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I never put spoilers in my logs, but remember, the website does say directly above the logs: "Warning. Spoilers may be included in the descriptions or links." When I first started caching, because of that statement I would always check the logs, pictures, and descriptions for hints (I still do). That statement is a full-on invitation for people to write spoilers in their logs. Just a thought. Greg

You moved my cheese! But it's a good thing. Sorry about shoving the message outside this thread. Heh. Greg

This morning with my pocket query I noticed that a 2nd file was attached, 374233-wpts.gpx. Inside was a waypoint for the 2nd stage of a multicache! The first stage is GCT67N, the 2nd stage is PRT67N. When was this change put into effect? It's nice. Greg

The water's receded enough? I drive across on I-5 every day and it's still up pretty high. Greg

I placed a cache in the middle of last week near work. I used some tree branches to hide the cache, with explicit instructions to camo the cache as good as they found it. I wasn't there on Friday due to a funeral. On Thursday, the person I would have expected to get FTF says he spent 40 minutes looking for it and finally gave up, but would be back soon to look again. FTF was on Friday. So was second, third, & fourth. Over the weekend, 3 or 4 more people found it. On Monday I decided to go check it out. I saw the cache from 50 feet away, it was just sitting in plain view on top of a branch. No camo to speak of, and if a breese had come by, it surely would have fallen into the brush below. I put it back where I originally had it, camo'ed in a similar fashion. Two more people have found it since then. So how often does this happen? Should I just forget about people having the courtesy of putting things the way they were originally? Did I ask too much of the cachers? Greg

My only question is this: how many caches have you found that Kevin Bacon has found? Greg

Today I copied pictures from an Alaskan fishing trip my boss took from the digital camera to the computer. Looking at one picture where he was standing in front of his catches, there were some fallen trees in the background. When I looked at the picture the first thing I thought was, "It's gotta be in the fallen trees." I gotta stop. Greg

Problem solved: Carry your 'clicker' and one key on one key ring, and another key (along with your house/etc. keys) on another. It's almost impossible to get locked out that way. (Plus my wife has keys to my car in her purse.) And magnetic key holders do have purposes other than geocache containers. a little OT, but only if you enjoy a false sense of security and the subsequent crushing of hopes when you realize--when it's needed--that the magnetic key holder fell off on one of your trips through the car wash or a bouncy off-road jaunt. A spare door key wrapped in plastic and WIRED to the frame of the car or a bolt on the bumper is much more secure--and easily hidden. Why not attach the keys to the GPS? Greg

It looks like your firewall (EZ Security) is blocking port 6667. Go into the software and tell it to open port 6667. Greg

Yup, that's exactly the point. Many urban legends have their origins in the truth but get lost in the telling along the way. The earmark of an urban legend, though, is it's always a friend of a friend. Also if you confront the teller, 9 times out of 10 they'll tell you "no really, it did happen" because they trust the teller. My own mom is one of the guiltiest people like this. I originally heard some of the most famous ones from her, when she was telling them to me as a kid and really believed them, like the actress who got a splinter in her hand but never took it out only to die of a spinter in her heart 10 years later... it's on snopes. Or the Proctor & Gamble ones, good god. Anyway, sorry if I offended. I generally point them out so people won't continue telling the same stories over and over, thinking they're true when they're not. Greg

Not to disrespect your mom, but remember, urban legends are always a friend of a friend, or in this case, a friend of your mom. Nobody ever seems to know the person first-hand. http://www.snopes.com/embarrass/accident/skier.asp Greg

If this has been covered before, fine, but doing a search for "search disabled" just got complaint messages... As an alternative to the disabled search, you can use Google. The way I do it, I run the Google Bar, go to the main forum page, enter the search term in the bar and select "Search Current Site". If that's too tough, go to Google and enter the following as a search term: site:forums.Groundspeak.com <term> That's it. It works quite nicely. Greg

Sounds dumb, but you sure it wasn't a "1cm" container, as in one centimeter? Greg

BTW, thank you for not deleting my pictures from Williard the Geocache Part II. I worked hard on those. Greg

I'm a photographer by trade, and look at it as an art to take a picture of the location without giving away the location. Like this: and this Greg

When I was a Royal Ranger, caching didn't exist. I'm sure letterboxing did, but we didn't do anything like that. The mention of RR makes me smile. I still have a few pins in a drawer. Thank you for reminding me. Greg

Thanks for the kind words. I'm not QUITE the newbie I once was. I've been using PQ's on the borrowed Vista, so I'm well aware of how neat they are. One feature I do wish for though is once the query is generated, to have it cached until the next one is generated, downloadable. That way they'd be at least a bit more accessible. I had maybe 300 waypoints saved on the borrowed Vista, covering both the areas I live in & work in. Once I got the C, I used EasyGPS to export my waypoints and import them into the new Vista. If all goes well I'm expecting to place my first cache this weekend. We'll see how that goes! It's been a lot of fun but there are some areas that are a little sparse for caches. I also noticed the Vista-C's base map isn't as detailed as the Vista one was. I'm presuming that's because it has the capability of storing maps without losing the base, unlike the Vista. I plan on getting City Select, to be sure! Greg

Now is as good a time as any to make my first post. I've been caching with a borrowed Garmin eTrex Vista for the past month, but just bought a Vista-C. I gotta tell ya, it's MUCH faster than the Vista in terms of menu navigation and manual waypoint entry. I've only played with it this morning but so far it's really good. Do I have a point? Not really, other than to say hi, I'm out there, I almost have 50 caches now, and I'll be placing a new cache pretty soon. Thanks guys. Greg