Tonsil

Well, Jim, believe it or not, you've entered into three digit land! Congratulations!! I hope that level 2 terrain onthis cache doesn't still have you winded!! Now I know that 100 finds these days is small potatoes for many, but it was a lot of big hills and bad weather and nights in the snow and partially frozen creeks and turning your purple Jeep into a submarine to get to it! From me, my friend: HUZZAH! May I join you past the century mark soon... head on a swivel! ------------------------------ Have you had your house checked for Rae Dawn Chong?

Bring him to me, my preciousssssssss..... I can't wait - we're going to have a blast with this one! I just hope we can "keep him alive" until he reaches Pittsburgh! ------------------------------ Have you had your house checked for Rae Dawn Chong?

I don't even want to know how far you have to travel these days to find a cache! I hope you have a lot of Buffett and Irish drinking songs. Way to go, and thanks again for all of your help! ------------------------------ Have you had your house checked for Rae Dawn Chong?

quote: Can you really do this? I mean will it just show up? No information other than numbers? Yeah, if you just download a bunch of waypoints, then transfer them to your GPS. I personally won't go after a cache without either the sheet, a pda, or a cell phone to bug someone to read the info to me. ------------------------------ Have you had your house checked for Rae Dawn Chong?

Just remember: no manna in caches!!! ------------------------------ Have you had your house checked for Rae Dawn Chong?

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I was wondering if there might be a way to set 'null' coordinates. I guess it would depend on the way the system is set up, but that might be a better solution than using a 'universally accepted' bogus coordinate. If you do give coords that are close but not accurate, so that the cache will appear on listings, it would be nice if you could keep the bogus coordinates from even appearing on the cache page, to avoid confusion. I don't know what you would term these kinds of caches, but perhaps you could put some kind of label in place of the coordinates on the cache page. ------------------------------ You are your own worst food

quote: The intent is to instruct newbies and interested people in the use of GPS's Will it include how to check / change the datum setting on the GPSr? ------------------------------ You are your own worst food

I did a moon cache this weekend, and it was really trciky because, since you're above the satellites and not below them, the directions are all reversed! At least you can bounce over the rocks... ------------------------------ You are your own worst food

quote: An admonishment to Tonsil: 1. If this is a troll of yours, than forget the above. Just designate it as such and I will eat my crow. I've been on the 'net since '94 and know how even the most ardent 'net heads can sometimes fall prey to the most basic of fiascoes after a bit. I think at this point a picture would say it best: ------------------------------ You are your own worst food

My current avatar as of this post is this one: It's a satanic version of the Farina boy, of course! The larger animated version lives here. Boredom is a dangerous thing! ------------------------------ You are your own worst food

quote: Originally posted by Kouros:...without contravening the no food rule... I would never leave food in a cache - that would be wrong. ------------------------------ You are your own worst food

My brother owns a pet store, so lately I've been leaving hamsters. I mean, who doesn't love a cute little hamster? Now, I don't wan't you to think I'm being cruel or anything - I only leave them in caches with plenty of room, like ammo cans or the larger-sized tupperware. ------------------------------ You are your own worst food

If you do arrange an event cache, once you decide on a time & place and have the event posted, the cachers will most surely find you. It's kind of a backward way to do it, especially if you're trying to anticipate turnout, but as far as getting the word out about an event, 'have it and they will come'... or something like that. ------------------------------ You are your own worst food

I have to admit, I reached a point early on where I had a few NFs I didn't log. I was using a really dated GPSr that was sooo bad I wasn't even close to the cache location (something I was able to verify later with a better reciever) and I didn't want to leave logs blaming the gear & sound like a whiner. Even if I am one. ------------------------------ You are your own worst food

quote:i dont have any unusable hints but i have a suggestion for some of you guys that take the time to decrypt it have you ever tried click the decrypt button next to it try it. its a lot easier lol. Some people don't decrypt the hints beforehand intentionally, because they only use them as a last resort. I personally used to decrypt the hints before printing the cache sheets when I first started, but too often I would glance at them before I really meant to, spoiling the challenge. Some hints are a dead giveaway. ------------------------------ ?You are your own worst food.?

When I'm doing some serious winter caching, nothing compares to my Tauntaun. Sure, it smells bad, and it might be a little rough on my back, but I can go anywhere I want! Not to mention the fact that each Tauntaun comes equipped with a Gastro - intestinally Utilized Temperature Sustainer (G.U.T.S.) which can prevent hypothermia in dire emergencies. ------------------------------ ?You are your own worst food.?

The really important question, though, is this: How can I get one of these jammers for my hidden caches? I'm sure that's gotta be worth an extra difficulty point... ------------------------------ ?You are your own worst food.?

Hey, I did scan the topics 1st, but sorry if this is a repeat: Do you notice emails coming from forms on the site are truncated past a certain length? Is that intentional? I have seen it a couple of times, and I'm not sure if it's due to the mechanism of the script sending the email or something weird with my account, but I'm guessing it's the former. This applies to find logs as well as email sent to me. ------------------------------ You are your own worst food.

I have gone with other people and solo, and I think either way is fun. I usually try to adjust my hunts accordingly. I save the harder, more out-of-the-way caches for when I'm in a party, and do the ones that are easy or close to home by myself. The easy caches can be done faster solo. Difficult hides are better / more fun with more people. The trick is finding others that are up for the challenge, that match your skills. It's a drag when one person is lagging far behind or doesn't share the same exuberance as you. ------------------------------ ?You are your own worst food.?

When I go caching with SlimJim28, we take a laptop connected to a reciever running DeLorme Street Atlas. We've run into problems with the software - it's a little hard to use that touchpad when you're bouncing around on some backwoods 'road'. Also, the inverter has been problematic, as others have said. Still, it's good to have when you're wandering around unfamiliar territory. What do you do as far as wiring? We have cables everywhere still - we have to find a better way keep everything connected. ------------------------------ ?You are your own worst food.?

I think once a word becomes a generally accepted part of language, the tendency is to not capitalize it. The only example I can think of right now is "spoonerism". ------------------------------ ?You are your own worst food.?

or the obvious counterpart: ------------------------------ ?You are your own worst food.?

This may seem like an absurd analogy, but just hang with me for a moment. Now, every once in a while, coffee-growing countries have a bad season, be it due to not enough rain, too much rain, locusts, Milli Vanilli, whatever. When that happens, you immediately see a price hike in the supermarkets. What you never seem to see is a price reduction because of perfect coffee-growing conditions. This same kind of one-way "ratchet effect" seems to apply to our freedoms. Sure, we could track people more effectively with a national ID. Having video cameras monitor every public area would make it easier to track suspicious people. Giving public servants such as garbage men the authority to observe and report unusual activity (TIPS) might bring to light otherwise unnoticed conspiricies. Is that additional piece of mind worth the cost of allowing the government to know everything that you do? To get it back to Geocaching, though, I just hope that paranoia doesn't cause an innocent and fun activity to become victim to excessive caution, even if well-intended. ------------------------------ "You are your own worst food."

You might run into trouble if your "carry-on baggage" is an ammo can. ------------------------------ "You are your own worst food."