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    Time Zone Question

    in How do I...?

    Posted

    I have a quick question about the way time zone's work on the website.

     

    I live in Australia and while it's the 1st of August here it's still the 31st of July in America.

     

    So if I found a cache today it wouldn't give me the souvenir. Have I got something wrong in my settings or is that the way the website works.

     

    Thanks!!

    Kathmandu Quality

    in Australia

    Posted

    Anaconda is basically a supermarket for outdoor stuff.

     

    Yeah it's not all flash and professionally designed but it sells other trusted brands like Garmin, Avanti, Giant etc.

     

    When you buy from Anaconda you generally get something that another company has made (it's a retailer) whereas Kathmandu sells its own stuff.

     

    The quality really isn't that bad.

     

    Ok cool. Good to know :) thanks for all your help :)

    Kathmandu Quality

    in Australia

    Posted

    I need to get a few things to do a 2 night hike in the Blue Mountains (NSW)?

     

    Should I get my stuff from Kathmandu, Mountain Designs, Macpac? etc.

     

    What do you think? Fellow Australians I ask for your help :)

    Purely depends on what you want. Kathmandu tends to be a bit pricey but is always on sale.

     

    I personally got stuff for a recent camp at mixed places after doing comparison:

     

    Sleeping bag at Mountain Designs

    Tent at Kathmandu

    Backpack at Kangaroo Tent City (It's in Chatswood)

    Anaconda for bits and bobs (Heximine, Matches etc)

     

    Bear in mind that Anaconda Will Price Beat so look online and then go to the one in Belrose (assuming I can approximate your location)

     

    Good luck

     

    Thanks for the quick reply. Do you find that the quality of all those products are good?

     

    Anaconda is probably the cheapest but for some reason I don't associate Anaconda with quality. Is this wrong thinking?

    Kathmandu Quality

    in Australia

    Posted

    I need to get a few things to do a 2 night hike in the Blue Mountains (NSW)?

     

    Should I get my stuff from Kathmandu, Mountain Designs, Macpac? etc.

     

    What do you think? Fellow Australians I ask for your help :)

    How close is too close?

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    Thanks for the replies everyone. I wasn't thinking my property, but rather my street. :)

     

    Alot depends on your neighbors. How well do you know them? Some people may be very amused by the entertainment, some may get annoyed at strangers poking around near their yards, not to mention the extra vehicle traffic. Is there lots of parking available on your street?

     

    It's a weird street. Houses only occupy one side of the street and the other side is a fairly decent look over a valley. I was thinking of putting it there. So across the road from any house at the back of suburbia... so not much traffic to begin with. Does that make sense?

     

    Is it public property?

    I believe so.

    How close is too close?

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    Thanks for the replies everyone. I wasn't thinking my property, but rather my street. :)

     

    Alot depends on your neighbors. How well do you know them? Some people may be very amused by the entertainment, some may get annoyed at strangers poking around near their yards, not to mention the extra vehicle traffic. Is there lots of parking available on your street?

     

    It's a weird street. Houses only occupy one side of the street and the other side is a fairly decent look over a valley. I was thinking of putting it there. So across the road from any house at the back of suburbia... so not much traffic to begin with. Does that make sense?

    How do I approach this situation?

    in Trackables

    Posted

    So a few years ago I sent out a travel bug... it failed and got taken by a new cacher after 14km.

     

    Then a few months ago I sent out a new travel bug http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?id=4370960 with hopes that it would be more successful.

     

    Now it's in the hands of the first person to get it and they aren't placing it in a new cache and not responding to my messages.

     

    So here's the question.... should I send quite a blunt email with my thoughts, or should I just be patient?

    Whats in your toolkit

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted · Edited by scottmcb

    I carry a very small swiss army knife on my keyring and this has helped me a few times. It has tweezers which I always find very useful to get out the logs sometimes.

     

    Edit: I also carry a torch - this is sometimes my iPhone - because micros can be hidden in dark holes sometimes.

    DNF OCD

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    I'll DNF it, put it on a watchlist to see if any maintenance or finds occur for the cache.

     

    Once I see some positive life for the cache, I go looking for it again.

     

    It depends on why I DNFed a cache. If it's a cache that is most likely there and I just can't find it, and is found after I DNF it, then yes, I really want to avenge that DNF. Other times I'll DNF a cache that I'm pretty sure is missing, in which case I'm usually not as obsessed about going back to find it (some of these never get replaced anyway).

     

    Both of these ^^^.

     

    There is one that is driving me nutso, though. It's near my home and I've been there three times (although the first time was actually without my GPS...but I thought I knew where it would be)...and still have not found it. In the meantime people keep finding it and saying stuff like "easy find" or "quick grab"...just to rub salt in my wound, I think. I even emailed the CO to see if she could narrow my search (not give me the answer, mind you...just tell me if I'm in the right area since there is a lot of landscaping and terracing there) but she has not responded. This one really is getting to me.

     

    Yeah, I know that feeling. There was a cache exactly like that for me too and looking at the cache page there were only 3 DNFs and I was all 3. I eventually found it - not knowing how I missed it.

    What kind of geocoins do you collect?

    in Trackables

    Posted

    Since you obviously can't collect them all what types do you collect and why?

     

    Don't tell that to drneal

    I'd love to visit drneal! Really!

    :anicute: :anicute: :anicute:

     

    You could attend an Event where drneal will be present. He usually brings his album containing his 20 coins with him so people can make a few discovers. He probably also have a few more in his pockets, 5 at the most :laughing:

    Well, I could.

    If I could.

    There is just the small matter of a few thousand kilometers of water and land mass between me in Germany and him in Pennsylvania, I'm afraid.

    His event is just:

    NW 6428.2 km from your home location
    :sad:

    I actually live in Sydney Australia :S haha.

    Re-evaluated geocaching goals

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    We're about 2 weeks away from entering the second quarter of the year. For those of you who set goals at the beginning of the year what were they? How are they going? And what are the goals for the rest of the year?

     

    And for those of use who didn't - including me - what are your goals for the next 9 months?

    How are Geocoins and TravelBugs different?

    in Trackables

    Posted

    Thanks so much for your kind reply. I think I am beginning to understand now. :)

     

    Just one more question at this stage... Are there an infinite number of designs for geocoin a or can you collect a certain "series" or "group" of coins.

     

    I used to collect pokemon cards as a kid so this is very appealing to me :)

     

    Some collectors go for certain coin 'types' ... events, nature, fun, visual appeal, shapes, color, etc. It's up to the collector.

     

    Unlike just 'pokeman' cards, think 'trading cards' overall. You can collect any or all offered for any purpose, or you can select one sport like baseball, football, hockey. Or ... like comic books. Collect anything that's in print, or select one adventure series to follow. Some coins will have only one or two 'versions', while others like the 12-12-12 multi-event coin, there were 67 (iirc) versions made. Only a few people have tried to obtain all 67 different ones, while some settled for just a few and others have just one as a remembrance for the event.

     

    The other consideration is cost. A single pokeman card didn't (?) sell for $10-20 plus shipping. A complete set of 67 versions of 12-12-12 coins would run well in excess of $1,000 at retail. If monetary is not a factor, I'm sure you could spend a thousand or more per month worldwide just on 'new' releases. Develop a taste for past coins and it could put a serious dent in ANY wallet.

     

    Happy coining ... and welcome to coin-addict paradise ... :blink:

     

    Thanks!!! :D

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