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Metaphor

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  1. Does Navicache still exist? As much as I hate rules, I like geocaching better. Why make an issue out of a non-issue? Either ask the right people for permission to place these materials or remove the items that have the potential of getting the cache banned. Granted, if I was in this out of the ordinary woodland area, needed a survival kit, and didn't have the sense to bring my own, I probably wouldn't be concerned with geocaching; besides, a SURVIVAL CACHE might not be the best advertisement to those of lesser experience, and might provide a false sense of security. What happens when the contents listed disappear after the third cacher and someone in need goes looking for it, only to find a golfball, two broken McToys and slinky? (edit- replaced faulty period with appropriate comma)
  2. My longest-lived tb is Maryland, My Maryland which is on its way home for a second time after traveling almost five years and 30,000 miles; my second longest is in limbo, Passport, traveling four-and-a-half years and almost 11,000 miles, but was picked up this spring at the Maine Pirate Quest Event and never logged. I'm still hoping that it reappears.
  3. Kindertoys are pretty cool-- and uncommon here in the US. Kids would love them.
  4. Just re-upped for the 5th year. I don't use most of the added features, but I do use the listing service. That in itself is worth the price of admission. Go on, you know it's the right thing to do...
  5. If I look for it, and it isn't there, I claim my smilie. After all, I looked for it, didn't I? (just kidding) My policy is to claim a DNF if I tried to find the cache, but didn't. I don't agree with Briansnat (say it ain't so!) about plugging coords into my GPSr as the determiner of the beginning of the hunt sequence, though; rather, it's when I make an attempt to find the cache that precipitates a DNF. For instance, I had planned to do a roadside cache on a highway in Kentucky, but as I drove by, roadwork precluded my stopping, That was a DNF. When my wife and I went on a short hike in a State Park recently, and I had put coordinates into the unit for a possible hunt, but did not try to find those caches, I didn't make any notation.
  6. 1) No, I don't. 2) No, my ethics are the same. (1st dnf-3/3/2002)
  7. DNF usually stands for "Damned Nice Fun" but then again, you'll hit the occasional PITA -- "Placer Is The Anti-Christ" which are not nearly so DNF. Log them all. Both beat what's on TV.
  8. Sigh... My bug resurfaced after over a year, only to be captured by pirates at an event... Any help in locating it would be appreciated.
  9. 23 miles walk, start to finish, so about 12-13 one way, as I came back a slightly different way. I was staying at a friend's house in Wales, had a day to myself, but no transportation. I set out early in the morning from Builth Wells, waliking the roads as they became smaller amd smaller, until I headed along sheep paths to "Llambedr Fell". Then I headed back. Great day, but I was foot-sore at the end. My friend made me go to a faculty party afterwards. Needless to say, I didn't dance, just enjoyed well-earned beers til the wee hours, then slept most of the next day.
  10. No, because I always agree with what Briansnat says, so I'm always on the correct side of the debate.
  11. Member since 3/2002... 345? caches found... 11 placed. Has it changed? Yes. For the better? For some. For the worse? For some. For me? When I started, there weren't a lot of caches to find without a long drive. Now, there aren't a lot of really cool caches to find without a long drive. I regularly overlook a lot of the micro/drive-by finds that pop up everywhere, and consequently, my cache find count is pretty much stagnant. I'm more into the hike, the history or the cool factor than I am into the gotta-find-a-cache now attitude. Some people like that; I don't. More often than not, geocaching has become an event that takes place outside my locale. I like to travel, and grab my fair share of opportunity to do so, so geocaching adds to the trip. In fact, I look forward to caching when I get away from home as another way to see something out of the normal routine. I recently spent some time with my son in Arkansas, and took a day to drive a 350 mile circuit to Texas and Oklahoma to find a cache or five, and in the process ended up at a really cool woodworking museum in Oklahmoa. That's the gem of the way I cache. I don't have a compulsion to geocache them all, just a few that interest me, or are near something that looks interesting. So, is geocaching better for me? Yes, but I do it a lot less often. Overall, is it better? In my opinion, not really, because the quality of the hide has declined. Yet, with my approach, I can do some really cool ones, and a mildly lame cache in a foreign country (or state) is still pretty cool. Edit: I hate typos.
  12. I've found two letterboxes and one cache that never was listed.
  13. Roughly the same spot, one year apart...
  14. And all this time, I've been digging them up, looking for the buried treasure underneath... go figure...
  15. I had one that I dropped off in the UK. It made it to the Continent, then disappeared in Hungary. Over six months later, it reappeared in Japan, where it disappeared again, for good, I'm afraid.
  16. Actually it has, but in a different direction. Both of us work the same incredibly intense "people-oriented jobs" in different places, and the decompression that I get from solo caching is a safety valve that helps.
  17. 'tis indeed. I adopted it. Meteor Maven
  18. We interpret what we read according to our own sets of baggage. I don't post a lot, have had a few online "arguments", given some good advice (when someone like Briansnat hasn't beaten me to it...) and gotten help and good advice from cachers here in the US and abroad. Of course, there are posters who I don't like, but it's rarely because they are mean-spirited. I've defended these forums are on another geocaching board when trash was being lobbed this way about how nasty the people here were. Mean-spirited posters just don't seem to last long here. Ultimately, you as a reader have to take as much responsibility for what you want to read, as a poster has to take responsibility for what he or she posts. If you only choose to read the less civil threads, and neglect the "Getting Started", national and international communities, Off-Topic, etc. threads, then it's your fault. There's more good stuff in here than bad, but you have to be the one to discover it, sort of like searching for the kind of caches you like, rather than having the compulsion to do every one, even if it is a repulsive (you fill in the type of cache that you really despise). By the way, is this where I ask whether I can use my gpsr on an airplane?
  19. Madison's Revenge (Lower Eastern Shore of Maryland) December 4, 2005 by Metaphor (336 found) FTFIOAY! First to find in over a year. The cache is still there in its hidey place. A beautiful place to be on a warm December afternoon. Thanks. November 11, 2004 by rufnredy (2527 found) Awesome hide ... was right next to it last time and didn't get it ... guess it happens SL TN Left emergency number fridge magnets TFTC
  20. Metaphor

    Why?

    Snow totals are higher in Arizona than here on the Eastern Shore of Maryland...
  21. It's not a problem. I had a bonus cache listed yesterday. To get the coordinates for the second cache, you need to make the the walk through a nice woodland about two miles to another cache, where the second set of coordinates are listed inside. The second cache is somewhere along the walk back.
  22. I had a Fergus chainmail Hackey Sack -- unfortunately it got stolen... I VOTE FOR FERGUS' CHAINMAIL ITEMS (yes, I know I was screaming-- couldn't help myself, they are so-o cool.
  23. Some people revel in the "evil" cache, designed to frustrate the searcher. Some people enjy the challenge of being frustrated by "evil" caches. I don't. I like to take a good walk, see some interesting territory, or enjoy something out of the ordinary. Searching ground zero for hours looking for a woodland micro or a super-camoflaged container slows down my purpose for going. I do like multi-caches that go for miles, especially if I can keep the pace up through the walk. 15-30 minutes finding a stage-- no problem. Two hours... eh. A dnf is a buzz-kill. Secondly, a string of dnf's on a cache, even a high difficulty rated one, makes me wonder if it is there, or whether I'm just not seeing it. I've got enough frustration in my world; I really don't want to add more just for someone else's "perverse pleasure." I want you to find my caches.
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