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Congrats Mark!

I use my ignore list mostly to 'hide' caches from PQ's when I am using a PQ to download the 'recently found' caches in an area I will soon be travelling to. As a result, it frequently ends up with 100+ caches in it by the time the trip is over - each of which, currently, must be manually selected for deletion. I think a 'clear list' would be handy to quickly clear the ignore list, it might be handy for other bookmark types as well.

I suspect they may be gone then - as the one in Bremerton disappeared a year or so back. (No surprise for that one - they'd shifted from (way overpriced) military surplus to random (way overpriced) junk.)

No, I am suggesting that 'getting away' with something (using cell phones in flight), without said usage having been proven safe, is akin to playing Russian Roulette. There may be a million barrels as opposed to the traditional six - but there's still a live bullet in there, and the chances are non-zero of it being under the hammer when you pull the trigger. (That's not to say cumulative effects over time are not possible - I've seen it happen in the systems I worked on in the Navy, only that it's not a likely mechanism in this case.)

Many airplanes flew with fatigue cracks unsuspected - until the top peeled off Aloha Airlines 243. American Airlines changed out many engines without following the approved procedures - until an engine fell off of flight 191. The problems caused by joint rotation in the Shuttle SRB's was known even before Columbia flew the first time - and they got away with it 25 times. (And then Columbia herself was laid low by another thing they'd gotten away with.) All it takes is once.

It works for me too, but not all caches near highways are quick and easy. You still need to manually look at the cache info to determine it's rating. Nope. Download the .gpx in GSAK, filter out the ratings above what you want - then export a .gpx from GSAK and import it into Google Earth to check that the caches are reasonably near exits. I can do a 100 mile route in about 5 minutes. This stuff is easy guys - the tools exist. No need for a new attribute at all.

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The Mythbusters are slightly more reliable than Barney The Dinosaur when it comes to science. If you saw the episode you'll note their utterly unscientific testing of a handfull of cellphone models on a single aircraft model. As a test of aircraft vulnerability to EMI from cellphones, thats about as valid as performing the same test on the same aircraft - but replacing the cellphones with candy bars. The reality is - the chance of EMI interference from a personal electronic device is vanishingly small, but it's not (as near as we can tell) zero. The consequences of such interference however are potentially grave. Therefore, there is no reason to take the risk.

On my bookmark lists, I have the box checked that says: Notify me when items on this list are logged I get emails when the caches are found, notes posted, disabled, etc., just like on a watchlist. You learn something new every day... OK, disregard my earlier post.

200 views a day

A what?? An Iridium Flare.

Somebody who has a cache bookmarked isn't a watcher - he's a bookmarker. The two different features serve two different purposes. Bookmarks let you make a list of caches - but it's a passive list. Watching is an active feature - it sends you emails when there is activity on the cache. I use both depending on what my needs are.

Most folks who use the 'net don't regard trolls as people. By your repeated posting of the same nonsense - what category do you think most readers of this forum categorize you as? Another basic fact of internet usage is that once you release a thread into the wild in a public place, it is no longer yours to control.

Analogies are meant to stimulate discussion, to teach, explain, and illuminate - not merely fill a void on the screen with text. Without analysis and discussion, it's just empty and meaningless words - the OP might as well have simply mashed random keys until he felt he had filled his quota of screenspace for the day. Equally, to be useful for the roles listed above, an analogy must above be relevant - and this one isn't.

Check back through the logs of the cache you found it in, and see if there is a log 'dropping' him into the cache - that's most likely the owner.

Perfect, thanks.

Does anyone have a nice copy of the Travel Bug 'barcode'?

I have the same problem over here on the other side of the Sound - I get island caches and downtown Seattle caches in my PQ's all the time.

The bug in it's final dimensions should end up about 2'x7' - is that too small? I'd hope to use a particular object - but they cost $3.00+ apiece, since I intend to launch ten or more over the next few months, that seems cost prohibitive. The general idea was to keep the dogtag here, and print the number directly on the card - thus avoiding punching a hole in the laminate (and potentially weakening it). That makes perfect sense - I'll have to see if the place doing the laminating (local office megamart) can laminate items that thick.

Looking at the information that Cardinal Red provided - the bus likely sits somewhere near 63°52'2.09"N 149°46'23.78"W. However, the resolution in that area is poor, and the area of buses most likely location is under cloud cover.

I'm pondering a series of bug - but need to keep the costs in check. At the moment I am considering making them of laminated cardstock, about the size of a bookmark. Good idea? Bad idea?

I'm pondering a series of bug - but need to keep the costs in check. At the moment I am considering making them of laminated cardstock, about the size of a bookmark. Good idea? Bad idea?

The few geotrails I've seen were at high traffic caches next to parking lots and alongside roads. Hardly something to worry "foresters". The caches in the backcountry generally don't get enough visits to cause a problem. Being 'near parking or a road' and 'being in an area where geotrails are not desired' are not mutually exclusive attributes. 'In Search Of ...' (GCRN5X), located in the Olympic National Forest has a mild geotrail forming. The 'Un-Original Stash' (GC92), located on private managed forest land has a geotrail. There was a thread in the forums just a few days ago about vegetation being destroyed on a college campus. Several caches near my house in parks or urban trails have geotrails. Not to mention that National Parks/Forests/Etc do in fact have roads across them and parking lots in them... Looking at a map of the park in question (San Jaun National Forest) shows a *highway* bisecting it. (And a casual scan of Google Earth shows at least once cache right off the highway and several more on forest roads.)

There are two major reasons why people hate micros - both easily avoided by the hider. 1) The trick is hide micros where micros are appropriate - I.E. if the location can hold a larger cache, then there should be a larger cache there. 2) Avoid hiding Just Another Micro (I.E. in a shopping center parking lot).

What's negative about telling the truth? Geocachers in fact *do* damage vegetation and leave trails - I've seen it myself. We even have a slang term for it - geotrails. There *are* caches out there with a sodden wad of a logbook and broken McToys. (I.E. Trash/Litter.)