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I believe it was $80 for 5 years.

Mr. O, Cleveland's not exactly central Ohio but I thought I'd answer anyway. We went with the GMRS so we'd actually be able to carry on a conversation at the 2 mile mark. So many people I spoke to said their FRS radios were only good for 3/4 of a mile at best. We've never tested our GMRS to see how far it would actually work, about 3 miles is the farthest we've ever tried and it worked great. BTW-we did obtain our license from the FCC

quote:Originally posted by Warm Fuzzies - Fuzzy: quote:Originally posted by Warm Fuzzies - Fuzzy:In any case, I'm not really interested in copyright traps anyway (though if someone knows where/what the one for Indiana is, I might take a few minutes to look it up in my Atlas & Gazetteer and scan it.) I haven't scanned it - yet - but I did find the one for Indiana. Not unsurprisingly, it has to do with basketball. If that's not enough information to find it in your copy, you're throwing those stones at the wrong Bird. (yeah, yeah, old post. Still fun, though.) http://216.202.195.127/warm.gif Look at the location for Mt. Baldy in the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. It is in the far eastern part of the park according to the NPS, yet my atlas has it on the western side of the state park.

I was redirected just as Markwell.

We are 32, 31, 4, 2, 9 months. Counting the 9 month old as 1 year we have an average age of 15.6.

Bay Village, it's on the right side of the tracks from Westlake on the west side of Cleveland. (Couldn't resist the jab runaround, of course some of my best friends are from Westlake)

Sweet Dan! It must have been my lowly request that pushed you over the edge huh? Just kidding, for some reason I love the rankings no matter how low I am and I appreciate what you've done!

quote:Originally posted by mikechim: quote:One towel A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value - you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine soredly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a mini raft down the slow heavy river Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you - daft as a brush, but very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough. More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitchhiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitchhiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitchhiker might accidentally have "lost". What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with. "...Not all those who wander are lost..." ROFL Now if we can work in a Dirk Gently reference somehow on what to bring to the woods....

quote:Originally posted by mikechim: quote:One towel A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value - you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine soredly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a mini raft down the slow heavy river Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you - daft as a brush, but very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough. More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitchhiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitchhiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitchhiker might accidentally have "lost". What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with. "...Not all those who wander are lost..." ROFL Now if we can work in a Dirk Gently reference somehow on what to bring to the woods....

quote:Originally posted by GeoStars: ... The area isn't terrible but I was surprised to see how many cans and bottles were lying around once we really started looking. GeoMedic - team leader of GeoStars The kids constantly amaze us by finding things that we do not see at all. Generally we fill up one of those blue plastic bags from the grocery store as our goal. A couple of places could use a lot more help than that, but that's generally not the case for us. Nancy did go back to one cache and fill up 2 big black garbage bags though. What gets me mad is the amount of trash within 30 feet of a garbage can in the parking lot!

quote:Originally posted by GeoStars: ... The area isn't terrible but I was surprised to see how many cans and bottles were lying around once we really started looking. GeoMedic - team leader of GeoStars The kids constantly amaze us by finding things that we do not see at all. Generally we fill up one of those blue plastic bags from the grocery store as our goal. A couple of places could use a lot more help than that, but that's generally not the case for us. Nancy did go back to one cache and fill up 2 big black garbage bags though. What gets me mad is the amount of trash within 30 feet of a garbage can in the parking lot!

Just to let you know that we are coming to find your 3 Mohican caches soon. Hiking in the rain with the kids is just not fun and the weekends we've had lately have either been filled with rain or obligations. Just let me have your phone number so I can call on the cell phone for extra hints if we can't find it. Of course it looks like this weekend will be wonderful and I'm going to be gone!

Just to let you know that we are coming to find your 3 Mohican caches soon. Hiking in the rain with the kids is just not fun and the weekends we've had lately have either been filled with rain or obligations. Just let me have your phone number so I can call on the cell phone for extra hints if we can't find it. Of course it looks like this weekend will be wonderful and I'm going to be gone!

quote:Originally posted by Byron & Anne: Ah! Yes, so it begins. First the parks start doing their own caches. Then they ban anybody else from placing a cache. Next come the fees for finding a cache. Then the fees for even looking for a cache and an additional fee if you find it. After they'll have to pay that person watching over you to make sure you stay on the trail while hunting the cache. You see, geocaching as we know it today is not going to live long. In fact probably not a long as fee free camp grounds or picnic areas or even parking in the National Forests, which are not free (read free from user fees). Furthermore I think that the more we call attention to this activity to the "public" land owners, the sooner it will be highly regulated. Have you got your geocaching, fishing, hunting combination license? http://img.Groundspeak.com/user/7301_400.jpg Let's see now, do I support the Cleveland Metroparks who have placed their own caches, even though I suspect they will put a limit on the number of caches and maybe attach a registration fee to cover the cost of keeping track of the things OR do I support our neighbors the Lake County Metroparks and the NPS (Cuyahoga Valley National Park) who have banned Geocaching altogether?

Actually, there is a way to do it RAD DAD. http://store.yahoo.com/carspyusa/protrak.html For only $1895 plus shipping and handling you could get this done. Just provide a way for the seekers to log on to the real time tracking....

Actually, there is a way to do it RAD DAD. http://store.yahoo.com/carspyusa/protrak.html For only $1895 plus shipping and handling you could get this done. Just provide a way for the seekers to log on to the real time tracking....

We were just commenting during our last trip that it was a good thing geocaching wasn't around when we were younger and might have been tempted to engage in some sort of, ahem, natural activity in the woods.

Hehehehe. Our 29 month old never ever goes in the wrong direction or stop in front of us for no apparent reason or beg to be carried after 100 yards... I'll cast another vote for the Kelty Elite. It is the sturdiest backpack we could find and often have people stop us and ask where they could get one. It's not cheap but is a great value. By the way, those people who stop us usually have one of the cheaper kinds on their back at the time. Also, both kids get tired when walking an open flat stretch of trail, but throw in creek crossings, climbing over a log in the trail or going up and down a ravine and they are ready to do 20 miles. Has anyone else noticed that? John [This message was edited by Fortner Family Cachers on April 03, 2002 at 10:13 AM.]

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