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HaLiJuSaPa

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  1. Welcome to the game! Lots of caches and cachers in your area (though I'm a little more familar with caches a bit north and west of you). Check out this recent thread: http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=217581 Enjoy!
  2. Hello. We're not from your area by my in-laws have a home of sorts there so we have cached in northeast PA a bit. You'll find that your area has a lot of great caches, many of which take you to some beautiful places. Two things I would recommend: 1) Get on the forums of a group called NEPAG. I don't remember the website, but Google "Northeast PA Geocachers" and you'll get it. You'll learn of events to go to where you can meet other area cachers (we even went to one last year!) 2) Though I don't think they cache too much anymore, lookup hides by a couple called frenchfrynfrosty. They have all sorts of hides of different challenges, etc. throughout northeast PA, one (now archived) took you on a tour of tornado damage, another (Devil's Kitchen Cache, we DNF'd it) has an awesome view! They have two series that are tours of facilities, one of Wendy's in the area (but these are not simple roadside micros, they're quite creative) another that's a tour of bowling alleys that we expanded to the NY area. Maybe even contact them. Enjoy!
  3. HMM.....if you drive just 2 hours to the south you can hit anything Vinny and Sue Team throws at you.....
  4. While watching the Mentalist on CBS last night, at the beginning, the CBI (California Bureau of Investigation) is tipped off that something is going to happen at a given set of coordinates. They go to those coordinates (in the desert about 3 hours drive from their office) and start walking around with a handheld GPS until it "zeroes out". OK not quite caching exactly, but I thought interesting to note......
  5. HaLiJuSaPa

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    Welcome to the game! You are in luck, you live in a very active caching area, Long Island has lots of caches and lots of great, dedicated cachers. There are two regional organizations that might interest you: LIGO (Long Island Geocaching Organization): http://www.ligeocaching.com/ Metro NY Geocaching Org: http://www.metrogc.org Metro NY is more geared towards the 5 boros and Westchester/Rockland Counties (I live in southern Westchester), but it appers to be more active than LIGO right now and Long Island (at least Nassau County) is becoming more prominent within it, from what I've seen, many LI cachers are active in both. Enjoy!
  6. Never heard of the Park, and I think the only time I've been in Baltimore are some layovers at BMI. But I'm quite certain this is a neighborhood thing, if I could be so politically incorrect; inotherwords, the park probably isn't in a very safe neighborhood. I remember a thread (I can probably find it if need be), where a foreigner posted a screen shot of a Geocaching.com Google map of Detroit, and wondered why there was a "hole" with no caches placed there. Quite a few people posted screen shots of places with other "cache holes" such as Bed-Stuy, Harlem, and a few other major U.S. Cities. Sounds like a great park though. The website linked to on the only cache in the whole park is very interesting. I remember that thread too. But my impression (and again, this could be the "naive tourist" in me) was that this park/area was more like the northern part of Central Park in NYC (which is southern Harlem, and is kind of rough (though less so than 20-30 years ago), but OK enough nowadays that tourists go there and there are caches in that section) than like the "holes" on the maps of Detroit, or the southwestern 1/4 of the Bronx (of course, the Bronx in general was almost one big hole before I and a couple of others got to it ), or Brooklyn's Bed-Stuy (which is a lot less rough now too due to partial gentrification.....there are much rougher parts of Brooklyn like East NY and Brownsville where the "holes" are warranted, but Brooklyn in general lacks caches to begin with for some reason), etc. I read that the city zoo is in this park and there's some exhibit for kids to learn about safety using a scaled down model of the city, and I saw very little graffiti (unlike some other parts of town I drove through), combine this with how close it was to Johns Hopkins University I didn't think of it (at least parts of it) as a "ghetto park" either. But again, I don't know Baltimore very well, so I can't say. Thanks for all the feedback.
  7. I hear you but I also agree with polskikrol that for this cache because it's going to be on TV, etc. it may make sense to make "public". That is very cool Vin, congrats! Are you at liberty to say what network? For a number of very good reasons, this cache, along with most of my other PUCS and some of my PBCs, can never be removed from Premium Member-only status. And, no, we are not, at this time, disclosing publicly what TV network is involved in the documentary show. And thanks to everyone for the well wishes! And... I remain amazed that some folks are still asking/suggesting that the listing be removed from Premium member-only status. The price of a monthly membership is less than the price of mug of cheap beer, and about the price of one gallon of gasoline, for God's sake! . Hi, I read your "irritation" forum thread about what it takes to maintain this cache and I confess naiveity and now agree with you on this one. See my post in that thread for more details. Sorry and good luck with it all! By the way, I was in your state this weekend, it looks like $3 will actually buy almost 1 1/2 gallons of gas there (wow, your prices were as cheap as Jersey's......here in NY some places are actually creeping back to $2.50/gallon, though in my exact town they're still in the $2-2.19 range).
  8. I think that a thread such as this is very productive, as it may give the whiners and complainers a chance to recognize their dysfunctional and ungrateful behavior and the concomitant chance to decide to grow up and become contributing members of society, or, at the least, it might shame some of the "askers" into either shutting up or becoming Premium members if they wish to see the PUC #13 listing page. Again, as noted many times before, I have NOTHING against non-paying "free" or regular members. What I do mind is if and when they ask or demand that I convert my PMOC caches to ordinary caches. This takes a tremendous amount of gall, nerve and moral depravity, in my book. As someone who in that forum thread agreed with the "non-premium" crowd on this (although we are Premium Members), I want to retract that and apologize on this one. I know your series is "extreme" but I didn't really read some of the caches well enough to truly understand and I think if it were costing me a helicopter, etc. to maintain that I'd want to limit who could see it as well. My response was probably one of the less irritating ones but it was obviously a naive response so I am taking it back. Good luck with the TV stuff.....
  9. I had some business in Baltimore yesterday and today and hit most of the I-95 "rest area" caches along the way. But while driving from my motel down I-83 to downtown, about halfway down I saw from the road what seemed to be an amazing stretch of woods and parkland surrounded by buildings and apartments, reminiscent of Central Park in NY City but smaller and a lot quieter, kind of made me think of the relatively unknown Seton Falls preserve in the Bronx where I have a multi (though I hardly think what I found yesterday is unknown). I stopped by on my way back to the motel and learned it was Druid Hill Park, apparently the largest park in the city's borders. I didn't have my GPS with me while at the park, but looking at the GC.com Google map there appears to be only 1 cache in the park: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...23-b7b5f77b4dec I didn't get a chance to go back and hunt that cache, but I was quite surprised that this place would be so lacking in caches (I know if I lived in the area I'd have one or two hides there) and I was wondering if anyone on here from the area would know why as I'm an "ignorant out of towner" who doesn't know any better. My theories, however are: 1) Some regulation limiting most parts of the park from having hides (i.e. I know the zoo is part of the park). 2) Place is not safe (or as in the case of my Seton Falls hide in NY, people perceive it as unsafe)? (I don't think I'd roam there late at night, but didn't look too bad in my view).....or maybe there were a lot more caches in the past and they got muggled a lot? Anyway, I'm just curious, thanks.
  10. I hear you but I also agree with polskikrol that for this cache because it's going to be on TV, etc. it may make sense to make "public". That is very cool Vin, congrats! Are you at liberty to say what network?
  11. With a lot of hides in the Bronx, but none in even northernmost Manhattan, we weren't contacted. We were recently contacted by a small newsweekly in a part of Westchester County where we do have a lot of hides, we were interviewed and photographed, but I believe given the obscurity of the magazine involved that I only posted on the Metro NY GC forum about that one.
  12. Hey, I'm noticing something new since this update. Travel bugs/geocoins no longer seem to be getting their mileage added/recalculated after you put them into a new cache. Please fix ASAP!
  13. A friend of mine (a non-cacher, but who knows of my US News and World Report "Letter to the Editor" on a similar subject last year) pointed out to me that the March, 2009 edition of Parents Magazine has a whole section about getting kids back into nature and being outdoors, and there's a brief interview with a hiker single mom in Oregon who talks about geocaching as one way to do this. The caching part is just a paragraph, but it basically said it's idea for families with school age kids and points them to geocaching.com. If you read/subscribe to the magazine, it's on page 101 of that issue (I'm surprised we didn't notice it as my wife subscribes to the magazine ). I wonder if she's someone who's on the forums here.
  14. Congrats Gerkmax!!!!! And while on here, will congratulate my brother-in-law MarkSun for finding his 400th while caching with us today!
  15. Cool, thanks. I may be coming back to DE on April 20-21 so if I miss on this time I'll get it the next.
  16. I am going to be in your area on March 20-21 (just me and not the rest of my family). I am staying in Baltimore but driving to/from there. (Ironically I was supposed to be in RI and posted a similar thread in the New England forum, but now I'm going to be there in early April for a couple of days). I'm looking to find at least one cache in MD and one in DE to add those states to my list of states cached, completing a "gap" from day one of caching on our map since we first cached while visiting a family member in NC and did virtuals in VA and DC on the way back, not thinking it would be years before any of us traveled to these two states again. While I don't mind if one of them is a micro and actually do prefer to do ones I could find somewhat quickly and easily, I'd like at least one to be one big enough that I could move TB's or coins to and give them mileage. Suggestions appreciated, but am not going to have much time (probably just the afternoon of the 20th) so no "Psycho Urban" caches or anything similarly tricky and/or long please (I know this is Vinny and Sue territory ) Also, if there are any "rest area" caches on I-95 in DE or MD (or the NJ turnpike south of exit 7A, I have done all the ones north of it in the past) along the way would be nice to know. Looking forward to any suggetions you may have, thanks.
  17. Didn't they sponsor a WWFM event (in Babylon I think) last fall? I know some Long Islanders also are now involved in the newer Metro New York Geocaching Society (which basically covers NYC, Westchester and Rockland Counties, maybe Putnam County, NY as well), but since many cachers from Long Island also find caches in this area (and vice versa), they kind of complement each other.
  18. Local (Bronx/lower Westchester County) FTF hound Behistun had his 1000th find recently.
  19. Had some misses on the notifications too.
  20. All of our condolences! Though I don't have a dog at a moment (though I spent a lot of time with my mom's dog who only lives 2 miles from me), I am quite a dog (and animal) lover.....had 3 dogs during the course of my childhood, and spent the last 15 years until recently working for a consulting firm to the animal shelter industry. RIP Bailey, you're in our thoughts.
  21. I wholeheartedly agree. But all of this means nothing if Kevtel is not on this forum reading it. Maybe someone who's familiar with his caches should tip him off to this forum with an email or something? Personally (especially with a risky parking lot hide), I WELCOME it when people correct my coords. I want some bit of challenge but I don't want someone going so crazy that they go somewhere gross or hang around so long that they'll produce obvious trouble with the law.
  22. Allowing virtual waypoints? Like they can control the posting of coordinates on a website. There is a little something called the First Amendment that comes into play. A ban on virtual caches would be like a ban on tourism guides. I think Groundspeak is trying to play nice with the NPS in hopes of getting on their good side, but the NPS has no authority whatsoever to deny permission for a virtual waypoint. True, and I'm with you on that, but (though I doubt this would happen, we're not THAT big a group) if some NPS site like that somehow got unusually higher traffic in a way that looks suspicious or that potentially damages the site (though I can't imagine a virtual doing that) and after a couple of people are questioned by park personnel they each show a geocaching printout or something, I could imagine them trying to take lawsuit or other action against Groundspeak, so that may be why TPTB bend over backwards to "play nice".
  23. Personally, I think an NPS exception for virtuals (just like there's an exception for Earthcaches to be back at GC.com, which is really a "virtual" in my view....are Earthcaches in NPS allowed, I'm curious?) should be, but nonetheless, I like your idea, Keystone, especially that of a container behind the desk at the visitors center. A "virtual multi" ending with this would be a great cache tour of a National Park, something like this was very fun and successful as a tour of Philadelphia during the King Tut exhibit at the Franklin Institute there (OK that one did work a little different, most of the stops were actually physical caches, but there was a cache that involved doing this at the city tourist office). Thanks for thinking up a reasonable alternate, would be nice if NPS agrees, I think it's "win win".
  24. OK I tried that and it works now, thanks.
  25. I tried IE 7.0, Firefox, Safari, Opera and Google Chrome and the above problem seems to be limited to IE 6.0. Very strange. In a different rant, I tried to enter my GPS (I actually use a Garmin Forerunner 205 for caching....it's quite accurate with the latest SiRF chip and very convenient on my wrist) and it wasn't an option. My "backup GPS", an old Lowrance IWay 100M, wasn't listed either. So I put my broken (probably forever) Lowrance iFinder Go2 in just to test it. But it doesn't give me an option to show "no GPS" anymore so I'm stuck showing this as my GPS. I realize that many GPSr's are only used for caching "obscurely", but couldn't there be an "Other" option, preferably with the ability to type in one's GPSr? I find this frustrating because unless they see my description of our GPS devices in our profile, viewers will think I still use the Go2.
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