bthomas
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Anything cute or useful, especially if pristine in appearance.
Write your name in Sharpie on the back of the bug. Scuff a corner of it and scratch it up. Have an info tag-- it adds bulk that takes up space in a pocket, glovebox, desk pencil drawer, or nightstand. Have the word GAME appear of the info tag... some people will try to be sporting and fair.
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Oh, and the chicken is 6 inches tip to tail, 2 inches more in the leg. It's rubber, and has a fun squishy filling.
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It's whatever you choose. Some bug hunters will grind all of bug numbers at an event. Although I've been a top bug hunter, I'll usually just trade even or 2 for 1 if there's extras (as there often are at events). I might 'note' a few more bugs and grind their numbers, if they are interesting bugs.
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Goodness! 1500 caches to choose from. There are a string of walkable/ pedicartable/ trolleyable caches along the Embarcadero.
Just a note about bug-safe caches in San Francisco...
YABA Treasure GCEC8, in a garden box at Fort Mason headquarters, is particularly safe.
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=3784
Sounds by the Bay GC30CB, with an on-water view of Alcatraz and the Golden Gate, has been surprisingly good for micro TB's. It's last log was DNF by a 16 finder, but it is well concealed and has been visited 200 times; it's helpful to know which wall to sit on.
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Way to go, Pepper!!!
Nice shade, too.
Remember to vacation in your old home area, to collect many of your next 1000.
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The Mojave is a big place, but not too big for the mileage you indicate. If you have a couple days, you can even make a triangle out of LA, Palm Springs, and Vegas.
Pee Wee Desert Lawn Jockey is north of Palm Springs and Joshua Tree, and requires a high clearance vehicle and a willingness to scramble up a rock.
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...d2-bfa0489a19a4
Joshua Tree is interesting in it's own right, and has clear night skies.
The mysterious Desert Phone Booth is outta the way, and has been physically removed by the Federal govt, but it's story remains. http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=2273
If you do a little research you may find alternative Desert Phone Booths for you to place as a cache.
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Es Effo Bug Hotel GCBC09 is up again, but at a new location 150 feet NW. Happy trails and travels, folks. And Holidaze!
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I've used it to plot pieces of a 1941 B-17 wreck that broke up in flight. The tracking also allowed me to come out of the dense forest canopy and find the car at the roadend.
I have used it as an altimeter on Sierra peaks, and the values are pretty good.
Often, on the car dashboard it serves as a centrifugal force detector.
Sometimes when I need extra exercise, I'll leave the GPS on the ground at the cache, and walk away and drive off. I get really motivated to hustle back to pick up the thing.
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They cached back when it was a one a day thing, and now on those rare days when it's only one a day... they're probably along too. Teens.
Probably again, when we go mushrooming.
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I'm delighted to report finding a century old BM in Northern California, next to the Golden Gate Bridge at an 1890's gun emplacement. The enclosure required bailing out, and until I wiped away the mud, I thought the flush bottom was empty or just a chisel cross. But the metal BM was there with the date on it-- 1892 ! Old BM's are seemingly rare in this state.
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Flashlight
Cup
Mars candy bar
SPAM
Package of boxers
Handgun
and $750,000
Wait, this is not my pack! Who's is it?
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2400 for caches, but probably with 5-8% being dupes. Travel bugs, probably 800 to 1000 more pix.
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Too much time on hands, puzzlemasters? How about working out some math thing with this?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?...&type=printable
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Grasshopper, there is a cycle of life for baggies. When the unbagged traveller is ziplocked, it continues along it's journey, hermetically safe for a few caches. But after a while, the seal fouls and holes appear in the polyethylene. Soon, the traveller finds nature again. At some point, the baggie seam rips, and the traveller walks out into the sunshine.
Then it's time for a new bag!
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Thanks Miss Jenn, I just finished it. The GPS aspects are ficticious, however. We all know the battery in the GPS dies just as we get homed in. And with multi's, invariably, one of the middle waypoints goes MIA. Time to go read the prequel
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Imagine that: People that go out into the rain looking for tuperware and film cannisters... having too much time on their hands.
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There are other complete threads on this subject, with really good lists.
However, for today, the fanny pack has:
GPS w/ AA lithium bats
2 drained AA NiMH bats
Camera w/ AA NiMH bats
One pen I'll loose w/in 20 caches, and one pen I won't
Small plastic animals and a Buckingham Palace guy
Bandaids, sting wipe, poison oak wipe
Food bar
Rolled up rain hat
Cellular phone
Flashlight at hand: 3D Maglite in vehicle
Weather this week: occasional rain showers, temp 55 F.
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In Las Vegas, Picture This was a utility trailer in the parking lot. It was recently archived, though.
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...0f-8348a62eab85
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Just a note: Es Effo Bug Hotel is off-line for a few days, and removed, while I figure out what to do with regards to the current landscaping project. One year old at the end of this month, and it's had over 100 visits.
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On the Strip,
Sin City Micro GC8F7F is not a virtual but a micro; fun rolls by every 3 minutes, too.
Watch that first step GC68E7 is worth a few bucks just to watch airplanes flying below.
Toga Party GCB0EB is my fun photo-virt. Please do stop by.
Welcome to Las Vegas GC729A is another postcard opportunity.
Helms Deep GCE6C5 in North Vegas is a great location for an epic movie.
Red Rocks are pretty, and close to town. We didn't do Deep Down Body Thirst.
FRED FLINTSTONE WORKED HERE GCA1FB we did do in Red Rocks.
Hoover Dam Virtual GC54CD is worth the drive, and Boulder City has caches along the way.
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How about framing a wallet photo of your father and send it traveling? Ask cachers to post photos, as a postcard to home. And when you see a nice place to travel, grab that hat and go.
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This is one of the best topic threads to appear in quite a while. It certainly has grown since I read it on the first day, and I must be forgiven for not looking at each thing covered. Mea culpa, if I'm redundant.
Geocaching is about hiding things, and about people with coordinates finding those things-- only people with the coords. Geocaching is by nature, a secretive activity. Geocaching is not an organized activity.
Organization leads to standing and to infrastructure improvements. Bicyclists of the 1890's successfully lobbied for spending on paved roads to replace mud; 100 years later they lobbied for an extra lane on the new causeway. In some of our parks, today, there's a group of people that throw plastic around the place and tramp up hillsides, but they have standing thanks to their Disc Golf Association. Our brethren the Orienteers run on trail and off trail with permission, because they have organization and liability coverage, terms that land managers understand.
If geocaching were an organized activity, there would be a chartered organizing body with rules bearing the power of law and/or sanction. There'd be a U.S. Geocaching Assn and a World Federation of Geocaching. There would be lobbying and advocacy, whenever the Association's interest was put into question. There would be a conduct of progress in furthering the legitimacy of the activity. Sure there's a GC.com, but it's just a listing service with TPTB and some posting rules. Heck, there isn't even a leaderboard. I don't believe any resources go towards either liability or advocacy.
A consequence, geocaching is not in the legal lexicon of most municipalities or federal jurisdictions, and there is little standing in a due process. Geocaching is placed at the mercy of a bureaucratic process. As Criminal and others have noted, bureaucracies tend to have an institutional behavior of avoid-action, duck and cover.
And that's what we should do: duck and cover. Go hide something for others to find. For those people not in on the secret, don't ask, don't tell. Me, I'm just hiding a diary out there. It's not litter.
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Cemeteries must be a sub-specialization of mine... I've found or placed 40 to 50 cemetery caches. Rural caches are often tupers hidden along the inside perimeter of the fence, or film micros placed up in a tree. Urban caches ditto, but safe from landscapers, more often protected as an offset multi based on a tombstone math calculation. Actual family plots, of course, are a private space. Remember to state the hours for cemeteries that lock the gates at night.
Besides use for the departed, cemeteries are made for the living to visit. They are often placed atop a hill with a contemplative view, are groomed with landscaping and stately trees, and are decorated with carved ornamentation and architecture. They are rich in history and geneological information. Some stones even have poetry for visitors to read.
Cemeteries have administrators, a board of directors or owners, and grounds rules. It is readily observed that the placement of mementos and tributes is common practice.
PS: Yes, there are topic threads on cemeteries available for searching.
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Happy Turkey and Family Festivity Day, Pepper! Hope you are out today, post-Turkey, enjoying caching outdoors in the great Northwest.
What's Your Worst Geo-injury
in General geocaching topics
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Last March I ripped a band of calf muscles sprinting up a steep ramp of brick pavers on a trail at GC3907. http://www.geocaching.com/seek/gallery.asp...1f-0acdc6128ab8
It was 2 days after a 40-plus caching day through a dozen towns, with 400 miles of driving and clutching. Blew out the left calf, and so I iced it and didn't cache that week. Limped through drive-ups and 0.1 mile foot drags for a few weeks, but was back at 100 per month form in about 4 weeks. The treking pole really helped me think about walking form after that.