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scavok

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  1. I have a cache in an awesome location that I would like people to see, the cache has been around for a while but since it is a puzzle cache it doesn't get very many visitors. Would it be OK for me to change it to a normal cache even though some people have actually found it? Does this happen a lot or..?
  2. Mine is pretty good. I'm a student. I live in a fairly active geocaching area with hundreds of caches around. For me personally, my best studying is done while sitting outside. Under a tree or on a hill with a view. So between classes or after class I take my backpack (full of geocaching stuff as well as school supplies) and find a distant fun mountain cache with a couple of micros on the way. I get my sunshine, my geocaching and my homework done all at once. That says something about caching, I've always been a troubled student, but since doing my college studying outdoors rather than in the stuffy library my GPA is now 3.8.
  3. Not my idea, I think I saw it on a t-shirt or something but I absolutely love it! Geocaching - Taking advantage of multibillion dollar military satellites in order to find tupperware in the woods.
  4. If you are in need of a laptop, I would be willing to trade. Or this laptop is for sale for $450 Toshiba Satellite Laptop 13" LCD Screen 1.5GHz Intel Processor 512MB RAM 18GB Hard Drive DVD/CD ROM Comes with WindowsXP, system startup disks and AC Adapter/Charger If you throw in any GPSr accessories for the 60cs(x), or for an extra $75, I'll also include the black leather professional laptop carrier (huge, has room for external drives and everything) that I paid $120 for and is in great condition.
  5. If you are in need of a laptop, I would be willing to trade. I am trying to sell it in order to buy that exact GPSr. Toshiba Satellite Laptop 13" LCD Screen 1.5GHz Intel Processor 512MB RAM 18GB Hard Drive DVD/CD ROM Comes with WindowsXP, system startup disks and AC Adapter/Charger If you throw in any extras you have, I'll also include the black leather professional laptop carrier (huge, has room for external drives and everything) that I paid $120 for and is in great condition.
  6. If you are in need of a laptop, I would be willing to trade. I am trying to sell it in order to buy that exact GPSr. Toshiba Satellite Laptop 13" LCD Screen 1.5GHz Intel Processor 512MB RAM 18GB Hard Drive DVD/CD ROM Comes with WindowsXP, system startup disks and AC Adapter/Charger If you throw in a navigation kit, I'll also include the black leather professional laptop carrier (huge, has room for external drives and everything) that I paid $120 for and is in great condition.
  7. rei.com has them on sale for 299.93!!
  8. 98) You have to think outside the box in order to find it. 99) Pine trees are one of very few things that can be pokey and sticky 100) Finding a cache and hearing some one shout "What are you doing over there?!" produce the exact same amount of adrenaline.
  9. Well female anyway... I vote for my dog. Just don't tell my wife (: My dog is proof that you shouldn't put food into containers or make a cache out of used tupperware/coffee cans/chew cans/etc. She will dig them out before I even get started looking. Occasionally she finds a cache simply because the owner (or recent finder) is a smoker.
  10. I dunno, you can't judge a book by its cover. Nor a cache by its title. I would bet that it got published because there was a good enough explaination in the reviewer note which probably means it is ok. I understand the whole family friendly aspect but really is it that bad? I see worse in the grafitti on the way to perfectly acceptable caches...
  11. I have considered gift certificates as FTF prizes or a thank you for an especially fun cache but I think expecting people to trade accordingly would be setting yourself up for disappointment. I think a gift certificate is an awesome thing to place in a cache, especially something gc related. REI, or some other sports or army surplus store.
  12. Ooo yea. I know I'm still considered a newby but even in the hundred+ caches found, I have still had my share of crappy ones. Just because it is difficult doens't make it frustrating. But you said it best, a lot of work for a very un-special hide is just not fun.
  13. This is my pup, Sami. She's a young one and I often take her out with me. I'll get all excited and tell her "Go get it!! Where'd it go, Sami??!" I don't think she has any idea what the heck she is actually looking for but she goes nuts poking around digging through leaves and eventually comes up with the cache if she doens't come across something dead (and much tastier) first.
  14. I put together my cache, placed it, then created the page on the site but did not want it to be published yet (I was waiting for a specific cacher to come back to town for a chance at the FTF prize) so I unchecked that box so that a reviewer couldn't see it yet. Now it's ready, do I just edit the listing and check the box and 'submit' or how do I get it reviewed now?
  15. IMHO kik arse! Very nice
  16. I name all of my caches with my name in them ie... Scavok 03 (Micro in a Micro) Scavok 04 (Shakin like a Rock) Scavok 05 (a-typical multi) I have noticed that finding a cache gets easier or more interesting if you find a lot of others hidden by the same person. My GPSr doesn't store the name of the hider so I appreciate when others put their name in the title as well. just my 2 cents
  17. Just a quick reply to say that this kind of selling on eBay gives that wonderful company a bad rep and it really ticks me off. No matter how good a deal it is in whole, I will never buy something for less than a buck that has 10x that amount in shipping. I reported it. I know it ended already but in the future they will see this user had been reported before. So lets wait and see what they do, maybe it can prevent this from this guy in the future.
  18. In the northglenn, thornton, westminster, brighton, wheatridge (all pretty much the same spot) area. All are low terrain and short walk, if any, but are clever hides that you will enjoy very much. Mondo's Log this Cache! by Mondou2 (GCMXCF) Mondo's Bull!!! by mondou2 (GCVQ0Y) This ain't no Puzzle Cache by AtoZ (GCVFBZ) - this one is a short walk next to a lake JW's Fish Tale by Didtoo (GCQYM6) Boulder Overlook by IWCOTTON (GC7B0B) - a virtual cache that is worth the 25 min drive. Enjoy the view driving to the cache from US-36 and then looking back at the city from the cache. Very Nice. Dry Creek Micro by MICHAEL-RAY (GCM8DH) Mondo's Shopping Cache by mondou2 (GCKWGH) - This one does require a fair amount of walking but it takes you clue by clue through the mall so you can stop and rest/shop as you go. Denver Overlook Cache by AgentK12 (GCHMWT) - short walk up a small hill but the view of the city with the mountains behind it is great! In my short caching history these are my fave's. Enjoy!
  19. Silica Gel Packets, anyone? http://www.veritemp.com/index.asp?sections...&prodid=1251745 Edit to add: I have noticed in my ammo can hide that if it was last found on a damp day and I go out to check on it on a dry cold morning, the inside feels damp to me. I know the gasket on it is good because it feels the same even after a downpour. It just seems to keep the moisture from passing the gasket in either direction.
  20. <rant> I'm still trying to figure out how some reviewer would approve 1) a cache that is placed in the bushes within a sensitive Biological Preserve maintained by California State Parks - who has a strict policy against Geocaches; 2) within 350 feet of an already existing cache that is NOT within that same park/preserve; and 3) placed by cachers that hide caches in areas where they don't live and don't hunt caches. I hate to be ugly about that, but WTF? When I visit an area I don't live in, even if I drive there once a month, I can't get permission to place a cache. If, or more likely WHEN the CSP discovers the cache, who do you think is going to take a hit to the eye for this? Um, not the people who placed it... they don't even participate anymore, and no one can get them to respond to emails. No, it will be Geocaching as whole. </end vitriolic blatantly condemning rant - for now> BEMs is right. Maybe I am wrong, I still consider myself a newby, but if a cache is in an area where it is obviosly not allowed , wouldn't that justify it be archived when reported by a finder, or even just picked up and taken by a finder when they realize where it is? Quick edit to add: Obviously taking a cache is generally frowned upon, but sacrificing a (dangerous/illegal) cache to save a bit of geocaching-as-a-whole's reputation would be worth it, no?
  21. IMHO I must disagree, I go to the movies or hang out at school "just to get out of the house", but enjoying nature at its fullest requires an hour's drive so I don't get to enjoy it everytime I get out of the house. I'm still trying to think of a a way to phrase my phisosophy for caching, I'll get it soon edit: typo
  22. ha ha ha, shouldn't that be in the 'evil hides' category very orginal!
  23. Email received from Michael (LaPaglia): ------------------------------------------------- In this case, the hole was there before you got there and you made use of an existing hole so it is fine. The problem we run into is that there are people who will dig a whole one week and then come back the next and "find" an existing hole to use for their cache. It is very hard to totally control the hiding of caches below ground level as we do not physically check the placement of each cache. We depend on the finders to let us know if a cache is hidden in a way that is against the guidelines. Thank you for asking. Your cache placement is fine. Michael -------------------------------------------------
  24. Email Sent: ------------------------------------------------------------ Publisher LaPaglia, This may already have been called to your attention by other cachers, but I have been asked to contact you concerning the validity of my claims that my cache is placed correctly according to the rules on geocaching.com. The final stage of my multi is a large ammo can placed in a hole that was dug with a shovel. The hole was in fact dug with a shovel but was not dug for the purpose of hiding the cache. The hole was dug by students of the nearby college taking dirt samples sometime last spring. There are many of these holes around the cache site. Some believe that since it is in a man made hole that it should not be allowed. I feel that since the rules say "If a shovel, trowel or other “pointy” object is used to dig, whether ****in order to hide**** or to find the cache, then it is not appropriate", and that this hole was not dug for the purpose of hiding the cache, it should be allowed just as all caches hidden in fake drain caps and other below-surface-but-not-buried caches are hidden. But as you are the publisher it is up to you If you decide to not allow it, I would like to know how I can appeal to have the rules modified to specify this kind of situation since I know of (in my short caching history) at least a dozen caches of this kind in my immediate area, the owners of which should be notified that they need to modify their caches. Thank You, SCAVOK ------------------------------------------------------------ I will post the reply when I receive it. Since my cache is currently disabled anyway (because of my class going out into the field again, proven by the posts in the cache page from some cachers I ran into), I will wait to see if I can place it back in its hiding spot or to toss it into that thorny natural hole I mentioned
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