Boojum

Ok, so I am am very biased on this, since I haven't cached all over the NW. But there are so many caches (173 within 10 miles of city center, 260 within 20 miles) with an assortment of traditional, micros, virtuals, puzzles, multis. Difficulties and terrains of all ratings. A multitude of settings from urban to suburb parks to deep forest (Forest Park is over 5000 acres and wonderful!) The cachers in the area are great people to gather with. What more can you ask for?

quote:Originally posted by yumitori: Incidently, I truly appreciate your kind way of insulting large groups of people, most of whom you cannot possibly have met. Ron/yumitori, who has no trouble whatsoever distinguishing between reality and fantasy, thank you very much... Oh sorry, I forgot to include that they have very little sense of humor. Ok, while most SCAers are actually pretty cool, there are those who take it waaay to seriously. Kingdoms where the king actually thinks he has absolute power, groups where women are treated very badly, and even groups who have slavery. And this is supposed to be fun for all???

Are you sure they aren't just left over "feed your head" bubbles from The Game? I know I have dropped a few off here and there.

quote:Originally posted by The Quantum Mechanic:Woulda been better with a few coldies tho. Its cold enough outside! I think you must have meant it would have been better with a few hotties.

maybe if we are really lucky the meteor shower will burn away the clouds! then again, maybe that wouldn't be so lucky...

quote:Originally posted by Lazyboy & Mitey Mite:So you'd prefer they cut down healthy trees? We aren't going to use any less wood just because of fires you know. No I don't prefer cutting down the healthy trees with wild abandon. There actually is such a thing as careful, controlled, and sustainable logging. What it includes is taking into account the impact to the ecosystem and minimizing this impact. Part of that ecosystem is burned trees. You stated that not logging these trees would be a waste. It is not. There are many benefits to leaving burned trees in the forest. Go read the web sites referred to in prefious posts. Some of them may be salvage logged if done properly, but any remaining provide value to the regrowing forest.

Leaving burned trees in the forest is not wasting the wood. Humans are not the only creatures that can get benefits from them. Burned trees are an essential part of a healthy forest

mandelbrot yeti times-new roman nichtdortseiend Team Oregone! snark ramen washingtonne (you would have to move) or you could go with your current avatar Dr. Strangelove (for slinger91, that's Peter Sellers) or Merwerdich-liebe

Now I think I know who it is!

It may leave out many fine caches, but for simplicity of gameplay, multi-caches should probably be excluded. After all, unless you go by the coordinates listed on the cache page, how will people know for sure whose territory the hot potato is in?

I agree with Oregone, and would go one step further and say that I don't think you should count this as a find I know you don't like to hear this, but you aren't even 100% sure you were at the right place.

This seemed like such a perfect place to hid it too. I suppose with all the high schoolers wandering these woods, it may be difficult to find a hiding place where one of them won't stumble across it.

quote:Originally posted by The Quantum Mechanic: quote:I personally think that all of those bmw-driving, mansion-owning, freeway-loving, mall-shopping, four-car-garage-owning, magellan-using, nature-park-loving, tree-hugging, PBR-disliking, cow-tipping, frequent-flying, veal-eating, intel-working, hair-dying, child-having, corgi-owning, button-pushing, hawaii-vacationing, digital-cable-subscribing, pseudo-CALIFORNIANS that describe themselves as living west of the Willamette don't have a chance against us non-hyphen-using eastsiders. don't make me offer examples as to why. all rights reserved, all wrongs reversed Now I'm being insulted! I would never own a corgi. Isn't a corgi one of those little cast-iron toy cars from the UK? Corgi If that's what you mean, then I do own some Star Trek corgis That would bring my total from the list to 4. And we all know that most of the caches are on the west side to give the east-siders an excuse to get away for a few hours. And how many caches can you hide in chestnut trees along those house filled streets anyway?

As I read the rules, the larger number of caches on the west side should be a disadvantage to the west siders... you are trying to keep the potato in the opposing team's area as long as possible. As a west sider, I don't mind this at all... after all, we are the better cachers I also don't see why so much of WA would be included... only the 'couv area! Don't want to wander too far away from home

GOO - Geocachers Of Oregon POGO - Portland Oregon Geocaching Organization PIG - Portlanders Interested in Geocaching PAGAN - Portland Area Geocaching AssociatioN OREGON - Oregon REgional Geocaching OrganizatioN PREGERS - Portland REgional GeocachERS and, of course, ORIGAMI - ORegonians Into Geocaching And Malt Intoxicants

quote:Originally posted by falcospav:See, I hang with a science fiction crowd, and in THAT subculture, outsiders are called "mundanes". Come hang out at a science fiction convention (a REAL fan-organized event, not some Trek CreationCon for-profit thing, thank you) and you may find some SF fans playing "freak the mundanes". "Mundanes" seems to have traveled to SF cons by way of the SCA attendees, most of whom can't distinguish between fact and fantasy... but that's another matter. We like to call the CreationCons "Ferengi Cons." It fits well with Trek and for-profit.

quote:Originally posted by falcospav:See, I hang with a science fiction crowd, and in THAT subculture, outsiders are called "mundanes". Come hang out at a science fiction convention (a REAL fan-organized event, not some Trek CreationCon for-profit thing, thank you) and you may find some SF fans playing "freak the mundanes". "Mundanes" seems to have traveled to SF cons by way of the SCA attendees, most of whom can't distinguish between fact and fantasy... but that's another matter. We like to call the CreationCons "Ferengi Cons." It fits well with Trek and for-profit.

Very cool! I'll be keeping my eyes and grabby hands open for one of these. Do you know when some unknown person will be releasing these into the world?

Very cool! I'll be keeping my eyes and grabby hands open for one of these. Do you know when some unknown person will be releasing these into the world?

You can always wrap your marbles in lead to avoid any pesky radiation detectors. Why does that sound wrong, somehow?

You can always wrap your marbles in lead to avoid any pesky radiation detectors. Why does that sound wrong, somehow?

quote:Originally posted by John E Cache: quote:Originally posted by fractal:Hey.. You're right! It does kinda look like the green evil thing in 'Heavy Metal.' -fractal For days I have been trying to think of the movie your marbles reminded me of. How about Starman? Didn't he carry a green marble?See the cover: http://us.imdb.com/Title?0088172 Nah... Starman had a silver marble. Heavy Metal is the closest movie I can think of... Hey fractal, do these grow and shrink and contain evil influences? [This message was edited by Boojum on October 05, 2002 at 08:38 PM.]

quote:Originally posted by John E Cache: quote:Originally posted by fractal:Hey.. You're right! It does kinda look like the green evil thing in 'Heavy Metal.' -fractal For days I have been trying to think of the movie your marbles reminded me of. How about Starman? Didn't he carry a green marble?See the cover: http://us.imdb.com/Title?0088172 Nah... Starman had a silver marble. Heavy Metal is the closest movie I can think of... Hey fractal, do these grow and shrink and contain evil influences? [This message was edited by Boojum on October 05, 2002 at 08:38 PM.]

The 330 is a nice GPSr... I've enjoyed mine on 2 continents! May it serve you well. Just for the record, which side of the river do you call home?

The 330 is a nice GPSr... I've enjoyed mine on 2 continents! May it serve you well. Just for the record, which side of the river do you call home?