georgeandmary

quote:Originally posted by me, maat & rijn: My superstition is when hunting a cache if you ever have to decrypt the clue while searching inevitably it will contain completely useless information like what location to park or what park the cache is... You know stuff you already know because you have been searching for it for about an hour and a half already! Maat Those are my pet peaves. I'm here searching for the cache and I break down to decipher the clue and it's telling me which path to take or where to park. And the best part is.... it'll be a 4 or 5 line clue. george

I was out hunting saturday and I pinched something in my back. It happens to me every once in a while. Here I had a whole 9 days off to go caching and I start it off by throwing out my back. Happy hunting. george

quote:Originally posted by james f weisbeck kd7mxi terra utah: why place them in the middle of towns and cities? use the land or lose it to developers forever ---------------------------------------------- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CacheAcrossAmerica http://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest_cache.asp?u=KD7MXI http://www.cachunuts.com It's not necessarily about the wilderness, It's about the HUNT. I can hunt in the city or in the country, or in the woods. You just have to be more creative to hide something in plain site. george

quote:Originally posted by james f weisbeck kd7mxi terra utah: why place them in the middle of towns and cities? use the land or lose it to developers forever ---------------------------------------------- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CacheAcrossAmerica http://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest_cache.asp?u=KD7MXI http://www.cachunuts.com It's not necessarily about the wilderness, It's about the HUNT. I can hunt in the city or in the country, or in the woods. You just have to be more creative to hide something in plain site. george

quote:Originally posted by LuvOzzy: Just curious how many folks in this area are charter members. I read over the charter membership info on the Geocaching website, and I guess I am not seeing the real benefit of it. Maybe later it will be worth the $30 (they say that you are basically going to get very little in the beginning, and I appreciate the honesty), but I really don't want to spend $30 to get to look for a few "members only" caches every now and then. The info page mentions caches for "dedicated geocachers" only..does that mean if you don't pay for the membership you aren't dedicated? I probably will get my head bit off for posting this, but oh well..just wanted to try to understand the benefit. I understand the part about helping support the website, etc., etc. Have a happy Easter! Jaimee There are no real benifits. I became a member bascically because I've done web pages before and I've no how hard and how much it takes to get a website like this up and running. I'm so impressed by the features and the usefulness that I just wanted to suport the site. I originally suported the site by buying some products, (T-shirt, travel bugs) but then when the membership option popped up I went for it. Have you ever seen the altervative to this site? www.navicache.com, this site is just so much better. george

quote:Originally posted by LuvOzzy: Just curious how many folks in this area are charter members. I read over the charter membership info on the Geocaching website, and I guess I am not seeing the real benefit of it. Maybe later it will be worth the $30 (they say that you are basically going to get very little in the beginning, and I appreciate the honesty), but I really don't want to spend $30 to get to look for a few "members only" caches every now and then. The info page mentions caches for "dedicated geocachers" only..does that mean if you don't pay for the membership you aren't dedicated? I probably will get my head bit off for posting this, but oh well..just wanted to try to understand the benefit. I understand the part about helping support the website, etc., etc. Have a happy Easter! Jaimee There are no real benifits. I became a member bascically because I've done web pages before and I've no how hard and how much it takes to get a website like this up and running. I'm so impressed by the features and the usefulness that I just wanted to suport the site. I originally suported the site by buying some products, (T-shirt, travel bugs) but then when the membership option popped up I went for it. Have you ever seen the altervative to this site? www.navicache.com, this site is just so much better. george

quote:Originally posted by georgeandmary: Watch for a special, one time only cache that's going to pop up soon for the Modesto area cachers. It's nothing huge but who ever finds it first.. take it. No log, no trade items. Just a gift for who ever get's there first. george and mary. That didn't take long.. congradulations to C&MMorris and familly who found it early this morning. Happy Easter. george and mary

Watch for a special, one time only cache that's going to pop up soon for the Modesto area cachers. It's nothing huge but who ever finds it first.. take it. No log, no trade items. Just a gift for who ever get's there first. george and mary.

quote:Originally posted by 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 Drukin bee dance?? Is that where you get back to the trail head and you see another cacher and you start dancing and wiggling your *** to tell the cacher which way and how far the cache is? This I'd like to see. No doubt, I have a container with spare batteries, last week I noticed a close cache, that wasn't much of a hike so I just grabbed the gps and the coordinates. The thing died before before I even got on the trail. Had to stop and buy the cheapest set of AA batteries I could find since I had no cache on me. george

Has geocaching been around long enough to develope rituals and or superstitions. I've bike for a few years and biking has it's share. As an example, you never speak out loud on how long it's been since you've had a flat. "I haven't had a flat in months.".. You're guaranteed to get a flat on you next ride. You ALWAYS bring a spare tube.. if you forget the spare tube you'll get a flat. You also never say how long it's been since you've crashed really hard... as soon as you do... you guessed it.. you're going to crash. Do you have any geocaching superstitions or rituals? Any good luck items? george

quote:Originally posted by TikimanHSA: I may be completely wrong in the way I look at this and it just occurred to me today. When do you log a "couldn't find it" entry? Do you log it this way even if you plan to go back and try again? I was just wondering since I am pretty new to this. the way I do it is if I give up trying to look for the cache then I'll log it as a "couldn't find it" entry, but if I go look and can't find it once I always go back (at least so far) until I find it. It just bugs the bejesuts out of me not to find it. Am I wrong? If so I'll change, if not I'm going to keep on keeping on! Let me know what you think, TikimanHS Later, Hunter Anytime I'm defeated by the cache I log it. Even if I'm going back to the cache again. The only time I didn't log it was when I couldn't get within 5 miles of the cache because I couldn't find the correct dirt road. I kept running into private property signs. I have a friend who never logs his no finds. He just logs how many times it took him when he finally does find it. He might write "found it on my second try...." or something like that. I kind of bothers me that he doesn't log his "couldn't find it". Especially when I know he failed to find one of mine. george

quote:Originally posted by KXMc: Hi there, I have found 4 caches now, all easy, on 2 different days of 2 caches each. I have a question... Any easy/well organized ways to prepare for a day of hunting multiple caches? What about if you're going on a road trip? Ideas on how to find good caches along the way? Hmmm, maybe I'm just lazy and would rather be out traipsing through the woods than sitting on my computer printing out maps, etc. Thanks in advance for any advice... KXMc _Fly the friendly skies of the C-5... Club Fred Rules!_ I start out by zoomng the state map into the general area I want to hit. I then identify each cache by name and waypoint. Make sure I have each downloaded into my GPSr and if I don't have the discriptions on my Handspring I print out the page. I also bring along other state and topo maps so I can figure out the best road to drive and then, the most important, I bring Mary to tell me which way to turn as I drive. I've hit 10 in one day but I haven't bagged that many in a day in a while. Trade items can be difficult since often, there is no room for the items I have. There tends to be a lot of smaller, stuffed to the gills, caches around here. george

quote:Originally posted by KXMc: Hi there, I have found 4 caches now, all easy, on 2 different days of 2 caches each. I have a question... Any easy/well organized ways to prepare for a day of hunting multiple caches? What about if you're going on a road trip? Ideas on how to find good caches along the way? Hmmm, maybe I'm just lazy and would rather be out traipsing through the woods than sitting on my computer printing out maps, etc. Thanks in advance for any advice... KXMc _Fly the friendly skies of the C-5... Club Fred Rules!_ I start out by zoomng the state map into the general area I want to hit. I then identify each cache by name and waypoint. Make sure I have each downloaded into my GPSr and if I don't have the discriptions on my Handspring I print out the page. I also bring along other state and topo maps so I can figure out the best road to drive and then, the most important, I bring Mary to tell me which way to turn as I drive. I've hit 10 in one day but I haven't bagged that many in a day in a while. Trade items can be difficult since often, there is no room for the items I have. There tends to be a lot of smaller, stuffed to the gills, caches around here. george

quote:Originally posted by Geo-Vamp: I got my 1st cache on 2/8/02 and as of today I found my 61st.Thats 47 days so if I keep it up very soon. I would follow my GPS to the gates of hell if it pointed that way. http://vampirebob@attbi.com I think i'm on the same track as you. Started Feb 3,02 and I found 67 and 68 yesterday. george

quote:Originally posted by Geo-Vamp: I got my 1st cache on 2/8/02 and as of today I found my 61st.Thats 47 days so if I keep it up very soon. I would follow my GPS to the gates of hell if it pointed that way. http://vampirebob@attbi.com I think i'm on the same track as you. Started Feb 3,02 and I found 67 and 68 yesterday. george

quote:Originally posted by Dirt Hawker: My log was/is fine, I was referring to yours. If you record that you have taken a picture with a camera in the caches physical log book (that little note book in each cache), the next person to retrieve the camera knows they don't need to take a photo at the cache. Your camera will last longer if you only get 1 photo at each cache location... dav I'm not really worried about how long the camera lasts, and I don't necessarily want the photos to be cache related. I'm just using the cache as a way to get the camera to travel around. It's a similar experiment to www.phototag.com. Can't wait to see where it pops up in Arizona. george

Last time I checked. "just a short walk" had placed over 100 caches in the central california area. george

quote:Originally posted by C&MMorris: Well We done it, We have hidden our first two caches. We looked long and hard for some good hiding spots and I think we found some. If there is any advice you would like to give us we'll be glad to listen. Thanks C&M Morris [:0] How long did that take? Wasn't me though.. I'll find it this weekend. george

quote:Originally posted by Dirt Hawker: Yep, As people e-mail me telling me where they have left Wallace I will update the Coordinates to match the parent host cache. Let me know if I'm still not being clear. dave P.S. I'm taking your camera bug to Az this weekend, you didn't write in the log if you had taken a photo of the "Steep Station" cache or not, so I took one You can go back and edit your log, (I think) but I'm more intrested in knowing when the camera is empty. I just noticed, you didn't log the bug on the bug page. Write what ever you want on the bug log page. You can include how many pictures you took. george

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.asp?ID=17922 I don't quite understand what's you want for this cache. It sounds like you're going for the travel bug idea. How would you claim this cache? Are you constantly going to update the coordinates as the toy moves through the US and the world. george

quote:Originally posted by cachebaby: "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" (1963-Stanley Kramer) Jimmy Durante: "a treasure...it's located under a big dubb-ya". Is the remake "Rat Race" worth watching? It came out last year I think? george

quote:Originally posted by cachebaby: "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" (1963-Stanley Kramer) Jimmy Durante: "a treasure...it's located under a big dubb-ya". Is the remake "Rat Race" worth watching? It came out last year I think? george

quote:Originally posted by Geo-Vamp: I think that there sould be a new cache size called "mini" because there is a cache pod I like to use that is bigger than a mico but smaller than a normal,and you can buy them at any army/navy store. I would follow my GPS to the gates of hell if it pointed that way. I've used these a few times and have more waiting to be filled. I just use 'normal' cache size and I have not received negative feedback. I don't even give much of a size description... just 'normal'. george

I didn't see it but someone at my wife's work saw it and told my wife about some terrorist scenario where a gps unit is used to trigger a bomb. Basically, the gps would be attached to some kind of bomb and then shipped to the US through the ports. When my wife tried to explain that a gps unit would not work very well inside a package she got met with "that's what the people on TV said". Did anyone see the episode? george

quote:Originally posted by Irvingdog: Rick, are you a state or national park Ranger by chance? If it is mandated that snowmobiles and atv's stay on the trails, I cannot see how it would be any different for cyclists. Bikes can cause erosion and rutting also. I hear this stuff all the time and it seems like "protectors of the forest" (AKA enemies of gas powered vehicles) all ride mountain bikes, and want to limit access for thier own sport. Stay on the path unless you're on foot. It seems fair to me!y http://www.hunting-pictures.com/members/Irvingdog/boo2.jpg Actually, it's quite hard, and not very fun to go OFF trail on a bike. You would most likely have to carry the thing. As for errosion and all that. There was an EXTENSIVE New Zealand government study and it basically concluded that bike and a foot traffic are of compareable impact to trails. Bikes tend to impact in their downhill travels (if they skid) while hiking impacts while traveling up hill (you actually twist your foot as you walk and it digs into the dirt). george