Ish-n-Isha
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To IronMaiden:
Ni! Ni!
I guess they'll never get that one either......
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Yes kudos on the #300. It can be difficult when you have a spouse that isnt quite as thrilled about caching as you are. Ah, well mother-in-laws that like to cache can help relieve that huh?
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Its easier to change a username than it is a double standard.
There is no double standard. Travel Bugs are not approved (as has been pointed out several times in this topic). Unless someone reports it or makes a forum topic about it then it most likely will go on with that name until it is reported. If it were left as is after being reported then there may be a double standard, but the site emailed the user as soon as it was pointed out.
This all may be a previously unknown flaw in the system, but it is hardly a double standard.
Unless COADMIN HIMSELF, emailed the Tbug owner (Which he didnt), and asked to correct the Tbug name at the SAME time as Duane was edited without notification, there is a double standard.
In this case the TBug was the disease and duanes post the symptom. It is catagorically a double standard for COADMIN to edit Duane and leave the origional offending Tbug problem to be taken care of by Mtn-Man AFTER a stink is raised in the forums.
Travel Bugs are not approved (as has been pointed out several times in this topic). Unless someone reports it or makes a forum topic about it then it most likely will go on with that name until it is reported.
Obviously COADMIN saw Duanes post and the Tbug at the same time AND failed to address the TBug issue with equal timeliness and concern.
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Note if you multiply the ratio of Seattle cache density to the Quincy area cache density, that gives them equivalent of 11,468 finds!!
The gas bill proves that theory to be just about right.....
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The Lincoln Memorial, Jefferson Memorial, Washington Memorial, Monticello etc. would all make good and at least some are virtuals.
Ummm.. those that are were probably approved long ago. These days I don't think they would be. At least I wouldn't.
I look for things that are unique and compelling. A monument that every tourist is going to see anyways doth not a virtual make. A good virtual is one that is going to show you something awesome that isn't on the normal tour brochures.
UH?
The essence of caching whether virt or tradional is expressed in the words we have ALL read in logs. "But for geocaching", I would not have taken the time to go here..... that is it. So what if its a tourist destination. Many times a cache there is what is needed to TAKE THE TIME to go see stuff you never otherwise would.
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If all the great spots are taken why blame a newbie if they want to place a cache in the best of what's left? Why punish them for their original idea that you have seen before? Placing a lame cache takes more work than finding a lame cache.
TBTB were not forced to make any decision whatsoever. Forced is a strong term. It's like someone had a gun to their head. They chose. They chose to limit virtuals and they chose to allow "lame" traditionals. I support the latter decision. I don't support the former.
I also do not agree that only the good ones get through or that only the bad ones are not approved. It's subjective decision each and every time. Something approvers should not have to deal with. The only thing they should be asking is if the answer is something that can't be found on the internet with an easy search. But then approvers are not TBTB they work for them. They might have a stronger power of suggestion but they can be 'fired' for whatever that means for not following the company line.
What he said..........................and said SOOOOO well!
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Hand? No......Find cache? yes.......
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Ha, ha ha. Don't laugh...my husband has always wanted to make a rock climbing cache. Maybe someday he will. Then everyone would have to schedule a time to come with us so that we could help.
Castle Rock is a toughie. I think it is quite easy to get to, but I can see how it could be quite hard for others. Everyone is different in thier physical agility. I didn't want my cache discription to make it sound like it was too hard, so that no one goes to it, yet at the same time, someone could think it was simple and get partway up and not be able to complete it.
Maybe after a couple of people have gone to it, they can tell others what they think.
I KNOW that Ish-n-Isha can do it. Maybe this Saturday, huh? It would only take you an hour or so!
You mean your not going up with us???
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The 23rd we will be in Spokane but should be back in time.
Also, I have been speaking to some locals here about a day trip to Yakima sometime soon. Hopefully some sunday when Barnabirdy(s) can come so they can find all the hard micros down there for us all in 5 min!
I specifically asked Flyboy and Slomann about it since I know they always wanted a big day but never can get around to it themselves. If it was a scheduled once in a lifetime thing they might get their wives to let them go!
Weekends are tight for us through the end of may since we have a daughter graduating, so sing out what Sunday might work for you and post it here.
Also some car-pooling might be arranged. I can take at least 2 others, 3 if Isha is hung up doing something else. Actually I have space for more depending on what car I take and how close you like to sit!
Ish-n-Isha
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98848=1 and its ours.
Are we seeing a correlation between people with losts of finds and caches yet???
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WoW! Looks like you logged the lamest cache in the world! Congrats!
I thought the whole point of geocaching was to get you outside and away from your home or office.
No.... its ridiculing people you dont even know or so I've seen
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I am kinda confused about someone's comment that the cache placer lives 1000 miles away (so most of their finds are in California), but yet the cache placer says that the cache is only 1 mile away from his home. Perhaps he moved...perhaps he has 2 homes.
If that's the case, why wouldn't he have more finds around his second (or new) home in Colorado?
The reason is.......on second thought,.......none of your dahm bizness, maybe
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There are hundreds, if not thousands, of impressively constructed cache pages where during the search for the cache it becomes abundently clear that the cache owner put so much thought and effort into creating their cache page that none was left when it came time to assemble and place the actual cache.
Amen.
Sometimes the impressive cache pages lead you to think the quality of the hide is as well done as the cache page.
More than once we have been to a cache that had a fancy webpage only to find a plastic can thrown in the middle of a sagebrush.
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<snip> my gf, aka "Psycho Woman" say's ........<snip>"
WOW!! Sorry Bud.....but caching in a dress has got to be rough. Find your meat sphere's wherever she hid them and try and swim upstream to a reasonable compromise.
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With the problems with the control sticks on the etrex series and not being able to please everyone with button placement on other GPSr's, The next logical revolution in personal GPS is touch screen technology (like a PDA) No more cycleing through screens to get to the one you want.
A Garmin 60CS with 128 meg memory and a touch screen would do nicely.
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Dr Nelli appreciates the subtil approach so here is what you do.
Fire up your sock puppet account, Log a find then stake out the area and when she goes to check, FOLLOW HER TO THE CACHE!
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As Fen Dweller grows weaker, I grow stronger. Your game is amusing to me, and it should keep my meat sack full. I will hide one of your caches and you, like sheep to the slaughter, will come to me.
Tremble in the face of the dawn of Ellylidan, I am wraith and I am legion.
To Fen: Do not look for me; I shall watch your humiliation from afar. Do not attempt to tangle with us; I am much stronger now. I will be as merciless as you were.
All my love,
Ellylidan
Ellylidan?... Ellylidan, isn't that a smelly kind of a cheese???????
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I will give away 50 pieces of 35 mm film canisters (can be picked up at our home in cold Sweden
) to the person that can offend me in anyway... Good luck 
Too good a challenge to resist!
Anyway here is my try.Oscar was the village idiot in Norway. He was so "off" they made him leave the country. One day 20 years later, he shows up in the same town that had thrown him out 20 years before. Everyone in town asked, "What have you been doing all these years Oscar?" "Vell", he said, "I vent to Sveeden and zey mak me a professor at zee University in Schtokholm!"
What do you think? Maybe just a little?
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Take me back, before it was all so complicated
Before it was so much work to have fun
Back to when I could play like a child as an adult
Before glass was deadly and inanimate boxes animate
Take me way back to the beginning
When a cache could accommodate a cut-in-half pencil
When the forests were safe enough on their own
Without the wise telling me how to do it safer
Remember that? Remember when it was fun?
Nobody was going to sue me for their own ineptitude
Nobody told me how to make my fun funner
Nobody helped me understand what I understood
Were you there when it was young and new?
Were you taken unknowingly to fun exciting places?
Did someone peak your curiosity in a place you never knew?
Did the view take your breath away?
Do you remember why you started to play?
Your first cache, your first cache faux pas?
And the world continued to turn nonetheless
Take me back, please, before I say Fudge the whole thing...
I have never more agreed with you than now. After reading the first page of posts its clear the concept you were waxong so elequently about sailed over more than a few heads.
Again, DITTOS and well said.
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We just came back from a trip to Maui and as we were checking in and going through security I had the chance to explain Geocaching to the Airport security. I had a belt pack I usually use that contains batteries a micro or 2 ect. and I had forgotten a cache I had made to be used in a series I had done called The Wylde Life. The theme was bison capsules in duck decoys anchored in a pond or Pidgeons in a tree ect. Well one that I never got around to was a micro hidden inside of a .410 shotgun shell (expended) and a piece of foam in the end to keep the thing in.
I watched their eyebrows rise
as they pulled that out of my bag durring an inspection. I got to meet their supervisor and get put on the National Homeland Security Database! OH JOY! They gave me a warning and said if it happened again I would get a large fine!
How many of you have made it on THIS elite list?????
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Bless you!
Thats better, and so much faster than an email to garmin! Again, many thanks! 
Closing thread
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You know the tab lists on the left side of City Select software? The ones where you can hit the tab for waypoints or routes or maps and see how many megs of maps you have selected? Its gone and I cant get it back. I have read the help files and they are no help. Can you guys help?
Thanks
Ish
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I simply change the batteries on my Vista while in my car and plugged into the cigarette lighter power cord. You'll never have to re-calibrate.
Re-calibrating increases the accuracy. Unless you carry a declination map with you a Silva wont be as good as a Electronic GPSr compass. A GPSr knows where you are and knows the correct ajustments.
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Think of the extra cost as a donation to Groundspeak/Geocaching.com.
Think of it as a trip to the proctologist!
) to the person that can offend me in anyway... Good luck 
Anyway here is my try.
as they pulled that out of my bag durring an inspection. I got to meet their supervisor 
Thats better, and so much faster than an email to garmin! Again, many thanks! 
Garminz
in GPS technology and devices
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It couldnt possibly be that was because the 'gellin actually DID lose signal first, could it????