. You'll find some reviewers who will publish a cache a few feet under 528 (given typical GPS signal drift and such). When a cache is out and out refused due to the guideline you always have the option of contacting appeals@geocaching.com for a direct "hotline to heaven" on your cache. Personally I felt the reviewer panel went great Saturday, not because of the reviewers but because of the great questions that were asked. The crowd really did a great job!

I'm moving this thread to the Midwest forum where someone from IlliNOISE is likely to see it.

It was a blast! This was only the second TrailMix I've been able to make it to. It was a 3.5 hour drive, but well worth it!

In addition to many of the things that come in a standard FAK, I also carry a small bottle of contact lens solution. In addition to needing it if I have to remove my contacts, it's a sterile saline solution and is very good for washing out wounds. I guess you can think of it as synthetic pee. I also carry a small tube of Super Glue. That comes in handy every now and then. One of the best books I've read on survival kits/First Aid Kits is Cody Lundin's, "98.6 Degrees: The Art of Keeping Your a** Alive." Lundin recommends making your own kits rather than buying them. The writing (and title for that matter) is a little gonzo, but I really appreciated the no-nonsense approach from a guy with some unique experiences.

I stopped short of a fake SBA once...just because I didn't want to involve the local reviewer on the joke. A good caching friend hid a cache a block away from my home with the intention of enticing me out for a FTF. Well, it worked. It was a cache on a utility pole. I found it quickly but as I was retrieving it a bird crapped on my head. That's right....a bird....crapped...on my head. So, I put the cache back and posted a "Needs Maintenance" log. I refused to return to the cache until he could assure me that all the birds had been removed. I returned about five months later, in the middle of the night and during a snowstorm just to be on the safe side. Tricky

You could probably write the guy who put it together and ask him about that kind of stuff.

Since this isn't actually a Midwest issue and you spammed every forum with the same question I'm going to go ahead and close this one. Thanks for being as helpful as always anyway, Rick.

Those are great. I had one of those go completely leak proof for about 4 years. I'd love to get my hands on another one.

Just curious, but did you guys hear Ian and Margery on 107.1 fm talking about geocaching today? They interviewed Layne Cameron who wrote The Geocaching Handbook and took some calls from geocachers. We were very well represented. I listen on the net every morning and tried to get on a couple times. Koneko, from Massachusetts actually got on for a few minutes and did a good job representing us. It's funny, I had previously written to Ian telling him about geocaching. I'm guessing he never saw that email because it was all news to him today. He and Margery both thought it sounded like fun and want to give it a shot...I think he's just eager to play with his iphone some more. They might have replays of the show available later on their website.

To quote the great Henry Rollins...."Tattoos are a road map of your life" And to quote Jimmy Buffett they are, "A permanent reminder of a temporary feeling."

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Bad luck. We're fresh out of all three today.

In my first year a full 25% of all my finds were FTF. Of course, there weren't as many cachers or caches around back then. It wasn't so much a race as it was just inevitable that one of the few of us would get it. By the way, 25% of my finds meant 25 caches. Today, 7 years later (TO THE DAY) I've got about 200 FTFs. Very few of them have been ones that I have raced to. FTFs are nice, but ultimately they're just another smiley. You don't get a special icon. I used to see a lot of logs where people would write, "I BEAT CYBRET!" Good for you...I'll get there when I get there. My favorite FTFs would have to be from the "40 on 40 for 40" series. My wife conspired with some of the locals to hide 40 caches on Highway 40 for my 40th birthday (see how that works?). I was truly surprised that I managed to be FTF on all of them. It was about 5 hours worth of caching along a 40 mile or so strip of highway. Surely someone could have beat me to one or two of them, but I guess they were all working and not out celebrating their birthday.

Ooops. Looks like we lost an Iridium satellite this week. I wonder if Heavens-Above will get their database updated. You can view an animation of the collision here. Insert your own sound effects but remember, in space no one can hear you t-bone a satellite. Bret

Ditto here. Several new ones published and no notifications at all. Watchlist came through fine though....at least at 2:03 pm it did (CST).

Yeah, it seems like anytime I read, "Found this one right away" or "Quick find!" it's the kiss of death for me. I'll be there for hours.

After all these years I finally managed to see one tonight. I checked the Heavens Above website a week ago and found out there would be an Iridium Flare tonight at 6:51 pm. I had a meeting at 7:00 pm, but since they can't start without me, I figured I was safe to sneak away. The flare was a -8 intensity. Very bright and very cool to see. I think the coolest part was just knowing where to be and when to be there in order to see it. Oh, and the other cool/weird part....the coordinates took me to my sister's front yard. What a coinkidink!

I really balk at the idea of putting something on the cache page like, "You must sign the log to get credit for this find." To me, that's just part of the game. It's been there since the beginning, "Take something, leave something, sign the logbook." A few weeks ago someone "found" one of my caches. It's in a very urban setting and their online log said something like, "We knew where the cache was but there were too many people around so we didn't sign it." For me, that's just part of the game. There's no shame in taking a DNF in a situation like that and--for me--those make for some great stories. Every log on a cache page--whether a find, DNF, note or whatever--is the story of what you experienced at the cache. The push to log finds at them all shortchanges the fun of those experiences, in my opinion. Bret

I love zombie stories. I even had one published here. Several of us have kicked around the idea of caches built on the themes from Max Brooks' "World War Z." Go for it, sounds cool!

I signed this one: So yeah, it's something I'm pretty OCD about. I have yet to find one that I couldn't sign....somehow.

You, my friend, are a SAINT. A god among men (but with a little "g" so as to avoid blasphemy and the boils and rivers of blood that often accompany it).

Moving this thread to the GPS Units and Software section, where you will find a lot more information.

Congrats, Daggy!!!!