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  1. Deb, That quilt looks fantastic. With all you have going on you've been amazingly quick. The lucky cacher who gets the quilt.

     

    I'm starting on my first quilt. I just went to the store to buy my fabric. I have a church friend who is an avid quilter who is teaching me. I can see it becomes quite addictive.

     

    You are a generous and talented women!!! Thanks for adding an extra special dimension to geocaching.

     

    Chris

  2. Yeah! I finally got them all signed! We had a geocaching event in Massachusetts today and had some geocachers sign to finish up the last few. They look really nice.

     

    I'll send them your way on Monday. Can't wait to see a pic. of the finished quilt. Everybody who signed is really interested and thinks its a great idea.

     

    Thanks for your work and creativity in making geocaching even more fun.

  3. Yeah! I finally got them all signed! We had a geocaching event in Massachusetts today and had some geocachers sign to finish up the last few. They look really nice.

     

    I'll send them your way on Monday. Can't wait to see a pic. of the finished quilt. Everybody who signed is really interested and thinks its a great idea.

     

    Thanks for your work and creativity in making geocaching even more fun.

  4. My son and I did a lengthy multi in a local cemetery. We had to walk through most of the cemetery. My son was 9 and didn't understand cemetery decorum - I was very uncomfortable. He thought it was just another fun geocache. I'm going to skip them in the future.

     

    P.S. An old cemetery with no possiblity of close relatives visitin would be O.K. It intruding on peoples privacy and quiet moments that made me uncomfortable not the graveyard thing.

     

    [This message was edited by Team GeoDat on July 10, 2002 at 06:17 AM.]

  5. I think Not Founds helps others to realize it may be a harder hunt than they originally thought. I often persist when I see Not Founds followed by founds. It just shows me I'm not looking creatively or hard enough.

  6. My young son and his friend found porn too. They were running ahead to check out the cache location and found it laying out ready to be found. This obviously disturbed me (the mother). I got the creeps and almost felt like we were being watched. We left for home and came back another day to finish the cache. I never said anything - do you think I should have sent the cache owner an email? Maybe if he hears from a couple of geocachers about this problem he'd move it. Its a popular park, particularly dog walkers. icon_mad.gif

  7. My young son and his friend found porn too. They were running ahead to check out the cache location and found it laying out ready to be found. This obviously disturbed me (the mother). I got the creeps and almost felt like we were being watched. We left for home and came back another day to finish the cache. I never said anything - do you think I should have sent the cache owner an email? Maybe if he hears from a couple of geocachers about this problem he'd move it. Its a popular park, particularly dog walkers. icon_mad.gif

  8. I use three methods, one is crop until the file size is small, use Photoshop Elements or similiar and save for Web which maximizes the compression for your JPEG pic. You can even play with the compression ratio. Lastly if you are using a digital camera take your pics using a lower resolution. My camera takes a 3mg. quality picture automatically. I've changed the setting to Medium quality and get smaller file sizes.

    Also, I'd search CNET or ZDNET for a free or shareware download that will maximize your JPEG compression. There are probably dozens available at little or no cost.

     

    Hope this helps. I'm no expert. Maybe an expert will chime in.

  9. I agree Brian sometimes I like the quick descriptions. But sometimes and in this case a cache has historical significance that would be totally missed if not explained. In this cache there is an unsolved mystery. The cache takes you to the sights of this mystery and is a 4 mile hike into unknown areas (a rare thing in heavily populated New England). There are also some unusual trail dangers that need to be outlined before someone complains about coming upon something that they were unprepared to deal with or worse were hurt. Its suprising how many edits I've made to keep it under 5000 characters. Next geocache is definately going to be short. This is too much work!!!

     

    I checked out Winds of Fury Markwell's cache he posted earlier. It is a good example of a more involved cache that would be nothing if not explained.

     

    Thanks for everyone's help and replies.

  10. Believe me I have nothing to be proud of if you look at my found counts. But I enjoy looking at others. I think its fun to see who's active, who's really active, and who's obssesed. Its more of a voyeristic pleasure - or maybe its envy - wishing I was out geocaching as much as so-so is. Keep the counts. Its all in good fun even for those of us who will never be competitive.

  11. We were at Grand Teton National Park to spend the day with a Wildlife Biologist observing animals and helping radio track wolfs. We started out at 5:30 am to see Moose. We easily came upon a moose and were told to look the other way. We than saw radio collared Elk and were told to put down our binoculers (they were about 3/10ths of a mile away) and look the other way. The whole day we were FORBIDDEN to look at the animals. His view (and according to him, shared by many in the park service) was that looking at animals was stressing them. They would not mate or fatten up for the winter if they were stressed. Now I'm talking about being far,far away from any animals, in a car, with spotting scopes or binoculars. We spent hundreds of dollars to introduce our children to the magnificent wildlife and parks of the West, we hired an expert who would be sensitive to the environment and teach important skills to us. We spent 12 hours - NOT LOOKING AT ANY ANIMALS. He even pulled over several times to yell at other park visitors who were looking at the animals (and I'm not talking about the idiots in Yellowstone who see how close they can get). His final statement was that the park service will consider closing the parks to people if breeding starts trending down because the animals may be stressed by having people look at them. I do believe there are extremists like him - but thankfully the park and forest service is a big place!

  12. Does that 5000 character count include long and short descriptions or anything else on the page but what I type in the "long description" text box? I'm at 4630 including spaces according to MS Word. But I don't know HTML so I know that the "editors" at geocaching.com add some HTML to make it appear correctly. Do I need to worry? Thanks for the quick replies.

  13. I would love to geocache barefoot but glass and poison ivy prevent this. I suffered from severe Planter Faciitis for years. Than I saw a Dr. who recommended I throw out my shoes, orthotics and any other foot aids and walk and run barefoot as much as possible. I did that religously for a year and finally am cured! I felt stupid and embarrassed running down streets barefoot - but it worked. Now, geocaching barefoot would be great, but their is so much JUNK on the trails I hesitate. What do you do about all the glass and the poison ivy?

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