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    frs

    in General geocaching topics

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    Just a note - I have found the low powered FRS radios to be nearly useless if you get so much as a small hill or pile of boulders between the 2 radios. Even a few hundred feet apart. The stated 2 mile range is only under ideal circumstances. In most of the areas I cache - they are worthless. (I used to use a pair of the Garmin Rino units)

    I have a few of the older Motorola units with subchannels, and have never had any issues using them. i've seen close to 2 miles on the highway, with hills and trees in the way. I've also have never had an issue like starbrand has had with being a few hundred feet apart and boulders or a hill in between. I'm not sure why, but my units are over 2 years old, and maybe the newer units are not as good? Maybe it's the batteries?

    Winter Camping?

    in Northeast

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    Mainly, my face is cold but no way to keep that warm without suffocating :rolleyes:

    Just take a hand towel with you and cover your face with it. You will be suprised how warm it will keep your face compared to not using one.

    Manunka Chunk Tunnels

    in Northeast

    Posted · Edited by Guyute1210

    This one will take you through an old R&R tunnel. I've been through that tunnel, and the one on the other side of the trestle. This one is a nice dry (other than dripping water), and has a great view. Train Trestle Falls

     

    That one looks like a blast. Maybe if I ever get to Jersey, I'll look that one up!

    Do you check your logs?

    in General geocaching topics

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    I just took my online list and compared it to what was online. I found at least 2 that were supicious, and didn't see their sig in my log. One person only has ~4 finds, so i don't think they cache anymore, but the other one that looked really suspicious, the person has over 3000 finds. I believe they did at least a drive by of the cache site, but never got out of their car to get the cache and sign the log. I will be deleting them in the next few days. If your name is not in the log, it's not a find. It does not bother me to delete bogus finds.

    How Many Pennsylvanians Are Here?

    in Northeast

    Posted · Edited by Guyute1210

    I was recently out in the Pittsburgh are and picked up a couple caribiners with a key ring and attached was a 1 x 4 inch piece of stainless or aluminum that had "Pensylvania Geocacher" cut out of the metal. It is also numbered. I can not find out anything about these, or if they should be logged. They would make a nice key chain. Do you have any info on these?

     

    jipsi59

    Those keychains are made by "PA - Drifter" They are his sig item. He is a steel worker and hand makes them himself. They are awesome. He places one at each cache he visits, and his cache count is the number you found. His first 100 just said Pennsylvania Geocacher on rectangle piece of stainless, but his new style for 101+ says the same thing, but is shaped like the State.

     

    Here is his profile that also has pics of his keychains.

    http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?guid=67...fa-34de52992e98

    Cache Blown Up Again

    in General geocaching topics

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    I wonder if it is time to edit the listing guidelines again. PVC pipe caches are a bad idea and perhaps they should be banned altogether. I don't think anyone would miss finding a PVC pipe cache. It is controversial to single out a container type but IMHO hiding a pipe cache is as bad as hiding a cache next to the railroad tracks or government building. Who seriously thinks it is a good idea to allow pipe caches to be hidden these days?

     

    Most cachers don't read the forums so they don't see the monthly reports of bomb squads acting on caches. The guidelines mention labeling the container. However, I couldn't find anything in the guidelines recommending against the use of containers that look like a security risk. Of course, a Lock-n-Lock could be explosive...

     

    The public must think we're a bunch of idiots for hiding dangerous-looking objects just to play our game. Why risk giving geocaching bad PR by allowing pipe caches?

     

    See the problem is, I don't think that all PVC pipe caches are bad and look like a bomb. I found one last weekend that was PVC pipe hung on a rope down a well 75ft or so. i don't think that this particular cache could use any other container other than PVC pipe. It's also one of my favorite finds to date.

    Error looking at cache pages

    in Website

    Posted · Edited by Guyute1210

    I went back and looked at my email, and the GUID wasn't split on two lines, but it was carrying over the 21mi distance from the second line.

    2. (GCZVF3) Cooperstown's Eternal Rest (Casemt Site 11)  (Traditional Cache)
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Date: 12/16/2006
Posted by: casemt
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=df23133a-4da3-4574-be8b-4f7518c49a3d
21mi NW (33.9km NW)

     

    you can see this in my above post where the link shows 21mi after the end of the GUID. This is probably either an error with my email (gmail) or the email generator, but I think your question is more valid as to why they don't use the GC number anyway. Oddly enough, the carryover of the link into the distance only happens on some of the links generated.

    Error looking at cache pages

    in Website

    Posted

    I get this searching by GC#

    XML Parsing Error: no element found
Location: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GCZVF3&Submit6=Go
Line Number 1, Column 1:

     

    I get this clicking on the link in the Weekly Notification:

    XML Parsing Error: no element found
Location: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=df23133a-4da3-4574-be8b-4f7518c49a3d21mi
Line Number 1, Column 1:

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