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  1. Any suggestions for camping areas around Seattle? I plan on going up and doing some caching and go to Mariners games. I am looking for wooded area with some caches nearby yet within about 20 miles of driving for the Mariners games. Any suggestion *(links)
  2. Awhile back, matt and laura, and myself along with some others started to get some eastside event caches going and then everyone got burned out. I havent heard from Matt and Laura for awhile and westy crew now lives in another state. So a new team needs to be organized for Eastside caching events. So who has any ideas? When would be a good time for an event? Camping at oxbow would be fun, the elk meadows cache is one of the best caches around. Past events have been at the brewery in downtown gresham, as well as Edgefield Mcmenanims, and their was a big picnic at Lewis and Clark State park planned with the gorge cachers that was allot of fun too. Lewis and Clark park out in Troutdale could be fun for a day event/picnic as their is enough room for all kinds of activities including lots of lamp posts for people that like lamp post caches and the park is family/pet friendly. EASTSIDE OF PORTLAND OREGON
  3. This brings back memories of when there was discussion on the forums about Young Wesley Crusher from ST:TNG (will weaton SP)....it turns out he is a geocacher .
  4. I was cleaning out some old boxes the other day and ran across a bunch of Tgunsten Jihad Silver Dollar's that I found years ago. Everyone used to rush out to get his signature item around here....we would watch his finds each day for updates...I knew I had a problem when I was out at 2 AM searching for a cache he logged just so I could gather more of his signature items only to find someone else had beat me too it with a time stamp of 1 am on the log book. I do not know if he geocaches anymore as my interest waned in geocaching for some time....but I am contemplating releasing the 8 I have back out into the wild with travel bugs or something.
  5. Does anyone have any recommendations for San Juan Islands (orcas Island) around moran state park for geocaches...I am going to be there this wednesday thru friday for camping and want to get some geocaches...I already have a couple of them..but am thinking I want to visit friday harbor also to find some and see the scenery.
  6. Dont give him your cell phone number....You will just get calls at 3 am with a heavy breather on the phone.
  7. Okay who's hoarding the links for all the nightime caches in the portland area? Used to be able to search relatively easy through all the caches in the portland area...but it seems that there has been an explosion of activity in cache placements in the last 3 years.
  8. this is where I go to get my ammo cans....they are dirt cheap.......I bought 50 of the standard size for a buck apiece there about 2 years back. Even got the big round ones for 4 bucks each...this place rocks....you can even buy the shells of helicopters there. but just saw that pdxmarathonman said it went out of business....dont know of any other surplus stores around here now....the few small ones went out of business also...1 of them on 82nd is now a convenience store...I stopped and got a coke there the other day.
  9. Team misguided is correct.......with my porsche cache....it was very very very very very very very very very very very very frustrating getting that one approved.....I think I beat my head against the wall atleast 45000 times over that one. Jeremy is very peculiar about commercial caches.....once you find a spot....your best bet is to get in contact with whomever approves for your area........when I did it...the approvers were sporadic and I had to submit my listing a bunch of times before it was finally approved... I find the best way is while you trying to get approval...take a deep breath occasionaly and remember Jeremy runs a for profit business..and if you owned it, you would want a piece of the pie of someone using your product/service for their gain.
  10. OMG this topic just rocks. I went and did a multi ummm east of me (and this is the reason why I tend to veer clear of multis unless they are on my homepage).. Went and dug around for almost 2 hours looking for the cache. Finally deciphered the clue and it said Under a boulder This was in the old remnants of a rock quarry.........there were boulders for a quarter mile in each direction.
  11. After reading pages of this stuff...This is the funniest dadgum one out of them all...ROFL @ the knuckleheads signing the velcro.
  12. Roughly translated, the cache is missing. Spreading deceit to Europe even in other languages this is still funny
  13. I love to read about the unusual and interesting stories, logs, hunts, adventures etc. They dont even have to be related to hunting caches. Do you have any stories that are not in another forum topic (I find the same stories posted multiple times all the time) ...I want to see the wierd hunting tales.
  14. Syn

    Custom Geocoins

    I would like to make a custom personalized geocoin ro release and coincide with the 5/5 MHCC mutimania Part Deux that I am working on. IF you have a custom geocoin (pdxmarathonman wink wink), show us some pictures of them so I can steal your best design ideas. So far I have come up with something that has a picture of a jackass on one side and the other ?? Why the jackass, just read my forum posts and responses and you will see why it is the animal that represents me the most. and for those that are wondering...I was at MHCC today for a good chunk of the day searching hi and low and found an absolutely wicked spot and came up with some ideas for some wicked puzzles to unleash on your noggin.
  15. Hey cfn ..long time no talk..... We were looking for the brown rope because we wanted to go into an "established" way in the whole. And yes I did bring my own rope but was looking for the old brown rope or any remnants of it. We checked, double checked, and triple checked every viewpoint there was...I indeed remember the area you are referring too and there is no brown rope or remnants left of it anymore. That area held a little more promise in looks to get inside but we all 3 concurred that there was a drop off at the bottom into the whole...was hard to see because the light was starting to fade at the point that we got back up there to check the upper part. I had 8 geocaches planned for the day but hunting for those slowly slipped as time was lost on a distant logging road.
  16. Interesting choice of words, because your entire post looks like a big kneejerk flame of the WSGA to me. The dialogue between the WSGA and WA State Park system began to stop them from following the lead of the National Park system and some other state park systems that ban geocaching altogether. The entire post...no I dont get to the WSGA until the second half of the post...the first post is criticizing the decision of a government agency to try and limit people's activities on Public and People owned land. It's obviously apparent that the entire thing was created by an attorney for them and has so much red tape attached to it....it is not even worth placing a cache there. You wait and see...there will be stories of people that have to pay restoration costs and it will ruin them financially. The directive is a bunch of BS. The parks are owned by the public and their salaries are paid by the public. I could see justifying a directive for permission for things that are done in the woods for obvious threats to the woods such as 4x4'ing, but for geocachers....OH no...we walk in find something and walk out. Seems to me like I dont need to do my homework since my entire premise is based upon my feelings that the lands are owned by the public and that geogachers dont negatively impact the environment as a whole. We already have enough rules and regulations to go by from jeremy...last thing we need is more layers of beauracracy (sp) on top of that. I am wondering if the people at day use or parking permit areas have to apply for an application to get one and sign a ton of forms in triplicate to assure the park service they will pay for any damages or liability before they are allowed to go into the woods. *edit by moderator to fix broken quotes. They annoy me.*
  17. I think these are both examples of hyperbole. The parks people don’t know it was geocachers that tore up any stumps, we usually won’t even look for a cache when there’s an audience, so they don’t have any (even circumstantial) evidence it was. Geocachers don’t destroy the cache hiding spot looking for it, that would just make it harder for them to re-hide it afterward. I have a cache in the National Forest along a trail where dirt bikes are allowed. When the trail was blocked by several deadfalls, the dirt bikers carved big ruts in the forest floor driving around them. My point all along has been that we shouldn’t be so quick to accept the new rules. The parks people will give us permits because, as a group, we’re easy to pin down and apparently quite willing to accept liability. I don’t think any of us are against reasonable rules as a fall-back for the few times when common sense fails, but I will never accept restrictive rules, permits, and liability while the parks turn a blind eye to all the other, more destructive, users. If they don’t want us, we pull our caches and start writing letters. They would have a hard time justifying a ban on geocaches (a really silly and harmless game if you think about it) to their superiors given our impact verses the impact of almost every other user. I have hunted allot of caches...more than my account says I have (big mess awhile back where allot of my finds were lost by the system, and I dont even log them all anyway). I have searched thousands of stumps and have never tore one apart. It is pretty easy to look in a stump without ripping it apart and I seriously doubt any cachers go around breaking stumps apart to find a geocache. You look inside, if there is something covering something then lift it up..poke with a stick. You know I think it is just ridiculous that we are supposed to go out with the kid gloves on into the forests. They are forests...I have seen more damage done by non geocachers..dumping, spiking trees, cutting down trees, 4x4'ing......even animals themselves make trails. Geocachers for the most part are responsible people that hike in, find something, pick up some trash from other people that cause more damage to the woods, and then leave. Are they going to reimburse us for our time and liability of picking up the trash of others? I just dont understand, maybe I spend too much time in the woods and see places where they have grown back over trails etc......I have never negatively iimpacted the woods....things grow over, grow back, restore themselves. ALl I know is Lewis and Clark are problably rolling over in their graves over this fee to do what we do in the woods thing..... This is the same government that allows industries to pollute, and dadgum up the rivers and wreak havoc on the environment.....WHich coincidentally, Lewis and CLark are problably still rolling in their graves over Memaloose Island.
  18. Yikes Hydneseek......That would be enough to make me crap myself. During my burnout times of geocaching...I go and rehike my favorite areas that I find to explore more and enjoy the areas again. There was one particular cache area that I went back too and didnt have my dog with me who usually went most of the time on my cache hunts (too old now-so he stays at home), and I came around a corner and there was some guy sitting there on the ground ..I thought he was dead..but he was meditating right in the middle of the trail. I Jumped nearly ten feet out of my skin when I did see him though. Ever since I saw blair witch project (dammmmmmmit--I hate those types of movies I should have never seen it), well whenever I get into an area that looks like something in the movie...i feel like someone is watching me and I get goosebumps all over....Yes I know it is completly silly but it is still there nonetheless. That part in the movie where there are stick figures on the trees....well I did a cache in a nature park in woodburn before I saw the movie and there were things like that in the park on the trees....I didnt think anything of it because it was around the time the movie came out....but after I saw the movie I went straight back to thinking about those...I woulda been so freaked out. I wound up getting turned around backwards getting out of there anyway and freaked myself out. I think I am getting old, I went from No Fear to carrying a knife on most cache hunts to packing a sidearm on remote cache hunts.
  19. Wow I am glad I dont live in Washington. My recommendation is to yank all your caches you have placed on state land and thumb your nose at them. Stick to federal land. I am reading about stump damage....how is a stump that is rotting out in the woods and getting eaten up by termites being damaged? I find it utterly ridiculous, absurd, shocking, and downright discpicable (sp) that they would require permission for geocaches and then charge for it on top of that. After reading how a geocacher would be liable for whatever happens to the area after the cache is placed made my jaw hit the floor. With all the ambulance chaser attorneys out there and all the free payday mcdonalds coffee spilling people.....I would never place a cache in Washington or ever consider doing it again. I think the rangers are forgetting who they serve...the public...the entire public, and geocachers are more than just geocachers in the state parks...they are hikers, atv'ers, bikers, etc etc and whatever. I also liked some of the writing....they reserve the right to ban placement of caches if their resources dont allow it......their resources dont allow them to do allot of things........Like they have the funds available to have someone go around checking caches all year long all over the state. Shouldnt they be doing other things with their time..or do they just sit around all day wishing they had more work on their plates. This is just an attempt to distance themselves from any liability ......it is barely falling short of requiring anyone that steps foot on state land to sign a waiver which is what they should do to apply this ridiculous rules across the board. Seems to me from what I have read that the organization of geocachers in washington pushed for this...should have just left it alone. When you go and seek approval from the state or fed's for something that you dont need it for in the first place (since it is public lands and can be used for public use)..then this would have never even have come up. They have always had a dont ask dont tell policy, dont bother me and we wont bother you... afraid you have opened up a can of worms that can never be closed. So while your all pulling your caches because you dont want to be sued (which is the reason a private property owner puts up a fence) .....remember....WSGA opened pandora's box for you. Sure I will get flamed big time over this...but oh well.....I never was known for not pulling punches.
  20. OLD BROWN ROPE ..BAH......I found none...3 sets of eyes searching for an hour and a half covering a very wide area...could find no brown rope and no area to descend into the hole. Please people that have been there ...put the coordinates of where you descended from....... If I coulda I would picked up the entire hell hole and drop kick it off the nearest cliff ...i was pretty ticked off for wasting an entire day on nothing...felt like I was living a seinfeld marathon.
  21. I have been questioned by the police several times. I only have a couple caches left out there ..but in the past whenever I placed a new cache..I started getting into the habit of emailing the chief of police for the town with the area and coordinates that the cache was in......in each email I would link geocaching.com with a small explanation of what caching is and then update them on another cache location. The former chief of police for gresham has actually sent me emails back....but they have a new one now and i havent placed any new caches lately. Although I am planning on spending most of wednesday to bring my MHCC multimania cache back online. I have been gone too long...the burnout I had from caching is finally over.
  22. I would not recommend shooting anywhere along 212/224....unless you are way out past estacada...it is too heavily populated to shoot anywhere along there. There may be old rock quarries on mt hood where you can shoot. Mt Hood is notorious for people calling the rangers immedietly when they hear gun fire...there are allot of tree huggers that report gunshot..especially shotgun shots because they think people are illegaly hunting. Also Mt hood national forest is very very very occupied most of the year by people enjoying the forest....Your best bet would be to go to Mt st helens ..there are tons of places to shoot there. And it is hunting season so you also run the risk of being blamed for illegal hunting. I would recommend the portland gun club off of powell towards 181st in gresham almost.
  23. Syn

    Oregon hell hole

    foudn it nevermind
  24. Syn

    Oregon hell hole

    I have searched 10 different ways over the last week and cant find the topic discussion on the Oregon Hell Hole...I have wanted to go there ever since the location was discovered in the forums......I was planning on going tomorrow morning... Does anyone have the link to the when it was being discussed in the forums...and does anyone know if the geocache that was planted there is still there...and if not if there are any there now. Please help...I'm ready to pull my hair out over this.
  25. Okay I had to go through today and delete about 8 finds on caches that I archived back in 2003 and 2004. I understand that some people take time to log a find for a month or two, I have been guilty of that myself...but lately I have been getting logs from people for caches that are long since archived and gone. I can understand if some people simply forget to log them and find whatever years later to log them, but I cant verify from a log page that they were there....I dont keep the log pages for that long. I dont know any other way to verify that they were there without a log page if they dont have any pictures of being there with the cache. I simply apply the same rule across the board, I must verify that you were there according to the log (barring theft or destruction of the log--then it is honor policy, but even then I only hold open the open log season for a couple months before I delete logs) How do you handle logs that are way after the fact that a cache was archived? I just had to delete one that was almost 3 years after the fact tonight.
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