skisidedown

From where I stand you are bragging! I'll ship you our "just over freezing temps and sloppy sleet", if you'll ship me two or three feet of real snow and winter weather. I am farther both north and east of you, and our lakes and ponds are still not safe to walk on. There is a whole mess of caches along a series of trails only open to off road vehicles here, but I don't have summer transport so winter is my time to get to those. I also had some caches planned for a few more islands here, but again I can't get to them yet. sigh, waiting for winter...

The silence in here is deafening. I have had similar experiences with a Garmin Nuvi 550 this summer. Garmin just does not like Tim Horton's from what I can tell, and occasionally the voice prompt can't tell left from right. That occured often enough that in Montreal I turned opposit to the voice a couple of times because I just assmued it was wrong at that point - which also didn't work out. I found directions to turn left across a four lane divided highway (I figured my truck may have made it with enough speed, but the 29 foot travel trailer may have gotten hung up on the concrete divider!) where an older road had been upgraded and on/off ramps added. I found roads at least 10 years old that are not on the map. I found decomissioned gas stations - not good after 9pm and low on fuel. And I learned to keep my eyes open and actively searching the signs for what I needed - much like my father would have done 30 years ago. It did get me through Montreal and Toronto at rush hour, which to be fair to me, I could have done without the GPS, but it was somewhat reassuring to have. We also drove across Michigan, and although we didn't do as much exploring there as we did in Canada, there was more highway and road information available (speed limits!) and I can't identify any errors from that part of the trip.

Slightly cruel and mean - I LOVE IT!!!! Skisidedown

And the neighbors never comlain for some reason...

This one has been out of sight for a while. Sorry, no chocolate... One from last fall - frost on leaves

Mine was imported from a snowmobile forum. Most of the usernames there consist of some form of MakeModelEngineDisplacement, with a few other gimicks added to make them a little unique. I was in the process of selecting one to buy, so that format wouldn't work. The resulting skisidedown is not a comment about my riding skill (sadly - it has been untrue on two occasions ), but is more of a mantra in my head when things are, well, not proceeding quite according to plan. And really, who would want to land any other way? skisidedown

My kids and I usually cache together, so for now I do the logging on my account, and I make sure to note in the logs which of the group was actually there - my caching tends to be opportunistic in nature so they are not always with me. When they are ready to get the coordinates themselves and do the logging themselves, they can have their own accounts, and they will have to go back through a few logs to see which caches they were present for. If they don't want to do that, then they don't have to. Skisidedown

I also have two island caches - I placed them in winter on snowmobile. To date, no one has reported looking for them in the summer, and those who did find them enjoyed the fact that they were going a little more out of the way. I hope to borrow a canoe this summer to place one or two more. There are lots of quite lakes and ponds here that are easily accesible, but seldom used. Skisidedown

Agree 100%!!! I found one LPC and thought that it was neat and creative, so when I got home I placed one. I don't think there is another one within a couple of hours drive (possibly not even in the province!) so it is unique here. But my kids wouldn't enjoy them, once they got over the "Gee, who would have thought to hide it there", and truthfully, I would quickly tire of driving into a parking lot and following the arrow straight to a lamp pole, over and over. No, that wouldn't stop me from logging it online - if I remembered. Skisidedown

This looks a lot like the reed pattern that someone (Tinman4x ??) posted that they wanted to try. Cool - I know of places that these could go, but it would be very extremely wet and there may be a need to change the colour scheme at the changover from summer to fall. I have had good results on ammo cans by sanding off any sheen, wiping them down and coating them with tremclad rust rejuvenator. After that, either the 'proper' cammo colours (khaki, olive green, brown and black - in that order) or the closest I can get to them in a cheaper brand. Lock'n'locks I have found need to be sanded and Krylon paint for at least the first coat. The last ones I did, I used a paint that had a sand texture in it, that was suitable for outdoor use. This was the first coat, and the texturing, while not noticable at a distance as a rough surface, seemed cut down the reflection that you get from any smooth surface. Skisidedown.

That is the result of stitching together photos taken at different times of the year. There are a few of those in my area as well.

The first place is where they filmed the Truman movie! I wonder if those people working at the other circular place live in this circular place. Although the buildings in the lower area don't really look like houses. Just looked again and it looks like a trailer park! Somebody needs to make a driveby and see what our government is up to! Area on the Virginia/NC border is the U.S. Navy Northwest Radio Station By Googling a little, (is that an acceptable verb now?) I found pictures of the Northwest Station, with a circular array that strongly resembles the picture I posted above (post 37). Google 'wullenweber' to get more links and the Wiki entry. There is another site in Sugar Grove WV that, although not quite designed for the same task, has a similar look. See also GC13GEH. I can't find the name of the town itself, but I wonder if it is built on a former base - or was somebody just exercising their creativity?

Fascinating report! Thank you! Each circular array looks quite a bit like a phased circular curtain array (antenna), and so I am sure that some of the conspiracy theorists are gonna pop up and claim that the carbon storage research facility story is just a cover-up! . I have a very strange update for you. Despite the discovery and assertion that this site was merely a CO2 gas storage/sequestration research facility, the images of the towers show something that looked way too sophisticated to me for it to be merely what was claimed. Also, I worked as a consultant last year on a CO2 soil/vegetation storage research project in Australia, and that setup looked NOTHING like the strange array of antenna-like towers that we see in the fotos for the NC site. So, I have since sent fotos of the site and the article about the site to two friends who are top PhD atmospheric scientists, and they both feel that the array installations do not look at all realistic or appropriate for a CO2 storage research project, and rather, they both feel that the site is some kind of top-secret telecommunications facility, or perhaps something even weirder. . Most telecommunications antennae would be in a cleared area, and a 'telecommunication research station' does not need to be hidden - in fact that would be very difficult. This one, local to me, is actually just off of the approach path to the airport. Also, note the cleared area around and within the ring. I supose that makes security easier, but I believe that the level terrain has an effect on their signal, not to mention the difficulty of actually trying to bury cable to a suitable depth with tree roots in the way. If the trees were allowed to grow up after installation, all that careful setup and alignment would be tossed away as the trees' roots slowly shift the foundations. I vote for the alien docking station. Whatever exotic technologies they are using most likely are not bothered by the considerations that I have raised.

A stick in the eye is really not that much fun.

And if they did, what sort of trade did they leave? Skisidedown

Nope they didn't realize it. I bet they will soon! Skisidedown

Wow - I thought it looked like it must be a wood strip kayak. That sucks though about the tree. At least you have the know-how and desire to rebuild it. I had a look at the yostwerks site, and I may be able to manage construction of one of those. I have limited canoe experience, and none at all in a kayak, but there are a few lakes and ponds around here that would be great to learn on. Then I too, can give my electronics the bath that they don't deserve! Skisidedown

Any chance that it will just buff out? I think I've been fortunate while caching, because I have very little in the way of 'damage'. Some scratches on my truck (10 years old and it looks like it should stay in the woods) and tears in my jacket where it has found a few branches before I did, but otherwise its all good. Skisidedown.

OK, always happy to share! The final setup was a two stage approach because of the 5000 character limit on traveller descriptions. I happened to enter two travellers in the race, so this worked out for me. My first traveller contains some code that displays the default image, location and mileage of the traveller. The catch here is that if the traveller does not have a default image defined, nothing is displayed except a blank border - which is why there are some blank squares on the page. It also has a link at the bottom that takes you to my second traveller. This travel bug I set up to have links to each of the travellers. Yes, these can be combined, so that you have a hyperlinked button, but with twenty some travellers, there is no room on one TB's description for it all. The code for the hyperlinked buttons is below. <a href="http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?guid=2098987d-064b-4966-a455-f02623bef3d8"> <img border="0" src="http://img.geocaching.com/stats/tb.aspx?guid=2098987d-064b-4966-a455-f02623bef3d8" width="110" height="150" /> </a> To make them work properly you need the correct GUID number. This can be found by going to the traveller's page and viewing the source code (or from the address bar when you edit your own TB). Feel free to have a look at my pages if there is something there that you want to use - just be aware of the size restriction - it can be cramping. I also need to say thank you to the person who sent me the code via email. I wasn't even sure that a tally board such as this was possible. Thank you - and I won't use your name, that way you won't get bomabarded with requests, but you know who you are! Skisidedown

Thank you - I should have known to search this. (gives self smack in head) And it does the job just fine. Skisidedown.

I have a travel bug that is entered in a TB race that will be starting this Friday. A couple of us have set up links to the other bugs entered in the race, just for ease of tracking and seeing how each other are doing. Currently, we will have to enter the mileage of each of the other bugs on our pages manually if we would like to keep it accurate. Is there a way to pick the mileage off other bugs' pages and have it displayed on my bug's page? Can anyone provide the code that would allow me to do this? My source reading skills are not up to the job without help! Thanks Skisidedown.

Well, this was a useful thread because I learned a new term, Forum Lizards, thanks to catsnfish, and thanks to the OP I know the abbreviation. Skisidedown

Methinks for the price of the goggles and batteries you could have bought a new carabiner. But he needed the batteries anyway. I think that now it is about the principle. Hope he finds it...

The first two are from the same cache. Sea arches in a Provincial park. A 'bit of bull' in a National Park P

I could use a little angst reduction right now. These are from the same cache.