cachew nut

There are times I wish I had a pair of binoculars with me.

quote:Originally posted by bigredmed: http://www.armysurplusoutlet.com/noname12.html Thanks for the idea. I have stashed a cache in a watery locale and this has turned out to be very useful. Shipping costs are a little steep (about doubled the price to about $18 for 2). One thing I noticed about these tubes, when you get them they may be a bit dirty since they are used. I removed the rubber gasket and washed everything with soap and water, including the gasket. Then I put some vaseline on a paper towel and spread a thin coat on the gasket, this will help keep it water tight, I'm hoping. When you screw the top on, you must do it tightly, you will feel it click into place. If you don't feel the click, then it's not sealed. A geocacher might not know to do this, so I drew a mark on each piece with directions to align the marks for a tight seal. I doubt very much that even a drop will get in if closed properly. I've got four ready to go, but I must choose their hiding place carefully since we have plunderers in the area. [This message was edited by cachew nut on June 17, 2002 at 07:22 PM.]

quote:Originally posted by Jamie Z: How would those work with the Meridian? I'm still looking for a good belt clip/case for my Gold. Jamie I went to Walmart today to see if the Meridian would fit into one of these. While there were some Nite Ize products such as the "extra pockets" and "maglite holder", I could not find the "GPS holder" described above I did however go down the camping aisle and saw saw nice hydration backpacks. Picked one up for $29.99, holds 2 liters. They have some others in the bicycle section for $14.99, but I like the one I got because of the extra storage room. I get to travel every now and again and this will come in handy for carrying water and gear, as opposed to carrying a bottle of Aquafina in my hand

quote:Originally posted by Jamie Z: How would those work with the Meridian? I'm still looking for a good belt clip/case for my Gold. Jamie I went to Walmart today to see if the Meridian would fit into one of these. While there were some Nite Ize products such as the "extra pockets" and "maglite holder", I could not find the "GPS holder" described above I did however go down the camping aisle and saw saw nice hydration backpacks. Picked one up for $29.99, holds 2 liters. They have some others in the bicycle section for $14.99, but I like the one I got because of the extra storage room. I get to travel every now and again and this will come in handy for carrying water and gear, as opposed to carrying a bottle of Aquafina in my hand

It might make it a bit easier, but as soon as you clicked the link to see the profile, you would first be brought to the login screen since a login is required to view a profile.

quote:Originally posted by travisl:For example, let's say you start at 47, -122, and go to 48, -121. The difference is (47 - 48), (-122 - (-121)), or -1, -1. Got it. I was trying this without the negative numbers, like the WGS84 coordinates used in the caches.

quote:Originally posted by travisl:For example, let's say you start at 47, -122, and go to 48, -121. The difference is (47 - 48), (-122 - (-121)), or -1, -1. Got it. I was trying this without the negative numbers, like the WGS84 coordinates used in the caches.

My bet is that with coordinates hidden you would see a big influx of registrants.

quote:Originally posted by travisl: Long answer: Let's say you're at LatitudeA, LongitudeB and trying to get to LatitudeC, LongitudeD. You know, therefore, that the change in latitude will be (LatitudeA - LatitudeC), and similarly the change in longitude will be (LongitudeB - LongitudeD). If both the change in latitude and the change in longitude are negative numbers, you know you're moving northeast (between 0° and 90°). NORTHWEST quote:If both the change in latitude and the change in longitude are positive numbers, you know you're moving southwest (between 180° and 270°). SOUTHEAST quote:If the change in latitude is negative, and the change in longitude is positive, you know you're moving northwest (between 270° and 360°). NORTHEAST quote:If the change in latitude is positive, and the chacnge in longitude is negative, you know you're moving southeast (between 90° and 180°). SOUTHWEST

quote:Originally posted by travisl: Long answer: Let's say you're at LatitudeA, LongitudeB and trying to get to LatitudeC, LongitudeD. You know, therefore, that the change in latitude will be (LatitudeA - LatitudeC), and similarly the change in longitude will be (LongitudeB - LongitudeD). If both the change in latitude and the change in longitude are negative numbers, you know you're moving northeast (between 0° and 90°). NORTHWEST quote:If both the change in latitude and the change in longitude are positive numbers, you know you're moving southwest (between 180° and 270°). SOUTHEAST quote:If the change in latitude is negative, and the change in longitude is positive, you know you're moving northwest (between 270° and 360°). NORTHEAST quote:If the change in latitude is positive, and the chacnge in longitude is negative, you know you're moving southeast (between 90° and 180°). SOUTHWEST

quote:Originally posted by The GeoGadgets Team:One of the groups lives in Illinois (I'm in No. Cal.) and the others live at least 100 miles from where they placed the cache. I just searched near your caches and while I found the reference to the cachers from 100 miles away, I can't seem to find anything placed near your caches by anyone from Illinois. I don't doubt there are caches near yours, and perhaps this other one has been archived already, but being from Illinois myself I was wondering who would do something like this. Just curious if it was archived, the search tools are broken, or if this was a mistake?

quote:Originally posted by The GeoGadgets Team:One of the groups lives in Illinois (I'm in No. Cal.) and the others live at least 100 miles from where they placed the cache. I just searched near your caches and while I found the reference to the cachers from 100 miles away, I can't seem to find anything placed near your caches by anyone from Illinois. I don't doubt there are caches near yours, and perhaps this other one has been archived already, but being from Illinois myself I was wondering who would do something like this. Just curious if it was archived, the search tools are broken, or if this was a mistake?

quote:Originally posted by travisl: I'll be interested to found out what happens to this one. According to a log posted today, this one survived.

quote:Originally posted by FireCacher: GC18, GC2288, GC3615, and GC22AD are all in that area. The loss of wildlife, habitat and forest is tremendous. Especially when you consider that the latest news says that a US Forest Service seasonal employee set the fire. Several friends are wildland firefighters and Geocachers, so if I hear anything I'll pass it along. According to a log posted today, GC18 survived the fire. It looks like the cache was a white 5 gallon bucket and was spared from the flames.

quote:Originally posted by georgeandmary: I found half of a coordinate a few days ago and I'm not sure which cache holds the other half. I'm sure I'll come across it sooner or later. Maybe, but the other half could be hidden in a cache you already found earlier.

I don't use the same GPS as you, but when the arrow jumps around, I switch screens to the coordinates screen to zero myself in. I always keep a compass with me as well.

That rule must apply to new caches only. Just for the heck of it, last night I started looking at the Park Service website and compared their maps, where posted, against caches placed. There are plenty of active caches on Nation Park land. I should have kept a list, but if it was that easy for me to do, certainly the whole crew at geocaching.com would have no trouble archiving them if they were serious about this. I also saw some caches near railroads and bridges as well, if I recall. I was thinking of emailing the cache owners, but I believe its probably the web sites responsibility, not mine, and I don't want to tick anyone else off lest more of my caches get plundered

That rule must apply to new caches only. Just for the heck of it, last night I started looking at the Park Service website and compared their maps, where posted, against caches placed. There are plenty of active caches on Nation Park land. I should have kept a list, but if it was that easy for me to do, certainly the whole crew at geocaching.com would have no trouble archiving them if they were serious about this. I also saw some caches near railroads and bridges as well, if I recall. I was thinking of emailing the cache owners, but I believe its probably the web sites responsibility, not mine, and I don't want to tick anyone else off lest more of my caches get plundered

I guess I would like to log finds without actually signing the book, but who would I be fooling except myself? I just recently logged 10 in the Bay Area, and these are way different then the ones around here. One cache called Bog, Log, Pollywog really had me fooled. My GPS pointed 100 feet into water. A big fat log went out into the water and I could see something floating in the water. However the log was broken and I wasn't going to attempt it. The other side of the water gave me a reading of 200 feet into the water. There were fishermen all around and I felt like, hey, maybe I should get credit, after all I did see it floating there. But, to me it's not a find so I did not log it as one. The next day I went back and found it on dry land, there are some channels of water and land, and it really wasn't the thing I saw floating in the water. So, if I would have logged it, I would have been wrong. Another cache is the Yellow Briefcase which I didn't particularly like, I climbed a huge steep mountain 2 days in a row and got close enough to know where it was. I ended up braving rattlesnakes and ticks to get to the cache on the second day. The hike was uphill and over a mile. Compared to some of the caches in California, all of the ones I've found in the flatlands have been one star. It wouldn't have counted to me unless I actually logged it. You can log whatever you want, but I know when I log one, I actually had my hands on it and looked inside

quote:Originally posted by DisQuoi: When I hide a cache, I make a point to place it in an obvious spot. That may work well for you, but in my area where caches have been plundered, hiding it in an obvious spot does not work well. I started a thread about having coordinates hidden to non registered cachers and even though there were two surveys with voting in favor of this idea, nothing has been done. I wonder if anyone even cares about the results of surveys around here. I received many responses in the thread saying that I should just do a better job hiding my caches, making them more difficult to find. I'm not sure what the answer is, since they were hidden well to begin with. From now on any cache I hide will be more difficult to find, the searcher will just have to work harder to find it.

quote:Originally posted by leatherman: I have a friend named Marie. She's not a virgin though. I knew a girl named Virginia, we called her virgin for short, but not for long

quote:Originally posted by leatherman: I have a friend named Marie. She's not a virgin though. I knew a girl named Virginia, we called her virgin for short, but not for long

If the cache was plundered, how would you know it was done by a non-geocacher? Check the missing log book?

quote:Originally posted by Criminal:Weigh in with your great ideas. http://www.armysurplusoutlet.com/noname12.html

quote:Originally posted by BrianSnat: I hate to say this, but in New Jersey, the more dead deer the better. They are nothing more than giant rats with hooves. They are destroying the understory in area forests, not to mention homeowner's plants. There are so many deer here that some towns are paying sharpshooters a lot of money to thin the herd. Funny, hunters would do it for free. Your tax dollars at work. The problem is eating the meat of these affected deer.