Sioneva
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One of the forum signatures that cracked me up:
"If you want to score points on some geeky Internet game, for going places, play FourSquare"
I would agree with that one. The geocaching that I know and love is not a geeky internet game. It is a challenging outdoor game.
It's not?
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I guess I ask the question because I live in an area where the caches are few and far between and I've been considering hiding some. Being near a major north/south interstate I-29 I'm hoping it will draw some cachers in to look for them. I'd really like to try to help get the density of numbers up in western Iowa so I may just hide a few and see what happens.
If you hide it, I will come find it.
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The Iowa geocache approver will not knowingly approve any cache made to look like electrical equipment. If it is already approved and brought to their attention, it is promptly archived.
For some reason, lamp post skirt caches seem to be exempt from this policy. Arrrg!
I didn't think we had approvers. Well, I'm sure the reviewers do approve of a great many of the caches they review. But their job is to review, not approve, caches.
I'm Sioneva, and I approve this post.
(but not of the general idea expressed in the OP)
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A good laugh every now and then is a GREAT thing! Thank you!!
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I don't live in Texas... but now I'm getting nervous. I have a cache about 10 feet from the edge of a ravine. I warn people in the description about the drop and that it should not be hunted at night, but suddenly I have visions of lawsuits dancing in my head.
*sigh*
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I recently listened to an old podcast of Geocaching Podcast where they interviewed someone from OC. This person made it sound like you could import all your find from this site to theirs. My question is if you did that wouldn't they then have to list those caches. They made it sound like that and that it was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
It was their way of stealing this site's data to jumpstart their site. To make it even more attractive they even let you upload your find counts from here. It's obvious that Garmin was trying to ease a hoped for mass migration to their site.
how so?
How so, what?
I think that it is obvious to all that Garmin added the import feature for one reason, and one reason alone... to play catch-up. What other possible reason could there be?
Ah, they are offering Groundspeak a data backup service?
It's a partial, perpetually out of date mirror with a few extra caches.
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I registered my user name on OC a while ago, just out of paranoia, and every now and then I check in on their forums. They're getting better at dealing with the cache-piracy issues, but they need to improve their track record on stopping them from happening in the first place.
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BUT... This alien head trail doesn't fit the BLM's definition of "existing trail."
Sure it does. Looks something like this...
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Here's something pretty interesting I found while looking up BLM stuff for Nevada. Turns out they found some dinosaur tracks in Red Rock Canyon a few days back!
No, sorry, those were mine... I was running out of time while caching the area, and someone suggested I make tracks.
So I did.
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Am I too late? Can I get my IBTL in in time?
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wth did my post go?
i thought posts never get deleted unless there's special circumstances
do i need to repeat it all again?
No. No, you don't need to.
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My toe broke today. Now, some things are supposed to break, like fevers and wishbones, but my toe is not a fever or a wishbone.
It was hit by a falling metal chair. Now, I'm sure some things are supposed to be hit by metal chairs, though for the life of me, I can't think what, but I'm pretty sure my toe isn't one of those things.
Why should I get this coin? I think metal owes me one, and the coin is decidely metal. But I promise to be nicer to it than it was to me. I won't make a chair out of it.
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This is ridiculous.
Agreed. While I expected some pretty ridiculous arguments defending those folks who opted to drive from cache to cache, it was rather surprising to see the degree of disdain displayed toward those who expressed a love of our Earth.
Send in the clowns cows!
They'll do more damage than all the cachers put together, but as long as it's not people, I guess it's okay, or something like that.
You know what, they probably will. But what you and others aren't getting is that land managers in other areas don't deal with cows, they deal with people.
It is their perception of geocachers that is the issue. How can we get you people to understand that?
How can we get you people to realize that the future of geocaching as we know it is at risk? This isn't Chicken Little. If we are perceived by land managers as a high impact sport our days of largely unfettered access to public lands are numbered.
Maybe you numbers hounds don't give a clam's patootie because you'll still be able to rack up your smileys driving from guardrail to guardrail (unless you live in Virginia), but those of us who enjoy backcountry caches have a big dog in this fight because we want to be able to continue to enjoy them. You folk are just not seeing the big picture.
Yep, real numbers hound here... 2000 caches since 2006. I've never done a powertrail, never plan to, but yeah, chalk me up as one of "those people" if it makes it easier for you. Whatever. But I'm not hearing the land managers squawking, just a bunch of cachers.
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This is ridiculous.
Agreed. While I expected some pretty ridiculous arguments defending those folks who opted to drive from cache to cache, it was rather surprising to see the degree of disdain displayed toward those who expressed a love of our Earth.
Send in the clowns cows!
They'll do more damage than all the cachers put together, but as long as it's not people, I guess it's okay, or something like that.
Do they? Can you (or anyone) show visual evidence of damage that has been done by grazing cows that is visible from space? I think a photo of an area where cow grazing is allowed and of an area near by where it isn't that should demonstrate that damaging effects of grazing. I suspect we're not going to see such evidence but I'm willing to be shown otherwise.
Let's see... number of plants killed by cars following the same two tire tracks, vs number of plants killed by cattle running over the desert freely... Dust and impact on ground from cars following the same two tire tracks, vs dust and impact on ground from cattle running over the desert freely... Think about it.
The whole "viewable from space" thing is pretty silly. If people ranged freely without following previous tire tracks, they'd do a lot more damage, at least to plants, but none of it would be visible from space.
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This is ridiculous.
Agreed. While I expected some pretty ridiculous arguments defending those folks who opted to drive from cache to cache, it was rather surprising to see the degree of disdain displayed toward those who expressed a love of our Earth.
Send in the clowns cows!
They'll do more damage than all the cachers put together, but as long as it's not people, I guess it's okay, or something like that.
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This is ridiculous.
Look, why doesn't someone who is out in Nevada just drive a herd of cattle over the Alien Head area? Since it's open grazing land, and that is allowed by the BLM, just use the cattle to obliterate the disputed tire tracks, and probably a lot of the caches. The CO can then go out and replace the caches, and in a year, we can rinse and repeat.
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Just making sure I understand this. We have what, three pages on a forum entry showing this rule being CLEARLY defied.....
(The defacement or destruction is visible on a low res jpeg image taken from SPACE.....)4. Geocache placements do not deface or destroy public or private property.but, the rules/reviewers have an issue with people wanting to honor our military veterans? Or, since the celebratory tone of the post I'm referencing...
We did it, geocachers! Take a bow!...it almost looks like this cache series had/has an agenda of CLEARLY defying a rule, and potentially making geocaching harder for all of us by doing so, I can only assume this entire series is awaiting archival now, by one of our astute reviewers.
Just a note: the person who started the thread about that series was not the owner of the series, and had hit the sarcasm juice hard that day. Yes, he/she was being very sarcastic, not serious.
And no, regardless of what you think of the series, the agenda was never to "CLEARLY defy a rule". It was to create a power trail.
End note.
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True... but they are virtuals are they not? Perhaps the requirments could be used much like answering the questions in the old virts? To the best of my knowledge there doesn't appear to be any limitations on types of caches say waterfalls, springs and others.
I don't think soliciting for other geocaching sites is a good idea. Just saying.
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Hey guys. There are no answers. Who said GS has to be consistent? I still believe that GS doesn't believe that ECs are "mainstream" geocaches, but they are sort of an oddity. Kinda like someone's crazy uncle. If you dig far enough in the forum archives, you can find where photos can be still be required for an EC log under certain circumstances. It not clear as to what those circumstances are. At the time of the discussion it was as clear as looking through a foot thick block of sandstone. I guess GSA got out voted by GS. Who knows. This is one of the reasons I have sort of given up on developing ECs. I hate inconsistency.
I gave up on the photo argument a long time ago!
I fully understand… It seems that since the 1st of this year many EC issues, have been made as clear as 18 lb. drilling mud and the only consistency is inconsistency itself. Many cachers in my area are disappointed w/developing ECs and as a result have given up. If it wasn’t for the positive responses I’ve received, I too would have done so as well. So, as of now I’m truly sitting on the fence w/ECs.
I’ve caught wind of something known a Opencaching, perhaps it’s time to look into it a bit more?
Opencaching doesn't have earthcaches. 99% of the caches listed on it are copied from this site anyway.. it's an incomplete, imperfect clone of this site.
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Actually, I like to call them swaggering, overbearing, tin-plated, dictators with delusions of godhood.
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I can get behind this. Harry Potter is gross and so is anybody who likes it.
So, if I happen to like Harry Potter, you are calling me gross?
I'm not calling you gross. You *are* gross.
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I don't like the English system of measurement and I don't like to get involved in anything that have something to do with ... with them dozen dozens thingies. Thats why I am starting the INITIATIVE AGAINST THE TERM GROSS.
I hope there are others who think like me.
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Last year, at my Christmas event, I had 12 geocoins as doorprizes. I put each of them in a bag, along with a slip of paper with one of the verses from "The 12 days of Christmas". All the winner had to line up and sing, or in one case, sign, their own verse as they wound through the song. Sounds simple, but it was a blast.
Well, there go my geek street creds! What do I do now??
Welcome back. Chill out.
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You do? I didn't know that the google maps were a premium member only perk. They were available to all users whether you paid or not.