Too Tall John

Just stumbled upon this cache. Does that mean something else in Canadian English than what I think it means?

To enter a waypoint from the device itself, mark one at whatever location you're at, then edit the coordinates of the waypoint you just entered.These GPSR's do not have the "stick" that you use to edit the waypoints, sadly.They don't need the "stick". The upper left buttons on the unit are up and down arrows, you can scroll through the numbers using them. It is clunkier, but still doable.

There's a local scuba cache that has 5 of it's 8 finds in winter. They drilled through the ice and used a waterproof camera and a grappling hook to retrieve the cache. In other words, leave it there, some industrious cacher might go for the challenge.

If you think you need a ziplock bag to make the log safe, you really should rethink the container you are using. See my sigline. To see what I'm talking about, take the container, complete with log & baggie, and ask 20 friends to sign the log and put it back together. I bet your baggie won't survive the first ten. It will either rip, get stretched to a point the seal doesn't work, or worst of all: get caught in the cap when closed, ripping it AND wrecking the seal on the outer container. There just isn't room inside a match safe for a log and a baggie if you want it to stay together. All this will be compounded when the cache is under water. I'd use something larger, such as the Pelican Box inside an ammo can. Best way to avoid needing to pull the box up with only fishing line would be to attach the fishing line to a length of chain or rope (chain would sink nicely...), small enough to be lifted by the line, but strong enough to lift the box. They pull it up with the fishing line, then the ammo box with the real line. What type of boats are allowed on the pond? power and/or peddle boats, if ridden over the bobber will get the bobber, line, and all caught in the paddles/propeller. You'll nee to make sure this doesn't happen. Not to mention the recycling angler issue. It might sound like I'm against this idea, but I think it's great! If you can figure out ways around the issues, this would be a long-lasting, awesome cache with lots of Favorite Points.

Why wouldn't you post the "Needs Archived"? What happens if the CO doesn't respond/react? Someone with less regard for the rules might give the landowner a very bad impression of the game in the meanwhile, and a NA log does nothing but alert the CO and the Reviewer that there is a possible issue with the cache.

How do you figure people are misusing "Other"? According to the Knowledge Books: What is your definition of "Other"? Are you of the camp that it is for a nano? If so, you should re-read the "Micro" definition.

Ok... Ahem... "Micro or regular." How was that? Actually, I'd go for the "Other" size

Oh here we go again!!! What I was thinking!!! Be honest, that's what you were thinking even before you opened this thread.

Ahh... I was thinking about that. Not sure on the design of your lock, but would there be enough of the hasp inside the body of the lock to put the coords directly on it? They'd have to open the lock in order to see the coordinates.

Another idea: Make the key a TB. Name it the Japanese word they're figuring out, rather than making it a combination for a lock. Then they have to search for the TB before going to find the cache. I've found a cache that I had to track down the TB before hunting the final. I had the key in hand before I went on the search, there was no question if the key'd be there. Only difference was there was no question of which TB was to be looked for. Come to think of it, there were multiple TB's out there with the same key for the cache... If you go this route, get a friend to set up the TB for you so people don't just go look at your TBs in your profile and brute force the cache in this way. This would change it from a multi stage puzzle to a single stage puzzle, so not sure you'd want to do it for this cache. Maybe make it the 2nd in a series?

JtG mentioned the fact that you can't tell people that they can't use Google Translate already. Personally, allowing the seekers to hold the key for any real period of time would probably keep me from hunting this cache. I wouldn't appreciate solving the puzzle, then trekking out to the 1st stage only to find I had to wait a week for Joe Cacher to bring the key back, if they remembered at all. Perhaps if the key stage and the final were close enough together that the key could be taken to and from in a short period of time? Put it on an "out and back" trail so the cacher has to come back by the 1st stage, otherwise you'll get lots of "Oops, I came out the other end of the trail and forgot to return the key" type logs, if they own up to it at all. An idea: Instead of a big container to hold the key, how about making a hole in the key big enough to go over the hasp of the combo lock? In order to retrieve the key, they still need the combination, but it can be hidden in a much smaller spot. You'd have to figure out a place you can attach the lock to so they don't just take the whole darned thing.

The DNF Logs tell it best: The worst DNF day I'll never forget resulted in 8 DNFs. It really all started with a cache I found: Then, the DNF's started: For several caches, I did something I never had done before: Cut-and-Paste DNF Logs! After several of those, I varied it a bit for the final DNF: All because of good old #13.... Both days had memorable DNFs, but I would do them again in a second, because they were a blast!

When I realized that the Ignore List was my only way to get my PQ back, I had already waited too long and there were about 160 caches I needed to add. I thought it'd take me a couple nights work, but using the Bookmark, it only took an episode or two of Mythbusters to complete the task.

Someone was asking me if I was planning on placing any 1/5 puzzles anytime soon. Perhaps I'll have to go fill one of the holes with a final on one of the islands...

The reviewer, NHPride, is a nice guy who was helping out a fellow cacher get her idea published. While the originator of the series (and Event Host) was making announcements and doing a drawing, someone in the crowd shouted out something about burning the reviewer in effigy for stopping the series. Despite the fact that the comment was made in jest, NHPride took two or three steps back from the crowd. I would NOT want to be in his shoes, he's getting it from both sides, I'm sure. During the event, I did slip him one of my Get out of Hell Free cards I ordered for my upcoming Tract Cache...

Guess I was away from the Forums the first time this thread came up. A local cacher, Team Skywalker put together a bookmark for the series that lists the towns that the finals are in, making that task of seeing which ones are near easier. I found my first caches in this series on Saturday during an event put together to celebrate the series, now all but complete*. They were the first four out of the Hundred-and-Something caches to be placed within the 2 mile radius of their posted coordinates. There are four others that, according to the bookmark, are within towns surrounding The Lake. The rest of the caches are on my Ignore List. Putting them on my Ignore List might sound a bit harsh, but I live within 15 miles of the posted coordinates. 150+ caches within my home region that aren't actually there really takes a huge chunk of my "From Home" Pocket Query, and there is no other way to filter them out, short of driving all over all of creation to find them. If I'm going to be caching in another area, I can check the bookmark list to see if there are any SD caches in that area and solve them then. *The series is now all but complete. There are a few spots left in the picture, but Groundspeak has told our local reviewer that there are to be no more caches posted outside the usual 2 mile radius, so barring any caches placed by boat or SCUBA, some of those holes will remain just that. Holes. On the one hand, it's a little sad, on the other, after receiving 150+ instant notifications for caches that are actually outside my notification area, I'm relieved that it is over. If I wanted notifications on caches that were 50+ miles away, I'd have set my notifications up that way.

A grader had gone down the old woods road and leveled out some potholes, but it had always been a road and the original cache was still safely in it's place. The "New Container" was a recycled Airborne Container literally tossed on the ground. The geocache is titled "A Bison Tube" and is described as "a bit different from your average Bison Tube Hide." While an Airborne Container certainly is different than a Bison Tube hide, it wasn't the toy bison with a hole just the right size for a preform that they missed altogether. (If the logs hadn't been deleted by the CO, I'd do a better job of hiding which cache it was. Go ahead and look, nobody's getting outed...)

Based on a conversation I just had with my reviewer, this is true. Caches can be set to be automatically published by date and time, to the half hour. I didn't ask how new of a feature this is, but I seem to remember on one of my caches that I wanted published on a certain day, the reviewer said they might have to ask another reviewer to do it, so it isn't something that has been in place forever.

Apologies in advance for the minor diversion, but we were just discussing something related to this at lunch on Thursday. (Actually we were discussing the movie Airplane). When was the last time any one saw a hari krisha follower soliciting in the airport, or anywhere else for that matter? Hare Krishna At 40. Uh-oh... I found a booklet from them: "On Chanting Hare Krishna" but it comes in bundles of 800 for $45! A little pricey. . . and I just found where you can get individual ones! Ordered!

There's probably a whole lot more chickens than the kind of chicks I think you mean. Unless you've got a thing for baby chickens... (Actually, I was at one of several Chick Family grave plots in the area today, that's where the name comes from, but there's no fun in that...) I'm not limiting it to Christian Tracts, although in my web searches, the two most common types are Fundamentalist Christian and Satirical Tracts. I did stumble across some Catholic Tracts, but you had to pay big bucks for the ones that actually looked interesting. My web search for "Muslim Tracts" only returned results for tracts intended to bring Muslims to Christianity. The nearest result for a "Buddhist Tract" search was someone else asking where they could find some. There was no response. I've got some Sweet Potato Tracts on the way, as well as the "Get Out of Hell Free" cards (which are actually a bit of a satire, read the story here) some Million Dollar Bills from "Living Waters" and a "Sampler Pack" from the same company. I've also printed a small handful of Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster brochures, two different types! Anyone know of some unique tracts I can put in this cache? I'll trade for GOOHF cards or Million Dollar Bills, your choice. (I had to order both in qty's of 100, so I will have a bunch...)

Show me where you asked that question, please. You're right, it isn't all I'm looking for. I highlighted what I am looking for in red for ya: Oh, man you got me again. I had yet another motivation to post to the thread: I'm finally getting around to putting the cache together and was excited. Take your troll police badge and go play somewhere else, there is nothing for you here.

Not questioning if people will find it. 'Round here you could hide a cache on "Hell's Road" and name it "Guarded by Satan's Spawn!" and people'd still look for it.

Yes, a long time ago: Which feedback was that? I haven't counted, but it seems to me that the helpful posts about checking with the reviewer (done!), suggestions for swag, names of cache, locations for cache far outnumber feedback that suggest I shouldn't do this.

"There is no such thing as bad weather, only bad equipment" (I say as I listen to the rain outside from the comfort of my kitchen, while a new cache languishes next to me and another awaits to be checked upon...) Ah well, where's my raincoat?

An Update: This cache has been on my back burner, but is still in my sights. I just ordered some GOOHF cards and Million Dollar Bills and printed out some FSM fliers. I've also just PM'ed the forum supplier of Sweet Potato Tracts. If there's any other easily printable tracts I'd love to hear about 'em. (Some of the links given are web based, printable but not in a very useful way...) I was unsure about where to put this cache until I realized that I live just off a road that shares a name with the man most known for the tracts that are so often hated: Jack Chick. In fact, there's a little-used church (services about once a year), the Chickville Church right on Chickville Road. The link shows the aerial view of the old church. It'll be along the road, somewhere, maybe even close to the church... Thoughts?