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dirt_empire

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  1. Forty feet up a tree??? GC code please?
  2. I've come up with some wooden nickels bearing my name and such. Otherwise I have a geo-pack that I carry extra logs, tools, and trinkets/toys to trade for.
  3. I ended up visiting a local art supply store (not Michaels or Hobby Lobby, an actual art store) and found the Chartpak pen readily.
  4. How do you make your designs? How do you size them properly to fit the nickels and everything? Could someone who has done this give me a step by step with whatever program you used? Preferably Paint or something that doesn't cost a whole lot/anything?
  5. Thank you. Something about your post has given me hope on some level.
  6. That's why I started and why is still do it. and now to meet others nuts .... uh ..... I mean cachers like me. I guess it just bugs me to see hundred of uninteresting geocaches all placed in parking lots and under fire hydrants. Fun though the challenge to find them with muggles around may be, it all rings a little hollow. Another open question. As well, does every interesting cache need to have swag? I have a lovely cache that will hold no swag but is extremely crafty and entertaining. Just because it doesn't have the ability to contain swag does that make it any less valid?
  7. So back when I started geocaching (October/November of 2010) I remember reading somewhere that the point of geocaching was to bring people to interesting places they would normally not visit/see. A little over a year on I question whether everyone believes in that; I see many caches that were just dropped somewhere of no importance, often just to have been placed there. My intent when placing caches is to specifically place them somewhere interesting you may not normally find, or to provide some odd form of entertainment. I also view it as a way to showcase your creatvity in hides and containers, thereby justifying hiding spots that are of no particular importance. This being the case I'm trying to figure out why YOU geocache. Specifically why you place things where you do, but also to see why you got into the activity. And... go!
  8. Sad thing is that parkour also brings attention to you while attempting a clandestine activity.
  9. Thanks for all the info guys. The SPOT looks about what I'd need. Nothing to text or anything, just to keep track of me while I'm out and about. That way if I do not check in within a few days they can figure out my last known location.
  10. Hey there all. I'm looking for any information on GPS tracking bracelets for hikers/campers. So farr all I've seen are either too large, or not geared at my market (autistic/children/elderly). I'd like to start hiking/camping by myself but often worry about something happening, yet this seems like it would be a good solution. Anyone got any help in this direction?
  11. Today, while out checking on a geocache for a friend, I found a bloody saw along the trail I was walking. Yes it was blood. Yes I called the police. Today has been interesting.
  12. So I've a local cacher who consistently puts out and finds caches, yet his caches keep coming up missing for quite a few people. No matter who send or how many emails are sent to him a response is never given. Likewise, he seems to be a fairly respected member in my local community (as far as caching goes), yet I do not feel this excuses his behaviour and neglect to his caches and the community as a whole. In addition to caches that come up missing, some seem to change size without any note. One such case is an ammo can mysteriously transforming into a film canister without any notice. You can see why this is annoying. So the question, yes? What do I do? There are currently at least three caches that are MIA that I am trying to find, at least one with assistance from someone who has found it before.
  13. Well, it seems the purpose of a TB is to travel. The person that had sent you the email, who to my understanding is not the TB owner but merely a carrier like you or I, wished you to not move a misplaced TB? That doesn't seem to go along with the spirit of the game or the item in question. It wasn't their TB and they put it in a cache, both generally seem to be signs of moving it along. If you feel bad about the whole situation though you can take solace in the fact that you didn't willingly ignore the note, merely overlooked it. Overall though, as it wasn't there TB and they had mishandled it I would say you are in the clear.
  14. Hey there Tyler. To post an actual geocache you need to go to the geocaching homepage and submit a geocache. Simply posting it on the forums won't quite work. First check out the guidelines for posting a GeoCache. After you have readd them and are totally confident that your cache meets all requirements you should head over to the submission form for geocaches. Hopefully this helps to a degree. Remember, knowledge is power!
  15. I plan on getting a few Signature Items made in the coming future when I'm a little flush. I like the thought of items related to my personal life. I remember a poet I hung around with would always give out a small chapbook instead of a business card. I might do something of the same, or create an item a little more in tune with my addictions. As for general stuff I've got some Monster Rancher figures from my childhood that have been first trades, a few mini model kits, toys that my little brother has never opend (McToys and arcade prizes), and other innocuous items that kids find fascinating. For adults I've yet to put out anything. That may be where my sig item comes into play, although adults seem just as happy with kids stuff as anything.
  16. Yep, you're alone. There are plenty more regular caches for everyone as there are PMOC. As far as the location thing? The minimum alowable distance between caches is .1 miles which is not too terribly far. If the location you so desperately wanted is already taken by a PMOC then tough tooties, would you feel the same if it was just a regular cache? Your rage is unjustified, as is the recent uprisings against PMOC's and PM's. Many cachers don't even realize that PMOC's exist, and exist happily just the same. I'm sorry to say that your case is not very stable.
  17. I thought so. Regardless of any advice you have given about locking a drive, you put a lot of faith into not only the TB owner but those who pick it up along the way. Aside from the obvious rule of TB's (drill a hole in it) which wouldn't work well in this case, someone could just as easily replace the drive and put the tag on that. As well, I'm sure smarter people than you have tried and succeeded in conniving their way around a drive.
  18. This is goinf to be my 19th time going! If anything I'm looking for one I've yet to find. Last trip I stayed at the Pop Century on property and found quite a few HM's in there tiling all across the hotel. My favorites have to be those on the Maelstrom at Epcot, especially those found in the ride queue. I'm so excited about the virtuals! They'll be my first ever, adding one more type to my found list. As far as shows go, I've taken 2 years from visiting WDW and am pleased to see new shows AND new construction. The Phineas and Ferb show looks promising.
  19. You have made my day! My TB shall be on it's way soon enough! Hopefully it will end up where I wish, with St Sarah's blessing of course. Thank you all!!! I'll post pictures once I've gotten it set up and on it's way.
  20. I'm not seeing what the problem is here. How is the explosion of interest by casual fans (rather than huge, practicing fans) negatively impacting the hobby. It's sounds a bit elitist to me, as if those "huge practicing fans" are thumbing their noses at those that only have a casual interest as if they're "not real fans". I see mainstreaming in geocaching more like how flyfishing became mainstream. For many years, flyfishing was fairly uncommon but also had it's share of "huge, practicing fans". There were a few clubs around and pockets of areas where flyfishing was more commonplace where one could learn from others, but for the most part many flyfishers were self taught in how to cast, learning about read streams, about etymology, how to tie flies, etc. Then "the movie" came out (A River Runs Through It) and it began to get more popular. That popularity created a opportunity for commercialism. Now many of those rivers and streams that were considered flyfishing meccas (Montana, Catskills, etc) are overrun with guides for hire, which, for a price, someone can buy the knowledge that the old diehards spent years acquiring. It used to be that one could find a potential trout stream on a map, knock on the door of the property owner to ask permission to fish it (and drop off a few trout for dinner on the way out), and you'd have some prime fishing streams all to yourself. Now, many of those areas are shoulder to shoulder in public access areas, and if you want to fish a less crowded stream you've got to spend hundreds of dollars to access a "flyfishing camp". That commercialization has driven up the cost of flyfishing, and access to good trout streams beyond the budget of many a die hard flyfisherman. Some will just say geocaching is changing, but, IMHO, not all change is good. I've seen "change" in other hobbies/sports in which I've participated to see how it can negatively impact the enjoyment for those that were in it before it became mainstream. I don't see my comment as elitist at all. Casual fans have their place as well, but I was just making a point. (If anything you seem to be elitist in your flyfishing hobby. So once hidden spots are overrun with casual fishers, move on and find the next great spot.) Fans are fans, and you have die-hard or casual. Casual fans will not follow as close to the rules as a die-hard (no food, be sneaky, don't "collect" TB/GC's, etc.). More so, I was just trying to give my view of what would happen if Geocaching became "mainstream." It'll suck and it'll be good. People will enjoy and lament other new players. Geocaching is a microcosm (like most things formed on the internet) of a society's inherent want to be exclusive. Geocachers want to be hidden and sneaky, to know that there is treasure 5 feet from a major foot-traffic area. We'll get over it. We'll find new and better hides. We will cull the weak from the sport, leaving it better in the wake. TLDR: Get over it. It's not a pay service so lots of people play it. Not all of those people are what YOU would consider good or are playing the game you want them to. We are an oddity in the ways of outdoor hobbies. People are curious about us.
  21. Well ideally it would get picked up, travlel around Europe, then end up in France. Someone there would see the goal and bring it closer and closer. Eventually, some kind hearted cacher would lug it all the way to the church and either drop it or take a picture of the cache there, then either help it continue to travel or keep it for themselves.
  22. And possibly not find the geocache itself! Good work on half-way playing the game. Next time you can just sit at home and log a find because you considered going outside to look for it.
  23. Sounds like a way for aspiring professionals in creative fields to express their own personal ideas. Geocaching seems to be the idea being expressed, and unless OP created the very concept of high-tech hide and seek, they should reconsider their upcoming presentation entirely. From my understanding these types of events are for new ideas to be presented by those that created them in an effort to get exposure and feedback. OP, how does your Pecha Kucha Night differ from the norm?
  24. Custom dice? Not too offensive to anyone, and more so a personal history thing for me than a gambling tool.
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