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Fun, crazy idea/fantasy du jour: Wouldn't it be cool if the folks who manufacture Jeep cars got it in their heads to donate a full-sized, fully-tricked-out, red, white and blue Jeep as the final First Finder prize for this cache series?

I always thought it would be interesting to teach a dog to find dollar bills as well as caches. I figure the dog would find some "is that suppsed to be there?" cash in some public hiding place at least ONCE before it's life is over. Or maybe a stray dollar bill that someone dropped. But if there was a stash of illegal drugs with the money, I'd have to call the cops, since I am sure not messing with THAT stuff.

This is rare and very COOL! They are keeping the location a secret because of vandals. I don't blame them. Is there anyone out there who knows cavers in CA who may have more pics?

That sounds like a gneiss approach to the problem.

Arrrggghhh... accidently hit the enter key while typing the headline... It is SUPPOSED to say "Lynn County, Oregon... a location crying for a geocache" Mods, please fix? Thanks. ----------------------------------------- This location REALLY needs a geocache. Latitude: 44.57627 Longitude: 121.91244

I've been dreaming of owning several acres of land where I'd have fun building THE nuttiest, funnest geocaching course. The ultimate multi-cache to get you laughing as you go. In miniature golf, you hit a ball through a course of various crazy, fun scenarios with a golf ball and club. In my little geocaching park, the funnest ideas I have ever heard on this site (which are actually possible to build) are built into one giant multi-cache site. The land all looks perfectly normal, but at each stage, something goofy and fun happens as a surprise. Maybe some large pipes in the ground you have to go through to get a clue, at least one tree climb leading to a treehouse to solve a puzzle... who knows. One stage I am having fun with in my imagination would place the geocacher at the top of a hill... and there is a dark hole in the ground... and the web page says "Last Stage, Hole in Ground: Yes, you DO have to jump into the hole in the ground. One person at a time. You cannot climb into the hole in the ground. Close your eyes and jump. Seriously." So the geocacher decides "oooookkkkaaayyyy..." Down the rabbit hole he goes... and it turns out to be a hilarious metal slide, like an oversized child's slide, that safely exits him into some REALLY cool location outside for the final cache. Yeah... my imagination goes into overtime sometimes. Actually... all the time... it's a heck of an inner playground. If it were possible to build such a course, what would you want to add to it?

What a cool, white bear! Now if THAT isn't THE classiest possible way to end this story, NUTHIN' is!

My idea was too complex... Crew 153 has provided THE most elegant, simple way of handling it! Why not have search results be sorted by distance to the cacher's home coords? Later, one can have a simple website interface for first sorting by name, then sorting by coords on search results... no problem. Anything more complex than that can be dealt with by PQ's and GPX apps. But that first, VERY basic search idea of having "search by name" come up sorted by home coords - that should be a website function, methinks. Makes too much sense.

Yeah... but what if you live in a very cache-rich area and you are interested in an area range of say, within 400 miles of your location? Still does not work. You could probably hack it with multiple searches with muitiple PQs... but then that just proves my original point of that it all just gets rediculous that way. One should be able to just do a general search from "Hide and Seek A Cache", run the theoretical "narrow down your search" function on the search results page, and there ya go.

No kidding. Pocket queries cannot search by keyword. They limit themselves to 500 results. My search for the word "cave" came up over a thousand search results. Which means if I could do a pocket query, I would have missed over half of what I was really looking for. NOT cool. This is definitely a website-level function that needs to happen... especially for those who are looking for a particular local cache, can't remember the whole name of it, so they put the partial name into the search, which then cannot be narrowed down by location. How about putting a "narrow down this search" section at the bottom of the search-results page? Then you can search by waypoint, nearest cache, etc. there as well, to make sense of the search results.

Just checked out the closest cache's page. They didn't find Ozzy. Ah well..

Looks like nothing's going on... Hey, WAIT a minute...!

So where in pocket queries do you sort by name search first?

I just now decided to do a search for any cache with the word "cave" included in the name. Of course, I got a zillion results. Well, the next thing to do was to be able to find out how many of these caches were relatively close to me. Maybe find a way to make the results come up by distance to my home coords. Can't do that. That's not even possible with Pocket Queries, it seems. Well, THAT is annoying... Groundspeak, I humbly request a "sort search results by distance from home coords" option. Better yet... that and a "sort search results by distance from these coords: ___ ______ ___ ______" Pretty please, Santa Groundspeak? (fluttering eyelashes) Thanks.

AVG works with Thunderbird like a dream. That is how my laptop is set up. Go for it.

I have a musician friend who would love to do a day drive to make spontaneous acoustic music in a nice, large echo-ey tunnel somewhere. Old railroad tunnel would be nice. Maybe something even more creative... like a huge, empty water tank... who knows? Cave, maybe? Anyone have any creative suggestions or locations? The most fun location I ever heard of was a giant cistern in Seattle. The musicians that got to record and play there called it the "Cistern Chapel"

An accomplisment in railroad engineering where a railroad line actually loops over itself thru tunnels: Google map Tehachapi Treasure I love this stuff.

Yes, these are real hills. Journey Through Time: Painted Hills Unit

Nature In Balance

Finally got to Crater Lake Jr. today. Only the second-coolest Oregon cache I have ever experienced. A giant artesian well forming a 60-foot wide, maybe 50 foot deep mini-lake... not quite a pond. It's amazing to look down and see CLIFFS in the water... allllllll the way down... the water is that clear. And COLD, darn cold too... hey, it's water flowing deep inside the earth in mountain country. Those are whole trees at the bottom of the water.

He once told me in email that he has some second thoughts about starting Geocaching because maybe some cacher would get hurt, and that would make it all his fault. My question: does he still feel that way, and if so, why?

I have heard of Marines wearing pantyhose underneath their military clothes to prevent leeches from latching onto them in the jungle, having decided that leeches are a lot worse than the teasing one tough guy would get from wearing pantyhose. Would the same material theoretically make life difficult for a tick?

Question about ticks: If you had slippery skin from having put on a bunch of very oily suntan lotion or something like that, would that make you tick-proof?